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Independent Chinese TV Launches Freedom Satellite Plan to Against China’s Censorship
http://chinaview.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 10/ 04/ independent-chinese-tv-launches-fr…By Ben Bendig, The Epochtimes- New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) has begun an effort to raise money toward directly renting or purchasing satellite access to broadcast into China after encountering problems with satellite providers denying service, owing to interference by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Wikileaks: an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. No. 10.1.2008. 167.
http://librarian.lishost.org/ ?p=1407Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we are of assistance to people of nations who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations.
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Free At Last
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 10/ free-at-last.htmlThe FBI has put Martin Luther King Jr.'s entire FBI file online. More than 16,000 pages. See it now! The Memory Hole's Russ Kick got the goods that used to cost nearly two grand at 10 cents a page.
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Vigilante book banners
http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 10/ 01/ vigilante-book-banners/As we ponder how to keep freedom in America in the middle of Banned Books Week, I worry about the dangers of vigilantes acting to effect a ban on a particular book, despite official actions. How to fight these anti-reading, anti-American vigilantes? People in Lewiston, Maine, came up with the fantastic idea of simply buying more books.
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Banned books celebration promotes freedom of expression
http://www.nowpublic.com/ world/ banned-books-celebration-promotes-freedom-expre…"By Cynthia Henry Inquirer Staff Writer Friday will feature some unusual story times at local libraries, when passages from once-verboten... read more
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The NSW Police Force
http://therabexperience.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 09/ nsw-police-force.htmlIt seems that having a criminal conviction is no bar to getting into the NSW Police Force. A Freedom of Information request has uncovered that 133 current serving officers have criminal convictions. This makes up less than 1% of the total number of officers serving in the Force of some 15,200 officers.
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Ibrahim Eissa On Egypt’s Sick Dictatorship
http://www.anorak.co.uk/ twitterings/ 191110.htmlIN Egypt, there is no freedom of speech: Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the independent daily al-Dustor, was originally convicted in March and sentenced to six months on charges of reporting and publishing false information that questioned the health of 80-year-old President Hosni Mubarak.
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FORUM: FREEDOM vs PROTECTION, PUBLIC vs PRIVATE Central Market Annexe, KL
http://www.bangkit.net/ 2008/ 09/ 27/ forum-freedom-vs-protection-public-vs-priv…These are the fundamentals issues in the debate of the right to freedom of information. Does free flow of information by default guarantees good governance? Should the state be protected by some degree of secrecy? Would a society that operates on the principle of freedom of information threaten to expose the privacy of individuals?
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Photographs Don’t Lie and Now They Can’t Hide Either
http://blogs.takepart.com/ 2008/ 09/ 24/ photographs-dont-lie-and-now-they-cant-…The courts have actually viewed in favor of our rights and holding the government accountable! The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stated that the US cannot conceal photos that feature abusive treatment of detainees and prisoners by US soldiers that are working in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Homeland Security Continues To Expand Border Searches: Now Can C...
http://computer-internet.marc8.com/ homeland-security-continues-expand-border-se…We've been covering the stories of how the Department of Homeland Security has a policy in place that lets it search and copy the contents of your laptop as you cross the border without any probable cause. DHS's reasoning for why it needs this power are not particularly convincing -- focusing mainly on scare mongering rather than rational argument.
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