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Corruption scandal puts pressure on Spain's Rajoy
Independent Online
Investors worried about Spain's political stability have dumped Spanish holdings and pushed up the country's borrowing costs after the eruption of a corruption scandal involving Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Until now, the government's durability was ...

'Ernie Newton' bill aimed at corruption
Ct Post
State senate candidate Ernie Newton at his headquarters on Barnum Avenue in Bridgeport, Conn. on Tuesday August 7, 2012. Newton is in a three way Democratic primary for a seat in the state senate with incumbant Senator Ed Gomes and State Rep.

'Don't ease up on corruption' - US military official urges Gov't to deal ...
Jamaica Gleaner
The man entrusted by the United States (US) to monitor the gamut of its military-related affairs in approximately 31 countries and 15 areas of special sovereignty in the Western Hemisphere is urging the Portia Simpson Miller administration to be ...

Motorcycles Deployed Around Region to Fight Crime
AllAfrica.com
The Arusha Regional Commissioner, Mr Magessa Mulongo has handed over 12 new motorcycles bought by the state, to the local police here in new efforts to combat crime through facilitating cops to reach out rural areas. As he officially presented the ...

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HATE CRIME
Film Threat
James Cullen Bressack's thriller, Hate Crime, is definitely not for the faint of heart, or those seeking mainstream (or even indie-style) entertainment in a movie. In fact the only viewers that I'd see most interested in Bressack's feature are people ...

West Seattle Crime Watch: Burglary; possible casing
West Seattle Blog (blog)
4000 block of 35th ave SW. Between 1145-1215 (Saturday), when we left for a quick trip to the Junction and back. Stolen computer and wedding rings. Would hope at very least I could get my family photos back, I had 10+ years of our life on the computer ...

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Corruption, major cause of Nigeria's problems —Alli
Nigerian Tribune
Speaking with journalists after a walk, tagged “walk for probity, integrity and social engineering against corruption,” in Ilorin, at the weekend, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said it was quite necessary for all Nigerians to be part of the ...

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Commentary: Russian ban on Pussy Riot's music video 'Punk Prayer' irrelevant
OSU - The Lantern
The one-year anniversary of the infamous Pussy Riot performance in Moscow that protested the Orthodox Church's support of President Vladimir Putin is approaching. For the Feb. 21 anniversary, the Russian government has decided to celebrate accordingly ...
Pussy Riot appeal to the European Court of Human RightsRussia & India Report

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Riot police called in after fans clash at basketball game
3News NZ
Riot police had to intervene at a Greek Cup basketball final when a fight broke out amongst fans, leaving two players injured at Greece's Hellinikon indoor stadium. Panathinaikos' Michael Bramos was one of the injured players, copping a slight injury ...
Panathinaikos beats Olympiakos 81-78 in Greek Cup final marred by fan violenceStarPhoenix
Violent fans stop Greek basketball cup finalGreenwich Time
Mayhem hits Greek Cup basketball finalNECN
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Teen Charged With Murder In Baby Sister's Death
CBS Local
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with murder in the death of his infant sister. Montgomery County police say 14-year-old Jonathan Aguiluc beat and suffocated 7-month-old Larissa Yanes inside a Silver Spring ...

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Washington Times
EMBASSY ROW: COLD-BLOODED MURDER
Washington Times
Addressing a Washington conference of 1,500 Iranian-Americans on Saturday, Mr. Giuliani called the attack “cold-blooded murder.” Mr. Giuliani was joined by Andrew H. Card Jr., chief of staff to President George W. Bush; former Rep. Lee Hamilton ...

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Updates:

• NLG-NYC Attorneys Challenge NYPD Surveillance of Muslim Communities
• Center for Constitutional Rights Responds to Newly Released Targeted Killing White Paper

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Senate Votes To Extend Warrantless Wiretaps For Five More Years: No Oversight, No Transparency

Days before 2012 drew to a close, the U.S. Senate voted 73-23 to reauthorize the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 for five more years. This is the unconstitutional spying bill that violates the Fourth Amendment and gives vast unmonitored authority to the National Security Agency to conduct dragnet surveillance of American’s’ international emails and phone calls.

Michelle Richardson:

• The Senate took up the FISA Reauthorization Bill right at the end of the year and they did consider a handful of very moderate amendments that wouldn’t have actually interfered with the collection of information but would make it more transparent to Congress.
• In an open and free democracy there should be no secret law.
• The original FISA was much more targeted. It required a more traditional probable cause, finding an individualized warrant before you could go up and tap a phone.
• After 911 Congress started systematically lowering the standard for obtaining this information.
• They made it easier so you could go around the court, and do it administratively.
• They lowered the standard so there’s no longer a probable cause. The FISA Amendment Act is probably the biggest change in the last decade.
• You no longer have to name who you’re going to tap, the phone number or stated facility.
• Instead we’re going to do these programmatic orders so the court is no longer involved in deciding who will be tapped.
• I’m not going to tap a specific American, but I want information about Yemen.
• Theoretically this isn’t turned into the United States at any specific person. We think its being used for bulk collection.
• The way the internet works now, sometimes your communication will travel around the world before landing next door.
• A lot of times the equipment is intentionally built so the government can tap directly into the system.
• FISA – Foreign intelligence which includes the undefined national defense of the United States.
• I think there is reason to believe this is a self correcting situation and that people will start looking at this technology and understand more about what’s out there.

