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Construction on massive radio telescope array to begin in 2012

October 5, 2007 Scientists have announced that the largest radio telescope array in the world, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is to be built in either Africa or Australia and will be composed of thousands of antenna arrays that will be capable of detecting the first galaxies and stars formed in our universe. The control center for the array is announced to be located in the United Kingdom in Manchester, England at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.

"The next generation radio telescope - the Square Kilometer Array – will carry on this tradition of innovation. The goal is to construct a network of antennas working at centimeter to meter wavelengths with 100 times the sensitivity of the largest existing arrays. This telescope will play a major role in the following decades, alongside other next generation facilities in the millimeter, optical/IR, X-ray and so on, in further exploring the content and evolution of the universe," said a press released on SKA's website. Construction will begin in 2012 and cost over US$2 billion (£1 billion, €1.4 billion) to build. The array will reportedly begin operation by the year 2020. SKA decided to release the details of the array plans on the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. At least 17 different countries and 55 schools, universities, engineers and astronomers are expected to take involvement in the project.

The array will be built in one of two locations. The first option is in Mileura, Australia. According to SKA's website, the location is ideal because "only 100,000 people inhabit the five million square kilometers of the interior" area of western Australia, making it one of "the most radio-quiet locations on Earth."

The second option is in South Africa in Northern Cape Province because of the "dry climate, a good existing infrastructure of roads and power reticulation, a low Radio Frequency Interferences (RFI), low land prices and low operating costs" and "has a appropriately skilled workforce and a well-established telecommunications infrastructure," says SKA's website.

The array is going to be more than 50 times as powerful as the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which is currently the largest radio telescope on the planet.

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New Zealand police to charge sitting MP

October 5, 2007

A New Zealand High Court judge has granted leave today to the New Zealand Police to prosecute current Member of Parliament (MP), Taito Phillip Field. When Field is charged, he will face 15 charges relating to bribery and corruption.

Judge Justice Tony Randerson said in his ruling that it was within the public interest to see the "extremely serious" charges laid against the independent MP. Justice Randerson said that the allegations made, "strike at the heart of the administration of government and the integrity of members of Parliament."

Work, worth around NZ$10,000, was undertaken on seven houses the MP owns in Auckland, Wellington, Tonga and Samoa by Thais. In return, Field helped them with immigration applications into New Zealand. Justice Randerson said, "There is no question that the respondent undertook immigration work for the named individuals and that they carried out painting, plastering and tiling work for the respondent on the various properties."

The trial will focus around two aspects. Firstly, whether the work carried out was undervalued and secondly, if work was being done in return for immigration assistance via a corrupt arrangement and was treated as such.

If convicted, Field will face a maximum sentence of seven years in jail under Section 103 of the Crimes Act 1961.

This ruling sets a precedent in New Zealand as Field is the first MP to face these types of charges. In June, there was a court hearing to argue if charges were to be laid against the former Labour MP by the Crown. In June, Crown Prosecutor Simon Moore said, "The rational for a High Court judge being involved in the exercise appears to be based on the need to avoid the appearance of a ministerial or political interference in making a prosecutorial decision."

At the same June court hearing, Field said he was innocent of all allegations. "I have nothing to hide. I am innocent and it is best that I front up."

When the allegations first surfaced, Phillip Field was a sitting Labour MP. He resigned from the party in February and returned to Parliament as an independent.

The ruling will be appealed by Field's lawyers.

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Ann Coulter: Take away women's votes because "women are voting so stupidly"

October 5, 2007 Promoting her new book If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans, Ann Coulter told a New York City paper:

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine...

She continued, saying that she doesn't think it will happen, and says that she places the blame on single women.

The comment, part of an interview published October 2 in the New York Observer, has gained headlines from numerous media outlets.

Megan McArdle of The Atlantic Monthly criticized Coulter's statements. McArdle comments: "Coulter isn't getting away with this because she's a Republican; she's getting away with it because she's a woman. If a conservative male had called for taking away the vote from women, Republicans wouldn't be able to get to the microphone fast enough to denounce him. They know where their political interests lie."

Coulter went on in the interview to blame former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for the September 11, 2001 attacks and criticized women for "voting stupidly".


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2007/08 Bundesliga: Bayern Munich vs. Nürnberg

October 7, 2007

Bayern Munich remained at the top of the table after a 3-0 victory over Bavarian rivals FC Nürnberg.

The win takes the undefeated streak to 9 games (7 wins and 2 draws) and takes Bayern Munich to 23 points leaving them 5 ahead of Karlsruhe. The Reds also boast a league leading goal difference of +22 by scoring at least three times in every home match this term except for 1 (1-1 draw with Schalke).

Bayern made 1 change to the team which won on Thursday's last Thursday UEFA Cup 2nd leg match. Andreas Ottl making a start in place of Mark van Bommel.

Bayern coach Ottmar Hitzfeld opted not to Lukas Podolski and Jan Schlaudraff in the absence of Miroslav Klose. Hitzeld placed Franck Ribery up front with Toni.

Michael Rensing was spectator in a the 1st half with an exception from a fumble from a Zvjezdan Misimovic shot. Toni scored his 7th goal with an angled shot after Blazek spilled Hamit Altintop’s 31st minute free kick. Bayern doubled their tally when Schweinsteiger flick released Ze Roberto for a run at Blazek 5 minutes before half-time. Toni completed the victory with a goal from Ze Roberto corner in the 81st minute.


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Talk:Construction on massive radio telescope array to begin in 2012

About the exchange rates, "US$2 billion (£1 billion)", that is generally incorrect according to sources like:

OANDA.com

XE.com

Yahoo! Finance

Someone doesn't like the dollar... According to the sources, a Euro is worth about 1 1/2 USD, not two dollars for every Euro. I don't see the point in being sloppy when you are talking billions. I made the change. Contralya 04:51, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * That would be correct (well, about), but for one thing. Unless I see a different symbol to you, £ is not the symbol for the Euro, it's the symbol for the pound sterling. The symbol for the Euro is €. $2 billion is about £1 billion pounds (Google), and yes, $2 billion is about €1.4 billion (Google again). So I changed it to include both. --217.43.88.34 14:53, 5 October 2007 (UTC).
 * I get them mixed up all of the time. I keep forgetting that Britain didn't adopt the Euro. Contralya 19:35, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


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Talk:Ann Coulter: Take away women's votes because "women are voting so stupidly"

Are we sure that this is not a joke or audio/video compilation? This could be just another person being framed, like how they lied that O'rielly was racist and that that radio guy thought U.S. veterans who opposed the war where phony soldiers. There needs to be actual investigation of the recording of her saying it, for instance, O'rielly was describing how Africans aren't like you see on Rap videos, that they are normal people, he was talking about the prejudice of others, not his; and the radio guy was saying that soldiers that dropped out of army training and claimed that they were veterans (they never went to Iraq) were the phony soldiers, not protesters of the war.

Is this story just the latest smear? We need to look at un-edited accounts from first sources, not what other media shows. We need to listen to/watch/read the original source, because it may have been doctored or 'cherry picked'. And it has Media Matters as a source, that site is a smear factory and not reliable.

