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BELLA CIAO - She was not hidding that she is PROUDLY part of the criminals team!

Nomadic Mode - Weapons

Bella Ciao! Is she Strongly making sure that her "Power" is recognized as she works with/for the Criminal Harassement Program??? Photos of her "buddies" coming soon...

Who do they work for? Merely a "company"? Merely a case of Former Policy officers going rouge? Really??NO!! Bella Cia...

Bella Ciao's criminal actions: The Spark Movie by Stephen Shellen ( berger )

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American Torture Program (and accomplices)

FORGOTTEN PAST ?????

The video bellow is at:

https://youtu.be/ziZbswIXi44

And American and accomplices torture goes beyond the exposed "Black Holes" ......"as you know"

CIA 'torture': Inside the 'blackout box' - BBC News

Watch on BBC - just click or visit the link:

https://youtu.be/zGaG5-VL9P8

Human Brain - the next BattleField

Not Crazy - Banalization of Evil, for sure

MI5 agent Dr. Barrie Trower: dangerous radiation everywhere

NAZI DOCTORS LEGACY - KILLING PROFESSIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL KILLERS

Laura Silly Whoever deleting employee memories even on the job? at an Insurance Brokerage? Desk professional "kicking ass"

CIA/NSA Torture Experiment now DOMESTIC: NSA Whistleblowers bring HOPE: Bill Binney, Kirk Weibe talk

SECRECY - A BASIC COMPONENT OF THE POLICY OF TORTURE

"SECRECY is a basic component of the Policy of Torture: It is essential to the structure of torture that everything takes place in secret, in the dark, beyond consideration of shame or account. When the torturer assures his victim ' no one will ever know' , he is at once working to break the victim's spirit and bolster his own". From "Settling accounts with torturers"-LawrenceWelsher

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Documents reveal CSIS and RCMP's role in torture

WHAT IS TORTURE?

Torture is universally accepted as:

"any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions".

(Article 1 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1988).

Specifically, for an act to be considered as torture, all of the following elements must be present:
The act must have caused severe pain or suffering;

It must have been inflicted by or on behalf of or at the consent of a public official (such as the police or security forces);

It must have been committed for a specific purpose, such as to elicit a confession to a crime or to instil fear.

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Iacobucci Report - For details, clique in the image

"No wonder they wanted the inquiry kept secret"

THE IACOBUCCI REPORT-The case of Three Canadians squeezed out of Canada and tortured abroad

Sovereignty for the Law and the Nations

WikiLeaks US embassy cables: live updates every minute- HERE

HEARINGS - Public Safety and National Security Committee- Watch/Listen at ParlVU Event Center

00 - Official Site - All Public Safety and National Security Committee Meetings and Minutes HERE
01 - March 24, 2009 - Amnesty International, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Arab Federation, Kerry Pither
02 - APR 2, 2009 - PETER VAN LOAN, CSIS JIM JUDD ...
03 - March 31, 2009- RCMP, CSIS lawyer Geoffrey O’Brian (Torture)
04 - April 30, 2009 - National Security: Outcomes of Judges Iacobucci and O'Connor Reports- recomendations still pending- Human Rights abuses, RCMP,CSIS, FBI, CIA...
05 - May 5, 2009 - Border Issues, Information Sharing by Think Tanks: Simon Fraser Institute, Public Policy Board of Canada(since Sep 11, 2001), Canadian National Council (SPP - Embassador to USA -2000 to 2005) and others
06 - May 7, 2009 - Review of Iacobucci and O'Connor Reports - Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddar, Paul Cavalluzzo - Information Sharing, RCMP,CSIS ...
For Recent and past Arar and Iacobucci Inquiries Meetings CLICK HERE: Review of the Findings and Recommendations of the Internal Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin (Iacobucci Inquiry) and the report from the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar (Arar Inquiry)

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"Extraordinary Rendition" Stephen Grey Documentary
Secrets of Curveball: The Spy Behind a War -Stephen Grey documentary

Bloggers - all listed Blogs are Against Torture and The Torture Policy

American Torture
Andy Worthington - UK journalist and historian
Cageprisoners
Canada - Vancouver's online source
Canada's World
Cyberwanderer's Blog
Democracy Now! Blog
Emptywheel
Human Rights First - Act Now
Invictus
Mediabuzzard.com
NetRoots
Oath Betrayed - Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
Peace, order and good government, eh? - Canada
People's' Commission on Security Certificates
Progressive Bloggers-Canada
Psyche, Science, and Society
REDRESS - Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors
Reprieve - # 11 Reprieve- Human Rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay -using the Law to enforce Human Rights
Stephen Grey - War on Terror, Secret Prisons, Extraordinary Rendition
The Guantánamo Blog
The War Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings & Torture (French and English)
Torture Policy updates at "Docudharma - Front Page Blog"

