Queen Elizabeth II: Elizabeth and Victoria in numbers – BBC News
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What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
It’s one thing to know Cheney’s policy towards Iran failed. It’s something else to see him get caught lying about it on national television.
Cheney’s Iran lie exposed in dramatic fashion
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Family and friends of a local soldier tell WDSU he was mistreated and burned by a deputy during a traffic stop in Mississippi.
WTF?
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie warned on Tuesday that Islamic State was using rape as a weapon of war on a scale never seen before and called for greater action against those responsible.
Source: Angelina Jolie warns Islamic State using rape on unprecedented scale | ABS-CBN News
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One hundred children orphaned by the Syrian civil war could find a home in Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica’s summer retreat, “a mansion and riverfront estate surrounded by rolling pastures,” according to Yahoo News.
The World’s Most Humble President Just Opened His House to 100 Syrian Refugee Children
Like the sound of this guy
these guys came up in conversation so I am putting this here.
Because, well, Team Hoyt! Yay!
Iran announced Wednesday that they will crack down on women who go rogue and do things such as driving without a proper head covering.
Iran to Confiscate Cars of ‘Poorly’ Veiled Women
Sighhh
Ryan Gosling eats cereal to honor late meme creator – Boing Boing
How can I have missed this meme?
Brilliant!
“Now we are free. For five days in Hungary, we were in a very, very bad position. And Allah, thanks God, thanks God,” a migrant told CBS News
Germany, Austria welcome migrants with open arms – CBS News
cool!
The EPA’s office of environmental health hazard assessment in California wants to label four chemicals, including the most popular herbicide and key ingredient of Monsanto’s Roundrup, glyphosate, as “known to cause cancer,” following the most recent WHO cancer research division’s report.
California EPA mulls labeling Monsanto’s Roundup as being ‘known to cause cancer’ — RT USA
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President Obama plans to use Labor Day to announce a new step toward increased benefits for workers — ordering companies that do business with the government to provide paid sick leave for their employees.
Obama adds another worker benefit: paid sick leave – LA Times
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Vice President Joe Biden warned on Monday that “something is wrong” with the American economy as he launched a Labor Day march here with speculation swirling that he may run for President.
Joe Biden: ‘Something is wrong’ in the economy – CNNPolitics.com
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LONDON (AP) — Researchers have discovered evidence of standing stones believed to be the remnants of a major prehistoric stone monument near the Stonehenge ruins.
Hidden prehistoric monument discovered near Stonehenge
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Five American Jewish seminary students were rescued [by local Palestinians] from an attack by [other] local Palestinians who hurled stones and a firebomb at their car.
American Yeshiva Students Escape Attack in West Bank Town
Sigh……..
UN finds only 33 of 2,020 Palestinian planning applications approved, with demolitions causing poverty and leaving families in ‘state of chronic uncertainty’
Israel plans to demolish 17,000 Arab buildings in West Bank, UN says | World news | The Guardian
Motherfuckers
Some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes “in a state of chronic uncertainty and threat,” the UN said Monday.
Middle East – West Bank homes face Israeli demolition order threat – France 24
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