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  1. whoosh

    VIDEO North Korea tries to prevent more defections

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  2. whoosh

    VIDEO Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?

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  3. whoosh

    VIDEO Private Prisons Are Using ICE Detainees In Violation Of Anti-Slavery Laws

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  4. whoosh

    VIDEO Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Prize Speech

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  5. whoosh

    VIDEO Man Forgotten in Solitary Confinement For Years !

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  6. Ralph Bromley

    Boycott Firefox

    I know this may a sort of political post here and I know such discussions are discouraged but hear me out. Recently Mozilla has gotten a new CEO that is against gay rights and as an advocate for gay rights this is not acceptable. In protest I removed all mozilla products on my computer as it has...
  7. Mike

    VIDEO Stanford Prison Experiment

    The Stanford Prison experiment by Zimbardo matches only the breakthrough of the Milgram obedience test. In Milgram's test, humans were led to giving a fake patient a fatal electric shock. The shock wasn't real, so the people involved in the study thought they were doing it. Only around 10-15%...
  8. kemical

    More powers for Big Brother?

    Here in the UK the goverment plan to tighten laws so to be able to 'snoop' on anyone without having to obtain a warrant first. One of the founding fathers of the web had this to say.... Personally I feel it makes the book '1984' seem niave...... :-# Reference: Web pioneer Sir Tim...
  9. reghakr

    Stroke victim sues Dallas for Public Intoxication charge

    Dianne Irons is suing the city of Dallas for violating her civil rights after being arrested and thrown in a drunk tank for six hours. Read Full Story: Stroke victim sues Dallas for Public Intoxication charge - Mix 102.9
  10. cybercore

    Drones 'winning' war against al-Qaeda

    More than 40 people were killed in Pakistan last week in a US drone attack near the Afghan border. The use of unmanned drones have always been controversial, but ex-CIA director Michael Hayden says they are winning the war. Ten years on from 9/11, al-Qaeda appears to be on the back foot. One...
  11. cybercore

    High Court bans man with low IQ from having sex

    A man with a low IQ has been banned from having sex by a High Court judge after his local council claimed his ‘vigorous sex drive’ was inappropriate. The 41-year-old, known only as Alan, was in a relationship with a man and told officials ‘it would make me feel happy’ for it to continue...
  12. cybercore

    Bank robber sues police after being arrested with his underpants on show

    Armed robber Phillip Niere is suing police in Germany after they arrested him with his trousers round his ankles. The 38-year-old was arrested after he threatened to kill five staff at Noris Bank in Aachen, west Germany, if they did not dispense £200,000 to him immediately. He was...
  13. Mike

    CANHR: Stop Nursing Home Drugging

    This was sent to me by one of our moderators Celestra, who has been on the site for some time. CANHR is the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. CANHR, as an advocacy organization, and like many other sociological studies and investigations of nursing homes in the US, have found that...
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