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People don't realize that the NSA has the power to engage in surveillance of our email and telephone communications without any kind of notice. You're never going to get a search warrant or an after-the-fact notice that your communications have been intercepted. I think people would be really shocked if they understood the dragnet nature of the surveillance. This shroud of secrecy has been thrown over basic government operations, denying people basic information they are entitled to. As we know less and less about our government, they know more and more about...
...International Criminal Court began pursuing allegations of war crimes in Darfur in 2005, its investigators have pursued a government-backed militia leader known as "the colonel of colonels." Ali Muhammad Ali Abd Al Rahman - a.k.a. Ali Kushayb - was high in the pantheon of the Janjaweed militia when a warrant was finally issued for his arrest in February 2007. Investigators said he led raids that left hundreds dead and countless homes destroyed. According to one witness, Ali Kushayb once inspected a line of naked women just before they were raped by his men. There were critical grumblings that the Sudanese government...
...more frequently in recent months as Sudan tries to shut down the ICC investigations, experts say. For a couple of years, Sudan seemed to have regarded the Hague-based International Criminal Court dismissively, but its focus was sharpened in July when Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo sought an arrest warrant for President Bashir himself. During the annual General Assembly session last month, Sudan pressed its case with other countries. The Bashir government warned that Sudan could cancel all its agreements with the U.N. if the ICC case goes ahead. "It is not true that the government is trying to show...
...tough platform to battle crime and illegal immigration, the government dumped the Mitterrand amnesty as ethically suspect - to the great satisfaction of Italy. It was under that revised position that Petrella was arrested following a routine identity check in 2007, when police noticed that the original Italian warrant for her apprehension that had been reactivated in legal databases. To many in France - where sympathy with reformed leftist radicals is widespread - the right's welching of the Mitterrand amnesty left Petrella unfairly hanging out to dry. Some also claim a July-dated letter she wrote near death expressing regret...
...during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. In South Korea, for example, the government bought bad loans from banks and also injected government money into their balance sheets. Several banks were nationalized. Governments across the region also shut down financial institutions deemed too weak to survive or warrant a government bailout. In August 1997 Thailand closed 42 finance companies. Indonesia closed 16 banks in October 1997, and Korea closed 14 merchant banks that December, according to Merrill Lynch. This separating the wheat from the chaff helped to speed economic recovery because it made clear which institutions were solid...