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Sunday, December 2, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
South Africa supports Racism
The entity known as israel exists as a result of racial discrimination. It's continued disregard for human rights is a blemish on all humanity. The Durban conference of 2001 (now over shadowed by the zionist-driven events of September 2001), clearly demonstrated that the world is strongly opposed to the new apartheid in the Holy Land. The implications of the actions of this terror state can be seen in the sad global conflict which threatens to continue spreading like a cancer. Of all the nations on God's beautiful earth, why does South Africa still cozy up to this terrorist state occupying Jerusalem?
The Iranian president, Ahmadi Nejad speaking to the Washington Press Corps on Monday Sept 24th 2007, made these wise comments:
Christian Science Monitor
Good for you President Ahmadi Nejad. Of course, many of his statements continue to be misquoted and ridiculed as deceptive by those who try to conceal the truth about the zionist terrorists and their plans for global domination. Anyone who needs proof for what may seem strange and unbelievable, only needs to look at the wars being fought in order to dominate the oil rich region. Surely South Africa's leaders realise that when Africa stands up against this mighty force of evil, she will be attacked by the kind of military force we see in Iraq and Somalia. What cowards they are to continue to lie to us. We should be putting our voice more firmly behind the downtrodden instead of accepting bribes silently. This kind of dishonesty attracts politicians of low morality and in the end, greed leads to a spiral of moral corruption, and eventual social and political decay. Domestically and internationally, South Africa will lose ground until the truth becomes painfully obvious. Of course, economically South Africa will continue to grow from strength to strength as we did under Apartheid. But in the end, the pack of cards will come tumbling down.
My question remains, why does South Africa support this terror driven state calling itself Israel? I hazard to make two guesses: 1) my question will be ignored or largely countered by unreasonable responses 2) the reason South Africa supports Israel is because Israel supports South Africa i.e. nothing has changed since Apartheid was abolished. A new Apartheid has emerged since the ANC was unbanned. It is an economic apartheid and the country is still dominated by the same kind of selfish criminals as before.
Our prayers are that the Iranian people continue to protect the truth and oppose evil. And for the people of Azania and Palestine, may they also one day be free.
Related Sites:
In minds - Durban Conference against Racism 2001
The Azanian
The Lessons of the Rocks
You Tube channel
The Iranian president, Ahmadi Nejad speaking to the Washington Press Corps on Monday Sept 24th 2007, made these wise comments:
"We do not recognize that regime because it is based on discrimination" and, "It consistently threatens its neighbors."
Christian Science Monitor
Good for you President Ahmadi Nejad. Of course, many of his statements continue to be misquoted and ridiculed as deceptive by those who try to conceal the truth about the zionist terrorists and their plans for global domination. Anyone who needs proof for what may seem strange and unbelievable, only needs to look at the wars being fought in order to dominate the oil rich region. Surely South Africa's leaders realise that when Africa stands up against this mighty force of evil, she will be attacked by the kind of military force we see in Iraq and Somalia. What cowards they are to continue to lie to us. We should be putting our voice more firmly behind the downtrodden instead of accepting bribes silently. This kind of dishonesty attracts politicians of low morality and in the end, greed leads to a spiral of moral corruption, and eventual social and political decay. Domestically and internationally, South Africa will lose ground until the truth becomes painfully obvious. Of course, economically South Africa will continue to grow from strength to strength as we did under Apartheid. But in the end, the pack of cards will come tumbling down.
My question remains, why does South Africa support this terror driven state calling itself Israel? I hazard to make two guesses: 1) my question will be ignored or largely countered by unreasonable responses 2) the reason South Africa supports Israel is because Israel supports South Africa i.e. nothing has changed since Apartheid was abolished. A new Apartheid has emerged since the ANC was unbanned. It is an economic apartheid and the country is still dominated by the same kind of selfish criminals as before.
Our prayers are that the Iranian people continue to protect the truth and oppose evil. And for the people of Azania and Palestine, may they also one day be free.
Related Sites:
In minds - Durban Conference against Racism 2001
The Azanian
The Lessons of the Rocks
You Tube channel
Friday, September 14, 2007
Israeli Terror: UN resolutions
Real Israel image from http://pal-rocks.blogspot.com/
Graphical Representation of UN ResolutionsIf Americans Knew - UN Resolutions dealing with Israel and Palestine (1992-1995)
I read the heading to this page at a website called If American Knew.. It read "UN Resolutions dealing with Israel and Palestine", so I was searching for the resolutions that CONDEMNED Palestinian terror. Then I saw the graph. Between 1992 and 1995, 65 resolutions condemned or otherwise censured of Israeli "actions". There were none censuring Palestine.
