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offsite link An A&E Nightmare That Exposes the NHS as Anything But the ?Envy of the World? Mon Dec 15, 2025 20:00 | Shane McEvoy
The NHS is often said by politicians to be the 'envy of the world'. But after a 48-hour odyssey through A&E to get an urgent scan for suspected appendicitis, Shane McEvoy is convinced nobody anywhere is envying us.
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offsite link The Covid Inquiry is Instantiating Lies That Make it Worse Than No Inquiry At All Mon Dec 15, 2025 17:53 | Will Adie
The Covid Inquiry has allowed itself to degenerate into a cudgel to flog the Tory government of Boris Johnson. But an inquiry that instantiates a lie is worse than no inquiry at all, says Will Adie.
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offsite link Dale Vince Links Bondi Beach Massacre to Israel Mon Dec 15, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Labour donor and green energy tycoon Dale Vince has sparked a backlash after linking the Bondi Beach massacre to Israel's actions in Gaza, saying Netanyahu "wants antisemitism to be a thing? and "acts to make it so".
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offsite link Labour Has Gone Beyond Lying to Bullshitting Mon Dec 15, 2025 13:32 | Sean Walsh
As he entered Downing Street, Keir Starmer told us he would "tread more lightly" on our lives. In 18 months Labour has gone from merely lying to bullshitting, losing all attachment to reality, says Sean Walsh.
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offsite link Right Wins Chile Election on Mass Deportation Platform Mon Dec 15, 2025 11:18 | Will Jones
The Right has won the Presidential election in Chile, with conservative Jose Antonio Kast defeating his communist rival on a platform of cracking down on crime and deporting hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.
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Voltaire Network
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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UN to Question US on Detention of Hundreds of Children

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Wednesday May 21, 2008 18:50author by Bazooka Joe Report this post to the editors

The United States has admitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child that it has detained about 2,500 children, mostly in Iraq, since 2002.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said there are currently 1,500 children in detention in Iraq, the youngest of which is 10 years old. These children are held by both the US Occupation forces and their Iraqi puppets. The US is also holding 10 children at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.

The detention of children is abhorrent and a violation of US treaty obligations and offers no protection to the rights of the children.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is scheduled to question the US delegation on May 22 in Geneva.

Related Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN20281565
author by Bazooka Joepublication date Fri May 23, 2008 13:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The US has told the UN they will check again how many children they are holding at Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp. Apparently they are not sure!

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=181056

author by redjadepublication date Fri May 23, 2008 19:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Children in Adult Jails

''States classified ever larger numbers of young offenders as adults. Today, laws in more than 40 states permit adult courts to try children as young as 14. Perhaps as many as half the young people who are transferred into the adult system are never convicted as adults — and some are never convicted at all. But by the time the system is finished with them, many will have spent more than six months in adult jails, [....]

Not surprisingly, these young people are much more likely to harm themselves in adult jails than in juvenile facilities. Those who survive often return to their communities as damaged people who are much more likely to commit crimes and return to prison.


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Children in Adult Jails
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/opinion/23fri3.html

 
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