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Civil rights kowtow to counter-terrorism. Perhaps a more common sight in the future – a military check-post on the street Hammersborggata in Oslo, the day after a Norwegian terrorist bombed government buildings and massacred young Labour Party members.
(Photo: Chell Hill/ Wikimedia Commons) Norwegian officials and police are under a barrage of criticism for their failure to avert the terrorist car-bombing outside the PM’s office and the gunning down of youngsters at Utøya on 22 July last year. Simultaneously, Norwegians are becoming increasingly willing to let the authorities infringe on their civil rights in the fight against terrorism, according to research fellow Sissel Haugdal Jore. She’s a researcher at the University of Stavanger’s Department of Industrial Economics, Risk Management and Planning. Killing Iran’s Children. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright should be a happy camper: Another campaign of sanctions and embargoes by the US is about to start killing children, this time in Iran.
Albright, as President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, when interviewed on CBS’s news magazine program “60 Minutes” back in 2000, was asked by reporter Lesley Stahl about reports that US sanctions on Iraq had led to the deaths of some 500,000 Iraqi children because of shortages of medicine and things like chlorine for treating water supplies. Stahl asked Albright if such a dreadful toll was “worth it.” Combating Islamophobic violence. Quote of the day. Larry Wachowski Transgender: 'Matrix' Director Reveals Transition To Lana Wachowski. The director of "The Matrix" and the highly-anticipated film "Cloud Atlas" has become the first major Hollywood director to publicly come out as transgender.
Noam Chomsky: Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta. How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. The Obama GITMO myth. Mexican Program Aims To Reach Drug Lords Before They Get Caught Up In Cartels. CIUDAD JUÁREZ, MEXICO—Community advocates in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, announced Tuesday the launch of a new intervention program aimed at reaching out to impressionable drug lords at high risk for becoming involved in cartels.
Colombia decriminalizes cocaine, marijuana. Gay TV, like gay bars, is increasingly straight-friendly. Photo by Patrick Wymore/SHOWTIME.
When is a TV channel like a bar? When it’s gay. June Thomas is a Slate culture critic and editor of Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ section. Follow her on Twitter. Follow. When Should You Shoot A Cop. Another 12 Sexist Vintage Ads - Oddee.com (sexist ads) That's her place.
She's got a big mouth, you'll notice it. A 1988 Mickey's Big Mouth malt liquor ad. 12 Unbelievable Sexist Signs. A construction sign at MarketFair Mall in Princeton, N.J., is "apologizing" for the catcalls its workers have made at women.
The sign, located outside the mall, reads: We apologize for the whistling construction workers, but man you look good! So we will soon, please pardon our dust, dirt, and other assorted inconveniences. Since so many women have experienced street harassment -- an estimated 90 percent of women by age 19 -- it's perhaps no surprise the ad didn't go over well. Supreme Court Orders States To Stop ‘Cruel And Unusual Punishment’ Of Juveniles. Twenty-nine states have laws requiring mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole for children who commit murder.
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, just struck down the mandatory nature of these laws. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the majority opinion in which she stated, “State law mandated that each juvenile die in prison even if a judge or jury would have thought that his youth and its attendant characteristics, along with the nature of his crime, made a lesser sentence (for example, life with the possibility of parole) more appropriate.” These mandates violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. The church changed the perception of rape. In the Middle Ages the church affected the views on gender roles.
Pictured is a German woodcut of a 15th century wedding. (Photo: Freebase) Destroying another man’s clothes, injuring his cattle and raping his wife. These three acts, which viewed through modern eyes seem highly different, were all considered vandalism against a man’s property in the early Middle Ages. Thanks to the Catholic Church, however, this weird view changed during the Middle Ages, In line with the church gaining influence on society, helped along by cultural trends, the judicial perception of raped women changed.
Rhode Island Becomes First State To Pass Bill Of Rights For The Homeless. Mexican Drug Lords vs. Cybervigilantes and the Social Media. Monday, March 5, 2012 Mexican Drug Lords vs. Cybervigilantes and the Social Media By John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus The Mexican drug war cannot be understood without reference to the virtual dimension. Today’s Inequality Weather Report. How to Flex Your Rights During Police Encounters. The human rights detective - The human rights detective. Kate Doyle’s job isn’t exactly journalism, though she’s nailed more big stories than many Pulitzer Prize winners. Her work does not quite qualify as law enforcement either, though a few bad guys living in confined quarters rue the day she came into their lives.
John Yoo, Bush's Torture Lawyer, Given Immunity. John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor who penned legal memos that provided cover for President George W. Coming Soon to a Riot Near You. Photo via. From kettles to courtrooms: The police crackdown on protest. Different Bats for Different Brats. Sweden To Use New Gender Neutral Pronoun, ‘Hen’ A transgender win for Miss Universe.
What happens when social surveillance goes mainstream? The 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham came up with an idea for a futuristic prison he called the “Panopticon,” a building with mirrors that would allow everyone to see what their neighbors were doing. Thanks to the growth of social tools like Twitter and Facebook and Foursquare, we now have the ingredients for a digital version of this phenomenon, and some are already using those mirrors for questionable purposes: in addition to creepy apps like “Girls Around Me,” the UK is proposing a law that would allow for monitoring of social media (as well as email and text messaging) without a warrant, U.S. universities admit that they already track what their athletes are saying — and a high-school student was recently expelled for comments he made on his personal Twitter account.
Media Roots: DEA & IRS Raid on Oakland Pot Clinics. The 10 Most Ridiculous Things Old White Men Have Proposed About Women And Vaginas. Politics The 10 Most Ridiculous Things Old White Men Have Proposed About Women And Vaginas Posted by Sydney Brownstone on Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:54 AM. Collusion — mozilla.org. Facebook passwords 'fair game in job interviews' Victim slams court's racial spot-check ruling. Federal police make extra security checks in 2010. Open Letter From Europe Against American Labor Intimidation Practices. Three Killings. Coming Soon to US: Big Brother Barking Orders at You. Brothels and pimping legalized in Ontario, Canada.
A water pulk from the rubbish dump. At Historic Drug Policy Summit, Guatemalan President Calls for Regional Legalization. Shaima Alawadi Dead: Iraqi Woman Who Was Severely Beaten In California Home Dies. Britons Weary of Surveillance in Minor Cases. Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War. Spanish Court: You Do Not Have The Right To Be Forgotten. Soraya Chemaly: 10 Reasons the Rest of the World Thinks the U.S. Is Nuts. The Battle for Your Mind: Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public By Dick Sutphen - StumbleUpon. Walmart buys a Facebook-based calendar app to get a look at customers' dates. War on Women: Best Ad Ever, Courtesy of MoveOn.org. NCAA Game Band Chant: 'Where's Your Green Card?' Player is From Puerto Rico. Human Rights Watch: Secret CIA Prisoners Still Missing. Moroccan Girl, Forced To Marry Her Rapist, Kills Herself. Where Do These Backwards People Get These Crazy Ideas?
Women, Sexual McCarthyism, and Right-Wing Authoritarians. In El Salvador, Prisons Packed to the Bars - Slide Show. Bennett Barbour exonerated of rape in Virginia: how the state is botching the DNA retesting and notification of old cases. The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment. Christians Have No Right to Wear Cross at Work, Says UK Government. Sex, lies and media: New wave of activists challenge notions of beauty. Atari Teenage Riot Donates Money From Sony To Hacker Group. Gay marriage doesn't harm children, but the facts don't seem to matter. The Anoka-Hennepin settlement: A big win in the fight against gay-bashing bullies. Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison For Accepting “Unlawful” Humanitarian Award And Other “Crimes”
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