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Dominion Weblog: Bush Authorized Torture?

"'The two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order states that the President directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and 'sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc.''
-ACLU

The Guardian's spin on it is a little more subdued: Memos show FBI agents complained about abuses at Guant�namo Bay

Chinese government is arresting journalists, apparently.

An Indian schoolboy took a cellphone photo of his girlfriend in the midst of a sexual act, sold the photo on the Indian equivalent of eBay, and provoked an international incident with eBay's Indian CEO in jail and Condoleeza Rice at the fore of an 'diplomatic row'.

100,000 people have been displaced by fighting in the Congo.

George Monbiot: 'The US government is engaged in a global war with itself. It is like a robin attacking its reflection in a window.'"

Basically I took this whole post from The Dominion, thougth it was good.
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