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• Myanmar video journalist ‘jailed for 20 years’ (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 180
  AFP - A Myanmar court has handed down a 20-year jail term to a video journalist who worked with exiled media, rights groups said Wednesday, as the ruling junta continues its crackdown on dissent.
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• Hear We Grow

  
  Misfit Psycles - Liesnshite — Authority: 121
  The off of season sucks.Mostly because it’s the not season.Stay thy pen.Do not write and tell tale of how you live in fucking Juneau or St Paul or stupid Markham and still manage to commute by bike all three ways some eight days a week.I don’t commute.I escape.And I’ve been trapped for a month now.Even [...]
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• Bono calls for control over net downloads

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  London, Jan 5 (ANI): U2 frontman Bono has slammed internet service providers for their failure to clamp illegal file sharing over their networks, and warns the film industry not to be dogged like music industry.Writing for the New York Times, Bono claimed Internet service providers were “reverse Robin Hoods” ...
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• Feminist theologian Mary Daly dies

  
  Vox Nova — Authority: 514
  Another theologian in Catholic circles passes away this week, this time the controversial feminist theologian Mary Daly who taught at Boston College for 33 years. I received the following message from Daly’s colleague Mary Hunt via a bulletin from Feminist Studies in Religion:With a heavy heart, yet grateful beyond ...
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• Discretionary review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  
  Review This Crazy World — Authority: 162
  Discretionary review is the authority of appellate courts to decide which … Up: A Model of Judicial Dissent and Discretionary Review”. Vanderbilt University. … Link: Discretionary review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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• The American Zombie: Just a Bunch of Brain Washed War Junkies

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 432
  This is about as good a description of the stupidity of Americans as I have ever seen. A bunch of mindless, brain-washed junkies to TV and the American Fluff that the MSM has ravaged your minds with. When we can still chant and demand that we are “Number 1″ and that anything our military does is ok, just as long ...
  3 days ago

• B’Man’s Patriot Watch: Mike Prysner

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 432
  Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it’s profitable, the Banks who take ...
  4 days ago

• Joan Walsh: Liberal hypocrisy a-go-go

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 151
  Dissent is no longer patriotic, Revoistas. Joan Walsh says in this video clip the following… The climate right now is that Republicans use everything they can to undermine and delegitimize this president. And it‘s actually un-American. It‘s traitorous, in my opinion. Do you want to give aid and comfort to ...
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• Hardball: Joan Walsh Calls Republican Critics of Obama Un-American and Traitorous

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Remember when dissent was supposed to be patriotic? Well, it seems that only applies when a Republican is president. Now that Barack Obama is in the White House, criticism of him is "un-American" and "traitorous." This new "tolerant" view of dissent comes from Joan Walsh of Salon.Com as you can see in this Hardball ...
  5 days ago

• A more glorious dawn awaits: Nota Bene #2009-47

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 492
  “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “One guy is setting actual policy, and ...
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• Does global warming increase the frequency of hurricanes?

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  Story by Michael Fumento in Forbes magazine. (H/T ECM) Do greenhouse gases corelate with increases in hurricane frequency? Here’s the data we have today: True, both greenhouse gas emissions and levels in the atmosphere are at their highest , but this year had the fewest hurricanes since 1997, according to the ...
  6 days ago

• Its Everywhere! Its Everywhere!

  
  Southern Illinois Catholic — Authority: 144
  Rebellious teens with thinning gray hair are stomping their feet in a Michigan diocese as well. Fr. Z has the story here, with his always fun notes. As Fr Z notes, its always about the liturgy. Guess what? The priest wont train girls to serve at mass! The bishop is not over-ruling him! Yeah!!!!
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• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
  6 days ago

• Iran - "Death to the Enemies of God"

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 523
  A disturbing story about Irans lunatic sharia dictatorship and its method of dealing with dissent to your attention; a story from TheStar.com, with videos. TEHRAN – DEC 30, 2009 - A representative of Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says opposition leaders are "enemies of God" who should be ...
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• Dissent is Patriotic

  
  BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS — Authority: 126
  In 1776, patriotism meant a lot more than waving a flag. It still does. A look at local patriots, and readers suggestions of ways to support Americas ideals. By Fiona Morgan These are the times that try mens souls," wrote Thomas Paine in The Crisis, a pamphlet that stirred the withering revolutionary army ...
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• ponderables

  
  tekel — Authority: 103
  Why would a utility company need my DOB and SSN to start service at an apartment rental that is owned by someone else? If I default, won’t they just revert billing to the owner? (edit 10 minutes later) or, more to the point: Why should they care who I am as long as I pay the bills on time? Is the electric ...
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• Nothing to See Here

  
  Misfit Psycles - Liesnshite — Authority: 121
  I’ve got nothing.Literally.Read this almost top-three busting award.TWENTY NINE INCHESSometime later:diSSent (Al) containered delay update.diSSent (Fe) production list.diSSent…domestic (Al) prototype status.
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• Iranian protest

  
  Teaching Comparative — Authority: 128
  At the end of 2009 (beginning of 1431 AH), there were still signs of serious dissent in Iran, nearly 6-months after a presidential election widely regarded as illegitimate. Aides to Iran’s Opposition Leaders Said to Be Arrested The Iranian authorities arrested a number of opposition figures on Monday in the ...
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• Bloodshed in Pakistan-administered Kashm…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 462
  Bloodshed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir as a suicide bomber attacks Shiites. Five people dead, 81 wounded, 10 of them seriously. Earlier I blogged about the issue of minority victimization in Pakistan which seems to be finding its source and inspiration in strident Sunni Islam. The Spittoon has a blog post ...
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• Iran loses its "Desmond Tutu", Ali Montazeri

  
  Chas' Compilation — Authority: 427
  A life animated by conscience, not power Denver, Colorado (CNN) -- The moral conscience of Irans reform movement passed away Sunday morning. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died at 87, was the Iranian equivalent of South Africas Desmond Tutu for politics. Over the past 20 years, he distinguished himself ...
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