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• 1.8 MILLION dead people still registered to vote in the U.S., study says

  By The Red Phoenix on February 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  24 million of the nation’s active voter registrations have serious errors, Pew Center on the States finds By Braden Goyette / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS At least 1.8 million registered voters won’t be showing up to the polls this fall… Read More ›

• New Jersey Senate Votes to Legalize Gay Marriage

  By The Red Phoenix on February 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By KATE ZERNIKE  TRENTON — The New Jersey State Senate voted on Monday to legalize same-sex marriage, a significant shift in support from two years ago, when a similar measure failed. The legislation faces a vote on Thursday in the… Read More ›

• Chemical Weapons and Iranian Invasions: Syria Hysteria Turns to Wild Rumors

  By The Red Phoenix on February 15, 2012 • ( 0 )

  State Dept Claims Assad Allies Planning ‘Exit Strategy’ by Jason Ditz, February 10, 2012 In past examples (notably Iraq) the clearest indication of a forthcoming war have been when the reports on the ground turned from exaggerations to hysteria to… Read More ›

• Niger won’t extradite Saadi Gadhafi

  By The Red Phoenix on February 15, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  NIAMEY, Libya, Feb. 11 (UPI) — Officials in Niger said Saturday they will not return Saadi Gadhafi, son of deposed Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, to Libya because he might be killed there. Marou Amadou, a government spokesman, said Niger would… Read More ›

• NYPD Boss’ Son Returns To TV After Rape Claim

  By The Red Phoenix on February 15, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  NEW YORK — The New York City police commissioner’s TV host son resumed his morning show duties at “Good Day New York” on Friday, telling viewers it had been a tough couple of weeks but he was ready to get… Read More ›

• Trial of “Hutaree” Right-Wing Terrorist Militia Begins in Michigan

  By The Red Phoenix on February 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Tresa Baldas and David Ashenfelter, Detroit Free Press DETROIT – The government says they’re homegrown terrorists who plotted to kill police officers with bombs and guns. Their defense lawyers say they’re tough-talking, good ol’ boys who had no real… Read More ›

• Washington governor signs gay marriage law

  By The Red Phoenix on February 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Nicole Neroulias OLYMPIA, Wash | Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:20pm EST (Reuters) – Washington state became the seventh in the nation to put a law on its books recognizing same-sex marriage on Monday, as opponents of the measure signed… Read More ›

• Political Cartoons: 3 cartoons for the 1st anniversary of Bahrain (Unfinished) Revolution

  By The Red Phoenix on February 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• Protests as Bahrain uprising anniversary gets under way

  By The Red Phoenix on February 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Clashes have continued overnight in Bahrain’s capital, Manama. Security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters who gathered ahead of the first anniversary of the start of pro-democracy demonstrations in the Gulf kingdom on Tuesday. Thousands are expected… Read More ›

• Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News

  By The Red Phoenix on February 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Richard Engel and Robert Windrem Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by… Read More ›

• Police arrest suspect in videotaped beating of gay man

  By The Red Phoenix on February 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Atlanta (CNN) — One of three suspects in a videotaped beating of a gay man has been arrested, Atlanta police said Saturday. Christopher Cain, 18, was taken into custody around midnight and charged with aggravated assault and robbery, said a… Read More ›

• Israel shackles Palestinian hunger striker

  By The Red Phoenix on February 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem Khader Adnan, detained without charge for two months, may be close to death say human rights groups A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than eight weeks is being kept shackled to… Read More ›

• Hackers target CIA, Mexican, Alabama websites

  By The Red Phoenix on February 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico’s mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down Friday, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported. A message Friday on a Twitter page and Tumblr feed affiliated… Read More ›

• Anti-ACTA protests erupt across Europe

  By The Red Phoenix on February 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Erik Kirschbaum and Irina Ivanova (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of protesters took part in rallies across Europe on Saturday against an international anti-piracy agreement they fear will curb their freedom to download movies and music for free and… Read More ›

• Cold terror for Europe: 550 dead, tens of thousands snowed in

  By The Red Phoenix on February 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Snow drifts reaching up to rooftops kept tens of thousands of villagers prisoners in their own homes Saturday as the death toll from Europe’s big freeze rose past 550. More heavy snow fell on the Balkans and in Italy, while… Read More ›