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BREAKING NEWS: A US programme to tap some phones without warrants is unconstitutional, and must be halted at once, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled. The scheme, approved by President George W Bush in 2001, involves tapping conversations between some callers in the US and ( Read more... )

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External control are you gonna let them get you?
Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
You say you want to ba yourself, by christ do you think they’ll let you?
They’re out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

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The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the ( Read more... )

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The US should immediately shut all secret detention facilities used in its campaign against terror groups, the UN Human Rights Committee has said. The committee called on the US to give the International Red Cross prompt access to those held in such jails. The UN report ( Read more... )

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This article should be a manditory disclaimer given out by designers who still have their hair:

As a professional web designer I’ve noticed a consistent trend in the majority of the projects I’ve worked on: The more time that is spent dissecting, analyzing, and critiquing a ( Read more... )

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A landslide all but wiped out Wilfredo Rodriguez’s small shoemaking business last year, entitling him to a loan from President Hugo Chavez’s government _ money he says he never would’ve found elsewhere. It came with strings attached _ his workers get limited co-ownership and ( Read more... )

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A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed “large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists” to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization.

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ROME (Reuters) - At the last G8 summit, political leaders vowed to “act with resolve and urgency” on climate change. A year on, global warming has been sidelined by concerns on how the world can satisfy its growing appetite for energy.

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Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay, who was convicted of helping perpetuate one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, has died of a heart attack in Colorado. He was 64.

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Atlantic City’s casinos were ordered to close Wednesday, the latest casualty of a state government shutdown that entered its second day Sunday after the Legislature failed to adopt a budget by its July 1 deadline.

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