Ventura: If waterboarding is fine, why don't cops do it?

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, making a guest appearance on ABC’s The View, gave co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a lesson or two about the torture technique known as waterboarding. -=W/ VIDEO=-

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Obama in political box over closing Guantanamo

President Barack Obama will have to defend his hasty promise to close Guantanamo. Legal and diplomatic issues regarding such a closure abound.

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'Misery breeds violence' in Haiti's seaside slum

Roudeline Lamy was 23 when she was shot in the stomach. The impact of the bullet sent the small baby she was holding tumbling to the ground.

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Workers march in May Day rallies

Labour unions in dozens of countries around the world are using traditional May Day marches to protest over the handling of the global economic crisis.

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The Long War: Music Piracy in 1897 (NYTimes)

You thought that music piracy was a product of modern times, didn’t you? Have a look at the image below (and the original PDF linked at the bottom) for a New York Times article from June, 1897 discussing music piracy - of course the perpetrators were Canadian.

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Reminder: The police are our servants, not our masters

"Nick Hardwick, chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), called for a national debate over how police maintain public order and demanded much tougher political accountability, warning that police should remember they were "the servants not the masters" of the people."

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Justice Dept. reins in surveillance program (AP)

Justice department cites Wed of the site, the NSA has been improperly intercepting communication (Citizen's ?) by Americans.

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