Atom Feed from Searchles Wed Jul 23 17:52:24 -0400 2008 en-us 747btrfly Wed Jul 23 02:44:16 -0400 2008 FTP: Any change in the legal definition of human trafficking attacks the fundamental integrity of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and will severely undermine our government's ability to battle what is now an international trade in children and women. Senators Biden and Brownback have taken a courageous stance to protect women from modern-day slavery. Their bill expands our country's commitment to protect vulnerable women and girls beyond the historic efforts to which our government dedicated itself with adoption of TVPA eight years ago. " 747btrfly Fri Jul 18 18:36:21 -0400 2008 Video Clip. FTP: "Whoopi then launched into a heated explanation of why black and white America still remain separate: "It isn't balanced, and we would like it to be, but you have to understand, you have to listen to the fact that we're telling you there are issues, there are huge problems that still affect us," she said. Elisabeth replied, in tears, "When we live in a world where pop culture then uses that term, and we're trying to get to a place where we feel like we're in the same place, where we feel like we're in the same world...how are we supposed to then move forward if we keep using terms that bring back that pain?" " driftabit Fri Jul 18 10:19:54 -0400 2008 Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday Friday by calling on the wealthy to share with the less fortunate and wishing that he had been able to spend more time with his family during the anti-apartheid struggle. 747btrfly Mon Jul 14 13:14:10 -0400 2008 Nice video here with the good Dr. Jenkins telling us all about the dangers of Firefox Addiction LOL. 747btrfly Mon Jul 14 13:06:15 -0400 2008 FTP: "The world is in need of healing. Firefox 3 provides so many options and tools that users become addicted and unable to do anything with these addons. We're here to help." Brian Sun Jul 13 04:06:38 -0400 2008 raana41 Thu Jul 10 18:41:43 -0400 2008 PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW! Lindsey Williams talks about his first hand knowledge of Alaskan oil reserves larger than any on earth. And he talks about how the oil companies and U.S. government won't send it through the pipeline for U.S. citizens to use. Recorded October 2007! ap101 Tue Jul 01 17:01:05 -0400 2008 Ricky Richard was fourteen when he was abducted from his home in Uganda and drafted into the Lord's Resistance Army, a violent rebel militia that has forced almost two million Ugandans from their homes. danglingwrangler Sat Jun 28 00:49:22 -0400 2008 Is this the major effort we have been waiting for as Bush tries in vain for any legacy, as he prepares for retirement… and relies on his Supreme Court Appointees to rein over freedom and American privacy for the next decade ? It took the US Department of Justice 4 times in 2005 to get the courts to grant the Bush White House the ability to force cell phone providers to turn over real-time, continuous physical location data on cell phone users, without first having to obtain a warrant or even demonstrate probable cause - remember that ? 747btrfly Thu Jun 26 21:40:31 -0400 2008 FTP: "To qualitatively advance the cause of media justice, its advocates must begin to take the political offensive, to dictate the agenda, and to stay on the offensive. We must engineer what the media system is designed to ... an ongoing public debate on whether media --- the broadcast spectrum, the internet, cable and telecom networks should be controlled by and for a wealthy corporate elite, or whether people ought to be... as a right, to speak with and to hear their own voices, and to access the broadband technology that undergirds prosperity in the 21st century. 747btrfly Thu Jun 26 20:20:18 -0400 2008 FTP: "There's no question about it: the U.S. is falling behind in the broadband race. Not only is broadband service unavailable in many of this nation's rural areas but the service that is available is often slow and expensive compared to services in other developed nations. As a result, we're steadily dropping in international broadband penetration rankings. " 747btrfly Thu Jun 26 20:10:49 -0400 2008 InternetforEveryone.org is bringing together public interest and for-profit institutions to raise public awareness of the digital divide and spark the political will to address the lack of universal broadband in the United States. 747btrfly Thu Jun 26 19:54:25 -0400 2008 FTP: ""Women don't talk about that part of themselves the way men do," Karras says. "Female genitalia, it's like it's suppressed." 747btrfly Thu Jun 26 19:43:46 -0400 2008 FTP: "Hopefully the hearing will build the foundation for federal laws that protect transgender people from discrimination. " 747btrfly Thu Jun 26 19:41:09 -0400 2008 FTP: "They wage wars and commit military atrocities, from the invasion or Iraq to the funding of Israeli bombers. They maintain the oil and coal-based energy systems that cause climate change. And they perpetuate corporate power at the expense of direct democracy." 747btrfly Wed Jun 25 21:11:16 -0400 2008 FTP:George Carlin explains the same people who killed Jesus are creating problems today: religious people, government and big business. 747btrfly Mon Jun 23 16:45:12 -0400 2008 Inspiring and sad all at the same time - think anything will be done?! 747btrfly Tue Jun 17 23:43:33 -0400 2008 FTP: "As gas prices continue to soar erratically, creative thieves are going to new extremes to gain this valuable resource. Over the past couple months we have saw an abundance of strange gas thefts popping up everywhere. I've taken the time to compile a list of some of the strangest and most bizarre stories ever encountered, new and old." the_wako_kid Tue Jun 17 10:34:19 -0400 2008 In June 1987, Seoul's City Hall Plaza reverberated with a chant that signaled the end of military rule in South Korea: "Dokjetado!" or "Down with the dictatorship!" In June this year, the plaza has once again become a rallying point for crowds calling for the removal of an unpopular government: "Out with Lee Myung Bak!" 747btrfly Thu Jun 12 17:40:08 -0400 2008 FTP: "In an interview with The Huffington Post, Sen. Robert Menendez offered a scathing rebuke of McCain, painting him as a candidate who sold his political soul to secure his party's presidential nomination."