- 2012 Debate Audiences: A TributeLast night's debate in Jacksonville, Fla., will be the last one until the end of February. (We hope, anyway!) Since May, candidates have come and gone, just about every media organization has had at least one crack at hosting, and this moveable feast of the same set of questions being asked over and over again has gone all across the country.But as we t […]
- Vanessa Bryant, Lisa Gastineau Joining 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills'?The search to mix up the cast of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" has led flocks of fabulous and rich housewives to casting calls. However, one person producers are very interested in meeting is Kobe Bryant's ex-wife, Vanessa Bryant. "She would made a great addition to the cast," one insider told me. "She is now single and […]
- Newt Gingrich Under Fire From Conservative MediaNEW YORK (AP) — Forget the so-called liberal media. Right now Newt Gingrich's most ardent critics are conservative pundits and columnists, many of whom have launched aggressive campaigns to discredit him and trip up his run for the Republican nomination. This crew has largely been lukewarm about Gingrich's chief rival, Mitt Romney, considering him […]
- Praying For New Orleans, One Block At A TimeBy Bruce NolanReligion News ServiceNEW ORLEANS (RNS) Millie Campbell slipped the transmission into reverse and backed her blue Chevrolet away from her spotless brick home. "Oh God," she said, "we thank you for the blood of Jesus."Read More... More on Prayer and Meditation […]
- 'Man On A Ledge' The Latest In Hollywood's Populist EmbraceIt's being marketed as an action-packed, high-wire thriller that offers nothing more complicated than a brief escape from the mid-winter doldrums. But "Man on a Ledge," opening this weekend, has more on its mind than adrenaline. It's actually the latest entry in a recent wave of big-budget features spreading a timely message of get-back-a […]
- 20 Youngest Power Women Of 2011This year, Forbes' 100 most powerful women in the world range in age from 25 (Lady Gaga) to 85 (Queen Elizabeth II) and have an average of 54 years under their belts. But these women prove that power can be attained well before middle age. With ages calculated as of August 24, 2011, the following represent the youngest female influencers from around the […]
- Egyptians march to honour 'Friday of Rage'Thousands gather in Cairo one year after uprising, as US urges military rulers to lift travel ban for NGO workers. […]
- Putin critic barred from Russia electionsElection commission disqualifies liberal challenger Grigory Yavlinsky from March presidential ballot. […]
- Nigeria's Jonathan open to Boko Haram talksPresident says government will engage in "dialogue" if group identifies itself and submits down clear demands. […]
- Owner of capsized Italian ship offers payoutSurvivors of wrecked cruise liner would receive cash plus travel costs in exchange for dropping future lawsuits. […]
- Syria activists report 'massacre' in HomsHead of Arab League mission says violence is rising "in a significant way" ahead of UN Security Council meeting. […]
- Dozens dead in Baghdad blastA bomb explosion during a funeral procession in the Iraqi capital has killed at least 32, including four women. […]
- As Private Prisons Enrich Lawmakers, Florida Legislature Pushes Massive Prison Privatization PlanLast year, a Florida judge struck down Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) plan to privatize much of the state’s prison system because of a flaw in the way it was enacted. Nevertheless, Florida lawmakers are now reviving this ill-conceived plan: Dozens of correctional officers shouted “Shame! Shame!” as the Senate Budget Committee voted Wednesday to revive […]
- Federal Judge Finds Same-Sex Long-Term Care Ban UnconstitutionalU.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken says she will likely overturn an aspect of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that excludes California state employees who are in same-sex domestic partnerships from receiving federal tax benefits related to long-term health coverage as the law appears to be “motivated by antigay animus”. In a written statement, Wilken […]
- Analysts: ‘Positive First Step’ In Flattening Proposed Increases To Pentagon Budget, But ‘Long Way To Go’Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the cuts to past projections for military spending were “tough” and “real,” and said they “obviously will cause some pain.” The cuts, as Center for American Progress analysts Lawrence Korb, Max Hoffman and Alex Rothman wrote today, constitute a “positive first step and a major achievement. It will […]
- VIDEO: The GOP’s Racial PoliticsOur guest blogger is former Congressman Tom Perriello, President of Center for American Progress Action Fund. From the subtle to the sickening, this Republican primary season has seen a normalizing of racist and racially-coded language. It was not so long ago that the Chairman of the Republican National Committee apologized for his party’s history of […]
- Cynthia Nixon’s Comments Prove We Still Don’t Know How To Talk About Sexual IdentityThe LGBT blogosphere has been wrestling with comments made by actress Cynthia Nixon (immortally Sex in the City‘s ”Miranda”) to the New York Times that she chose to be a lesbian: I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay […]
- Rick Santorum: Gingrich And Romney ‘Bought Into The Global Warming Hoax’In his final question at the Florida Republican presidential debate on CNN, Rick Santorum told Wolf Blitzer why he was more likely to defeat President Obama than Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. “Cap and trade!” Santorum said. “Both of them bought into the global warming hoax!” […]
Rubina Ali and the slumdog millionaire money
March 5th, 2011 | 
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It’s a wonderful story of that exposes the mechanisms of modern capitalism: the film slumdog millionaire. A wonderfully convenient piece of feelgood idealism in film format, made by a white british director, with the front message that he wanted to show the world the horrible side of India in order to improve the life of these people. Mr Feelgood Director Danny Boyle used real child actors from these slums to play in his films, who, mysteriously, almost 5 years later, still live in these slum housings. Witness this picture of Rubina Ali, sittingoutside after her slum house was destroyed by fire…
Dutch politician wants to close border for Libyans
Dutch right wing PVV party leader Geert Wilders wants to close the Dutch borders to refugees from all Arab countries including Libya. Wilders said that if a civil wars break out, “we must do everything to stop the refugee flow, ” says the PVV leader in an interview with the Dutch paper Spits.
