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Source: Associated Press Posted on 03.17.10 by Steve Trinward “The ACLU of Vermont is suing the state after unsuccessfully seeking to find out whether police agencies are using cellphone tracking technology to keep tabs on people’s whereabouts. The state attorney general’s office refused public records requests by the ACLU seeking information about the practice, saying that information is exempt from public records statutes. So the ACLU filed suit Monday in Washington Superior Court, asking a judge to force the state to produce documents under the Public Records Act. ‘The attorney general’s behavior here is a real breach of trust,’ said Allen Gilbert, executive director. ‘The Public Records Act specifically requires public agencies to explain the factual basis for denying a request.’” (03/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yk8yn5h Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 03.17.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Cuban police have arrested the wives and mothers of political dissidents at a demonstration in the capital, Havana. About 30 members of the ‘Ladies in White’ were stopped as they marched alongside the mother of a prisoner who died last month after a hunger strike. They were demanding the release of some 50 government critics who are still being held after mass arrests in 2003. … Wednesday’s protest was the third held this week by the Ladies in White (Las Damas de Blanca) to mark the anniversary of the crackdown in the one-party Communist state seven years ago.” (03/17/10) Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8573447.stm Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Marijuana Policy Project Posted on 03.16.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “This morning, the Marijuana Policy Project called upon shoppers across the country to join in a boycott of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in order to protest the unjust and potentially unlawful firing of Joe Casias, a 29-year-old medical marijuana patient and sinus cancer survivor who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. After dutifully working at a Wal-Mart in Battle Creek, Michigan, for five years, Casias was suddenly terminated because he tested positive for marijuana during a drug screening administered after he sprained his knee on the job.” (03/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yk6at45 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Washington Post Posted on 03.08.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review whether the anti-gay protests at funerals of American soldiers are protected by the First Amendment. The case is brought by a Maryland father whose son’s 2006 funeral was picketed by members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Westboro pastor Fred Phelps contends that the deaths of American soldiers are punishment for the nation’s tolerance for homosexuality.” (03/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/y9yoru7 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 03.03.10 by Steve Trinward “George and Sharlee McNamee have a beautiful home, an ocean view and a bounty of children and grandchildren who invade their house every weekend. The breeze is fresh, the view is stunning and retired life in Corona Del Mar, Calif., is good. But the McNamees wake up every morning fighting for their rights. In this case, the freedom to use a picnic table, shed and shower in their own backyard. … For the last decade, George and Sharlee McNamee have been locked in legal battle with California regulators over the couple’s right to build improvements on their own property, which abuts a coastal zone.” (03/03/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yfhd492 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Vancouver Sun [Canada] Posted on 02.26.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Amid shouts of ‘Zapata lives,’ about 100 people mourned Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo as he was buried Thursday in his hometown of Banes following his death by hunger strike this week. According to Zapata’s family and dissidents in Havana, the funeral, held under a rainy sky, took place with dozens of state security agents looking on as the Cuban government clamped down to prevent the event from becoming a rallying point for dissent. … Zapata, a 42-year-old plumber, died Tuesday in a Havana hospital after an 85-day hunger strike to protest conditions in prison, where he had been since 2003 on charges of disrespect, public disorder and resistance.” (02/25/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ykawjwr Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Computer World Posted on 02.25.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Microsoft today withdrew its demand that Cryptome.org yank the ‘Microsoft Global Criminal Spy Guide’ document from the site, and said it had never intended for the whistleblower’s domain to be knocked off the Web. ‘In this case, we did not ask that this site be taken down, only that Microsoft copyrighted content be removed,’ said a Microsoft spokeswoman in an e-mailed statement early Thursday. ‘We are requesting to have the site restored and are no longer seeking the document’s removal.’ The document, a 17-page guide to law enforcement on how to obtain information about users of Microsoft’s online services, including its Windows Live Hotmail, the Xbox Live gaming network and its Windows Live SkyDrive storage service, was published by John Young, who runs Cryptome.org, on Feb. 20.” (02/25/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yz5reok Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 02.22.10 by Steve Trinward “The Supreme Court is set to examine whether of a piece of the USAPATRIOT Act… violates constitutional protections of free speech and association. On Tuesday, the high court will hear oral argument in a case challenging what some critics say is a version of modern-day McCarthyism: prosecuting people for who they associate with rather than any personal criminal conduct. The law makes it a crime to provide ‘material support’ to a known terrorist organization. It is designed to isolate terrorists by making it more difficult for them to receive assistance, services, and recruits.” (02/22/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ydcqljp Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 02.21.10 by Steve Trinward “A suburban Philadelphia school district accused of secretly switching on laptop computer webcams inside students’ homes says it never used webcam images to monitor or discipline students and believes one of its administrators has been ‘unfairly portrayed and unjustly attacked.’ The Lower Merion School District, in response to a suit filed by a student, has acknowledged that webcams were remotely activated 42 times in the past 14 months, but only to find missing, lost or stolen laptops — which the district noted would include ‘a loaner computer that, against regulations, might be taken off campus.’” (02/21/10) Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587073,00.html Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 02.10.