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Annual Peace on Earth Holiday Bazaar
Saturday, 12/11/2010
Saturday, December 11 will be the Annual Peace on Earth Holiday Bazaar in San Diego, sponsored by the SD Peace Resource Center. This is a great opportunity to do your holiday shopping and support local peace, social justice, and environmental groups by buying alternative gifts. Latino demonstration against Escondido ballpark
Wednesday, 12/15/2010
On Wednesday, December 15, at 4:00 pm, the Escondido City Council meeting will discuss the proposal to finance and host a AAA baseball team. El Grupo and other human rights groups will be there to object and say that they will boycott baseball games in Escondido as long as EPD is conducting it's discriminatory checkpoints and the City Council continues it’s anti-Latino attitude and policies. Christmas demonstration against war, in Washington
Thursday, 12/16/2010
A great coalition of peace activist will converge on Washington, D.C., on Dec. 16 at the White House. Veterans and others will stage what will be the largest veteran-led civil resistance to U.S. wars in recent history. By showing scores of U.S. veterans being literally dragged away from the White House as they demand peace, we expose the hypocrisy of a government that is waging (and promoting) worldwide, endless warfare during a season when we celebrate "Peace on Earth." We will vividly demonstrate that serious civil resistance is alive and well in the United States. PDA monthly meeting
Sunday, 12/19/2010
The Progressive Democrats of North County will hold their monthly meeting at Aegis Living, 1440 Melrose Dr., Oceanside, CA 92056. Progressive Dems NC meet Dec. 19
Sunday, 12/19/2010
Sunday, December 19, from 2:30 - 4:30pm, the Progressive Democrats of North County will hold their monthly meeting at Aegis Living, 1440 Melrose Dr., Oceanside, CA 92056. Call (760) 842-8534 This 'N ThatWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
- Friedrich NietzcheWe are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.
- Cesar Chavez It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.
- Thomas Jefferson There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace.
- Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
- Abraham Lincoln The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
- Winston Churchill Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
- Petrarch Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
- African Proverb I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned from this war.
- Etty Hillesum (concentration camp victim) Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.
- G.K. Chesterton No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus, King of Lydia, in Herodotus' The Persian Wars They make a desert and call it peace.
- Tactitus World peace is us....We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.
- Kathleen Vande Kieft The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.
- Thomas Berry The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
- Vera Brittain, 1964 When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?
- Frank Borman There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas Edison War is as outmoded as cannibalism, chattel slavery, blood-feuds, and dueling, an insult to God and humanity...a daily crucifixion of Christ.
- Muriel Lester The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
- Isaiah 11:6 Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt It is not your obligation to complete your work, but you are not at liberty to quit.
- Talmud In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
- St. John of the Cross None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johan W. von Goethe When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at a rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundredth blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.
- Jacob Riis No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.
- Cesar Chavez It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.
- Bertrand Russell Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas Edison I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.
- Cesar Chavez Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.
- Dave Dellinger When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.
- Ammon Hennacy, US Labor leader Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
- Abraham Lincoln Do you want long life and happiness? Strive for peace with all your heart.
- Psalm 34:12,14 It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.
- Bernard Haring If you live alone, whose feet will you wash?
- St. Basil Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.
- St. Francis de Sales Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace.
- Luke 19:42 I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
- Eve Merriam Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible- not to have to run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)Former UN General Secretary Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.
- Vatican statement to the U.N., 1976 We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
- Maya Angelou In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
- Dorothy Day Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at at time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action in the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.
- Dorothy Day, 1963 Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
- Goethe Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you."
- Sufi Teaching The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'
- Abdul Ghaffar Khann Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
- Anonymous When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
- General Omar Bradley If you obey all the rules you will miss the fun.
- Katherine Hepburn We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.
- Gerard Vanderhaar The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
- Joan Baez Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
- Thich Nhat Hanh The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
- Baha'ullah What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau He who can control his rising anger as a coachman controls his carriage at full speed, this man I call a good driver; others merely hold the reins.
