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• Detainees get the "state always wins" system of "justice" - Glenn Greenwald

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  Obamas announcement to try 9/11 defendants would be commendable if it applied to all, rather than some, detainees.   »  noticia original
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• BNY-Russia-DOJ

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 478
  "Russia withdrew a $22.7 billion lawsuit against Bank of New York Mellon Corp. Thursday, agreeing to a $14 million settlement and ending a case that critics said had theatened to further tarnish the already battered reputation of its judicial system. ... Russian officials, facing a deep recession and their first ...
  15 hours ago

• Respect for Rape Victims -NYT Editorial

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  "There is no firm national count of the number of untested rape kits. But last March, Human Rights Watch found more than 12,500 untested rape kits in the Los Angeles area alone. The Houston Police Department recently found at least 4,000 untested rape kits in storage. Detroit’s backlog may be as high as 10,000 ...
  22 hours ago

• US Courts are No Place for the Truly Evil

  
  That's Right Nate — Authority: 468
  I love legal shows like LA Law or Night Court as much as the next guy, but to be an informed citizen of the United States means to understand the limitations of our legal system.   Right now, the Supreme Court is hearing a case about whether juvenile offenders can be given life without parole in cases that don’t ...
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• Secret State Demands News Organizations Web Logs, Gets Slapped Down: by Tom Burghardt

  
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  Lets be clear on one thing: since the 1970s, the federal grand jury system where the prosecutor reigns supreme, has been an instrument wielded by the secret state to target dissent and to ensnare left-wing government critics in open-ended "investigations" whose sole purpose is to harass if not prosecute alleged ...
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• The Crafting of a Loophole:Of Bailouts and Swaps

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  Now let’s see what went into this legislative sausage. (a) Everyone agrees that the unregulated “dark markets” of Wall Street’s trading in over-the-counter derivatives such as credit default swaps moved the financial crisis from major problem to total disaster. Currently, most trades in these “products” ...
  2 days ago

• The Honorable Richard Church, WI Delegate to OUR New Continental Congress

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 428
  The following was submitted to The Liberty Tree Lantern by Mr. Richard Church, Wisconsin Delegate to OUR New Continental Congress that convened for the first time yesterday November 11, 2009: I will try to post an update from the Continental Congress 2009 each evening. The first day’s post is there now. I will ...
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• IRS Fraud EXPOSED. Coffee Is Brewing, Can You Smell It NOW?

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 428
  Videos to WAKE UP  TO,  SMELL THE COFFEE?       Also See this following video link about a HIGH LEVEL IRS “Special Agent” in the Criminal Division who RAIDED homes and businesses WITH GUN in hand!: http://livefreenow.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=37 ...
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• The Trouble With ‘Zero Tolerance’

  
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  Congress took a reasonable step in 1994 when it required states receiving federal education money to expel students who brought guns onto school property, but states and localities overreacted, as they so often do. They enacted “zero tolerance” policies under which children are sometimes arrested for profanity, ...
  3 days ago

• Editorial: A National Disgrace

  
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  Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and sending them to other countries for interrogation — and torture. The Italian court got it right. The American court got it miserably wrong. ...
  3 days ago

• Tracking Those In The Name of Justice

  
  Susan Murphy Milano's Journal — Authority: 493
  Intimate Domestic Violence Homicides is an Internet site providing a national compilation of daily news articles about family violence murder and suicides. "Most mornings I wonder when society is going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all." This important site is the brain child of Cathy Church ...
  4 days ago

• CAP: Postpone Gitmo Close, Send Leftovers to Bagram

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 774
  The influential Center for American Progress, which has close ties to the Obama administration , is now calling on President Obama to push back the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center to July . That’s despite the president’s day-two directive to close the notorious prison by January. Closure has ...
  4 days ago

• ACLU Report Calls For Stronger U.S. Privacy Oversight Institutions

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  “The United States needs stronger privacy institutions to protect us at a time when new technology and new government powers are threatening our privacy in truly unprecedented ways,” said Michael Macleod-Ball, Acting Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “The history of abuse during the civil ...
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• Representation, Outcomes, and Fairness in Legal Proceedings

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 536
  As my colleague Rebecca Blemberg recently blogged about , California has moved in the direction of recognizing a right to counsel for civil litigants with critical legal needs. The concept of a constitutional right to counsel in certain civil cases is often referred to as “ Civil Gideon, ” after the Supreme ...
  5 days ago

• "Fire Starter"

  
  Susan Murphy Milano's Journal — Authority: 493
  Today, my colleague Delilah from the Internet sites Peace4Missing , Mothers are Vanishing and Times Up discussed how one case in particular fueled awareness and change. That case is Stacy Peterson . All rolled into one here is a case where the person has vanished, she was married to someone in law enforcement , ...
  6 days ago

• Still-murky copyright treaty could change web as we use it

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  The future of the Internet in Canada may have been decided in Seoul, Korea, this past week. But its hard to be sure, since the latest negotiations for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement were held in secret, as they have been in the past, and the only details came to the public through leaks, says Michael Geist, a ...
  6 days ago

• The intersection of law and neuroscience: A ways to go before we see anything useful

  
  idealawg — Authority: 133
  19 judges attended a seminar in late 2007, to look at findings in neuroscience and their implications for the justice system. The intersections between the legal system and the science that were considered include lie detection, addiction, memory, brain death, and minimally conscious state. An article about the ...
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• Lifting Immunity

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 478
  "An Austin federal jury in Thursday found that two top state parole officials violated the constitutional rights of an ex-convict who was denied a required hearing for 576 days. Jurors also held the Board of Pardons and Paroles [BPP] Chairman Rissie Owens liable for $21,250 in damages and awarded Curtis Ray Graham ...
  1 week ago

• Scoop: World Poll: Intl. Law Ahead of National Interest

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  A poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org finds that most people in 17 of 21 nations surveyed say their government should abide by international law and reject the view that governments are not obliged to follow such laws when they conflict with the national interest. Most respondents in two out of three nations polled are ...
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• Why Superheroes Have Secret Identities

  
  Vagabond Saint — Authority: 99
  So why do superheroes have secret identities? Because no good deed goes unpunished. You’d think, that in this time of deep recession, social strife, and political infighting leaving the American people largely bereft of inspiration and leadership, that those brave few willing to stand up to the worst elements of ...
  1 week ago

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