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “In the face of several electoral challenges from tea party-connected candidates, Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul cautioned in a recent interview that ‘neocon influence’ is ‘infiltrating’ the movement he is often credited for creating. Speaking to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night, Paul first took up for the tea parties as a natural reaction of the people when they are unhappy with government. What they are not, he explained, are entirely adherent to his ideas. Paul suggested that the group only ’sometimes’ represents his views. ‘My message is somewhat different,” he said. … His core issues, such as creating transparency at the Federal Reserve, recalling overseas soldiers and ending the drug war, are ‘not what is generally heard from the Republican party,’ he said.” (02/10/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yhghatv Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: United Press International Posted on 02.10.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Hackers in Australia launched attacks on government Web sites to protest upcoming Internet filtering legislation and perceived censorship, officials said. The hackers took down several sites Wednesday morning and threatened to inundate government offices with pornographic e-mails, faxes and prank telephone calls, The Age newspaper reported.” (02/10/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yl4yq3y Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Business Week Posted on 02.05.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Hundreds of opponents of Democratic economic and health-care policies are assembling in America’s country music capital for the National Tea Party Convention. The gathering at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, is billed as the first formal national meeting of a grassroots movement formed last year amid protests over policies pushed by President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress.” (02/04/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ylg9zrd Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Telegraph [UK] Posted on 02.02.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “The National Secular Society (NSS) has said it would mount a protest campaign against the Pope’s visit to Britain following the Pontiff’s attack on equality laws. The campaign would be made up of gay groups, victims of clerical abuse, feminists, family planning organisations and pro-abortion groups among others. NSS president Terry Sanderson said: ‘The taxpayer in this country is going to be faced with a bill of some £20 million for the visit of the Pope. A visit in which, he has already indicated, he will attack equal rights and promote discrimination.’” (02/02/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yhhol9o Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: RIA Novosti [Russia] Posted on 01.31.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Moscow police detained some 100 people, including several prominent opposition leaders, after an unsanctioned rally in downtown of the Russian capital, a police official said. … The protesters said they gathered to show that the authorities are violating the Russian Constitution, which grants the right to assemble peacefully.” (01/31/10) Link: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100131/157731752.html Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Wall Street Journal Posted on 01.29.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Iran on Thursday hanged two men convicted of trying to topple the country’s clergy-led regime, the first known executions of opposition activists since unrest broke out following June’s disputed presidential elections, the Web site of state television reported. The report identified the two men as Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour, and said they were convicted of trying to topple ‘the Islamic establishment’ and of membership in armed opposition groups.” (01/28/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yjj7om5 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 01.24.10 by Steve Trinward “A high school student found to have marijuana in the classroom would seem to be a prime candidate for a little ‘talk’ with the vice principal — and maybe a trip to the police station. But around the country today, hundreds — perhaps thousands — of high schoolers are bringing pot to school, and they’re doing it legally. Not to get stoned, but as part of prescribed medical treatment. And they don’t have to tell school authorities about it. This is putting teachers and principals in a new and challenging position. In many counties and school districts, there are no clear guidelines — for school officials, students or parents.” [since in some schools having nasal spray is “zero tolerance” grounds for suspension, this only clouds the horizon a bit more - SAT] (01/23/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yc26y8w Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 01.19.10 by Steve Trinward “All portions of a criminal trial must be open to the public, including selection of the jury, the US Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. In an unusual summary order, the high court ruled 7 to 2 in favor of a convicted cocaine trafficker who claimed that his right to a public trial was violated when a judge in Georgia barred members of the public from the courtroom during jury selection. At the time, there was only one observer in the courtroom — defendant Eric Presley’s uncle. Mr. Presley’s lawyer objected to excluding members of the public. But the judge said there wasn’t enough room in the courtroom for the 42 prospective jurors as well as public observers.” (01/19/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ydzhg4p Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: After Downing Street Posted on 01.19.10 by Thomas L. Knapp Text of a press release concerning the complaint filed with the International Criminal Court by Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law versus George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales. The complaint specifies alleged crimes against humanity and claims that the although the US is not party to the treaty empowering the ICC, the ICC has jurisdiction since the alleged crimes involved member states. (01/19/10) Link: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/49394/ Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: KTRK 13 News Posted on 01.18.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Thousands of demonstrators gathered in southeast Houston today to protest the opening of a new Planned Parenthood clinic. The building is located on the Gulf Freeway near the University of Houston. Protestors are calling it an ‘abortion super center.’” (01/18/10) Link: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus&id=7225643 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 01.18.10 by Steve Trinward “The US Supreme Court will take up a First Amendment challenge to a court order to release the names of people who signed a petition to repeal Washington State’s same-sex domestic partnership law. Boxes filled with signatures for Referendum 71 line the walls in a basement at the Secretary of State’s Office in Olympia, Wash. Whether petition signers’ names should be available to the public has become an issue for the US Supreme Court to decide. On Friday, the justices agreed to enter the divisive dispute and decide whether the names of petition signers must be released under a state public records law or instead must be kept private to protect the signers’ right to engage in political speech and political association.” (01/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yalcowz Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 01.17.10 by Mary Lou Seymour I have been unable to post since January 10. There are a few stories on the website posted by our other editors. One of my dogs, my Irish setter Ginger, suddenly became very ill Jan.9 and was diagnosed with lymphoma, she has been in a canine oncology hospital since Wed and I have barely been able to keep my household (animal and human) and day job going, so Rational Review gave me ‘time off’. I hope to be able to return to posting this week. Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: McClatchy Newspapers Posted on 01.13.10 by Steve Trinward “After a recent attempted terrorist attack set off a debate about full-body X-rays at airports, a new McClatchy-Ipsos poll finds that Americans lean more toward giving up some of their liberty in exchange for more safety. The survey found 51 percent of Americans agreeing that ‘it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism.’ At the same time, 36 percent agreed that ’some of the government’s proposals will go too far in restricting the public’s civil liberties.’ The rest were undecided or said their opinions would depend on circumstances.” (01/13/10) Link: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/nation/story/82156.html Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 01.13.10 by Steve Trinward “The parents of a 4-year-old boy disciplined for having long hair have rejected a compromise from a Texas school board that agreed to adjust its grooming policy. The impasse means pre-kindergartner Taylor Pugh will remain suspended in school, sitting alone with a teacher’s aide in a library. He has been sequestered from classmates at Floyd Elementary School in Mesquite, a Dallas suburb, since late November. After a closed-door meeting Monday, the Mesquite school board decided the boy could wear his hair in tight braids but keep it no longer than his ears. But his parents say the adjustment isn’t enough for Taylor, who wears his hair long, covering his earlobes and shirt collar. His mother, Elizabeth Taylor, said she’ll pull back Taylor’s hair in a ponytail, acknowledging the style will keep him suspended.” [editor’s note: Perhaps the dumbest news story of the week, but somehow worthy of note - SAT] (01/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ybp9kaa Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Tennessean Posted on 01.12.10 by Steve Trinward “The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to delay a law requiring a paper trail on voting machines until the 2012 election cycle. The 22-10 vote was the chamber’s second run at the measure after it failed to gain a majority by one vote on the last day of last year’s legislative session. As much as $37 million in federal funding is available under the Help America Vote Act — passed in the aftermath of Florida’s 2000 general election debacle — to buy the machines in Tennessee. But several county election officials, including dozens who watched from the Senate gallery, have raised concerns that costs may exceed the federal funding.” (01/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yc949t6 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 01.12.10 by Steve Trinward “A tax evader convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons was sentenced yesterday to 37 years in federal prison in a hearing punctuated by him laughing and chiding the judge and prosecutors. An attorney for Ed Brown had argued that his client suffers from a delusional disorder and asked for the minimum mandatory sentence of 30 years, saying it was enough and amounted to a life sentence for the 67-year-old Brown. Prosecutors sought a sentence of almost 50 years. US District Judge George Singal found Brown competent and said he decided on the sentence because Brown seemed unrepentant.” [editor’s note: “Unrepentant?” Is this Singal a priest? “Delusional disorder?” Because he still wants them to show him where in the true law of the land (umm, the Constitution) not making a “voluntary donation” (IRS’s own terms) is somehow “illegal?” - SAT] (01/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/y88v5c5 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Huffington Post Posted on 01.12.10 by Steve Trinward “Congressional negotiators and White House officials are moving forward with plans to add the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to the upcoming defense authorization bill, Democratic sources tell the Huffington Post. In Congress, members are being whipped to ensure that the votes will be there for passage, should the legislation be placed in the bill. At this juncture, aides say, the prospects look good. Meanwhile, a source close to the White House says the president has instructed the Defense Department that he believes the repeal of DADT should be placed in the authorization bill. However, disagreements could emerge when it comes to crafting the actual legislative language.” (01/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ydq8769 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 01.12.10 by Steve Trinward “Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording. Within minutes, Glik said, he was in handcuffs. ‘One of the officers asked me whether my phone had audio recording capabilities,’ Glik, 33, said recently of the incident, which took place in October 2007. Glik acknowledged that it did, and then, he said, ‘my phone was seized, and I was arrested.’ The charge? Illegal electronic surveillance.” [editor’s note: Cops watching you, and using every means to put you away? Upholding the law. You doing the same to them, when they violate rights? Breaking same - SAT] (01/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yaslz7h Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Voice of America Posted on 01.12.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Freedom House, a U.S.-based organization that monitors democracy and political rights world wide, says global freedom declined last year for the fourth consecutive year. Although the group says there were some improvements, last year’s slump represents the longest continuous decline in the nearly 40-year history of the report. Freedom House says that whether it was the brutal repression of demonstrators in Iran, the sweeping detention of activists in China or the murder of journalists and human rights advocates in Russia, 2009 was a year that was marked by intensified repression of human rights defenders and civic activists.” (01/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yhardcm Filed under: LAND News and RRND Commentary and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Seattle Times Posted on 01.11.