Should we be smearing people? Contralya 07:06, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I do not know this woman as her books did not cross atlantic ocean. it seems she is publishing her new book very soon (go to her weblog). So all this buzz aroung her is just advertisment. Jacques Divol 08:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Oh heck, this is probably 100% true, and I'm a fan of hers. Ann Coulter says crazy stuff all the time; it's part of her humor style.  She's a right wing shock-jock, and there's no way she meant it seriously. --Anoma lee 10:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Then it should be suggested in the article that it is a joke. Contralya 10:52, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

 * It was true, and unless we KNOW it's a joke - she meant it as a joke, etc, the only proper way to report it is to say that she said it, and that there are other people angry. Now, if she comes out and says "oh, this was a joke, the liberals are idiots for being angry" then that's another story. Lyellin 15:32, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

 * So we can't just say that it may of been a joke but we don't know? I doubt it was anything besides a joke. Contralya 19:37, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think we can say it might be a joke. Coulter seems to make statements that garner her public notice.  How she really feels about anything she says is a mystery.  --David Shankbone 19:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


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Spain arrests entire leadership of the Basque Separatist Party: 22 detained

October 5, 2007 Spanish police have arrested the entire leadership of the Basque separatist party, Batasuna, detaining 22 people in the town of Segura.

Police seized the town and raided a building where 22 members of Batasuna's leadership were meeting, following orders issued by judge Baltasar Garzon. Among the arrested are senior members of Batasuna as Joseba Permach, Juan Joxe Petrikorena, Juan Kruz Aldasoro and Rufi Etxeberria. Some of them met this week with members of the Irish Sinn Fein and South African peace experts in order to explore new ways to solve the Basque conflict. The independentist movement has consider this operation a "declaration of war" and said that the Spanish government wants to "end with any expectations of dialogue". The other Basque political parties has declared this action a "political and juridical barbarity".

The operation is the latest in four months of operations against Basque independentist, including the arrest of Batasuna's leader Arnaldo Otegi some months ago and two independentist leaders this week accused of joining a demonstration reclaiming the rights of the Basque prisoners. Lately the Spanish media were rumoring about a major operation against the Basque independenstist, a personal initiative of the Prime Minister Jose Rodriguez Zapatero.

Batasuna was outlawed by Spain's Supreme Court in March 2003 alleging that it was the political wing of ETA.


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Comments:Ann Coulter: Take away women's votes because "women are voting so stupidly"

Am I the only one who thinks her comment sounds like a joke? I think it's funny, and I doubt someone (especially a WOMAN) would say something like that and mean it seriously. Contralya 07:40, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

 * It probably is a joke. Ann Coulter's humor style is very sarcastic and outragous, and comments like these get pulled out of context all the time.  Full Disclosure: I'm a Republican who likes Ann Coulter, although I don't agree with everything she says. --Anoma lee 10:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes and no. She probably truly believes that women's vote should be revoked, however she knows that it won't happen, but says it anyway to make a point. Sort of like that Senator filing a lawsuit against God, it's to make a point, not much more. --  Zanimum 15:32, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

 * So she may of just been making the point that women need to be more careful when they vote? Or that women are more likley to vote for the democrat party and she doesn't like that? I still think it was a joke. I used to make jokes like that, I stopped telling them because not many people laughed. Contralya 19:40, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh my god.
This is probably the funniest and most stupid thing I have heard in the last days. A WOMAN says WOMEN shouldn't vote because they vote STUPIDLY?? What is wrong with her? Fruchtfrosch 18:17, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I have heard that kind of joke before, and I found this to be funny. What is not funny is how people take her comment seriously. Contralya 19:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I used to think that Ms. Coulter was simply mean and kind of a bully. I have come to realize that she is merely hungry for attention and will say absolutely anything to get attention. She's pretty, of course, but not quite pretty enough to be a model or an actress. She is smart, but not quite smart enough to hold down a regular job. She is, however, photogenic enough, and smart enough to make for okay TV. The genius, of course, is to continually say outrageous things that no thinking person would ever say, and that no thinking person can let pass without comment.

Don't get upset by her. She's like an actress saying lines. She's Howard Stern in drag. She is meaningless.

Ann Coulter is a stupid blonde. If anything, she's the one who should get her rights & freedoms taken away. She is nothing more than a dumb b***h. 98.193.77.218 04:32, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Now that is what I call judging someone. Contralya 15:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Ha Ha!
Ann Coulter, from planet Rabid Republican. watch Paxman take her to pieces. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:25, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

One word: Idiot.

-99.238.61.133 12:29, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I THINK WOMEN SHOULD VOTE

What has Ann Coutler been smoking???
This skinny triffling hooker, Ann Coulter, is either high or just plain nuts. After the "Christians want to perfect Jews..." remark, I thought eventually the cops are going to arrest her for possession of narcotics. Only crazed out crack-heads would say something as thoughtless and crazy as that! Now after reading her remark about taking away women's right to vote, I am convinced that she needs to make reservations to get treatment at the Betty Ford Center because she has obviously been smoking some seriously hard shit.
 * I think she's been hanging out with Rush Limbaugh. Another fine, upstanding Republican. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Ann Coulter, isn't she a single woman herself who votes? Hypocrisy is what I am hearing and reading. Why does she vote and why was she investigated? Wake up Ann Coulter fans!

The truth is revealed!
I think this just proves that she obviously isn't a woman. She's saying that women shouldn't vote, even though she is a woman (supposedly). Make any sense? I didn't think so. 160.253.128.7 22:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

This woman is a racist, sexist, harpy who revels in the horrible things she says and acts as if she is so much better than others.

Honestly, women shouldn't be allowed to vote because since they do, it prevents her party from being in power apparently. We should be proud to be racist. I can't believe this. More so, I can't believe she's still talking... in the sense that she's a in a position to be heard so loudly after all the rude, vulgar garbage she's spewed out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.231.182.90 (talk) 03:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

If women shouldn't vote...
then she should make the first step and stop publishing her views on politics in her idiotic books.

- Mina —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.113.87.228 (talk) 21:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Coulter's Stupidity
Maybe it would be a good idea to take away Ann Coulter's right to free speech because she speaks so stupidly. Because under her line of thinking, the knife cuts both ways. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.166.220 (talk) 02:05, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I have a better idea. Let's take away the votes of ALL liberal Democrats, regardless of gender. Anyone who thinks George Bush is more dangerous than Al Qaeda, or that convicted murderers are worthy of protection but unborn babies are not, does not belong anywhere near a ballot box. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Belle E. Aiken (talk • contribs) 11:18, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Ann Coulter is an embarrassment to women everywhere. She's a joke. However, ignorant comments, such as these are what gives her so much visibility in the eyes of Americans. I guess if being a sellout to women is what it takes to make a living, she's willing to do it. Good job Ann. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.91.171.42 (talk) 21:01, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Ann Coulter
She's stupid! Why would she want to take a woman's right to vote away? Then that would mean SHE can't vote either. Unless there's something she's not telling us? Look at the Adam's apple on that throat if you know what I mean lol

Very true, if this view of hers was implemented, then she couldn't vote for her right-wing Republican buddies (who, ironically, have been shying away from her more and more). Then again, it's hard to take her seriously on much of what she says, as she tends so much to the extreme. She likes to shock people and get attention -- she's like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum. But, as my parents wisely observed, the best cure for that is to refuse to reward her with any kind of attention. 68.244.147.83 13:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

