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A 14-year-old-boy was killed for the crime of being a homosexual by the Iraqi police. Despite spending billions of dollars to set up a government and police force in Iraq, we clearly have not made much progress in changing the hearts and minds of Iraqis.

Jerome Taylor reports in the Independent that according to witnesses, the boy was executed on his doorstep by men in police uniforms. There has been a wave of such murders ever since an anti-gay fatwa was issued by Shiite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Shiite muslims are the majority religion in Iraq.

Note that you will probably not see this story anywhere in the US media.
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Scientists are still divided about whether or not there is an avian flu pandemic in our future. Computer models predict a rapid spread akin to the 1918 pandemic that killed millions of people worldwide, but that’s only IF the virus mutates so that it becomes transmittable from human to human and IF researchers cannot invent a vaccine to protect against it or develop new medicines to treat it in time. Also, doctors don’t know if it will affect only weak, elderly and immune-compromised individuals?or everyone.
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Are the recently discovered pyramids in Bosnia a hoax? Archeologists are speaking out against the discoveries by in the Bosnian town of Visoko by Russian businessman Semir Osmanagic. But he sticks by his discoveries.

In LiveScience.com, Heather Whipps quotes Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists, as saying, “Clearly there are voids or something similar in the rock, but that is a long way from saying these are man-made.”
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Whitley and Art warned about a possible superstorm here on earth, caused by global warming. It turns out that a solar superstorm may be on the way as well. NOAA warns that a solar storm could affect our technology here on earth, especially our satellites, and therefore our television and cell phone reception. Astronomers are researching what might happen in the future by examining what happened during a similar solar storm that took place around 150 years ago.
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