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by travmatt 7y ago
I don’t think you quite understand what you’re talking about - do you realize Chelsea Manning is not the target of the grand jury? How can a person being compelled to testify for actions they’ve been granted immunity risk double jeopardy?
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That’s not true at all, see my sibling comment.
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>Also, the president does not have the authority to start a war; that is delagated to congress. Of course, by that standard the US hasn't had a war since WWII There’s a lot to unpack there, from congressional abdication of their res
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by travmatt 7y ago
What laws does California have for protecting journalists?
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by travmatt 7y ago
There’s no such thing as a public grand jury in America. Grand juries are undoubtedly biased towards prosecutors, since defendants have no role in a grand jury. A grand jury decides whether there is sufficient evidence of a crime to allow p
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by travmatt 7y ago
>not in a closed door meeting away from democratic due process monitored by the citizenry of the country. Anyone who believes that grand juries are removed from the democratic process because they are confidential should probably learn m
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by travmatt 7y ago
To me, arguing grand juries should work in public just signals a poor understanding of the American legal system - in the purpose of grand juries, the intent behind their design, and what they actually do. Arguing that we need to remove pro
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by travmatt 7y ago
>Then a UK study comes out (PACE) saying patients should engage in activity to help themselves. This only makes the patients worse and eventually so bad that the study was pulled. For those unaware, the PACE study is a famous for exposin
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by travmatt 8y ago
Orin Kerr’s analysis suggests that the charges against him were fairly aggressive and may have strained the language of the laws themselves, it doesn’t appear to be straightforward. Additionally, I imagine a lawyer could well argue that the
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A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union. In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so
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by travmatt 8y ago
“”” The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate caus
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by travmatt 8y ago
They also instituted black codes to ensure that the freedmen couldn’t enjoy the same freedoms as their white counterparts, and give their former slavers the same leverages they had previously. The post war institutions were just slavery wit
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After the civil war the southern states instituted black codes to continue the institutions of slavery.
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It could also occur in the instance that a person is of a different religion then their community, or a person who eats meat in a community of vegans, but we don’t enumerate every possible situation in which leverage over other may be obtai
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by travmatt 8y ago
You’re attempting to move the goalposts. Nobody bucketed LGBTQ people with them, OP specifically said closeted LGBTQ people, meaning those those people for whom forced disclosure of their orientation could potentially form a basis of levera
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It’s not a moral comparison, it’s recognizing that both could lead to situations where the person in question could prize the propriety of said facts above honest execution of their duties. People in debt aren’t morally bad either, but the
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by travmatt 8y ago
People probably don’t use it to question their closely held beliefs. Like me, they probably used it when they had a loosely held opinion that they weren’t sure the validity of.
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by travmatt 8y ago
They’re still the predominant player in the world oil markets, and the leader of OPEC. Oil is too deeply ingrained in the modern economy to seriously consider boycotting them, and even if possible, the resulting economic shock from a succes
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by travmatt 8y ago
Bezos isn’t the only person they were ‘negotiating’ with, the investigative journalist Ronan Farrow maintains that he and another journalist were similarly approached by AMI with promises to not publish stories about them if they agreed to
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by travmatt 8y ago
https://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/how_to_explain_the_kgbs_ama...
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by travmatt 8y ago
That probably contributes, but that can’t be the entire story. A previous post on HN discussed the means by which the soviets excelled at identifying CIA agents working under diplomatic cover - it turns out that American tradecraft was hard
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by travmatt 8y ago
Other people have commented that she used a store bought water filter as well.
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by travmatt 8y ago
AIUI, the Supreme Court only takes cases that require their ruling to clarify interpretations of existing law or a lower correct incorrectly interpreted a law. Denying cert means their is no clarification to be made to existing law, so that
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by travmatt 8y ago
In the book “The Cuckoos Egg”, the author describes how the hacker penetrating his networks was using it to access military networks. That was in the 80’s as well I believe.
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by travmatt 8y ago
Every time I read an article about the continuing progress MAPS has made into using ‘recreational’ drugs to alleviate these terrible afflictions, I can’t help but think of all the people who suffered because this research was demonized and
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by travmatt 8y ago
I’m pretty sure until recently they didn’t even share information that would help protect companies from state level actors.
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Haven’t they been for quite a while though?
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So you’re saying that more people committing violent crimes doesn’t indicate that more people there commit violent crime? I don’t think your example really helps your point at all - more people probably die in Baltimore as a victim of a ran
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by travmatt 8y ago
No, I didn’t miss that part, I just don’t understand what that has to do with which societies have marginally more violence. And I didn’t discount Croatia at all, if you read my comment you’ll notice that I explicitly mention Croatia has lo
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by travmatt 8y ago
If a given place has a higher level of homicide, doesn’t it logically follow that more people there resort to violence as a means to solve problems? Your personal anecdote doesn’t really disprove the actual statistics. Most countries have l

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