Periodical Political Post *75
Queer News
- Belgian Socialist Elio Di Rupo will be world’s first openly gay prime minister
- Transgender woman poised for seat in Poland’s new parliament
- Homophobic bullying rife in Northern Ireland schools report says
- New Zealand Labour party will push for gay couples to be allowed to adopt
- Effort to force referendum on California’s gay history law for schools fails
- Archbishop: Treating gays equally leads to ‘gross discrimination’ of Christians
- Life expectancy for people living with HIV has risen by 15 years in the last decade
- Male cheerleader in Texas suspended for gay kiss seen on surveillance camera
Other News
- Anger at greed goes global: protests boil around the world
- United States House of Representatives passes “Let Women Die” act
- German minister wants investigation of state authorities’ use of spyware
- Goldman Sachs let off paying £10m interest on failed tax avoidance scheme
- BP risks worst ever oil spill in Shetlands, internal report warns of ecological disaster
- Police called after man takes picture of his own daughter in shopping centre
- U.S. Homeland Security moves forward with ‘pre-crime’ detection
- Norway terrorist attacks didn’t change anything: Police refuses to carry arms
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about 1 year ago
some of the comments on the suspended cheerleader are truly hair-raising
about 1 year ago
Concerning the U.S. Homeland Security ‘Pre-Crime’ detection scheme. Hasn’t this been in use for a hundreds of years. You see a minority and blame him for crimes the police feel he will commit in life. Isn’t this why so far over 17% of DNA tested people on death row by the “truth project” ended up being innocent of the crime they were sentenced to death for. In Tx we have a saying “Texas, we always get our man. It may be the wrong man but we get him”!
about 1 year ago
as I read down the list, the one that caught my eye were the “let women die act” and male cheer leader suspended. Suspended for a kiss? Are you f’ing kidding me. Homophobia these days.
about 1 year ago
I actually get more and more happy over that i live in Sweden.
Yes we have some homophobia, but nothing like in the USA…
I hope things get better there soon.
about 1 year ago
It took us ages but we will have a government shortly.
Luckily there is little homophobia here or it would take a lot more time to make one
about 1 year ago
Di Rupo will be the world’s first openly gay prime minister?
What about Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir of Iceland, or don’t lesbians count as gay?
about 1 year ago
@floriannowski …
yes we finally have a government, plus, elio Di rupo n’est pas si mal, he’s a wise man, une fois :p
about 1 year ago
Thats true, finally a good prime minister, better than Bart “frituur tdraakske” Dewever. Who says Flemish and Walloon people can’t have the same opinion :p :)
about 1 year ago
Whatever you may think of Mr De Wever, he has spoken the truth: there is no majority on the Flemish side. I do not expect this government to last long, do you?
(Can anyone explain why every comment I make is submitted to moderation? Am I doing something wrong?)
about 1 year ago
@ Asiffeta: That’s maybe true, but it’s always better to have this government than none at all. I just don’t like the fact that Groen an Ecolo aren’t part of it, they were aside from Dewever the winners at the elections. And we also can’t forget who got us in this situation in the first place. With the early elections.
about 1 year ago
congratz to mmy southern neighbours :) about time… now it’s time for us to get a decent government as well…
about 1 year ago
@floriannowski
Omg! this country is so surrealistic …
they’re talking about the language as it’s a terrible thing.
It’s before everything just economic: if they wanted us to speak both flemish and french, they’d do bilingual schools and that’s it. and we never hear about the german people living çn belgium, they could complain more
about 1 year ago
I couldn’t agree less
about 1 year ago
As a resident in Belgium, I must say it is nice to live in a country where people are so little prejudiced. Except when it comes to Walloons vs. Flemish, but I guess every country has this kind of conflicts that makes but little sense to foreigners…
about 1 year ago
I would really like to know how many foreign people can understand the situation in our country. I even dare to say that less than half of the Belgians can understand it
about 1 year ago
Belgium was invented by the British, who were always obsessed with the idea of Balance of Power in Europe; in this case, the idea was to prevent the Kingdom of the Netherlands from becoming too powerful; the new kingdom had the added advantage of giving Victoria’s uncle Leopold a job!
It is now coming apart. One wonders how long it will last.
about 1 year ago
At least you don’t have to put up with the Jocks.
about 1 year ago
Poland is changing! After years of rule of Catholics, now we have a new, open political movement. Tolerant, anti-church and modern.
about 1 year ago
Aren’t most police generally unarmed (not carrying side arms) or is it just the UK and Norway?
about 1 year ago
Here in Sweden they are armed and Finland too.
about 1 year ago
And the good news is that the Norwegian police doesn’t panic but stays sensible and refuses to carry arms!
about 1 year ago
I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW
that the labour parties push for gay marriage in New Zealand was helped by a campaign called LegaliseLove,
a campaign i helped organise and on october 20th we march on parliament so please spread the word
http://www.legaliselove.org.nz
about 1 year ago
@floriqnnowski
It is extremely hard to explain the situation we got in belgium to foreigners. My swedish cousins asked me once what entitees federees and zntites federales mean… Euh.
If you too want to explain belgium, theres a lil video on youtube called ” do you want to know more about Belgium? “
about 1 year ago
Pre-crime? It seems “Minority Report” became a reality.
about 1 year ago
“Many individual Catholics have told me they will not be following their leaders against the issue of equality for same sex marriage.” Good for the Catholics! Stand up to your hateful leaders!