•  US House approves Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill against resistance of Republicans
• Gay hand-holding campaigner has been honoured with award by UK government
• Gay marriage bill will most likely pass in Washington DC in December by congress
• Catholic Church blames gays for child abuse, says there are no pedos in church
• Family values group says 500,000 to boycott Pepsi over its ‘homosexual advocacy’
• Poland as a role model: France considers castration of sex offenders too
• US Department of Justice admits that telco companies are part of the government
• Canadian government using lies to sell Internet wiretapping law
• FBI arrests social worker because he helped organising G20 protest via Twitter

Matthew Wayne Shepard (1976 – 1998) was a student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured & subsequently murdered.

• CDU in Hessen verhindert entgegen Wahlversprechen Gleichstellung homosexueller Beamter
• Internetzensur von Gericht gestoppt bis gesetzliche Basis geschaffen wurde
• Französische Innenministerin will Gesetz zur chemischen Kastration von Sexualstraftätern
• Schäuble gibt zu, dass Internetzensur vor allem Wahlkampfpopulismus war
• Grüne ermöglichen Mitte-Rechts-Bündnis im Saarland, Schuld sind die Anderen?
• Platzeck bweweist mal wieder, dass er der einzige SPDler mit Restverstand ist
• FDP verabschiedet sich rasant von Vor-Wahl-Idealen: PKW-Maut angeregt 
• CDU und FDP begraben Solarenergie und sagen Atomausstieg ab

• Study finds no difference between children raised by gay or straight adoptive parents
• Poland’s lower house approves forcible chemical castration for sex offenders
• Amnesty calls for immediate repeal of new medieval anti-gay laws in Indonesia
• Germany obviously dumb: Gets Center-Right government of Christians & Capitalists  
• Germany mulls realities of first openly gay foreign minister in Europe but he’s a bitch
• Pirate Party and Socialists with strong results at German Federal Election (at least)
• Vatican doesn’t want that monopoly, says child abuse is rife in other religions too
• Wal-Mart employee reports mother to police over her kids’ bath time photos
• Apropos Wal-Mart: Short overview of the “values” of one of the biggest US companies
• UK  Border Agency wants DNA test to detect “true race” of asylum seekers
• 3 of 763 house searches under PATRIOT Act in US in 2008 were related to terrorism
• New law in France to cut off your internet if industry says you’re a pirate

• Weitere Studie bestätigt: Gleichgeschlechtliche Paare sind keine schlechteren Eltern
• ..in die Traufe: FDP würde gern in eimem Runumschlag den Sozialstaat abschaffen
• FDP als Bürgerrechtler? Haha. Erste Amtshandlung in Sachsen: Mehr Überwachung
• Dass ist also der Politikwechsel in Thüringen? SPD will mit CDU statt mit Linken regieren
• Rechtstaatlichkeit in Bayern: Zwei “Islamisten” werden grundlos “vorsorglich” festgenommen
• Potenzieller Außenminister Westerwelle spricht kaum Englisch, lässt BBC-Reporter abblitzen
• Studie des Bundesumweltamtes: Atomausstieg und Kohleverzicht keine Gefahr für Stromversorgung
• Verdammt in alle Ewigkeit: Amerikas Gesetze für Sexualdelikte erklären verliebte Teenies zu Verbrechern

• Another 11-Year-Old commits suicide over anti-gay bullying
• LGBT groups say police are harassing gays in Ukraine
• Rightwing Polish politician angry at elephant’s gay tendencies
• Germany institutes internet censorship Infrastructure
• Nakedness: the new terrorism. At least for a bunch of power-tripping thugs.
• (Tasers are supposed to be used when the situation would otherwise call for lethal force!)
• FBI and states vastly expand DNA databases of people not convicted of a crime
• FBI Agents accused of spying on teen girls trying on prom dresses
• EU passes copyright term extension, rejects proposal to give the additional funds to artists
• Vice president Joe Biden promises a blank check to the entertainment cartel
• Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial, judge was a member of copyright protection organisations

Not dead yet!

A polish schoolboy who turned a city’s tram network into a giant toy by manoeuvring rolling stock using a TV-style remote control has been arrested after he caused chaos on the public transport system. Adam Dabrowski, 14, described by teachers as a model pupil and an electronics genius, hacked into the public transport network in Lodz to change the track points derailing at least four trams and leaving dozens injured. The teenager had also equipped himself with a hand- drawn map of city tram junctions. Read on…

Reminded me of this one… ;o)