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• VP of Exodus describes hate speech as ‘difference of opinion’

  
  Ex-Gay Watch — Authority: 123
  Randy Thomas, Vice President of Exodus International: Freedom of speech which expresses a difference of opinion on morality and spirituality is not a crime. The following is a case of one of the hackneyed headless monsters that the anti-gay industry loves to trot out, especially in regard to hate crime legislation ...
  17 hours ago

• Riots Mark Anniversary of Greek Teenager’s Shooting

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 716
  Violence erupted in Athens on Sunday as thousands took to the streets to mark the anniversary of the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, shot dead by Greek police a year ago. Within a few hours of his death, riots had spread across the country in a two-week spate of looting and burning. —JCL The ...
  1 day ago

• Re. jobs report.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  It was a pure canard. They were painting the very best face that they could without raising too many questions and looking ridiculous. No one would have believed a positive report, so we get a bare minimum! I personally know several people that lost their jobs in November, but I doubt that they represented 1% of the ...
  2 days ago

• Your job or your blog, er op-ed

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 436
  Image via Wikipedia Newsweek’s Declassified blog had an item on December 3 about a top Congressional Research Service (CRS) official who was “fired from his job after publishing a newspaper op-ed criticizing the Obama administrations recent decision about bringing Guantánamo detainees to trial.” The ...
  2 days ago

• Planned Insubordination and Disobedience?

  
  Southern Illinois Catholic — Authority: 149
  A liberal priest who came of age, as it were, during the Council of the 1960s, of course laments the pending changes to the ICEL. [link in my 3rd para] He thinks this is a dismantling of the promise (my word) of the Council--which, having read Sacrosanctum Consilium, myself, I conclude did not endorse a primarily ...
  3 days ago

• GOP turning up heat over e-mail scandal

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans yesterday used the red-hot scandal over hacked global-warming e-mails to attack climate researchers for "scientific McCarthyism" and cast doubt on the phenomenon. During a House hearing, President Obamas top science adviser took heat from GOP lawmakers demanding a probe of the ...
  3 days ago

• Financial Barbarians at the Gate: Guns and Butter Interview with Michael Hudson

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 129
  Michael Hudson , author of “ Global Fracture “,  “ Super Imperialism “, and many excellent articles and papers on the state of finance and economics in America (one of my favorites regarding the subject of how we lost our manufacturing base to pursue a Finance Capitalism is found here … written in ...
  3 days ago

• DNC: Fundraising for Censorship

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  This is being sent out by Bill Clinton, 1 John Kerry, 2 and who knows who else. You send them money, they’ll send you that handy refrigerator magnet. Groupthink; no dissent allowed; only one opinion matters. What climategate? What protesters? We don’t see anything. Réne Girard (November 24, 2009) When it ...
  4 days ago

• Stalin-Bashing: The New Orientalism?

  
  Russia — Authority: 113
  I love the BBC to bits, but I have had enough. Yet another repor t, the second ‘profile’ in a week about the resurgence of Stalin’s legacy in the former USSR, has put my knickers in a twist. This time, we see a Stalin look-alike treated ‘like our own dear Queen’ in his hometown of Gori, Georgia. ...
  4 days ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  4 days ago

• Some Tossed-Away Tidbits

  
  The Reluctant Optimist — Authority: 424
  1. Time waster of the day. 2. Time waster of last night. God help our troops being led by this waffling Carter-clone. BTW, in that speech there were 45 uses of the word “I” and zero uses of the word “Victory.” Make of that what you will. 3. The 50 Worst Cars of All Time. I had one of the AMC ...
  5 days ago

• Randum Uptakes: Take Two

  
  Misfit Psycles - Liesnshite — Authority: 414
  Lastly we discussed with mostly distinction concerning matters of great importance.diSSent (Al) inventory clearout, dropout and wayout fabrication potentials.Holiday Hullaballoo planning stymielessHoliday shipping death linesThe great and generous clothing (quarter off) give-away!And now, part two of ...
  5 days ago

• Calgary Bishop Suspends TLM

  
  SANCTE PATER — Authority: 541
  h/t to Robert Krumpel and Fr. Z. From WDTPRS : "Apparently, the local bishop, His Excellency Most. Rev.Frederick Henry is having a fight with the local presence of the FSSP over the distribution of Communion on the tongue. The bishop issued "norms" for the Diocese of Calgary which forbid Communion on ...
  5 days ago

• More On The Amy Goodman Debacle

  
  matthewgood.org — Authority: 468
  As Goodman says during the broadcast… “I felt completely violated, I mean, personally and professionally. You know, and for journalism overall. Because this is not only a violation of freedom of the press, you know, the idea that, you know, the state is going into your papers, your documents, your sources, ...
  6 days ago

• Armed Canadian Border Guards Detain and Interrogate Award Winning Journalist!

  
  REALLY Made IN Canada NEWS — Authority: 155
  Amy Goodman, internationally acclaimed and highly respected independent journalist, was on her way to speak at the Vancouver Public Library when her travel itinerary was unexpectly and abruptly interrupted by overzealous Canadian border cops. In addition to being armed and intimidating, they were obsessed with knowing ...
  6 days ago

• Breaking the Silence Presents: A Guided Tour in Hebron

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 559
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• Chinas Troubled Educational System

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  [Editor’s Introduction: Dissent among university students has long been a top source of concern for China’s ruling authorities. On October 31st Chinas education minister Zhou Ji was demoted amid widespread dissatisfaction with the system. That day China Central Television reported "eight malpractices in Chinas ...
  6 days ago

• Hot Video: Al Gore Confronted on Climategate

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 561
  This video is masterful, done by "We Are Change." It shows the We Are Change Chicago group asking Al Gore some inconvenient questions at his recent appearance at Borders book store downtown. The production is top notch, with a brilliant montage leading up to, and mashed together with, the confrontation at Borders. ...
  6 days ago

• The Plan to Silence Dissent

  
  The Blog at Christian Truckers Network — Authority: 138
  By Mark Hyman Excerpts: There is no shortage of conspiracy theories that elicit a chuckle or the rolling of eyeballs. “September 11th was an inside job.” “The war on Iraq was launched to enrich Halliburton.” “AIDS was created to annihilate the black community.” But should we be alarmed when a theory ...
  1 week ago

• Randum Uptakes: Take One

  
  Misfit Psycles - Liesnshite — Authority: 414
  Liesnshite has been silentnshite of latesnshite, that is, less more than normal.Primarily and mostly, unintentionally so.Obviously there are still grande globular thoughts, there are still real world synth-pop references, there are still countless injustices incurred at our expense and there are still random ...
  1 week ago

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