To follow up their quick trip thru Latin America Dan and Kat head to the classic evening destination -- the Irish Pub...and not just ANY Irish pub...Timmy Nolans. Watch as they drink that really thick beer that most people get at Irish bars (legal won't clear the name!) and check out Kat try some stout! It's hilarious!To follow up their quick trip thru Latin America Dan and Kat head to the classic... more
http://www.triponadeal.com We show you eight exciting new music trends in eight cities around the world. Guest: “Music + Travel” editor Stef Schwalb of Museyon Guides shows us music scenes in from Buenos Aires to Beijing to Berlin. See more at triponadeal.comhttp://www.triponadeal.com We show you eight exciting new music trends in eight cities... more
http://wwwtriponadeal.com This week we offer some hints for the half million people heading to Tampa Bay for the Superbowl. Plus, we answer the question: Will the Statue of Liberty's crown reopen to tourists? Also, how to live like a local. And more!http://wwwtriponadeal.com This week we offer some hints for the half million people... more
Tragedy was narrowly avoided on Friday when a 20 metre section of track on the Dublin to Belfast train route collapsed into the sea.
The section, part of a viaduct spanning the Broadmeadow Estuary, gave way just before a train was due to pass over it.
Seabed erosion is believed to be the likely cause. The affected section will be closed for the next three months, causing significant delays to Irish commuters in the meantime.Tragedy was narrowly avoided on Friday when a 20 metre section of track on the Dublin... more
Once (2006) is about a guy and a girl; literally, those are the character names. Guy is played by Glen Hansard (The Frames) and Girl is acted by Markéta Irglová (The Swell Season). It could be categorized as a musical because much of the story is told through their music; although it is not like a traditional musical. I would call it a movie with a lot of amazing and emotional music. Glen and Markéta are accomplished musicians in real life and complete once in a lifetime explosive performances on the screen. They have indicated...Once (2006) is about a guy and a girl; literally, those are the character names. Guy... more
Last weekend, you might have seen us hanging out at some of the Pride events in Dublin handing out postcards with questions on the back. Some of you filled them in with funny, interesting, and thought-provoking responses. And here are our favourites!
This is how Dubliners answered the question "What's it like to be Gay"
Remember to catch the show This is Gonna Sound a Bit Gay on Current TV (Sky 183, Virgin 155) on the following dates:
Monday 6th July, 10PM
Thursday 9th July, 10PM
Monday 13th July, 10PM
Monday 3rd of August, 10PM
Monday 31st August, 10PMLast weekend, you might have seen us hanging out at some of the Pride events in Dublin... more
Last weekend, you might have seen us hanging out at some of the Pride events in Dublin handing out postcards with questions on the back. Some of you filled them in with funny, interesting, and thought-provoking responses. And here are our favourites!
This is how Dubliners answered the question "If you could come out again, what would you do differently?"
Remember to catch the show This is Gonna Sound a Bit Gay on Current TV (Sky 183, Virgin 155) on the following dates:
Monday 6th July, 10PM
Thursday 9th July, 10PM
Monday 13th July, 10PM
Monday 3rd of August, 10PM
Monday 31st August, 10PMLast weekend, you might have seen us hanging out at some of the Pride events in Dublin... more
Last weekend, you might have seen us hanging out at some of the Pride events in Dublin handing out postcards with questions on the back. Some of you filled them in with funny, interesting, and thought-provoking responses. And here are our favourites!
This is how Dubliners answered the question "What's the gayest thing you've ever done?"
Remember to catch the show This is Gonna Sound a Bit Gay on Current TV (Sky 183, Virgin 155) on the following dates:
Monday 6th July, 10PM
Thursday 9th July, 10PM
Monday 13th July, 10PM
Monday 3rd of August, 10PM
Monday 31st August, 10PMLast weekend, you might have seen us hanging out at some of the Pride events in Dublin... more
The annual literary hooley involves devoted Joyceans dressing in the fashions of 1904, eating the "inner organs of beasts and fowls", attending readings and celebrating at various venues and pubs mentioned in the book.
The 700-page Ulysses charts the adventures of the novel's hero Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising salesman, and young poet Stephen Dedalus as they wander the streets of Dublin 105 years ago.
