All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The government of Somalia's Puntland state has strongly rejected a recent statement issued from the office of US Congressman Donald M. Payne who is the Chairman of the House Sub-Committee on Africa and Global Health under the aegis of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Former corporal Donald Payne told the public inquiry into Mr Mousa's death he witnessed Lieutenant Craig Rodgers pretending to set a young detainee...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
• Violence rife, says soldier convicted over death of Iraqi man • Detainee 'hysterical' after threat to set him on fire The only soldier convicted over the death of the Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa told today how officers had approved of the abuse of prisoners and in one case made a young detainee "hysterical" by pretending to set him on fire. Former corporal Donald Payne also told...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
London - A former soldier in the British army Monday accused his superiors of the routine abuse of civilian detainees in Iraq and said he had previously withheld the full truth out of misguided loyalty. Ex-corporal Donald Payne, giving evidence at...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Donald Payne says lieutenant threatened to set prisoner alight and that abuse of detainees in Basra was widespread A former army corporal who was the first British soldier to be convicted of a war crime accused his former colleagues of abusing prisoners. Donald Payne, told an inquiry into the Iraqi's hotel worker Baha Mousa's death that he had seen his unit's commanding officer Lieutenant Craig Rodgers...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Donald Payne, only UK soldier convicted in connection with hotel worker's death, says lieutenant pretended to set a prisoner alight The only British soldier convicted in connection with the death of an Iraqi hotel worker today accused a former officer of prisoner abuse. Donald Payne, former corporal, told the public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa that he witnessed then lieutenant Craig Rodgers...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A former soldier described yesterday watching two comrades kick and punch a handcuffed Iraqi prisoner minutes before he died at a British detention centre in Basra.
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Promoted by Jason Springer: A very candid take from Senator Weinberg on the race that was. Thank you for the shout out and for running. Let's get the negatives out of the way first: We lost! Property taxes, unemployment, property taxes, property taxes. That was it in a nutshell. To some of my colleagues whose egos might be a little out of control: Ray , was it really necessary to trash the Governor...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Filed under: Opinion , Politics , Race and Civil Rights Wait a minute now. Unless I'm reading it wrong, it looks like racial profiling has jumped from the 'hood to Capitol Hill. According to a Politico article , the House Ethics Committee is actively investigating seven African American lawmakers under full-scale ethics probes, but not a single white person serving in Congress is under the same kind...
fivethirtyeight (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
One vote that occurred this election day did not pit Democrats and Republicans against one another in an effort to win seats or change policy. Instead, it was a widely bi-partisan effort, meant to show solidarity with a U.S. ally. In a vote under suspended rules (requiring 2/3 majority) the U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday in favor of a resolution that called on "the President and the...
Brain Injury Lawyer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
On October 13, 2009, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC) introduced the Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (PABI) Act of 2009. The bill states that Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury is the leading cause of death and disability for children and young adults under the age of 25 in the United States. The PABI Act also endorses the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan, which is designed to develop...
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
No surprise , being that Obama and Holder allowed the Black Panthers to intimidate Republican voters with truncheons last November: ...the Justice Department is going to have federal observers and Civil Rights Division staff in New Jersey, New York, and elsewhere to monitor the voting. I have already heard from numerous sources that these observers will not be reporting instances of voter fraud, nor...
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Pope Benedict XVI today canonized five new saints, including Belgian-born priest, Jozef De Veuster, known as Father Damien, who died of leprosy in 1889 after years of caring for those suffering from leprosy on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. ( New York Times .) On Friday, the White House issued a statement from the President recognizing Fr. Damien's canonization. Obama, who was born in Hawaii, recalled...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
A British soldier today told an inquiry into the death of an Iraqi how he helped to break into a hotel safe in Basra, southern Iraq, and take money from it. He then put Iraqi dinar notes into his pocket "to make a collage", he said. Lance Corporal David Fearon, then a private in Queen's Lancashire Regiment, was the first army witness to give evidence at the inquiry into the circumstances...
Silicon Moon (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
"Secret Agent Editors The Obama scandals bring a new era of opacity at the New York Times. " WSJ's The Best of the Web Today Insightful and amusing post about the NYTimes failing to be even a semi-objective news source. "Obama and Acorn Is there a case for a special prosecutor? " WSJ's James Taranto "Independent prosecutor for ACORN" Chicago Tribune "Inside the Glorious...
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