Your request is being processed... Catholic Church Child Abuse Claims Sweep Across Europe

DUBLIN — It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons. Ireland was the first in Europe to confront the church's worldwide custom of shielding pedophile priests from the law and public scandal. Now that legacy of suppressed childhood horror is being confronted in other parts of the Continent – nowhere more poignantly than in Germany, the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI. The recent spread of claims into the Netherlands, Austria and Italy has analysts and churchmen wondering how deep the scandal runs, which nation will be affected next, and whether a tide of lawsuits will force European dioceses to declare bankruptcy like their American cousins.. » read more

What Torture Is and Why It's Illegal and Not

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Saudi Arabia: Free Woman Who Sought Court Aid For Harassment Complaint Made Without "Male Guardian:" 300 Lashes, 1 ½ Years in Jail

Saudi Arabia's authorities should quash the January, 2010, verdict of a court that sentenced a woman to 300 lashes and one and a half years in prison for filing harassment complaints without the required accompaniment by a male guardian, and release her from jail, Human Rights Watch said today. Sawsan Salim was sentenced on charges of making "spurious complaints" against government officials and for "appearing … without a male guardian" in court. The verdict reflects the discriminatory system of male guardianship in Saudi Arabia, in which women are prohibited from many acts without the presence of a male guardian. "In Saudi Arabia, being a woman going about her legitimate business without a man's protection is apparently a crime," said Nadya Khalife, women's rights researcher for the Middle East at Human Rights Watch. "The government needs to free Sawsan Salim and keep its promise to end this discriminatory system.. » read more

A closer look at child abuse networks in the Netherlands and Belgium Apparent top level involvement in both countries

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Children missing from Haiti hospitals:

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Friday children have gone missing from hospitals in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in the country, raising fears they are being trafficked for adoption abroad. "We have documented around 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals and not with their own family at the time," said UNICEF adviser Jean Luc Legrand. "UNICEF has been working in Haiti for many years and we knew the problem with the trade of children in Haiti that existed already beforehand," he said. "Unfortunately, many of these trade networks have links with the international adoption market." The UN agency said it has warned countries around the world during the past week not to step up adoptions from Haiti in the immediate wake of the quake, ABC News reported.. » read more

The Flailing Falsehoods of America's War Criminals

I didn't think it was possible, but former Bush officials -- desperately fighting what they know will be their legacy as war criminals -- have become even more dishonest propagandists out of office than they were in office.  At National Review, Bill Burck and Dana Perino so thoroughly mislead their readers about the DOJ report -- rejecting the findings of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) of ethical misconduct against John Yoo and Jay Bybee -- that it's hard to know where to begin.  They devote paragraph after paragraph to hailing the intelligence and integrity of the report's author, career DOJ prosecutor David Margolis, in order to pretend that he defended Yoo and Bybee's work, claiming that Margolis "officially exonerated Bush-era lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee" and that "Margolis rejected OPR's recommendation and most of its analysis."  Perhaps the most deceitful claim is this one: So, in one corner we have a legal all-star team of Mukasey, Filip, Estrada, Mahoney, Goldsmith [all right-wing Bush lawyers], and Margolis. In the other corner, we have OPR operating far outside its comfort zone and area of expertise.. » read more

ROBERT GREEN ARRESTED Child abuse cover-up.

An outline of the horrific Hollie Greig story. Journalist Robert Green (later arrested) exposes the high level child abuse scandal and how the BBC were threatened to keep the story quiet. Please pass this story on and expose these filthy psychopaths. For the full story visit www.tpuc.. » read more

The real Taliban: Rape and murder

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Man, 79, says he's Lindbergh's 'baby'

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Here There Be Monsters

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