USSA gulag guards intimidate Canadian kidnapped 8 years ago & falsely tried in Guantanamo

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Khadr skips hearing for 2nd day
Anonymous - CBC News
April 30, 2010

For a second straight day, Canadian Omar Khadr refused to attend his pretrial hearing at a U.S. military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Omar Khadr is questioned by members of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in a Guantanamo Bay prison cell in this image taken from a 2003 video. Omar Khadr is questioned by members of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in a Guantanamo Bay prison cell in this image taken from a 2003 video. (U.S. Department of Defence/Associated Press)

The 23-year-old, who is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. army medic in Afghanistan in 2002, said his prison guards were intimidating him and tried to humiliate him during body searches.

"He believes it comes too close to his genitalia in the way it's being done," Khadr lawyer Barry Coburn said, according to the Reuters news agency.

Khadr said he would only show up when he was treated with respect, but U.S. army Col. Patrick Parrish, who is presiding over the proceedings, said he wouldn't let an accused dictate tribunal procedure. Parrish ordered the hearing to continue without Khadr.

On Thursday morning, Khadr refused to attend his pretrial hearing because prison guards demanded he put on blackout goggles and earmuffs for the van ride to the court. The guards at the U.S. naval base in Cuba wanted to prevent him from seeing and hearing anything while he was being transported, something Khadr's lawyer said he had never been required to do before.
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60% of younger Canadians unwilling to be WWII canon fodder

Poll: Young Canucks would not sign up to fight Hitler
Bruce Cheadle - The Canadian Press
May 5, 2010

OTTAWA — The results of a new poll timed to the 65th anniversary of VE Day has the Historica-Dominion Institute suggesting there is increasing reverence for Canada's Second World War Veterans but a troubling ambivalence about following their example.

A clear majority of younger Canadians say they would not have volunteered in 1939 to help liberate Europe and defeat Nazism, according to the poll.

The survey, provided exclusively to The Canadian Press, shows a significant divide between older Canadians and those aged 18 to 35 when it comes to assessing Victory in Europe Day, 65 years after the end of the most significant human conflagration of the past century.

The poll, which comes as Prime Minister Stephen Harper attends a ceremony Thursday celebrating the liberation of Holland at a cemetery near the Netherlands-Belgium border, is in some ways paradoxical.
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Taking photos now illegal in G20 police state Toronto

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Hard times in Oshawa - GM exporting Detroit economic model

MLA pension swindle closes out most kleptocratic NB assembly of all time

Updated: CBC quotes judge saying crooked MLAs twisted his pension recommendations (see 2nd story below).
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Veteran MLAs to get $42,500 bonuses On top of generous pensions
CBC News
April 26, 2010

Veteran New Brunswick MLAs who qualify for a pension will also get lump sum bonuses of $42,500 each if they leave office this summer under pay and benefit changes they quietly voted themselves two years ago, CBC News has learned.

"They already get generous pay and generous pension plans, so to layer on top of the cake more icing of generous severance packages just adds insult to injury," said Kevin Gaudet, of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

New Brunswick introduced limited severance packages called re-establishment allowances in the mid 1990s for MLAs who lost their seats before reaching the eight years required to qualify for an MLA pension.

'Wouldn't it be nice in the private sector if we could all choose to retire and require our employers to give us a great big sugaring off cheque after we quit? The fact is we can't — and nor should they.' —Kevin Gaudet, Canadian Taxpayers Federation

The money was meant to help ease former members back into the workforce and paid a maximum of $27,000.

But in 2008, current MLAs voted to increase the maximum payment to $42,500 and to make the allowances available to everyone - even politicians who quit or retire on a full pension.
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MLA bonuses not my idea: judge
CBC News
May 5, 2010

A New Brunswick judge has denied claims he recommended that MLAs should increase severance packages for retiring legislature members.

CBC News reported two weeks ago that a number of MLAs leaving office this year would get up to $42,000 in severance payments.

Loredana Catalli Sonier, the clerk of the legislature, said a 2007 commission on MLA compensation headed by Mr. Justice Patrick Ryan recommended the re-establishment payments.

But on Wednesday, Ryan said that was not the case.

The report said, "the purpose of a re-establishment payment is to financially aid a former member to re-enter the workforce," not to retire, he pointed out.
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40 years since Kent State killings, terror wars continue

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We Kill Our Own - The 40th Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre
Chuck Palazzo - Veterans Today
May 1, 2010

On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University, in the city of Kent, Ohio, members of the Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. These were unarmed college students who were exercising their constitutional rights to speak their mind, to demonstrate peacefully, and to protest openly against the then recent incursion by US combat forces into Cambodia.

Richard Nixon had been elected President in 1968. He promised to end the Vietnam War. Instead of doing so, he was part of the cover-up of the My Lai massacre and freed Lt. Calley, stating that Calley had "served enough time." The premeditated murder of over 500 unarmed civilians, many of whom were elderly, women and children was hushed up by our government - the murderer himself freed after serving only 1 day at the Ft. Leavenworth prison and transferred to serve house arrest upon orders given by Nixon.

On December 1st, 1969, the Selective Service of the US held a lottery to determine the order of draft into the Army for the Vietnam War. This was the first draft lottery instituted since World War II.
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Obama orders drone hit on crap-pop band

Here's your change 'mericans: the sorry remains of a bought-out government.
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Obama to send drones after teen band
The Hindu
May 3, 2010

What's common between the feared Tehrik-i-Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud and American pop boy band Jonas Brothers? Give up? Answer: They're both likely to be scanning the skies for killer drones.

Yes, you heard it right.

Speaking at the White House Correspondents Association annual gala dinner on Saturday night, the Commander-in-Chief of the world's most powerful military force said to the teen heartthrob band, “Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But, boys, don't get any ideas. I have two words for you — predator drones. You will never see it coming. You think I'm joking.”

Though Paul, Joseph and Nicholas may have slept lightly over the weekend, the attending White House media, staffers, and a sprinkling of A-list celebrities like Alec Baldwin were guffawing themselves well nigh off their chairs at the wit and wisdom of the 44th President.

And he spared no one, not even himself: “It's been quite a year since I've spoken here last— lots of ups, lots of downs — except for my approval ratings, which have just gone down. But that's politics. It doesn't bother me. Beside I happen to know that my approval ratings are still very high in the country of my birth”.
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Police beat down & arrest Nijmegen anarchists during May day marches

Video Source: Neeltje Maria
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Arrests during May Day rallies
May 2, 2010
Dutchnews.nl

Several dozen people were arrested during clashes with police during May Day rallies in Rotterdam and Nijmegen on Saturday, news agency ANP reports.

A small rally of 'anti-capitalists' in Nijmegen ended in a battle with riot police as demonstrators threw stones and bottles.

And in Rotterdam, 14 demonstrators were arrested when police tried to confiscate sticks from a number of people. Demonstrators said the sticks were to be used to carry banners.
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