The Daily Populous

Sunday September 24th, 2023 morning edition

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Dr. Sondra S. Crosby appeared in court to condemn the ‘rectal feeding’ torture method used by the United State’s CIA in Guantanamo Bay.

His lawyers are claiming that any confessions he made were under the duress of torture.

Mr. Nashiri claims that in 2013, prison staff used ‘rectal feeding’ to torture him.

Mr. Nashiri also claims that he had been sodomized by the end of a broom by prison staff.

Crosby explained that rectal feeding is a method in which CIA prison staff would take a tube, designed to be placed in the windpipe, and place it in a prisoner’s anus.

At the time, the CIA defended rectal feeding as a ‘medical procedure’, according to the Times.

The document confirms that rectal feeding is a method of torture used by prison staff. »

GoFundMe refunds donations to poker player who admits to lying about cancer for tournament buy-in

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GoFundMe said it has also banned Rob Mercer from the platform and removed the poker player’s fundraising campaign from its website.

Mercer told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he made up a stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis for his GoFundMe page in June, the newspaper reported Wednesday.

However, the 37-year-old said he would not be refunding anyone because he believes he has undiagnosed breast cancer. »

Clarence Thomas’ Latest Pay-to-Play Scandal Finally Connects All the Dots

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On Saturday’s Slate Plus segment of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the justice’s latest scandal and its potential effect on the rest of the court.

The first is Bohemian Grove, which is where the Kochs developed this relationship with Clarence Thomas over the years.

And it doesn’t encourage faith that his jurisprudence is rooted exclusively in his own views of the Constitution and the law. »

Africa's white rhino population rebounds for 1st time in a decade, new figures show

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LONDON -- African rhino populations are increasing despite poaching and habitat loss, new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show.

By the end of 2022, the African rhino population stood at just 23,290 according to latest figures by the IUCN.

Namibia -- home to the world's largest black rhino population -- saw a devastating 93% increase in rhino poaching from 2021 to 2022. »