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I don’t know how accurate these Daily Kos polls are (as accurate as most others, I suppose), but here are some interesting results:
By 51 to 16 percent (33 percent not sure), Democrats believe the theory universally accepted by scientists that America and Africa were once part of the same continent. By 47 to 24 percent [...]

The Electoral Commission reports:
The British National Party and the party’s Regional Accounting Unit were both granted an extension to the deadline for submitting their statements of accounts. Both have failed to deliver their accounts within the extended deadline so the party will be fined a minimum of £500 and the accounting unit will be fined [...]

Hugo Chavez’s Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Díaz (is she a member of Venezuela’s light-skinned blond elite?) has introduced a “Special Media Crimes Bill” in the National Assembly.
Looks like the Chavez regime didn’t even bother to come up with a euphemistic, non-threatening name for its latest act of repression.
The Associated Press reports:
The new law would punish [...]

From the Al Muhajiroun website:
“Brother Anjem Choudary, the Principal Lecturer at the London School of Shari’ah and Judge of the Shari’ah Court of the UK delivers this illuminating lecture on, ‘The Jewels of Advice for the Husband and Wife’, discussing many important issues pertaining to the Islamic marriage including: the rights and responsibilities of both [...]

A silly website called ‘Islamophobia Watch’ has put up a couple of posts denouncing me for supposed failings in my report for the Centre for Social Cohesion on the BNP. The site is apparently run by one Bob Pitt, whose approach is summed up well by Terry Sanderson of the National Secular Society:
Bob Pitt sees [...]

The BusHitler Police state was thought to be dead, but no. It lives on under the Obama regime, who are also seeking to enslave the people of the US.
Until now, what I’m about to tell you would have been easily dismissed as a conspiracy theory. It’s the kind of story that you might expect from [...]

Here is some good news.
The Office of Fair Trading has today published a consultation on draft guidance for creditors on irresponsible lending:
The proposed guidance is set out in the consultation. It clarifies the minimum standards that are required from lenders in order to avoid the risk of OFT enforcement action. The guidance covers each stage [...]

Forty days have passed since she was murdered.  This is her Arbayeen.

Although, according to the Fars News Agency – the sister organisation to Press TV – there is some good news. Neda is alive and well and living in Greece. She’ll be home soon.
This is what Neda’s mother, Hajar, has said:
HAJAR SOLTAN (translated): I want [...]

Back in 2006, Harry’s Place picked up a post from Pickled Politics asking if anyone knew this man.

Sunny thought that he had managed to get an Iranian protestor, Reza Moradi, arrested for carrying a placard bearing one of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, at the March for Free Expression that had taken place in Trafalgar Square [...]

This is a guest post by Ben Cohen of Z Word
Here’s an interesting tidbit from Stratfor: “Iran will build a 435 mile-long cement wall topped with barbwire along 100 percent of the border between Iran and Afghanistan to prevent the entry of narcotics from Afghanistan, Farsi News Agency reported July 30. The proposed wall is [...]