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Papers please! Anti-Smoking FASCIST calls for 'License to Smoke'!


Bigpondnews.com
Sun, 22 May 2011 02:03 UTC
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Professor Simon Chapman: fascist
There's been a call to license smoking, and to have a system similar to the one proposed for gamblers, to limit the number of cigarettes people can smoke in a set time.

The Sunday Age reports this morning Professor Simon Chapman, an anti-smoking campaigner from the University of Sydney says a smoking ban could be a reality within 10 to 15 years, and he believes a licensing scheme, using a swipe card for authorised smokers, would pave the way.

Comment: The only antidote to this kind of pathological poison is to say...

Let's All Light Up!

Oh, and by the way, Smoking Helps Protect Against Lung Cancer.

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France, Cannes: Horrified Viewers Flee Antonio Banderas' New Flick Due to Extreme Sex, Violence Scenes

Jo Piazza
Fox News
Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00 UTC
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May 19: Director Pedro Almodovar (C) poses with cast members Elena Anaya (L) and Antonio Banderas (R) on the red carpet for the screening of the film La Piel Que Habito, in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival.
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's latest thriller, The Skin I Live In, had filmgoers fleeing the theater Thursday night at its gala premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, due to some aggressively violent and disturbing content.

The film, which stars Antonio Banderas and budding actress Spanish actress Elena Anaya, focuses on a mad but brilliant surgeon (Banderas) who kidnaps a man who raped his daughter.

The doctor's daughter killed herself from the grief and it drives him to take very drastic measures. This is where it gets complicated and disturbing.

Banderas then gives the rapist a sex change and transplants his deceased daughter's face onto his body.

He later has sex with the man he has brutally experimented on and turned into a woman.
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Ban Shopping Bags says EU

Dana Gloger
Express.co.uk
Sat, 21 May 2011 17:37 UTC
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The EU was under fire last night for seeking a ban on plastic shopping bags to fight pollution
The EU (European Union) was under fire last night for seeking a ban on plastic shopping bags to fight pollution.

Shops in Britain could be outlawed from stocking them, or alternatively there might be a new tax to dramatically reduce their use.

But angry retailers say any move would hit sales, while doing nothing to save the environment.

Richard Dodd of the British Retail Consortium said yesterday: "A Europe-wide ban on bags is unnecessary. It is likely to alienate customers from the green agenda, which is the opposite of what the European Union is trying to do. It is not appropriate for the EU to get involved."

The average British family uses 12 plastic ­carriers for the weekly food shop, while 46 per cent take home up to 10 from each visit. A ban would require people to remember to take their own bags each time they go shopping. Unplanned trips will be almost wiped out as bags will not be available for purchases.
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US: Louisville Woman Pulls Sword at Pizza Hut


Fox News
Fri, 20 May 2011 10:08 UTC
Louisville, Kentucky - Police say a woman involved in an argument at a Louisville Pizza Hut raised the stakes considerably when she tried to pull a sword.

It happened Thursday night, shortly after 9 p.m. at the Pizza Hut on 7th St. Rd., near Dixie Hwy.

According to an arrest report, police were called to the restaurant after they received reports that 29-year-old Wynika Mason was "causing trouble." When they got there, she allegedly began yelling at the officers.

An employee told the officers that, shortly before they arrived, Mason began yelling at him and told him that she had a sword on her person. The employee said that Mason, "began to raise it out of the sheath" when her brother seized it from her and put it in their vehicle outside.

Police say Mason told them that she did indeed have a sword and it was still in the vehicle. Officers recovered the sword, according to the arrest report.

Officers say customers and employees were both inside the Pizza Hut when the events occurred, and that the employees, "felt threatened by her behavior."

Mason was charged with disorderly conduct and menacing.
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Attention

Syrian forces fire into crowds as thousands protest


Reuters
Fri, 20 May 2011 17:33 UTC
Syrian security forces fired live rounds into crowds gathered for at least two protests in the central city of Homs, an activist in the city said, as pro-democracy demonstrations erupted across the country on Friday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the coastal city of Banias, which was stormed by the army this month, witnessed the largest demonstration since the uprising began in southern Syria nine weeks ago.
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US: Woman Threatens Dairy Queen Employees with a Grenade


Fox News
Fri, 20 May 2011 13:57 UTC
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Renee Deshaies
Mesa, Arizona - Police say a homeless woman entered a Dairy Queen restaurant and threatened employees with a grenade.

When 30-year-old Renee Deshaies attempted to leave the scene near Olive and Main Street, she still had the grenade in her hand.

The victims believed the grenade was real and feared for their safety.

Police say the grenade was not real and was only used for training purposes.

When Deshaies was interviewed, she believed it was real.

She was arrested less than a mile away from the scene near Hobson and 1st Street.

Deshaies faces disorderly conduct and misconduct with a simulated explosive charges.
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US: Arizona SWAT Team Defends Shooting Iraq Vet 60 Times

Ellen Tumposky
ABC News
Fri, 20 May 2011 17:25 UTC
jose guerena
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SWAT officers fired at least 71 shots at suspect Jose Guerena, a former U.S. Marine, and a family struggles to put the pieces together.
A Tucson, Arizona SWAT team defends shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first.

And the Pima County sheriff scolded the media for "questioning the legality" of the shooting.
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US: Attorney: Arizona SWAT raid found guns, body armor

Fernanda Echavarri
Arizona Daily Star
Fri, 20 May 2011 17:16 UTC
Michael Storie, Christopher Scileppi
© David Sanders, Jill Torrance/Arizona Daily Star
Attorney representing the officers Michael Storie, right, and Christopher Scileppi, who is representing the Guerena family
The man shot and killed by Pima County SWAT officers was linked to a home-invasion crew, the attorney representing the officers said Thursday.

Attorney Michael Storie said authorities found rifles, handguns, body armor and a portion of a law-enforcement uniform inside the house where Jose Guerena was shot by officers serving a search warrant May 5.
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Gear

US: Blagojevich Trial To Resume On Wednesday

Todd Feurer
CBS News
Fri, 20 May 2011 17:04 UTC
Rod Blagojevich
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Deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at court Thursday, May 19, for another day of testimony in his retrial.
No testimony was heard and jurors were not present Friday in the retrial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, but there were plenty of developments from the defense team.

Blagojevich's attorneys met with the judge Friday morning to discuss their strategy and a list of potential witnesses.

Originally, the defense was told to be ready to begin on Monday, but late Friday afternoon, the Clerk of the Court announced that there would be no trial on Monday and the trial would resume on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge James Zagel already had a prior commitment for Tuesday, so the trial was already taking that day off.
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Couple Accused Of Starving 5 Children


KPTV
Sat, 21 May 2011 16:56 UTC
Longview, Washington -- Cowlitz County sheriff's deputies said they arrested a Longview couple after discovering their five adopted children were severely malnourished.

Investigators said Washington State Children Protective Services contacted the sheriff's office in early March.

Detectives said Jeffrey and Rebecca Trebilcock's adopted 13-year-old was taken to Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland for broken bones and severe malnourishment. The boy was 4 feet 4 inches tall and weighed just 49 pounds.

Investigators said the couple's four adopted girls, ages 10 to 12 years old, were also underweight and found to be in "neglect" by a pediatrician.
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