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POPSMartina Navratilova Sabotages Gay Marriage I bartended at then NCLR 30th anniversary where Navratilova was the GoH. {{Lexica}} & I just celebrated out 11th wedding anniversary. We've attended gay marriage rallys and wholly support the idea of marriage. I wear a white knot on my backpack. I'm very much in favor of marriage rights. This shit is hard work, and I support those who sign up "For better or worse". But Navratalova's cynical towards marriage and commitment is ashes is my mouth. Her attitude and actions would be just as reprehensible if she were het. It's just that people are working for basic civil rights , and Martina is taking advantage of being rich to fuck off on her "we will build a life together" commitments. That's despicable.
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POPSFear Tactics Amazing what fear will do when people want change - attacks in the middle of the night - disgraceful - A full blown revolution is just around the corner.
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POPSReport: Hospitalized Iranians Seized
"The point is, when they are being taken to the hospital they don't actually get there," her friend who accompanied her told CNN last week. "Just like the reporters are being told not to report what they really see. Human Rights Watch, citing interviews with people in Iran, said Friday the Basij is carrying out brutal nighttime raids, destroying property in private homes and beating civilians in an attempt to stop nightly rooftop chants of "Allahu Akbar" (God is great). The nighttime chanting is emblematic of the protests 30 years ago during the Iranian revolution, which toppled the monarchy of the shah. "While most of the world's attention is focused on the beatings in the streets of Iran during the day, the Basiji are carrying out brutal raids on people's apartments during the night," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director for Human Rights Watch. Residents from northern Tehran neighborhoods told Human Rights Watch that the Basij fired live rounds into the air . . .
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POPSBenelux Merkenbureau Bockstael was established in 1937, and ever since our main purpose is to assist our clients in the field of their intellectual property rights, especially with regard to their industrial property rights, such as the protection of inventions by filing a patent, of product names by means of a trademark registration.
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POPSBurnley, Lancashire Her first words, I have done nothing wrong. My last words, Go Straight to obscurity. Do not collect £200. Lose all your pension rights. Lose all your parliamentary rights. GO to prison.
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POPSLiberty and Power Thus, liberty entails the right to live your life the way you choose (as long as your conduct is peaceful), the right to use your talents and abilities to engage in enterprise freely (“free enterprise”), the right to engage in mutually beneficial trades with others (“freedom of trade”), and the right to accumulate the fruits of those trades (“property”). Do kings or other government officials have the right to regulate or control these activities? Under what moral authority? These are fundamental rights that preexist kings or governments. Governmental officials have no more right to regulate or control these activities than they have to control how many children a family is to have.
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POPSMother caned in Bangladesh for talking to Hindu man Women's rights groups say there has been a spike in the number of "fatwas" -- judgments in line with sharia law -- in rural areas. "In the last few months, we've seen villagers invoking sharia to mete out barbaric punishments to women," said lawyer Ali. "It's disturbing sign and a real concern. It shows some parts of the country are becoming more conservative," she said. Bangladesh has been ruled by female leaders for 16 of the last 19 years and prides itself for empowering women. But although women hold high government and private sector posts, a move last year to give equal property rights to women was scuttled by Islamist protests. The Awami League government has vowed to eradicate militancy from the country, hit by series of blasts by outlawed Islamic groups in 2005, and has warned of "zero tolerance" for harsh sharia punishments.
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POPSMother caned in Bangladesh for talking to Hindu man Bangladesh has been ruled by female leaders for 16 of the last 19 years and prides itself for empowering women. But although women hold high government and private sector posts, a move last year to give equal property rights to women was scuttled by Islamist protests.
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POPSShocker: Dems Tell Obama To Let the Market Decide Dealership Closures So not only do they suddenly and fervently embrace the free market and question the wisdom of raising the unemployment rate by closing the dealerships, they seem to actually care about Obama's running roughshod over Constitutional property rights. However, we are concerned that manufacturers are closing profitable dealerships to circumvent current contracts which could require expensive buy-outs under normal conditions. Now that sounds like a letter written by Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes, or any one of those greedy capitalist pigs on our side of the aisle. Is the tide turning against Obama on this, or are these spineless wonders, who didn't step in to prevent this takeover in the first place, trying to get to the head of the line for pickings from the carcasses?
