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US pop star Lady Gaga is accused of misrepresenting charitable donations from wristbands sold to benefit tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan this year. The complaint, filed in a Michigan court on Friday by 1800lawfirm, says the star as well as her record label, Universal Music Group, and the Bravado International Group, lacked transparency surrounding the amount of money that was raised from sales of the wristbands and whether those funds were 100 per cent allocated to earthquake and tsunami victims. After the earthquake and tsunami disasters in March 2011 that devastated Japan, Lady Gaga created the rubber wristbands and...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that the State Department played an instrumental role in “sealing the deal” for pop-rock star Lady Gaga to perform at a gay pride rally in Rome, Italy. Clinton specifically pointed to a letter that David Thorne, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, sent to Lady Gaga urging her to participate in the event. “And then there is the work that our embassy team in Rome has been doing,” Clinton said. “Two weeks ago they played an instrumental role in bringing Lady Gaga to Italy for a Euro Pride concert. “Now as many of...

Hillary: State Dept. ‘Instrumental in Sealing Deal’ For Lady Gaga’s Gay Pride Gig Monday, June 27, 2011 By Penny Starr (CNSNews.com) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that the State Department played an instrumental role in “sealing the deal” for pop-rock star Lady Gaga to perform at a gay pride rally in Rome, Italy. Clinton specifically pointed to a letter that David Thorne, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, sent to Lady Gaga urging her to participate in the event. “And then there is the work that our embassy team in Rome has been doing,” Clinton said. “Two...

(CNSNews.com) – Ted Olson, former Solicitor General under President George W. Bush said he is “proud” of Lady Gaga’s support for same sex marriage and credited celebrities for raising public awareness of the issue. “Lady Gaga – I’m very proud that she announced last week that one of the songs on her album – I have no idea which, I don’t – was inspired by the Proposition 8 case – she really said that so I accept her,” said Olson on Monday during a keynote address at a U.S. Justice Department Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) ceremony called “Moving...

Did anybody else watch the 60 Minutes segment about Lady Gaga last Sunday? I never paid the least amount of attention to the whole Lady Gaga craze until then. Watching that show I was astounded at what a complete manufactured phony Lady Gaga is. Plus there is nothing unique about her. She is no different than a horde of other Manhattanite jaded nightlclub dregs deep into drugs. Talent? Not much and what little there is is electronically enhanced. And 60 Minutes was actually plugging about some sort of "message" she was delivering. As far as I could see, that "message"...

"Lady Gaga is satanic sonic sewage. SATANIC. She has recently taken to mutilating herself by implanting demonic horns in her face and shoulders. These implanted "horns" are the next body mutilation/piercing fad. If you let your kids listen to her, you are in a state of profound mortal sin." -- Ann Barnhardt "Lady Gaga"Ann Barnhardt, businesswoman, ardent and devout Catholic, and a woman who chooses her words with the pinpoint accuracy of a bulls eye from a pink semi-automatic rifle (that's her gripping the weapon in the poster to the left) tells it like it is, whether you like it...

Lady Gaga wants to sleep with Judas Iscariot, and she chose the week before Easter to tell everyone about it. Sure, Gaga's music video, "Judas," is offensive to Catholics. It's meant to be. But here's the thing: Who cares? Madonna's been there and done that -- in 1989, with her "Like a Prayer" video. I still went to Mass on Easter with my son and received the body and blood of Christ, and neither Madonna nor Gaga ever entered my mind. Although I must admit to a certain amount of satisfaction in reading the recent reports that Madonna is leaving...

Pop provocateur Lady Gaga has managed to outrage and insult many Catholics by leaking her new song, “Judas” just two days before the start of Holy Week. "It's always edgy and always (about) our religion," Bill Donohue, spokesperson for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said about frequent pop culture attacks on the Church. "(And) all during Holy Week." In “Judas,” Lady Gaga sings about her love for Judas, the infamous apostle who betrayed Jesus. "Jesus in my virtue and Judas is the demon I cling to...I'm just a holy fool, oh baby he's so cruel, but I'm...

NewsCore - A 20-year-old Oklahoma woman was receiving treatment in a hospital Thursday after being charged with animal cruelty for allegedly killing the family cat and using the blood for an outfit she planned to wear to a Lady Gaga concert. A relative of Angelina K. Barnes returned to her home in Oklahoma City and found the woman wearing a long coat, with her face covered in blood -- later determined to be cat's blood -- ready to attend the concert, KFOR reported. The light switches in the house had been covered in duct tape to make them almost impossible...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysian radio stations worry some lyrics in Lady Gaga's gay anthem "Born This Way" are on the wrong track, baby. Broadcasters in this Muslim-majority nation have refused to play lines in the hit song that encourage public acceptance of gays, claiming Thursday they are being cautious because the government forbids offensive content. Malaysians who tune in to popular stations hear edited versions of "Born This Way" that use indecipherable garble to replace the lyrics: "No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track, baby."

