Human Rights

Dutch ban pot for tourist

KIAH

Europe is falling apart.  They must be smoking something... Now there's a pot ban for tourists in the Netherlands.  Nearly one million folks used to travel every year to the country of Van Gogh not to cut their ears off but to get high... Not anymore!...

Tags: National Government, Tourism and Leisure, Netherlands, Government, Politics

U.S. soldiers pose with dead Afghan insurgents

KIAH

There's no being cute about this story. On Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times published photos of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of dead Afghan insurgents. It`s a PR and human rights disaster, especially in the wake of the recent video showing...

Tags: U.S. Army, Leon Panetta, Armed Conflicts, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War

Transgender woman runs for office in Mexico City

KIAH

Diana Sanchez Barrios are making history in Mexico. She’s running for a seat on Mexico City’s municipal assembly. What makes Barrios different from other candidates... Then and now... She’s transgender. Yeah, the ultimate flip flop....

Tags: Mexico, Mexico City, Politics

Newt Gingrich's gay half-sister supports Obama

KIAH

Candace Gingrich-Jones says she`s not going to vote for her half-brother for president. The lesbian sibling of former House speaker Newt Gingrich she and the Human Rights Campaign will not support any Republican candidate trying oust Barack Obama,...

Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Elections, Newt Gingrich, Washington, DC

US Embassy hiding US citizens in Cairo

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As Egyptians vote in the first democratic parliamentary elections following the overthrow of their president Hosnei Mubarek, a handful of U.S citizens are hunkered down in the U.S. embassy in Cairo because of their work to build democracy in the Land of...

Tags: U.S. Embassy, John McCain, Egypt, Politics, White House

Iran sentences American to death in spy case

CNN

Iran has sentenced an American ex-Marine to death, accusing him of espionage. A court convicted Amir Mirzaei Hekmati of "working for an enemy country," as well as membership in the CIA and "efforts to accuse Iran of involvement in terrorism," the semi-...

Tags: Trials, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Army, Punishment, Police Investigations

Writer extradited over tweets on Prophet Mohammed

CNN

Malaysian authorities extradited Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari back to Saudi Arabia Sunday on a warrant for his arrest over statements he made on Twitter. "Saudi media said Hamza made a posting on the Prophet Mohammed's birthday celebration last week,...

Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Saudi Arabia, Politics, Extradition, Amnesty International

Closing Comments: Pot Shots

KIAH

In a letter to firearms dealers across the country, the Feds are insisting that guns and ammunition should not be sold to registered users of medical marijuana.  A little more freedom...bye-bye! Last time I checked, there was no asterisk next to the...

Tags: Eric Holder, Politics

Gadhafi's last words

KIAH

Let the investigations begin! The Human Rights Watch Organization has begun looking into how former dictator Moammar Gadhafi's final moments unraveled. Rumors about Gadhafi's last words have been floating around the Internet, and while we may never...

Tags: Human Rights Watch, Muammar Gaddafi, Politics

Human traffickers taking organs from refugees who can't pay

Tags: Human Body, Africa, Theft, Health Organizations, CNN (tv network)

Judge blocks graphic cigarette warnings

REUTERS

A federal judge blocked a rule requiring tobacco companies to display graphic images on cigarette packs, such as a man exhaling cigarette smoke through a hole in his throat. District Judge Richard Leon sided on Monday with tobacco companies and granted a...

Tags: Litigation, Reynolds American Incorporated, Laws, Health, Health Organizations

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