Source: BBC NEWS
"More than 100,000 weapons were handed to police in England, Scotland and Wales during a national knife amnesty." That's a lot of freaking knives
Source: latimes.com
Former President Clinton told one of the nation's largest Latino civil rights groups Saturday that the conservative wing of the Republican Party is using the immigration issue to divide Congress and the nation.
Source: alternet.org
The details of the so-called 'amnesty' deal show that the United States is not serious about forging peace in Iraq.
Source: realclearpolitics.com
From the article: The insurgency continues, and it is not going to be defeated militarily. But that does not mean we lose. Insurgencies can be undone by co-optation. And that is precisely the strategy of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
If a government manages to ban private ownership of guns, will they next come after knives? That seems to be the case in the UK, in some parts of which it is illegal to even carry a knife.
Source: washingtontimes.com
Congress reaction to possible Iraqi Amnesty
Source: timesonline.co.uk
Nouri al-Maliki: "Regarding the amnesty, in fact it does not include those who killed Iraqis or even those who killed multinational soldiers from multinational forces. Those soldiers came to Iraq under international agreement to help Iraq.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has presented a national reconciliation plan to parliament aimed at stemming sectarian tensions and violence. The 24-point plan offers an amnesty to some insurgents, but not those from groups who have targeted civilians.
Source: alertnet.org
From the page: -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki presented a national reconciliation plan to parliament on Sunday which included the offer of an amnesty to prisoners in a bid to ease a Sunni insurgency and tackle sectarian violence. --
Source: news.independent.co.uk
The Iraqi government could offer an amnesty to members of the insurgency, as part of an effort to bring about peace, as early as this weekend. Part of that peace plan will include a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops and a halt to US operations.
Source: heraldnet.com
The Iraqi government has crafted a far-reaching amnesty plan for insurgents, officials close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said, even as guerrillas killed at least 34 Iraqis in a barrage of bombs and rockets in the capital and the U.S.
Source: washingtonpost.com
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office on Thursday accepted the resignation of an aide who had told a reporter that Maliki was considering a limited amnesty that would likely include guerrillas who had attacked U.S. troops, the aide said.
Source: glenngreenwald.blogspot.com
"In sum, Specter's legislation amends the provision of FISA which provides for criminal penalties, and then, astonishingly, makes those revisions retroactive all the way back to 1978 (when FISA was enacted).
Source: TPMCafe
Mark Schmitt has a couple of questions about the Iraqi Prime Minister's plan to grant amnesty to insurgents who have killed Americans.
Source: internationalreporter.com
Keeping in view the deteriorating situation in Iraq and the volume of killings of the innocent people along with Americans, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday has chalked out a novel plan to bring peace in the State by checking the general killings including controlling …
Source: washingtonpost.com
Why not include the US soldiers in the amnesty? It would certainly simplify things.
Source: web.amnesty.org
Can the House Republicans hold out against calls to pass the Senate's version of immigration reform? Will Speaker Dennis Hastert keep his pledge never to bring legislation to the floor that doesn't have support of a majority of the House Republican caucus? Will the White Ho …
Source: TechCentralStation
Amnesty International looks more and more like an American anti-war group instead of a watchdog for the world.
Source: irrepressible.info
The internet, for all its flaws, is an amazing tool for promoting human rights and reporting oppression. However, several governments have employed the services of large IT corporations to monitor and supress dissent on the internet.
Source: abcasiapacific.com
The rights group Amnesty International says Burma has one of the world's worst human rights records. In its annual report, Amnesty cites the jailing of opposition politicians, forced labour, land confiscations and abuse of ethnic minorities.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Source: www9.sbs.com.au
The United States, Britain and other European countries were criticised in a report by Amnesty International for violations such as advocating torture, imprisoning thousands of people without charge and eroding the rule of law in the fight against terrorism.
Source: The Washington Times
The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment -- even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents.
Many of our politicians are suffering from an inability (or refusal) to call things by their proper names. They avoid using terms like "legal" and "illegal" and they avoid honestly discussing the nature of the illegal immigration problem and its costs to taxpayers.