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Worshiping the Creature

Ganges and Yamuna rivers granted same legal rights as human beings theguardian

The court in the Himalayan resort town of Nainital appointed three officials to act as legal custodians responsible for conserving and protecting the rivers and their tributaries. It ordered that a management board be established within three months.

And those rivers weren't even the first. See also This New Zealand River Just Got the Legal Rights of a Person smithsonianmag

US Glitch; Accommodate or...; SSM Acceptance Rising; Signing the Gals Away; The Synthetic Human Project; Origami Robot With a Purpose; Hyundai's Iron Man; Bio-Glass; Magnetic Explosions; Islam-land; Turkey's Anti-Terror Problem; Entitled

Of course today we have the government's bathroom...policy. Also, the US is trying to explain a second video 'glitch'. And if those stories aren't enough, check out the meeting held earlier this week to talk about creating a completely synthetic human genome.

US Goverment

State Department keeps saying that erased video of tough question from Fox News reporter was a ‘glitch’ washingtonpost

Undercovered media story of the week: Fox News correspondent James Rosen revealed that video of him asking a tough question of a State Department spokesperson disappeared from the agency’s video archive. Poof! Where the exchange once existed, a flash of white light replaced it.

At issue was Iran. Let’s turn back the clock. In February 2013, Rosen pressed then-State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on whether the United States was carrying on “secret, bilateral” discussions with Iranian leaders. No, Nuland said.

What I find interesting, and why I'm relaying this, is there was another video 'glitch' a little over a month ago: OBAMA CENSORS HOLLANDE'S 'ISLAMIST TERRORISM' REMARK (if you can handle David Wood's particularly sarcastic brand of apologetics, he has a good layered verion of that glitched, then magically found, videos on YouTube that really calls into question the 'glitch')