Talk about leaps of logic.Linking Bosnian genocide to the presence of gay troops is like linking an increase in the rate of military suicides to congress giving an iota of credence to old, tired, delusional NATO commanders who retired in 1997. Ex-general links gay troops to Bosnian genocide |
Sheehan later clarified that the general liberalization of the Dutch military contributed to the Srebenica debacle. |
In a statement, Dutch Ambassador Renée Jones-Bos said, “I take pride in the fact that lesbians and gays have served openly and with distinction in the Dutch military forces for decades, such as in Afghanistan at the moment.” Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com |
A gay 9/11 sub-plot? This story is a little soft on evidence, but intriguing nonetheless. <img src=”http://content6.clipmarks.com/clog_clip_cache/amplify.com/8747FC9B-99A3-4B4D-89E8-F7115E6AC3EF/2190D8DD-7403-455A-BB36-1FA50F18B8B7″ alt=”
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The development is intriguing in part because the informant they were after was thought to be secretly gay—a fact that gave intelligence agents leverage in their efforts to turn him against his conservative Islamist circle. But the case may also help answer one of the long-standing mysteries of the 9/11 narrative: why a terrorist known to one part of the U.S. government wasn’t captured by other parts before he boarded a plane and helped carry out the most devastating attacks on the country. Read more at www.observer.com |
Never underestimate Madonna. No one dreamed she would be able to get the government of Argentina to allow her to film portions of Evita — particularly depicting Eva Peron as a whore/saint — from La Casa Rosada either, but she did. Queen of pop Madonna seeks help from the real Queen |
A courtier warns that Madonna should not get her hopes up as filming is generally not allowed in the Royal palaces. “I can’t imagine that Her Majesty would make an exception, particularly for a film about Wallis Simpson,” he says. |
| Corporate Policy Leads to Political Censorship |
That said, it should be noted that it was possible to locate Fein’s “Numb & Number” images through local ISP access. Fein’s pictures weren’t pretty and some were very hard hitting, but they were worth a second look. Whether an individual found agreement with Fein’s images or not would of course be a matter of personal interpretation. What is a fact the world over is that even in this Internet Age, freedom of the press is for those who actually own one. Read more at archive.arabnews.com |
Will Google pullout? Would do wonders for their street cred. Google “99.9 pct” sure to shut China search engine-FT |
SHANGHAI, March 13 (Reuters) - Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world’s largest search engine, is now “99.9 percent” certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. |
China warned Google on Friday against flouting the country’s laws, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security. Read more at www.reuters.com |
It’s not just Nelspruit. How well have the workers who built the stadium in Green Point fared? What the Fédération Internationale de Football Association wants, it gets…and then some. Cost of Stadium Reveals Tensions in South Africa |
When it comes to the World Cup, Nelspruit, well known as a gateway to Kruger National Park, seems to put its worst foot forward repeatedly. |
Government investigators can’t find the Bush lawyer’s emails. His explanation makes about as much sense as his legal rationale for torture. |
But Yoo’s explanation raises more questions than it answers. Among other things, he doesn’t address the disclosure that “most” of his emails were “deleted”— a separate issue from the methods Justice Department lawyers used to communicate on classified topics. |
Clinton Fein: Artist: Photographer |
| The other drawback about using Facebook, and the extent to which this is enforced remains to be see, relates to corporate censorship in the context of terms of service. Over the years, my art has created controversy. It has been ripped off walls of galleries and torn up, as well as deliberately destroyed by printers prior to the opening of an exhibition. A big, unanswered question will be tested as we engage on this page. Will the same imagery that generated controversy offline face the same fate here? |
Don’t judge a book by its cover the cliche goes. While there have been many instances of straight guys being gaybashed for being mistaken as gay, being mistaken as straight does not evoke such violent responses by either the mistaken or the mistaken for. A few years ago, when metrosexuality grabbed masculinity by the balls, it was unsurprising for a Queer Eye‘d straight man to be mistaken as gay. Lines had blurred. Typically, that cultural conversation presumed a one-way tilt: Everyone was getting a bit more stylish, a bit more moisturized, a bit more gay. But blurring works both ways. Now its counterpoint has taken hold: openly gay men who are routinely mistaken as straight. Meet the bromosexuals! |
These are not down-low dorks or closeted wallflowers. Mr. Brumbaugh worked as a doorman at Hiro on Sundays, and works as a self-described “brunch sheriff” and barkeep at the Maritime Hotel. He’s devastatingly handsome in the way that service-industry workers for affluent clientele need to be. Read more at www.observer.com |
The argument against Pink Floyd’s accusations — that the agreement only applies to “physical product” like records, CDs DVDs etc. — is absurd at best. EMI deserves to lose on that basis. EMI Loses U.K. Ruling Over Sale of Pink Floyd Singles (Update3) |
March 11 (Bloomberg) — EMI Group Ltd. should only sell the music of Pink Floyd, the band that recorded the best-selling album “The Dark Side of the Moon,” in full album format and can’t sell single songs online, a London judge ruled today. |
“At the time the contract was signed, it is unlikely they were foreseeing online sales,” Karet said in a phone interview. “Everybody in the music industry is looking to extract whatever value they can at this point.” |
EMI, owned by Guy Hands’ Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. private equity group, was granted a request to have part of the judgment relating to royalties given without the media present. Read more at www.businessweek.com |
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