Los Angeles Condom Requirement for Porn, First Step Regulating Industry Rife with “Abuse”

The City of Los Angeles recently passed an ordinance that will require all performers in adult film shoots to wear condoms. This after two HIV outbreaks in 10 years. Porn is a multi-billion dollar, largely unregulated industry. Opponents of the porn business herald the move as a way into wide spread abuses on porn sets.

Afghanistan’s Kandahar Airfield an Alleged Heroin Hotbed

Toor Jan was clearly nervous when he arrived at the guesthouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan. “If my boss found out I did this, he will shoot me,” the young heroin dealer told the Georgia Straight in an interview.

Toor Jan (not his real name) described last March how he sold large amounts of heroin to Afghan translators working at two NATO bases in Kandahar who, in turn, resold the heroin to NATO soldiers.

Vote for the CCIR at the Aviva Community Fund Challenge

The CCIR has signed up for the Aviva Community Fund challenge, for a chance to share in $1-million that will be distributed by Aviva to the worthwhile charitable projects that get enough votes. The semi-finalists will be announced at the beginning of December and the winning ideas will be decided in early January 2011. We’re
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U.S. Deportees to Haiti, Jailed Without Cause, Face Severe Health Risks

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United States has deported more than 250 Haitians since January knowing that one in two will be jailed without charges in facilities so filthy they pose life-threatening health risks.

An investigation by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting found that the Obama administration has not followed its own policy of seeking alternatives to deportation when there are serious medical and humanitarian concerns.

B.C. Muckracker Sean Holman On Why He Shut Down Public Eye’s Reporting

Over the last seven years anyone wanting to know more about who was pulling the levers of provincial politics in British Columbia inevitably turned to Public Eye, a unique online news source, created and doggedly maintained by journalist Sean Holman. After thousands of stories and many exclusives, Holman has now called it a day for Public Eye. Here he tells us in five lessons what worked and, ultimately, what failed. This article is also available on J-Source.