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ACLU anti-Ashcroft TV ad!

View it here, requires Real Player.

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Britain set to give gay couples full rights

Britain is set to accept same sex couples, who will be able to register their partnerships and enjoy the same legal rights as married men and women.

Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government is backing the change, and opposition parties - including the Conservatives, who for many years opposed any extension of gay rights - support the idea.

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Venezuela. Another coup attempt in progress

Two major items from the always reliable NarcoNews about what’s really happening in Venezuela.
First, the oil strike isn’t a strike. The workers have been locked out by management, who no doubt wish to create chaos in hopes of ousting Chavez.
Second, the recent shooting of anti-Chavez demonstrators appears to have been orchestrated and paid for by those same anti-Chavez forces.
From a NarcoNews email:

The Venezuelan Navy today regained control of the hijacked oil tanker from its mutinous captain. The last effective maneuver of the upper-class “opposition” was thus foiled and the “strike” (management imposed lockout of workers from their jobs) that began last week has now fracased on every front.
Friday night’s contemptible shooting of civilians in an opposition demonstration by gunmen, resulting in the capture of Portuguese national Joao Gouveia, has taken a shocking turn:
“Congressman of the MVR party (Fifth Republic Movement) and journalist Juan Barreto reported today that Joao Gouveia, the Portuguese citizen accused of having assassinated various members of the opposition concentrated in Plaza Francia of Altamira (the wealthy section of Caracas) entered the country (Friday) at 5:40 p.m. coming from Lisbon. Barreto said that Gouveia confessed that he had been contracted by pro-coup General Medina Gomez to cause a massacre in Altamira, for which he was paid 35 million bolivares.
“Congressman Barreto said that as a journalist he has contacts in various agencies and information that the accused was acting as if he were paranoid, faking that he was mentally ill, but after examined by different psychiatrists who determined he was lucid, finally confessed this morning.
It is difficult for many to believe that there are interests so cynical as to order their own supporters shot to gain sympathy for their “cause,” but to close observers of the Venezuelan reality this possibility is not
surprising at all. Stay tuned as we hunt down the facts.

NarcoNews will be covering this as it develops.

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Blasts Kill 15 and Hurt 200 in Bangladesh.

Bombs ripped through four movie houses in northern Bangladesh almost simultaneously on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 200 others, eyewitnesses and local news reports said.

The movie houses were crowded with people who were celebrating Eid-al-Fitr, the Islamic festival marking the end of the Ramadan month of fasting. Some 3,000 people were believed to be inside and around the theaters at the time of the explosion.

Presumably done by Hindu extremists.

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 Palestinians arrest fake al-Qaeda’s (allied with Israel)

Palestinian security forces have arrested a group of Palestinians for collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network, a senior official said yesterday.

The arrests come two days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and in Lebanon.

“The Palestinian Authority arrested a group of collaborators who confessed they were working for Israel, posing as al-Qaeda operatives in the Palestinian territories,” said the official, on condition of anonymity.

Does anyone doubt that Sharon had these phony al-Qaeda’s created so he would have an excuse for more invasions and bloodshed? I tell ya, this guy just isn’t happy unless he’s destroying a village somewhere. He and Henry The K have much in common!

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