The Daily Populous

Sunday November 5th, 2017 evening edition

image for The Trump Administration Is Keeping a U.S. Citizen Secretly Locked Up Without Charges

The Trump administration has told the court that it doesn’t have to respect these essential due process rights.

The Pentagon and Justice Department ignored our initial request for access to the U.S. citizen so we could advise him of his rights and offer him the opportunity of legal representation.

We then filed a habeas corpus petition on the citizen’s behalf in federal court in Washington, demanding that the government justify its detention of the unnamed American.

All U.S. citizens have the right to habeas corpus no matter where the government holds them or what it accuses them of.

The government also complains that allowing counsel to have access to the citizen wouldn’t be “easy.”

And for more than 13 years, courts have ensured attorney access to non-citizens imprisoned at Guantanamo, rejecting government attempts to restrict it.

It is also undermining the bedrock guarantees of habeas corpus, which for centuries has served as the greatest check on unlawful government detentions. »

Is shooting fish in a barrel easy?

Authored by discovery.com

Even the author of the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms — a veritable prince of proverbs — didn't know who or where it came from.

Fish are extremely sensitive to the slightest water pressure change thanks to a specialized organ they have called the lateral line, which detects water displacement, force and direction.

The MythBusters calculated that a 9-millimeter gunshot delivers around 100 g-force units of pressure into the barrel. »

Unpaid labourers are 'slipping pleas for help into Zara clothes'

Authored by independent.co.uk

“I made this item you are going to buy, but I didn’t get paid for it,” the notes reportedly read.

The Spanish chain has previously been taken to task for causing environmental damage, ripping off young designers, and overlooking poor factory conditions.

1/22 Opening Ceremony launches jeans which turn into shorts Detachable jeans that turn into shorts are now a thing - but they’ll set you back £346. »

Scotland ‘on target’ for 100% renewable energy by 2020

Authored by irishtimes.com

Scotland is on target to generate all of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, the Citizens’ Assembly has heard.

The Scottish government set a target for 500MW of locally owned energy generation facilities across Scotland by 2020, but has already exceeded this.

Thirty per cent of all energy consumed in Denmark now comes from renewable energy sources. »