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Five activists filed a ballot initiative Monday that would legalize all adult marijuana possession, manufacturing and sales under Washington state law — one of the most sweeping efforts at changing marijuana laws around the country this year. Its sponsors include two Seattle lawyers and the director of Seattle’s annual Hempfest. They call themselves Sensible Washington, and say that in a time of dire budget woes, the state government should stop spending money on police, court and jail costs for people who use or produce marijuana.” (01/11/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/y8nq273 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 01.10.10 by Steve Trinward “With its idyllic views and wide expanses of pristine sand, Goose Rocks Beach has lured strollers, swimmers, and softball players for more than a century. Now, in a bare-knuckled lawsuit that has pitted neighbor against neighbor, beachfront residents are invoking Colonial law to affirm their private property rights on a 2-mile crescent that the public has used freely for decades. … Waterfront residents trumpet the suit as a principled stand for property rights, which have extended to the low-water mark since the reign of King Charles I. … But to many townspeople without a front-row view of the Atlantic, the court action is a selfish and cynical effort to hoard a precious piece of natural beauty.” [editor’s note: Hard to get much clearer cut on an issue; does property ownership mean anything, or not? - SAT] (01/10/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ybtsrfn Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 01.08.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Paul Watson and his antiwhaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are keeping up the pressure after the collision earlier this week between their high-tech speedboat the Ady Gil and a larger vessel pulling security for a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. On Friday, Sea Shepherd filed a legal complaint against the Japanese whaling fleet in the Netherlands, where Mr. Watson’s flagship, the Steve Irwin, is registered. ‘We filed a complaint for criminal prosecution with our prosecutor, requesting the start of an investigation into what we consider to be a crime — piracy, actually — committing violence on the high seas,’ Liesbeth Zegveld, a legal adviser for the group, told Reuters.” (01/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yf9u4ud Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Agence France-Presse Posted on 01.07.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Defiant anti-whaling activists on Friday vowed to fight on after their high-tech superboat sank in Antarctic seas following a collision with a Japanese ship. Peter Hammarstedt, first officer of the Sea Shepherd group’s ‘Bob Barker’ ship, said the celebrated ‘Ady Gil’ was abandoned in the Southern Ocean after a tow line snapped. … Footage of the incident showed the ‘Shonan Maru 2′ ploughing across the New Zealand-registered Ady Gil’s bow and firing water cannon while its crew dived for safety.” (01/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yc52jc7 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 01.06.10 by Steve Trinward “At least nine Detroit area high school juniors are in trouble for wearing sweat shirts bearing a design that evokes the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. Dearborn Public Schools spokesman David Mustonen has told The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press that the shirts the boys wore to Edsel Ford High School on Monday are ‘offensive’ and in ‘poor taste.’ The boys are Arab-American, as are about half the school’s 1,700 students.” (01/06/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yasseqf Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Independent [UK] Posted on 01.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Politicians, police chiefs and Muslim groups yesterday added their voices to the controversy surrounding the threat by a group of Islamic extremists to march through Wootton Bassett, the market town which has become the grieving focal point for Britain’s war dead. Plans by Islam4UK to parade through the town carrying empty coffins to symbolise those ‘mercilessly murdered’ in Iraq and Afghanistan have outraged the Home Secretary so much that he said he would have no hesitation in backing any request by Wiltshire police and the local authority to ban the march.” (01/06/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ylbxnek Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Courthouse News Posted on 01.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “A judge in Dickson County, Tenn., had officers pull a spectator out of his courtroom ‘on a hunch,’ held him in custody and made him submit to a urinalysis for drugs, the man claims in Federal Court. Benjamin Marchant claims that General Sessions Judge Durwood Moore admitted that he ‘routinely drug-screens ’spectators’ in his courtroom if he ‘thinks’ they may be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.’ Moore allegedly called it the ‘routine policy of the court.’ Marchant says he was in Moore’s courtroom supporting a friend, when Moore ordered officers to take him into custody. They grabbed Marchant, allegedly without any evidence of illegal behavior, and took him to a different place in the courthouse where he was made to submit to a drug screen urinalysis. He was released from custody when the results came back negative.” (01/04/10) Link: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/01/04/23297.htm Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Independent [UK] Posted on 01.05.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “The world reacted with a mixture of confusion and hostility yesterday to new US rules saying that people who come from any of the 14 nations on a ‘black list’ of countries alleged to be hotbeds of terrorism must now undergo intense security screening at airports across the world. The measures, announced late Sunday night and which took effect yesterday, mean citizens of the designated countries will be pulled aside for pat-downs and extra hand-baggage searches, no matter where they are travelling from. Their luggage and clothing will be checked for traces of explosive and they will be required to pass through controversial full-body screeners at airports equipped with the machines.” (01/04/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ycelq79 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Independent [UK] Posted on 01.04.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “MI5 faces accusations that its officers have blackmailed and harassed vulnerable immigrants living in Britain as part of a campaign to recruit spies to report on Muslim communities. In one case, a man who escaped persecution in Africa where members of his family were murdered claims that for the past nine months he has been harassed by MI5 agents who have tried to force him to work for the Security Service.” (01/04/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ycd7nr7 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 01.04.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “Fifty-two unmarried couples could face charges of sexual misconduct and jail terms after being caught in hotel rooms by Malaysia’s Islamic morality police. Scores of officers conducted raids on budget hotels on New Year’s Day in the western state of Selangor. Those detained in the early hours of New Year’s Day were mainly students and young factory workers. The Muslim couples are expected to be charged with the offence of close proximity, or Khalwat.” (01/04/10) Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8439899.stm Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Columbus Dispatch Posted on 01.04.10 by Mary Lou Seymour “As laws go, Ohio’s limit on wine purchases appears to be simple: ‘No family household shall purchase more than 24 cases of 12 bottles of 750 milliliters of wine in one year.’ That’s 288 bottles per year — plenty for most people. But it raises questions if you’re a collector, entertain a lot or just prickle at the thought of another government regulation. How do they know how much wine I buy? Why do they care? How many cases have I purchased this year?” (01/03/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yh7wsar Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Arizona Republic Posted on 01.03.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “Every time word spreads that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is conducting one of his controversial crime sweeps, Lydia Guzman drives to the scene to see for herself. The rumors often turn out to be false. But when they are true, Guzman, an advocate for immigrant and civil rights, springs into action, sending a wave of text messages to a wide network of contacts, who in turn forward the texts to their own contacts. Guzman is the trunk of a sophisticated texting tree designed to, within minutes, alert thousands of people throughout the Valley to the details of Arpaio’s crime sweeps, which critics contend are an excuse to round up illegal immigrants.” (01/03/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ycm6d3y Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 01.03.10 by Mary Lou Seymour Happy New Year, y’all!Commentaries on The criminalization of protest, The people’s priest,One day we’ll all be terrorists, Decriminalize political speech,A decade of unfreedom and The cure …. In the news, Massachusetts Mum calls police on gamer son, Activists decry wild horse roundups, UK Government demands action to close the nursery school gender gap, Colorado resort legalises cannabis, and Arizona Activist sentenced to community service for “littering” til next week for freedom Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Ananova [UK] Posted on 12.29.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “A US mother called the police because she could not get her son to stop playing his Sony Playstation. Angela Mejia finally snapped when she woke 2.30am to find her 14-year-old son’s light still on, reports the Boston Herald. She had told him to go to sleep hours earlier — but found him still playing Grand Theft Auto in his room. The pair, of Roxbury, Massachussetts, then got into an argument during which the single mother-of-four unplugged the boy’s Playstation. A furious Ms Mejia then called police, who came to the house and persuaded the boy to turn off the Playstation and go to sleep.” (12/29/09) Link: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3609503.html Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: USA Today Posted on 12.29.09 by Thomas L. Knapp “Federal officials have begun rounding up at least 2,500 wild horses from Nevada rangeland, triggering protests from animal advocates who say the trapping endangers these symbols of the American West and condemns them to lives in captivity. The protesters are organizing demonstrations around the country Wednesday to pressure the Obama administration to impose a moratorium on roundups by the Bureau of Land Management. They want to halt the practice of sending captured horses to Midwestern pastures and holding pens, where some are adopted but most remain for the rest of their lives.” (12/28/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/y958csb Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Independent [UK] Posted on 12.28.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “Boys aged three and four must be made to write more to stop them falling behind girls before they even reach school, the Government will order nurseries and childminders. New boy-friendly guidance is to be sent to all nurseries and childminders advising them to get the youngest boys to take more interest in writing, scribbling and drawing — basically just putting pencil to paper.” (12/29/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yatnmlx Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Guardian[UK] Posted on 12.28.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “It’s already being dubbed ‘the Amsterdam of the Rockies’ and an apres-ski spliff is likely to become almost as common as a beer when cannabis possession is legalised in the hip mountain town of Breckenridge, Colorado, on 1 January. Well known as a laid-back party resort characterised by baggy-trousered snowboarders and a vigorous happy hour, Breckenridge voted last month to relax marijuana laws. From New Year’s Day there will be no criminal or civil penalties imposed on anyone carrying up to an ounce of marijuana — or the paraphernalia usually associated with it, such as long rolling papers, a small pipe or a bong. That also goes for tourists, in a resort popular with British visitors who flock there for the exciting ski slopes and the exuberant nightlife.” (12/27/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ybrz4kp Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 12.28.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “An activist accused of leaving water jugs in the desert for immigrants has decided to complete 300 hours of community service rather than go to jail. Twenty-eight-year-old Walt Staton had vowed not to comply with his sentence for leaving the water on a southern Arizona wildlife preserve last year. He was convicted of littering in June after he was cited last December by a Fish and Wildlife agent. The area is known as a popular route for illegal immigrants. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer Guerin gave Staton until Monday’s evidentiary hearing to think about his decision or face 25 days in jail.” (12/25/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yb5zle4 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Activist News Digest Posted on 12.27.09 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Oslo and Selling a “just” war … In the news, Arizona Activist sentenced to community service for “littering”, Quickie kangaroo court “trial” for Liu Xiaobo in China, “Legal high” clubbing drugs banned and Drug tests to catch pie cheats in the UK, Yolanda Madden freed from Texas prison, granted new trial, Azeri bloggers test limits of democracy in Baku, and Snowball fight takes “dark turn” as off duty DC cop pulls gun. We mourn the passing of Yitzhak “Ike” Ahronovitch the captain of the Exodus ship whose attempt to take Holocaust survivors to Palestine built support for Israel’s founding. Hope y’all had a very merry Christmas and have a safe and happy New Year celebration next week…. Til next year! For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 12.23.09 by Steve Trinward “The subversion trial of Liu Xiaobo, China’s most prominent dissident, opened and shut in Beijing on Wednesday in strict secrecy without an immediate outcome. The verdict is now expected to be postponed until Christmas Day. The delay and the degree of secrecy … contrast sharply with the widespread international attention that the case against