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More details are emerging about the case of Wikileaker Pvt. Bradley Manning and they are… Gagalicious. Manning's plan to download and leak thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks hinged on lip-syncing to "Telephone". Manning allegedly leaked the Iraq Apache helicopter video, and it's believed he also downloaded over 150,000 diplomatic cables from the military's SPIR-Net and shared them with Wikileaks. How did he do it without arousing suspicion? According to the New York TimesAccording to the New York Times: "He was able to avoid detection not because he kept a poker face, they said, but apparently because he hummed and...

A U.S. Army intelligence analyst serving in Iraq has been arrested by federal officials for allegedly leaking classified information to the online whistleblower site Wikileaks, according to a Wired blog.Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Md., is reportedly the source of the controversial video of a 2007 American helicopter strike that claimed the lives of several bystanders. Wikileaks published that video in April. Manning reportedly became a target of the investigation after boasting of leaking more than a quarter of a million classified documents to former hacker Adrian Lamo, who reported him to the Army. Lamo claimed, via his...

June 07, 2010 I SUPPOSE IF I SUGGESTED SUMMARY EXECUTION I WOULD BE CALLED "HARSH"? SNIPPET: "U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe Note that he didn't just lift a video and send it to Wikileaks. He also stole and released 260,000 classified US State Department diplomatic cables."

Not everyone who serves is deserving of respect. Last April, WikiLeak.org and its owner, Julian Assange, edited and published a 2007 footage they entitled "Collateral Murder", which purported to show an American Apache helicopter killing unarmed civilians, including news reporters, in Iraq. While WikiLeak.org is slated to release a new video of an alleged "massacre" by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, a 22 year old Pfc Army intelligence analyst serving in Iraq was detained about a month ago, accused of being the source of the leaked "Collateral Murder" video. Charges have now been brought: BAGHDAD — An American soldier in Iraq...

Bradley Manning, 22, had just gone through a breakup. He had been demoted a rank in the Army after striking a fellow soldier. He felt he had no future, and yet he thought that by sharing classified information about his government's foreign policy, he might "actually change something." A series of instant messages from Manning to a stranger open a window into the anguished state of the former Army intelligence analyst, who was detained late last month for allegedly leaking classified video and documents to Wikileaks.org. The military has not detailed the allegations against Manning, who is being held in...

Teen soap opera Degrassi has been renowned for tackling the tough issues, including its realistic and inclusive portrayal of gay and lesbian characters. But gay football player Riley is old news now that the show is introducing its first-ever transgender character. I can’t think of many transgender characters that have appeared on television, and I certainly don’t recall any transgender teenagers popping up on my radar. This is one more step toward making Degrassi just about the coolest series to ever exist. The new season starts on Monday, July 19th, and introduces the trans character, Adam, shortly thereafter. The teenage...

The U.S. Government has filed charges against U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley E. Manning after being accused of releasing a classified video showing an airstrike in Iraq. Manning, 22, is being accused of sharing classified documents with website Wikileaks.org, which in April, posted a video from July 12, 2007 that was recorded from a U.S. Apache helicopter. The video shows an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, in which several people were killed, including two journalists and civilians. Manning is being charged for “wrongfully introducing a classified video of a military operation […] onto his personal computer, a non-secure information system,”...

In August's Vanity Fair, Angelina Jolie opens up about her six children and relationship with beau Brad Pitt. The Salt star, 35, admits she dresses Shiloh, 4, "like a little dude. Shiloh, we feel, has Montenegro style. It's how people dress there. She likes tracksuits, she likes [regular] suits. She likes to dress like a boy. She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boys' everything. She thinks she's one of the brothers." But Jolie says she isn't worried: She was just like Shiloh as a kid. "Shiloh’s hysterically funny, one...

Victoria Kolakowski, who's running for Alameda Count Superior Court judge in a November runoff election, declares on her campaign Web site that she hopes to make history."If I am elected, I would be the first openly LGBT superior court judge elected in Alameda County, the first openly LGBT person elected countywide, and the first transgender trial court judge in the United States," it states. The question is how much it should matter. Kolakowski, 48, transitioned from male to female in 1989 during her last year in law school and had sex reassignment surgery in 1991. She has 21 years of...

Here’s a little bit of good news. Well, I suppose it’s bad news that the PC crowd got as far as they did with this bill. But at least it was defeated, even if by only one vote. "NYCF: On June 8, 2010, by the narrowest of margins (12-11), the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reject a bill known as the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA or the “Bathroom Bill”)." .... The worst part of this story – I saw it mentioned on a message board and had to google the law to find out about it....

Most Americans are aware that gay activism rarely presents itself as a movement solely for the rights of gays. For example, the most common acronym for the gay-rights movement is “GLBT,” meaning “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender.” Interestingly, few people ever ask about the “T.” What do the transgendered have to do with gays? How and why are they connected by activists, gay and straight, on the left? Strictly speaking, gays have no more in common with transgendered people than straights do. To understand the answer is to understand much of what animates the sexual Left. The aim of the...

Since he was run out of town -- literally -- two years ago, Atlanta native John Mark Karr has undergone some big changes. The man who claimed to have killed JonBenet Ramsey has legally changed his name to Alexis Reich and is reportedly preparing to undergo gender reassignment surgery. A former student of Karr's, 19-year-old Samantha Spiegel, alleges he's doing so in order to get closer to little girls, a charge confirmed by e-mails she produced at a court hearing in San Francisco last month. A Seattle television station reported that Spiegel, who met Karr when she was 9 years...

