White Elephant-like Gene For Psychoses Now Implied ? (Part 1)
There is a current oddity in the UK . An uncomfortable white elephant is sitting in the room of certain types of liberal explanation for psychotic illness. Its partly made historically of white middle class...
Courtney Love loose legal control of Daughter Frances Bean Cobain
Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, now 17, has been appointed to new legal guardianship. The guardians appointed by the court are Wendy O'Connor and Kimberly Dawn, Kurt Cobain's mother and sister.This gaurdianship was established because of a...
British Press Banned from Reporting Parliament. Seriously.
Alex Massie reports that: "This time, perhaps even the lawyers have gone too far. It's hard to recall, even in the long history of appalling gagging orders, a more disgraceful injunction than this." He then goes...
Germany's Biggest Women's Magazine Bans Models From Its Pages
Germany's most popular magazine for women, Brigitte, will no longer feature professional models on its pages. Instead, it will use images of "real life" women. Brigitte's editor-in-chief Andreas Lebert told the Guardian that the magazine will stop using skinny models from the...
created by Annina Bergman | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago
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205 views | 16 recommendations | 3 comments
Iraqi Militia find way to target innocent gays - the Internet
Torture and killing of innocent Iraqi gays and lesbians has reached a critical state, and Iraqi militia have found an efficient way to target innocent gays - the Internet -, with no intervention from the Iraqi or...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 16 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago
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350 views | 55 recommendations | 12 comments
Privacy law, free press or self-regulation?
""As a paper we do believe in effective self-regulation and we don't want a privacy law. When it comes to effective self- regulation, it seems to me it can only work if newspaper groups are truthful and open with the regulators.""What many don't understand is that the UK... New allegations of phone hacking by Murdoch papers
There are times when I don't know where to begin - whether it be a matter of disgust or simple amazement at the business practices in the UK.The linked story simply blows my mind - for more than one reason but mostly that - because of fleeting privacy laws - no action has...
Obama praise for Iran's Mousavi
" US President Barack Obama has praised the opposition candidate in Iran's disputed presidential election. Mr Obama said Mir Hossein Mousavi had captured the imagination of groups in Iran that were interested in...
Choksy on Iran: 'situation very grave for Iranian people'
Indiana University professor of Iranian Studies and specialist on Iranian history and religions, Jamsheed Kairshasp Choksy, thinks the situation is very grave for the Iranian people. " "I think the situation is...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 28 wks ago | updated 28 wks ago
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463 views | 35 recommendations | 8 comments
Video of British police assault on a citizen, who died at G20
..." The Guardian obtained this footage of Ian Tomlinson at a G20 protest in London shortly before he died. It shows Tomlinson, who was not part of the demonstration, being assaulted from behind and pushed to the...
created by TheCameraObscura | 39 wks ago | updated 39 wks ago
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89 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
