Politics - Part 53
With 8.2% of the votes, the pirates take six out of the 69 seats. This causes problems for the existing coalition in Schleswig-Holstein, as a new constellation is needed.
(Germany consists of 16 states, each roughly equivalent in size to a smaller country ...[Read more]
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After reporting this week on a Pentagon-created plan for interning activists at re-education camps, questions were asked about the US Army manual that allegedly outlines the resettling of US citizens. Can Americans be sent to propaganda prisons?
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Author evaluates army documents, and explains how they are planning to treat citizens as enemy combatants. ...[Read more]
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(From The republic report) "Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rights experts all moving in favor of relaxing marijuana prohibition laws, little ha ...[Read more]
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released another batch of documents Thursday morning in response to Truthout's wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request pertaining to the agency's role in monitoring the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) prot ...[Read more]
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A simple experiment conducted in a reserach institution summarizes the crux of the Occupy Wall Street movement. ...[Read more]
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One out of every 100 people in the United States is imprisoned. Even though we are 5 percent of the world's population, we have 25 percent of the prisoners in the world. We are number one in the world in the number of people we imprison - we even beat Chi ...[Read more]
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May's NATO summit in Chicago is still weeks away, but residents of the Windy City can expect to see armed federal agents patrolling the streets in preparation much sooner than that.
Three weeks before international heads of state will converge in Chicago ...[Read more]
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The US says it has deployed a number of its most modern jet fighters to an air base in Southwest Asia. The announcement alarmed many, who suspect the base is actually in the United Arab Emirates just 200 hundred miles from Iran.
The Air Force did not spe ...[Read more]
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In a speech on Friday, Yuval Diskin, who retired as head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence service, last year, spoke out strongly against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak on the issue of Iran. Address ...[Read more]
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In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister admits that Iran did not threaten to wipe Israel off the map, and Ahmedinajad was misquoted.
Deputy PM :"They didn't say 'we'll wipe it out', you're right. They didn't say 'we'll wipe it ou ...[Read more]
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