Karen Harrington and Robert Lowry are also seeking the Republican nomination. Whoever wins the Aug. 24 GOP primary faces incumbent Wasserman Schultz of Weston in November.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has forced the flannel and khaki outpost to make some changes, including nixing a rule about employee "personal appearance" that banned men from wearing women's clothing and ladies from dressing as guys. . . . The chain store also has agreed to train its staff on transgender issues - like which pronouns to use when referring to workers and customers. The April settlement is the first crackdown against a retailer under the section of the state's Human Rights Law that bars employers from discriminating against applicants because of their gender identity. "If more places would follow...

No, the headline of this article is not an antic of some tabloid. The story is as simple as it is bizarre. Robert W. Connell is the premier authority in the world on masculinities. A native of Australia, his books have been ranked first, fourth, fifth and sixth of the top ten books considered to have a profound impact on sociological theory in that country.ConnellÂ’s influence has reached global proportions, making his work required reading in menÂ’s studies programs internationally, earning him iconic status and widespread esteem. He is to menÂ’s studies what Darwin was to the study of...

As if college tuition wasn't expensive enough. Now if you want to send your child to an Ivy League university you might be footing the bill for this? Daily Pennsylvanian reports:In the next academic year, the Penn Student Insurance Plan will begin offering a new benefit for transgender students — it will cover the cost of the gender confirmation process, also known as gender reassignment or transition. The benefit covers triadic treatment, the term used for the three-step process of gender confirmation. Triadic treatment consists of psychotherapy, estrogen or testosterone hormone treatment and sex reassignment surgery, which involves the changing...

MEMPHIS, TN - The jury in the Duanna Johnson jailhouse beat down case is hopelessly deadlocked. On Friday, April 16, 2010, they once again failed to reach a verdict. And Johnson's family and friends say they know why the jury is reluctant to convict the former Memphis Police officer accused of the attack. A jury of seven women and five men has been deliberating for three days, and still no verdict, even though the 2008 beating was caught on videotape. That's good news for Bridges McRae, the former Memphis cop on trial right now for violating the civil rights of...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A federal judge has struck down a Wisconsin law that prohibits transgender inmates from receiving taxpayer-funded hormone therapy. A group of male inmates who identify as female had challenged the 2006 law. They say they need the therapy to treat their gender identity disorder.

An online contest to find the “smartest, silliest, and sexiest” male freshmen at campuses across the country has left some Wellesley College students feeling misrepresented and caused the website to revamp its contest to address the concerns of the single-sex school. HerCampus.com, an online lifestyle magazine geared toward college-aged women, started “Mr. Campus Freshman 2013,” with the goal of crowning a male from over 20 colleges represented by the website. But to the dismay of many on campus, Wellesley College students were advised to nominate a male from outside the school, ignoring students at their school who are transgender.‘''We ran...

A TURKISH transsexual woman granted UK asylum is having at least £60,000-worth of NHS surgery to become a man called Dennis. The 33-year-old fled to Britain in 2002 claiming she was being persecuted in her Muslim homeland. She has now won the right to become a UK resident - and taxpayers' cash will fund her gender-reassignment programme. Identified only as G.O, she was born female but will get a prosthetic penis. Her breasts have been removed and she told friends she wants the name Dennis.

He put a female inside a male body? Something He’s been doing much too frequently according to Oprah Winfrey, the entertainment community, the educational community and the left leaning media. At least that’s what one might surmise from Oprah’s television program that aired in February.

Compassionate hypotheticals aside, take a look and get back to me. MassResistance — March 12, 2010 — Transgender madness in Massachusetts: The Peabody Marriott Hotel hosted the annual "First Event" transgender conference on January 15-17, 2009. These photos and videos illustrate the insanity that will descend on all of America . . . unless this sexual radical movement is stopped: Seven-foot men in dresses using the women's restroom. Hundreds of cross-dressers swarming the hotel, upsetting other guests (who were not forewarned). A transgender rock concert. This is what protecting "gender identity and expression" really means. For all of you liberals...

According to the report, the victim alleges that Officer Craig Nash picked him her up on the morning of February 25, handcuffed him her, told him her to lie down in the back of the car, then drove him her to another location and sexually assaulted him her before dropping him her off.

President Obama / Amanda Simspon Washington D.C., Jan 5, 2010 / 07:35 pm (CNA).- President Obama recently appointed a “transgendered” man as a Senior Technical Adviser to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Amanda Simpson, a former test pilot for Raytheon who now identifies himself as female, will serve in the Bureau of Industry and Security. Critics of the appointment argue that it is "political correctness run amok."Simpson, a board member of Out & Equal and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), said on Dec. 31 that  he is “truly honored to have received this appointment” and expressed a...

Amanda Simpson Says It Was Her Merits, Not Gender Identity, That Got Her Commerce Job For Amanda Simpson, believed to be America's first openly transgender presidential appointee, the job she starts Tuesday in the U.S. Commerce Department is an honor and the culmination of a career dedicated to understanding military technology. But what gnaws at her, she says, is the fear of being labeled a token who was hired because of her sexual identity rather than on her merits.