The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a challenge to the Defense Department policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting a request by the Obama administration.
The court said Monday that it will not hear an appeal from former Army Capt. James Pietrangelo II, who was dismissed under the military’s [...]

North Korea Army, girls in uniforms and war veterans]

People and places in North Korea photo gallery

Lifestyle in Iran before Islamic Revolution

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Ja, het is wel een goed idee om lid te worden van POWNED. Waarom? * omdat wanneer je aan een boom schudt er altijd wel eikels uitvallen (mits het een eik is…) * omdat een steen in het water van die leuke kringen maakt * omdat ze toch vaak wel de juiste vragen stellen * [...]

Last Friday Geert Wilders said: “I view Islam not as a religion, but as a dangerous, totalitarian ideology — equal to communism and fascism. Aren’t I allowed to say so?”
No, he isn’t allowed to say so. For statements like these, on Wednesday the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam ordered that Wilders be prosecuted for “incitement [...]

Sure, people said they were working during the inauguration, but the Internet tells a different tale. It seems that a large portion of Americans actually stopped working and searching the Internet while Obama was speaking, and on the flip side, Twitter and Facebook shot through the roof.
Google, on its official blog, reported a substantial drop [...]

Presidents Inaugurations Retrospective 1861-2009

Afghanistan documentary photo gallery

Politicians in the Netherlands ban magic mushrooms from december 2008. Now they are discussing cannabis. What do you think, a simple yes or no…
Legalize Cannabis or magic mushrooms?

Polly wants a cracker….

Islamic terror group Hezbollah has been linked to a Colombian drugs cartel, it has been revealed.
More than 100 suspects were arrested in the South American country and overseas on charges they trafficked drugs and laundered cash for Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel and the outlawed paramilitaries.
The network that stretched from South America to Asia, the [...]

Wanna make Sarah Palin eat a banana? Or bend over? Go for it!

Prison Life takes a look at the American prison system. It is broken down into two stages:  One shows us a maximum security prison, Pelican Bay Prison and  Two, MSNBC cameras takes a look at the problems behind bars.

Mexican Marijuana cartels use pesticides, herbicides that pollute US parks, forests.
National forests and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

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The Big Question:
IS IT TIME THE WORLD FORGOT ABOUT CANNABIS IN ITS WAR AGAINST DRUGS?
Why Are We Asking This Now?
Because yesterday a British think-tank published a report for next year’s United Nations Strategic Drug Policy Review, suggesting that a decriminalised, regulated market in cannabis would cause less harm than the prohibition of the drug [...]

Before people go shouting again that we are a democrat-loving blog: here are some Obama Jokes…

“Barack Obama was speaking to a Jewish group, and he told them that his name Barack is the same as the Jewish word ‘baruch,’ which means one who’s blessed. That’s what he said, yeah. Obama had a harder time explaining [...]