MISSING LAWYER FOUND AFTER 7 MONTH HIATUS
A homeless man has been ID'd as Raymond Power Jr., 57, a New York lawyer who had been missing for almost seven months after suffering amnesia. Power somehow ended up at a Chicago homeless shelter and was assisted in finding out his identity by another shelter resident.
(AMERICA'S MOST WANTED, unearthed by Bill Messick)
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
USE OF HALLUCINOGENIC TEA UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT
In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao Do Vegetal, No. 04-1084, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. delivered the opinion on behalf of a unanimous Court affirming the Tenth Circuit's ruling that the federal government failed to demonstrate, at the preliminary injunction stage, a compelling interest in barring respondent's sacramental use of the hallucinogenic tea known as hoasca.
(SCOTUS, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)
In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao Do Vegetal, No. 04-1084, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. delivered the opinion on behalf of a unanimous Court affirming the Tenth Circuit's ruling that the federal government failed to demonstrate, at the preliminary injunction stage, a compelling interest in barring respondent's sacramental use of the hallucinogenic tea known as hoasca.
(SCOTUS, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)
Monday, February 20, 2006
AGREE WITH US OR WE'LL PUT YOU IN PRISON
"British historian David Irving was sentenced in Austria to three years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust, saying he erred in contending there were no Nazi gas chambers during the Second World War.
Irving could have received a 10-year prison term. Under Austrian law, it is a crime to publicly diminish, deny or justify the Holocaust."
(CBC)
"British historian David Irving was sentenced in Austria to three years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust, saying he erred in contending there were no Nazi gas chambers during the Second World War.
Irving could have received a 10-year prison term. Under Austrian law, it is a crime to publicly diminish, deny or justify the Holocaust."
(CBC)
INTERROGATION POLICY CAUSED INTERNAL CONFLICTS AT PENTAGON
"One of the military's top civilian lawyers, one of many dissenters inside the Pentagon,repeatedly challenged the Bush administration's policy on the coercive interrogation of terror suspects, arguing that such practices violated the law, verged on torture and could ultimately expose senior officials to prosecution, a newly disclosed document shows.
But Mr. Mora's campaign against what he viewed as an official policy of cruel treatment, detailed in a memorandum he wrote in July 2004 and recounted in an article in the Feb. 27 issue of The New Yorker magazine, made public yesterday, underscored again how contrary views were often brushed aside in administration debates on the subject.
(NEW YORK TIMES)
"One of the military's top civilian lawyers, one of many dissenters inside the Pentagon,repeatedly challenged the Bush administration's policy on the coercive interrogation of terror suspects, arguing that such practices violated the law, verged on torture and could ultimately expose senior officials to prosecution, a newly disclosed document shows.
But Mr. Mora's campaign against what he viewed as an official policy of cruel treatment, detailed in a memorandum he wrote in July 2004 and recounted in an article in the Feb. 27 issue of The New Yorker magazine, made public yesterday, underscored again how contrary views were often brushed aside in administration debates on the subject.
(NEW YORK TIMES)
Sunday, February 19, 2006
IN CHINA INTERNET HOLDS PROMISE OF BREAKING GOVERNMENT STRANGLEHOLD
"Eleven years after young Chinese returning from graduate study in the United States persuaded the party to offer Internet access to the public, China is home to one of the largest, fastest-growing and most active populations of Internet users in the world, according to several surveys. With more than 111 million people connected to the Web, China ranks second to the United States."
(WASHINGTON POST)
"Eleven years after young Chinese returning from graduate study in the United States persuaded the party to offer Internet access to the public, China is home to one of the largest, fastest-growing and most active populations of Internet users in the world, according to several surveys. With more than 111 million people connected to the Web, China ranks second to the United States."
(WASHINGTON POST)
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