I have a deep dislike for this woman. So deep, it could definitly be cathegorisized under the headline "hate". I do not share a single thought of what comes from her, nor her followers. Listen to the opposite opinions: All religions express their way of things, thats why it's so fascinating, and that's why there are no rights or wrongs here. Muslims are not terrorists. George Bush wasn't any great at all. Canada has it's full right to be next to USA. Homosexuals, bisexuals, that is not not not wrong. Children should not wear weapons. Democrats, liberalism! Environmentalism, god didn't create this world for us raping it! He made us to be a part of the eco system! That went wrong and now we're destroying ourselves. And, for the thousand time: Evolution is a FACT. With thousands, thousands of evidences! Some people just don't get it: every bit falls into place in evolution theory. Darwin was right. That's not my opinion. It's fact. We believed that the earth was flat. Was it that, really? So what tells us we can't be wrong now? Or who're we, at least I don't want to be a part of that. Nor my generation.

Thank you so much for the word. And for accepting my opinions. :)

Oh, and yes: Woman has the same rights as men. It will be so. And if it's true they vote for democrats that makes them smarter. Barack for president! Oh wait... he already is. HA!


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2007 Ig Nobel Prize winners announced

October 5, 2007

The winners of the 2007 have been announced. The awards, given out every early October since 1991 by the, are a parody of the Nobel Prize, which are awards given out in several fields. The awards are given to achievements that, "first make people laugh, and then make them think." They were presented at Harvard University's.

Ten awards were been presented, each given to a different field. The winners were:

 * Medicine: Brian Witcombe, of Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and Dan Meyer, who studied the health consequences of.

 * Physics: A team from the USA and Chile, who made a study about how cloth sheets become wrinkled.

 * Biology: Dr Johanna van Bronswijk of the Netherlands, for carrying out a census of creatures that live in people's beds.

 * Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto, from Japan, for creating a method of extracting vanilla fragrance and flavouring from cow dung.

 * Linguistics: A team from the, who discovered that rats cannot tell the difference between Japanese and Dutch when spoken backwards.

 * Literature: Glenda Browne of Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study on how the word "The" confuses people when they try to put things in alphabetical order.

 * Peace: The US Air Force Wright Laboratory for trying to develop a that would turn enemy soldiers homosexual.

 * Nutrition: Brian Wansink of Cornell University for his investigation into the limits of the human appetite, by using a self-refilling "bottomless" bowl of soup.

 * Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh of Taiwan, for patenting a machine that catches bank robbers by dropping a net on top of them.

 * Aviation: A team from the National University of, Argentina, for discovering that impotency drugs can help hamsters recover from.

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I know that WikiNews is not a blog but... freebatasuna!

Looking forward to a democratic solution, words are more than enough: freebatasuna


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Talk:Dr. Joseph Merlino on sexuality, insanity, Freud, fetishes and apathy

It's my own view or perhaps my bad english, but i feel this article is very strange Jacques Divol 09:21, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not an article, it's an interview with a famous psychiatrist/psychoanalyst who has a new book coming out on Freud. --David Shankbone 13:44, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to me - and is rather in depth, which I like. Nice job David. Lyellin 15:30, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks :-) We covered a lot of ground.  I probably need to make sure I get across that this perspective is from the psychoanalysis field.  --David Shankbone 15:36, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * yes, you do a great job. it's my bad english :) Jacques Divol 13:25, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I did run across some typos, some grammatical problems, but I can't bring myself to touch an interview. Mainly, because I am of the opinion that what was said should be transcribed as true to every noise that comes out of each person. So I wouldn't want to try to correct anything without the source audio, and I think Mr. Shankbone should consider making that available to us.  Superb interview, by the way, more deserving of digital immortality than much of wikinews articles past.

 * But now Wikinews is a totally new phenomenon, and every party in the interview is going to want to clean up all of their misstatements to avoid looking foolish. I don't think there are many people who can speak in perfect sentences in normal conversation, just listen to the glorious emperor of the U.S.  It is my suggestion that when people do want to clarify what they wanted to convey in the interview, that they should be guided to add the clarification underneath their original response, clearly identifying themselves and saying something like, "What I meant to say was..."  This to me, would be the best of both worlds, preserving the human aspect of imperfect communication, even the potentially embarrassing, possibly revealing "Freudian Slip," and at the same time offer readers the added bonus of what the answer would be if given time to reflect. -  Zaz 14:11, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Response to Zaz regarding interview issues
It's true, I could use a good editor and self-editing is difficult, especially in a rush to do the interview, the laborious transcription (I now pay transcribers and I have spent somewhere near $1,000 so far), and then the clean-up and posting, and the rush to move on to the next interview. I'm suffering from a back-log right now of un-transcribed and unpublished conversations. There is a healthy amount of clean-up that the transcriptions undergo to improve their readability. For instance, if someone were to say this: '''DS: Senator, what...could you tell me, perhaps, what you might have eaten yesterday, if you can remember...maybe for lunch.
 * Senator: I, uh, I was walking toward the supermarket...no, I'm sorry, what I meant to say is I was walking toward the deli for a, uh, um, ham on rye, was it a ham?  Yes.  Yes it was, um, ham.

Would actually be published to look like this: '''DS: Senator, what did you eat for lunch yesterday?
 * Senator: I walked to the deli and I ate a ham on rye.

There are several reasons for this: Since I was a neophyte at interviews, I wasn't sure if this was correct, so I asked several known news people and interviewers and they said not only is it correct, but necessary for the reasons stated above.
 * 1) To improve readability.
 * 2) Not to make anyone sound like a fool. People simply don't speak in complete thoughts, especially in an interview. When they are put on the spot.

You raise a good point regarding post-interview clean-up. My feeling is that if I agree, and the interviewee agree, then it is okay. It takes a meeting of the minds of both individuals involved in the interview to come to a consensus that they are not, in fact, changing the substance of what they said or trying to clarify post-interview controversial remarks they made. It can be a fine line. For instance this individual very likely would jump at the chance to edit that interview. There, I would step in and say, "Um...uh...no...I don't think...I, uh, want you to change your remarks." --David Shankbone 15:00, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Back to David

 * Whoa, DNA daddy didn't just step in it, he slipped and got it all over him! Actually I read of him dropping that bomb immediately afterward, I was curious if he was going to produce some data, broadsiding the PC police.  Apparently not, since he went straight for the apology.  Guess he missed the whole Imus thing.  He was on a hubris binge, recent interview had him saying that he owed his longevity to avoiding boring people.

But these chafe my sense of speech freedom enormously. Without thinking like these attack dogs, it takes me aback like the way mr.anon.IP zeroed in on my casual use of the word "dumping" back there in the BDSM talk. Having a slick one leverage petty connotations into an issue really points out to me how much these public figures dance in a minefield every time they open their mouths.

