Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Newsbriefs: Lindsay, Bradley, Britney, Iraq...

Amber Dorrian, Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly (ENTERTAINMENT)
In a shockingly candid prediction, addiction medicine specialist, TV and Loveline Radio host Dr. Drew Pinsky said Lindsay Lohan, fresh off channeling Marilyn Monroe for $1 million for Playboy, will be dead in a year. Lohan seems intent on proving him right.



With little recovery under her belt, she has a new dysfunctional lesbian partner in Indrani and seems to be partying with the new money from her pornographic efforts. (10 Signs of an Emotionally Abusive Relationship). Oh, that Luóhàn, will she never get back to being like Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, and Britney Trawick (see below)?

From North Dakotan conservative roots to his west coast activism and the Occupy Movement, Steve Gelder of "Independent Thinking" discusses current events and breaking topics. Every show provides many points of view. Weekday mornings at 10:00 am PST. A voice of reason in an unreasonable world! Wisdom Quarterly contributor Laura Murphy plans to be on to discuss activism and spirituality in Los Angeles.

Newly engaged Britney Spears is bound for Sin City (Las Vegas) bound. Oops, she's about to do it again, this time with new fiancé, Jason Trawick. Her boyfriend does not approve. They will celebrate the engagement at a private party at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. Who is Trawick, and why is sometimes dimly lit Brit Brit so willing to travel down the same road as Kevin Federline took her on? More


(AT) Self-immolation tests China. The self-immolation of Tibetans in China overwhelmingly suggests the failure of minority policy carved out by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to deal with the ethnic nationality question in the 1950s. The failure is particularly significant as it comes on the heels of the so called revised policy decision on Tibet in 2010 underscored in the Tibet Work Report that called for harmonious development in Tibet. More


[When you're trying to conceal and discredit UFO sighting to avoid exopolitics, it's not hard to come up with a list of alternative explanations to give you plausible deniability for all kinds of celestial phenomena you want to keep secret:] It doesn't take much to convince people they've seen an experimental missile [instead of] a UFO. A funny-looking cloud, [a Russian spy drone], or an exceptionally bright planet will usually do the trick. Here, our top 7 things that drive space-related hoaxes. More

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Bradley Manning seen in better days with a self-made equality poster. In late May 2010, Private First Class Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst with the US Army in Baghdad, Iraq was arrested, suspected of providing the “Collateral Murder” video to WikiLeaks. On June 6, 2010, he was charged with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including eight criminal offenses and four noncriminal violations of Army regulations (full charge sheet). Why did the Army keep trusting him in the meantime? More


The irony! Peter Van Buren , a 23-year foreign service officer with the US Department of State, may be the only department personnel to be fired over the WikiLeaks’ scandal. Van Buren, who just published the book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Iraqi People, relayed in a powerful column at TomDispatch how he was called in, interrogated, and accused of disclosing classified material. More




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