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I see this: Poland targets 'gay' Teletubbies By Adam EastonBBC News, Warsaw Tinky Winky was once attacked by the late US Rev Jerry Falwell A senior Polish official has ordered psychologists to investigate whether the popular BBC TV show Teletubbies promotes a homosexual lifestyle. The spokesperson for children's rights in Poland, Ewa Sowinska, singled out [...]
Tue, May 29 2007 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
From the BBC: Venezuela's government has accused a TV station of inciting people to kill President Hugo Chavez, hours after taking another network off the air. It said footage shown on Globovision implicitly called for Mr Chavez to be killed. The station denies the claim. Communications Minister William Lara said Globovision had called for the [...]
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The Congressional Quarterly's Jeff Stein on why stories about the horrific failures of the Bush administration on Iraq deserve to be told, but why the public might be tuning out. Via truthout: Suddenly the Cassandras are everywhere. These days you can't drop a Blackberry between Capitol Hill and Dupont Circle without it being stepped on [...]
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From the Boston Globe via truthout: GOP Rivals Embrace Unproven Iraq-9/11 Tie In defending the Iraq war, leading Republican presidential contenders are increasingly echoing words and phrases used by President Bush in the run-up to the war that reinforce the misleading impression that Iraq was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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