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Monday, April 2, 2007 |
AlterNet: "A dirty little secret about America is that public libraries have become de facto daytime shelters for the nation's street people while librarians are increasingly our unofficial social workers for the homeless and mentally disturbed."
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TheFreePress: "The U.S. rice industry wants the federal government to reject a plan to grow genetically modified rice in Kansas, saying the country's growers would suffer financial devastation if modified crops contaminate the commercial supply."
12:47:59 PM
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LATimes: "A detainee accused of being Al Qaeda's Persian Gulf operations chief said in court that his U.S. captors tortured him for years and forced him to falsely confess to the bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole and to many other terrorist plots, according to a Pentagon transcript released Friday."
LATimes: "Despite two U.S. Supreme Court decisions finding fault with the legal protections for Guantanamo detainees, they still are not guaranteed meaningful review in a civilian court.
Of the 395 inmates, the administration has indicated that it will prosecute no more than 80 using the military commissions established last year by Congress - tribunals that need not operate in public and at which some coerced evidence will be admissible."
CommonDreams: "The secret agreement that resulted in David Hicks facing only nine more months in prison may do fatal damage to an already discredited system of dealing with terrorism suspects, legal experts say. The combination of a sentencing deal arranged behind closed doors and the conditions imposed on Hicks, including a year-long gag order and a declaration that he was never tortured, has shown the process to be a political and not legal one, Australian and US observers say."
12:45:16 PM
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Buzzflash: "Call it therapy!
Call it divine justice!
We mean no harm, but we need to express our feelings. We need to strike out to save the world from a man of mediocre ooze!
So have some fun. Don't worry, no harm done. Bush never feels any pain. He lets others suffer for him."
12:36:16 PM
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