An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison
for breaking into a nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding
bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws at the
Tennessee plant....
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Nun gets nearly 3 years in prison for nuke protest
Ex-Soldier Convicted of Killing Iraqi Family Dies
02-18-2014 •
AP 
A former soldier convicted in 2009 of raping and killing a teenage Iraqi
girl and using a shotgun to gun down her family died in an Arizona prison over
the weekend in what officials suspect was a suicide....
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North Korea Abuses Human Rights: Tell Us Something We Don't Already Know
| 02-19-2014 •
http://www.huffingtonpost.com, Ivan Eland
Yet public criticism of its human rights record by international bodies,
such as the United Nations, and individual states, such as the Unite States,
usually causes North Korea to deny it, then fume, and then continue or escalate
the abusive practices just to spite the international community.
And Kim Jong-un, the young ruler of North Korea, may be even more ruthless
and erratic than his despotic father, Kim Jong-il, and grandfather, Kim Il-sung.
Yet the almost 65-year U.S.-led effort to isolate this regime has failed--as
also has the 55-year attempt to do the same with the Castro brothers in Cuba. In
both cases, isn't it time to try alternatives to these "isolationist" policies?
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U.K. authorities grill Edward Snowden’s lawyer at Heathrow Airport
02-19-2014 •
TechDirt 
One of the most chilling moments so far in the Snowden saga was when Glenn
Greenwald's partner David Miranda was held and interrogated for nine hours at
London's Heathrow airport by the UK authorities, in a series of moves worthy of
a tinpot dictatorship. And in case you thought that was a one-off, they've done
it again -- this time, to Jesselyn Radack, a lawyer who represents Snowden and has spoken on
his behalf several times. Here's what happened....
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NJ Port Authority probing whether officer drove Chris Christie ally through Bridgegate area
02-19-2014 • .
.... A source close to the Port Authority Police Department told The Star-Ledger on
Sunday that the probe will focus on reports that Michaels, a 15-year veteran of
the department and a member of its GWB unit, chauffeured former Port Authority
official David Wildstein through Fort Lee's traffic-congested streets
on the first of four days of closures. Wildstein is the former Christie-backed
Port Authority official who ordered the closure of two of three local-access
lanes from Fort Lee to the bridge....
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