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The Cuba regime denied several times the authorization to Yoani Sanchez to leave the country: she is a counter-revolutionary because she owns a blog where she talks about Cuba. But on saturday the police was more violent and they even kidnapped her.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/journalism/yoanisanchezsequestrocuba071109.htmlThe Cuba regime denied several times the authorization to Yoani Sanchez to leave the... more
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"Isaac Eiland-Hall just won a highly publicized case against Glenn Beck over the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. As soon as he won, he did something surprising: he offered the domain name to Beck for free.
In a letter (pdf) to Beck, Eiland-Hall explained that he has met his objectives with the domain name and web site, and points out to Beck that bringing the case made things worse for Beck.
It bears observing that by bringing the WIPO complaint, you took what was merely one small critique meme, in a sea of internet memes, and turned it into a super-meme. Then, in pressing forward (by not withdrawing the complaint and instead filing additional briefs), you turned the super-meme into an object lesson in First Amendment principles.”
In explaining his reason for voluntarily handing over the domain, Eiland-Hall wrote:
“…I want to demonstrate to you that I had my lawyer fight this battle only to help preserve the First Amendment. Now that it is safe, at least from you (for the time being), I have no more use for the actual scrap of digital real estate you sought…"
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/06/after-winning-case-man-hands-domain-name-to-glenn-beck/
What do you think of this?"Isaac Eiland-Hall just won a highly publicized case against Glenn Beck over the... more
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http://www.oneof365.com/spammers-be-warned-we-bloggers-will-be-fighting-back/
Stalking bloggers on their sites in unacceptable and illegal. The blogosphere’s manners are no different to that of normal society. You CANNOT send a torrent of malicious and violent comments and e-mails to a blogger and get away with it. One of 365 along with other bloggers are going to take action. They WILL call the authorities. You CAN easily be traced. No one should have to be frightened to express their thoughts and creativity through their blogging. There is a difference between freedom of speech and threatening someone. Tread lightly or you will be eating your words behind bars. Read this piece and hear the whole story. An essential read for bloggers and supporters of blogging and the right to live in a society that is threat free.http://www.oneof365.com/spammers-be-warned-we-bloggers-will-be-fighting-back/... more
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Here's an important message for the surrender monkeys who want to compromise the fundamental values of the free world.Here's an important message for the surrender monkeys who want to compromise the... more
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It was a triumph for free speech tonight at Columbia University, bastion of leftist lunacy. Despite resistance from Columbia University administration and Columbia security efforts to limit access to the event, Wilders packed the house and was allowed to speak freely.
There was a little hissing and a random heckle, but they let him speak -- and in the age of jihad that is huge.It was a triumph for free speech tonight at Columbia University, bastion of leftist... more
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Over the last 24 hours, a lot of self-congratulating hyperbole has appeared on and off line about how the popular short message service Twitter saved free speech in the UK.
This ill-informed back-patting follows the dropping of a secret UK High Court gag order which blocked the reporting of parliamentary questions by Paul Farrelly MP. The questions related to press freedoms and in particular, a leaked WikiLeaks report exposing a Western toxic dumping disaster inflicted on the Ivory Coast &mdash a disater which may have hospitalized as many as 100,000 people.
However, more the substantive earlier secret gag order against the report, which prevents the reporting of its contents remains in effect—and it is not the only one. Last month, the Guardian revealed that it had been served with 10 secrett gag orders—so-called "super-injunctions"— since January. In 2008, it was served with six. In 2007, five. Haven't heard of them? Of course not, they are secret gag orders. The UK press has given up counting regular injunctions.
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Under pressure from legal costs, UK papers have silently removed some of the September 17 investigative articles into the dumping disater. For example, the Independent's "Toxic Shame: Thousands injured in African city" no-longer "exists" except at WikiLeaks.
