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VIDEO: Bonjour, Girl! A Gayer, Greater Beauty and the Beast

We used to consider Aladdin the gayest Disney film thanks to its gilded grandeur, decadent costuming, and, uh, Jafar . “Bring me the boy!” indeed, my good vizier! However, the Internet has proved us wrong this week with a video entitled, “Bonjour, girl!” a redubbed, bitchier take on Belle’s opening musical from Beauty and the Beast . Girl needs to leave this provincial life, STAT !

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VIDEO: Bonjour, Girl! A Gayer, Greater Beauty and the Beast

Taliban executes boy, 7, for spying

Suspected Taliban militants have executed a 7-year-old boy, accusing him of spying for the government, officials in southern Afghanistan said Thursday. The execution took place Tuesday in the Sangin district of Helmand province, said Dawoud Ahmadi — the provincial governor's spokesman. In the past, militants have carried out similar killings of those accused of spying, Ahmadi said. Three years ago, a 70-year-old woman and a child in the Musa Qala district of the province were executed following the same allegations, he said. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/10/afghanistan.child.execution/index.ht… added by: unimatrix0

Every City Needs This: The Parkbus, Direct From City To Park

150 miles north of Toronto is the most extraordinary wilderness, Algonquin Provincial Park . If you own a car, it is an easy drive on good highways. If you don’t it is not so easy; a bus or train to Huntsville , an expensive taxi ride or hitchhike in; for camping, just like anything else, the system is easy and convenient for cars and difficult for the rest. If we are going to get people out of cars, this has to change. And it is changing; this year a new non-profit called

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Every City Needs This: The Parkbus, Direct From City To Park

Michael Jackson Filipino Inmates Strike Again

Filed under: Music , Michael Jackson With all the time in the world on their hands, the inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines have learned another Michael Jackson routine …

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Michael Jackson Filipino Inmates Strike Again

China scales back plans for anti-pornography software filter

BEIJING — Chinese officials retreated on Thursday from a plan to install so-called anti-pornography software on every computer sold here, saying instead that Internet cafes, schools and other public places must use the program, but that individual consumers will be spared. The industry and information technology minister, Li Yizhong, said the notion that the program, called Green Dam/Youth Escort, would be required on every new computer was “a misunderstanding” spawned by poorly written regulations

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China scales back plans for anti-pornography software filter

Was he littering or helping fellow human beings?

A man who left jugs of water for immigrants is sentenced for littering. Priorities are subjective, aren't they

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Afghan woman defies threats, discrimination to run for re-election

SHEIKHABAD, Afghanistan — The threats come at least once a week in the dark of night, Zaiba Habib Durrani said. The caller vows to kill her or disfigure her face with acid.

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Afghan woman defies threats, discrimination to run for re-election