Royal Canadian Mounted Policy(RCMP)/Canadian Security Intelligence (CSIS)-TORTURE- Iacobucci Report

BOOKS

Settling accounts with torturers by Lawrence Welsher
Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror by Kerry Pither
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program - Stephen Grey
Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror - by Craig Murray (Author)
Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors by Steven Miles MD
The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison by Andy Worthington
The Trauma of Psychological Torture
Torture and Democracy - Darius Rejali

The Trauma of Psychological Torture - Almerindo E. Ojeda ed. - Book

Psychological torture- the "No-Touch Torture": a set of practices used worldwide to inflict pain or suffering with deniability , leaving no evidence of physical violence. It includes the use of mind-altering drugs and threats of violence—as well as the exploitation of personal or cultural phobias, sleep deprivation, sensory disorientation, forced self-induced pain, solitary confinement, mock execution, severe humiliation and more. For more information visit :

University of California Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights

The UCDavis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA) and the UCDavis Center for Mind and Brain (CMB) have initiated a collaboration to investigate the neurobiology of psychological torture: The Neurobiology of Psychological Torture.

Torture as Government Policy, Cases , Documentaries, Country Involvement

00 - RCMP/CSIS - Lies, Cover-ups and Hypocrisy - The Case of ABOUSFIAN ABDELRAZIK - Canadian Secret Service (CSIS) statement regarding his torture :"We judge it unlikely that, should Abdelrazik's detention in Sudan become public knowledge, there would be the same sort of outcry that surrounded Maher Arar's arrest and deportation from the USA. "
00 - Harassment and Impunity - RCMP's "tool" for insiders and outsiders - CBC Reports
00 - Abdullah Almalki
00 - Benamar Benatta
00 - Canadian Torturers - CSIS officials and torture
00 - CIA - San Diego- Corruption and The Courts - CSIS/RCMP Allies - The Madness of the Spies
00 - DARK DAYS:the story of Canadian national security investigations gone terribly wrong
00 - Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
00 - Psychological Harassment- Canada's complicity- MKULTRA - CIA ARTICHOKE PROGRAM
00 - Torturing Democracy - Movie
00- Islamophobic Activities
01 - Enhanced Control-Brains: a neuroscience revolution- New Scientist- 18 July 2007
01 - Interrogation Experiments - Torture, Ethics, Technology-The brain scan - The Guardian - Febuary 9, 2007
01 - Designing Torture - The American Team - Documentary - "Interrogation Psychologists: The Making of a Professional Crisis"
01 - Domestic Intelligence Activities - Spying & Disruption of activists and their movements - COINTELPRO activities - Alive and in Canada?
01 - Ghosts of Abu Ghraib - The Movie - NEW
01 - Torture - Government Policy , not an individual Issue
01 -Torture - Human Experiments - Blog
01- Interrogation Techniques Hearing 06/17/2008 - Canada USA-The Technical Cooperation Program - Jerald Ogrisseg-Human Resources and Performance Group
01- USA Canada - The Technical Cooperation Program - Canada,USA-Human Resources and Performance Group- Jerald Ogrisseg
01- Women and Children Torture
05- Murat Kurnaz- imprisoned and tortured - Guantanamo
07 - Homes Not Bombs
08- Justice for Harkat
09 - Human Rights First
10 - Weapons and Human Rights - Sonoma University Research
11- School of Torture
13- Cage Prisoners
14- News - Democracy Now!
15 - Systems of Surveillance - Are we there?
16- Harassment Covert Operation ST CIRCUS - CIA- Camp Hale, Colorado, US

Real People , real lives: Those "INDIRECTLY TORTURED" by RCMP and CSIS

1 - THE SEMANTICS GAME: NOT "TORTURE BY PROXY" JUST " INDIRECT PARTICIPATION"
2 - CSIS: "NO OUTCRY IF BECOMES PUBLIC" - TORTURE OK, AS PER CSIS STATEMENT
3 - Canadians Need the Truth

RFHall students and staff join the Caravan to End Torture in October 2008

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

March 8th, 2010 marked the centennial of International Women's Day. In 2010, and every year, millions of women are raped by employers and colleagues, soldiers and members of armed groups, by partners, relatives, friends and strangers . (Amnesty International data) (HERE) Amnesty International reminds us that violence against women and girls is a global pandemic. Still nowadays, at least one out of every three women has been beaten, forced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime. The origin of International Women's Day (IWD) is firmly rooted in the labour movement and the struggle for justice and equality.