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The Supreme Court looks at life sentences for teen offenders -- By Dahlia Lithwick »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
The estimated number of juveniles serving life without parole in the United States is 2,574. The number of prisoners given life without parole for ...
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Apple-Google Divorce? »
Posted by: aStorygirl 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Google and Apple share two board members, but that could change. Now the Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into whether this is breaking ...
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Robotic Rights and Accountability »
Posted by: mrmunchies 5 months ago in Science & Technology
The giant leap the field of robotics has taken in recent years means many more human positions will be replaceable. The Pentagon recently announced they ...
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Fall of the Republic »
Posted by: onlyonesecret 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The highly anticipated documentary Fall of the Republic...
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Nathaniel Frank: Why Does Obama Use Executive Power for Everything But Gay Troops? »
Posted by: david_nwpa 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Sometimes moral and political leadership really are one and the same. Ending the needless firing of gay troops is one of those times.
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Surviving a Financial Collapse: The Basics »
Posted by: engineer 6 months ago in Business & Finance
A while ago Matt Savinar proposed that I write an article that specifically addresses the situations and concerns of some of the visitors to his ...
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Forced vaccinations: a whistleblower\'s clear warning »
Posted by: onlyonesecret 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Soldier back from Swine Flu drill speaks about RFID in vaccine and more.
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Claims of British collusion in torture spread to Egypt »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months, 1 week ago in News
The Foreign Office has confirmed that Khan was detained in Egypt for a week last July and, after being pressed repeatedly, admitted that it knew ...
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Obama to Close Foreign Prisons and Guantánamo »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 11 months ago in News
WASHINGTON ; President Obama is expected to sign executive orders Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons ...
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Public Flogging of Woman by Taliban Raises Outrage »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
A video of 17-year-old woman being flogged thirty-four times by Taliban militants in the Swat Valley has raised public outrage. However, while President Asif Ali ...
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Obama's backsliding on torture »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
President Obama inherited a human rights debacle of epic proportions. One of his earliest acts, during his very first hours in office, was to signal ...
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Albania plans to legalize gay marriage »
Posted by: david_nwpa 4 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Albania’s governing Democrats have proposed a law allowing same-sex civil weddings in the small, predominantly Muslim country.
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Empathy is Not a Code Word for Dirty Gay Terrorist Hippie »
Posted by: metavirus 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
President Obama recently laid out his criteria for selecting a new Justice to the Supreme Court, which included the quality of empathy. Obama's re-opening ...
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Liberty in Britain is facing death by a thousand cuts -- We can fight back »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months ago in Political News
It is shocking how many curtailments of freedom have been imposed. Each one may be small but the cumulative loss is vast.
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Protesters want UC Berkeley law professor fired »
Posted by: tehranchik 4 months ago in Political News
Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that critics ...
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