When Bees are Outlawed Only Outlaws will have Bees

Just found this on Treehugger.   This is a crazy policy.  "Just read how beekeeping is illegal in New York. Another one of Guliani's quality of life issues, like jaywalking and dancing. One more...

King is gay, but homosexuality outlawed

It is one of the oddest thing on earth: the monarch is homosexual, but the subjects both gays and lesbians can be jailed for their sexual-orientation. "Sultan Qaboos, 68, of Oman is the world's first gay king in...

Tackling terrorism: a new approach

What comes to light in the wake of the Mumbai attacks is that like the sundry other criminal mafias operating in nearly every corner of the world, the organizations sponsoring terror are structured -- and dangerously on the verge of becoming institutionalized. "Tackling...

pakistani army trying to get success over masood

" Pakistani authorities have placed restrictions on the movement of Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), "by confining him to his multi-storeyed concrete compound in the Model Town...

Official: Pakistan group leaders linked to attacks

A bomb disposal squad officer, center, takes a suspicious box to the police station after diffusing a bomb at Chhatrapati Shivaji train station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. Police on Wednesday...

Utah Congressmen Mailed “9/11 Conspiracies”, Hand Them Over To Capitol Po...

"An otherwise uninteresting article in the Salt Lake Tribune, about Utah representatives receiving different kinds of mail, has thrown up some disturbing information regarding letters about 9/11 truth. Amongst the...

Swiss far right wins support for referendum to ban minarets

I am always amazed by the amount of effort some people expend in getting upset by what others believe or do."SWITZERLAND: SWITZERLAND BRACED itself for a troubled campaign of Islamophobia yesterday after the far right won enough support to force a national vote to ban...

Defend Fair Copyright in Canada

All Canadians should be worried about this."Following pressure from the U.S. government and entertainment lobbies, the Canadian government announced sweeping changes to Canadian copyright law. The changes mirror...

Adult Cyber Bullying- Should laws protecting children also be applied toward ...

"'Cyber-rape' outlawed: N.J. cracks down on computer-aided crime Date: January 19, 2005 Source: APP.com By: Kathleen Hopkins  WOOD-RIDGE -- It was a sunny spring day when Trish Barteck was trimming plants in her front yard in this Bergen County community on April 19,...

Troops mass in northwest Pakistan

Pakistan wanted in.  They got what they were looking for it seems.  Doesn't anybody get it yet?  All this death is simply eating away at the basic humanity and so far, no one can envision anything...

Website bomb-making lessons to be outlawed across Europe

"Placing instructions on how to make a bomb on the internet will become a criminal offence across Europe under plans outlined by Brussels yesterday. Arguments about freedom of expression will not be allowed to stand in the way of criminalising the publication of bomb-making...

Commanding Military Control Freaks Shut Down Mil-Bloggers :: MAXINE

"In a move that can only be described as BONEHEADED, the Army, today, has just outlawed blogging by members of the military. Thank-You General Casey (Maj. Ray Ceralde, the Army OPSEC program manager and author of...

"I'm not a lesbian" claims Aunty Maiduguri

I suspect the next news story featuring Aunty Maiduguri is that she has been found murdered ...."Nigeria, a country not noted for its lax treatment of criminals or those suspected of being criminals is not the place to be holding any sort of event that could be...

Germany Pushes EU Holocaust Denial Ban

Holocaust denial is already a crime under German law; the nation wants to extend that law to the rest of the EU. The key to this debate is the issue of freedom of speech, and whether or not it would be hindered by...

Utah Bans Trademark Keyword Ads

This seems unusually burdensome for search engines, and impractical in general. "The US state of Utah has outlawed the use of other people's trade marks to generate business through search engines. The plan has been called unconstitutional and impractical. In creating a new...

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