British Justice, a personal view  share 4 hours ago by Jester On my way home from work one day last week, I heard a bit of news that left me feeling very unimpressed with Jack Straw. It was his decision to keep Ronnie Biggs in jail and not parole him, even though the Parole Board had recommended it. Ronnie Biggs is a bit of an anti-hero to people of a certain ... Growing Old Without Dignity - punkyrennie.wordpress.com |
| L’Etat condamné après le suicide d’un détenu share 4 hours ago by Intime Conviction Crédit Photo : LCI prison En 2004, un jeune homme s’était pendu à la maison d’arrêt de Metz-Queuleu. Sa famille vient d’obtenir réparation : l’Etat a été condamné pour faute par le juge administratif. Le tribunal a souligné que la présence en prison d’alcool et de cannabis, dont avait usé le détenu ... Intime Conviction - intimeconviction.fr |
| Aung San Suu Kyi’s 5,000th Day in Prison share 5 hours ago by rux Today marks the 5,000th day of captivity for Burmese human rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi. She has been transferred to a “guesthouse” in Rangoon’s Insein jail, after she was accused of violating the terms of her house arrest when an American man swam across the lake and ... fonografia collective - fonografiacollective.com · Rank: 132,179 ·  1 reference |
| What the Cowardly Honduras Coup Lost Today share 6 hours ago by sakerfa Sometimes the drama is of such high volume that the ways it changes the narrative go unnoticed in the exact moments that it happens. But here are some of the very significant realities that shifted today: President Manuel Zelaya Showed True Courage: One of the open questions prior to today was wheth ... Dprogram.net - dprogram.net · Rank: 3,081 · 190 references |
| Dateline: Tallinn, Day 4 - The Discovery share 6 hours ago by Andrew Ferguson Tallinn, Estonia 17 June 2009 Today started off innocent enough. I got up, dragging my feet, but finally made it out the door. I grabbed some Indian food for lunch before heading to the Estonian State Maritime Museum. I tried to fanagle my way in with my drivers license, but the ticket lady was keen ... Andrew Ferguson dot NET - andrewferguson.net · Rank: 38,130 · 89 references |
| Adelhamid Hakkar, condamné à la perpétuité, espère une libération ... share 9 hours ago by Intime Conviction Xavier Beneroso C’est l’histoire sans fin d’une « longue peine ». Abdelhamid Hakkar, 53 ans, écroué depuis le 2 septembre 1984 pour un vol à main armée et le meurtre d’un policier, collectionne un triste record. Il a passé un quart de siècle entre quatre murs. Embastillé actuellement à Ensisheim, pr ... Intime Conviction - intimeconviction.fr |
| Various confidence scams, tricks, & frauds share 15 hours ago by Scott Granneman From “ List of confidence tricks” (Wikipedia: 3 July 2009): Get-rich-quick schemes Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied. For example, fake franchises, real estate “sure things”, get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain lett ... GranneBlog - blog.granneman.com · Rank: 124,236 · 21 references |
| To be 28 with Six Kids and a Life Sentence share 16 hours ago by David Alm Over the weekend, my father sent me a news story from my hometown, Rock Island, Illinois, about a young man who's just been sentenced to life in prison for dealing crack cocaine. The 28-year-old has six children and says that he's been consuming a case of beer and copious amounts of pot every day fo ... AWEARNESS: The Kenneth ... - awearnessblog.com · Rank: 9,154 · 130 references |
| David Foster Wallace on the problems with postmodern irony share 17 hours ago by Scott Granneman From Larry McCaffery’s “ Conversation with David Foster Wallace” (Dalkey Archive Press at the University of Illinois: Summer 1993): Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists great artists. The great thing abo ... GranneBlog - blog.granneman.com · Rank: 124,236 · 21 references |
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