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the high level of media violence and stops putting the idea of mass murders into the minds of our children. This scenario increases our freedoms, and ensures the chances of media corruption and irresponsability are virtually non-existent. Hey, let's be fair. The media tries to take our second amendment freedoms so I say we ENHANCE freedom of speech by giving it back to the people! The media wants to take our freedoms so we take theirs. That's Fair, Right? Wouldn't you say?


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First and last pages from "The Invader from Hell" story in Batman Family #1, by Elliot S. Maggin and Mike Grell. In their first official team-up, Congresswoman Batgirl and faithful intern Robin save America from the ghost of Benedict Arnold (who is also in league with the devil).
"Whatever we call this immortal evil, we will never fully understand it…Any more than we will understand the true nature of courage, justice, or truth itself…But we must always understand the American ideal and guard that dream bravely so that such forces remain strong!"
Happy Independence Day, America!
Happy Fourth from the Dynamite Duo!

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"Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head." Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
"Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer."
Romans 12:16-21, 13:1-4
I don't post things like this often, I tend to just keep them inside and dwell on them. But tonight, I feel like I need to ask all of us to pray for the leaders of the world. Heavy decisions sit upon their weary shoulders and they need all the help they can get in making the just, honorable and righteous decision. Maybe you don't beleive in God, or a god, or a universal spirit that binds us, all of us, together, but I just watched a video depicting the tragedy of August 21, 2013, and sometimes I just need to hope that things will be set right. That things like that shouldn't happen and when they do the malevolent forces that cause them will face their own wicked fruits. That there is a sense of justice that will win out in the end, and this is my plea for hope. My prayer for justice.
The part that really gets me is that this happens everyday. Maybe not Sarin gas in Syria, but other tragedies brought on by the wickedness of men. Oppression of minorities so ingrained in our behavior that it isn't even recognizable by most of its practitioners, starving children who live three miles away from you, dehumanization of women through violence by their husbands and fathers. When faced with these realities, no amount of scrolling through my Facebook page or Twitter feed can make it dissipate. Everything that I see holds no value, no significant message in seemingly endless cascade of inane posts and updates about your workout regimen or kitten videos or photos of your vacation or pictures of your dinner.
But then I see you laughing on the beach with friends, hugging your children, your parents, your neighbors. Posting pleas for donations to charities that give potable water to those who don't have it, clothes to warm the poor, food to nourish the hungry. I see you supporting, encouraging, and more importantly, living a sustainable lifestyle through patronizing local businesses and belonging to community supported agriculture. Posting random deep thoughts and inside jokes and engaging the world in a humorous, meaningful way.
And maybe that is the message. That I live the life of the beloved, and so do my close friends and family, and in that I may find solace; comfort. It is my hope that if you are reading this, you realize that you are also living the life of the beloved, and that even in the face of unspeakable horror you hold out hope to shine on those like me who need it when the world feels so bleak and those for whom the world appears to be much, much bleaker.


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SS+ milk with coffee and tea , do you find the milk changes weight loss ?
I am on 3 packs and 200ml of milk. Today is only Day 4 but I am in ketosis :-)
Not sure about the rate of weight loss but from what I have been reading SS & SS+ are about the same.
Good luck!
I have been doing SS + for 10 weeks now, i have milk in 2 (prob 3 cups a day) and an evening meal of protein and veg with my 3 packs. I have lost 2st 8lb
Oh that's good to know! Can you switch between SS and SS+? I sometime would like a meal to eat with my family but not every night.....
Also, I'm a restarter and this is day 5 for me - again
Hi I think you are ok to do that as long as ss+ is the maximum you have I.e no more than ss+ allowances. I have been having 3 packs a day some days and adding skimmed milk some days and other days I have 4 packs. But the most I ever would have is 4 packs and the milk allowance! But what do I know I'm only on day 19! But works so far
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Tekken 6 features bigger stages with more interactivity than its predecessors such as walls or floors that can be broken to reveal new fighting areas. The character customization feature has been enhanced, and certain items have implications in some aspects of gameplay.
A new "rage" system has been added, giving characters more damage per hit when their vitality is below a certain point. Once activated, a reddish energy aura appears around the character, and their health bar starts to flicker in red. The rage aura can be customized with different colors and effects to appear like fire, electricity, ice, among others. Another gameplay feature added is the "bound" system. Every character has several moves that, when used on an opponent that is currently midair in a juggle combo, will cause the opponent to be smashed hard into the ground, bouncing them off the floor in a stunned state and leaving them vulnerable to another combo or additional attack. As of the Bloodline Rebellion update, successfully parrying a low attack will also put a character into a bound state.
