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Thomas Paine

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Monday, June 27, 2011

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  • Greek unions stage general strike - 3 hours agoTrade unions in Greece begin a 48-hour general strike, hours after Prime Minister George Papandreou urges parliament to back a package of austerity measures.
  • Somalis flood across Kenya border - 1 hour agoWar and drought in Somalia are leading to an unprecedented number of people fleeing across the border into Kenya, Save the Children says.
  • Afghan central bank chief resigns - 4 hours agoAfghanistan's central bank governor, Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, says he has resigned because a fraud investigation has left his life in danger.
  • Libya rejects ICC arrest warrant - 6 hours agoLibya rejects a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for the arrest of Col Muammar Gaddafi, saying the court has no authority.
  • US ex-Governor Blagojevich guilty - 7 hours agoFormer Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is found guilty of trying to sell the US Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.

  • Man arrested over fatal burglary - 6 hours agoA man is arrested on suspicion of burglary following an attempted break-in in Salford, in which a burglar was stabbed to death.
  • Hospitals 'fail on patient care' - 2 hours agoA NHS trust that was criticised over care standards at two Sussex hospitals in Hastings is told it needs to make further improvements.
  • Woman admits Moat 'bang bang' jibe - 9 hours agoA woman admits saying "bang bang" to the policeman shot and blinded by gunman Raoul Moat.
  • Murder detectives identify victim - 2 hours agoA 24-year-old man who died 10 days after he was found unconscious in the middle of a Kent town is named by police.
  • Police dogs left in vehicle die - 9 hours agoTwo Metropolitan Police dogs - a German Shepherd puppy and a working Belgian Malinois - die after being left in a vehicle during hot weather.

  • Bush era conviction of Bin Laden driver is upheld - 15 hours ago   A military appeals panel has upheld the war court conviction of Osama Bin Laden’s driver in a sweeping decision that vindicates the military commissions President George W. Bush crafted for Gu...
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  • Muslim prisoners in Britain - 2 days ago When FRFI began its solidarity work with prison struggles in the 1970s and 1980s, the overwhelming majority of political prisoners in England were Irish – whether prisoners of war imprisoned for ac...
  • Pentagon appoints new war crimes prosecutor ahead of 9/11 case - 2 days ago   The new prosecutor for military commissions helped chair an Obama administration task force that reformed the war court.
  • US judge will not release ex-Taliban official - 2 days ago WASHINGTON --  A U.S. judge says the military can continue holding a former high-ranking Taliban government official at Guantánamo Bay even though Afghanistan’s Peace Council requested his release ...

  • Kudo’s to the Cardinal’s Darnell Dockett - 6 hours agoLocal NFL star Darnell Dockett apparently got pulled over by the police today.  Dockett live-tweeted the encounter, including gems like this: -I don’t know why the police always messing w/me I’m nev...
  • Wal-Mart Thought for the day - 9 hours agoWal-Mart’s profit to shareholders is about 3.6% of sales .   This means that for the majority of the country , on the items you buy at Wal-Mart, they are earning less than half of what the government ...
  • Big Amazon Prime Disapointment - 2 days agoI have been an Amazon Prime customer for years, and have been very satisfied to get the free two-day shipping.    And they have always done a good job with this, and in the past I have had literally h...
  • Power Imbalance: The Difference Between Liberal and Libertarian Philosophy - 3 days agoMy new column is up at Forbes, and it is one of my favorites I have written for a while  (at least it seems so with my current scorpion-induced double vision).  It begins with Krugman’s recent stateme...
  • Bad Start to the Day - 3 days agoThis morning, I got stung by this little f*cker in the shower I have been stung by fire ants and bees and wasps but nothing hurt as much as this sting.  Right now, my entire foot is pins and needl...


  • Least Free State in the US - 1 week agoV48J3QQ3UFV7 Research conducted at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center has found New York to be the ”least free state in the Union” according to a set of criteria that weighs factors includi...
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  • Anonymous Takes Down Monsanto's Website - 2 weeks agoAnonymous Takes Down Monsanto's Website Monsanto is using bribery, the law, intimidation and any other means available to it to start to control the world food supply with it's genetically m...
  • Hillary Clinton to run World Bank - 2 weeks agoSecretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said Thursday....
  • Newt Gingrich's Presidential Set-Back - 2 weeks agoIn a major blow to Newt Gingrich's presidential hopes, senior advisers to his 2012 campaign resigned en masse today, citing strategic differences. The staffers include Rick Tyler, a longtime p...

  • The Virgin Daughters - 16 hours agoCutting Edge explores the purity movement in America, where one girl in every six pledges to remain a virgin, or to save her first kiss, until her wedding day. Award-winning documentary-maker Jane Tre...
  • Blackadder Rides Again - 1 day agoTo mark the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of Blackadder in 1983, the iconic cast of the much-loved sitcom appear together in a documentary for the first time. The show includes an excl...
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  • Massacre at Virginia Tech - 2 days agoThis documentary details the story behind Cho Seung Hui, a South Korean student at Virginia Tech University, who committed a mass murder of 32 people and wounded 25 others in the shooting rampage whic...
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  • Beautiful Sentence - 3 days agoFemale prisoners experience the liberating effect of creative writing with the help of inspirational poet Leah Thorn. Poet Leah Thorn is writer-in-residence at HMP Bronzefield, a high security women’s...

  • A Week of Action to Ground the Drones - 1 day ago3-9 October 2011 The Drones Campaign Network in the UK is calling for a week of action to protest the growing use of armed drones from 3rd – 9th October.  The week will be part of the international ...
  • Debating drone use as pursuit of autonomous drones continues - 1 week agoEarlier this month Foreign Policy magazine website ran an article called ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ arguing that those opposing drones are “misleading the public” and “distracting attention away from som...
  • The magical realism of body counts - 1 week ago Funeral for drone strike victims in Pakistan We are reposting this excellent article by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, co-editor of Pulsemedia.org , examining the reporting of civilian casualties from dro...
  • Focus on drones and targeted killing at forthcoming human rights conference - 2 weeks agoThe European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Amnesty International are hosting a conference entitled TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11  in Berlin on June 29 to map how the ‘war on terror’ is...
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  • Out of the deep freeze, HR Nicholls gets back to work on workers' rights - 22 hours agoCompelled by desperation – or possibly the science of cryogenics - the HR Nicholls Society is attempting to reinject itself into the political debate. The society has drafted the services of former li...
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  • Le Bourget contracts complete Galileo network - 5 days agoAs Europe prepares for October’s launch of the first Galileo satellites, a worldwide ground network is being put in place. Contracts signed today at the Paris Air & Space Show cover satellite control ...
  • Space in your pocket… - 5 days ago…and also on your tablet! The new ESA iPhone or iPad application, or ‘App’, can now deliver a wealth of information on ESA missions, videos, images and news updates, at your fingertips.
  • Alphabus ready to offer new opportunities - 5 days ago

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