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Articles & News:  How to give minor parties a real voice in election
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By Dr. Zoltan Lucas - of Oceanside. The two-party domination of national politics shuts out third party and independent voices. The method of "electoral fusion" can go a long way to correct this. Electoral fusion is an arrangement where two or more political parties on a ballot list the same candidate, pooling the votes for that candidate. Fusion voting was initially widely used in the United States, but as minor political parties became increasingly adept at pushing their policies by using this method, most state legislatures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries banned its use. NC Forum Letters Night Jan 29
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North County liberal's highlight event, the Annual Letters to the Editor Awards Night announced for January 29. A record attendance anticipated for highly popular event. RSVP as soon as possible to be included. Trial seems to be leaning toward gay marriage
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The federal appeals court on Monday (Dec. 6) appeared generally inclined to support the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. But how the judges reach that historic conclusion remains unpredictable. Judge Smith repeatedly challenged the anti-gay marriage attorney, appearing particularly troubled by the fact that California has broad protections for same-sex couples under its domestic partnership laws, yet forbids them to marry.
"What is the rational basis then if homosexuals have all the rights heterosexual couples have?" Smith asked. "We're left with a word: marriage." Darrell Issa votes against jobless benefits
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DARRELL ISSA votes against jobless benefits. The jobless of America face a scary Christmas, while Darrell Issa's net worth increased by 19% this year. OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
Let's Not make a Deal on Bush Tax Cuts
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By Paul Krugman - "Democrats have tried to compromise: let tax cuts for the wealthy expire, but extend tax cuts for the middle class. Republicans, however, are having none of it. They have been filibustering Democratic attempts to separate tax cuts that mainly benefit a tiny group of wealthy Americans from those that mainly help the middle class. It’s all or nothing, they say: all the Bush tax cuts must be extended." So let's stand fast and make NO DEAL!. Fail and still grow rich on Wall Street
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By Robert Scheer - "Welcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism. The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that corporate profits are at their highest level in U.S. history, and the Fed released minutes of an early November meeting in which officials predicted a stagnant economy and continued high unemployment." The banks have staged "The Quiet Coup," in which the financial industry is fully in charge of the government's response to our economic problems. The result ... is "the reemergence of an American financial oligarchy" 'When I Am Old, I Will Still Be a Feminist'
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By Kit-Bacon Gressitt of Fallbrook - The mature age writer has to select a college major. She considers and eliminates one after the other. "This leaves me with one final option, and what a surprise it is see to it there at the bottom of the list of academic offerings: Women’s Studies! Who knew? I surely didn’t. I figured Women’s Studies had gone the way of the dial telephone, mercury thermometers and women who proudly claimed the title feminist without contorting its definition to accommodate mama grizzly bears, patriarchal institutions and flirtatious stump speeches."
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GOP Senate roadblocks START missle treaty
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The Republicans have gone from the "Party of Hell NO!" to the pure "Party of Hell", when one considers the dangers of nuclear weapons and the necessity of ratification of the New START treat on nuclear warheads. Republican Senators refuse to ratify this treaty with Russian, thus preventing the U.S. from pursing the "Trust but verify" principle. Read this article. This is far more important to the security and safety of our nation than tax cuts for the rich. Daniel Ellsburg calls for boycott of Amazon.com
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Daniel Ellsberg penned an open letter to Amazon.com, saying he's "disgusted" by Amazon taking WikiLeaks offline under the pretense of a violation of its terms of service. He said the company capitulated to absurd demands by Sen. Joe Lieberman and others who "aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing."
"For the last several years, I’ve been spending over $100 a month on new and used books from Amazon. That’s over. I ask Amazon to terminate immediately my membership in Amazon Prime and my Amazon credit card and account, to delete my contact and credit information from their files and to send me no more notices." Democrats: A smaller but stronger army of liberals
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In the minority, Democrats might be unable to pass legislation, but they can sharply define our movement outside Washington, sharply define choices for the American people and expose money grubbing conservatives who will use their newfound power to further corporate interests. A smaller, but more united and stronger army of liberals can force Obama back to the real principle of government for the people.