The console versions (excluding the PSP version) also include an extra mode entitled "Scenario Campaign" which bears similarities with the "Tekken Force" and "Devil Within" modes from previous installments. In this mode, the player can move freely in an environment similar to that of a third-person role-playing game. Players can also pick up weapons such as poles and gatling guns, along with lootable items, money, and power-ups which can be found inside crates that are scattered all throughout the playing environment. Players can move freely between fights, but when a group of enemies are encountered, the gameplay switches to the traditional, two-dimensional Tekken style. This mode originally only had single player offline. Namco released a patch on January 18, 2010 that allows online Co-op mode for Scenario Campaign.
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Miyazaki repetitive background. I did this for my tumblr background (it can repeat and flow nicely because the edges link back to each other). I'm gonna set it up soon.
You can use it too (for personal websites only though!), but please don't erase the watermarks and please have a link where it credits and links back to either my dA or my tumbr! thanks!
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High-yield chart of the day
Bespoke Investment Group serves up this chart:
It seems as though while the high-grade bond market has responded to increased demand with massive amounts of new issuance, the high-yield market — which is still pretty much closed to new issuance — has responded with lower spreads. That's a much healthier response: it means that writers of credit protection might have now emerged from technical insolvency, while total leverage continues to fall as debts are paid down and little new debt is issued.
High-yield markets were always going to take a while to come back in vogue, after blowing up twice (the first blow-up was the implosion of Drexel in the late 1980s). But the fact that there's still demand for these instruments, as indicated by the chart, just goes to show how short memories are in this market.
Why shouldn't there be demand for high-yield bonds?. It's all a matter of promised return vs. perceived risk.
Those who bet that perceived risk was way too high have been rewarded handily as that contraction of spreads in your graphs reflecta an equally impressive rally in bond prices.
And let's not forget that all along the way these bonds were accruing interest also.
Is the risk/reward relationship as enticing at this point? No. But there's still room to run. I'm not buying much here, but I'm not selling either!
High yield bond issuance for the first half of 2009 was $59 bn. Annualized, that is a bit higher than the average annual issuance of the past five years. Not stunning, of course, but I would not characterize it as 'closed.' The leveraged loan is another story.


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Less than two weeks removed from the event, the UFC on Fox 2 fight card has undergone a major change. Chael Sonnen will now face Michael Bisping in the co-main event with Mark Munoz falling off the card due to injury.
UFC president Dana White announced the change Tuesday afternoon.
"Munoz is injured and out of the FOX fight!" White tweeted. "Now it's Chael Sonnen vs Mike Bisping jan 28th and the winner will fight Anderson for the title."
The UFC had been planning on the winner of Sonnen vs. Munoz to face Silva for the title, likely at a stadium-sized event in June in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The winner between Michael Bisping and Damian Maia, which was to be the third fight of a triple-header on Fox, would then be the next in line.
The change-up keeps Rashad Evans vs. Phil Davis at the top of the UFC on Fox 2 fight card with Sonnen vs. Bisping as the co-headliner. UFC officials, however, at the time of publication, did not know what fight or if a third fight would be slotted into the mix on Fox.
Saying that all the shuffling had happened just prior to White releasing the information, the promotion had not yet determined a new opponent for Maia, or what other direction the card might take with Munoz's absence, aside from pitting Sonnen vs. Bisping.
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Both Sonnen and Bisping are known for their gift of gab, and it didn't take long for the UFC to encourage Bisping and Sonnen to put their gifts on display.
"Chael Sonnen's best weapon is his mouth, and that's something that's going to be absolutely useless in this fight," he said via UFC's official Twitter account. "I see a very bright future for Chael Sonnen as a used car salesman, very soon."
That was followed by Sonnen's retort. "I am going to knock the teeth out of this snot nosed Brit who calls himself royalty, who calls himself a Count. I am MMA royalty and America will tune into the Chael Sonnen show next Saturday on FOX."
The verbal jabs between the two are likely to reach a fever pitch rather quickly.
Stay tuned to MMAWeekly.com as the UFC on Fox 2 situation progresses.
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I dislike both of them….it's a win/loose outcome
Lopsided ground and pound decision for Sonnen. But hey, I have no problem watching bisbing get beat up for 15 minutes.
