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Judges With Guts Rule!

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:00:59 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks:

"The concept of preemptive imprisonment, like that of preemptive war, should have no place in an open society."

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Last week the Court of Appeal handed down two trenchant verdicts in an attempt to inject common sense into nonsensical terror laws.

One implicitly demanded an apology and compensation from the government for a wholly innocent airline pilot imprisoned in 2001 after the police and Crown Prosecution Service lied to a court that he was the “lead instructor” of the 9/11 hijackers.

Every shred of evidence appeared to have been fabricated by police in America – possibly obtained under torture

The appeal court castigated the police and Home Office and told the pilot, in effect, to sue them for all he could get.

The second High Court judgment was, in effect, against the 2000 Terrorism Act itself, notably its section 57 which criminalises the possession of literature (or a download) that “creates a serious risk to the health and safety of the public . . . for the purpose of advancing a political cause”.

it was like sending someone to prison for reading Mein Kampf.

Thank goodness for judges with

guts

Tags: sue, their, friggin', arse, off

YOU JUST GOT SCREWED and Nobody Will tell you! URGENT!!

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:40:45 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: Made the Digg front page in less than 3 hrs. Thank goodness some people still care what is happening in this country!

Meanwhile, last year, Freddie Mac paid chairman and CEO Richard Syron nearly $19.8 million in compensation, Fannie Mae pres. and CEO Daniel Mudd recieved $12.2 million, including a $2.2 million bonus!

Clip Source: digg.com

YOU JUST GOT SCREWED and Nobody Will tell you! URGENT!! watch!

house.gov — "Click" on Video "Housing Bill" Today as an American you got shafted. Unlimited printed money to bail out Freddie and Fannie, Raise the National debt by $800,000,000,000. Finger printing of all MORTGAGE people, and now ALL credit card purchases over the NET reported to the IRS!! All in one VOTE...IT PASSED!! Take 8 minutes and listen! Horrible!!

THE BILL MUST NOT PASS IN THE SENATE.

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/525-RE ...
SPAM ALL THE SENATORS ALL DAY LONG.

Youtube Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy6SlUpbnIU&eurl=ht ...

Disgusting. This is YOUR tax money being used to bail out rich investors who were so greedy that they just couldn't settle for usury of homeowners who could afford it, they had to try and fleece the poor too. They then sold off the lousy loans to poor countries and to our school systems as bonds. These ***** should be put in jail, not bailed out.

You Are Never Too Old Or Frail In China

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:59:01 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

BEIJING — In the annals of people who have struggled against Communist Party rule, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying are unlikely to merit even a footnote.

The two women, both in their late 70s, have never spoken out against China’s authoritarian government. Both walk with the help of a cane, and Ms. Wang is blind in one eye. Their grievance, receiving insufficient compensation when their homes were seized for redevelopment, is perhaps the most common complaint among Chinese displaced during the country’s long streak of fast economic growth.

But the Beijing police still sentenced the two women to an extrajudicial term of “re-education through labor” this week 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.

“Can you imagine two old ladies in their 70s being re-educated through labor?”

Censorship in American Universities: Harvard

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:12:13 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: But is it anti-Semitic to ask why the Palestinians should pay the price for the ghastly crime of the Germans? Why were the property rights of the German perpetrators sacrosanct and those of the guiltless Palestinians adjudged an acceptable casualty?

In U.S. foreign policy, not all racial groups are guaranteed the same rights and protections. Otherwise, why does the U.S. rightly defend Jewish people’s claims on EU bank accounts, property, and compensation for labour expropriated during the 1930s and 1940s, while quashing the rights of millions of Palestinians refugees to lands, houses, and goods stolen as a condition of Israel’s founding in the late 1940s?

As a nation we seem unconscious of the hypocrisy. The convention that persecuted Europeans had the right to safe havens on lands stolen from non-EU was, by the mid-20th century, as outmoded as the Confederacy’s defence of slavery in the mid-19th.

...Harvard Crimson

Clip Source: www.thecrimson.com

The

Israel and Censorship at Harvard

Since Vietnam, Israel has become the heartbeat of U.S. foreign policy and a litmus test of what can be debated—and even of who will be allowed to speak—on university campuses

he British lecturers’ union—proposed a boycott of Israeli universities and academics

This boycott has its counterpart in a decades-old U.S. practice of threatening, defaming, or censoring scholars who dare to criticize Israel.