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POPS Patterns of Force * The language used in the announcement has creepy echoes of every rationalization used by the government to take away human rights (free speech in this case.) These are “extraordinary circumstances,” and for the good of the nation, we can’t allow any speech that would threaten economic recovery; it’s like when the Iranian mullahs shut down the opposition press, or Hugo Chavez shut down the only remaining opposition television station. (And the American left cheered!) And we are only four months into this Chicago thug’s regime. What more is to come?
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POPSSouter With A Salsa Beat? Now, some abortion rights advocates are quietly expressing unease that Judge Sotomayor may not be a reliable vote to uphold Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion rights decision. In a letter, Nancy Keenan, president of Naral Pro-Choice America, urged supporters to press senators to demand that Judge Sotomayor reveal her views on privacy rights before any confirmation vote. “Everyone is just assuming that because Obama appointed her, she must be a die-hard pro-choice activist,” Mr. Waldman said, “but it’s really quite amazing how little we know about her views on abortion.” Given who is making the appointment and who has the Senate majority, we could do a lot worse, and if she doesn’t go full Souter, there is the potential that she could go reverse Souter-lite, flirting with the right on this issue or that. What if Obama’s rhumba with Hispanics to solidify the Dems’ gains in that growing electorate goes badly wrong for his already increasingly disaffected lefty base?
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POPSMLK Children Abusing IP Law (Again) To Try To Squeeze Money Out Of Anyone Who Honors Him From Techdirt:: " Of course, this also highlights a fun point for those who pitch the idea that copyright should last forever and descend to the heirs of the content creator. As the ownership gets spread out among younger generations, getting them to agree on anything will be quite unlikely. In any case, it's a sad "legacy" the MLK estate is leaving here, concerning the overly aggressive "protection" of copyrights against those who clearly wish to honor the man's own legacy. "
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POPSFederal Government Now Owns the States Your state is now more beholden to the Feds than you because of their money-influence. That is why the states increasingly bow to Washington, instead of asserting their 10th amendment rights. "The love of money is the root of all sorts of evil", including corrupted government power and unaccountability to the people.
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POPSMarriage i want to quote from a book I am reading, far detached from news or socilogical studies. " You must grow and change beyond your current ideas that offer only one version of existence" Earth; pleiadian keys to the Livingg Library. This message is attuned to the Individualistic stance of a previous clip. We are different and have different needs. There is a wave of mind control that is attempting to curtail our right and desire to exprress our individualism. This comes from the parties that want just one kind of marriage (the one defined by them), one kind of spirituality, one kind of American, one kind of love to prevail. I am so disgusted about this mind control issues coming from people with cerebral myopia ! Expand your ideas, your mind, read between the lines, analyze national and global trends and events. Specially, listen how politicians talk and always ask yourselves: What is behind that? Why do they want that? How will it work for them? How good
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POPSZionist Females Ranked 53rd of 115, behind Turkey. The study did not include marriage or divorce, or a yet, which would place Israel behind most Muslim states. Both are controlled by Orthodox rabbis. The 'court' is all male. The so called non-secular 'democratic' state has no input.
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POPSUN accuses Israel of Gaza 'negligence or recklessness' It found the Israeli military's actions "involved varying degrees of negligence or recklessness", and that the military took "inadequate" precautions towards UN premises. It said the deaths of civilians should be investigated under the rules of international humanitarian law. The UN should take action "to seek accountability and pursue claims to secure reparation or reimbursement" for UN expenses and payments over deaths or injury to UN staff and damage to UN property where the responsibility lay with Israel, Hamas or any other party, the report added. In total, more than $11m worth of damage was caused to UN premises. The inquiry looked in detail at nine incidents, in which several Palestinians died. It found the Israeli military responsible in seven cases where it had "breached the inviolability" of the UN. ... Guardian
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POPSWhen is Enough?
The author starts out with a liberal manifesto but the real point of this blog post is how Pakistan is creating a “Mortal Danger” to the world by buckling under to pressure from the Taliban. Sec of State Clinton stated the Pakistani government, in deep denial, is losing ground against the Islamic insurgents and it badly needs to decide which side it is on and get focused. There is also a very disturbing video every Westerner should see concerning how committed Islamic terrorists are towards the destruction of the US. While we consider various half measures on how to deal with terrorists and those who want to destroy America and make the world over into a prison of intolerant fundamentalism, wherein women are property and human rights are irrelevant and where we all have to worship as they tell us or die, they are moving inexorably forward towards the possession of nuclear and biological weapons. They want to take us back to the 7th century - and I, for one, don’t want to go
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