Bits and bites.
This blog has been pretty quiet lately. No excuses. Here is a round up of random things of recent note:- SCOTUS rules military trials for Guantanamo detainees against both US national and international law. SHOCK HORRORS! THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS APPLY TO GUANTASCHMOS! What's next? Rights for immigrants? Women?
- In funnier SCOTUS news, Justice Scalia is 17 times funnier than Justice
- Steven H. Miles asks Where were the doctors and nurses at Abu Ghraib and Bagram?
Somehow Dr. Rossignol missed seeing that Mowhoush's body was bruised on the arms, legs, head, neck, pelvis, and front and back of the torso. These injuries were apparent to the criminal investigators and the pathologists who conducted an autopsy. She kept silent as the inaccurate report circulated that he had died by natural causes.
- I hate it when movies put all their funny parts in the trailer, and then it ends up being stupid.
- The UN Human Rights Council has been busy, busy, busy!
- UN rights forum adopts ban on "disappearances" [Reuters] The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance would require states to keep registers of detainees and tell their families the truth about their disappearance, as well as paying compensation.
- A reporter in Iraq: They told me I’d be the next reporter to die [Sunday Times, London]
- "Lennon represented life, and Mr. Nixon and Mr. Bush represent death" War is over if you want it. The US vs John Lennon.
- "The new UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to make a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel a permanent feature of every council session." [JPost]
- Judges sworn in for Khmer Rouge: [BBC] Judges for Cambodia's long-awaited Khmer Rouge genocide trials have been sworn in, a key step towards bringing former leaders to justice. Since Cambodia first asked the United Nations for help in 1997, the government has been reluctant to commit resources, and foreign donors have provided much of the funding. In 2003, Cambodia and the UN agreed jointly to convene the trials, but many analysts said the process could be undermined by the dire state of Cambodia's judicial system, which was badly debilitated by the Khmer Rouge policy of targeting the intelligentsia for extermination.
- Ever since Ana Marie Cox left, Wonkette hasn't been the same. However, funny funny, dissing Drudge seems to lift our spirits. I'd never even heard of the University of the Incarnate Word.
The dean of library services at the University of the Incarnate Word has canceled the library’s subscription to the New York Times to protest articles exposing a secret government program that monitors international financial transactions in the hunt for terrorists.
Peace.
posted by Carla @ 3:17 PM
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