In recent years, at least three professors

have been invited to speak at Harvard and then disinvited after complaints that they had spoken critically of Israel

Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse vocalized the underlying rationale of such censorship as few other professors have dared. Denying that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are separate phenomena, she declared anti-Zionism

worst kind of anti-Semitism

For such defenders of Israel

Zionism in principle and in practice violates Palestinian rights is tantamount to an endorsement of the Holocaust

Tags: zionism, israel, censorship, usa

Man loses top of his head in brain operation; sues doctors

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:58:34 GMT

clipped by: Hawkeye_84

Clip Source: ballyblog.wordpress.com

A German court has awarded 3,000 euros ($4,100) in damages to a man who had to have the top of his skull replaced with plastic because of a faulty hospital fridge.

Doctors removed the top of the man’s head and put it in cold storage while they operated on his brain

Because the refrigerator was defective, the section of skull was not kept cool enough and could not be reattached. Doctors replaced the bone with a plastic prosthesis.

The man sought compensation of at least 20,000 euros on the grounds that the prosthesis caused him headaches

the court found that the operation had caused the man’s discomfort, not the loss of the top of his skull.

Compensation of 3,000 euros was “appropriate and sufficient

Tags: brain surgeons, goof, lawsuit, skull cap

Dick Cheney's Google searches

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:05:42 GMT

clipped by: ekorstanje
clipper's remarks: Not to far off

Clip Source: www.vanityfair.com

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Tags: funny

The Pirate Bay to sue anti-piracy agencies?

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:38:14 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: The Pirate Bay showed that emails leaked from media defenders servers clearly showed that the company had launched illegal denial of service attack on the pirate bay’s servers, engaged in illegal hacking and repeatedly flooded them with spam.

Funny ???

Clip Source: techonoid.com

The PIrate bay, which calls itself the world’s largest bittorent tracker, has announced its intention to file for damages against The International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) an organisation which claims to represent the interests of recording industries worldwide. The website want compensation for the trafic that was blocked by a Danish ISP after a court ruled that it had assisted copyright infringement after allowing access to the site. The ruling apparently contravened European union Law.

The pirate bay has also announced that any money it recieves in settlement will be used to provide grants to Danish musicians who share their music online. Earlier, They had launched, a new website, called the Jesper bay after the head of Danish IFPI, which contained instructions on how to circumvent the block.

The original ruling has also come under scrutiny because The PIrate Bay was not involved in the Procedings at all and was not heard in court.

Tags: bitorrent, pirate bay

Saying "I'm Sorry"

Sun, 18 May 2008 13:09:25 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

CHICAGO — In 40 years as a highly regarded cancer surgeon, Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta had never made a mistake like this.

Once an X-ray provided proof in black and white, Dr. Das Gupta, the 74-year-old chairman of surgical oncology at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, did something that normally would make hospital lawyers cringe: he acknowledged his mistake to his patient’s face, and told her he was deeply sorry.

By promptly disclosing medical errors and offering earnest apologies and fair compensation, they hope to restore integrity to dealings with patients, make it easier to learn from mistakes and dilute anger that often fuels lawsuits.

Despite some projections that disclosure would prompt a flood of lawsuits, hospitals are reporting decreases in their caseloads and savings in legal costs. Malpractice premiums have declined in some instances, though market forces may be partly responsible.

Tags: two, little, words, can, sometimes, make, a, difference

Sorry We Shot Your Kid, Here's $500

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:05:05 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: Then there's this example:

"Claimant's son and a friend were fishing, in a small boat, 15 kilometers north of Tikrit on the Tigres river at 2200 hours on 31 March 2005. The claimant and his son had fished the Tigres many nights recently, but the father did not join his son this night. U.S. Forces helicopters were flying overhead, like they usually did and there were no problems.

"A U.S. Forces HMMWV patrol pulled up to the beach near where they were fishing. The patrol had spotted and destroyed a boat earlier in the evening that had an RPG in it. They set off an illumination round and then opened fre. The claimant's only son was shot and killed. His friend was injured, but managed to get the boat to the other side of the river. At the small village across the river they received medical help and were taken to the hospital. But, it was too late for the claimant's son.

