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- Chinese circle of steel around the Silk Road
  Posted by devolved from Smh.com
  Once on the fabled Silk Route and now the gateway to central Asian countries with which China has struck gas pipeline deals, Xinjiang has received heavy investment but the region's indigenous Uygurs feel the Chinese are wiping out their culture.
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- Rights group hits China on treatment of migrants
  Posted by Jeff from Boston Globe
  The report cataloged a variety of deprivations suffered by the estimated 1 million to 2 million migrant workers employed on construction sites before the Summer Olympics in Beijing: a lack of safety equipment, crowded and unhygienic dormitories, no medical care, arbitrary fines by bosses, and unpaid wages.
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- Justice Official Defends Rough CIA Interrogations
  Posted by okami from Washington Post
  The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week.
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- Celebrated Columnist on Texas Border Abuse Terminated
  Posted by SeekThankfully
  Termination reportedly will lead to greater exposure of alleged abuse of infants and children at T. Don Hutto prison in Taylor, Texas
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- Lakota Nation Issues “Declaration of Continuing Independence"
  Posted by SeekThankfully from Indymedia
  Withdrawal from treaties with the United States reported. “They never honored the treaties", claims Sioux chief
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- Forced labour, sexual assaults continue in Burmese ethnic areas as report documents abuses
  Posted by SeekThankfully
  A report by CSW documents further abuses and far higher number figure of fatalities in September protests than official figures
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- Beyond Justice: Bush Administration's Labor Department Abuses Labor Union Regulatory Authorities
  Posted by SeekThankfully from American Progress
  Center for American Progress writer comments on moves by US contrary to claims of deregulation. The administration is claimed to be undertaking legislation for "costly and confusing new reporting requirements" among other things, and to "mischaracterize the published data through a variety of false analyses", in order to "undermine the reputation of the labor union movement through a classic political misinformation campaign"
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former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats
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