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Grill ripped from Tenn. man's teeth in jail
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8992253
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When a Tennessee jailer ripped the gold grill from a new inmate's teeth two days before Thanksgiving last year, it left the 31-year-old man in excruciating pain and left taxpayers on the hook for nearly $100,000 in damages.
PermalinkAmerican lecturers banning laptops from the classroom
Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7057511.ece
Kieran Mullen deals with an offending laptop and becomes a YouTube hit
The perfect university lecture, it is sometimes said, involves the transmission of information from the lecturer’s notes to the student’s notebook without passing through the brain of either.
No Longer America What First Amendment?
Link: http://salem-news.com:80/articles/march092010/no-america-tk.php
Two of the most jaded, misdirected and agenda driven politicians in America, Joe Lieberman and John McCain, have introduced a bill to further the non-humanitarian arrest, detention and prosecution of individuals suspected to be 'enemy belligerents' who are believed to have engaged in hostile activity toward the United States.
The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its 44th president, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating our nation's "triumph over race." Obama's election has been touted as the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow, the bookend placed on the history of racial caste in America.
A superpower and “the world's sickest warrior state”
Link: http://www.redress.cc/americas/pjballes20100308
Paul J. Balles says the US “has not only become the world's major power, it has become the world's sickest warrior state”. He calls on humanitarians to reject the double standards set by warmongers, on the clergy to stop preaching sanctimonious sermons and on teachers to teach a zero tolerance policy for self-righteous warriors.
Anthony Lawson -"It was the right decision" - Video
With Anthony Lawson around who needs the Chilcot Inquiry? The art of questioning performed here by Lawson is not presented at the Iraq Inquiry. In Britain 2010, war criminals are yet to be challenged.
ACLU New York Times Ad Today Calls On President Obama Not To Back Down On 9/11 Civilian Trials
The American Civil Liberties Union today published a full-page ad in the New York Times calling on President Obama not to back down from his administration’s decision to prosecute the 9/11 suspects in civilian courts. The ad comes in response to news reports that the Obama administration is on the verge of reversing Attorney General Eric Holder's November decision, turning instead to the discredited military commission system.
Washington at Its Worst: Stop the Gitmo Sell-Out
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/06-1
Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that President Obama's advisers are "nearing a recommendation" that the administration overrule Attorney General Holder's plan for a criminal trial for Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Guantanamo Bay detainees and revert to Bush/Cheney military commissions. Negotiations have reportedly been underway between Rahm Emanuel and Senator Lindsey Graham, with Graham allegedly promising to help the administration curry favor with Senate Republicans in his bid to close Guantanamo Bay if the president abandons his Attorney General and his pledge to defend the rule of law.
Ill. judge won't toss torture suit naming Rumsfeld
Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gBaIp2FW3RTKSDqXVXyhJaZ0V6sgD9E8QLS00
CHICAGO — A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm.
State attempts to victimize mother of fire victims
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/sylv-m06.shtml
Sylvia Young says she pled with Detroit utility to keep heat on. The Michigan state government is attempting to victimize the mother of three young children who died in a fire that erupted only hours after the family’s utilities were shut off on Tuesday. The state attorney general general’s office has reportedly filed a neglect case against Sylvia Young, 30, for not being home at the time of the blaze. Young says she fears the state will attempt to take away the four children who survived.
Cover-up exposed in post-Katrina police killings
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/nopd-m06.shtml
A New Orleans police supervisor pled guilty February 24 in a federal court to charges of conspiracy to cover up the police shooting of six unarmed people a few days after Hurricane Katrina struck the city. Two of the victims, Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally disabled man, and James Brissette, 19, were killed, while the other four were seriously wounded, one losing part of her arm.
Senecas See Comeback Over Sale of Cigarettes
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/us/06seneca.html?ref=us
There is a relatively short list of people who like mail-order cigarettes: teenagers, adults evading sales taxes and the Seneca Nation of Indians of western New York, which dominates the national market.
Everyone hates each other — it’s Hollywood
Link: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7048862.ece
It is a night of glittering statues, pristine red carpets and gracious speeches. But behind the air-kisses, smiles and displays of magnanimity at the annual Oscars ceremony, dirty, though often expensive, battles go on, with competitors more than willing to knife each other if it means taking home a trophy. After all, winning means more business at the box office and higher fees in the future. Not to mention the bragging rights and publicity.
Democracy - What Democracy ?
Link: http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m63827&hd=&size=1&l=e
Frankly anyone who believes that -- the about to take place elections is an exercise in Democracy, is a bloody lunatic... This is no democracy, this is a friggin circus. Notice how polite I've become...am not using the F word no more. If you believe that, you'll believe anything. Including that Iraq is a democracy today. Democracy - my foot!
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