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Intaction Anti-Circumcision Activists Picket Home of Leading Pediatrician

On Saturday November 16, members of the anti-circumcision activist group INTACTION http://www.intaction.org picketed outside the home of Susan Blank, M.D., chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Members of the anti-circumcision activist group INTACTION picketed outside the home of Susan Blank, M.D., chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision.

The Intaction picketers are demanding the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force retract it’s recently released report (Pediatrics Vol 130 No 3 Sept 2012 "Circumcision Policy Statement") that promotes infant circumcision.

Petunia The Pork Detective sez: `It Pays to Sue the IRS!`

The ACLJ lawsuit names US Attorney General Eric Holder, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, acting IRS Commissioner Werfel, former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller and other IRS employees such as Lois Lerner and Holly Paz all as defendants.

(SALEM) - Oregon Capitol Watch Foundation’s Executive Director and former State Representative Jeff Kropf announces the IRS’s granting of their 501C3 tax exempt status after suing the IRS for their alleged unfair and unconstitutional targeting of the Foundation’s application.

“It sure looks like the IRS granted our tax exempt status in response to our joining the ACLJ lawsuit because they communicated the approval of our application through the ACLJ and not our corporate lawyer or me as the Executive Director” said Kropf.

An Open Letter to Sri Lankan Journalists

Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims. So many people gave us secret thumbs-ups or whispered, winked or nodded their support. Sometimes in the most surprising places.

(COLOMBO) - I definitely detected a delicious sense of “schadenfreude” from among you brave – but mischievous - Sri Lankan journalists, over the relentless harassment of me and my Channel 4 News colleagues by state intelligence, police and immigration officers.

I’m not referring to the ranting rottweiler “reporters” who do the regime’s clunky propagandist bidding, although I have no doubt that they enjoyed it too.

Israel`s Deadly Attacks on Gaza Strip Continue

"For all practical purposes, Israel has eliminated the Gaza rocket problem. Hamas has not only stopped firing rockets — it’s aggressively sent its police after the jihadi radicals who want to keep up the barrage." - Netanyahu, last week in the Jewish Daily Forward

(GAZA STRIP) - Israeli forces have been pounding the Gaza strip in recent days, killing many who are described as civilians and farmers. Hamas announces the death of Mohammed Ibrahim Al Bahloul, and say a number of Palestinian civilians have been killed in attacks on Syrian refugee camps.

The Palestinian death toll rose to at least 20 and the number of injured people rose to 190, stated the ministry on Friday.

US, UN Security Council Silent on Iran Embassy Attack (VIDEO)

The United States and the UN Security Council have yet to condemn the terrorist attacks on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, which killed a senior Iranian diplomat.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - Several hours following Tuesday’s deadly attacks, which killed and injured scores of people, Washington and the UN Security Council are still tight-lipped.

Iran has blamed Israel for the attack which killed more than 23 people and injured over 140 near the Iranian Embassy in the southern neighborhood of Janah. Iran's cultural attaché to Beirut Ebrahim Ansari was reportedly among the dead.

Passing the Torch of Life

Includes new song... The Voice by Ace featuring Ken O'Keefe and Gilad Atzmon....

(SACRAMENTO / BOSTON) - In this life, when confronted with immense hardship, we do our best to form with the changes and preserve our hearts.

We know remaining intact on a personal level is essential for the strength of others. We find ourselves suffering yet we move forward, living day by day, and eventually the burden eases.

The Monkey Trial of Reverend Kevin Annett

The full account of the Monkey Trial of Kevin Annett follows Bruce Gunn's deposition.

(DAYTONA BEACH) - Almost everybody in Canada for almost 20 years has heard about the monkey trial of Kevin Annett. Nobody - least of all the captive Canadian media or the government that underwrote the atrocity that was the root cause of that judicial stage play and later shrugged over the result.

As for the Canadian public, marinated in idiot religion for centuries, to this day can't quite believe that the sanctimonious Churches of Canada with their grape-juice communion and turkey-raffle outreach could possibly be the murderous medieval institutions that Kevin Annett proved them to be.

Risks of Manmade Chemicals in Drinking Water the Focus of 2013 NWRI Clarke Prize Lecture

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - Friedrich Nietzsche

(FOUNTAIN VALLEY) - Due to rapid advancements in analytical chemistry, a variety of manmade chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals, can now be detected at very low (trace) levels in all municipal wastewaters and most surface waters.

But what does the presence of these chemicals mean, and how do we define the risks (if any) to the public?

SRI LANKA: Uprooted Trincomalee Tamils Demand Justice for Genocide

The uprooted people have not even provided refugee relief allowance for the last several months...

(CHAMPOOR TamilNet) - A section of uprooted Tamil families from Champoor, now staying at one of four so-called welfare centres in Trincomalee, staged a protest on Saturday carrying slogans that demanded justice for genocide and urged global attention on the continued refusal by the Colombo government in allowing them to resettle in their own lands in Moorthoor East.

On Friday, a day before the protest, the occupying Sri Lankan military intelligence operatives, went on a house-to-house and camp-to-camp round instructing the Tamils not to take part in any protest during the ‘Sri Lanka CHOGM’.

Remains of Suspected Eighth Victim of Serial Killer Dayton Leroy Rogers Identified

Additional tips sought by authorities.

(CLACKAMAS) - Authorities have identified the remains of a suspected eighth victim of serial killer Dayton Leroy Rogers.

Dayton Leroy Rogers (born September 30, 1953), dubbed the "Molalla Forest Murderer," was convicted in seven murders, and currently resides at the Oregon State Penitentiary.