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• Wikileaks publishes 570,000 9/11 messages

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  The article is about the chaos of 9/11 as portrayed by 570,000 text messages. But thats not the real story. Heres the real story: "It is clear that the information comes from an organisation which has been intercepting and archiving US national telecommunications since prior to 9/11."   »  noticia original
  10 hours ago

• ABA Backs Federal Court Trials of Alleged 9/11 Plotters

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  The president of the American Bar Association sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. today praising the decision to pursue federal court prosecutions of five Guantanamo detainees with alleged ties to the 9/11 attacks. The Nov. 25 letter, signed by ABA President Carolyn Lamm, comes after Holder became the ...
  23 hours ago

• U.K. cops arrest people ‘just for the DNA’

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 123
  More than three-quarters of young black men aged between 18 and 35 are on the system, the report said. Set up in 1995, the database contains the DNA profiles of five million citizens, eight percent of the population, making it the world’s biggest in proportion to population size. “Parliament has never formally ...
  23 hours ago

• Plan Merida: lose-lose for U.S. and Mexico

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 431
  Mexico is the United States’ closest Latin American neighbor and yet most U.S. citizens receive little reliable information about what is happening within the country. Instead, Mexico and Mexicans are often demonized in the U.S. press. The single biggest reason for this is the way that the entire binational ...
  2 days ago

• Another article looking at neurolaw with a critical eye

  
  idealawg — Authority: 135
  I just realized that I have not posted about the other neurolaw article by Michael Pardo and Dennis Patterson. I did post their article "Philosophical Foundations of Law and Science" at Some hard questions about neurolaw: If you are interested in law and neuroscience, read this article . Those of you following ...
  2 days ago

• 911 Trial coming to NY - Republicans Poop Their Pants

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  Rudy Giuliani makes it clear in this Daily Show video that in 2006 he was all for trying terrorists in New York City, gracefully speaking up for our country, our effective legal system and it being the ethical, moral and right thing to do. Three years later a full 180 that trying terrorists within our failed legal ...
  5 days ago

• Cold water on gold fever

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 431
  NGD, a Canadian gold-mining company is “cooperating with Mexican government authorities and pursuing all legal appeals after the company was notified yesterday that it must suspend mining operations”, at Mineria San Xavier (called Cerro Cerro San Pedro  in company press releases) in San Luis Potosí – Otto at ...
  1 week ago

• In landmark ruling, judge says Corps negligence caused Katrina flooding

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  "Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr awarded over $719,000 to four different sets of plaintiffs who alleged that the MRGO, a 76-mile manmade waterway that allowed vessels to quickly get from the Gulf of Mexico to the Industrial Canal, exasperated the conditions that led to flooding in the St. Bernard area. The ruling could ...
  1 week ago

• Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun

  
  A View from Middle England by Arden Forester — Authority: 130
  You couldnt make it up, could you? In fact, why would anyone do so? The world can be crazy, but this story just shows how bad our legislators have become in making good law. The Surrey Mirror reports that a former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing ...
  1 week ago

• Why Doesn’t Bo Xilai Publicly Back Up the Defense Attorneys Too?

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 631
  Innocent until proven guilty? That is the question some are asking during the Chongqing corruption trial, given the public’s treatment of the defense lawyers. More details, and questions on how this bears on China’s developing rule of law, from Guo Guangdong for the Southern Weekend, translated by Tim Hathaway ...
  1 week ago

• THE SHERIFF – MORE POWER THAN THE PRESIDENT

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 430
     by Alan Stang March 20, 2009 NewsWithViews.com [ Announcement: Did you know Alan Stang has a new radio show? Click here for details .] For many years, the people’s attention in the Battle for America has been directed toward the federal government and its offices. Candidates stand for the House and ...
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• "Disconnection in the Courtroom"

  
  Susan Murphy Milano's Journal — Authority: 494
  Continuing this week on Courtside television is the live trial of Juan Mendez whom on July 24 , 2006 was charged with second degree murder in the deaths of his wife Whitney Mendez , 19 and mother-in-law Lorena Stone. Whitney Mendez obtained a court order of protection and the prosecutor played a video tape (before ...
  1 week ago

• Study: NY Legal System 3rd Worst In U.S.

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 541
  ALBANY—A new study of New York’s legal system conducted by Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a nationally known research firm, has concluded that New York’s legal system is the third worst in the country and is costing taxpayers millions of dollars through higher taxes and increased costs for goods, insurance ...
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• Conservative Trio Supports Transferring Gitmo Detainees To Illinois

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  Republicans in Congress are gearing up to fight a new White House effort to relocate detainees at Guantanamo Bay to a prison facility in Illinois. But on Sunday, a group of highly respected conservative figures lent their support to the transfer, calling it necessary to "preserve national security" while ...
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• If You Want Protection from Domestic Violence in Brevard County Florida, Seek Elsewhere

  
  Randi James — Authority: 460
  Dad arrested after standoff in Palm BayBY J.D. GALLOP • FLORIDA TODAY • November 17, 2009A 39-year-old man is in custody this morning after police said he held his estranged wife and children hostage in their Palm Bay home overnight.The unidentified man surrendered to Palm Bay SWAT team members at about 6 a.m. and ...
  1 week ago

• Wheres the SEC?

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 479
  "One year after the government took over and bailed out Freddie Mac, the giant mortgage company, federal regulators are blocking former employees from revealing infomation to investors who are suing the company for fraud, lawyers for shareholders say. ... Federal prosecutors in Virginia and the [SEC] are already ...
  1 week ago

• Cleaning up our side of the street

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 431
  Patrick, at “ Gancho Blog ” picked up on this first, but I swear I was intending to write something about it. Edgardo Buscaglia, a law and economics professor at ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), the private university that provides much of the technical and intellectual support for PAN ...
  1 week ago

• Another apology. This time for kids shipped from Britain to colonies

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 123
  Lovely cartoon . Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a … apology Monday to … British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home. At a ceremony … attended by tearful former child migrants, Rudd apologized for his country’s role ...
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• Hire a Lawyer, Avoid the Death Penalty

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  If you hire a lawyer, the chances are you wont be sentenced to death in Houston. University of Denver Criminologist Scott Phillips reviewed 504 capital indictments over three decades in Harris County, Texas, and found that defendants who hired lawyers for the entire trial were never sentenced to death -- and were more ...
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• Shining Light on Roots of Terrorism By Ray McGovern

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  Media commentary on the upcoming 9/11 trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has raised concern that state secrets may be divulged, including details about how the Bush administration used torture to extract evidence about al-Qaeda. But what the Fawning Corporate Media (or FCM) have so far neglected is the likelihood that ...
  1 week ago

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