Bally Hero Bradley Manning demands dismissal of his case due to inhuman punishment
Bradley Manning is expected to testify in a pretrial hearing that
he has been punished illegally by being locked in solitary confinement.
The whistleblower hopes that his inhumane punishment is grounds for
having all charges against him dismissed.
Manning, who is accused of sending classified information to WikiLeaks, will testify in a pretrial hearing in Fort Meade, Maryland.
“Until now we’ve only heard from Bradley through his family and lawyers, so it’s going to be a real insight into his personality to hear him speak for himself for the first time,” said Jeff Paterson of the Bradley Manning Support Network.
Manning’s lawyers will maintain that his treatment in a small cell at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia was illegal and unnecessarily severe. If pretrial punishment is particularly flagrant, military judges have the right to dismiss all charges.
Manning, a 24-year-old Army private and intelligence analyst, was allegedly involved in the largest security breach in US history and was charged with 22 crimes, including violating the Espionage Act and aiding the enemy. He allegedly accessed 250,000 US diplomatic cables, 500,000 army reports, and videos of the 2007 Baghdad airstrike and the 2009 Granai airstrike, and sending them to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks for publication in 2010. He is the only suspect arrested for his involvement in the security leak.
But while awaiting trial in Quantico from July 2010 to April 2011, he was allegedly mistreated, sparking human rights concerns from Amnesty International, the United Nations and the British government. The UN referred to his treatment as cruel, inhuman and degrading. Leading law scholars and PJ Crowley, former spokesman at the US Department of State, have resigned from their positions in protest of Manning’s treatment.
FSA Trying To Seize All Turkish Syrian Border Posts - Turkish Citizen
End of SILVER MANIPULATION to IMPLODE JPMORGAN – Bill Murphy Full Interview
By Elijah Johnson: For years JPMorgan has been accused of silver price suppression. In this interview, Bill Murphy, chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, makes a bold prediction on how soon JPMorgan's latest silver scandal will break. Will the revelation of this scandal implode one of the largest banks in the world? If so, what will happen to the price of silver? Find out all this and more in this episode.
Only 72 hours til the UNGA vote, Cameron is still objecting, but Clegg is pushing hard and opinion polls show 72% of the UK public want a Palestinian state.
In 72 hours, the Palestinians will take a bid for statehood to the UN -- it could be the best chance for peace in decades. Cameron has still not decided how the UK will vote, but most of the world is in favour and polls say 72% of Brits say yes. Let's make sure the UK commits to freedom and peace in the Middle East. Click below to join this massive campaign:  |
Most of the world supports the bid and polls say 72% of Brits want a Palestinian state. But so far Cameron is bowing to US pressure to abstain and our voices are the only weapon that have a chance to beat back their bullying. If the Palestinians win their UN bid, it could begin to end the 40 years of occupation, and pave the way for two states.
Number 10 has not yet pronounced its position and is deciding right now. Let's make sure the UK commits to freedom and peace in the Middle East now. Click to join the massive campaign:
Yasser Arafat’s body exhumed: Poison probe ahead of UN vote
Traces of a radioactive substance were found of Arafat’s effects in July, adding impetus to the theory he was murdered.
The procedure began at 05:00 GMT and was carried out in the presence of French, Russian and Swiss experts to verify its validity. Scientists took samples of Arafat’s bones, which they will take back to their respective countries. There they will be analyzed for traces of radioactive material and other lethal substances.
Experts have said a full investigation into the causes of Arafat’s death could take several months.
Journalists were prohibited from attending the exhumation “because [of the] sanctity of the symbol and the sanctity of this event,”
Source: Deutsche Bank Fulfilled Recent Gold Repatriation Request With Tungsten Salted Gold + GOLD FRAUD EXCLUSIVE: EU and Asian sources allege the tungsten-switch has gone sovereign - The Slog
*BREAKINGAn Austrian banking source has reportedly claimed that Deutsche Bank ‘fulfilled’ one gold repatriation in recent years with the help of Tungsten and further claims that the tungsten salted gold bars have turned up in Asia.
In 2009, Rob Kirby first uncovered detailed information regarding a massive plot to replace 400 oz good delivery gold bars with highly sophisticated tungsten filled fakes- and even provided evidence that the bars had been swapped with the gold held at Fort Knox.
Widely scoffed at by the financial media in 2009, Kirby appears to have released a Pulitzer worthy story nearly half a decade ahead of its time, as if the Austrian source’s claims are true and Deutsche Bank has in fact fulfilled a recent gold repatriation request with gold plated tungsten, the ramifications are that not only is every single claim made by GATA regarding gold and silver manipulation are 100% accurate, but that real, physical metal is now in desperately short supply and the jig is nearly up for the bullion bank cartel.
This is not 10 small retail PAMP bars found in the Manhattan jewelry district in which a retail jeweler was duped, but a sophisticated con of epic proportions, in which one of the world’s largest bullion banks has reportedly attempted to con a large client.
Obama legalizes the illegal, targets innocents
Press TV: Wikileaks founder
Julian Assange was bitterly right when he said US President Barack Obama
“seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem” and aptly
described him as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
Under the pretext of combating terrorism, Obama has followed in the footsteps of former President George Bush and even intensified the killer drone attacks in different parts of the world, a move which has terminated in the unfortunate deaths of multitudes of innocent people. President Obama argues that the drone strikes are focused efforts to exterminate people who are on a list of active terrorists and that they have not caused huge human losses.
Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar, who represents families of civilians killed in US killer drone strikes, says, "Either President Obama is lying to the nation, or he is too naive, to believe on the reports which CIA is presenting to [him]."
The Fed’s Nuclear Balance Sheet. Stand Back - This Baby’s Going to Explode
By Mitch Feierstein author of Planet Ponzi:
Over the coming weeks, we’re going to be hearing a lot about the ‘fiscal cliff’: the threat that some 5% of GDP is
going to be ripped out of the economy in a combination of tax hikes and
spending cuts. A fiscal slow-down on that scale will almost certainly
trigger recession. The CBO thinks so, though
their numbers look optimistic to me. (If you cut demand by 5%, more or
less overnight, then you shouldn’t expect the economy to grow by more
than 1% in the year following.)
The Feds solution to debt: more debt
Because the process of fiscal compromise acts itself out on the
political stage – all big personalities and high drama – the media loves
to report it. Loves to imply that vast questions are at stake, that
political careers will stand or fall by the outcome.
D Israeli - Blink Wrong!: Insane US power tripping pig delivers flying knee to back of 17-year-old’s head then threatens to kill him - You will be paying his pension
“Move, move, move and die! Move and fuckin’ die!”
Even with brutal assaults on 66-year-olds for no reason, highly suspicious deaths related to police violence, and even outright homicide (with no consequences, of course), this particular video is especially troubling.
Not good enough: UN says Japan is underestimating nuclear fallout risks
Grover has just conducted an independent on-site report for the government.
Currently, only residents of the Fukushima area surrounding the power plant that failed after the tsunami and earthquake caused its reactors to melt down in March 2011 are given medical screening. Only a quarter of the region’s 2 million people have been tested so far.
Grover believes that the check-ups should be extended throughout the North East of Japan, as radiation may have spread in an unpredictable pattern.
“The government has to err on the side of caution," he said.
He is also upset the government has chosen to play down the risks associated with radiation exposure. It has labelled only contaminated areas around the plant with radiation of above 20 millisieverts per year as off-limits. These are the limits adopted by radiation industry workers, who are properly trained in handling contaminated materials, and exceed similar civilian limits by over three times.