 * The difference between theory and experience: Never having attempted transcription of a raw interview, I couldn't appreciate just how sloppy they can get. Then posting the raw audio here publicly would likely chase off prospective subjects.  In this light, I'll have to adjust my thinking on the purity of the frozen moments of speech, and allow myself license to correct the typo-type of errors and the few glaring plurality and other minor gaffs that catch my eye.  I'm the last guy to be confused with an English major, but after reading a few million sentences without the benefit of Evelyn Wood the stumbles stick out.  Leave the unflattering celebrity snapshots for the supermarket tabloids.

This would be more appropriate on your talk page, maybe elsewhere, but since we're here now, and very busy at that, just gotta get this outta me. Maybe it's an opponent reaction to my misery over the direction this country has been going, even before the new millenium's surprises. It's not like me to fall all over the floor for anything, but I've become this real zealot for Jimmy's Wonderful Wikies and then you come along, and the next thing you know, I'm running around the operation center, evangelizing the evangelicals and other selectively informed folks with the first page of your Wolfson interview, because the first five answers he gave you brought me instantly from sketchy sort-of-knew-abouts to crystal clear knowledge. Wiki-P was a "be careful what you wish for" problem for me, because I wanted to know everything, and then everything was finally placed in front of me. And here you demonstrate just how valuable the right question put to the right person can be. Co-workers catch me saying "wow" like Timothy Leary used to. I work with many middle-aged reasonably intelligent but conservative people who sometimes bring me down with their stubborn cynicism. My new trick: Read the comments of the Wikimedia contributors. Highly concentrated, altruistic humanistic hope - they can't live without it either, I usually can't take more than five or six pages. After 35 years of smoking, I finally found enough incentive to quit. - Zaz 12:39, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: to Zaz
Cleaning up the transcription is a courtesy I extend to all the interviewees, whether evangelical Sam Brownback (who said "Uh" and "um" a lot) or Augusten Burroughs (who switched thought mid-sentence a good deal). But sometimes I leave an "uh" or an "um" in if I think it puts into context a frame of mind or a stumble. It can be a challenge to do some of these. Two people whose politics I don't particularly care for, Tancredo and Brownback, I walked away from having more respect for Tancredo (he was incredibly forthright in the interview) and less for Brownback, who wanted to stick to his political script. That presents an interesting question, because I could have gone at Brownback, but I don't think that serves a useful purpose for Wikinews. If you look at the "Why would God not like gay people?" question, he deflected it and turned it into the hot button "Gay marriage" bugaboo. I let it slide...what am I going to do, "No, Senator, the question is WHY IS GOD BOTHERED BY GAY PEOPLE?! ANSWER IT!"

The point of these interviews is to explore a person a little more deeply, and if they don't want to be explored--as Brownback did not--then seasoned interviewees know how to wiggle out of a question. This is the reason they are so long. I don't have a particularly large readership in mind when I do these--they are there for people who want knowledge straight from the horse's mouth. I don't really care if one person doesn't like them, or the majority of people don't like them, because they are written solely for me. If the IP doesn't like them, he doesn't have to read them and he should instead stick to publications where the writers aren't volunteers. All of us on here are volunteers - this is our hobby; and either people like our particular hobbies, or they do not. If a person wanted to come on to Wikinews and only report about hate crimes against black people, they would be welcomed. Why not? If that's where their interest lies...we don't pay them, and we are happy for the content. It is bound to be interesting to someone. That's the same philosophy on Wikipedia. So, it might bother someone like the IP that I'm not writing what he wants written, or I'm not asking what he wants asked, but I'm not doing this for him or anybody else but myself. And if one other person finds the things I ask and the people I question to be interesting, then that alone makes it worth it to me. And what makes it worth it to me are bits like this from my two hour talk with Gay Talese (to be published soon):
 * '''DS: Has the war affected you as a person?
 * GT: I wish it had. The war hasn’t affect America as a person. The only ones affected are the 165,000 troops, relatives, kinfolk, cousins. That’s all.
 * '''DS: It hasn’t affected you then?
 * GT: I wish it had! It hasn’t. It hasn’t affected you either. It hasn’t affected anybody!
 * '''DS: It’s affected me.
 * GT: It’s affected you?
 * '''DS: Every single person I interview I ask about the war because I think it's important and it has affected me.
 * GT: Then you must have some relationship. Or you must have a human spirit unmatched since Billy Graham made his first speech. I mean you have to have a real conscience, social conscience, to care. Where are the protests coming out of the Ivy League or the University of Alabama? They’re not there because there’s no conscription. There should be conscription. There should be a draft. There should be. Everybody should serve.
 * '''DS: That’s what Charles Rangel says.
 * GT: He’s the only voice in Congress that ever said that and he said it five years ago. I don’t know of any other voice. I am not aware of another member of the Congress who said what Rangel said. Not one. Certainly not these candidates, Clinton and the rest of them. Because why? Because they know it would stop the war in an hour. Because then we would have involvement. Right now what’s the involvement? The ridiculous stickers, ‘Support Your Troops’ on the back of an SUV? The cost of gas matters not at all. Nobody sacrifices.
 * '''DS: That’s the only thing that does seem to motivate people to be against the war is to be paying more at the gas pump.
 * GT: They don’t care. Don’t care. There’s no sacrifice. Americans are unaffected, except those in the military or related to military people, doesn’t matter… I go out. I mean, yes you can have conversations at dinner parties about this, but it’s very political. It’s about whether McCain says this or Hillary says this and what’s the position of somebody in the defense department. That’s all bullshit. Really nobody cares.
 * '''DS: Does it bother you that there’s a lack of outrage?
 * GT: Yes it does. It does bother me. And it does bother me that the poor people who need money join the National Guard Reserves because they needed that money or they want to go to college. What most bothers me are the college students – the worst generation is what I call them. These college students are the worst and I’ve been to a lot of campuses. I taught last year at USC. I always go to USC in the spring in April every year. I go for a week or so. And I hang around. Across from the campus, there’s a motel I stay in. College students are always hanging around there. And I was, this year, at the University of Pennsylvania and I was at the University of Alabama, and I’ve been to a number of campuses this year and nobody cares about this war.

--David Shankbone 14:51, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

OR?
If so it needs the tags...
 * It has an interview tag, that carries the OR label on it. I could put the OR tag in addition to the interview, but it seems like the interview tag itself takes care of the issue.  --David Shankbone 17:10, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Chris Crocker image
Image:Chris Crocker.JPG was removed from Commons, so I suggest we use this image instead. ~Planoneck~ 02:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Generally, this would be disallowed as the new image is newer than the article. In this case, I don't see the harm as it is an interview, however, I doubt that the substitution will succeed. --SVTCobra 02:53, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I am removing the editprotected tag as the image suggested was after the publication date of this article. --SVTCobra 01:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

FAC
Deserving, methinks. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:19, 9 September 2013 (UTC)


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Talk:New Zealand police to charge sitting MP

Headline change
Brianmc, I see you changed the headline by downsizing the word police. I had captalised it in the first place because the name of it is New Zealand Police (well, according to Wikipedia anyway). If it was by itself then I would have called it police. --Nzgabriel | Talk 10:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


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User:Anoma lee~enwikinews

This is the same Anoma Lee who is a member of Wikipedia and possibly Wookeepedia, Memory Alpha and Wikitionary. Possibly others, too, but I can't remember all the Wikis I'm a member of off the top of my head.