Before the zionists/closet apartheid sympathisers attack the UN, let me do it for them. The UN was set up by zionists after the world war, now look how anti-semitic the UN has become. It's nothing but a mouth peace for Palestinian terrorists.
Media study 2000-2001, The San Francisco Chronicle reported 150% of Israeli Child deaths, and 5% of Palestinian Child deaths. The graph compares Actual against Reported IncidentsIf Americans Knew - Media Analysis
Israel murders family on beach (2006)
Israeli artillery shells have struck a group of Palestinian civilians at a beach in Bait Lahiya in northern Gaza, killing seven people, including three children, and wounding 36 others, Aljazeera reports.
The artillery shells were fired on Friday by Israeli gunboats stationed just off the Mediterranean coast.
The dead and the wounded Palestinians were having a picnic on the beach as it was the weekly holiday, Aljazeera's correspondent Wael al-Dahduh said.
The barrage scattered body parts along the seaside. A tent was destroyed, and bloody sheets were scattered about. A crowd quickly flocked to the area, screaming and running around in confusion.
Posted by the blogger at "My Occupied Territory: thoughts in a space"
Israel continued to attack the same town throughout this year (2007)
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Thinking about Biko
Shore, undefended
Singular frame
Crouched on grainy white shore
Fixed on the swirling swell of turquoise,
heaving surging sea.
Behind it, a frame of twelve ancient faces
dwarfed the speck, a bomber
The sound of it's engines were met
by the brown and blue silence of sea, and of shore;
By the cold crispy breeze from the surface, its trees
Waves of blue from below, and of green from behind:
undulating, dissolving carpet over the ancient green faces
White table cloth flowed gently down wet hard ravines
Caressing wrinkled green vegetation on the old faces
like tears from their faithful brows
Then, soothing a sun-parched peeling brown skin,
a seething soul, still brain-wrenched and empty and silent
Its beating heart, is all that now sounded
within the frame, all smashed and crumbling.
A wind came in from the sea, and
met but didn't vanquish the sound of the bomber's engine slashing.
The frame's attention dropped
to the soft soapy froth of the old sea
Washing over its worn-out brown toes;
when they recede, leaving eons-old grains
on foundations of sand;
Its feet.
Sticky grains stuck in its hair
and on it's painful brown skin, burnt by the sun,
Scalded yesterday by violence, by that which had been turned in
Over years had found expression in 'no caring'
in living for the day and not the day that would come
nor for the day that had been.
Today, all the shouting he had ceased.
Taken children and wife to the beach.
Now dwarfed by the mountains and sea.
And the jet breaking silence between.
Sun unrelenting,
Dreams and all the words fallen silent.
Attention on the frame and its sand,
washed to and away from immense sea
unrelenting as 'dying and life',
Pray, Rest it only after all its work is replete.
It's head now considered the noise,
receding distantly rumbling, approaching silence
again were the sea and the shore,
and the mountains just like before
and the breeze and the children splashing and playing
Its mind still haunted by the girl on that beach,
wailing gnashing and beating small fists in the sand
at the senseless attack by the beast
and her loved ones blown apart,
It saw its own playing, and the bomber receding
And it came like thunder.
Steve's face to adorn T-shirts
in streets, and boutiques
New Politically-Printed, not silk-screened
and lacking the ink under nails that would
get you thrown in for a ride
in the sonoffabitch SB-driven raatler.
It yearned for two things:
A house by the sea, permanent and defended,
And a rock solid bed rock,
the smell of the sand
and the feel of the grains between toes
and the dogs for a walk in the evening;
Not its face on a T-shirt, its head filled with words
smashed on a stone wall by a sonnofabitch SB.
Shortly, this frame would do time
Now it paid its due to the shore and the sea
and the twelve ancient faces
And it cursed once again the T-shirt appeal
that fashionable quest for the house
built on quicksand at the sea.
"Nathi, my boy,"
said one of the twelve.
"If you aren't doing time,
then the words are not mine."
"I'm confused," said the frame.
"It's a beginning." said he.
by Frankly Speaking
Image context [URL]
Singular frame
Crouched on grainy white shore
Fixed on the swirling swell of turquoise,
heaving surging sea.