Bisbing has good take down defense hes fought better wrestlers with hammil and evans.
I made an account just so i could flame the ***************************************** comment. Lets see here, Hamil wrestled for a Div 3 school, Evans had a mediocre run in a Div 1 School (Michigan state). Chael wrestled in a Div 1 school had a good record, wrestled greco roman, and was an olympic alternate in freestyle wrestling. Some people i swear…
You forgot to mention that Bisping fought Rashad and Hamill at 205. I know that doesn't make their wrestling technique any better but I think it matters in MMA. Sonnen will get submitted, he is really good at tapping out, usually to the brown people he despises so much.
Effin idiot
HAHAHA You know nothing. Bisping will not win this fight. Period. We will get taken down, and his face pounding in until the ref stops him at the end of each round. Ask Stann what happened to him in their fight and what he said afterwards…
Bisping isn't even in the same league with Stann. Good try though buddy.
Is there a way they can both lose? Thats a whole lot of stupid things coming out of their mouths all in one place.
I'm hoping for one of these:
Any chance to see Bisping get beat up for free is a good night in my book, even if it is from Sonnen
I don't like all of Sonnens talk but he backs that talk up in my book! Chael is gonna Absolutly destroy Bisping!! I think Stann could beat Bisping! I think Chael gets the finish !!
What a bold prediction!!! Sonnen will get submitted in the second round.
I agree. Sonnen backs his trash talk up. He beats up top fighters even if he eventually loses by a flash submission, he prove he is that good. Bisping however hasn't backed it up against a top fighter ever. Anytime he gets close he gets KTFO, or jus whooped. Evans, Henderson, then an over the hill Wandy. He will have to back it up with impressive style to be considered top ten.
Plus Sonnen is hilarious where Bisping is jus annoying.
I know it's a free card, but I would pay a lot of money to see this fight, if I was guaranteed a double knockout, and they both end up in a coma. Maybe Brock can come back and jump in the ring with a steel chair and smash both of them.
Michael has never been submitted idk if I seen him tapping out
Awesome! This is a better fight.
This is a better fight than Evans vs Davis!
Ppl talk about Bispings fantastic takedown defense. Refresh my memory, who took him down and held him down in the first round last fight…… Oh that right Mayhem Miller. Yeah he must be Olympic caliber to take Bisping down. Yeah he got worked after gassing. Hamill better wrestler than Chael. Laugh. You think Hamill can take Silva down and control him. Only one other person has controlled Silva on the ground like Chael, and that's Henderson. Save Hendo did it one round where Chael did it for four and a half rounds. Lisping won't be able to stop the takedowns of Sonnen.
Cool, this is the fight many of us wanted anyway. I hope Sonnen destroys him.
They are both overrated. They are both douchebags. Who has been submitted 8 times? Who has never beat a top five fighter? Sonnen will probably beat Bisping and then will lose again to Anderson Silva, a real champion and someone with class. Not just some cracker that a bunch of fat white Americans like to cheer for because they go to the same tea-party rallies.
Ohhh, now it makes sense…cracker, fat white americans…
Are you perhaps…racist(Brazilian) by any chance? Well, I'm white, not fat, and I'm not particularly fond of crackers so piss off.
Haha, I am racist, and I am not Brazilian. I am white. I don't like stupid white trash like Chael Sonnen. He's a hypocrite. He "talks" about being a real man and bla bla bla. Then he gets caught cheating in the biggest fight of his life, and still loses. Then gets busted for money laundering. He's a loser.
Piss off, thats a British saying right?
That "loser" is laughing all the way to the bank. The more you talk about him, the more money you put in his pocket and he thanks you for it.
I don't think Chael ever laughs, he has a stick too far up his ass for that. But you are unfortunately correct, I've been to a couple of his fights, so he has made money off of me. Luckily I got to see him get submitted by Filho and Jeremy Horn.
Frequent trips to the bank is not an eraser for being a loser. Nor is it an excuse.
"bbtakayama" – Congratulations, you are officially the biggest idiot to ever post on this site.
@Maddawg Mayhem did take Bisping down in the first round, held him there with a leg triangle, and did NO DAMAGE. I hate Bisping but I am definitely rooting for him in this fight. Sonnen is garbage, he's MMA royalty? Jester maybe. It's easy to hold a man down when you have testosterone levels 17 times higher than normal and 4 times higher than the maximum allowed for an athlete….and still get submitted.
