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THE HIMALAYAN DISASTER: TRANSNATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT MECHANISM A MUST

We talked with Palash Biswas, an editor for Indian Express in Kolkata today also. He urged that there must a transnational disaster management mechanism to avert such scale disaster in the Himalayas. http://youtu.be/7IzWUpRECJM

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Fwd: [bangla-vision] crazy - busy day today! NEWS and two actions



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Date: Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] crazy - busy day today! NEWS and two actions
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·         The FBI's synagogue bomb plot

After 16 years, terrorist seeks reason for special detention

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:41 PM PDT

By Basil Katz

NEW YORK, June 29 (Reuters) – For at least 14 years, the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, 43, has been under special prison restrictions that muzzle communications with his lawyers and the outside world.

The restrictions, known as Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) govern Yousef's interactions

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:37 PM PDT

Karen Greenberg The ethics of a sting operation to foment a terror plot are dubious enough, but its government-sponsored antisemitism is revolting

James Cromitie in police custody in May 2009, after his arrest by the FBI in a sting operation involving a bomb plot against a Jewish community centre in Riverdale, New York.

CIA Cleared in All But Two Interrogation Investigations

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:20 PM PDT

By JASON RYAN, PIERRE THOMAS and LEE FERRAN

The U.S. Justice Department announced today it is closing all of its investigations into the Central Intelligence Agency's controversial enhanced interrogation program without further legal action, except in the case of two incidents in which detainees perished.

The investigations by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham into

Holder: Justice to Drop Investigations Into CIA Officials Involved in Torture

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:29 PM PDT

By Chris Strohm

The Justice Department will end a wide-ranging probe into the CIA's past interrogation, rendition, and detention activities, but it will launch a formal criminal investigation into agency officials involved in the deaths of two detainees, Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Thursday.: Statements from Holder and Panetta

"The department has determined

[ACTION] Stop the Machine! Create a New World!

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:53 PM PDT

A Call to Action – Oct. 6, 2011 and onward

October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed

Germany arrests teenage terror suspect

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:49 PM PDT

FD Editor's Note:  Interesting – I thought the wall was torn down years ago – now postings on the internet are enough to provoke an arrest?  (ACTION COMING SOON!)

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have arrested a teenager on suspicion he supported a terrorist organization by posting Islamist propaganda texts and videos

Four more years of the PATRIOT Act will worsen government secrecy

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:58 PM PDT

by Sarah Berlin

On May 26, 2011, Congress voted to reauthorize three provisions of the USA PATRIOT ACT that were set to expire. The most contentious of these provisions is Section 215, which allows the government to more easily gain access to various personal records without clear evidence that the individual in question poses

[ACTION] No One is Above the Law.

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Last year, the Justice Department initiated a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's torture program, but it focuses only on "rogue" interrogators who disobeyed orders. That investigation is far too narrow. Although interrogators who violated the law should be held accountable, the criminal investigation must be expanded to reach not only the interrogators but

Questions arise over FBI Most Wanted terror profile

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:02 AM PDT

By PAISLEY DODDS

Some information may have come from a Guantánamo captive's prison camp interrogation

LONDON — The FBI's most-wanted list features a dated black-and-white photograph for the man wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. Saif al-Adel, reads the glaring red banner, alias Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi.

But

Reservist charged in shootings at military buildings in DC separated from Marines

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:47 AM PDT

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps says it has completed its administrative separation of a reservist who has been charged in a series of pre-dawn shootings at the Pentagon and other military buildings.

The separation of 22-year-old Yonathan Melaku, a lance corporal, from the Marines was completed Tuesday. The Corps says Melaku did not contest

Two Dead Detainees May Get Justice. The Other 99 Will Not.

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:14 AM PDT

Eric Holder just released an announcement revealing that John Durham has recommended criminal investigation of two detainees tortured to death. But cases of the remaining 99 detainees whose treatment Durham investigated will be dismissed.

On January 2, 2008, Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed Assistant United States Attorney John Durham of the District of

 

 

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