Behind it, a frame of twelve ancient faces
dwarfed the speck, a bomber
The sound of it's engines were met
by the brown and blue silence of sea, and of shore;
By the cold crispy breeze from the surface, its trees
Waves of blue from below, and of green from behind:
undulating, dissolving carpet over the ancient green faces
White table cloth flowed gently down wet hard ravines
Caressing wrinkled green vegetation on the old faces
like tears from their faithful brows
Then, soothing a sun-parched peeling brown skin,
a seething soul, still brain-wrenched and empty and silent
Its beating heart, is all that now sounded
within the frame, all smashed and crumbling.
A wind came in from the sea, and
met but didn't vanquish the sound of the bomber's engine slashing.
The frame's attention dropped
to the soft soapy froth of the old sea
Washing over its worn-out brown toes;
when they recede, leaving eons-old grains
on foundations of sand;
Its feet.
Sticky grains stuck in its hair
and on it's painful brown skin, burnt by the sun,
Scalded yesterday by violence, by that which had been turned in
Over years had found expression in 'no caring'
in living for the day and not the day that would come
nor for the day that had been.
Today, all the shouting he had ceased.
Taken children and wife to the beach.
Now dwarfed by the mountains and sea.
And the jet breaking silence between.
Sun unrelenting,
Dreams and all the words fallen silent.
Attention on the frame and its sand,
washed to and away from immense sea
unrelenting as 'dying and life',
Pray, Rest it only after all its work is replete.
It's head now considered the noise,
receding distantly rumbling, approaching silence
again were the sea and the shore,
and the mountains just like before
and the breeze and the children splashing and playing
Its mind still haunted by the girl on that beach,
wailing gnashing and beating small fists in the sand
at the senseless attack by the beast
and her loved ones blown apart,
It saw its own playing, and the bomber receding
And it came like thunder.
Steve's face to adorn T-shirts
in streets, and boutiques
New Politically-Printed, not silk-screened
and lacking the ink under nails that would
get you thrown in for a ride
in the sonoffabitch SB-driven raatler.
It yearned for two things:
A house by the sea, permanent and defended,
And a rock solid bed rock,
the smell of the sand
and the feel of the grains between toes
and the dogs for a walk in the evening;
Not its face on a T-shirt, its head filled with words
smashed on a stone wall by a sonnofabitch SB.
Shortly, this frame would do time
Now it paid its due to the shore and the sea
and the twelve ancient faces
And it cursed once again the T-shirt appeal
that fashionable quest for the house
built on quicksand at the sea.
"Nathi, my boy,"
said one of the twelve.
"If you aren't doing time,
then the words are not mine."
"I'm confused," said the frame.
"It's a beginning." said he.
by Frankly Speaking
Image context [URL]
Why Black Pride needs Revival
With all respect, I don't believe The International Herald Tribune, when headlining Associated Press reporter Celean Jacobson's report about a fashion trend in South Africa, was referencing a physical resurrection, nor an exhuming of the remains of the Black Consciousness leader by its choice of the word "revive". It is more likely what was meant is a "fashion trend" - which features the image of Steve Biko as its theme - would revive the ideas of the "black pride leader". Steve Biko died after being tortured by the South African Apartheid government, on September 12th 1977.
Now wait just a moment! "Didn't South Africa achieve independence more than a decade ago?" you ask. And "Isn't South Africa largely a black country?" Now herein lies the crux of the revival, see. What need do we have for reviving the ideas of a nation's greatest leader, or indeed "a nation's pride", if the said nation is already liberated?
A search on the day marking thirty years since this great African Lion was taken in its infancy, from its African children, revealed several reports in the international press, all relating to a commercialization of the image and memory of Steve Biko. On closer inspection, there was no dark (or should we say, "white") hand guiding this cheap commercial travesty; no puppet strings attached to the hands of mysterious global masters misguiding Africa's sons and daughters; only a foundation established by the comrade's friends and family, the African sons and daughters themselves, directing this macabre revival. One is not in need of enemies, when blessed with such comrades as these. A sign in fact, that the ideas of Biko never achieved maturity can be seen in such insane notions as these fashion trends. Of course, there is no shortage of "body pierced, metro-sexual black journalists" in Johannesburg who would argue that the wearing of such T-shirts as these, is a political statement; or that the printed T-shirt has long been a political tool, in the hands of the oppressed. Granted, such statements may be true, but when so many platforms are available inside South Africa today, is this ideology being promoted nearly as aggressively among the South African population itself? It would seem that more is being done abroad than domestically in this regard. The SBF, headed by one of Steve Biko's son's, does some community work as it attempts to keep the ideology alive, yet the political representation of the parties which embraced Black Consciousness, remains shameful. The new dispensation in South Africa having failed dismally, to reverse one iota of the racial inferiority which Biko sacrificed his life trying to reverse. Neither are the official guardians and proponents of Biko's ideas involved significantly on a global stage.
