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The Art of Kissing a Cop

Russian performance artists 'Voina' (or War) are focusing their efforts on reforming Russian women police officers. Armed with little more than hugs and kisses, the artists claim they want the 'girls in blue to be more relaxed. For the past few months, they've thrown their arms around lady law enforcers - and claim they've already worked their charms on several hundred officers and not all seem happy to be lunged at for a bit of free love. For the artists, one of the key police reforms is getting the force's females to feel liberated and more light-hearted. The art group's no stranger to controversy, having previously painted a giant phallus on one of St. Petersburg's rising bridges.

Dianne Watts urged to un-invite George W. Bush to Surrey

Ted Colley reports for Surrey Now:

Gail Davidson says George W. Bush is a war criminal and shouldn’t be allowed to speak at this year’s Surrey Regional Economic Summit in October.

Bush and fellow former U.S. president Bill Clinton will be the keynote speakers at the event.

Davidson speaks for Lawyers Against the War, a Canadian organization that wants bush charged with war crimes for authorizing the use of torture in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Canada is a signatory to an international treaty banning torture, Davidson said, and that means the federal government is obliged to deny the former U.S. President entry into Canada.

“If he does enter Canada, then the government has the obligation to prosecute him when he’s on our soil.”

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The three strands of deep science—injunction, apprehension, confirmation—give us a reliable methodology for learning about both the world without and the world within.

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