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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) deadlocked Thursday on a proposal to allow donations involving bitcoin in political campaigns, dealing a significant setback for proponents of emerging virtual currencies. The six-member body split 3-3 on the proposal, according to an attorney representing a political action committee (PAC) asking for permission to accept bitcoins in the current election cycle. “They didn’t say no,” said Dan Backer, who filed the request on behalf of the Conservative Action Fund (CAF) PAC. “They decided they’re not ready to say yes.” Backer said he is optimistic that the practice would ultimately be allowed and said the...

A violent mob, including priests, broke down barriers and attacked marchers at a rally to mark International Day against Homophobia in Tibilisi, Georgia. Attackers were heard screaming, "Kill them! Tear them to pieces," according to witnesses. The march, in favour of LGBT rights ended in chaos as police struggled to evacuate the 50 marchers from Tibilisi's Freedom Square. They were taken to safety by special forces. The rally was condemned earlier by Patriarch Ilia II, head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, but he urged people to behave and restrain from violence. On the morning of the rally, priests gathered...

Russia’s NGO conundrum July 10, 2012 Ajay Kamalakaran Not all NGOs receiving funds from overseas are indulging in malpractices but the Russian Government has every right to ask questions. Foreign governments that want to use the NGO route as a means for a coup d’état or to meet other political ends will have to find another way to advance their agenda. Source: Julian Hibbard There seems to be a particular feeling of discomfort in the West over Russia’s new bill that calls for certain categories of NGOs receiving foreign funding to register with the Justice Ministry. The main aim of...

Folks: This is news you will never hear in Indian news channels, not just because the events occured in US, but more bcoz it shows islam in its true negative light. Muzzammil Hassan, a Pakistani Immigrant to United States story shows that the core problem for the well being of the world is the ideology of fascist islam. Muzzamil Hassan was the CEO of islamist Bridges TV - another of those initiatives where muslims camouflage their totalitarian intentions under the garb - moderate. A moderate is 'moderate' because he does not believe in his literal text and is willing to...

Corrupt Indian Media, especially its English channels is a known enemy of Hinduism and Hindu organising. Read on further about anti-Hindu media. NDTV: Born to a Christian English mother Prannoy Roy is a double whammy for Hindus. Apart from being a churchist he has close linkages with Marxists. Prannoy Roy's father worked for an English company. Roy is a co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary, Marxist Communist Party of India. His wife Radhika Roy is sister of Brinda Karat, Politburo Member, Marxist Communist Party. Prannoy Roy is a crypto christian (someone who puts up a Hindu appearance). His cousin Suzanne...

The wave of wildcat strike action that has swept across the UK escalated today as hundreds more workers walked out in the protest against foreign labour. Contract workers from the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, the Heysham nuclear power station in Lancashire and a site at Staythorpe, in Nottinghamshire, joined the unofficial action over the hiring of Italian and Portuguese workers on a Lincolnshire power station project.

Michael Jackson waves as he arrives at the Santa Barbara County courthouse in Santa Maria, California in May 2005. (AFP File) LONDON: Pop singer Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel. The 50-year-old star, pledged his allegiance to the Koran in a ceremony at a friend's mansion in Los Angeles, the Sun reported. Jackson sat on the floor wearing a tiny hat after an Imam was summoned to officiate -- days before the singer is due to appear at London's High Court where he is being sued by an Arab Sheik, the paper said....

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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Take it from Arlene Pence: Oregon's new driver's license rules requiring proof that you're in the country legally can be a royal pain for married women. The regulations for renewing, replacing or obtaining a license took effect July 1 and require a trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles office. No longer can you handle a renewal through the mail. You have to take proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful presence in the country, proof of Social Security number or proof that you are not entitled to a Social Security number if you do not...

It is time to bring up the Marriage Protection Amendment for a full vote in BOTH HOUSES of Congress! Let the jackals fight this in full view...