If, however, you find an 'Anoma Lee' out there who is trolling, edit-warring, or generally being a jerk, it isn't me; I only do minor edits and occasionally call 'facts' into question, but rarely if evver do anything major myself.

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German trains halted by strike

October 5, 2007

On Friday morning, commuters and travelers in Germany were forced to find alternative methods of transportation as train drivers walked off the job. Between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Friday morning, a German court gave the authorization for a strike. The strike was permitted only for drivers of local and regional trains. Drivers of long-distance and intercity trains, ICE high-speed rail networks and freight transports were forbidden from participating due to possible impact on the German economy.

Germany's public workers' union is demanding a 31 percent wage increase that would put the German train drivers' wages equal with their counterparts in other European countries. Currently, starting drivers earn €1,970 per month. The union is pushing for a pay increase of €2,500 per month for starting drivers.

The Deutsche Bahn, Germany's government-owned train system, has so far refused to increase the drivers' wages. They have, however, offered to give train drivers a five percent pay increase if the drivers are willing to work two extra hours every week. The offer also stated that if the train drivers are willing to work even more hours per week, they could be eligible for a pay increase of up to 9.5 percent.

The union has also demanded equal pay for drivers in former East Germany. Georg Milbradt, chief negotiator for Germany's state governments, said that giving equal wages to the drivers in former East Germany would be extremely difficult.

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User:Xx7Miranda7xX

Hello, everybody. This is KiaraFan13 from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. I am so happy to be joining Wikinews, the free news source. I am 13 years old and I am in the 8th grade.

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As you all know, my name is Miranda and I am 13 years old. I am an 8th grade student. I am obsessed with the local news and I think that it's interesting to me. I have 2 older stepsisters, 1 younger sister, 2 older stepbrothers, and 1 younger brother. I am the middle and special child in my family because I have a disability called autism. I joined Wikinews, the free news source, on October 5th, 2007.

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Audi's flagship model could soon emerge with new look
Nicely written article. Since there are no sources, I added original. But before the article is published it needs original reporting notes on the talk page. Could you add them on the talk page? Thanks.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 23:46, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

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Hello and welcome to Wikinews, a collection of open-content news stories!

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Comments:Construction on massive radio telescope array to begin in 2012

If governments are funding it, it seems like a gigantic waste of money. Wait until we have technology that will be a 100 times stronger anyways (which I don't think is too far fetched to say that this might happen by 2012), not waste millions with by then outdated technology. Fephisto 17:42, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Presumably if construction is starting in 2012, they will use whatever the current technology is then. But if you say that, what's to stop people then saying that they should wait until technology is once more 100 times stronger, and it just becomes one big cycle, and nothing ever gets completed. --81.152.100.246 18:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC).
 * I agree that I'm not stating my point very well, but it

s because I'm referring more to the government spending. Spend millions now with what could be done privately for quite a fraction of the cost if we actually waited a bit. It currently gives this sense that it's impossible to do research privately, because of the big costs involved, when that's hardly the case. Fephisto 22:15, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

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Comments:Australian treasurer declares that he is "a lot of fun"

""There has not been enough investment in dams, there has not been enough investment in pipes, in irrigation canals and I think we're going to have to look very, very carefully at desalination plants for our major capital cities," said the Australian Treasurer."

If you have a complaint about the state of the free market, see if there's a market for it. You don't have to take political action. Now if I could get some venture capitalists to go with me on building some desalination plants in Australia because I know they have water problems, that'd be ni-...oh wait, looks like the government would be planning to step it. Now I don't have investors. Sorry for the over-sardonic tone, I just get a little pissed with this type of thinking. Fephisto 17:47, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


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Comments:Australian government approves Tasmanian pulp mill

The hoops businessmen have to go through to start a business! It's no wonder CEO's get paid so much. Fephisto 17:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


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Comments:Survey: Denmark, Finland are world's least and Myanmar, Somalia are world's most corrupt countries

As it says in the Economy of Somalia page, "But corruption is not a problem, because there is no government." Fephisto 17:56, 5 October 2007 (UTC)


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User talk:83.39.205.194

Hello and welcome to Wikinews, a collection of open-content news stories!

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An interview with gossip columnist Michael Musto on the art of celebrity journalism

October 7, 2007

There are two things one can expect on a trip to see Michael Musto at the offices of the Village Voice: a 20-minute round-trip wait for the elevator and rapid fire answers from one of the most recognizable gossip columnists in the United States. Musto, in addition to his appearances on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and the E! network, has been writing his column for the Voice since 1984. He has recently compiled the best of them in a book released this year titled, La Dolce Musto: Writings by the World's Most Outrageous Columnist. He was Carrie Bradshaw, replete with a prodigious use of puns, before Sex in the City was a thought. His column is a romp through his life, spats and opinions on socio-political issues. As David Thigpen of the Chicago Tribune wrote, Musto is "a funny and caustic satirist who masquerades as a gossip and nightlife columnist."

Musto, a Columbia University graduate, is a rarity in today's celebrity world: he is accessible. He often corresponds with his readers and his public functions are a mix of parties, nightclubs, academic lectures, university panels and film premieres.

He is friendly and frank, and he welcomes people to join him in his world ("I just got a message that Michael Lucas died!" he says staring wide-eyed at his phone; the message turned out to be false). Wikinews reporter David Shankbone spoke with Musto about his life and his relationship to the world of celebrity journalism. And he did not hold back.

On writing a gossip column
'''DS: What do you prefer: gossip columnist, journalist or celebrity reporter?
 * MM: I always like the sound of gossip columnist.

DS: Do you have a favorite gossip columnist?
 * MM: Page Six is still my bible; they break a lot of stories and it's very readable.

'''DS: Was it difficult to write a gossip column after September 11?
 * MM: The weird thing is, in the middle of all that craziness, I decided to just write my usual column.  I put a couple of references to 9/11 in the column, but basically I just put it out there as a run-down of Fashion Week that week.  There was more than enough coverage of 9/11 and I wanted to make my little statement to the world that we have to keep doing whatever it is we are doing, no matter how trivial it seems.

DS: Was there a reaction to that business-as-usual reporting of the column?
 * MM: I got a great reaction.  UPI later did a profile of me because I wrote another column about running around Washington D.C., and they said that I was the one who made it okay to be fun and fabulous again.

DS: How does that feel when someone acknowledges you achieved an affect you wanted?
 * MM: It feels great.  I always was someone who marches to my own drum and I have been vilified for it at times, so it feels nice to be around long enough that people come around and say, 'Hey, maybe you are doing something good.'

'''DS: I photographed at the Tribeca Film Festival for Wikipedia, and a lot of the paparazzi photographer would talk in a derogatory way about the celebrities they were photographing, and they gave themselves a lot of credit for making their images. Recently, Cindy Adams wrote in her column a blurb about something Alan Greenspan said, and then she said something to the effect of, 'and I'd mention the name of his book if he had told me that to me first,' as if Greenspan is going to go run to Cindy Adams just to get a book mention in her column. Is the celebrity press lacking humility because they report on the famous?'''
 * MM: It's a double-edged sword.  Because you are covering the celebrity, some of the celebrity glitter falls on you, and you experience a miniature version of celebrity yourself, especially if like me you go on TV a lot.  So you do develop this lofty idea that you're hot shit.  But then you go to an event, like a movie premiere, and you are reminded of your place in the food chain.

