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I guess there is no thanks to the European Court of Human Rights due either but as with my previous words on this matter its no surprise.
I hope he cooperates.

Beijing police sentenced two women both in their late 70s, to a term of “re-education through labor” for applying to hold a legal protest in a designated area in Beijing, where officials promised that Chinese could hold demonstrations during the Olympic Games.
on the New York Times
I don’t care how big the market […]

I think it the Talmud said it best “He who saves a life saves the world.”
This story was just 10 kind of awesome so I just needed to post it. It may have been on Digg or Reddit first. I just don’t care. In short A UK Doctor builds a dialysis […]

on thisisbyus.
McDonald’s fires young Mom of 2 year old Cancer patient for missing work to take her child to treatments.
This kind of thing is unbecoming of a great nation. If the rest of the world can afford national health care and sick leave so can we.
If that means we can’t defend the rest of the […]

Story care of the B.B.C.
I am not going to retract my anti Saudi vitriol here but I will give King Abdullah kudos for doing the right thing.
Still when your country makes pre war Iraq look progressive you have a problem. The Saudi people would be much happier and prosperous if they would get their […]

Makes me sick.
Thanks to Salon.com for actually you know, being a journalist.
I am starting to think that Christopher Hitchens is right and that we should abolish the C.I.A. Not only do they commit vile atrocities and human rights violations in the so called name of national security they do them to the wrong people!
I […]

Alternet says it all.
President Bush’s threatened veto I understand. He has a strongly anti Constitutionalist view unitary of the executive branch. Its wrong and probably impeachable.
But with a loyal group of Republicans in office he knows he will never be impeached and can therefor do whatever he wants.
The Republicans OTOH have a lot […]

Even a light controlled waterboarding is horrific and I have so say Kaj Larsen is a braver man than I am.
Doing this to show how ugly and evil this torture can be is fine work from a fine brave man. G
The very difficult video is here at the Huffington Post. if you watch keep in […]

Destroying those C.I.A. tapes was a big mistake.
It it really was an issue of security, you know there is this thing called video editing. It is easy enough to do at home with free software. The C.I.A, I am sure has that capability about a hundred times better.
But it wasn’t about security. It […]

From the Associated Press via Yahoo. Its about a movie shot from the cameras POV but it has a lot of information on surveillance and privacy issues.
I should mention that it is possible to control the spread of cameras
. Unlike drugs which are easy to make, cameras are a complex technology.
A law […]