Monday, September 02, 2013

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Aerial photograph of Garching town. Garching is situated 15 kilometres north of Munich. The motorway A9 from Munich to Berlin passes the western side of Garching. Many research facilities of the Munich universities and private companies reside in Garching. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: NSA chart as of 2001 Français : Organigramme de la NSA en 2001 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The CD case of Pax Imperia Eminent Domain (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

US-Russia relations chill over heated Syria crisis

Vietnam’s controversial online news-sharing ban comes into force from today

Grabyo Studio: Real-Time Clip-Sharing for Broadcasters

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Criminal Negligence

the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), as a secret court with secret cases, evidence, and rulings even congress is kept partially in the dark about, kind of defeats the purpose of a court. The FISC-NSA complex essentially amounts to federal internal arbitration. And we know how fairly that works out in the public sector. If you suspect the NSA has violated your constitutional rights (they likely have), you can try to sue them in a public court but thanks to their secrecy you have no evidence of that unless the defense shows it to you, which it won’t because it will ‘damage national security.’

Forced land purchase ires Indian farmers

Since 2007 the federal government has introduced three bills to revamp the land acquisition law, but has failed to get them passed by the parliament.

Demand for land by private companies has increased alongside economic growth. Due to poor land records and small holdings, companies find it difficult and costly to buy land directly from the owners. In contrast, it is relatively easy to get the government to use its powers of eminent domain. The LAA is ambiguous on what constitutes a "public purpose." The nexus of corrupt politicians and private companies have exploited this ambiguity in the law.

On several occasions, "public purpose" has been cited to acquire agricultural land for activities that cannot meet any reasonable public-interest criteria. State governments have frequently used the "emergency clause" to avoid the mandated public hearing on the desirability of compulsory acquisition.

In numerous instances, land acquired ostensibly for governmental use was covertly transferred to private hands. This has fueled the perception that private interests, rather than public need, have come to dictate the official decision-making.

What has made things even worse is that the compensation provided to the landowners has invariably been far less than the market value of their property.

Experts propose increasing retirement age to relieve pension woes

Fight to clear landlords’ reputation

The descendants of the accused landlords are standing up to challenge the bad reputations of their forebears, by interviewing former tenants, witnesses and victims of the campaign, trying hard to rehabilitate their predecessors th...

Endless quest for enslaved children

BaronR

I have read about this sort of child slave labour. This is inhuman. Children are to be brought up and given an opportunity to better themselves so that in return they can make a contribution to Society.
I hope the Chinese Authorities can round up these criminals and make a good example of them by putting into hard labour. Let them taste their own medicine.

Disgusted BaronR

Very true. it is inhuman and wrong. But it has been going on in China for a very long time and the authorities seem either unable or unwilling to stop it. Could it all go back to corruption and the people who exploit those children have ties with some of the authorities? Don't you think it is strange that we hear so much of this kind of thing going on in China, India and lots of third-world countries, but not in any advanced countries?

opit Disgusted

http://news.nationalpost.com/2... http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2... http://www.change.org/petition... You have to look - but the evidence of corruption is there.