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View Article  Why a Norwegian prison stopped its yoga classes

Far from calming its inmates, Ringerike jail found yoga was making them more aggressive.

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View Article  'Three ways to make us all safer'

London Mayor 'Red' Ken Livingstone offers a prescription for reducing the risk of terrorist attacks: Support the police, treat Muslims with respect and end the Iraq occupation.

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View Article  Ethiopian man was nearly the next Jean Charles de Menezes

Check out this horrifying lede from a Guardian story: Girma Belay was in the wrong place at the wrong time. As he sat in a flat in Stockwell, south London, waiting for a friend to bake Ethiopian bread, he was seized at gunpoint by anti-terror police with laser-sighted weapons, forced to strip naked, punched, beaten and humiliated. With the red laser beam blinding him, he heard someone shout, "Take him out."

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View Article  New UK army special forces unit involved in surveillance of London police shooting victim

The Guardian is reporting today that a British army special forces unit was involved in the tracking of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian-born man shot to death by London police when he was suspected of being a suicide bomber.

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