One is reminded of the relevance of Biko's writings today. The mind of the African, in the hands of her oppressor, is her own worst enemy: an implicit warning of Biko's Black Consciousness ideology. The Ideology is so powerful, that the mind of Biko had to be destroyed, making way for the nationalist plans of the Apartheid regime to survive until 2007.
Sadly, the Lion needs revival because she was taken from her sons and daughters before she imparted the basic skills of survival. What does it take for an idea to live? The sons and daughters have to learn, that unless one is serving time, one is in all likelihood, not interpreting the essence of this consciousness today. Our beloved Steve, paid with his life, for he gave the ideology a loud, global voice.
Related Sites:
ANC Grapples with Biko's legacy
Finding Truth is easier than reconciliation (N. Biko, 2004)
Stephanie Nolen (Globe and Mail)
Truth Commission (Al Jazeera)
Biko Killers Not Prosecuted
Report by Charlotte Plantive (Mail & Guardian)
Report by Clare Byrne (for Deutsche Presse Agentur)
Steve Biko Foundation
Medical Professionals and Torture (Lancet Letter)
Truth Commission
The Cape Argus (Sept 11th, 2007)
Now wait just a moment! "Didn't South Africa achieve independence more than a decade ago?" you ask. And "Isn't South Africa largely a black country?" Now herein lies the crux of the revival, see. What need do we have for reviving the ideas of a nation's greatest leader, or indeed "a nation's pride", if the said nation is already liberated?
A search on the day marking thirty years since this great African Lion was taken in its infancy, from its African children, revealed several reports in the international press, all relating to a commercialization of the image and memory of Steve Biko. On closer inspection, there was no dark (or should we say, "white") hand guiding this cheap commercial travesty; no puppet strings attached to the hands of mysterious global masters misguiding Africa's sons and daughters; only a foundation established by the comrade's friends and family, the African sons and daughters themselves, directing this macabre revival. One is not in need of enemies, when blessed with such comrades as these. A sign in fact, that the ideas of Biko never achieved maturity can be seen in such insane notions as these fashion trends. Of course, there is no shortage of "body pierced, metro-sexual black journalists" in Johannesburg who would argue that the wearing of such T-shirts as these, is a political statement; or that the printed T-shirt has long been a political tool, in the hands of the oppressed. Granted, such statements may be true, but when so many platforms are available inside South Africa today, is this ideology being promoted nearly as aggressively among the South African population itself? It would seem that more is being done abroad than domestically in this regard. The SBF, headed by one of Steve Biko's son's, does some community work as it attempts to keep the ideology alive, yet the political representation of the parties which embraced Black Consciousness, remains shameful. The new dispensation in South Africa having failed dismally, to reverse one iota of the racial inferiority which Biko sacrificed his life trying to reverse. Neither are the official guardians and proponents of Biko's ideas involved significantly on a global stage.
One is reminded of the relevance of Biko's writings today. The mind of the African, in the hands of her oppressor, is her own worst enemy: an implicit warning of Biko's Black Consciousness ideology. The Ideology is so powerful, that the mind of Biko had to be destroyed, making way for the nationalist plans of the Apartheid regime to survive until 2007.
Sadly, the Lion needs revival because she was taken from her sons and daughters before she imparted the basic skills of survival. What does it take for an idea to live? The sons and daughters have to learn, that unless one is serving time, one is in all likelihood, not interpreting the essence of this consciousness today. Our beloved Steve, paid with his life, for he gave the ideology a loud, global voice.
Related Sites:
ANC Grapples with Biko's legacy
Finding Truth is easier than reconciliation (N. Biko, 2004)
Stephanie Nolen (Globe and Mail)
Truth Commission (Al Jazeera)
Biko Killers Not Prosecuted
Report by Charlotte Plantive (Mail & Guardian)
Report by Clare Byrne (for Deutsche Presse Agentur)
Steve Biko Foundation
Medical Professionals and Torture (Lancet Letter)
Truth Commission
The Cape Argus (Sept 11th, 2007)
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Treatment of Guantanamo Prisoners vs. Steve Biko Murder
By Clare Byrne, Sept 10th, 2007
Deutsche Presse - Agentur
Report by John Yeld of the Cape Argus
TITLE: 'Us Detainees in War On Terror Echo Biko's Fate'
Sept 7th, 2007
This report appears at the allAfrica.com site
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200709070644.html
There are strong parallels between the treatment meted out to murdered Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko and detainees held in the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in the so called "war on terror", says a group of more than 260 doctors from around the world.
