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Celebrating Bob Dylan’s 70th Birthday, In A Multitude Of Languages

The music and words of Bob Dylan speak most of the languages of the world. The iconic American singer and songwriter was born 70 years ago — May 24, 1941 — in the small town of Duluth, Minnesota

Harold Camping: The Man Behind ‘Judgment Day,’ May 21, 2011

HAROLD CAMPING…WE’RE STILL HERE!!!

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Critics Slam Study that U.S. Priest Abuse in the Past

A church-sponsored study on Wednesday blamed poorly trained priests and a deviant society for the Roman Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, but victims dismissed it as a whitewash of an institutional coverup.

Koran Shredding Planned in Boca Raton Florida

A Boca Raton man has applied for a permit to shred a Koran in Sanborn Square on Memorial Day

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Did You Hear the Joke About Donald Trump Running for President?

  From the Desk of Randi Rhodes: Well, Donald Trump will not be our next president. But then everybody has known that for a long time… with the possible exception of Donald Trump. Today Trump released a statement saying “After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency.” [...]

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Larry David Signed to the “Three Stooges” Movie

Deadline reports that Larry David has joined the cast of the Farrelly brothers Three Stooges movie. And I guess it’s now official that Chris Diamantopolous is playing Moe. I saw the stories over the last few weeks saying Diamantopolous was the frontrunner for Moe, but I was suffering from Stooges casting rumor fatigue and decided [...]

BLACKWATER Contracting to Build Mercenary Army for United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates confirmed on Sunday that it had hired a company run by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, to provide “operational, planning and training support” to its military. But it gave no details of the company’s project to build a foreign mercenary battalion for the Emirati government. A written statement [...]

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Osama Bin Laden and His Porn Collection Found!

A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. commandos who killed him, current and former U.S. officials said on Friday. The pornography recovered in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the [...]

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HIV Vaccine Research Shows Promise in Monkeys

5/12/2011 - Rearch in Oregon on primates shows promise of leading to a HIV vaccine for humans, Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland says. The OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute researchers tested their vaccine in rhesus macaque monkeys at the Oregon National Primate Research Center using a monkey form of HIV called Simian Immunodeficiency [...]

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Gets Australian Peace Prize

5/10/2011 – WikiLeaks’ Australian founder Julian Assange, who enraged Washington by publishing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, was given a peace award on Tuesday for “exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights.”

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