BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Six gay men were shot dead by members of their tribe in two separate incidents in the past 10 days, an official with Iraq's Interior ministry said.
In the most recent attack, two men were killed Thursday in Sadr City [...]
By David Sirota
Finally, a little honesty.
A noted New York art dealer has been indicted on charges he stole $88 million from investors and collectors who consigned artwork to him and said they were cheated out of the sale proceeds or never saw the pieces [...]
BEIJING (AP) — Police arrested six monks while 89 others turned themselves in after hundreds of Tibetans attacked a police station and government officials in northwestern China, state media reported.
All but two of the 95 being investigated Sunday were monks, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The [...]
Washington, DC: United States Attorney General Eric Holder reaffirmed yesterday that he will not authorize federal justice resources to target or prosecute medical cannabis users or providers that are compliant with state law.
Holder's statements clarify remarks he made last month when he said that the Justice [...]
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RYAN NAKASHIMA Huff PoLOS ANGELES — The group representing the U.S. recording industry said Friday it has abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright and will work with Internet service providers to cut abusers' access if they ignore repeated [...]
Could Obama's Pro-Marijuana Commerce Secretary Spell a Golden Era for Pot Reform?
By Scott Thill, AlterNet.December has been an interesting month for marijuana, or cannabis as it is known to scientists and all too few others. To kick off the month, the [...]
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Hopefully my co-contributer Cosa Nostradamus will update from time to time.
Peace & Bon Jour.
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McClatchy newspapersAn ancient predecessor to the virus that causes Aids evolved in wild primates many millions of years earlier than previously believed, according to research published yesterday by the Stanford University [...]
Nadler Introduces Resolution Opposing Possible Bush Pardons of His Own Subordinates for Crimes He Authorized
Here's a resolution, hot off the presses from Jerrold Nadler, Chair of the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee: H.RES.1531, "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President [...]
By Sarah Warn, AfterEllen.com
Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes officially came out this weekend, announcing to the estimated crowd of 1,000 gathered in Las Vegas at one of the many rallies for gay rights taking place around the [...]
Via: OpEd News
Ever heard of JBS Swift?
You badly need to.
by Linn Cohen-Cole
I have been attempting to alert liberal urbanites who care about the war in Iraq to the war they are actually losing here. It is not for control [...]
63 years Young and Still(s) Rockin'...
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Where the hell do you start? Neil has been making music since the dawn of [...]
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Video/San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom rants about Prop 8
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By The Associated Press
(Los Angeles, California) Outside the gates of a Mormon [...]
By Karen Ocamb, AlterNet.
Lawyers and marriage equality proponents are calling Proposition 8 illegal, and they may have good legal ground to stand on.
Hundreds of gay people and their allies at the Music Box in Hollywood on Election Night thundered their approval when states such as [...]
McCain: "Senator Obama .... has prevailed, and I pledge tonight to do all in my power to help him lead [...]
Just Kidding, of course...
But I'm not kidding when I say, Get Your Ass Out There & VOTE.
Stole this one from Jim @ Mockingbird's Medley.
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By 365gay Newscenter Staff
(San Francisco, California) They both oppose same-sex marriage, but Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain differ over Proposition 8, the ballot measure that would ban gay marriage in California.
“I’ve stated my opposition to this. I think it’s unnecessary,” Obama told [...]
Will Your Vote Be Safe Tomorrow?
by Steven Rosenfeld, VIA AlterNet
A top GOP consultant will be deposed Monday about the capacities of Ohio Republicans to intercept and alter the 2004 vote count that re-elected Bush.
As [...]
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Part II
by Rob Kall
www.opednews.com
Famous people explain:
BARACK OBAMA: Now is the time. This is the place. This is the chicken and crossing the road will produce the change this chicken wants.
JOHN MC [...]
This Halloween, the powerful lobbyists at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) are trying to scare Washington with horror stories about "white spaces" -- vacant TV channels that can be used to bring high-speed Internet to rural and low-income Americans across the country.
The NAB’s hired guns have bombarded policy [...]
Meeting Myself in Bucks County: Pennsylvania in the Political (and Personal) CrucibleVIA: truthout
by: Robert S. Eshelman, TomDispatch.com
In 1991, at age 17, I fled Bucks County, an overwhelmingly white, working-class region in southeast Pennsylvania where I grew up. I left because the life of [...]
Some Voters Are Going to Have to Lose Their Homes Before They Connect the Dots
By Garrison Keillor, Tribune Media Services. VIA: AlterNet
It's clear that some Americans are beyond persuasion. Thankfully, it seems that most [...]
Why did the chicken cross the road?
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to [...]
by Greg Palast via OpEdNews
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By Lisa Schlein,
Geneva
The Large Hadron Collider is being officially inaugurated despite an electrical failure that has put the world's biggest atom smasher out of business for several months. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from the European Organization for Nuclear Research site that straddles the Swiss-French border near [...]
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http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping [...] By MARK SPENCER, ALAINE GRIFFIN, DANIELA ALTIMARI and BILL LEUKHARDT | Courant Staff Writers
The state Supreme Court's 4-3 decision Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry swept through the state with the force of a cultural tidal wave.
While lead plaintiff Beth Kerrigan and [...]
States' Purges of Voter Rolls Appear Illegal
Ian Urbina, The New York Times: "Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a [...]
From OpEd
This video looks at how both McCain and Obama screwed the American People by signing the "Trillion Dollar Corporate Bailout. Then it explains how the Amero and US Troops on US soil could be signs of the end of America as we know it.
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Recommended by K-wopper VIA - Truthdig:
By Amy Goodman
A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT [...]
by: Joe Garofoli, The San Francisco Chronicle
VIA: TruthOutThe McCain campaign is attempting to do something unheard of in the modern political era. It is not just running against the mainstream media, it is running around it.
This strategy is not [...]