the Tiananmen-era pro-democracy activist has drawn. It is ‘quite unusual’ for a Chinese criminal trial to be left hanging this way, said Teng Biao, a prominent human rights lawyer and one of 60 people who stood outside the courtroom Wednesday in near-freezing temperatures before he and seven others were removed by plainclothes police.” (12/23/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ybk8z97 Filed under: LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: MSNBC Posted on 12.23.09 by Thomas L. Knapp “Yitzhak ‘Ike’ Ahronovitch, the captain of the Exodus ship whose attempt to take Holocaust survivors to Palestine built support for Israel’s founding, has died. He was 86. He died Wednesday in northern Israel after a long illness, his daughter Ella said. The Exodus 1947 ship left France in July 1947 carrying more than 4,500 people — most of them Holocaust survivors and other displaced Jews — in a secret effort to reach Palestine. … The British navy seized the vessel off Palestine’s shores, and after a battle on board that left three people dead, turned the ship and its passengers back to Europe, where the refugees were forced to disembark in Germany.” (12/23/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/y9abged Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 12.22.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “A ban on several drugs known as ‘legal highs’ has come into force. The substances, including GBL and BZP, become Class C drugs, with a possible two-year jail sentence for possession. Ministers moved to classify them after a recommendation from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and fears they are a threat to user health. GBL was linked to the death of medical student Hester Stewart, 21, in Brighton last April. Her mother, Maryon, campaigned nationally for the ban. So-called legal highs are typically man-made chemical substances designed to act like banned drugs.” (12/22/09) Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8427439.stm Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 12.22.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “On Friday, Dec. 18, a federal judge in Odessa granted Yolanda Madden her freedom, allowing her to walk out of state custody for the first time in nearly five years. … Madden, jailed in 2005 on a conviction of intent to distribute methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school zone, was the reason that Barry Cooper came to Odessa, Texas last December. After being hired to embarrass the local police by Yolanda’s father Raymond, Cooper set up a fake marijuana grow house and baited officers to stage an illegal raid. When they did, police were confronted by an empty house and lots of cameras, with a hand-written poster explaining they had become part of a new reality show called ‘KopBusters.’ For Yolanda, the stunt was just the beginning of efforts to secure her freedom.” (12/19/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yc25op5 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Ananova [UK] Posted on 12.22.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “Organisers of a world-famous pie-eating contest have been forced to introduce tests for performance-enhancing drugs. The World Pie Eating Championships in Wigan bans competitors from using gravy as a lubricant, reports Sky News. But organisers say some competitors have been using cough medicine to help the pies slide down instead. They outlawed the substance for this year’s event — held earlier this week — and warned that security would be carrying out spot checks.” (12/22/09) Link: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3602363.html Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 12.21.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “To bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, the notion of freedom has gained a new meaning. It was the word their friends chanted in loud support as the two men were ushered into the back of a prison van, destined for jail. That was in November. They had been sentenced to a combined total of four-and-a-half years in jail on hooliganism charges. The bloggers — and their supporters — say the charges are false. The two men are outspoken critics of the government — and have led anti-government campaigns in the past.” (12/21/09) Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8424874.stm Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: WJLA News Posted on 12.21.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “A lively snowball fight on D.C. streets took a dark turn Saturday when anti-war protesters dressed in anarchist garb showed up, and a D.C. police officer pulled his weapon out of his holster. The neighborhood snowball fight at 14th and U streets was advertised online. By 3 p.m., more than 200 residents converged for the massive snowball fight. … But things started to turn for the worse when the crowd — some carrying anti-war signs and dressed all in black with masks — began to pelt passing cars. A plain clothes D.C. police detective emerged from a Hummer — it’s unclear whether it was his personal vehicle or an unmarked police vehicle — after it was struck. The detective began yelling at the gathered crowd. At one point, he pulled back his jacket, exposing his service weapon — it’s unclear if he did this intentionally. That’s when things took a darker turn.” (12/19/09) Link: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1209/689050.html Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 12.20.09 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Selling a “just” war (then and now), High Noon For Healthcare , tea partiers and healthcare, Remembering Bill of Rights Day (or forgetting…), Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies, The publishing revolution, The Modern Whig Party , We need to embarrass ourselves , TSA: Worse than useless and more! In the news, Endangered species pose problems for landowners, Remembering invisible victims on “International Migrants Day”, Morrocoan Hunger striker Haidar taken to hospital, Chinese Kung fu monkeys turn tables on trainer, Israeli Airport security puts three bullets through MacBook, UK Newspapers victorious in battle to protect sources, Noisy sex UK woman admits Asbo breach, UK Tesco yanks Christmas card after over-sensitive redheads complain, UK attacks judges over torture ruling and appeals, UK School suspends “crisp dealer”, Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores, and Louisiana Indian village holds out against plea to move. Til next week For freeom and have a very Merry Christmas! Mary Lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 12.17.09 by Steve Trinward “Fairy shrimp and wolves are among the 1,410 animals named on the endangered species list — and if one turns up on private property, the government could dictate how property owners use their land. The Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973 with laudable goals, to protect plants and animals facing possible extinction, but over the years the list of species in trouble has grown significantly. The list contained 271 species in 1979 but had more than doubled to 615 by 1989. In the 1990s, several advocacy groups fought relentlessly to expand the list, and the additions doubled again, totaling 1,300 by 1999. Over the last 10 years, additions pushing the list over 1,400 included species from grizzly bears to certain deer to New Mexican ridge-nosed rattlesnakes.” (12/16/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ybq8xx4 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Independent [UK] Posted on 12.17.