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[Cain]

Its all bullshit.  The people at the top of the elite both think liberals and conservatives are tools.  And the corporations often back those at the very top (or are owned by them), so regardless of who they are, they wont brook too much criticism.

[Cain]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6558405.stm

Moqtada is "surging" right out of the Iraqi Cabinet, taking six cabinet members with him.

[Cain]

In America, you have the religious retard against abortion crowd.  In the UK, we have conscientiously objecting doctors against abortion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6558823.stm

The problem is serious enough that "within five to seven years, a woman's ability to get an abortion will be more shaped by the service's ability to provide them rather than the state of the law."

[Cain]

Save Small and Independent Publishers

Postal regulators have accepted a proposal from media giant Time Warner that would stifle small and independent publishers in America. The plan unfairly burdens smaller publishers with higher postage rates while locking in special privileges for bigger media companies.

In establishing the U.S. postal system, the nation's founders wanted to ensure that a diversity of viewpoints were available to "the whole mass of the people." Time Warner's rate increase reverses this egalitarian ideal and threatens the marketplace of ideas on which our democracy depends.

It's time stand up for independent media. Demand that Congress step in to stop the unfair rate hikes. The deadline for comments to the Postal Service is fast approaching.

Click here to sign the letter before April 23 to alert Congress and put the Postal Board of Governors on notice.

http://action.freepress.net/campaign/postal

[Cain]

Putting the victim on trial: new UK gun crime policy?

http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2007/04/20/criminalising-the-victim/

It,Äôs Tony Blair,Äôs favourite trope when it comes to the subject of law, order and criminal justice; the suggestion that what is needed to modernise Britain,Äôs approach to criminal justice are measures that ,Äòrebalance,Äô the system in favour of the presumed ,Äòrights of victims,Äô.

But I wonder, on hearing this, just how many people thought that this all too seductive idea might mean turning victims of crime into criminals?

What? Surely not, you might think. Well not only is this being suggested by a senior police officer in today,Äôs Guardian but it already happened - and no one seems to have noticed.

To begin at the beginning, today,Äôs Guardian features an article on gun crime in which the Chief Constable of Merseyside police, Bernard Hogan-Howe, makes the frankly staggering suggestion that witnesses to, and even victims of, gun crime should be subject to criminal proceedings if they refuse to give evidence, even in circumstances where they fear for their life.

[AFK]

That's going from the "long arm" of the law to the "strong arm" of the law.  fun. 

[Cain]

Whats better is that this guy is in the running for Police Commissioner, the top policing job in the country, essentially.

[AFK]

Would he have the authority and power to enact such a thing if he were to become Police Commissioner?

[Cain]

No, but he could recommend it to the Cabinet.  And since they have already passed laws like this for home abuse and violence, they'd likely agree.

[guest7654]

Time Travel

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=92512

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left."  -Einstein

http://www.askquestions.org/details.php?id=9286&gclid=CM_GtYGs2IsCFSKOgQodZ2lzWQ

Least fit monkey?

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18544/

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6584481.stm
Successor to Mikhal "What's-that-on-his-forehead" Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin dead.

Heart surgeons everywhere are shocked.

[Cain]

Vodka producers commit suicide as the worlds second largest market (Yeltsin) collapses.

[Triple Zero]

LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US
Andrew Feldmar. Photo by C. Grabowski.
BC psychotherapist denied entry after border guard googled his work.

http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/23/Feldmar/

this is actually one of the reasons why i'm a bit scared if i ever would want to visit the USA. who knows, i might have done something or i happened to raise a flag somewhere and end up on some list, i arrive at the border and get arrested. ok this guy just got sent back, but there's also the story about the russian guy who published something about the DVD content encryption scheme and he got arrested (even though he didn't commit this "crime" in the USA but in Russia).
i most probably have nothing to worry about, but it still frightens me. is one of the reasons why i decided a few years ago "i'm not gonna go there until things clear up a little" .. heh

[Triple Zero]

Freedom Of Religion Means Freedom For All Of Them

Back in August of 2003 the town fathers of Duchesne, Utah transferred a piece of a town park over to the local Lions Club. The expressed purpose for the transfer was to allow a Ten Commandments monument to remain standing on the 10' by 11' site. The monument had stood in this park for over 25 years. The town also passed an ordinance which banned the erection of any other religious monument in the park. In September of 2003, town fathers heard from the Church of Summum, a 30-year-old religion which espouses that "the voice of wisdom is silent, except to the OPEN MIND."

http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=07/04/19/08263085;cmt=70

[LMNO]

Freedom Of Religion Means Freedom For All Of Them

Back in August of 2003 the town fathers of Duchesne, Utah transferred a piece of a town park over to the local Lions Club. The expressed purpose for the transfer was to allow a Ten Commandments monument to remain standing on the 10' by 11' site. The monument had stood in this park for over 25 years. The town also passed an ordinance which banned the erection of any other religious monument in the park. In September of 2003, town fathers heard from the Church of Summum, a 30-year-old religion which espouses that "the voice of wisdom is silent, except to the OPEN MIND."

http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=07/04/19/08263085;cmt=70

What makes me happy is that Summum is dualist crap.