4000 Anti-Scientology videos pulled from YouTube

" Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against...

Activists stage dolphin die-in at Japanese embassy in US

A dolphin die-in took place in Washington yesterday at the Japanese embassy, as environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins to protest what they said was the 'horrific butchering' of thousands of...

Polygamy bill provokes controversy in Iran

" 2008-09-04 13:42:03 - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A bill that would allow men in Iran to take additional wives without the consent of their first wife has provoked so much controversy that parliament has had to...

RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA

the internet police are coming to your ip soon..."RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA Enforcement - ACTA Thursday, 26 June 2008  These are the...

At law the Bush Admin is a Criminal Conspiracy

Ketcham references Boyle on the Anthrax attacks in the American Conservative:The Anthrax Files: The FBI claims to have caught the killer. But so much evidence has been neglected or mishandled that many experts still have doubts. By Christopher Ketcham, amconmag.comwhich Boyle...

9/11 Truth, Part 8 of 11: 9/11 Aftermath and Anthrax; Subverted Rights, Endle...

Article by Erik Larson, work in progress; suggestions and links welcomeThis article is an overview of some of the ways in which 9/11 has been used; manipulating public fears and understanding, increasing military...

Judge fears secret hearings over Guantanamo Bay

The reason court hearings are public is so that there is oversight and accountability; so the government, i.e. those running it, can't throw you in prison forever just on their "say so" without the public being witness to the evidence. It's a hallmark of civilized nations....

Disney's Rights to Young Mickey Mouse may be Wrong

Well, I guess it does pay to read the fine print. The wording of the copyright at the end of Mickey Mouse's first cartoon with sound on screen was Steamboat Willie, created in 1928. While most lawyers agree...

Alabama To Impose Fat Tax

Starting next year, severly overweight Alabama state employees will have to pay $25 more in health insurance in order to cover the increased risk of health problems faced by the obese. Taxing individuals for their...

Saudi Arabian girl, 8, seeks divorce

A Saudi Arabian court is to rule next month on the divorce of an eight-year-old girl from a man in his fifties. It's  ridiculous. As far as i know, no marriage, with 8 years old girl, is allowed in any religion. It's forbidden!" The girl, who still does not know...

Web audience for Olympics hits record high

Not surprisingly, the Beijing Games had the biggest online presence of any Olympics. Yahoo's Olympic site, for example, tripled its traffic compared with Turin in 2006.As this New York Times piece discusses, NBC...

Trade union death sentence in iran

Several trade unionists in iran were arrested on may day one has been sentenced to death. The koran says that tyrants will burn in hell. For more case details and to sign the petition and perhaps save the life of a decent humane human...

Rights Group Will Sue US Government over Wiretapping

After the US Government granted amnesty to the telecoms that helped it illegally spy on American citizens, the Electronic Frontier Foundation turned its attention to the government itself. What did the government...

My human rights have been breached': Glitter flies back to Britain and clai...

"Gary Glitter finally arrived in Britain yesterday – claiming he was the victim of a ‘show trial’ and that his human rights were breached. The shamed pop star paedophile was given VIP treatment at Heathrow and smirked as he was fast-tracked through the airport with a...

HRW Warns of Unexploded Russian Cluster Bomb Ordnances

"Unexploded ordnances of cluster bombs, left by Russian attacks, pose risk to life of civilian population in the conflict zone, the Human Rights Watch warned on August 21. It said that its researchers saw more unexploded submunitions from cluster bombs in and around the...
 

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