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “Few of the Central American migrants looking to escape to the United States are prepared for the horrors they will endure along the way. Entering Mexico through one of its border states (most often Chiapas or Tabasco), they face a constant threat of persecution, and, at present, lack even the most basic of human rights.” (12/18/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yhed5jd Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 12.17.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “A Western Sahara independence activist who has been on hunger strike for more than a month has been taken to hospital on the Spanish Canary Islands. Aminatou Haidar, 42, had been fasting at Lanzarote Airport in protest after Moroccan authorities expelled her. They denied her entry to the disputed region of Western Sahara and confiscated her passport, saying she had rejected her Moroccan nationality. Morocco controls the Western Sahara but many there want self-determination. The mother-of-two was returning to Laayoune, Western Sahara’s main town, after accepting a human rights award in the US when she was stopped by the authorities.” (12/18/09) Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8417841.stm Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Ananova [UK] Posted on 12.16.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “A Chinese man who trained monkeys martial arts to entertain shoppers was shocked when they turned the tables on him. Lo Wung’s taekwondo monkeys have become a regular feature outside a shopping centre in Enshi, Hubei province, where they were trained to show off their martial arts skills on each other. But one quick-thinking monkey saw his chance when Lo slipped — and caught him with a perfect flying kung fu kick to the head. The rest then joined in the affray. … At one point the monkey trainer grabbed a staff to hit the monkeys, only to find himself facing a stick-brandishing monkey that cracked him over the head.” (12/16/09) Link: http://www.ananova.com/News/story/sm_3602542.html Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Wired Posted on 12.16.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “US citizen Lily Sussman took a vacation in Israel, to visit extended family there and see the sights — all the usual tourist things. On the way in, though, the security forces got rather serious. After pulling her aside for questioning, reading her journal and even flicking through her camera to check the photos (hint: don’t take snaps of ‘graffiti, which read ‘Fuck’ scrawled next to the Jewish star of David’), she was left alone. An announcement was made over the airport speakers, which Lily remembers as something like ‘do not to be alarmed by gunshots because the Israeli security needs to blow up suspicious passenger luggage.’ In fact they didn’t blow anything up. Instead, they put three bullets through the MacBook, gave it back to the now rather upset Lily and let her be on her way. The security forces didn’t even ask for her password. The amazing part is that not a single piece of information was destroyed: The bullets miraculously missed the MacBook’s hard drive.” (12/15/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/ybp9wbp Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Independent [UK] Posted on 12.15.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “The Independent has helped win an important court ruling protecting members of the public who supply confidential information to the media. Judges at the European Court of Human Rights said that The Independent and four other media groups were right to defy a court order to disclose documents that would have identified the source of a story about a multimillion pound City takeover in 2001. By standing their ground the four newspapers and one news agency faced massive fines and seizure of their assets, while the journalists who wrote the stories could have been jailed.” (12/16/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/y974lfp Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 12.15.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “A woman who was given an anti-social behaviour order banning her from making loud noises during sex has admitted breaching the order. Caroline and Steve Cartwright’s love-making was described as ‘murder’ and ‘unnatural’ at Newcastle Crown Court. Neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise. Cartwright, 48, from Washington on Wearside, pleaded guilty to three counts of breaching the Asbo. She will be sentenced on 18 January.” (12/15/09) Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/8413974.stm Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 12.15.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco apologised on Tuesday after complaints that a Christmas card it sold was offensive to people with ginger hair. The card in question shows a child with red hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus under the banner: ‘Santa loves all kids. Even ginger ones.’ Davinia Phillips, whose three children all have red hair, was enraged when she saw the card at one of Tesco’s stores in northern England. ‘It’s discrimination, pure and simple. I have shown it to a lot of friends and they are all disgusted by it,’ she was quoted by newspapers as saying. ‘I just don’t find it funny at all. If it had been about a black child or an overweight child the store would have been shut down by now.’ Tesco said the offending card had now been withdrawn from all its stores.” (12/15/09) Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091215/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_tesco Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Independent [UK] Posted on 12.14.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “The Government has launched a damaging attack on the judiciary in its increasingly desperate legal battle to stop the public from seeing evidence of Britain’s involvement in torture. Lawyers acting for the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, yesterday accused two High Court judges of acting ‘irresponsibly’ when they delivered a ruling in favour of disclosure of sensitive material relating to the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, by US agents.” (12/15/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yd6sose Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Ananova [UK] Posted on 12.14.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “A 12-year-old ‘crisp dealer’ has been suspended from a Liverpool school where fatty drinks and snacks are banned. Joel Bradley was caught allegedly selling a packet of Discos at a marked-up price of 50 pence, reports the Liverpool Echo. The student at the Cardinal Heenan High School was given a day’s suspension because it was the second time he had been caught. His father, Joe Bradley, said his son was being ‘victimised’ for the enterprise, which could earn him as much as £15 a day. Mr Bradley, from Norris Green, admitted he too had once been caught selling canned drinks, chocolate bars and crisps from a van outside the school.” (12/14/09) Link: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3599919.html Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Detroit News Posted on 12.14.