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62911 No.6818   [Reply]

"European Union inspectors say bathing water in 95 percent of beaches tested around the bloc's coastline last summer meets its mandatory cleanliness tests.

However, the picture is patchy, with Romania and Slovenia falling well below the average, and Italy forced to ban swimming at 300 beaches throughout the season."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080602/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_beach_report


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133459 No.6817   [Reply]

"NASA's press office "marginalized or mischaracterized" studies on global warming between 2004 and 2006, the agency's own internal watchdog concluded.

In a report released Monday, NASA's inspector general office called it "inappropriate political interference" by political appointees in the press office. It said that the agency's top management wasn't part of the censorship, nor were career officials.

NASA downplayed the report as old news on a problem that has since been fixed. NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage said the space agency's new policies have now been hailed for openness by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080602/ap_on_sc/nasa_censor


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72303 No.6815   [Reply]

"Parents took 129 of the roughly 430 children in foster care on Monday after a judge signed an order clearing the children to leave with their parents, bowing to a state Supreme Court ruling that the seizure was not justified."

"Amid the parents' joy, a church elder announced what he called a clarification in sect policy aimed at keeping such a seizure from ever happening again: Future marriages would only involve sect members who were of legal age."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat


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17791 No.6731   [Reply]

"US coffee chain Starbucks has come under fire for a new logo that critics say is offensive and overly graphic.

The Resistance, a US-based Christian group, has called for a national boycott of the coffee-selling giant.

It says the chain's new logo has a naked woman on it with her legs "spread like a prostitute... The company might as well call themselves Slutbucks". "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7427105.stm

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>> No.6748  
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>>6747
hahahaha oh wow.

they want to destroy the georgia guidestones because they think them some sort of satanillumanati monument

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>>6747

John Conner is a moral pillar of society!!!

>> No.6775  
>>The Resistance

Isn't it cute, the way Christians make it sound like they are 1) a minority and 2) an oppressed one? What are "the Resistance" resisting, I mean, in the grand scheme of anything?

lol

>> No.6780  

>>6775
Resisting The MAN

>> No.6784  

>>6780
That's what's so funny... last time I checked, they are the M.A.N.

>> No.6787  

>>6775

If Fundies got the sort of world they wished for, they'd have to kill themselves. Because bitching about things is the only way they can justify their sad little existences.

>> No.6788  

>>6784

You'd think so, with the way Right-Wing Fundy lobbyists & GOP funders hold so much political sway over the Republicans. Thus the USA is held back in terms of medical technology. Meanwhile, our Parliament in the UK recently voted to reject a ban on Stem Cell research, thus Britain will be at the forefront of such groundbreaking genetic technology (outside of Cuba & China)- the result of not allowing our religious clergy any political power.

Thank goodness I live in the same country as Richard Dawkins. A Secular UK. An ATHEIST UK.

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>>6755

ALL HAIL THE OVERLORD!

>> No.6806  

I work in a bookstore that has a Starbucks in it, and the number of complaints about the logo we've received would be... 0. We have had some people ask about it ("Hey, what happened to the Starbucks logo?"), and we just tell them that it's the old one they're bringing back. They then shrug and go buy coffee.

Also: the nutjob who's calling for the boycotts is barely recognizable as a Christian of any stripe, much less Fundamentalist.

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>>6755

And I bet he's as much a Fundy weirdo as Troy Brooks.

http://www.theresistancemanifesto.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=91


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28587 No.6789   [Reply]

"Scientists are to be permitted to use tissue from dead people to create cloned human stem cells for research, under a legal change put forward by the government.

Health ministers have proposed that laboratories should be allowed to use stored human tissue to create cloned embryonic stem cells without the explicit consent of the tissue donor. This would allow research to be done on tissue donated for medical research as long as 30 years ago. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4040290.ece

>> No.6796  

soooo, stem cells from clones of dead people are ok, but fetus stem cells aren't?

sure, makes sense.

>> No.6812  

>>6796

>but fetus stem cells aren't?

This is the UK, where if MPs admit to believing in any kind of fumdamentalist religion (especially Xtianity), they're told to keep it to themselves by their leaders (& the party whips), as public disclosure would be political suicide for said party. And even Pro-Life lobbyists are seen as weirdo fringe freaks here (especially by said political parties). And where, in our Parliament recently, a ban on Stem Cell research was rejected.

