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UK "counter-terrorism" leaflets

mercredi 3 décembre 2014 à 13:00

The UK is giving out "counter-terrorism" leaflets whose only use is to make people scared and ready to give up freedoms for security against a tiny danger.

(You know already what these campaigns are for, but the article is so funny it would be a shame not to show it to you.)

The way for the UK (and the US) to minimize the danger of terrorism by Islamists is to wind down the many interventions in mainly Muslim countries.

Secret opportunity to indict anyone

mercredi 3 décembre 2014 à 13:00

The grand jury gives prosecutors a secret opportunity to indict anyone — or, as in the case of Michael Brown's killing, to avoid indicting someone. This article proposes a replacement system.

In prison for not stopping abusive husband

mercredi 3 décembre 2014 à 13:00

Many US women are in prison for being unable to stop their husbands from beating their children to death.

The legal system fails to consider that the women were terrorized by those men.

Birth control

mercredi 3 décembre 2014 à 13:00

The small health risks of some birth control methods are smaller than the health risks they prevent, and trivial compared with the health risks of pregnancy.

UN Committee Against Torture rebukes US

mercredi 3 décembre 2014 à 13:00

The United Nations Committee Against Torture rebuked the US for failing to punish torturers, as well as use of solitary confinement and violence by thugs, and imprisonment of large numbers of people facing possible deportation.