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation. City students took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test this year, and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level in math and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic. … Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city’s educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children. ‘Somebody needs to go to jail,’ she said.” (12/12/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/y9x2sll Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 12.13.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “Three of England’s most senior judges are to hear an appeal by the government against letting the public know about allegations of torture. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed says a secret summary of his treatment must be released in the UK. He says the British colluded in his mistreatment by providing questions in 2002 for his secret interrogations. But the Foreign Secretary says the summary is so sensitive it would ’seriously damage national security.’” (12/14/09) Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8411143.stm Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Yahoo! News Posted on 12.13.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “Bourg is a tidy Cajun bayou town a few miles north of Dardar’s hurricane-smashed Indian village in the marsh where holdout families are being urged to move to by a tribal chief, scientists and public officials. Why? Because life on this spit of soggy land 6 miles from the Gulf of the Mexico may soon be impossible for the interrelated families with French, Choctaw, Houma, Biloxi and Chitimacha bloodlines that go back 170 years when a Frenchman came here with his Choctaw wife and named the island after his father, Jean Charles. The road to the island is caving in. Hurricanes are flooding homes more often. The Gulf gets closer every year. Isle de Jean Charles is at risk of disappearing under the Gulf of Mexico. … With a bad limp from 40 years of backbreaking work dredging for oysters, Edison Dardar hobbles over to a handmade plywood sign on the road through the village. He stands next to it proudly. It reads: ‘Island is not for sale. If you don’t like the island stay off. Don’t give up fight for you rights. It’s worth saving. Edison Dardar Jr.’ ‘My son wrote it,’ Dardar, who cannot read and write himself, says with a grin.” (12/13/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/y9f3qm6 Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Liberty Action News Digest Posted on 12.13.09 by Mary Lou Seymour Commentaries on Selective subpoenas, Tea Party protests, Who wants war?, My generation and the youth movement,The 50 best protest signs of 2009, The global warming fraud and more! In the news, Vocal Stossel isn’t docile: Fox series to reflect his libertarian views, Jewish settlers in West Bank building curb protest, Philippines Senate set to conduct inquiry on firearms seized from Ampatuan clan, Australian Scientists aim to curb burping sheep, Streets, campuses erupt in protest in Iran, Peace prize protests scheduled in New York, “Fake fingerprint” Chinese woman fools Japan controls, and Canadian Couple taken for a ride. Til next week For freedom Mary lou Link: http://rationalreview.com/land Filed under: LAND News | |
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Source: New York Daily News Posted on 12.10.09 by Mary Lou Seymour
Link: http://tinyurl.com/yaz73m5 Filed under: LAND News and PND Commentary and RRND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 12.09.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “Thousands of Jewish settlers and their supporters have staged a rally in Jerusalem in protest at a curb on settlement building in the West Bank. Demonstrators gathered outside the residence of PM Benjamin Netanyahu, days after he ordered a 10-month lull in permits for new settlement homes. The order followed US calls for a total freeze in settlement building.” 912/09/09) Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8404850.stm Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Philippine Star [Philippines] Posted on 12.08.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “The Senate is set to conduct investigations on the large cache of firearms seized by authorities in areas near the mansions of the Ampatuan clan in Maguindanao. … In filing the two-page Senate Resolution 1811, Biazon, a former AFP chief of staff, said the weapons and ammunitions that had military and police markings should only be in the possession of and for the sole use of the military and the police and their discovery in the hands of civilians is a serious breach of national security. He said the discovery of the firearms and ammunition bolstered earlier claims by rebel soldiers that a ‘treasonous and illegal sale of weapons’ exists.” (12/08/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yadvbxx Filed under: 2AM News and LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Ananova [UK] Posted on 12.08.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “Australian scientists are aiming to breed sheep that burp less to help tackle climate change. The scientists have been trying to identify a genetic link that causes some sheep to belch less than others. They say burping is a far greater cause of emissions in sheep than flatulence.” (12/08/09) Link: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3582577.html Filed under: LAND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Los Angeles Times Posted on 12.08.09 by Thomas L. Knapp “Campuses across Iran erupted in protests Monday as defiant college students chanting anti-government slogans clashed with security [sic] forces armed with clubs in a forceful new round of confrontations over the nation’s disputed June presidential election. The daylong protests on National Students Day were not as large in Tehran as those that broke out in the days after the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But they took place in a larger number of cities and towns and followed weeks of ominous warnings by security [sic] officials. They continued through the day despite efforts by security [sic] forces arrayed on streets and inside campuses.” (12/07/09) Link: http://tinyurl.com/yb2an7c Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: New York Times Posted on 12.08.09 by Mary Lou Seymour “It looks like President Obama is unlikely to get the Nobel Peace Prize without the occasion being marked by protests. At least one antiwar group is already calling for a midday march to the United States Armed Forces Recruiting Station in New York’s Times Square to coincide with the award ceremony in Oslo City Hall on Dec. 10, the date on which Alfred Nobel died.Days before the event protesters were already handing out leaflets headlined: ‘You Don’t End a War By Sending More Troops! Stop the Occupation of Afghanistan.’” (12/06/09) Link: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/peace-prize-protest/ Filed under: LAND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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