Nobody Cares: PRS

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Daniel Dale wrote in the Washington Post.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The UK is not well-known for refusing US extradition requests...

According to Channel 4 news,

Between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2011, the US made 134 requests for extradition to the UK authorities and 75 people were successfully sent to America for trial.

The UK made 57 extradition requests to the US and 40 people were successfully extradited.

To the best of our knowledge, British courts have refused to extradite seven people since 2004 but the Americans have never turned down a request from Britain.

So there’s some evidence to support Lord Baker when he says “extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States is generally more difficult to secure than vice-versa” in that a higher proportion of requests made by Britain tend to end in successful extraditions, and the US authorities are less likely to refuse a request.

That was back in 2012, but I can off the top of my head think of at least three cases where extradition requests from the USA since then have been refused -- the computer hackers Gary McKinnon and Laurie Love (the first by the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, and the second by the High Court) and Shawn Sullivan, a sex offender who escaped extradition because Minnesota's "sex offender treatment program" was found by the High Court to be incompatible with the requirements under the Human Rights Act and the ECHR that people can't be indefinitely imprisoned without a fair trial. There may well be others.

It depends what the USA want him for, of course, but I'm told by people who know about extradition law that if the charges relate simply to publishing the materials supplied by Chelsea Manning it's going to be an uphill struggle to extradite him. If, however, the charges involve Wikileaks' cooperation with the Russian Intelligence Services rather more recently, then he may well find himself in difficulties.

 

[detrius]

 

[Free]

Ellen is such a bully!

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Ellen helping Michelle adjust to life after the White House:

 

[Porsupah Ree]

DeVos proposals for campus sex misconduct rules are "worse than we thought," advocates say

Earlier this month, 80 people who said they were sexually abused by one of three doctors — Larry Nassar of Michigan State University, George Tyndall of the University of Southern California and Richard Strauss of Ohio State University — sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with a unified message: Don't give schools more control over how they investigate sexual assault allegations.

"The proposed changes will make schools even less safe for survivors and enable more perpetrators to commit sexual assault in schools without consequence," read the letter, which included names of women who attended the three schools.

I admit, even with Shrub, I hadn't quite foreseen the Republicans becoming overtly rapist positive.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[detrius]

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For those not aware of this particular agitprop operation:

Tucker Carlson's "Daily Caller" is basically "Der Stürmer" with a bow tie.

The first thing you'll notice about it is that it has a "brown people doing crimes" article featured prominently on the main page on a daily basis.

And on the rare days when they don't, they'll do something like placing a headline about crime next to an unrelated article with a picture of a smiling black person. It's pretty obvious.

To give a hypothetical example: imagine a hurricane hitting Puerto Rico (again) every major news outlet focuses on the reports of thousands of Americans at risk of dying. The Daily Caller will instead put a headline like "Rape epidemic hits Chicago" on its homepage. In the article, they might actually admit that the "rape epidemic" seems to be focussed on the suburbs, but that's not what their average reader associates with "Chicago". Or they might leave out that detail altogether. Next to that headline, there will be link to another article with a picture of smiling Obama helping out the hurricane vicims, titled "Barack Hussein Obama still trying to grab everyone's attention".

That's the "Daily Caller" in a nutshell.

I suppose everyone who gets their "news" from that site is secretly a coprophiliac because it's full of shit and they're eating it all up.

 

[Free]

 

[Porsupah Ree]

Ole Ted Stilts /radical-aspect: "humor, afl-cio statements on scott walker electio…" - ACP

An AFL-CIO story in three parts. ^_^

 

[Porsupah Ree]

Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday proposed getting rid of Columbus Day as a holiday and replacing it with a day off for Election Day. It started when Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Saturday night, “how is Columbus Day a holiday but Election Day not?”

The Daily Mail’s U.S. political editor David Martosko quote tweeted Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday and wrote that she “hasn't even started the job yet and she's already angling for more vacation days.”

The incoming Democratic representative then quote tweeted Martosko and replied: “While I would disagree with your complaint that Americans get too much vacation time (we work some of the longest hours of any dev country & have no Fed required paid leave), I am willing to compromise by eliminating Columbus Day to give Election Day off. See? I can be pliant.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to replace Columbus Day with a holiday for Election Day

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Maaaaan... you think you know someone. After several months of gaming together, 'Player1', me and a third guy were chatting online... and then this started pouring out of him, as a result of the Rick Scott re-election:

Player1: honestly I can't understand the hatred from the left
Player1: i mean the PURE VITRIOL
Player1: like "I'd rather slit my wrists than have a discussion"
Player1: oh, and the "go harass people who don't believe the same things you do"
(whatever that means. There's more, but it's boring ramble)
Player1: i'm happy just running my business and living my life but if they want to bring the pain...okie dokie, you asked for it
ME: dude... dial it back a notch, eh?
Player1: what did I say?
Player1: going to my safe space, night
Player1 has disconnected.

I'm sorry, did a liberal run over your dog or something? Geeez.

I guess he plumb forgot he was in politically 'mixed company' and thought he could start singing the favorite laments of the right expecting us to sing along.

The pure vitriol he displayed and hypocrisy of flouncing rather than 'having a discussion' made me laugh enough that I had to share.

 

[Lianne Marten]

I love this and I love her and this level of attention given to her from a pretty mainstream outlet is very exciting.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread on abortion and the sanctity of human life.

Brutal.

 

[Free]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t rich. There’s no reason to talk about it.

 

[Free]

 

[Kaimi Kyomoon]

Thread on abortion and the sanctity of human life.

Brutal.

I like this thread but it's irrelevant to my view on abortion which is that one human being does not have a right to use another human's body. If a pregnant woman wants the unborn human out of her she has a right to make it happen. Full stop. Period.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]