Word: virtually
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...with any music, appreciating the thriving state of hip hop is only a matter of digging through the filler. This time, it’s the independently inclined with the advantage, as two underground heroes, virtual unknowns among the airwaves, have unleashed their definitive statements onto the world...
...wing former paratrooper cozied up to radical petroleum producers like Iraq and Libya. He also criticized U.S. military action in Afghanistan and pushed for higher prices in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. To further that strategy, Chavez had cut back Venezuelan oil output, which then declined to a virtual standstill when workers at the state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, went on strike...
Constitutionally, the court made the right decision. Real child pornography is a fundamental violation of a child’s human rights and is rightfully illegal. Virtual child pornography, on the other hand, is victimless and is merely, as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote, “the visual depiction of an idea.” The Supreme Court has consistently held that it is not the government’s place to outlaw the expressions of thoughts which could only tangentially lead to a potential crime. Child pornography does not necessarily lead anyone to go and molest, abduct...
...deny basic human rights (such as access to clean drinking water, food, sanitation and security) to Palestinians because they may be of a darker shade than most Israelis. Israel’s actions, rather, stem from a misconception that Israeli security can be guaranteed through the muting and virtual subjugation of the Palestinian peoples. That the Israeli soldiers conducting raids into the occupied territories are “whiter” than the Palestinians they are uprooting is merely coincidental, and therefore inconsequential...
...they put in a full day's work with votes, but they try to get out of town by Thursday evening with the last vote scheduled no later than around 6 p.m. And you can forget Friday for any constructive work; walk around the Capitol and it's a virtual ghost town...