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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Mathieu, "Torture Containers" and torturers who want to be funny... - "This is your break"

Posted by Caravan - Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture at 1:48 PM
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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"-Lawrence Welsher

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      • Unsuitable "monarchs": Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
      • The Torture Doctors - PLoS Medicine journal Repor...
      • TORTURE PROGRAM - US
      • Old news from the south come North: criminals for...
      • "You Are an Idiot" - Familiar faces
    • ▼  March (19)
      • "Preachers of the world", just a piece of the sto...
      • Andy Worthington and the connections: James Mitche...
      • Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns on th...
      • The Motto: Agonizing over probability of getting c...
      • March 24, 1980 - Conservative Archbishop Romero as...
      • "Specials" and "ALL SCIENTISTS, ALL SCIENTISTS !!...
      • Andy Worthington’s YouTube Channel Now Available
      • US spy operation that manipulates social media -
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      • Mathieu, "Torture Containers" and torturers who wa...
      • Do your kids watch CSI ??? Do you?? The truth abou...
      • Kokomo Arnold - Blues Guitar Legend (1937)
      • State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley calls trea...
      • No more "shame" - SEXING TORTURE
      • Egyptian Activists Expose Torture Tools and Files,...
      • "Destroying the Evidence" ...in Egypt
      • Obscenity and Sadism Galore : CIA's formula to "le...
      • Interview with Birgitta Jonsdottir, Icelandic memb...
      • Former Head of MI6, the British Secret Intelligenc...
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      • Former Reagan official talks about Assange's assas...
      • My People - by Yusuf (Cat Stevens)
      • Secret Intelligence Services - "The Desintegration...
      • Stasi - East Germany's Secret Police
      • Elected Officials - a target for the "Owners of th...
      • Vigilants vs. Vigilants
      • Getting Used to it?
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      • "YOU ARE JUST A FLY!!!!!"
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WATCH ON LINE (click on title)

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

Deportation to Torture: Past, Present and Future - April 24, 2009 - Part 4/5

WHAT IS TORTURE? http://www.redress.org

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.

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
  • Getting it Right
  • Human Rights First - Act Now
  • Invictus
  • Kerry Pither - author, human rights and civil liberties advocate
  • 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
  • Prism - The Security Practices Magazine - Published by Maher Arar
  • 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"
  • US - Mother Jones - Progressive Social Issues and Political Commentary

Iacobucci Report - For details, clique in the image

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

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

SQUEEZED OUT OF THE COUNTRY

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

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

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)

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.

IPA- Institute for Public Accuracy Web Site(US) :Torture, War, Wikileaks, Daniel Ellsberg and more

"Taking Liberties"- British documentary about abuses USA has requested&promoted

MY GRAMMA WEARS A RAINBOW SWEATER

by Sue Breeze, Human Rights Activist, Caravan member-
dedicated to my grandson Russell and all the children of the world. May we be able to build a better world for them.

MY GRAMMA WEARS A RAINBOW SWEATER

My Gramma wears a rainbow sweater,
She holds peaceful political views,
My Gramma like to rouse the masses,
She is sometimes on the news.

My Gramma cares about people,
She works for human rights,
My Gramma works to end all wars,
She works so we can sleep at night.

My Gramma follows a dream of peace,
She believes in non-violence,
My Gramma will risk her freedom for you,
She will always break her silence.

My Gramma opposes injustice,
She speaks for the poor and voiceless,
My Gramma believes we have enough to share,
She works to help the homeless.

My Gramma believes in the power of love,
She believes in sharing,
My Gramma works against racism and hatred,
She believes in caring.

My Gramma works for civil liberties,
She believes it is wrong to oppress,
My Gramma believes it is immoral to torture,
She believes we need to clean up this mess.

My Gramma cares about nature,
She has hugged a tree,
My Gramma wants clean water for everyone,
She wants a healthy earth for you and me.

My Gramma loves all of us children,
She dreams and works for our future,
My Gramma doesn't care who you are
She believes you deserve to be nurtured.

My Gramma marches for freedom,
She says we can make the world better,
My Gramma believes in dignity for all,
And, that is why - She wears a rainbow sweater.

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