Bloomsday was first marked in 1929 in Paris, eight years after Ulysses was completed. It has now become a June 12 to 16 festival for the Irish capital as followers of one of the country's leading writers flock from around the world.
Joyce himself famously worried on the 20th anniversary of Bloomsday: "Will anyone remember this date?"
The first and most famous Bloomsday celebration in Dublin took place on the 50th anniversary in 1954, when a group of writers set off in horse-drawn cabs with the intention of visiting all the locations of the novel.
Their odyssey was truncated after stops at several pubs. Followers are similarly diverted today.
There is no official Bloomsday program said James Quinn of the James Joyce Centre.
"We have the traditional breakfasts here but there is no co-ordination of events. People wander around and turn up at locations throughout the day for events like the lunch that Bloom had of a gorgonzola sandwich and glass of burgundy."
Arts Minister Michael Mansergh, who performed a reading in the centre city, described Bloomsday as a "unique day for Dublin".
"It provides an opportunity for Joycean followers all over the world to celebrate Joyce's seminal work.
"It is best celebrated and recognised in his own city. Nowhere else in the world is Bloomsday and indeed Joyce himself commemorated with such enthusiasm."
Traditionalists dressed up in Edwardian costume, or something resembling it - straw hats, stripy blazers, waistcoats, long skirts, parasols, watchchains and any other trimmings.
For the purists with strong stomachs breakfast was a grilled pork or mutton kidney, slightly singed, but could also include giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart and liver slices fried with crust crumbs.
Any cooked breakfast is acceptable, especially if accompanied by booze.
Aficionados also swam at the Forty Foot bathing spot in the south city visited the Joyce museum in a Martello Tower in Sandycove and bought lemon soap.
"Anyone who happens to be in Dublin on June 16 who might not have heard about Bloomsday before really enjoys it because there is so much going on," said Aine Kavanagh, Dublin Tourism spokeswoman.
"Its great because it then gives them an interest in Joyce and the various attractions associated with him."
Joyce, who spent most of his life in exile, had a love-hate relationship with the city of his birth.
"How sick, sick, sick I am of Dublin!" he wrote in 1909. "It is the city of failure, of rancour and of unhappiness."The annual literary hooley involves devoted Joyceans dressing in the fashions of 1904,... more
This little girl doesn't seem to like school much. She called this demolition firm to deal with her problem, once and for all. Here's the audio of the phone call...This little girl doesn't seem to like school much. She called this demolition firm to... more
Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed a Palestinian man last night near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron. Earlier yesterday the Israel Air Force bombed three tunnels used for smuggling along the Gaza-Egypt border, injuring four people. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1083679.htmlIDF kills Palestinian near Hebron :
Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed a... more
Foreign intelligence analysts contradict US on Iran bomb progress: -
Congressional investigators say some foreign intelligence analysts believe U.S. intelligence is underestimating Iran's progress toward designing a nuclear warhead before Tehran halted its program in 2003. http://www.startribune.com/politics/44494272.htmlManufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran: Report:
Foreign intelligence analysts... more
Furious protesters vented their frustration in the western Afghan city of Farah after the reported killing of up to 100 civilians during US-led air strikes earlier this week. US military and Afghan officials have stepped up an inquiry into the raids.
The military said 143 militants had been killed in the Islamist bastion of Swat over the past 24 hours. The U.N. refugee agency said a "massive displacement" was underway. Citing provincial government estimates, it said up to 200,000 people had left their homes over recent days with another 300,000 on the move or about to move. http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE5441RW20090508Pakistan forces kill 143 militants, civilians flee:
The military said 143... more
'We are bombing a sovereign country. Where do we get the authority to do that? Did the Pakistani government give us written permission? Did the Congress give us written permission to expand the war and start bombing in Pakistan?' asked the US lawmaker.US Bombing a Sovereign Country: US Lawmaker
By Anwar Iqbal & Ron Paul
'We... more
Pentagon's Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion
By Noah Shachtman
It makes the Pentagon's secret operations, including the intelligence budgets nested inside, "roughly equal in magnitude to the entire defense budgets of the UK, France or Japan," Sweetman adds. All in all, about seven and a half percent of the Defense Department's total spending is now classified. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22571.htmPentagon's Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion
By Noah Shachtman
It... more
Declassified manual details the methods used in Honduras; Agency denials refuted
By Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, and mark Matthews
The Baltimore Sun, Monday 27 January 1997, Final Edition
WASHINGTON -- A newly declassified CIA training manual details torture methods used against suspected subversives in Central America during the 1980s, refuting claims by the agency that no such methods were taught there.
"Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual -- 1983" was released Friday in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by The Sun on May 26, 1994.
The CIA also declassified a Vietnam-era training manual called "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation -- July 1963," which also taught torture and is believed by intelligence sources to have been a basis for the 1983 manual.
Torture methods taught in the 1983 manual include stripping suspects naked and keeping them blindfolded. Interrogation rooms should be windowless, dark and soundproof, with no toilet.
"The 'questioning' room is the battlefield upon which the 'questioner' and the subject meet," the 1983 manual states. "However, the 'questioner' has the advantage in that he has total control over the subject and his environment."
The 1983 manual was altered between 1984 and early 1985 to discourage torture after a furor was raised in Congress and the press about CIA training techniques being used in Central America. Those alterations and new instructions appear in the documents obtained by The Sun, support the conclusion that methods taught in the earlier version were illegal.
A cover sheet placed in the manual in March 1985 cautions: "The use of force, mental torture, threats, insults or exposure to inhumane treatment of any kind as an aid to interrogation is prohibited by law, both international and domestic; it is neither authorized nor condoned."
The Sun's 1994 request for the manuals was made in connection with the newspaper's investigation of kidnapping, torture and murder committed by a CIA-trained Honduran military unit during the 1980s. The CIA turned over the documents -- with passages deleted -- only after The Sun threatened to sue the agency to obtain the documents.Torture Was Taught By CIA
Torture Was Taught By CIA
Declassified manual... more
CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations' Torture
By Paul Kane
May 07, 2009 "Washington Post" -- Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.
In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered "EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah." EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him.
The issue of what Pelosi knew and when she knew it has become a matter of heated debate on Capitol Hill. Republicans have accused her of knowing for many years precisely the techniques CIA agents were using in interrogations, and only protesting the tactics when they became public and liberal antiwar activists protested.
In a carefully worded statement, Pelosi's office said today that she had never been briefed about the use of waterboarding, only that it had been approved by Bush administration lawyers as a legal technique to use in interrogations.CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations' Torture
By Paul... more
Tortured To Death?
US Interrogators Have Killed Dozens
By John Byrne
May 07, 2009 "Raw Story" -- -United States interrogators killed nearly four dozen detainees during or after their interrogations, according a report published by a human rights researcher based on a Human Rights First report and followup investigations.
In all, 98 detainees have died while in US hands. Thirty-four homicides have been identified, with at least eight detainees — and as many as 12 — having been tortured to death, according to a 2006 Human Rights First report that underwrites the researcher’s posting. The causes of 48 more deaths remain uncertain.
The researcher, John Sifton, worked for five years for Human Rights Watch. In a posting Tuesday, he documents myriad cases of detainees who died at the hands of their US interrogators. Some of the instances he cites are graphic.
Most of those taken captive were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. They include at least one Afghani soldier, Jamal Naseer, who was mistakenly arrested in 2004. “Those arrested with Naseer later said that during interrogations U.S. personnel punched and kicked them, hung them upside down, and hit them with sticks or cables,” Sifton writes. “Some said they were doused with cold water and forced to lie in the snow. Nasser collapsed about two weeks after the arrest, complaining of stomach pain, probably an internal hemorrhage.”
Another Afghan killing occurred in 2002. Mohammad Sayari was killed by four U.S. servicemembers after being detained for allegedly “following their movements.” A Pentagon document obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2005 said that the Defense Department found a captain and three sergeants had “murdered” Sayari, but the section dealing with the department’s probe was redacted.Tortured To Death?
Tortured To Death?
US Interrogators Have Killed Dozens... more