@bbtakayama I'm hoping for the same.
Sonnen will wrestle Bisping down, again and again. Bisping doesn't have enough power to catch sonnen with a KO. Sonnen will pull off a decision win, there is no doubt.
Of course testosterone is directly related to takedown ability. God damn you guys are retarded. Bisping doesn't have a prayer save Sonnen slipping on the piss that trickled out of Bisping's pants on the way to the cage.
BAHAHAHA – no kidding right?!? People who say Sonnen was on "roids" & still lost, WTF does that even mean? So, people who take roids ALWAYS have & WILL win?!? UGHHH NO!
I like the "slipping on Bispings piss…" – priceless!
I think Chael wins but I'm not counting Bisping out or overlooking the guy.
A lot of people write Bisping off as a knee jerk reaction mainly because of how much they dislike the guy. He's a good fighter and that needs to be respected.
All people can say is he cheated. Yes he tested positive, but he demolished Silva in everyway. Stand up takedown and ground game. He was stupid and got caught. I'm not making excuses. But you think that Cyborg would have lost if she didn't take steroids. He'll no she still was gonna win. Aggression doesn't equal skill. Sonnen will show everyone and silence his critics when he beats Bisping and then beats Silva. We are at a crossroad in MMA. Started with Edgar then went to Velasquez and Dos Santos, Jones now the middle weight classes are gonna start to change over. Silva first then GSP, time for the new class to take over gents. Jus wait and see.
If you think a 34 year old with a 26-11-1 record is part of the new class, or is part of the next generation of fighters, then you are even dumber than me. If anything he can be the Antonio Tarver of the UFC, and that will be his legacy, if he's lucky enough to beat Anderson.
People peak at different times in there career. Look at Belfort. He's been fighting for ten plus years. Yet he is the best he's ever been. After losses to people who he would decimate now. Chael has hit his stride, and he is going to be hard to stop. Even if he is a Tarver type, he changes the guards. That is what I mean by new class, fighters that have jus reached top tier. Some are young and some are older but the reigning pfp kings are gonna have tougher times beating these guys. Overeem is another great example ten years plus fighting and he is jus recently found his right weight and strength for his skills. Watch a change over is gonna happen. I think WW and LW are the closest divisions with the most fighters vying for the top spot. MW is not far off. Interesting couple of years are ahead of us.
Sweet, now we are talking. Vitor is probably one of the most underrated fighters,, longevity, how he wins, and if you look at who he has lost to, and take into consideration the things he has been thru in his personal life… LW is the deepest division by far, I am stoked to see Smooth get a shot at the title… It is just a matter of time before Anderson loses… I can't wait to see GSP lose, so I can stay awake during WW title fights… Sonnen is good, until he shows me he knows how to defend the most basic jiu-jitsu moves, then I will think of him a little more highly. And if he stops being so white
a lot of people cheering for the underdogs these days…. i bet a lot of the people who thought johnson was gonna win think bisping has even the slightest chance in this fight. he's a good fighter but thats why he's not in with the elite at MW, he's only good.
bbtakayama your a tool and We the fat white people tribe don't welcome you any longer, actually we never did, its just that we didn't want to hurt your precious little fat feelings. See everyone knows you used to be fat but then you had enough and started to curb your diet and buy one of those jerk off shaking weights. So now you piss on the only people who really ever tolerated you.
Btw, I just talked to Chief Cracker and he agrees that even though your no longer physically fat your brain still is. Fatty!
I feel like something I said upset you. Lets go to Applebee's and talk about it. They have those new under 6,000 calorie meals right?
I honestly hope…. BISPIG gets his ass handed to him… Id pay money to see all of england see him get knocked the fock out on national tv….
Some of you guys are a little too emotionally involved here. LOL
Agreed. There's more entertainment value in these replies than there is interest in some of the articles…
poor bisping
Bisping is a quality fighter, but Chael Sonnen will take him down over, and over, and over again with ease. I liked the Munoz fight better because at least he would have brought it more.
Chael via Decision.
Any word on Munoz' injury? Any chance they pulled Munoz and gave Chael an opponent where the outcome is slightly more favorable so as not to burn the money maker that is Sonnen – Silva II?
Tinfoil hat time…
I was going to stay out of the pissing contest, but I just couldn't.
I do love how people are still describing Chanel's attempt to actuall finish Anderson as a stupid move.
