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• Reading Around on December 10th through December 11th

  
  B12 Solipsism — Authority: 443
  A few interesting links collected December 10th through December 11th: Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border – “Along some other timeline, I did not get out of the car to ask what was going on. I did not repeat that question when refused an answer and told to get ...
  4 days ago

• Detainee 063: serialized interrogation and torture log of Mohamed al-Kahtani

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 880
  detainee063.com: "This is the interrogation log of Mohammed al-Qahtani. It is being published in real time: each entry will appear exactly seven years after it was first recorded. The interrogation took place at Guantanamo Bay." That is him in the photo above. He is still imprisoned in Guantanamo. The serialized logs ...
  6 days ago

• Wikileaks and the 9/11 intercepts: Julian Assange interviewed by John Moe

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 880
  On the Public Radio program "Future Tense," John Moe interviews Julian Assange of Wikileaks about the 9/11 intercepts blogged previously on Boing Boing. "Interesting discussion on the right to privacy vs. the responsibility of transparency," says John. And Julian says, "There is a tradeoff between the integrity and ...
  1 week ago

• China: Wife of jailed Tiananmen activist Liu Xiabao losing hope for his release

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 880
  The wife of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is losing hope that her husband will be released. Friends tried to comfort her by suggesting China would set him free after Junes 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown; then after the 60th anniversary of Communist party rule in October; and finally after ...
  1 week ago

• People with guide dogs have been denied flights and a hamburger

  
  Gadling — Authority: 708
  Filed under: Business , Blogs , Stories , United States , Australia , Airlines , News , Travel Health Guide dogs are nothing new. Most commonly known for helping people who are blind navigate the world around them, they are gaining use in helping people with other types of disabilities. Also called service ...
  1 week ago

• BBC photographers are not a criminals either

  
  B12 Solipsism — Authority: 443
  So how many photos of St Paul’s Cathedral are taken every day? How easy would it be for someone to find a photo without even having to visit London? Pretty easy, methinks . 1 Or just purchase a postcard, usually sold right in front of the building in question. And of course, what terrorist needs to have snapped ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sherrifs speak on "Pulp Fiction" screenwriters jailhouse tweets

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 880
  "He really messed up. He could have done nine months out of a year sentence, and not even in lock up for killing someone. Now he is going to do the remainder of that time in county jail." Ventura County Sheriffs spokesman Ross Bonfiglio on the matter of Roger Avarys jailhouse tweets, previously blogged on BB first ...
  2 weeks ago

• Supreme Court upholds Obama ban on release of detainee torture photos

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 880
  The US Supreme Court today rejected an appeals court ruling that ordered the release of photos that document war-on-terror prisoners being tortured by U.S. military personnel. At first, President Obama said he would not ban the release of the images, then changed his mind. The ACLU say theyll keep fighting.
  2 weeks ago

• Police Spying On Protesters Stirs Outrage in Britain

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 792
  Filed under: National Security , Woman Up , International Britain has long been famous for its surveillance state. There are security cameras everywhere you go. The country has the largest DNA database in the world. And a national identity card program is well underway . But new revelations that British ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thanksgiving Day 2009: Things Could Be Worse

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 792
  "It could have been worse" is not a Thanksgiving sentiment normally associated with Norman Rockwell or grandma in her gingham dress. But this has been a tough year and it comes at the end of a troubling decade that could easily be described as the Anxious Aughts. So today as we look out at our turkey-trimmed and ...
  2 weeks ago

• British cops arrest people just to add them to the DNA database, claims inquiry

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 880
  Britains cops have the largest DNA database in the world, and its full of innocent people who were arrested but not charged, or charged but not convicted (the EUs Court of Human Rights have ordered this practice to stop, but the cops refuse to comply with the law -- their latest dodge is to keep innocents DNA for six ...
  3 weeks ago

• Much loved photo supply store B&H sued for job discrimination against women

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 880
  B&H, the photo and video gear company much-loved by photogs and filmmakers worldwide is in hot water over employment discrimination claims - again. Four women claim they were denied sales positions because of their gender. According to reports Im seeing, there are historically no female sales staff at B&H? Earlier ...
  3 weeks ago

• Outrage grows over Indias massive ID plan

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 880
  Last week, Wikileaks published what were previously secret documents on a plan to create a unique ID for every single citizen in India -- thats more than a billion IDs, and would be the largest such project in world history. Now, the government agency tasked with implementing that plan is facing widespread backlash.
  3 weeks ago

• Texas and Death Row

  
  B12 Solipsism — Authority: 443
  Is there hope for Texas? We’ll see… Even in Texas they are having their doubts. The state that executes more people than any other by far – it will account for half the prisoners sent to the death chamber in the US this year – is seeing its once rock-solid faith in capital punishment shaken by ...
  4 weeks ago

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