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Iranian actress Kiana Firouz fears film of her life ends in death(1)
“My application was … ignored by the [British] Home Office despite the serious threat to my life that I’ll face if they deport me to Iran,” she told Radio Free Europe. “I’m shattered and emotionally devastated that they have dealt with my application so irresponsibly.”
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Pedophile obtains SRS/GRS to “get closer to young girls”
One of the biggest fears most have expressed is that somehow those who are transgender are really sexual predators seeking to “pretend to be the opposite sex” in order to gain easier access to young women and children in order to hurt them. This fear has been repeated often enough in recent decades that nearly everyone on the planet has heard them.
It does not help when the medical community joins in and facilitates such predatory desires.
PBS Widget to Calculate Extent of Gulf Oil Spill
The following widget is provided by PBS.org to calculate the extent of the oil spill resulting in the Gulf of Mexico due to the explosion and subsequent sinking of the Deep Horizon oil drilling rig. The flow rate can be adjusted to take into account the various figures being bounced around by various groups.
The Butcher’s Bill: May 2010
This will not be a regular column, per se, if for no other reason than simply covering such stories takes a serious emotional toll on me. But, the stories need to be told, so this column will appear periodically. It will be by no means complete, but I will try my best.