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Tema: Ir-razziżmu u l-vjolenza
Sors: Times of Malta

Gli idioti dell’orror fan più e più rumor…

Arson attack on JRS’ lawyer’s car, house [11/04/2006]

A vehicle and the façade of a house in St Pius Street, Sliema, were extensively damaged after they were set on fire, the police said. Both vehicle and the house belong to Jesuit Refugee Service’s lawyer Katrin Camilleri, who at the time was at home together with her husband and two children, aged three and six. Another car parked in the vicinity and the façade of another house were also damaged. The police said that members of the Civil Protection controlled the fire. Further investigations are being carried out.

Encore Plus Democracy in America (SHT)

Category: Shoutrage
Subject: US Crimes/Democracy/
Source: BBC, Council of Europe

The Stage: the Council of Europe
The Theme: Report on Allegations regarding secret detention centres in Europe
The Rapporteur: Dick Marty, Swiss Senator

From the Council of Europe page:

“Information gathered to date has “reinforced the credibility of allegations concerning the transfer and temporary detention of individuals, without any judicial involvement, in European countries”, according to Dick Marty, the Swiss parliamentarian looking into allegations of secret detention centres. In a statement today to PACE’s Legal Affairs Committee, Mr Marty said legal proceedings in certain countries “seemed to indicate that individuals had been abducted and transferred to other countries without respect for legal standards”, although he said it was too early to assert there had been complicity of member states in illegal actions. He noted that the allegations had never formally been denied by the US.”

From the BBC:

“In his statement, Mr Marty said it was “still too early to assert that there had been any involvement or complicity of member states in illegal actions.” But, he warned, if the allegations proved correct any European states involved “would stand accused of having seriously breached their human rights obligations to the Council of Europe”.”

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The EU has not initiated any investigation of its own though it has warned that any of its states found with secret detention centres on its territory will have its voting rights suspended. Funny isn’t it. The main instigator of all this damage is that great democracy across the ocean. It seems that the only one whose hands will not be slapped will remain the great law abiding US of Duh.

Remember the playground chaos as a child? Remember all the mothers rushing to the action and your mum getting “medieval on your ass” for having joined the general fun in torturing Johnny? Remember your anger when you noticed that Alex got away with it because his mum was “too relaxed” to do anything about it. And remember how your anger doubled when you pointed out this failure to punish to your mum and she answered “Yes, but Alex is not my son.”

Seems like US of Duh will be getting away with this too.

Whose sons are they?

Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture: "Art, Truth & Politics"

Category: Shoutrage/Action/Design
Subject: US & UK War Crimes/Democracy/Corporate Media (Propaganda)
Source: Nobelprize.org

“What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.”
~Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Laureate, Literature

Please gather family, friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens to watch, together, this extraordinary Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

What Mr. Pinter says in this 46-minute videotaped lecture should be shouted from rooftops worldwide (particularly within the US and UK, where the message is most urgent), considered in the privacy of our own minds, researched to our heart’s content, and discussed everywhere we gather: in our homes, at our workplaces, in the marketplace, in public and private gardens, in places of worship and spirituality, in cafés, bars, pubs and restaurants, on the streets, in town meetings and city halls, in university classrooms and lecture halls, in schoolrooms, on the editorial and op-ed pages of our local and national newspapers, in the blogosphere and other internet meeting places, and on community radio and television programs, until such time as the complicit corporate media is forced to speak truth to the citizenry rather than boldfaced lies on behalf of an anti-democratic corporate-political elite.

Let us carry within us, and communicate to the world, words of truth such that no dark, dank place is left for our war-criminal, corporate politicians and their propagandists to hide. Let us, then, begin to usher in true democracy, in which—for the first time in history—the citizenry, we, are self-respecting and respected, critically educated, and empowered to mature as whole human beings, unshackled, finally, from the corrupting effects of political paternalism.

Due to his presently undergoing cancer treatment, Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video December 7, 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.

His videotaped lecture is available for both high- and low- bandwidth internet connections. The lecture is also available in text format in the following languages: English, Swedish, French and German.

Click here to access the lecture in these various formats via the official Nobel Prize website.

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This post was originally published by Sean M. Madden on iNoodle.com.