Why do so many musical superstars think that their careers are part of a divine plan? One night last summer, Lady Gaga sat in a tour bus in England, covered in stage blood from her concert that day. She told me that she had cried hysterically before a recent show because she'd had a dream that the devil was trying to take her. She then said, in earnest, that the spirit of her dead aunt was literally inside her body and that she had eaten a bovine heart to face her fear of her father's heart surgery. If a stranger...

Is blackmail okay if you do it for a cause you believe in? Lady Gaga seems to think so. The eccentric entertainer is making headlines after breaking a lucrative deal with Target. She made political demands that Target support the gay Left's political agenda if they are going to work with her. They balked and she walked. I guess it was a bad romance, but I wonder if Gaga is making enemies with the wrong crowd?  It may just be that conservative Christians are better allies to the gay community than her friends in the gay marriage Left. Gaga had...

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann and singer Lady Gaga both appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday, the congresswoman wearing white and the Grammy Award winning artist in a condom outfit. Though Lady Gaga and Bachmann appeared on the show at different times, anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Bachmann what she thought of the “monster” pop sensation. “You know, I don’t really know that much about Lady Gaga,” Bachmann said through stifled giggles. “I hate to say it, I have a lot of children, but I don’t know that much about Lady Gaga.” Not all political figures are oblivious to Lady...

Good question. Yet unauthorized publishing Lady Gaga’s copyrighted music on the internet will most likely result in a takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If that fails, then the offending website can be taken down. No such protection applies to classified material from our military or government agencies, except for the original leaker who will, no doubt, pay the price. Republishing leaked classified material carries no penalty. Solution: Hillary, don’t stamp your cables SECRET. Stamp them COPYRIGHT.

Anderson Cooper and Lady Gaga don't seem to have much in common, but CNN's silver fox reveals he and the outrageous pop star recently got up close and personal, and all it took was a little Irish whiskey. Cooper, who interviewed the singer for an upcoming segment for "60 Minutes," says Gaga got him so liquored up on one of their meetings that he actually struggled to do his job."I was really interested to meet Lady Gaga. She's obviously a fascinating person," he told The Insider. "We actually ended up [one] day in a pub in London drinking Jameson, which...

Instead of leading with how Army Private First Class Bradley Manning may have jeopardized national security with his document dump to WikiLeaks, NBC's chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, in his profile of Manning on Tuesday's Today show, told viewers he was the "most unlikely suspect, with a youthful smile" and portrayed him as an abused victim of the military. Miklaszewski used the New York Times' Ginger Thompson in his report to tell the tale of young man who apparently decided to avenge the abuse he had taken over the years, dating back to high school, by selling out his country.

Bradley Manning may have leaked classified info out of anger at US military’s gay policy. What many media outlets—especially the broadcasters and even cable news (shame on you, Fox News)—are hiding is the fact that the traitorous soldier at the heart of the Wikileaks scandal is a homosexual. It’s not like people won’t be able to find the information about Manning—all it takes is a few, quick Internet searches, but the fact that many are trying hard not to mention his sexual orientation speaks volumes about the political correctness disease in society. Even if news organizations are scared that his...

New Delhi - Police in India's central state of Chhattisgarh have arrested seven people for allegedly sacrificing two children to gain 'supernatural powers,' officials said Thursday. Witch-doctor Ishwari Yadav, his wife Kiranbai and five of their disciples were arrested after police found the bodies of a 2-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl at their home in Durg district Wednesday. 'The boy was killed on Tuesday and the girl was murdered some six months ago,' district police chief Amit Kumar said in a telephone interview. '(The suspects) were arrested for holding human sacrifices and have confessed their crimes.' 'During questioning the...

Columbia, SC -- She’s conquered music, makes a fashion statement, has influenced politics… now she’s a course subject at the University of South Carolina. I’m talking about Lady Gaga. Starting this spring the University will offer a course titled “Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame”. Longtime sociology professor – Mathiew Deflem – will be teaching the course. Normally his focus is on criminology, policing, and the sociology of law. But the professor admits that he is a huge fan of Lady Gaga. To his knowledge this is the only course of it’s kind in the country.

Forbes Magazine has rated Michelle Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin as the most powerful woman in the world. Big mistake. Michelle is named as No.1. Hillary is rated as No. 5, Sarah Palin at No.16 Michelle Obama is an extraordinary woman but would have little impact were she not the wife of the president of the United States. There is also the reality that while the First Lady can inspire and encourage she cannot actually impact policy in any direct manner Hillary Clinton,of course, knows that very well and while she was initially in her husband's shadows...