He was in a fight for over 20 min on the ground with his head glued to his chest. Sees the fight coming to an end and thought "maybe I should take a minute and posture up, so I can have a little power." I was disappointed he didn't try to hurt Anderson earlier. He acted like a fighter for a minute, and lost. I give the guy credit for trying to do what he said he'd do. Even though he was only going to try for about a minute.
Sonnen is a clear favorite over bisbing. It's not that bisbing can't win, but he's not suppose to. It's not even that sonnen is that great of a wrestler, but he bum rushes, and doesn't stop. It's like a linebacker going after a quarterback. Their pedigree of wrestling isn't really important since Chael isn't exactly going out there trying to out maneuver anyone. It's effective though. That's why chaels a favorite.
Disagree, Chael had some pretty solid ground & pound on Silva, including a ton of vicious elbows. That fight was far from boring. Unlike GSP, Fitch & Woodley, that is the type of ground & pound most of us would like to see from wrestlers.
I'm not a huge Sonnen fan, but he really impressed me in that fight, and he backed-up all his trash talk. I believe Silva is scared to step in the octagon with him again. I applaud him for locking in that triangle armbar in the 23rd minute of the fight. Impressive considering he lost the first four rounds decisively.
The sport you're looking for is boxing Mike. Anybody that considers the Sonnen/Silva fight as anything less than a war should be watching boxing. Look it up, watch it again, think about what you watched, and if you still think Sonnen only fought for 1 min, then at the risk of sounding repetitive, boxing is a better suit for you.
Now I've seen your comments all over this site before, so I would be shocked if you didn't come back with a somewhat condescending reply to this, but my point that I'm trying to get across is that wrestling is a major part of MMA, deal with it.
I hope Pigsbing gets pounded into a greasy smear on the floor.
Bisping loses. Which brings us one more fight closer to seeing that dancer get off of the top ten list. Though I sure would like to see Silva destroy him.
So now Sonnen risks his career in a second loss to Silva. That's if he stands by his own words.
I can't wait for Sonnen to call Silva out after he beats Bisping, saying it is yet another title defense for him, because he is the true champion of the MW division.
I think you mean the "Peoples" champion….lol
Are you serious? Let's see how he does against silva at 100% I don't know why people can't understand that the doctor's started that he should call off the fight even Dana asked if he wanted to postpone the fight but did he no and he still won he did get wrestled to the mat for 4 rounds but let's see if he can do it again in June….
LMFAO – Okay, are you saying Sonnen will not be able to get Silva to the ground?!? It's not a question of if, its a question of how long?!? I'd like to know how Silva will somehow prevent Sonnen from taking him down at will, considering Silva did such a "GREAT" job in their first fight. Dont give me some BS answer like Silva was hurt, every fighter fights hurt, its MMA – deal with it!
I will buy this fight just to see Bisping get his ass kicked. I am no Sonnen fan, but I certainly hope he destroys Bisping.
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i first heard of this band on the cure tribute album last year, with their rendition of the classic "close to me" and they registered on my brain like a highly contagious highly resilient idea (you get the reference, i hope). with a simple beat simple slow leads and that all resounding grazing sound, it was both profound, haunting delicate yet simple. im just mesmerized on how it uplifts my spirits on down days given how slow and down it sounds. it has been in my player since and never left.
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Wild eclecticism doesn't necessarily equal bad record, as Janelle Monáe most recently argued with her taxonomy breaching and brilliant The ArchAndroid. But to make a record that won't wear out its welcome by the end of track one takes a certain amount of taste and self-restraint. Not surprisingly, Tongue's more effective tracks, such as "Real Low Riders", are its relatively discerning ones. Propelled by a powerful little drum riff and a catchy pop melody that LoBue interprets with mournful understatement, "Nine O'Clock in France" is the best song here— even if the progressive instrumental pileup makes its ending less satisfying than its beginning. But I guess we were warned: True to its title, House of Tongues is a tower of Babel.
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Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to seven years in jail for sex with under-age prostitute at 'bunga bunga' party
A Milan court on Monday convicted former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of paying for sex with an underage prostitute during infamous "bunga bunga" parties at his villa and then using his influence to try to cover it up.
Berlusconi, 76, was sentenced to seven years in prison and barred from public office for life — a sentence that could mean the end of his two-decade political career. However, there are two more levels of appeal before the sentence would become final, a process that can take months.