AIDS pill helps gay men avoid HIV infection
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Scientists have an exciting breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. A pill already used to treat HIV infection turns out to be a powerful weapon in protecting healthy gay men from catching the virus, a global study found. But the drug is very expensive: American patients are charged up to $14,000 a year, but foreign patients are able to use generics costing only $.39 (39 cents) a day. This is why Medicare is going broke. London mayor Warns Bush He will be arrested
Keith Olbermann talks with Jonathan Turley (law professor) about a piece in the conservative Daily Telegraph where Boris Johnson, Mayor Of London, advises George W. Bush not to bring his book tour to Britain, because he could face arrest as a war criminal. BILL MOYERS: Plutocracy destroying our democracy
"Plutocracy and Democracy don't mix", states Bill Moyers. It is the rule of the rich, which is anathema to democracy. It is buying up and enslaving the political and spiritual soul of America. It greatest threat is controlling the minds of the weak and vulnerable segment of the populace though media propaganda. It uses the sacred tools of democracy to destroy democracy from within. FBI demands more spying authority on Americans
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ACLU: The FBI is lobbying tech companies including Google and Facebook to win support for an Obama administration proposal to expand its Internet wiretapping capabilities. The ACLU remains very concerned that this proposal is a clear recipe for abuse and will make it that much easier for the government to gain access to our most personal information. Americans should not simply surrender their privacy and other fundamental values in the name of national security. GOP may wind up killing the recovering patient
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By Paul Krugman: "Our nation is in much worse shape, much closer to a political breakdown, than most people realize," wrote Paul Krugman, Nobel economics prize winner in his latest column. America is a weak patient coming out of intensive care, and the new Republicans in Congress can't wait to bludgeon America and draw blood." This may have tragic unintended consequences for the economy. NY Times editorial: Power of the Hispanic Vote
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"Democrats were hurt in the midterm election by low turnouts or faltering support from voters who were young, black or female. But overwhelming support from Hispanic voters appears to have helped elect Democratic senators in Nevada, California, Colorado and possibly Washington State. Hispanic voters may have kept the Senate in Democratic hands." And their power will continue to grow, bringing a new wave of moral consciousness to America. The Next Crash Will Be Ecological, and
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"...three facts. 2010 is globally the hottest year since records began. 2010 is the year humanity's emissions of planet-warming gases reached its highest level ever. And exactly as the climate scientists predicted, we are seeing a rapid increase in catastrophic weather events, from the choking of Moscow by gigantic unprecedented forest fires to the drowning of one quarter of Pakistan." Vitamin D is miracle vitamin for optimum health
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A long-awaited report from the Institute of Medicine to be released Tuesday triples the recommended amount of vitamin D most Americans should take every day to 600 international units from 200 IUs set in 1997. From Wall St. Journal AFTERSHOCK: The Next Economy, America’s Future
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New Book Review: - "AFTERSHOCK": The Next Economy and America's Future" - by Robert Reich
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AFTERSHOCK may well be the most important book written on the current economic crisis. It offers a critical insight seen in very few other places: The fundamental cause of our problems is the relentless drive toward income concentration. The problem with concentrating income into the hands of a few people is that you take money from millions of people who would spend nearly all of it, and give it to a tiny number of people who can't and won't spend it -- but will instead save it, gamble with it, or invest it offshore. The end result is simply too few viable consumers to drive the economy. The Pentagon's wildly irrational spending binge.
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"This year, the United States will spend at least $700 billion on defense and security. Adjusting for inflation, that’s more than America has spent on defense in any year since World War II—more than during the Korean war, the Vietnam war, or the Reagan military buildup. Much of that enormous sum results from spending increases under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Since 2001, military and security expenditures have soared by 119 percent." From The NEW REPUBLIC WikiLeaks to release a U.S. bank's documents
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The founder of whistle-blower website WikiLeaks plans to release tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank early next year, Forbes Magazine reported. Julian Assange expects the megaleak would lead to investigations. New German power system may make other obsolete
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Nov. 25, 2010 - Two German firms have developed and are now installing 100,000 small heating-and-power generators in homes and apartment buildings. This "distributed generation" system is far more efficient than convention power and heating systems, and will produce the equivalent power of two nuclear power plants. A major breakthrough that could make conventional power companies obsolete. Assange detained by British authorities
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From GUARDIAN UK - The 39-year-old Australian, who is wanted in Sweden over allegations he sexually assaulted two women, was refused bail on the grounds there was a risk he would fail to surrender. [NOTE: - Because he failed to use a condom, Interpol sent out a worldwide alert!]
