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Security forces shot 22 year-old Issam Muhammad Ali Abu Abdullah, a member of the kingdom’s Shi’a Muslim minority, multiple times at a protest on Thursday evening in the town of Awwamiya. Three others were injured.
Via bikyamasr.com
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Ron Paul’s libertarianism is beguiling. Like many extreme ideologies, libertarianism gives a single answer to a complicated world. It seems to cut through the fog and get to the heart of solutions; illusions, alas, but powerful ones nonetheless.
Via huffingtonpost.com
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Henry Porter: The security and justice green paper threatens to deprive us of one of the vital traditions of common law…
Via guardian.co.uk
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How national security laws are eroding freedom.
Via washingtonpost.com
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There are more than 30,000 non-citizens currently serving in the US army. Due to the new laws hundreds of U.S. Military Veterans are facing deportation today…
Via youtube.com
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Legitimate refugees, including toddlers, are imprisoned indefinitely. Only ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) knows why and it will tell no one.
Via smh.com.au
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The report also finds that the proposal to require all telecommunications service providers to provide “back doors” into their systems that the police can use for surveillance jeopardizes the security of telecommunications systems and heightens the risk of exploitation by hackers.
Via bccla.org
On Jan 18th, sites will go dark to protest the internet censorship bills.
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In a move the technology sector will surely see as a victory, a controversial antipiracy bill being debated in Congress will no longer include a provision that would require ISPs to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy.
Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the biggest backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act, today said he plans to remove the Domain Name System (DNS) blocking provision.
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Today’s announcement goes further than any previous official statement in acknowledging the UK’s role in Binjam Mohamed’s torture…
Via theatlantic.com