To: nwrep; All Compare the look on Sen. Dianne Feinstein's face during Judge Aleto's hearings to one of the sinners in Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel fresco "The Blessed and the Damned of the Last Judgment." 59 posted on 01/20/2006 9:23:55 PM PST by ckilmer [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse

Foster parents arrested on rape, sodomy charges By The Associated Press Thursday, November 17, 2005 SUNNY VALLEY, Ore. (AP) -- Two foster parents from Southern Oregon are facing charges of sexually abusing at least three children in their care, police said. The case began when Josephine County deputies found a 13-year-old runaway last Sunday; the girl told them she'd left home to escape being sexually abused by her foster father, Greg Miller. According to police, Miller and his wife Colleen were the adoptive parents of seven children between the ages seven and 15, who had been adopted from state agencies...

As anyone who truly studies religion knows, The Bible is not the be-all and end-all of Hebraic thought; it is merely the primer. Judaism is much, much more than The Bible, some of it written down for thousands of years, some of it preserved in ‘the oral tradition’ until written down some time later. But all of it is part of Judaism. It is from all these sources that we get our knowledge of demons and a wilderness. Demons are often described as belonging to the wilderness and we even have prayers and rituals surrounding them. The term “scapegoat” comes...

The United States Supreme Court has already defined marriage as being only one man and one woman in Reynolds v. United States. This decision also outlawed polygyny (one form of polygamy) in an act of judicial legislating Ironically, this is where the erroneous term separation of church and state became a point of law by judicial fiat...

AS A State Assembly committee prepares for a hearing Wednesday on a bill to overhaul the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, local Democratic Assemblyman John Laird said he'll oppose the bill but is not yet sure how he'll go about the fight. Laird said he may not testify when the Assembly Local Government Committee meets July 2 in Sacramento. He lost a chance to stop the bill, SB 149, in his own committee on natural resources when the rules committee assigned the legislation elsewhere. "This bill doesn't address water or natural resources policy anywhere," Laird said. "It only addresses local...

THE CALIFORNIA Coastal Commission has renewed its push to convince the Legislature to give it much more power over local zoning laws, even as a Sacramento attorney is asking the state Supreme Court to take away the commission's law-enforcement powers altogether. At a June 10 meeting in Long Beach, the coastal commission voted 6-2 to propose legislation that would give it the authority to make unilateral changes in the general plans of cities and counties along the state's 1,000-mile coastline. The law would also penalize cities and counties for failing to update their Local Coastal Programs once every 10 years....

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"I'm the commander in chief of this goddamn place, and there is no way the command staff of my Police Department is going to step down at this time," Brown said. "It's a matter of public safety." San Francisco -- From the get-go, Mayor Willie Brown made it clear that regardless of any grand jury indictments, he had no intention of having the city's police chief and half the command staff step down. "It doesn't matter who said what," Brown said Friday shortly after getting word that Police Chief Earl Sanders and three other top staffers were being indicted on...

The Drama Complex The traditions of Greek tragedy as in Oedipus Rex are based upon the religious traditions of the Greeks - - the idea of destiny or a preordained fate subject to the whims of the gods. Socrates saw this fallacy in Plato’s Euthyphro, when he asked Euthyphro what was pleasing to the gods and how could someone be pious to the gods when they all wanted something different than the others. It made no sense to observe the divinity of one god and ignore the demands of another god. How could a person know what it was to...

What ballot measure?   --After big defeat at polls, water board wants even more power UNFAZED BY the no-confidence vote of 19,325 Peninsula residents earlier this month, the Monterey Peninsula Water Manage-ment District board voted Monday to expand its regulation of wells in rural parts of Carmel Valley and to begin the process of taking over Cal-Am Water Company. The two moves -- which would greatly increase the jurisdiction of the water district -- were made at the board's first regular meeting after the Nov. 5 election, when voters backed a ballot measure by a 2-to-1 margin that called for...