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#Minnesota residents waiting for Trump to address mosque attack | TheHill
“He is the president of this country, and this happened to us. He has to come here and at least express his feelings and say this is bad,” Mohamed Omar told the news outlet.The attack, which took place on Saturday, did not leave any individuals injured, but reportedly damaged one room. Gov. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) […]
Utah Department of Corrections releases Technical Manual for their execution process
The list of witnesses to the execution must be completed a minimum of two weeks before the date of execution, and carries strict rules: the condemned may only choose five family members, friends, or religious figures to be there at the moment of death, and witnesses have to sign forms in order to view […]
Article: Should an Innocent Person Be Forced to Pay for Their Arrest? | OpEdNews
Article: Should an Innocent Person Be Forced to Pay for Their Arrest? | OpEdNews – Donald Trump takes office in two short weeks. As I’ve written previously, I don’t expect much in the way of prison reform or sentencing reform. Indeed, I’ve urged readers to take to the courts for redress because we obviously won’t […]
Obama on Iran payment: ‘We do not pay ransom’ – CNNPolitics.com
The Obama administration has repeatedly rejected GOP accusations that the cash — part of a $1.7 billion agreement to settle a decades-old arms deal dispute — was meant to grease the release of four US prisoners who were freed in January when Tehran implemented a landmark nuclear deal. A fifth US prisoner was released separately.Secretary […]
Senate passes cybercrime bill after numerous tweaks – The Express Tribune
A Senate standing committee has proposed 47 amendments to the bill passed earlier by the lower house on April 13. With eight more amendments proposed on Friday by Aitzaz Ahsan, Shibli Faraz and Sherry Rehman, the total amendments proposed by opposition jumped to 55.The bill seeks punishment for facilitating hate speech, cyber terrorism, illegal issuance […]
Gaza Hamas leaders seek ‘new era’ with Egypt after accusations | Reuters – Firstpost
Egypt accused Hamas of involvement in last year’s assassination of Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat. Hamas rejected the claim as “politically motivated”. Egypt, historically the Palestinians’ major backer, has brokered several truces between Israel and Gaza factions and tried to heal past rifts between rival Palestinian factions. But it has intensified a blockade of Gaza by […]
Sextortionist government worker gets nearly 5 years in the slammer – Naked Security
He ran his predatory scams from his official, government-issued computer for more than two years, posing as a member of the fictional Google “Account Deletion Team.” He used aliases including “David Anderson” and “John Parsons”, telling victims that their email accounts would be deleted if they didn’t respond. Once he’d gained access to their Gmail […]
Obama blithely sells out his allies and millions of Syrians in legacy interview
In the last months of his administration, President Barack Obama is giving interviews to explain how everyone else is to blame for the five-year Syrian conflict – which has supplanted the Israeli-Palestinian issue as the region’s destabilising centre and shows no sign of receding. Rather than evaluate what could be done to mitigate the damage, […]
Family of Aaron Winston, injured in custody want answers; police investigate | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WBFF
Before Davis spoke out Thursday, Winston’s parents and supporters rallied outside Power Plant Live in downtown Baltimore, the place where they say police brutalized their son. Renee Winston says her son’s “arm is broken in three places. It even popped out of its socket,” Winston said. They were injuries, she says, that required surgery. Winston […]
2 children killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza – Palestinian media — RT News
The Israeli Air Force launched an airstrike on Hamas bases on Saturday, March 12, in which a 10-year-boy who lived next to one of the targets was killed, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said, according to AFP. His six-year-old sister died later of her injuries, local media reported. Their elder brother, 13, suffered moderate […]
Nobody Knows the Identities of the 150 People Killed by U.S. in Somalia, but Most Are Certain They Deserved It
Nonetheless, most U.S. media reports contained nothing more than quotes from U.S. officials about what happened, conveyed uncritically and with no skepticism of their accuracy: The dead “fighters … were assembled for what American officials believe was a graduation ceremony and prelude to an imminent attack against American troops,” pronounced the New York Times. So, […]
Michael Yates: “Clinton is an active war criminal and has done a great deal of damage in the world” – American Herald Tribune
“Bernie has not only urged Vermonters to vote “yes” in union representation elections like CWA’s 1994 campaign among 1,500 telephone company call center workers, he would annually convene meetings of local labor activists to help them develop more successful union-building strategies. To stimulate new rank-and-file thinking, Sanders and his staff invited out-of-state labor speakers who […]
SHOOTING: American Senator’s Office Shot Up By Conservatives, There Were Bullets ‘Everywhere’
Senator Whitmire is a huge gun control activist who recently spoke out against the open campus carry law. This may have had something to do with the shooting, and quite the perfect way to get the message across. The event occurred overnight at the office of Sen. John Whitmire and police are still investigating exactly […]
Solidarity (4:05) by Mumia Abu-Jamal | Social Action – Linkis.com
via Solidarity (4:05) by Mumia Abu-Jamal | Social Action – Linkis.com.
The Dark Prison: Legacy of the CIA Torture Programme – Al Jazeera English
While the CIA has long admitted the use of waterboarding, which simulates drowning by pouring water into a person’s nose and mouth, a truncated and heavily redacted report by the Senate Intelligence Committee in December 2015 detailed other abuses that went beyond previous disclosures. Reading like a script from a horror film, some of the […]