The group, which includes South Africans, has called for the US doctors involved in treating these prisoners especially those helping to force feed detainees on hunger strike by inserting tubes into their noses to be reported to their professional medical bodies for breaching internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
The doctors express their outrage in a letter that appears in today's edition of The Lancet, the prestigious independent medical journal published in Britain.
The 30th anniversary of Biko's death from severe head injuries is next week.
Biko was savagely beaten by Port Elizabeth security police while being held in solitary confinement and driven naked in the back of a police Land Rover to Pretoria, where he died a lonely death in a police cell.
The Lancet letter is signed by six doctors one of them Dr Trefor Jenkins of the department of human genetics at the University of the Witwatersrand "on behalf of 260 other signatories", who include 21 South Africans, two of them from Cape Town.
The letter says the doctors who treated Biko, Benjamin Tucker and Ivor Lang, had provided grossly inadequate medical treatment and falsified records.
"The regulatory authorities failed to take firm action and it was only grassroots efforts by doctors that led, almost eight years later, to Benjamin Tucker being found guilty of improper and disgraceful conduct and being struck off the medical register; Ivor Lang was found guilty of improper conduct and given a caution and reprimand.
"There are strong parallels between the Biko case and the ongoing role of US military doctors in Guantanamo Bay and the war on terror."
There are strong parallels between the treatment meted out to murdered Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko and detainees held in the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in the so called "war on terror", says a group of more than 260 doctors from around the world.
The group, which includes South Africans, has called for the US doctors involved in treating these prisoners especially those helping to force feed detainees on hunger strike by inserting tubes into their noses to be reported to their professional medical bodies for breaching internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
The doctors express their outrage in a letter that appears in today's edition of The Lancet, the prestigious independent medical journal published in Britain.
The 30th anniversary of Biko's death from severe head injuries is next week.
Biko was savagely beaten by Port Elizabeth security police while being held in solitary confinement and driven naked in the back of a police Land Rover to Pretoria, where he died a lonely death in a police cell.
The Lancet letter is signed by six doctors one of them Dr Trefor Jenkins of the department of human genetics at the University of the Witwatersrand "on behalf of 260 other signatories", who include 21 South Africans, two of them from Cape Town.
The letter says the doctors who treated Biko, Benjamin Tucker and Ivor Lang, had provided grossly inadequate medical treatment and falsified records.
"The regulatory authorities failed to take firm action and it was only grassroots efforts by doctors that led, almost eight years later, to Benjamin Tucker being found guilty of improper and disgraceful conduct and being struck off the medical register; Ivor Lang was found guilty of improper conduct and given a caution and reprimand.
"There are strong parallels between the Biko case and the ongoing role of US military doctors in Guantanamo Bay and the war on terrhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifor."
Although one of the signatories, neurologist Dr David Nicholl of the City Hospital in Birmingham, UK, had reported the American doctors to several US medical bodies, nothing had happened, the letter said.
"The failure of the US regulatory authorities to act is damaging the reputation of US military medicine.
"No healthcare worker in the war on terror has been charged or convicted of any significant offence, despite numerous instances documented, including fraudulent record-keeping on detainees who have died as a result of failed interrogations.
Continue reading... [page 2]
Related Sites:
Zionist Papers fail to place Sept 12th in it's proper global perspective
Medical News Today deals with the Lancet Letter
Tribute report by Dida Halake at Accra Mail
Steve Biko Biography at SAhistory.org
USA Watch - US Torture
American Civil Liberties Union
Amnesty International
Deutsche Presse - Agentur
While Mbeki's emphasis on a more equal relationship between Africa and the West recalls Biko's 'psychological liberation' the ANC has yet to deliver the type of freedom Biko yearned for.
Thirteen years after democracy, nearly half of South Africans live on less than 3,000 rand (410 dollars) a year and inequality is growing.
Political freedom that does not touch on the proper distribution of wealth will be meaningless, Biko wrote. 'If we have a mere change of fact of those in governing positions what is likely to happen is that black people will continue to be poor.'