Berlusconi holds no official post in the current Italian government, but remains influential in the uneasy cross-party coalition that emerged after inconclusive February elections. (Photos: Alberto Lingria, Giuseppe Aresu / AFP / Getty Images)
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Dozens of defendants are due to go on trial at the Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday in what is billed as one of the biggest political corruption scandals in the country's recent history.
The case will be closely watched by the governing Workers' Party (PT) and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who remains a key figure in Brazilian politics.
The judges will consider allegations that, between 2003 and 2005, politicians and officials diverted public funds to buy political support for Lula's government. The scheme became known as "mensalao" or the "big monthly" allowance.
BBC Brasil explains the background.
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Three members of the Russian band Pussy Riot appear at a Moscow court where they are on trial for hooliganism. The band performed a 'punk prayer' in Moscow's main cathedral in protest against Vladimir Putin's return as president. The charges could carry a punishment of up to seven years in prison
(Source: Guardian)
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Argentina's Videla and Bignone guilty of baby theft
Two former leaders during Argentina's military rule have been found guilty of overseeing the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners.
A court in Buenos Aires sentenced Jorge Videla to 50 years in prison and Reynaldo Bignone to 15 years.
They are already serving lengthy jail sentences for crimes committed under military rule, between 1976 and 1983.
At least 400 babies are thought to have been taken from their parents while they were held in detention centres.
The verdict is the culmination of a trial that began in February 2011.
In total, 11 people, most of them former military and police officials, were facing charges.
Nine, including Videla and Bignone, were convicted in the case over the theft of 34 babies. Two were found not guilty.
Videla, 86, received the maximum sentence as he was held criminally responsible for 20 of the thefts.
The court said Videla was guilty of the "systematic abduction, detention and hiding of minors under the age of 10".
Videla listened to the verdict without showing any visible emotion. Both he and Bignone were already serving time in prison.
Videla was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2010 for the torture and deaths of 31 dissidents during his rule.
Bignone was also given a life sentence in April 2011 for the torture and murder of political opponents.
Victims' groups nevertheless welcomed the latest verdicts as a confirmation of the defendants' guilt for what many consider as the most heinous crimes committed under military rule.
Pictured: Jorge Videla (l) and Reynaldo Bignone (r) showed no emotion when the verdicts were read
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Four guilty of Danish plot over Muhammad cartoons
Four men have been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Danish court which found them guilty of planning a terrorist attack on newspaper offices.
The court heard the men wanted to kill people in revenge for Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
The four were all Muslims resident in Sweden. Police said they were arrested just hours before the foiled attack.
All the men had denied charges of terrorism against them.
The Copenhagen-based newspaper's publication of the cartoons of Muhammad sparked protests in Muslim countries.
Pictured: The trial of the four men took place in Glostrup, outside the capital Copenhagen
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Abuse claims swamp Kazakh oil riot trial
On a near empty square surrounded by drab apartment buildings, the setting for Kazakhstan's most important trial is low key.
The court room itself is housed in a youth centre in the regional capital, Aktau. It holds around 150 people, but that is not enough given the unprecedented interest in proceedings.
The defendants are squeezed into a corner behind panels of security glass. Relatives, observers and journalists occupy two additional rooms to watch proceedings on television screens.
For seven weeks this has been the scene of a remarkable drama in which one defendant after another told the court how they had been abused during interrogation.
"I was repeatedly suffocated with a plastic bag… you cannot imagine how it feels when there is not enough air to breath, my eyes were popping out," 46-year-old Roza Tuletayeva, a former oil worker, told the court on 16 April.
"They hung me by my hair… There were other things done to me but I am too ashamed to talk about it here."
Roza is one of 37 people charged with organising or supporting mass unrest in the desert oil town of Zhanaozen last December. Most of the accused are former oil workers.
Last May, several thousand of them went on strike demanding fair pay. But local courts declared the strike illegal and the state oil company dismissed almost 1,000 employees.
The sacked oil workers began a peaceful occupation of the town square, day and night, for seven months.
It ended violently on 16 December 2011 - when local government officials tried to organize celebrations for the 20th Independence Day anniversary on the same square.
Rioting broke out and security forces opened fire, killing at least 15 unarmed civilians and injuring nearly 100.
