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Mississippi supreme court halts execution

2013.05.10 00:37:32

by John Terrett

In a surprise move the Supreme Court in the southern US state of Mississippi has issued a last minute stay of execution to an African-American man, Willie Manning.

Manning was found guilty of murdering two white students in 1992.

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darrenlobo

Drone Free Horsham Protest

2013.04.29 08:19:51

With the announcement that a Remotely Piloted Aircraft (drone) command center will open at the Horsham Air Guard Base (located in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania) in October local activists from all parts of the political spectrum came together and swung into action. On April 27, 2013 about one hundred protesters marched to the base's main gate and held a rally they called Drone Free Horsham.

See video and read more at: http://theinternationallibertarian.blogspot.com/2013/04/drone-free-horsham-protest.html

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Shahram

Racism, Conservatism, and Low I.Q. Go Hand in Hand

2013.04.24 23:57:53

by Goal Auzeen Saedi, Ph.D.

This morning as I logged onto Facebook, I came upon this image. Having followed the Boston marathon and MIT shooting coverage initially, I lost some interest when it came down to the “hunt.” As much as justice matters to me, so does tact and class, and the sensationalism of manhunts always leaves me uncomfortable. I also knew it would be a matter of time before the political rhetoric would change from the victims and wounded to the demographic factors of the suspects—namely race and religion. And alas, it has.

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proloybagchi

Vote against Sri Lanka - India's muddled diplomacy

2013.04.20 14:40:38

News came in the other day that the already agitating students of Chennai are going to launch protest rallies when the internationally popular Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty-20 cricket matches take place at the city’s hallowed Chepauk ground. They have also decided to pressurise the Hyderabad Sunrisers, a participating IPL team owned by Kalanidhi Maran, brother of Dayanidhi Maran who represented Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a Tamil party, in the Union Government, to sack Kumar Sangakkara, a Sri Lankan cricketer.

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allenjasson

Boston - Attack Against Civilians

2013.04.18 22:26:32

Doesn't anyone else find it rather sickening to hear weak failures in office the likes of Ban Ki Moon and others parading their selective condemnations of attacks on civilians? Personally, I'm apalled and disgusted and have been for a decade at the way these people have failed abysmally to condemn attacks on civilians - vast and wholesale, insidious, callous, brutal (white phosphorous, fleshettes, cluster bombs). Let them rot in hell with Margret Thatcher and all her savage, torturing dictator friends whom they have dared not offend with a misplaced word. It is THEY who have no respect for the victims of Bostom.

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allenjasson

The CIA Mind at Work

2013.04.17 06:53:24

The comments of "Former CIA Officer" Robert Grenier might make an interesting study in psychology. Interestingly, the "People who hate our Freedom and Democracy" now may be "Domestic Terrorists" with some sort of grievance against the government and the woven tale of far-fetched speculation pulls in imagery of the American Revolution and the national climate of discontent. How sad it all is. Guns are not the problem. The NRA is not the problem. Gun control won't calm the waters. No peace in the world. No Justice. No peace of mind.

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allenjasson

Politics and the London Zoo

2013.04.15 21:00:38

Personally, I find it difficult to disengage or avoid politics, even on an outing with my children to the London Zoo. At King’s Cross Station I interrupted our journey to take my two boys to admire what I consider to be a rare and wonderfully imaginative innovation in Architecture and a marvel of modern engineering – the roof above Kings Cross Station. Of course, you can’t tell that to a child under 4, but I could get them to lie on their backs on the floor alongside the central column and get them to study the beautiful sweeping arches that hold up the enormous roof lattice above. A crowd was amassing with a high police attendance and someone was shouting with a broad Irish accent “Maggie Maggie Maggie! Dead Dead Dead!!” followed by a loud chorus of cheering and chants of “The bitch is dead!”. I asked one of the crowd what it was all about – “They’re protesting the cuts”. She was not impressed with my contention that unless there was a very large number of the British population willing to get serious they were wasting their time. She was less dismissive of this view when I reminded her that despite 2 million protesting in London against the Iraq war in 2003 we are still participating in wars all over the world; “Is this little mob going to make any difference?”. They just don’t give a damn about protest and they are militarising the Police and reshaping the law ready for the time when the world economy hits the fan and it all gets serious. While we conversed my 1-year-old son was pushing the double push-chair away and into the back of a group of police. As their alarm subsided I joked that it was probably the strongest resistance they would face all day. Meanwhile the “Maggie!” chants continued and I shouted back up the escalator shaft (at risk to life and limb) that if they didn’t have the balls to get rid of her while she was Prime Minister there was not much point raving now. At the London Zoo, wandering among the remnants of the procession of species disappearing in the wake of the human onslaught there were endless reminders of the FACT of Climate Change and the alarming rate of species extinction (which I first heard about at University more than 30 years ago) and efforts to persuade the masses that the loss of eco- and bio-diversity matters. As has been the necessity for some time, I fought off my rising anger and anxiety in order to present calm rationality for my day out with my boys; as best I could. On The Tube going back to King’s Cross an old lady (older than me) lamented the crowded conditions. I asked “What would things have been like if all the money spent on cars, petrol, motorways, traffic control and all the carnage of motor accidents had been spent on Public Transport?”. She agreed with my point and someone else joined the conversation. I told them that I had only recently come to understand, thanks to Monbiot, how we embarked on this madness. I had discovered that Dr Beeching, who had shut down the railways in the 1960s had been appointed by the then minister of transport, Ernest Marples - owner of the motorway-building company Marples Ridgway. I expressed the view that this was a criminal act of monumental consequence. Others tuned into the conversation and I began my usual rant about the psychopaths who currently run the planet and the consequent danger we are in with imminent environmental disaster due to Climate Change and economic disaster due to criminal mismanagement of the global economy. Once I began to see my folly I simply asserted that we are in deep shit and that all that was going to save us is conversations like this among ourselves leading to a broader awakening.