DS: How so?
 * MM: You have to go through many hoops just to talk to a major celebrity.  You have to get past three different sets of publicists:  the publicist for the event, the publicist for the movie, and then the celebrity's personal publicist.  They all have to approve you.  Last night I talked to Kenneth Branagh, who directed Sleuth, and the publicist had to approve me, talk to him, and then I saw him talk to his publicist and say, "Michael Musto...is that okay?"  And somehow she said yes.  That should actually fuel my ego more that I'm potentially risky enough that I have to get so much approval to even talk to somebody, but what you want in your mind is this fantasy like the Cindy Adams thing, of like, "Oh, let me come to you!"  And that often happens!  Tori Spelling's publicist was like, 'Sorry, she's not talking right now,' but when Tori recognized me from TV she was like, 'Michael, come here, let's talk.'  So that's an ego-enhancing situation, but you are always going to be lower than the celebrity, no matter what.  Even if you think you are a celebrity yourself.

On celebrities
DS: Do you have celebrities who simply will not talk to you no matter what you do or say, because you pissed them off so royally?
 * MM: Oh yeah, I mean, there's so many names I can't even list them [Laughs].  When I walk into a room half the room runs away, and that's a good thing.  But the longer you do it, the more people come around because I don't think I'm as bitter as I used to be in my column.  I think I'm a little more willing to show my appreciation.    Some people would rather it go back to having more sting to it.  But I'm still a risky person because there is so much media out there now that they can pick and choose; these publicists really are the editors now.

DS: Do you ever punish people for an infraction against you?
 * MM: Sure.  My column is very personal; it's La Dolce Musto so it's all based on personal grudges.  If somebody can play the game well with me and give me good copy then I love them, and if they slight me I'll get them back.

DS: Can you give an example?
 * MM: Oh, gosh, I have telegrams from Whoopi Goldberg and...I think Gwyneth Paltrow was smart.  She said, "I admire your rage."  [Laughs] Vincent Gallo, who hates everybody, was leaving me nasty messages on my home machine, calling me Miss Musto.  I don't know.  Tinsley Mortimer just called me yesterday.  She's a hot socialite, the new Paris Hilton.  She called me at home because I said something to The Observer that came out today in which I kind of paraphrased something she said to me, and she was angry with me.  She's actually right.

DS: What did you say?
 * MM: We were co-presenting an award at some nightclub award show, and I told The Observer that she said, 'Don't queer me, don't go off the script.'  She didn't actually say 'don't queer me,' so it somehow became a gay issue where they made it sound like she is anti-gay.  And she's not.  She loves the gays, except for me.  But the weirdest thing is Paris Hilton I have trashed mercilessly, but then when they were doing the cover story for Out Magazine I heard she hand-picked me.  So, fly to the L.A., do the interview, be shot for The Simple Life, so...

DS: Do you have a sense that celebrities are paying much attention to the war, that there's a consciousness they have, as a community or individually, outside of the glitz centers of New York and Los Angeles?
 * MM: Well, in the early days of the war when I was going on peace marches, I certainly didn't see any celebrities there.  And then came Madonna withdrawing that promotional video for American Life because of some controversial image; even Madonna didn't want to go there.  And then came, of course, the Dixie Chicks, who were crucified for one honest remark.  So, the celebrities held back when they saw your career could be devastated at that point for telling the truth.  And then suddenly it became okay to bash the war, to bash Bush, and everybody jumped on it.  Now it's almost cliche.  Sally Fields saying, 'If mothers ruled the world there'd be no war.'  Excuse me!  Hillary Clinton is a mother and she voted for it.  Barbara Bush is a mother.  So don't give me that horse shit.  They bleeped her, anyway.

On the gay community
DS: Do you think you play a certain role in the gay community?
 * MM: Yes.  I'm kind of the elder statesman, court jester and someone who has been there, knows history and can use that to comment on current situations.  I'm a critic, but I do it with humor, and I'm above all self-deprecating.  I make fun of myself before anybody, so that kind of frees me to lash out at other people.  I'm also out about everything.  I've written columns about my promiscuity phases, and my seizure disorder...everything!  There's nothing I hold back from my readers and that allows me to go forth without hypocrisy into all kinds of subjects about public figures.

DS: You are a sharp critic of the gay community, almost in the mold of Larry Kramer—
 * MM: —not quite—

'''DS: —not completely, but in terms of criticizing apathy and the party lifestyle of the gay community where they do not focus on meaningful issues.
 * MM: I differ from Larry in that I do not think the young generation are a bunch of morons who need to be lectured and told they are stupid and retarded.  I think they are brighter than ever; they just need a little guidance.  But I am a harsh critic of the gay community because I feel that when I first came out I thought I would be entering a world of nonconformity and individuality and, au contraire, it turned out to be a world of clones in a certain way.  You are expected to be a certain type of gay to move the community forward, whereas it has always been the fringe-y, crazy people who move it forward.  We're the ones driving the bus, but we are the ones who are usually told to get in the back of the bus by the gay community.  I also hated the whole body fascism thing that took over the gays for a long time.

DS: Do you think that conformity is gone?
 * MM: It's on the wane.  I think everyone still goes to the gym, but it's not as obsessive and I think the new people coming up in the gay community are more interested in embracing their feminine sides and presenting their bodies 'as is.'  The main reason I know this is happening is that I am getting more sexual interest, whereas all through the 1990s I was completely invisible because I wasn't a gym queen.

'''DS: You inhabit that partying, gym-fetish world, the one you criticize. How do you criticize, yet live off of that world?'''
 * MM: Because I celebrate it more than I criticize it.  I am attracted to people on the edge, the gays, the drag queens, anybody who comes to New York and becomes celebrated for whatever reason they were criticized in their hometown.  The nightclub scene is where all of these diverse people come together and create something celebratory, and I am totally in favor of it.  But while I'm there, I always feel like the weirdo in the corner because I'm not doing drugs, I'm not going to the gym, I'm not doing all the cliched things.  I'm totally able to lash out and say, 'Look at you fools.'

DS: Were you ever part of that world?
 * MM: No.  I'm too much of a control freak to submit myself to drugs, or I'm too scared. I don't even drink.  I had a sip of vodka last night and...

'DS: [Laughs''] —you look a little hung today—
 * MM: [Laughs] —it does!  Really, it hit me with a wallop because it was my first one in thirteen years and it really reminded me of why I can't do it.

'DS: You recently did a column that opened talking about how gays don't want to bottom anymore; later you talk about Michael Moore's Sicko'' and the problem of hospitals over-medicating their patients. Do you think that style of mixing glitz and substance reaches people, or do you think they tend to gloss the substantive parts?
 * MM: I've always mixed a conscience with a lack thereof; I've always put serious issues into the mix of my party-going.  That's just my style, and I think people do appreciate reading me when they are reading me as a guilty pleasure when they come across some serious discussion of a topic that pushes buttons.  People love it.  I get the most reaction to those.  I got a huge reaction to the bottom thing.  That's not really a serious topic...

