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• Get Out Of My Country

  
  DhafirTrial — Authority: 122
  This is a must listen -  Interview With Malalai Joya Malalai Joya was 27-years-old when she became the youngest person elected to the new Afghan Parliament. She’s now suspended from Parliament for criticizing other MPs and accusing many of being warlords and criminals. She calls Afghanistan’s democracy a ...
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• The Fall of Greg Craig

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum — Authority: 148
  Time has an interesting tick-tock this week about Greg Craig, the White House lawyer tasked with dismantling Bush-era interrogation and detention policies.  At first, Obama was on board with Craigs plans.  Then, reality set in.  Here he is deciding whether to release a set of "torture memos" last spring: Obama ...
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• Paternity Tests

  
  Samuel J. Scott — Authority: 130
  The New York Times Magazine reports on how paternity testing is changing fatherhood in the United States. The feature article, of course, leads with a poignant story:For four years, Mike had known that the girl he had rocked to sleep and danced with across the living-room floor was not, as they say, “his.” The ...
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• Somewhere In East Germany, The Former Head Of The Stasi Weeps

  
  BrianKaneOnline — Authority: 132
  Proving once again that there is nothing that can’t be turned into a way to make a buck (or, in this case, a pound), a British company called Internet Eyes wants to launch a service where ordinary people are given access to the literally millions of CCTV feeds from all around the U.K. so that they can spend their ...
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• The UC Student Fee Protests: What Happened Thursday

  
  Student Activism — Authority: 495
  I’ve just put up a short think piece about the events of the last few days at the University of California, but those events are worth describing in detail — particularly since they’re a long way from over. Here’s what happened yesterday: The UC Regents, as expected, voted to impose huge fee increase on ...
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• Bush Administration Officials Defend Holders Decision on KSM

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 149
  Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, who both served in the Justice Department during the Bush administration, have an op-ed in Fridays Washington Post defending Eric Holder, Obamas Attorney General. Comey and Goldsmith say Holders decision to try 9/11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court was ...
  21 hours ago

• America on Trial: Right-Wingers Have Reasons to Worry About Trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 631
  NEW YORK--One of my favorite books is by a conservative. Every American should read Stephen L. Carters 1996 primer on ethics, "Integrity." Carter writes that integrity requires doing the right thing, "even at personal cost." In the world of politics, the example of Al Gores father comes to my mind: a senator from ...
  21 hours ago

• Fighters, believers and...authoritarians

  
  Next Left — Authority: 646
  Over at Liberal Conspiracy, Don Paskini recently posted an interesting piece on the Labour Partys PPB, Fighters and Believers . As I pointed out in the comments thread, I think it is interesting that Labour is now looking back to its pre-1994 history and trying to darw some sense of meaning and inspiration from ...
  22 hours ago

• The end of the free internet in Britain?

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 700
  by Charlotte Gore If we can’t stop this, it’s beginning of the end for the net in Britain That’s what Cory Doctorow suggests when reporting the news that Mandelson is seeking to use a back door to grant himself powers that grant him yet more powers to do just about anything in the interest of protecting ...
  23 hours ago

• GovInfoSecurity: Einstein 3 Privacy Concerns Voiced

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 139
  GovInfoSecurity reports on a U.S. Senate hearing about Einstein 3. It is a Bush-era pilot program, continued under Obama, that seeks to have private telecommunications companies route the Internet traffic of civilian government agencies through hardware and software that would search for and block malicious computer ...
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• Speaking of the 1st Amendment, God, Spirituality, Religion, and the End of Humankind...

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 631
  One of the greatest strengths of our nation is the fact that each and every individual not only has the right to worship in their own way but the 1st Amendment, properly and broadly interpreted (within the context of the era, the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights as a whole), ...
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• The FED takes a Direct Hit from Ron Paul

  
  joerobertson.com — Authority: 124
  A few set-backs for HR 1207 over the past couple of weeks and then…Ron Paul and Alan Grayson introduce an amendment that gets the audit back on track and closer to exposing the banking cartel for what it is…Fox News continues the media blackout but, the Wall Street Journal reports… House Attacks Fed, Treasury ...
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• Annex the West Bank?

  
  Samuel J. Scott — Authority: 130
  Michael Freund posits an idea in light of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision first to retire and then to declare statehood:For far too long, Israel has been overly vulnerable to such machinations and games. By leaving the status of Judea and Samaria open for discussion, the Jewish state has ...
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• Mandelson wants to impose law by decree on filesharing

  
  Amused Cynicism — Authority: 115
  Not satisfied with the powers he’ll get against filesharers in the new Digital Economy Bill — a £50,000 fine and banning from the internet — Lord Mandelson has decided that to stop illegal copying, he needs the power to make new laws by decree (i.e. statutory instrument): Lord Mandelson is seeking to amend ...
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• Inside the courtroom for the "No Blood For Oil" bumper-sticker hearing

  
  The Latest Word — Authority: 673
  Yesterday, in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Chris Hansen argued on behalf of a lawsuit filed by Leslie Weise and Alex Young, who were prevented ...
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• The Real America Speaks to Mooselini!

  
  Mock, Paper, Scissors — Authority: 154
  …The [Palin book signing] also drew its share of more ideological conservatives. Bob Weinert, 56, a fencing salesman from Lansing, said he’d heard Rush Limbaugh say recently that Palin is “the most conservative candidate out there.” She represents, he said, “limited government and traditional values,” ...
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• UK Government seeks to create a “Pirate-Finder General” with power to appoint militias, create laws

  
  Savage Popcorn — Authority: 126
  Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing (via lots of folks on Twitter ) is claiming that Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under debate in Parliament. These changes will give the Secretary of State (Mandelson - or whoever replaces him after the next election) the power to make ...
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• The case for a complete DNA database | Gavin Phillipson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 161
  At the moment, the arbitrary process of adding to the database breeds injustice. Perhaps we owe it to society to all be included The national DNA database is once again being hotly debated. The government is now proposing that the DNA profile of innocent people (those arrested but never convicted) should be kept for ...
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• Texas executes inmate who claimed time on death row was torture

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Danielle Simpsons lawyers issued a late appeal that was eventually rejected by the states board of pardons Texas has executed Danielle Simpson, a murderer who earlier this year pleaded with a court to be put to death because conditions on death row amounted to torture. Days before his execution, Simpson told the ...
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• The Entire Jury Will Have to Be in Witness Protection

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 640
  On the subject of the civil trial of KSM , Trochilus raises a point I hadn’t considered: Given the nature and depth of Islamo-facist enmity toward all Western institutions, including all faiths other than their own, toward all our democratic institutions, including our judicial system, and finally toward most ...
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