The day - meant to celebrate the achievements of oil rich Kazakhstan two decades after the end of the Soviet Union - came to signify the biggest challenge for the leadership of long-time President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Pictured: Witnesses at the trial in Aktau complained of abuse by the police
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Charles Taylor verdict: 'He should taste the bitterness of the law'
People in Sierra Leone and Liberia say what the imminent verdict in the ex-president's war crimes trial will mean
The start of the rainy season in Freetown doesn't dampen the vibrancy of the city. Blue, pink and green houses line its narrow winding roads. Street sellers wrapped in brightly printed cloth swarm through the neverending traffic. People are trying to move on from the horrors of Sierra Leone's civil war. Some can even forgive, but very few can forget, the death and devastation of one of the most brutal conflicts in Africa.
"I wasn't a beggar before. Now I have come to be a beggar. Just to get food for my children, to send them to school," says Kadiatu Fofana, who lives with a constant reminder of the atrocities committed in the war. She sits outside her concrete shack in a wheelchair, having lost both her legs after an attack by the notorious Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.
They came to her village in 1999. As she ran, they started hacking at her legs with machetes. Both legs had to be amputated in hospital.
Between 1991 and 2002, at least 50,000 people were killed across the country, thousands more were mutilated and 2 million displaced from their homes – close to half the population.
For many, there is one man they hold responsible – Charles Taylor, former president of neighbouring Liberia. The first African head of state to be tried in an international court, Taylor will on Thursday hear the verdict of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in his five-year trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers.
Edward Conteh, another of Sierra Leone's amputees who lost his left arm just below the elbow to an RUF axe, wants Taylor punished. "He should never be free to breathe the free air that we breathe again. He once told Sierra Leoneans that we are going to taste the bitterness of war, so Charles Taylor should taste the bitterness of the law."
Pictured: Charles Taylor during his trial at the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown. Photograph: Jerry Lampen/AFP/Getty Images
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Turkey's ex-army chief on trial for coup plot
Ilker Basbug is among 29 accused of being part of shadowy group plotting to overthrow government.
Ilker Basbug, Turkey's former army chief, has gone on trial on charges of leading a terrorist group accused of plotting to overthrow the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister.
Basbug raised a clenched fist and waved to supporters as the trial opened at the Silivri high security prison complex in Istanbul on Monday.
Basbug, chief of staff from 2008 to 2010, is accused of being a leader of a shadowy network dubbed "Ergenekon", behind a string of alleged plots against the Erdogan government.
His lawyer, however, said at the weekend, the case targeted not only Basbug but also "the Turkish armed forces and even, in political terms, the state".
"This is perhaps the longest and most seismic operation in Turkish judicial history," Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught, reporting from Istanbul, said.
"It dates back to 2007 when the Turkish government said they had uncovered evidence of a shadowy organisation called Ergenekon, which had been plotting for several years and in many ways and forms in collaboration with the Turkish military and judiciary to overthrow the democratically elected government of Turkey."
She said the resulting arrests, trials and detentions "have continued to climb up the ladder of seniority in Turkey until finally they reached the man who headed the Turkish armed forces between 2008 and 2010".
Basbug branded the case against him as tragi-comic when he was first detained in January. "He calls it psychological warfare," our correspondent said.
Pictured: The "Ergenekon" network is said to have been behind the alleged plots against Erdogan's government [Reuters]
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Ex-paramilitaries jailed for Guatemala massacre
Five former members of right-wing Guatemalan paramilitaries have been sentenced to a total of 7,710 years in jail for their role in a 1982 massacre.
The men were charged with guiding the army to Plan de Sanchez, a rural community in northern Guatemala, and taking part in the ensuing massacre.
Many of the victims were women and children.
Nearly a quarter of a million people were killed in Guatemala's civil war which ran from 1960 to 1996.
Judge Jazmin Barrios set a sentence of 30 years for each of the 256 victims of the former paramilitaries, plus 30 years for crimes against humanity.
However Judge Barrios said that the five men would only have to serve 50 years each - the maximum sentence allowed under Guatemalan law.
The massacre at Plan de Sanchez was one of 600 documented by a United Nations Truth Commission.
Pictured: The men will only serve 50 years each, the maximum allowed by Guatemalan law
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Court convicts former Congolese warlord of using child soldiers
REPORTING FROM JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — The International Criminal Court in the Hague on Wednesday found former Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga guilty of using children as soldiers, the first verdict in the panel's 10-year history. He could face life imprisonment.
After a three-year trial, the court convicted Lubanga of recruiting boys and girls as soldiers during a civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002 and 2003.
The verdict was seen as a major breakthrough in forcing warlords and politicians to be accountable for atrocities and crimes against humanity, sending a message that international justice eventually would catch up with them.
