Six In The Morning

Not To Worry The NRA Will Make Sure That No New Restrictions Will Ever Be Put In Place No Matter How Reasonable

A Clamor for Gun Limits, but Few Expect Real Changes
The National Rifle Association has gone uncommonly dark since the weekend shootings here. A posting on its Web site expresses sympathies for the victims of the violence, and N.R.A. officials said they would have nothing to say until the funerals and memorial services were over.
In Washington, bills were being drafted to step up background checks, create no-gun zones around members of Congress and ban the big-volume magazines that allowed the Tucson gunman to shoot so many bullets so fast. Gun control advocates say they believe the shock of the attack has altered the political atmosphere, in no small part because one of the victims is a member of Congress.

Yes, Rhino Horn Will Cure Cnacer Of An Idiot

China's presence in Africa blamed for new threat to rhino
A devastating upswing in rhino poaching by criminal syndicates armed with helicopters, night vision goggles and silenced rifles is threatening to roll back more than three decades of conservation work that brought the species back from the brink of extinction.


Figures released by the charity WWF show that the number of rhinos shot dead in South Africa increased by 173 per cent last year, a trend that has seen poaching reach a 15-year high across the continent.

You Can't Sue Me I'm Silvo Berlusconi Italian God


ITALIAN PRIME minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered a major setback yesterday when, for the third time in seven years, Italy’s constitutional court rejected legislation that effectively guarantees him immunity from prosecution while in office.

Like the 2004 Schifani law and the 2009 Alfano law, the so-called “legitimate impediment” legislation, introduced by the Berlusconi government last year, fell foul of the court, which again argued that it contravened Article 3 of the Italian constitution, which states that all citizens are equal before the law.

Why Do You Need A Studio Your An Artist

Studio torn down as artist pays price for activism
The studio stood at the heart of an embryonic arts cluster on the outskirts of Shanghai. It took two years to build - and one day to tear down.

An order to demolish the studio - designed by Ai Weiwei, a protean artist who is one of the most outspoken critics of the Chinese Communist Party - was issued last July after city officials said it had been built without planning permission.

Ai took the move to be retribution for rankling the authorities. He said officials told him the demolition would not take place until after the Chinese New Year, on February 3.

I'm President For Life That Makes Me A Dictator

Violent clashes spread to centre of Tunisian capital
Black smoke billowed into the sky as people covered their mouths against the fumes and police blocked off the area.

The latest clashes in anti-government protests that began nearly a month ago were taking place a short distance from the central bank building in the city's main commercial area, also the location of the main bus and tram station.

"There was a protest and police used tear gas and gunfire to disperse the crowds," said a witness in a nearby street.

In Search Of The X-Files Or?

Astronomers search for 'Galaxy X'
The search for Planet X may be problematic, but astronomers believe there's a "Galaxy X" lurking on the other side of the Milky Way.
Based on an analysis of our home galaxy's distribution of cold atomic hydrogen gas, two astronomers at the University of California at Berkeley are predicting that a previously undetected dwarf galaxy, about 1 percent the mass of the total Milky Way, should lie about 300,000 light-years out from the center of the Milky Way ... in an area that's obscured by intervening gas and dust.