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It's 60 days since the United Nations released a damning report containing 94 complaints against the rights and conditions for over 400 inmates at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
It made seven recommedations to the United States, the first of which was that it should be closed immediately. Most inmates have been held without charge for three and a half years, some have been force fed, some tortured, and all have had either their human rights withdrawn, or have been kept under conditions which break the Geneva Convention.
Remixing of flea market pictures by Banksy.
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POLICE USE PARTY AS EXCUSE TO EARN TRIPLE TIME AT BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND WATCHING PEOPLE DANCE

Police and army have surrounded more than 500 people that are right now (it's 1am) having an "illegal rave" on army land in Epynt in Wales (pictured). I'm so fucking annoyed. I used to go to these things, now I only read about them on the news. Still, they were mostly rubbish.

POPE TELLS AMERICANS: "TOO MUCH WORK MAKES YOU STUPID"

Admittedly a bit rich coming from a man that gets carried around in a chair, but nonetheless advice that the yanks continue to ignore. Pope Benedict told tourists in Rome last week that working too hard leads to a "hardening of the heart" and "suffering of the spirit" as well as a "loss of intelligence".
Meanwhile a survey shows that a record 40% of American workers have no plans to take any holiday in the next six months - more than any time since the 1970s. Unlike almost all other industrialised nations, American employers do not have to give paid holidays.
The average American, including public holidays (which they have plenty) takes less than 4 weeks holiday a year, compared with 6.6 in the UK and 7.9 in Italy. Plus more Americans than ever dont even take their holidays when they are given them, with a total of 574 million holiday days (about 4 each) going unclaimed.
Now that is stupid.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Overall the army was good for Jason" - the mother of 19-year-old Jason Chelsea from Manchester, who, prior to his first tour of duty of Iraq, committed suicide by taking an overdose. His suicide note said he did not want to shoot children, after he was told in training he might have to kill children as young as two in battle.