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allenjasson

SEX PISTOL John Lydon and Australian Takyvision

2013.04.11 18:48:01

I had very little to do with pop music generally in the SEX PISTOLS era, much less their music in particular, but I must say I was impressed with John Lydon's handling of the dim-witted, push-the-corporate-angle, Australian media in this interview: SEX PISTOLS: John Lydon Interview (sorry about the ad).

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allenjasson

Nobel Prize for Bradley Manning

2013.04.09 08:54:13

From: Allen Jasson [mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ] Sent: 25 March 2013 23:02 To: ' This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ' Subject: Nobel Prize for Bradley Manning Dear Sirs and Madams of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, I write to urge you to give serious, positive consideration to the widely supported nomination of Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. There are, in my view, at least three important reasons why Bradley Manning should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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allenjasson

Let's hope the dear lady rests among friends

2013.04.09 06:40:06

With the passing of the late Margret Thatcher all those who mourn her passing will hope that she will spend eternity among friends; so do the rest of us. Indeed, I personally hope that Mr Pinochet is the first to greet her; his table set with his best china to serve her tea and scones. Let us all hope you find the just peace you deserve for all eternity.

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darrenlobo

Defending Gun Rights With Civil Disobedience

2013.03.02 23:15:27

The gun owners of New Jersey have had enough! They’ve tried asking for their rights, they’ve tried protesting in the streets. It’s not working. The tyrants in Trenton are going to take their gun rights away regardless. Seeing that “There *IS* no redress of our LEGITIMATE grievances within the three branches of NJ government.” The New Jersey Second Amendment Society has announced the start of a campaign of civil disobedience. “In a SINCERE effort to avoid an unhappy outcome, we must attempt to reach the public through acts of non-violent civil disobedience. This is not easy and it will take time, but the alternative at this point is much less attractive.” They are right and deserve our support.

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deboldt

Oscar Blinked?

2013.02.26 01:14:18

Last night I was not among the four Billion plus viewers who watched Tinsel-town’s sharp-elbow, popularity contest known as the Academy Awards.

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darrenlobo

Bensalem Gun Buyback (video)

2013.02.20 10:07:55

Despite police harassment the champions of liberty saved many guns from destruction at the Bensalem, PA gun buyback. This happened on February 16, 2013 in Bucks County near Philadelphia.

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MoiraLeonaThompson

Chapter three - Roy gets a haircut

2013.02.19 07:07:57

'Ah, excuse me,' Roy said. 'You want to shave...what? My head? You must have me mistaken for someone else!'

The boss man spun on his heels. 'Weren't you at John Oliver in 93?'

'Yeah, so what? There were hundreds of kids there.'

'Didn't you take up with Maria Theresa Angelis and become her boyfriend?'

'No,' said Roy. 'I never had girlfriends in high school. I tried to. But I wasn't popular. I didn't even know any Spanish girls. I was trying to make it with the cheerleaders. Is she Mexican?'

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MoiraLeonaThompson

Chapter two - Roy does his laundry

2013.02.08 02:55:14

Roy likes doing his laundry. It gives him a chance to sit and read the paper in the company of strangers in a warm and humid place that is full of wet and dry clothes.

As soon as he got inside the Laundromat, he spotted two empty washers and ran over to claim them. You've got to be quick. He threw down his heap of clothes on one of the machines and inspected the other. Once he found a man's black sock that was very unappealing, but then one time, he found a woman's black thong that was stretched uncomfortably thin across the top of the washer drum. He had to peel it off carefully. The underwear lay in the palm of his hand like a baby black crow. He still has it and when he is in the Laundromat he wonders about every woman that comes in, and whether or not she is the owner of that silky, black underwear.

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MoiraLeonaThompson

Chapter one - My Hero Roy

2013.02.02 03:08:36

Meet Roy. He’s about 26 years old. He’s a good guy, a nice guy. He lives alone in a bachelor apartment in East Vancouver, near Nanaimo and Dundas.

He lives in the same kind of apartment that everyone lives in over there. The typical three stories, with elevator. His apartment is on the ground floor in the back facing the lane. It actually has a bit of a garden. It’s mostly just dirt and a bit of grass, but it could be a garden. His apartment could be a glorious bachelor pad. His job could be great, his love life fantastic, but really, Roy is struggling like everyone else. Failing in life, failing in love, and generally just failing.

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MoiraLeonaThompson

Love and Porridge

2013.01.30 12:16:58

My agent said I had to knuckle down and get another book out. I had to stop fooling around. Stop dawdling. Stop reading the paper. What does she know about writing? I guess quite a bit since she is an agent, but she's not a writer. It just doesn't happen like that.

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darrenlobo

Progressivism’s Violent World

2013.01.27 07:44:16

Unfortunately, no discussion of gun rights can take place these days without talking about the horrible murders at Newtown, CT last year. My heartfelt condolences go out to the families and friends of the victims as well as my sympathies to the survivors and the rest of that community for having to go through such a terrible experience.

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darrenlobo

The Relationship Between Liberty, Power, and Guns (video)

2013.01.21 07:46:57

At the Citizens for Liberty meeting on January 16, 2013 Darren Wolfe talked about how the loss of liberty has created an unstable society.

Below are some of the quotes used in the speech:

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darrenlobo

Montgomery County, PA Gun Appreciation and Anti-United Nations Rally (video)

2013.01.21 07:42:31

Since it was planned before the national and state rallies were we went ahead with our local one. About thirty people came out to support liberty and stand up for our rights.