Report by John Yeld of the Cape Argus
TITLE: 'Us Detainees in War On Terror Echo Biko's Fate'
Sept 7th, 2007
This report appears at the allAfrica.com site
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200709070644.html
There are strong parallels between the treatment meted out to murdered Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko and detainees held in the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in the so called "war on terror", says a group of more than 260 doctors from around the world.
The group, which includes South Africans, has called for the US doctors involved in treating these prisoners especially those helping to force feed detainees on hunger strike by inserting tubes into their noses to be reported to their professional medical bodies for breaching internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
The doctors express their outrage in a letter that appears in today's edition of The Lancet, the prestigious independent medical journal published in Britain.
The 30th anniversary of Biko's death from severe head injuries is next week.
Biko was savagely beaten by Port Elizabeth security police while being held in solitary confinement and driven naked in the back of a police Land Rover to Pretoria, where he died a lonely death in a police cell.
The Lancet letter is signed by six doctors one of them Dr Trefor Jenkins of the department of human genetics at the University of the Witwatersrand "on behalf of 260 other signatories", who include 21 South Africans, two of them from Cape Town.
The letter says the doctors who treated Biko, Benjamin Tucker and Ivor Lang, had provided grossly inadequate medical treatment and falsified records.
"The regulatory authorities failed to take firm action and it was only grassroots efforts by doctors that led, almost eight years later, to Benjamin Tucker being found guilty of improper and disgraceful conduct and being struck off the medical register; Ivor Lang was found guilty of improper conduct and given a caution and reprimand.
"There are strong parallels between the Biko case and the ongoing role of US military doctors in Guantanamo Bay and the war on terror."
There are strong parallels between the treatment meted out to murdered Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko and detainees held in the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in the so called "war on terror", says a group of more than 260 doctors from around the world.
The group, which includes South Africans, has called for the US doctors involved in treating these prisoners especially those helping to force feed detainees on hunger strike by inserting tubes into their noses to be reported to their professional medical bodies for breaching internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
The doctors express their outrage in a letter that appears in today's edition of The Lancet, the prestigious independent medical journal published in Britain.
The 30th anniversary of Biko's death from severe head injuries is next week.
Biko was savagely beaten by Port Elizabeth security police while being held in solitary confinement and driven naked in the back of a police Land Rover to Pretoria, where he died a lonely death in a police cell.
The Lancet letter is signed by six doctors one of them Dr Trefor Jenkins of the department of human genetics at the University of the Witwatersrand "on behalf of 260 other signatories", who include 21 South Africans, two of them from Cape Town.
The letter says the doctors who treated Biko, Benjamin Tucker and Ivor Lang, had provided grossly inadequate medical treatment and falsified records.
"The regulatory authorities failed to take firm action and it was only grassroots efforts by doctors that led, almost eight years later, to Benjamin Tucker being found guilty of improper and disgraceful conduct and being struck off the medical register; Ivor Lang was found guilty of improper conduct and given a caution and reprimand.
"There are strong parallels between the Biko case and the ongoing role of US military doctors in Guantanamo Bay and the war on terrhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifor."
Although one of the signatories, neurologist Dr David Nicholl of the City Hospital in Birmingham, UK, had reported the American doctors to several US medical bodies, nothing had happened, the letter said.
"The failure of the US regulatory authorities to act is damaging the reputation of US military medicine.
"No healthcare worker in the war on terror has been charged or convicted of any significant offence, despite numerous instances documented, including fraudulent record-keeping on detainees who have died as a result of failed interrogations.
Continue reading... [page 2]
Related Sites:
Zionist Papers fail to place Sept 12th in it's proper global perspective
Medical News Today deals with the Lancet Letter
Tribute report by Dida Halake at Accra Mail
Steve Biko Biography at SAhistory.org
USA Watch - US Torture
American Civil Liberties Union
Amnesty International
Friday, September 7, 2007
Honey I blew up the U.S.A.!
According to a report by Kristin Roberts for Reuters, "A U.S. bomber mistakenly flew with at least five nuclear warheads over the United States last week, but the Air Force on Wednesday said the flight never threatened public safety. ... The B-52 flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on Thursday."Hardly comforting to hear that kind of reassurance. I scoured the complete report for an apology, or an explanation concerning this wee flopsy.. Maybe readers of my wee spot can find something I missed.
Read the full report [Reuters Sept 5th, 2007]
Watch Video [Reuters Sept 5th, 2007]
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