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• Cleaning up our side of the street

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  14 hours ago

• Hire a Lawyer, Avoid the Death Penalty

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  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 ...
  18 hours ago

• Shining Light on Roots of Terrorism By Ray McGovern

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  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 ...
  20 hours ago

• Some Fear Bush Administration Could Become Target in 9/11 Trial

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  Some critics say a civilian trial -- instead of a military tribunal -- for self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his accomplices could end up targeting the Bush administration and its anti-terror policies.   »  noticia original
  1 day ago

• The Only Anchor

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that some top al-Qaeda 9/11 conspirators will be tried by jury in New York not far from the scenes of devastation that they had wrought. Predictably, Republican critics vowed to fight the decision, since they much prefer to hold people forever without trial while torturing ...
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• Detainees get the "state always wins" system of "justice" - Glenn Greenwald

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  Obamas announcement to try 9/11 defendants would be commendable if it applied to all, rather than some, detainees.   »  noticia original
  1 day ago

• 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 ...
  2 days ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 days ago

• Respect for Rape Victims -NYT Editorial

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  "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 ...
  2 days 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 ...
  2 days ago

• Secret State Demands News Organizations Web Logs, Gets Slapped Down: by Tom Burghardt

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• The Crafting of a Loophole:Of Bailouts and Swaps

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  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” ...
  4 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 ...
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  4 days ago

• The Trouble With ‘Zero Tolerance’

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  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, ...
  5 days ago

• Editorial: A National Disgrace

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  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. ...
  5 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 ...
  5 days ago

• CAP: Postpone Gitmo Close, Send Leftovers to Bagram

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  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 ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  “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 ...
  6 days ago

• Representation, Outcomes, and Fairness in Legal Proceedings

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 432
  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 ...
  6 days ago

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