Clip Source: www.editorandpublisher.com

The most revealing new information on Iraq -- guaranteed to make readers sad or angry, or both -- is found not in any press dispatch but in a collection of several hundred PDFs posted on the Web this week

What price (when we do pay) do we place on the life of a 9-year-old boy, shot by one of our soldiers who mistook his book bag for a bomb satchel? Would you believe $500?

Last June, The Boston Globe and The New York Times revealed that a local custom in Iraq known as "solatia" had now been adapted by the U.S. military -- it means families receive financial compensation for physical damage or a loss of life. The Globe revealed that payoffs had "skyrocketed from just under $5 million in 2004 to almost $20 million last year

Claimant alleges that her two brothers were returning home with groceries from their business, when U.S. troops shot and killed them, thinking they were insurgents with bombs in the bags. I recommend approving this claim in the amount of $5,OOO.

Tags: bush, christian, conservative, democrat, election, politics, republican, war, terrorism, al qaeda

WWII Sex Slavery Horror

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:02:26 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Zhou Fenying is a living witness to the dark history that still poisons China's relations with Japan more than 60 years after World War Two.

When Zhou was 22, Japanese soldiers came to her village in eastern China, grabbed her and her sister-in-law and carted them off to a military brothel, she says.

Now 91, Zhou has broken decades of silence to speak of her traumatic experience as a "comfort woman" -- the euphemism the invading Japanese used to describe women forced into sex slavery.

The Chinese government says Japan has yet to atone properly for its war crimes, which it says included massacres and forcing people to work as virtual slaves in factories or as prostitutes.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Zhou said she had served as a "comfort woman" for two months before a local town official rescued her by paying off the Japanese.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Tokyo has not paid direct compensation to any of the estimated 200,000 mostly Asian women forced to work in brothels for the Japanese military

Tags: health, women, war, sex

When Rape is OK: Female Contractors in Iraq

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:23:57 GMT

clipped by: dulios
clipper's remarks: Women like -- as you may remember -- Jamie Leigh Jones, 23, a former employee of military contractor KBR who has been unable to get her charges of gang rape heard in court; women like Mary Beth Kineston, who was fired after complained about harassment and groping incidents. "I felt safer on the convoys with the Army than I ever did working for KBR," Kineston told the Times. "At least if you got in trouble on a convoy, you could radio the Army and they would come and help you out. But when I complained to KBR, they didn't do anything. I still have nightmares. They changed my life forever, and they got away with it."
Jones testified in Congress in December -- and yesterday -- in order to draw attention to such cases and urge lawmakers to change regulations governing private arbitration. Emboldened by Jones, more women have begun to step forward, talking about mysteriously disappearing complaints and about being given, for their grievances, an 800 number and a pat on the head.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Can't work for them, can't sue them

It's bordering on cliché by now, dismayingly enough, to observe that women deployed to Iraq face (at least) "two kinds of assault," are "fighting on two fronts," or that some say the worst part of being at war was not being ambushed by insurgents. Indeed, as today's New York Times reports, "a number of women who have reported that they were sexually assaulted by co-workers while working as contractors in Iraq ... now find themselves in legal limbo, unable to seek justice or even significant compensation."

Tags: rape, female contractors, iraq

The voice that launched...

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:13:37 GMT

clipped by: padzilla
clipper's remarks: I hear the kid has a record deal in the works.

Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

Boy's voice 'kills 400 chickens'

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Hundreds of chickens have been found dead in east China -- and a court has ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of a four-year-old boy who in turn had been scared by a barking dog, state media reported on Wednesday.

The bizarre sequence events began when the boy arrived at a village home in the eastern province of Jiangsu in the summer with his father who was delivering bottles of gas, the Nanjing Morning Post reported.

A villager was quoted as saying the little boy bent over the henhouse window, screaming for a long time, after being scared by the dog.

"One neighbor told police that he had heard the boy's crying that afternoon and another villager confirmed the boy screaming by the henhouse window," the newspaper said.

A court ruled the boy's screaming was "the only unexpected abnormal sound" and that 443 chickens trampled each other to death in fear.

The boy's father was ordered to pay 1,800 yuan ($230) in compensation to the owner of the chickens.

