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Values Voter Summit • attendees at are told by Carrie Prejean that she is "disgusted at the way some people can be so intolerant" of her views on same-sex marriage, though her intolerance of same-sex marriage itself is apparently not disgusting • most amusing image from...
...first order to disperse went out, marchers slowed and chanted their defiance, but also retreated to regroup and then ran into another line of riot-ready cops and police vehicles as they neared an alternate route - the first of several direct avenues to the summit site they tried. This time, the dispersal order was followed by smoke, then two canisters of OC - Oleoresin of capsicum, that is, pepper spray. Both were kicked back at police. A small protester contingent rolled a Dumpster down the steep hill, which hit something with a boom, although it was hard to see through...
...them on the wide expanse of Liberty Avenue and forcing them to reroute. "I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly," came the booming pre-taped police announcement - the first of at least six aimed at the march of about 800 people against the Group of 20 economic summit of the world's richest countries that had started in Pittsburgh's convention center Thursday afternoon. The announcements also made clear the consequences of not dispersing: "The use of riot control agents and less lethal munitions." (Will Anarchists Reign in Pittsburgh...
...Then came Gaddafi's suggestion that Switzerland be carved up like a wheel of Swiss cheese. During the G-8 summit in Italy in July, Gaddafi said Switzerland "is a world mafia and not a state," adding that the Italian-speaking part of the country should be returned to Italy, the German-speaking part to Germany and the French-speaking part to France. In an attempt to defuse the tension between the countries as well as to win the release of the two Swiss nationals being held in Libya, Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz traveled to Tripoli in August...
...enrichment plant. "If I were Obama's adviser, I would definitely advise him to refrain making this statement because it is definitely a mistake," Ahmadinejad told TIME in New York City on Friday. "It would definitively be a mistake." His comment came as Obama, speaking at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, Pa., made a dramatic announcement that Iran has been constructing a second uranium-enrichment facility whose existence had been kept secret in violation of the non-proliferation agreements to which Tehran is a signatory...