Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Gay men in Vancouver are twice as likely as straight men to be victims of violent crime, suggests a study conducted at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. The nine-year study surveyed more than 500 homosexual men to DOCUMENT the rate of physical assaults in Greater Vancouver.Read the ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
n the wake of Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins\\\\\\\' (R-ME) alarmist report, "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat," the Senate may be moving towards passage of the Orwellian "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" (S. 1959).Read the full story
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Lebanon stands on the brink of all-out civil war. A general strike by the leading trade union to protest rising prices and demand an increase in the minimum wage has led to armed conflict between the pro-Western Sunni and Druze-based government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and the Shia-based Hezbollah ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
the man being honored by 500 fellow Cuban Americans at a sold-out gala was Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges and under a deportation order for illegally entering the United States three years ago.Read the full story
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.Read the full story
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
A Paraguayan Indian, who lived without contact with the outside world until 1998, has died of tuberculosis. Survival International has called his life, 'a symbol of the fate of indigenous people in the Americas since Columbus'.Read the full story
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Around Seventy members and supporters from the "the Hawaiian Kingdom Government" occupied the grounds of Iolani Palace on Wednesday, saying the grounds are the property of the "Hawaiian Kingdom." They locked all the gates and barred government workers and the public from entering the area.Read the full story
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) today issued a subpoena to David Addington, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, compelling him to testify before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 26 for any knowledge of harsh interrogation techniques employed at Guantanamo ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional NSL Served on Internet Archive On November 26, 2007, the FBI served a National Security Letter NSL on the Internet Archive, a digital library. The letter sought personal information about one of the Archive s users, including the individual s NAME, address, and any electronic ...
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