'''DS: It seems to be because it's a reaction of a community to a health related topic, since you were saying it was a health consciousness that is causing a dearth of bottoms. Bare-backing is still the rage.'''
 * MM: The body fascism thing actually did originate as a health phenomenon, because people were reacting to AIDS.  People were like, 'I'm going to build up my body so that AIDS can't get me,' and we were being bashed at the same time by people saying we deserved AIDS.  So that was a way of saying I'm not a "sissy."  But it became totally obsessive and absurd, and it didn't protect you from bashing or AIDS or anything else.

 * In this case, I did notice a shift where everybody is boring in bed, where everyone is like, 'Oh, I'm kind of a versatile top.' But then I got a lot of response from people saying, 'Are you crazy?! Everyone on Manhunt is a bottom!'  One guy said, 'I'm a bottom, the problem is the tops don't know how to do it the right way, the tops just kind of stick it in.'  I can't picture this on Wikipedia...

 * Then the Michael Moore thing; Sicko was great, but the opposite would also make a great movie. That people who are sent to hospitals or become part of the medical system are over-medicated because one part of the system washes the other.  So a doctor will give you too many prescriptions.  If you go to a hospital they will keep you there a week longer than you need to be, to get the money for the bed.  I got responses to that, too.  Somebody sent me a book called Overmedicated, so that topic has been written on.

On outing gay celebrities
DS: What stands out as a story that you did where you were bowled over by the reaction to it.
 * MM: In the 1990s I was one of the few people outing celebrities—

'''DS: —You outed Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen Degeneres—
 * MM: —I outed Rosie and Ellen, and it's hard to even imagine now that they ever were in the closet.  You have to educate the new people and say, 'Guess what, they were in the closet at one point.'  It's hard to believe that Rosie was doing this delicate dance on her talk show where she was the 'Queen of Nice' and the single mother who had a crush on Tom Cruise and I was pointing out the absurdity of it.  I was even more angry at the media than people like Rosie, because the media would play along with it.  They would do huge profiles of her without even addressing the fact that she was obviously a lesbian.  I just spoke at Yale a couple of weeks ago and talked about outing, and nobody argued.  I was like, 'Come on!  Somebody argue!'  I used to get so many arguments over this that I used to have a list printed out with an answer to each argument.

DS: Do you have a theory or philosophy you follow about outing?
 * MM: My theory is just that public figures sign an implicit deal with the media that their private lives are to be covered, and to leave out gayness because it is distasteful or there might be homophobes out there is homophobic in itself.  It's hypocritical and it makes 'gay' the last taboo.  But I don't get arguments anymore.  I'm like, 'Come on people!  Yell at me!'

'''DS: What about the argument that it is more appropriate for people who are working against the gay community, a Larry Craig, if you will?
 * MM: People like Michaelangelo Signorile started by outing Malcolm Forbes, not anybody anti-gay.  He was just saying 'He's dead, he's gay, let's say so in the obituary.'  I don't believe in outing only the hypocrites and anti-gay people because then the only people the public is going to know are gay are horrible, hateful people.

'''DS: There are a lot of gay people who aren't talked about in Hollywood now. Merv Griffin was an example. Do you not feel the need to spell it out for some people who lead very openly gay lives but that nobody talks about?
 * MM: Yeah, that was a big uproar after Merv died.  Merv almost came out himself; was it Vanity Fair where he said 'I'm quarter sexual, I'll sleep with anybody for a quarter?' or something?  99% of the obits didn't even address it the fact that even Merv had almost coyly come out.  So yeah, I wrote something to try and rectify that.

DS: But why not write something before he died?
 * MM: Please!  I totally did.  In the 90's there was a group that put up those 'Absolutely Queer: Jodi Foster' and Merv Griffin posters?  I ran the Jodi and Merv posters in my column.  It was huge.  I was really going places nobody was going; nobody was running pictures of those posters because everybody was so terrified of lawsuits.

DS: Did you ever come under editorial pressure over those?
 * MM: No, and the Voice staff at the time was very anti-outing, but nobody told me not to go there, and I've never been sued in my life and I've been here for 22 years.

'''DS: You are pretty accessible to your readers as well, right?
 * MM: Yeah.  I'm out there.  Tonight I'm doing a reading that is turning into a tribute to Dean Johnson

On New York City
DS: Where do you see Manhattan's culture going?
 * MM: It's been weird for me to live in Manhattan and see the transformations.  On one level it's exciting, it's booming, it has a bright future.  On the other hand a lot of the creative energy and starving artists have been pushed to the boroughs.  They're still in New York.  I hate when people say there are no starving artists in New York.  The boroughs are part of New York: I'm from Brooklyn--it counts!  But, being someone who is so Manhattan-centric, it's weird being in a place with so many rich people.  It's not what I intended.  I'm looking at buying an apartment now and it's horrifying.

DS: Do you miss the old New York?
 * MM: I do, and I'm not one of those hypocrites who say, 'Oh, I miss the old Times Square' and were never there.  I was there.  I was running around and enjoying the seediness.

'DS: A friend of mine said that if you transplanted someone from 1983 New York into 2007 New York they would be shocked'' by how many people there are walking around; they would be like, 'Where did all these people come from?!'  People don't realize that there were a lot of empty streets back then.
 * MM: And there were 'bad neighborhoods.'  There are no bad neighborhoods anymore.  I always used to have to look behind my back.  I was mugged, like, three times.  It's hard to complain about, 'Oh, gosh, I don't have to worry about getting mugged anymore!'  But, at the same time, some edge is lost.  But when I go to these clubs I hang out with freaky-deaky people who are living on the fringes just as people in the 80's.  I don't know if they live off their parent's money, or if they have day jobs...I'm not sure how they manage.

DS: How do you define freaky?
 * MM: Crazy outfits, insane behavior, swinging from the chandeliers and making for a fun party scene.  They are still out there.

DS: Do you think drugs makes for a fun party scene?
 * MM: No, I never thought drugs were necessary, and I hate to be like Nancy Reagan and just say no, but my first nightclub was Studio 54 and I was so stimulated by the experience that doing drugs never even entered my mind.  I was so naive that I never even knew that everybody else was on drugs.  I thought, 'why would you need to do that?'

DS:' So the people you are hanging out with who are swinging from the chandeliers, they are just naturally that way?
 * MM: No, I think they are on drugs.  But I don't think it's necessary, personally.

Musto on Musto
DS: How would you choose your own death?
 * MM: I probably would like to die while RSVPing to a party.  And then I just want to be put into a Hefty bag and leaned against a garbage pail.  I don't want a lot o fuss because I'm not going to be here to enjoy it.

DS: What's a lesson your father taught you?
 * MM: He always taught me that all you need is nerve.  We used to watch variety shows on TV and he'd say, "See that, Michael, they have no talent; all you need is nerve." [Laughs]

DS: It's so true, isn't it?
 * MM: I guess...  it helps to have talent too, though, and thankfully I have it in spades! [Laughs]

DS: Has the Iraq War affected your writing at all?
 * MM: Yeah, it's made me more, you know...whenever there's a Republican President you just bash them every week in between all the celebrity gossip, but then that can become tiresome.  It's changed in the sense that so many more movies are coming out, and have been for the last three years, not only about Iraq, but with this kind of gloomy-doomy worldview.  And most of them are terrible movies.  High aspirations can pave the road to hell, sometimes.