Three victims gave evidence during the trial, while others participated indirectly, such as by making submissions to the court. The evidence said girls forcibly recruited by Lubanga were used as sex slaves, while videos aired in court showed Lubanga surrounded by child combatants.
The verdict sent a clear message that recruiting and using children as combatants or sex slaves is a crime against humanity. Tens of thousands of children continue to be used in wars across the continent, according to humanitarian agencies.
Pictured: Photo: Former Congolese rebel commander Thomas Lubanga, center, sits in a courtroom at the International Criminal Court in the Hague on Wednesday. Credit: Evert-Jan Daniels / EPA
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Guatemala Dos Erres massacre soldier given 6,060 years
A court in Guatemala has sentenced a former soldier to 6,060 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 201 people during the civil war.
Pedro Pimentel Rios, 55, was extradited from the US last year.
He is the fifth former soldier to be convicted for the killings in the village of Dos Erres in 1982.
The sentence is largely symbolic as the maximum actual term is 50 years but it comes amid renewed moves to try those implicated in civil war atrocities.
The massacre at Dos Erres was one of the most violent episodes in Guatemala's brutal 36-year civil conflict.
A special unit of the Guatemalan army known as the Kaibiles stormed the village where they suspected residents were supporting or sheltering left-wing guerrillas.
Over three days, the soldiers systematically killed hundreds of men, women and children, shooting or bludgeoning them to death and throwing bodies down a well.
Pimentel had lived in California for many years before being arrested in 2010, and extradited to Guatemala the following year.
He denied any involvement in the massacre.
Pimentel was sentenced to 30 years for each death and another 30 years for crimes against humanity.
Last year, four other soldiers were also convicted of the Dos Erres massacre and given similar sentences.
Pictured: Pimentel was involved in one of the most shocking episodes of the civil war
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Geir Haarde, whose trial began this week, could face up to two years in jail if convicted over country's 2008 economic collapse
On a low hill overlooking Reykjavik's harbour the members of a small camera crew wrapped in many layers of winterwear are wrestling with the horizontal snow in an attempt to film a short comedy sketch. The set-up of the skit, one explains, involves "a bum, he lives in the park and he is trying to sell tickets at crazy high prices for the show".
The show in question is taking place in a nearby white building, and the joke turns on the fact that, three and a half years after what is known here simply as The Crash, Icelanders have learned the hard way that you can't, after all, value something worthless simply by naming your price, and then adding zeroes.
That's not to say that what is taking place inside the white building – Reykjavik's Culture House – is not, in its own way, a hot ticket.
In a smart wood-panelled former library on the first floor a special criminal court has been convened for the first time in the country's history. Its purpose is to try the former Icelandic prime minister Geir Haarde over the spectacular economic collapse in October 2008 which catastrophically bankrupted the small island nation.
Haarde, 60, is to date the only politician anywhere in the world to face criminal charges over the financial crisis. The charges, which he denies, include "serious neglect of his duties … in the face of major perils looming over Icelandic financial institutions and the state treasury, a danger he knew of, or should have known of".
If convicted he could face up to two years in prison.
Pictured: Geir Haarde just before his resignation as Iceland's prime minister in January 2009. He is now being tried over his alleged role in the country's financial collapse. Photograph: Ints Kalnins/Reuters
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Life term for Cambodia Khmer Rouge jailer Duch
Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court has rejected an appeal by Khmer Rouge jailer Duch and increased his sentence to life imprisonment.
Duch, born Kaing Guek Eav, was jailed in 2010 for his role in running a notorious prison where thousands of inmates were killed.
He had appealed on the grounds that he was a junior official following orders.
But judges rejected his claim and increased his sentence from 35 years to life.
Duch - the first senior Khmer Rouge official to face charges before the court - was convicted of crimes against humanity in July 2010. He appealed against the verdict in March 2011.
The 69-year-old was the commander of Tuol Sleng prison, where at least 15,000 men, women and children deemed enemies of the regime were tortured and then executed in "killing fields" outside Phnom Penh.
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REPORTING FROM SAN SALVADOR — Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator of Guatemala who oversaw one of the nation's bloodiest periods, will stand trial on genocide charges and other crimes stemming from a 36-year civil war.
Photo: Relatives of massacre victims from the Mayan Ixil ethnic group gather in a Guatemala City courthouse on Thursday to hear charges against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. Credit: Moises Castillo / Associated Press