cleo said...

cleo at 07:21 PM JST - 19th July

youareacat -

Actually it's a pretty good job. Some of it is humdrum of course, but you also get to read a lot of stuff (some of it secret) that would never come your way otherwise, which can be pretty interesting. And if you're reasonably good at what you do,…

Posted in No substitute for human touch in translating at 07:21 PM JST - 19th July
cleo at 07:11 PM JST - 19th July

If, cleo, you have proof -- PROOF -- otherwise, put up or shut up.

It used to work the other way round - you know, innocent until proven guilty? Now you demand proof - nay, PROOF - that a teenager isn't the anti-christ? Just because some US troops high…

Posted in Canadian teenager cries in Gitmo interrogation video at 07:11 PM JST - 19th July
cleo at 03:16 PM JST - 19th July

I have no sympathy for this teen. He killed a soldier

You don't know that. The initial report said that he didn't, and eye-witness accounts are contradictory.

Justice served....

Not without a proper trial, it isn't.

Posted in Canadian teenager cries in Gitmo interrogation video at 03:16 PM JST - 19th July
cleo at 11:19 AM JST - 19th July

The Institute of Cetacean Research and Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd submitted a joint report to the Fisheries Agency

In other words the people in charge of the scam have reported that there was no scam.

Posted in Ship crew did not steal whale meat: research institute at 11:19 AM JST - 19th July
cleo at 07:50 PM JST - 18th July

So the US of A invented 'horribly run POW camps'. OK......

Have to admit, they've 'improved' on their prototype no end - they don't even call them POW camps these days. And they put children in them.

Another problem was that the North stopped prisoner exchanges to deplete the South's…

Posted in Canadian teenager cries in Gitmo interrogation video at 07:50 PM JST - 18th July
cleo at 05:15 PM JST - 18th July

USAR -

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p137_Weber.html

Read.

Posted in Canadian teenager cries in Gitmo interrogation video at 05:15 PM JST - 18th July
cleo at 05:09 PM JST - 18th July

USAR -

Does being refused pain medication for his wounds, having his hands tied above a door frame for hours, having cold water thrown on him, having a bag placed over his head, being threatened with military dogs, being *forced to carry 5-gallon pails of water to aggravate his shoulder…

Posted in Canadian teenager cries in Gitmo interrogation video at 05:09 PM JST - 18th July
cleo at 04:59 PM JST - 18th July

He chose to be there,

Did he? Or was he taken there by his Dad?

and he chose to throw the grenade.

That's not what the initial report by the soldiers on the ground said. They said they killed the one who threw the grenade.

But even if he did…

Posted in Canadian teenager cries in Gitmo interrogation video at 04:59 PM JST - 18th July
cleo at 04:54 PM JST - 18th July

They sound just like the mindless bullies in the school playground - We're bigger'n'you so shurrup shortie And for some weird reason they think people respect them for it.

Posted in Do you think the International Criminal Court should be able to charge world leaders with crimes? at 04:54 PM JST - 18th July
cleo at 01:14 PM JST - 18th July

genocide against the Ndebele tribe

Then he's a candidate for the ICC.

If Obama becomes the next president...

...hopefully he won't go around starting wars that shouldn't be started. If he does, he's no better than the rest of them and needs to be hauled up to answer for his…

Posted in Do you think the International Criminal Court should be able to charge world leaders with crimes? at 01:14 PM JST - 18th July