The ruling came despite Jemima Khan, film director Ken Loach and veteran journalist John Pilger standing up in court to offer to act at surety for Assange. A couple for 44 years, still denied right to marry
Edith "Edie" Windsor, who shared her life with her late spouse, Thea Spyer, for 44 years, filed a lawsuit against the federal government for refusing to recognize their marriage. The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the "Defense of Marriage Act", a federal statute that defines marriage for all federal purposes as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. Windsor and Spyer were married in Canada in 2007 and were considered married by their home state of New York.
Warren Buffett says Raise taxes for the rich!!
The world's 2nd richest man, investor Warren Buffet, explains how government saved the U.S. from a major Depression & that the rich should be paying a lot more in taxes. He admits he pays a lower percentage of his income on taxes than anyone in his office.
America is increasingly becoming a Corporatocracy/Plutoctracy.
In 1979 the wealthiest 2% of the U.S. took in 9% of our GDP. 30 years later in 2009 they took 24%. SHAME: Obama ready to surrender to Republicans
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"If Obama Will Not Fight for Fair Taxes and Fiscal Stability, What Will He Fight For?" asks John Nichols of THE NATION. "This negotiation is not headed toward a compromise. It is headed toward a complete capitulation." It will have a disastrous effect upon the Democratic base. Cartoons of the Week
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Dirty underside of American 'diplomacy'
Right-winger reaction to patdown
Republican compassion
WikiLeaks exposes texting teens
WikiLeaks exposes Santa
Stop the Big Oil Bailout!
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While reaping the largest corporate profits in history, BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron and other Big Oil companies have taken more than $35 billion in special subsidies and tax breaks from U.S. taxpayers. After dumping millions of gallons of oil into our oceans and waterways, they want us to help pay the cleanup bill. Go to http://www.stopbigoilbailouts.com/ to sign the petition.
Cry for Help for an Iraq War Vet
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A "former" Active Duty Iraq Army War Resister, now a veteran, rated by the VA with 100% PTSD from the TRAUMA he suffered at the hands of the US Military, has nothing but the clothes on his back. No glasses, dishes, pots & pans, utensils, bed, pillows, sheets, blankets, lamps, dresser, night stands, area rugs, couch, chair, end tables, lamps, kitchen table or chairs. In short. NOTHING. If you have anything at all to donate, please email the list of items to Jan Ruhman. Tom DeLay convicted of 2 felony counts!
Happy Thanksgiving, Tom DeLay! The gavel wins over the hammer... You heard it first from ProgressivePost:
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RUSS FEINGOLD for the US Supreme Court! (By Joe Howard Crews)
Feingold's legal
credentials:
Harvard University Law School, Juris Doctor with Honors, 1979
- Rhodes Scholar, Final Honours School of Jurisprudence, Magdalen College, Oxford .University
SD Unified school board puts limits on military
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On Nov. 30, 2010, the San Diego Unified school board voted 4-1 to adopt a policy to regulate and restrict recruiting in all the district's schools. Among these are: - only two recruiting visits/year
- no soliciting of personal information directly from students
- no disruption of classes or interfering with students
- recruiters must remain at a designated spot and not approach students
- no weapons displays Gay couple gets married in Dallas via Skype
Through the power of Skype, a gay couple in Texas, where same-sex marriage isn't legal, can be wed by an official in the District of Columbia, where it is legal. It’s called "E-marriage," and it's a high-tech version of the proxy wedding traditionally held when one of the parties can’t be physically present — because, for example, they’re in the military stationed overseas. Here is the video of the Dallas couple being married.
Massive raw leak threatened if Assange harmed
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Julian Assange's [1] lawyer has warned that supporters of the WikiLeaks [2] founder will unleash a "thermonuclear device" of government files containing the names of spies, sources and informants if he's killed or brought to trial.
Assange has dubbed the unfiltered cache of documents his "insurance" policy. Experts said that even powerful military computers can't crack the encryption without the key. LATE BREAKING NEWS
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