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Character study: A rapper who thinks he's hardcore because...

...he eats dried cranberries and drinks indigestion medicine.

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What makes a story Current?

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Obama Backup Found – The Indonesian Copy

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CRIME PAYS

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Affordable Organics Come to Jewel Grocery Store

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Girls Cant Dance

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Gary McKinnon, the British hacker facing extradition

Update June 2008: McKinnon's legal team have managed to keep him in the UK so far, but the results of a hearing that was held on May 16, 2008 might change that. Although complicated, the House of Lords process may ultimately decide whether McKinnon is sent to the USA, allowed to stay in the UK or given the opportunity to serve a predetermined sentence in the UK based on a conviction under American Law. The problem is that U.S. and UK Laws differ in many ways and trying to match up the processes involved is no easy task no matter what side of this issue you are on. Many believe that Britain's lack of enthusiasm to prosecute McKinnon may be motivated by their own secrecy or even revenge. Some people say that McKinnon was secretly and unknowingly being used as a pawn by one or more British Intelligence Services. They believe that these services wanted to know what the U.S. Military did and does about ETs and their agenda. Others say that failure of the USA to turn over IRA supporters, sympathizers, fund-raisers and members to the UK during the 1960s and 1970s has resulted in the current stalemate with McKinnon.
Background: A Briton accused of hacking into Nasa and US military computer networks has spoken out about his experiences. (Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK's national high-tech crime unit in 2002.)
McKinnon earns Lords appeal
Pentagon hacker in legal victory
By John Leyden
Published Tuesday 31st July 2007 10:30 GMT
Gary McKinnon, the British hacker facing extradition over allegations he broke into US Military and NASA sites, has earned the right to take his case to the House of Lords.

The law Lords agreed to hear arguments that US authorities acted in an "oppressive" and "arbitrary" manner during plea bargaining negotiations, for example by allegedly threatening McKinnon over the loss of rights to serve part of his sentence in the UK unless he submitted to voluntary extradition.

The House of Lords was not bound to consider McKinnon's final appeal - for example it declined to hear the appeal of the NatWest Three bankers, so the Lords' decision is a significant fillip for McKinnon and his legal team.Update June 2008: McKinnon's legal team have managed to keep him in the UK so... more

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This President's Day remember that George Washington raised hemp and probably smoked it

This President's Day remember that George Washington raised hemp and probably smoked it

George Washington raised large quantities of hemp. So did Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and virtually every other 1700s American farmer.

It is also highly likely at least some of them smoked its potent sibling, now known as marijuana.

Perhaps we should commemorate the upcoming President's Day by honoring George Washington with a National Celebration to Re-Legalize Hemp and Marijuana.

Indeed, in the Age of Obama, this old news has a new meaning. It is time to end Hemp/Marijuana Prohibition. With Bush gone and a new generation taking charge, we may finally have a chance to do it. Our nation's famous Founders are our key allies.

Since 1937 the US has suffered through a period of hemp persecution that all the Founders---from Washington to Franklin, from Adams to Madison---would have deemed absolutely insane.

In their honor, in renewed protest against this absurd Prohibition, PASSIONS OF THE PATRIOTS, by 'Thomas Paine,' is now being published. As we approach President's Day, this 'based on true history' novel shows Washington and his cohorts in their natural state, growing and smoking what we now call 'pot' in mass quantities.

In his farm journal of August 7, 1765, Washington notes that he 'began to separate (sic) the male from the female hemp'rather too late.' An astute agronomist, Washington could only have been seeking a crop with stronger 'medicinal' qualities. Founders who smoked bales of tobacco and consumed oceans of beer (Washington was young America's leading brewer) could not have missed the recreational properties of a crop well known for five millennia.

As for industrial hemp, growing it has actually been mandatory at various times in our history. Most recently Kansas was virtually carpeted with it as part of the effort to win World War Two.

For more than 5,000 years, dating back at least to ancient China, hemp has been used for paper, rope, sails, cloth, clothing, fuel, food, and much more. Today the rich oil in hemp seeds should be a staple of our conversion to clean, green bio-diesel fuels. Its stems and leaves could be a core crop for making cellulosic ethanol. Re-legalized hemp cultivation could quickly become a multi-billion-dollar bonanza for American farmers, just as it was immensely profitable for George Washington and his cohorts.

Hemp is great for the environment because it is a hardy perennial. It needs no annual re-seeding, no plowing, no fertilizer, no pesticides, no herbicides. Its seeds are loved by birds of all varieties, and are so full of vitamins and protein they comprise a pure, clean supplement for the modern human diet.

An acre of hemp produces five times as much paper as an acre of trees. The product is more durable and easier to manufacture. At least one draft each of the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution were written on it.This President's Day remember that George Washington raised hemp and probably... more

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It's Art, NOT child porn...Stupid!

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White House Farmer: FINAL DAY TO VOTE!

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American Citizens Beware!

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2012: An End or a Beginning?

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Millennials reject Values of Establishment

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Endangering the Males of ALL Species

The feminisation of the males of many species is being attributed to 'gender... more

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Liberty and Freedom

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GAZA: YOU TOO CAN HELP

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This week on Current - Slumdog under fire, Secret Tweets & Broadband for all (26/01 - 30/01)

In the past week, the critically acclaimed film "Slumdog Millionaire" has... more

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Perfect Space Storm Could be Catastrophic on Earth

The prediction is based in part on major solar storm in 1859 caused telegraph wires to... more

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Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88... more

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I was, was banned for being Pro-Israel

See "I was timcat_blues"

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