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Music Fridays: Pride Month
[announcements] Friday and time for a Panda Party! Since it’s Pride month, I thought it would be fun to play nothing but GLBT artists and bands with GLBT members today, so hop on over and join the fun! Panda Party!…
Jon Stewart demolishes senators for swooning over JP Morgan CEO
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart mocked members of the Senate Banking Committee for going soft on JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon after his firm lost at least $2 billion gambling on derivatives. During the hearing, Republican senators complimented Dimon and praised his financial…
Battle over Guantanamo court attire in 9/11 case
WASHINGTON — The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks wanted to wear military-style camouflage clothes to court but prison officials denied the request as inappropriate, documents show. A series of documents and photographs released by the Pentagon this week show that the lawyers for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four…
Robert Reich: Romney is the reverse Robin Hood
Berkeley professor and former labor secretary Robert Reich suggested Thursday that Mitt Romney’s economic plan favored the wealthy at the expense of the poor. “Romney has said repeatedly, he wants to cut taxes on the very wealthy,” he said on MSNBC’s The Last Word. “The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center here…
Richard Dawkins says he wants evolution to be ‘the new classics’
Richard Dawkins has been the recipient of numerous honours and prizes, including the Kistler Prize,the Shakespeare Prize,a Galaxy National Book Award, and the Michael Faraday Prize. Of course he is also admired as an outspoken atheist. His bestseller, The God Delusion, has outsold all of his other books and it…
Walmart on defensive after PR officer found ‘spying’ on union workers
A public relations officer linked to Walmart posed as a journalist at a press conference held by a labor group highlighting tough working conditions in the warehouses that supply big retailers. Stephanie Harnett, a publicist working for Mercury Communications, which has been retained by Walmart to assist in its effort…
Pentagon announces gay pride celebration in recognition of troops
Less than nine months after the repeal of “don’t ask don’t tell”, the US military has announced that it will participate in this month’s celebration of gay pride. The Pentagon is to organise the first official event to recognise gay and lesbian troops. The move, first reported by Associated Press,…
U.S. provides communications aid for Syria opponents
WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday acknowledged providing communications equipment and other forms of assistance to members of the “peaceful opposition” in Syria. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the aid is part of “non-lethal” assistance to Syrians living under President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and part of a global…
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