Now is not the time to be distracted from this reality, or to see the unravelling of a gache attack on parliamentary reporting a step forward; it is a return to last week. We are back at the UK censorship status quo, which may be described, without irony, as privatized feudalism.
So take your hand from your backs, find your swords—and get to work.
Read the whole story at wikileaks!!!Over the last 24 hours, a lot of self-congratulating hyperbole has appeared on and off... more
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Crucify me if you want, but that title was too awesome to change.
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Most of you will have at least heard of the Left Behind series. For those that haven't, they're a series of screwed up PC titles that allow Christian extremists to either convert or kill non-believers. In a somewhat terrifying twist, users can pray after each kill to rid themselves of guilt. I'm totally against the idea that videogames can cause violence, but the twisted Christian morality in the Left Behind games is more than a little creepy.
Well, Atheists better watch their step, because publisher Inspired Media is getting its scary Christian games sold in Walmart on a trial basis. Yep, the sexism, racism, intolerance and hatred of Left Behind is going to be sold by America's largest retailer, ensuring that this game will reach a potentially huge audience and shall no longer be confined to the hardcore fundamentalist nutjobs that the game was designed for.
That's all fine and dandy. These games are insane but they have a right to exist. Still, I find it amusing to note that games this psychopathic and downright offensive usually cause outrage and calls for a ban, but just because this is one comes God-approved, Walmart has no problem selling it. I guess anything's absolutely okay if you do it in the name of THE LAWD, right?Crucify me if you want, but that title was too awesome to change.
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This video is a list of famous people who are atheists, put together for a school project and using John Lennon's song "Imagine" as the background music.This video is a list of famous people who are atheists, put together for a school... more
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Being an atheist, you believe that this is the only life, and live it to the fullest. Atheists and skeptics lack proof and evidence of certain deities and spiritual beliefs. Keep in mind that this is a free world, and we have our own chosen paths, no matter what people/critics spit out from their ignorant mouths. Hence, this is partly what the video is trying to point out.Being an atheist, you believe that this is the only life, and live it to the fullest.... more
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Dusseldorf - A German publisher has cancelled plans to publish a mass-market novel out of fears that it might face violent protests due to a rude reference to the Koran, Der Spiegel magazine reported Saturday. The crime novel - about the "honour killing" of a Muslim woman - had been scheduled for September publication, but the Droste publishing company of Dusseldorf decided not to print it after all, the magazine said in a story to appear in its Monday issue.
It said the publisher had first asked the author, Gabriele Brinkmann, writing under the pen name WW Domsky, to tone down dialogue in "To Those Worthy of Honour" which might be construed as offensive, but she had refused.
Spiegel reported that the offensive phrase in question was a character saying: "You can shove your Koran up ..."
Publisher Felix Droste had asked an expert on Islamic society to study whether the crime story's text could compromise the safety of his firm or his family, and the expert suggested the phrase be modified.
But the author refused to alter it to "You can shove your honour up ..."
Droste wrote back that riots over Danish cartoons that poked fun at the Prophet Mohammed in 2005 showed that anyone publishing insults to Islam was putting their safety at risk, Spiegel said.Dusseldorf - A German publisher has cancelled plans to publish a mass-market novel out... more
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While the media obsesses over ACORN and Tea Baggers, corporations are on the precipice of drowning out your Freedom of Speech in elections ...While the media obsesses over ACORN and Tea Baggers, corporations are on the precipice... more
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Blasphemy Day International is a campaign seeking to establish September 30th as a day to promote free speech and stand up in a show of solidarity for the freedom to challenge, criticize, and satirize religion without fear of violence or reprisal: murder, litigation and other forms of intimidation. It is the obligation of the world's nations to safeguard dissent and the dissenters, not to side with the brutal interests of those who demand "respect" for their beliefs (i.e., immunity to being criticized or mocked that is protected with the threat of violence).Blasphemy Day International is a campaign seeking to establish September 30th as a day... more
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Yesterday, in Rome, people were demonstrating with red diary, remembering judge Paolo Borsellino (who was killed by mafia), asking for the truth, at least now, after 17 years.Yesterday, in Rome, people were demonstrating with red diary, remembering judge Paolo... more
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How do you say "freedom of speech" in Venezuelan.
