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Today's Fresh Blogs...| FREEDOM: TO BE FREE, TO BE DUMB?!?! |
| Published: June 21, 2007, 6:45 am |
| Tags: Bizarre, Democracy, Freedom, Freedom Of Speech, Sabina England, Weird |
| shouldn’t deny my own freedom of speech. I don’t wear hijab, nor do I wish to. But I do want other women to have the choice, the right to wear hijab. Total freedom. So if I reject the hijab, does it make me a whore, an unclean slut, who must be shielded away from the eyes of poor unsuspecting males! Freedom to |
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| Are academic boycotts always wrong? UCU vs Israel's universities |
| Published: July 6, 2007, 9:16 pm |
| Tags: Queen S University, Censorship, Karen Hitchcock, Academic Boycott, Israel, Academic Freedom, Ucu |
| by assuming that academic freedom is of infinite (social?) value. I have trouble seeing how this could be justified/demonstrated.Queen's University's Principal might well be right in suggesting that an academic boycott of academic institutions in Israel is the wrong thing to do. The trouble is that more needs to be said by way of justification |
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| Oi, Immigrant, Jesus who? |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Iran, Illegal Immigration, Protect Religious Freedom, Comedy, Immigration, Christianity, Politics, News |
| ‘Hey, Mr Comedian, we didn’t like that stuff you did,' some audience members once apparently said to American counterculture comedian Bill Hicks, after he cracked a tasteless anti-Christian joke, We're Christians.' Well then forgive me,' Hicks replied. A cute comeback, and, though this might annoy the sadly deceased Hicks' many |
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| Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name. |
| Published: July 1, 2007, 9:37 am |
| Tags: Music, General Nonsense, Language, Art, Freedom |
| The problem isn't religion as such, at least it isn't the preserve of religion. I guess the problem can be summarised asPolitical belief in the absence of reason.Where political means of citizens or the state.Holding some beliefs which cannot be justified with cold logic is inevitable. There are things about our world and ourselves we don't know |
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| Beautiful Tyranny |
| Published: June 20, 2007, 4:03 pm |
| Tags: General Nonsense, Art, Media, History, Freedom |
| It was something AJ said about Bryan Ferry. A few months ago, Bryan Ferry was in the news, praising the aesthetic of the Nazi party. What he actually said was,"My God, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves. Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags - just |
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| Freedom of information vs Censorship |
| Published: April 23, 2007, 9:55 am |
| Tags: Amnesty International, Censorship, Human Rights, Freedom Of Information |
| Freedom of information on the InternetInformation that has has been censored by Governments A Human Rights campaign by Amnesty InternationalSee irrepressibleMore Vegan and Vegetarian News at Vegan News - Health, Diet and Nutrition News |
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| More Yahoo! China documents emerge |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 6:12 am |
| Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights |
| there. He concludes: If freedom of speech on the Chinese Internet is ever to come about, it will not be handed over to them because of U.S. Congressional actions against American corporations. The Chinese people will fight and obtain that freedom for themselves through struggling on local issues. Those issues may be seemingly |
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| Shi Tao's case: Yahoo! knew more than they claimed |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 4:18 am |
| Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Yahoo |
| Yahoo! executives say one thing in public, an official Chinese document says something else. Oops. I just discovered today that the Dui Hua Foundation, which does excellent, low-key work on Chinese human rights issues, has a blog. Last week they posted a full English translation (PDF) of a document that has surfaced recently on the web: the |
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| Take a Look at the Freedom Tower Lobby |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 1:48 pm |
| Tags: Developing, Architecture, Daniel Libeskind, Development, Freedom Tower, Ground Zero, Real Estate |
| than later — the Freedom Tower will be an actual building, not just an idea to argue about, and that building will have a lobby. Daily Intel got the first look at renderings of the planned lobby, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. A 60-foot-high expanse of prismatic glass looks out on the memorial pool. "The lobby sheds light |
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| In Brief: Tom Coburn (R-OK) points out that most Senators ... |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:45 pm |
| Tags: Balls, Dick Jokes, They Resent Our Freedom Because Of Their Small Genitals, Tom Coburn |
| Tom Coburn (R-OK) points out that most Senators have comically undersized testicles. [Americans for Prosperity] |
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| Jimmy Wales: Google's China mistake |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 9:29 pm |
| Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Wikipedia |
| Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales says that Wikia, his new for-profit wiki and search engine company, will never censor its content or compromise its users the way Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others have done in China. In Taipei at Wikimania, the annual world conference for people who work on Wikipedia and all its associated |
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| Kurds return to Turkish Parliament. Is there a democratic road for the Kurds? |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:22 pm |
| Tags: Turkey Kurds Terrorism Freedom Fighters Dtp Parliament |
| Newly elected Kurdish lawmakers Ayla Akat Ata, left, and Sebahat Tuncel speak to the Associated Press at the headquarters of pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, in Ankara, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007. "To some, they are terrorist sympathizers. To others, they are champions of Turkey's ethnic Kurd minority. On Saturday, 21 lawmakers backed by |
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| Robert Novak. PKK are Freedom Fighters! |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 7:55 pm |
| Tags: Pkk Terrorists Freedom Fighters Hpg Turkey Kurds Kurdistan |
| Others call them 'the Kurds' freedom fighters.' I said this once on television and got into trouble. I believe that one side's 'terrorist' is the other side's 'freedom fighter.'" The fight between Turkish security forces and the PKK dates back to 1984 and has resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of both civilians and soldiers. Source Zaman. |
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| The Martyrs have brought the Kurdish struggle to this point. |
| Published: July 21, 2007, 7:12 pm |
| Tags: Sehid Namerin Pkk Martyrs Freedom Fighters |
| Martyrs for Kurdish Freedom! |
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| Is fairness unfair? |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 6:35 pm |
| Tags: Quotes, Journalism, Press Freedom |
| There’s a major decision pending on free expression in the US media. Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin thinks the doctrine is unnecessary, though others disagree. |
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