“A state, before all, should trust its own people, widen freedoms and should not abandon the most fundamental and modern human rights.” -- PM Erdoğan's address to Kyrgyzstan Pmt., Wed. 2 Feb., 2011 IT'S...
created by Jim Colella | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago 403 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
In the first big digital crackdown Thailand government has banned hundreds of websites who allegedly have been spreading information offending the monarchy. This plan has been on cards for long time. In fact, Thailand's Ministry of Information and Communications...
created by Sanjay Jha | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 118 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
A disturbing case has recently come to my attention regarding the north east london mental health authority of Haringey. A recent muslim convert after suffering harassment at the hands of his neighbours, as a result of his new found faith, was detained under the mental...
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"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Civic leader Scott Nelson says he is as worried as anyone about global warming, but that does not make him happy to be one of the first North Americans to pay a carbon tax to curb climate change. Nelson, mayor of Williams Lake, British...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Canadian who takes exception to Canada's Free Speech, certainly has not witnessed the horrors of repressed speech as the world is full of detractors to free...
created by Barry ORegan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 422 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
"A bid by a local government in Indonesia's East Java province to curb prostitution by asking masseuses to wear a padlock on their pants was an insult, a newspaper quoted the minister for women's empowerment as saying. The recently implemented policy in the tourist area of...
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"The World Council of Churches has reviled an anti-Quran film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders as an insult to all religions and an attempt to incite hatred."We believe this film does not represent the view of the Dutch people or Christians regarding Islam," Rima Barsoum, the...
"Press Review 22 January 2008
Tuesday
by Frank Scimone
22-01-2008
Geert Wilders"Wilders, Wilders, Wilders" screams another full-page article over Dutch Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders in today's Volkskrant. This time however de Volkskrant is not reporting about the Dutch...
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Michele Norris wastes some of John Edwards's time. . . and ours"by Red Wind
Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 05:59:16 AM PST
As has now been acknowledged by practically everyone, John Edwards don’t get no respect. . . at least not when it comes to the establishment media. Not...
"1. Honesty
Try to get them to understand that they are, in fact, not bright. It doesn’t need to be phrased like an insult, and you probably shouldn’t wait until they have fucked up something serious raise the issue either. "
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Eighteen years ago today, at L'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Marc Lepine opened fire and killed fourteen women and inured several others before turning the gun on himself. His reason seemed blunt and horribly...
created by Kaitlin | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2008 views | 22 recommendations | 9 comments
To the Fox News Ombudsman -
From: der Dunkel Rover
Sent: Wednesday, 05 December 2007 11:43
To: 'DhuePoint@FOXNews.com'
Subject: O'Reilly distortion
It is truly unfortunate today that ad hominem attacks pass for “commentary”. However, your boy Bill has done it...
"FOR RELEASE
For further information: http://indigenouspeoplesday.com/
(Exclusively released to Native outlets)
Denver—Taking to the street in downtown Denver to confront the annual Columbus Day parade may be...
created by angryindian | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 597 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Um, I've done three stories on this already. One saying he's going and the Bloomberg Administration was behind it. Another saying that they were not going to provide security so he wasn't going. And then another...
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"Karin Karlekar, from the nonpartisan group Freedom House, told USINFO that a number of countries, especially in Latin America and Africa, are eliminating the laws. Violation of insult laws can lead to journalists...
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