You dont; or Hugo will kill ya!
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As a child in Armenia, Henry Gasparian witnessed firsthand the horrors of Nazi Germany. Two uncles were killed, his father wounded and a brother starved to death during the German invasion and occupation of the Soviet Union. So when Gasparian, 70, of Edmonds, saw a poster of President Obama with a Hitler mustache near the entrance to the Edmonds Farmers Market on Sept. 5, he admits that his reaction was "personal and emotional."
He tried to grab the fliers being passed out by supporters of Lyndon LaRouche, a perennial presidential candidate who has likened Obama's health-care proposals to the Nazi extermination of Jews and other "undesirables."
Two young LaRouche supporters told police that Gasparian repeatedly pushed them and grabbed one of their arms. Gasparian said it was they who first pushed him.
Now Gasparian is charged with two counts of fourth-degree assault in Edmonds Municipal Court for what he describes as an attempt by "an old man to say you cannot insult the president with this outrageous campaign."
Follow link for the rest of the story.As a child in Armenia, Henry Gasparian witnessed firsthand the horrors of Nazi... more
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BERLIN — Germany defended itself Monday against international criticism of a devastating NATO airstrike that German forces in Afghanistan had requested last week, while the chancellor, Angela Merkel, announced that she would address Parliament on Tuesday about the episode.
The Japanese publisher East Press has sold 45,000 copies of the manga version of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf, amid renewed calls to drop the manifesto's ban in Germany. It has been illegal to publish Mein Kampf in Germany since 1945, and the government enforces the ban through an unusual application of copyright laws.
Since the German state of Bavaria inherited the printing rights upon Hitler's suicide towards the end of World War II, the copyright holder (which is currently the Bavarian Finance Ministry) can prevent others from publishing the book in Germany. However, since the copyrights are set to expire in 2015 (the 70th anniversary of Hitler's death), some government and Jewish figures have called for publication under controlled conditions.
German Jewish author Rafael Seligmann called for its publication as early as 2004. In June, the Bavarian minister of science and research advocated a “decently prepared and well-grounded critical edition” to counter “charlatans and neo-Nazis" who "could seize this disgraceful work when Bavaria's rights run out.” Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany endorsed the possibility of an annotated edition on August 5 “to prevent neo-Nazis from profiting from it” and to “remove many of its false, persistent myths.”
However, Bavaria upheld the ban last month and rejected the Munich-based Institute of Contemporary History's request to publish the book. Bavarian Finance Ministry spokesperson Horst Wolf said, “Scholarly as the aims of the institute are, we won't lift the ban as it may play straight into the hands of the far-right." On the separate matter of the manga version, the ministry told the Asahi Shimbun paper, "We have trouble considering manga as an appropriate medium for critically presenting this problematic material."
Kōsuke Maruo, a 32-year-old editor at East Press, explained why his company produced the manga version of Mein Kampf: "It is a famous book, but there are few who have read it. I think it is [studying] material for knowing Hitler, a man synonymous with 'devil,' and what sort of thinking created that level of tragedy." While his company had no expectations on the manga's sales, it has sold 45,000 copies since last November. That is above the 35,000-copy average of the other books in the Manga de Dokuha series from East Press.
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Source: ANNBERLIN — Germany defended itself Monday against international criticism of a... more
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Ahhh….but what’s in a name? It’s all about pronunciation. Read about the horrors of a woman named Gina and the hell she experiences at the DMV loudspeaker when a woman can’t get he name right. You thought the check-out girl asking over the loud-speaker about tampons was bad…read this doozy!Ahhh….but what’s in a name? It’s all about pronunciation. Read about the... more
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