The likelihood that that the refugees are Muslim, according to Wilders has nothing to do with it. “If it had been non-Muslim countries, we would not have coped with that mass either.” When Libyans cross over to Malta or Italy, they need to be collected in special camps.
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Supporters Gadaffi take down fighter plane
Libyan demonstrators again clashed with supporters of Gaddafi in Misratah. The insurgents have even shot down a fighter plane belonging to Gadaffi. Also in Az Zawiyah there are threatening battles. Around two thousand people who are loyal to the president have surrounded the city occupied by protesters.
A former policeman who joined the anti-government demonstrators complied and was combative. “We will do our best to repel them. They will attack soon. We are willing to die for our cause” he told Reuters.
In many cities the protesters threw up barricades against the government troops. Parts of the capital Tripoli in the hands of the people. An army officer has said that his men will rally behind the people. The power of Gaddafi will therefore be greatly reduced.
Oral sex more dangerous than cigarettes
Who has unsafe sex, is now not only likely to STDs or HIV to rise, the chance you have of getting cancer has increased enormously in recent years. Indeed, oral sex has become the biggest cause of cancer in the last twenty years in young men. Teenage girls in the secondary standard recently vaccinated against HPV, human papillae virus. Doctors now want that boys will also be vaccinated, because since twenty years the virus often develops following a throat infection.
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The brilliant songs of Annette Peacock
Yesterday I was surfing Youtube looking for music I never heard before, and I stumbled on Annette Peacock.
I was immediately grasped by her great voice, weird lyrics and the overall brilliance of the songs and performance. I couldn’t quite believe that I never heard of her before. Thanks, music industry! I was even more amazed when I found out none of my ‘music expert’ friends knew about her either. Wow! Genius really DOES go unrecognised!
Breaking news: Gadaffi believes men have periods
Recently many people who are not too familar with Libyan history started asking quations about the sanity of Gadaffi. Is this man clinically insane? To answer the question one only has to read the ‘Green Book’ Gadaffi wrote as some sort of political bible Libyans had to live up to. Let me quote from chapter three:
“According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period.” Colonel Gadaffi, Green Book, Part III, The Social Basis of The Third Universal Theory
Men do not menstruate or suffer during their monthly periods, says Colonel Gadaffi. Why thank you Mr Gadaffi, that was some very useful knowledge from the supreme high leader, the Chose revolutionary of the people!
Now can you please stop hiring mercenaries to shoot your own people?
Before I made it clear that I believe at this point NATO or the UN face a final test to their credibility: do they really care about human rights they should act now. But the same is true about the Arab nations: they should help out and intervene. Tunesia and Egypt, come on, help your neighbours out and stop the slaughter.
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- In Russia, tiny protest sparks big police response: LEGO minifigs, South Park dolls, and Wall-e for democracy(Photo via RFE-RL) Authorities in Russia are investigating the legality of a "doll demonstration" demanding "clean elections" in the Siberian city of Barnaul, and looking for the humans responsible. Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that Russia's police "[arrest] anyone, young or old, who takes part in an "unsanctione […]
- HOWTO build a Tardis, the adorable German schoolteacher waySillysparrowness, a self-described "German teacher with a leaning towards silliness," described the process by which she came to build a beautiful, obsessively finished Tardis. I built a TARDIS (Thanks, scottiep!) […]
- "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": Where exhibits come fromEarlier this week, I challenged readers to send me photos of their favorite museum exhibits and specimens, preferably from museums that might go overlooked in the tourism pantheon. Over the next few days, I'll be posting some of these submissions, under the heading, "My Favorite Museum Exhibit". Want to see them all? Check the "Previously […]
- RAW Week: Trickster Santa and the Real Revolution, by Tiffany Lee BrownPhoto of Tiffany Lee Brown by Wiley Wiggins Someday I hope to share with you audio from an interview I conducted with Mr. Wilson, but it's entirely possible the old cassette is long gone. I'm still looking. For now, here's text: Robert Anton Wilson was kinda more George Carlin and less Timothy Leary than he […]
- Twitter adopts country-specific censorship regime - how will that work?As Xeni wrote, Twitter has adopted Google's tactics for coping with legally binding censorship demands: from now on, when it receives a legal demand to censor a tweet, it will only censor that tweet for users in the country from which the demand emanates. Other countries' users will still see it. Users in the censored […]
- "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": Two nuclear bombs, slightly dentedEarlier this week, I challenged readers to send me photos of their favorite museum exhibits and specimens, preferably from museums that might go overlooked in the tourism pantheon. Over the next few days, I'll be posting some of these submissions, under the heading, "My Favorite Museum Exhibit". Want to see them all? Check the "Previously […]
- Deconstructing a DemagogueOver four decades, Newt Gingrich has perfected the politics of personal destruction. […]
- Obama and FairnessPresident Obama should keep the focus on unfairness, not inequality. […]
- The Navy's Stone FleetWhy did the Union sink dozens of whaling ships in Charleston Harbor during the Civil War? […]
- Soap Operas With a Social MessageIn countries around the world, T.V. serials are being used to deliver important social messages to millions of viewers. […]
- Funny, You're So SadLaughter may be good for the soul, but sometimes stand-up comedy isn't. […]
- Philosophy — What's the Use?Complaints that philosophy is irrelevant have persisted over time. But there are reasons it should not be be confined to the "ivory tower." […]