Tags: chicken

Good News you won't Hear

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:38:59 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.opednews.com

In February indigenous leaders, forest activists and logging companies reached a historic deal that protected five million acres outright and limited logging on another 10 million acres of the Great Bear Wilderness in north-coast British Columbia. That's an area more than twice the size of Yellowstone National Park wholly preserved with another four or so Yellowstones protected -- and not just set aside as national parks are, but put under the joint jurisdiction of the First Nations people from the region and of the provincial government.

Similarly, on July 20th, the Nigerian courts ordered Shell Corporation to pay $1.5 billion to the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta, who had been fighting the oil company for compensation for environmental devastation since 2000. In December, in Botswana, the San people -- sometimes called the Bushmen -- won the court case over their eviction from their homeland. The decision restored their right to live, hunt, and travel on their ancestral lands.

There were domestic victories on other fronts. One major U.S. citizen achievement was the October defeat of attempts to privatize and jack up usage fees on the Internet, despite $200 million in corporate spending on the issue. A new grassroots movement defeated the telecom industry's attempt to take over this major new zone of global communication for its own profit. A minor but sweet victory for independent thinking and bold opposition was Stephen Colbert's April dressing down of the Bush Administration, to the president's face, at the White House Press Corps dinner. The mainstream media, also excoriated by the bold Colbert, ignored the spectacular verbal attack until the alternative media made the story impossible to ignore. Such trajectories -- major stories investigated, exposed and explained by the alternative media until the mainstream can no longer ignore the news -- are one of the reasons why net neutrality matters.

Tags: politics, media, good, news

Social Workers' Stress

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:53:08 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern

Clip Source: www.socialworkers.org

Report Explores Social Worker Stress

Lack of Time and High Caseloads Top the List of Job Stressors

A new report from the NASW Center for Workforce Studies shows that social work professionals often face challenges or obstacles that may cause them to feel overwhelmed and stressed. The report, "Stress at Work: How Do Social Workers Cope?" is based on data from a recent NASW membership survey.

"Considering their experiences of insufficient time to complete day-to-day work tasks, heavy workloads, poor compensation, challenging and/or difficult clients, few resources, long work hours and unclear job expectations, it is not surprising that social workers experience work-related stress," the report states. "Under these less-than-optimal work conditions, social workers are often 'pushed to the limit' when trying to complete their job requirements."

Among all the social workers responding, exercise was the leading method for alleviating stress, followed by meditation and therapy.

Tags: stress, social_work

Iraq: Another Dirty Secret - South African Mercenaries, former White Apartheid era Veterans

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:56:46 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: More: The root of that distrust dates to the mid-1990s, when thousands of white officers left South Africa's security agencies during the transition from apartheid to majority black rule. Unemployed soldiers and police joined private security companies that got embroiled in African wars from Angola to Sierra Leone.

A wheelchair-bound man who owns an SUV with vanity plates that proclaim "Baghdad," Brink lost a leg and fingers in 2005 to a mine that exploded under his armored vehicle in Baqouba, a hotbed of the Iraqi insurgency. Since returning to South Africa, he has been encouraging wounded colleagues to apply for U.S. worker's compensation under the U.S. Defense Base Act, which applies to all workers, American or foreign, who are subcontracted in war zones by Washington

Brink was advising them on how to file for U.S. worker's compensation.

I'll buy a farm if I can collect on my claim, said Gouws, 45, But I don't recommend this method of getting a farm to anyone else

Clip Source: www.chicagotribune.com

in that hush lies a clue to this African nation's murky and angst-ridden participation in America's military adventure in the Middle East: Durant is one of thousands of South African police officers and soldiers, most of them white veterans of the old apartheid regime, who have left their jobs to work as private security contractors in Iraq -- a semiclandestine exodus of hired guns that has alternately embarrassed and alarmed the pacifist government here.

Sensitive to its apartheid-era reputation for exporting soldiers of fortune to wars across Africa, the young, black-led government in Pretoria recently drafted the harshest anti-mercenary bill in the world, a measure that would criminalize virtually all of its citizens working in Iraq.

a former South African military officer

conceded that most of the nation's best special forces trainers now are on the U.S. contracting payroll in Iraq

would make South Africans the third-largest contingent of armed foreigners deployed in Iraq

Tags: lies, mercenaries, bribery, war, iraq, bush, cheney, conservatives, politics, liberal