Welcome to the Secular, ATHEIST UK. And where Americans will have to come for related Gene Therapy in the near future. Enjoy your medically backward USA.


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117820 No.6798   [Reply]

http://www.b92.net//eng/news/world-article.php?yyyy=2008&mm=05&dd=17&nav_id=50325

WASHINGTON -- Civil rights activists say the move to arm District of Columbia Police Department patrol officers with semiautomatic weapons is going overboard.

Officers will be given AR-15 rifles this summer as a way to combat dangerous criminals on the streets, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
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(Because roided-out cops need deadlier guns to combat crack heads...)

>> No.6802  

lolmerica

>> No.6808  

America needs to spend some money on weapons, I mean what do they normally spend on weapons and military and such? 1% of taxes? 2%?

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I'm sorry, the correct answer is ... "whatever it is, it isn't enough!"

>> No.6811  

>>6798

Ho hum. For years our police at the UK's airports (especially Heathrow, Gatwick & Stanstead) were routinely armed with H&K MP5s (& Glock 17s). A couple of years ago they were upgraded with Steyr AUGs.

And that's in our country where our police aren't routinely armed.


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26500 No.6785   [Reply]

"Orange County, FL (AHN) -- A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to a year in jail and five years probation after having sex with a 13-year-old girl who told him she was 18."

"Williams had sex with Dean when he thought she was of legal age, but when her behavior tipped him off that she may have been younger than she said, he went to Dean's father who told Williams his daughter was only 13. Dean's father then called the police."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011131506

>> No.6801  

What I love the most about this is the fact that the father and mother are THE BEST PARENTS EVER, as in acting like nothing happened and let their daughter continue to be a little bitch slut.
The bitch deserves no less than to be taken by a guy who will shave her tits off with a rusty blade.

>> No.6807  

>>6801
She's already gotten 2 that didn't do anything all that horrible, third time's the charm.

>> No.6809  

Kodomo no Jikan...

IS THAT YOU RIN?


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65910 No.6629   [Reply]

"Computer scientists have pressed for e-voting paper trails for years, in peer reports and in testimony on Capitol Hill. Now it looks like Congress is poised to ignore this idea: forthcoming legislation will say that a backup "electronic" record is OK too."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9951458-7.html

>> No.6633  

At least the machines in my poling place makes a visible printout. I would be pissed if they didn't.

>> No.6665  

>>6629

Or they could do what's done in the UK: Ballot Papers. A list of candidates, you just put an 'X' beside the candidate of your choice, fold the paper & put it in the ballot box.

>> No.6804  

>>6665
That sounds alot like the thing the mexicans do.


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33968 No.6756   [Reply]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4036231.ece

Thousands of middle managers in local councils are being authorised to spy on people suspected of petty offences using powers designed to prevent crime and terrorism.

Even junior council officials are being allowed to initiate surveillance operations in what privacy campaigners likened to Eastern bloc police tactics.

The Home Office is expected to be urged by the Commons Home Affairs select committee to issue guidelines to councils on the type of operations in which surveillance can be used.

Amid increasing concern in Parliament that the UK is slowly becoming a surveillance society, the committee has looked at the operation of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), which some MPs say is being misused to focus on petty crime rather than serious offending.

>> No.6800  

Lol, I guess in 40 years movies will be made about the "UK glance".


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79068 No.6783   [Reply]

"an Indonesian author and motivational speaker, took an unusual approach to publicize his new book on Sunday, above, when he threw money from a plane as he circled repeatedly over a soccer field in Serang, 45 miles west of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. On the ground, hundreds of people scrambled excitedly for the 100 million rupiah (about $10,700) that showered down, Reuters reported. His initial hope had been to fly over Jakarta, but police denied permission amid concerns that large crowds would gather and chaos might ensue in a country where millions live on the equivalent of less than $2 a day."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/books/02arts-ITSRAININGRU_BRF.html

>> No.6790  

>>6783

Hiring a stretched limousine. Coffee from a tree cat's arse. And now dickheads like this. Conclusive proof that some people have more money than sense.

>> No.6799  

He's being a bit of an arsehole, isn't he. Flaunting his consulting money like that. Crowds that gather for this sort of thing easily kill tens of people via crushing et al.


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