'''DS: Has if affected your world view?
 * MM: Yeah.  I grew up with Vietnam, and to see it happening all over again is really disturbing.  When you get out of something like Vietnam and you enter a freer time, you don't expect to go back to something that hideous and pointless.  The pointless bloodshed in the name of spreading democracy is just ludicrous.  Obviously, democracy’s not his goal.

'''DS: Hillary or Barack?
 * MM: Well, it looks like Hillary is going to get the nomination.  I don't know, though; I don't think either one of them can win.  To me, it's devastating that we are being handed a plum.  This is the time in history when, if we set up a viable candidate, we would most have a chance to get in the White House, and we're going to blow it again.

DS: Who would be your dream candidate?
 * MM: It wouldn't be Al Gore because he's so boring and I don't really care about global warming; I think it's fabulous.  [Laughs]  I'm wearing my flip flops in October, what's the problem (he said with a joke)!

 * My ideal candidate? I guess Gary Coleman.  I mean, whatever...he's as good as the other ones.

'''DS: By magic microphone you have to talk to Osama bin Laden, but you can't apprehend him. What do you say?'''
 * MM: If we ever find you, we're not going to get Marcia Clarke to prosecute because we really want you to lose.

DS: How would you describe your style of dress?
 * MM: It's kind of early Reign of Terror [Laughs]].  Which is also my home decorating style!  I shop at thrift shops.  I got this at Webers's, which is next to Jacks 99 Cent Store.  It was US$5.00.  It's my new 'big' buy of the year.  I just don't throw anything out, and I don't buy anything new.  Why bother?  But I do have some fabulous outfits, like if I really need to be 'on.'

'''DS: A nuclear bomb goes off, and the planet is wiped clean of everyone else but you and the animals. What do you do now that you are king of the world?'''
 * MM: Start fucking the animals.

DS: Which animal would you choose first?
 * MM: Definitely not a beaver. [Laughs]  I guess a cock?

DS: Sounds scratchy.
 * MM: It's scratchy anyway.

DS: Would you build a little animal kingdom, or would you set out on your own?
 * MM: I wouldn't build an arc, because I saw Evan Almighty and that was awful.  I would probably just climb up the trees so they don't eat me alive.  Good luck trying to rule over hippos and wildebeests.  They're not going to listen to you because you're human!  'Oh, he's human!  He's our leader!'  It's not going to happen that way!


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W.A.S.P. announce 'The Crimson Idol' 15th-anniverary world tour

October 5, 2007 American heavy metal/shock rock band W.A.S.P. have announced a world tour to mark the 15th anniversary of the release of concept album 'The Crimson Idol'.

The tour will start at the end of October and carry through to early 2008. So far, 49 dates have been announced, although W.A.S.P. have not announced the venues for all of them, and more dates are to be announced later.

Said the band in a statement: "For the first time ever, 'The Crimson Idol' [album] will be performed in its entirety live. Never before has this great work been attempted to be performed this way. The live performance will feature all of the music from the original album but in addition, never-seen video footage will be shown throughout the show from beginning to end. This filmed footage was shot in 1992 and was originally designed to be a full-length movie.

"To commemorate the 15-year anniversary of this milestone album, it will be presented in its original story form. This promises to be a powerful and moving live experience. Being done in selective dates worldwide in 2007-2008."

The following dates have been announced so far:

 * October - Greece: Thessaloníki Idrogios
 * October 27 - Greece: Athens Gagarin 205
 * October 28 - [to be announced]
 * October 29 - Scotland: Glasgow Garage
 * October 30 - United Kingdom: Liverpool Cavern Club
 * October 31 - UK: Dudley Jb's
 * November 01 - UK: Manchester Academy
 * November 02 - UK: London Astoria
 * November 03 - UK: Nottingham Rock City
 * November 04 - UK: Leeds Rio's
 * November 05 - UK: Newcastle Academy
 * November 06 - [to be announced]
 * November 07 - [to be announced]
 * November 08 - Norway: [venue to be announced]
 * November 09 - Norway: Trondheim Samfundet
 * November 10 - Norway: Jevnaker Venue Tba.
 * November 11 - Norway: Bergen Usf
 * November 12 - Norway: [venue to be announced]
 * November 13 - Norway: Oslo Rockefeller
 * November 14 - Norway: Stavanger Folken
 * November 15 - [to be announced]
 * November 16 - Sweden: Ostersund Eventhuset
 * November 17 - Sweden: Karlstadt Nöjesfabriken
 * November 18 - Sweden: Gothenburg Trädgarn
 * November 24 - Latvia: Riga Sapnu Fabrika
 * November 25 - Estonia: Tallinn Rock Café
 * November 30 - Germany: Chemnitz Hellraiser E.V.
 * December 01 - Czech Republic: Zlin Hala Novesta
 * December 02 - Hungary: Budapest Wigwam
 * December 03 - [to be announced]
 * December 04 - [to be announced]
 * December 05 - Spain: [venue to be announced]
 * December 06 - Spain: [venue to be announced]
 * December 07 - Spain: [venue to be announced]
 * December 08 - Spain: [venue to be announced]
 * December 09 - Spain: [venue to be announced]
 * December 10 - Spain: [venue to be announced]
 * December 11 - [to be announced]
 * December 12 - Italy: Treviso New Age
 * December 13 - Italy: Milan Rainbow
 * December 14 - Germany: Darmstadt Centralstation
 * December 15 - Germany: Düsseldorf Philipshalle
 * December 16 - Germany: Augsburg Rockfabrik
 * December 17 - Germany: Trier Europahalle
 * December 18 - Germany: Berlin Tba.
 * December 19 - Germany: Hamburg Markthalle
 * December 20 - Germany: Bremen Aladin
 * December 21 - Germany: Speyer Halle 101
 * December 22 - Switzerland: Pratteln Z7


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Biohazard lab supervision an issue says US investigation

October 5, 2007 According to recent investigations by the Associated Press and Congressional investigations, the United States federal government is not properly handling serious biohazards such as Ebola in labs. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks the United States has increased by a factor of over 40 the funding for research related to potential biological weapons as well as other virulent infectious diseases, such as Anthrax, Ebola and Smallpox. Since 2003, there have been at least 100 incidents involving United States laboratories. These incidents have ranged from missing shipments of deadly viruses and bacteria to accidents in which lab workers have become infected. According to the Congressional panel even where research is going on is not precisely known.

The recent investigations were prompted in part by the suspension of research at Texas A&M University after repeated laboratory accidents and failure to report serious breaches to the Center for Disease Control including an incident in which someone was infected with brucellosis, a disease which can infect humans and a variety of domesticated animals and is generally not fatal in humans. Concern about safety and security procedures focus primarily on two risks: terrorists obtaining biological agents from laboratories or labs accidentally releasing infectious agents into the general population.

Critics have questioned the influx of new research as being unnecessary, unguided and dangerous both to workers and to the people around them and have pointed to the case of Janet Parker who was the last recorded case of someone dying from smallpox and had contracted the disease by working in a building with poor containment systems.