Guest – Michelle Richardson is a Legislative Counsel with the ACLU Washington Legislative Office where she focuses on national security and government transparency issues such as the Patriot Act, FISA, cybersecurity, state secrets and the Freedom of Information Act. Before coming to the ACLU in 2006, Richardson served as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee where she specialized in national security, civil rights and constitutional issues for Democratic Ranking Member John Conyers.

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Boycott Divestment Sanction Controversy At Brooklyn College

Last month, a backlash of controversy erupted after the announcement of a student group at CUNY’s Brooklyn College, Students for Justice in Palestine will host two speakers who will discuss their views on the BDS movement. The BDS movement as many listeners may know calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel in protest of the government’s oppressive policies toward the Palestinian people. The speakers are Palestinian BDS advocate Omar Barghouti and University of California Berkeley philosopher and BDS supporter Judith Butler. The event was  co-sponsored by numerous student and community groups, as well as Brooklyn College’s political science department.

The backlash included a threat by New York City Council members and Congressman Jerry Nadler to defund Brooklyn College and opinion pieces by Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz who called the event a “propaganda hate orgy,” another daily newspaper labeled it “Israel-bashing.

Omar Barghouti:

• Specifically the BDS call said that Israel and institutions and corporations that are complicit in Israel’s violations of International Law should be boycotted, divested from and eventually sanctioned in order to achieve the 3 basic rights of the Palestinian people under International Law.
• Ending the occupation of 1967, which include the illegal colonies, the wall, ending the system of discrimination within Israel itself which meets the UN definition of apartheid, the third is the right of return for refugees which is their basic inalienable right under international law.
• In order to achieve these 3 basic rights, we absolutely need international solidarity as was done in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, we can’t do it alone.
• Your tax money is funding Israel occupation and apartheid. You have an obligation to question where your money is going to and how its being used to oppress us.
• I think that the New York Times editorial supported having a debate at Brooklyn College says it all. We could have never imagined such a thing, a year ago.
• The government of South Africa’s ruling party the ANC endorsed BDS this last December.
• Many Jewish groups have joined BDS campaigns and are leading BDS campaigns.
• Bullying is one thing and response from critics is another. We’re very open to debate but no one would debate us.
• They’re running scared of debate.
• Not every event, every talk has to be balanced.
• The balance is overall. Those accusing this panel of being imbalanced themselves like Dershowitz, always speak solo, unopposed, espousing the most extreme ideas like torture, a war crime.
• They’re twisting the very definition of academic freedom.
• Human rights are difficult. If you have a master slave relationship and the slave insists on freedom and nothing less than freedom that upsets the order.
• Did equality in Alabama delegitamize whites? It delegitamized apartheid in the South.
• We’re delegitamizing the Israel’s occupation, apartheid and denial of Palestinian rights. We’re insisting on our rights. We’re not delegitamizing any people.
• We’re delegitamizing an order that’s illegal by definition. Apartheid is illegal. Occupation is illegal. Building colonies on occupied territories is illegal. Ethnic cleansing is illegal.
• It’s not a blanket boycott against every company that’s complicit because that wouldn’t work.
• BDS is about context sensitivity, graduality and sustainability.
• You’ve got to address the most sinister companies as it were. The most seriously involved in human rights violations and move toward others, to teach others a lesson.
• There’s a big campaign against soda stream led by an Interfaith coalition because Soda Stream is manufactured in an illegal settlement in the occupied territories.
• We need coresistance, not coexistance until we end oppression.
• www.BDSMovement.net  / www.PACBI.org 
• www.WhoProfits.org
• Dissent and any argument against Israeli policies is almost becoming illegitimate in this country. It’s a new McCarthyism that the Israeli lobby is leading.

Guest – Omar Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

Listen to Law and Disorder May 2011 Show with Guest Omar Barghouti

 

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The News International
Corruption as empowerment?
The News International
If India's maverick psychologist and social critic Ashis Nandy had planned to ignite a potentially ugly controversy at the Jaipur Literary Festival, he couldn't have done better than by insinuating intimate links between corruption and Dalits, Adivasis ...

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Basketball: Riot police called in during Greek final
New Zealand Herald
Fighting between fans marred the Greek Cup basketball final Sunday, won by Panathinaikos over Olympiakos, with riot police called in after two players were hurt, one with a knife thrown from the stands. Authorities stopped the game and emptied the ...
Panathinaikos beats Olympiakos 81-78 in Greek Cup final marred by fan violenceStarPhoenix
Violent fans stop Greek basketball cup finalGreenwich Time
Mayhem hits Greek Cup basketball finalNECN

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Police blotter — Feb. 10
Red and Black
A University of Georgia student was charged and arrested for possession of a weapon during commission of a crime and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report. The arresting officer reported ...

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Dissolution of POAC to fuel corruption - Zitto
Daily News
The outspoken lawmaker, who was until the dissolution the chairman of the oversight committee, said the move is against the constitution and likely to intensify corruption in parastatal organizations. “The decision to dissolve the committee hinders ...

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WND.com
CULTURE WARS
WND.com
... Norris' four-part series on reducing violent crime in the U.S.). In the first two columns, I highlighted ways we can absolutely reduce violent crime in the U.S. But I've saved the best and most powerful solutions for last because they work from the ...

Possible suicide call leads to murder charge in Knob Noster
Kansas City Star
A report of a Knob Noster woman shooting herself turned into a second-degree murder charge against her 23-year-old husband, authorities said Sunday. Order Reprints. More News. Read more News. Anthony Garcia is accused of killing his wife, Danielle R.

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