Guilty of travelling with money
dimanche 19 juillet 2015 à 02:00The TSA found cash in a passenger's luggage, and called the waiting thugs to steal it.
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The TSA found cash in a passenger's luggage, and called the waiting thugs to steal it.
Australian Woman Arrested in Abu Dhabi for 'Bad Words' on Facebook.
Though this involves Facebook, in this case the wrong is on Abu Dhabi's part.
The bottled water lobby has been slowly eliminating water fountains in the US.
A friend pointed out that "spring water" is an inaccurate term for water pumped out of the ground — that is "ground water." If bottled water contains water pumped out of the ground and is labeled "spring water", it is false advertising.
Journalists in Thailand face seven years in prison for accusing military officers of being involved in human trafficking.
I have no facts about this, but it is a pattern known world-wide that smugglers often pay off the officials responsible for stopping smuggling. It happens in the US Border Patrol, for instance. It would be hard for any country to avoid this.
The pretext for this prosecution is that the information threatened national security. That's what governments say about reporting that threatens national embarrassment. Compare this with Australia's ban on disclosing how the state treats refugees and Spain's law against recording what thugs do.
The threat to kill journalists who do not report the "truth", reminds me of Egypt's ban on reporting any sources except official ones.