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Pope To Keep Immunity Against Child Sex Abuse Cases Despite Involvement In Cover Up

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives for his weekly audience in St. Peter’s square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca) (MintPress) – The pope’s resignation is raising questions regarding immunity granted to him in 2010 in cases related to thousands of sexual abuse cases within the church and his alleged […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives for his weekly audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

(MintPress) - The pope’s resignation is raising questions regarding immunity granted to him in 2010 in cases related to thousands of sexual abuse cases within the church and his alleged involvement in a church-sponsored cover-up. The pope’s position was up in the air until it was announced Friday that the pope will remain living in the Vatican,

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Republicans Mess With USPS More Than Once: Eliminating Saturday Deliveries Latest Tactic

Eugene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing about the U.S. Postal Service. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (MintPress) – Not receiving bills or birthday cards in the Saturday mail is perhaps not […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
Jamie Partridge, from the National Association of Letter Carriers, protests Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, in, Portland, Ore. Partridge was one of the postal workers participating in a hunger strike to protest Congress' inaction of aiding the Postal Service. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

(MintPress) - Not receiving bills or birthday cards in the Saturday mail is perhaps not the biggest problem on the minds of Americans in the wake of news that the United States Postal Service (USPS) will halt its weekend operations. Yet some are warning that the erosion of the system will have far-reaching consequences, threatening democracy and

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Cartel Kingpin Is Chicago’s New Public Enemy No. 1

This poster displayed at a Chicago Crime Commission news conference Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Chicago, shows Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, a drug kingpin in Mexico, who was deemed Chicago’s Public Enemy No. 1, It is first time since prohibition, when the label was created for Al Capone, that anyone else has been named Public […]

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بواسطة Associated Press

A drug kingpin in Mexico who has never set foot in Chicago has been named the city's new Public Enemy No. 1 — the same notorious label assigned to Al Capone at the height of the Prohibition-era gang wars. The Chicago Crime Commission announced the move Thursday, saying it considers Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman even more menacing than Capone because

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Sensationalized Manhunt: Exposing LAPD High Crimes Real Reason LAPD Targeted Chris Dorner

A man is arrested by police in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday night July 25, 2012 as police attempt to disperse the unruly crowd. Back-to-back weekend shootings have sparked four days of protests. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Rodriguez) (MintPress) – “I saw some of the most vile things humans can inflict on others as a […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels

(MintPress) - "I saw some of the most vile things humans can inflict on others as a police officer in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the streets of LA. It was in the confounds of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) police stations and shops (cruisers). The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it’s the police

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Colorado Community Sees Third Fracking Spill Within Weeks

Video screen grab of a gas well just north of Windsor, Colo. where a leak of flowback water used in the fracking process spewed greenish-brown frack fluid for nearly 30 hours before being capped earlier this week. (Photo/screen grab of online shared video) (MintPress) – It’s the third spill in weeks for a hydraulic fracturing […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

(MintPress) - It’s the third spill in weeks for a hydraulic fracturing site in Greeley, Colo. Just 1,500 feet from the nearest home, a malfunction in the fracking equipment Monday morning released oil and chemicals used in the process, contaminating more than 84,000 gallons of water. The name of the chemicals were not released. The spill took

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The Unchosen People Of Israel: Ethopian Jews Discrimination Goes Back To The 1980s

Ethopian Jews celebrate the Sigad Festival in Jerusalem in November 1993. (Photo/via Wikimedia) Late this past January a story out of Israel raised disturbing questions about the nature of Israeli democracy and the degree to which Israel can be said to be home for all Jews regardless of race or nationality. In condensed form, the […]

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
بواسطة Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Late this past January a story out of Israel raised disturbing questions about the nature of Israeli democracy and the degree to which Israel can be said to be home for all Jews regardless of race or nationality. In condensed form, the story is this – Ethiopian Jews who have migrated to Israel since the mid-1980s under the Israeli Laws of

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