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Original Technorati articles tagged “social issues”

• in Film
  Death With Dignity: How to Die in Oregon (2011; now on DVD)
  Would you want the right to choose when it’s your time?
  by missbobetier / on Feb 6, 2012
• in Film
  The Help (2011) Arrives on DVD/Blu-Ray December 6
  An inspirational, courageous and empowering story about very different, extraordinary women in the 1960s South.
  by missbobetier / on Dec 4, 2011
• in Film
  ”Let’s Talk about Sex” for a Change
  Everyone talks about sex, but no one does anything about it.
  by missbobetier / on Apr 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “social issues”

 

• Burma: China-Led Oil, Gas Projects Spark Arrests

  
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  Authorities in Burma should drop charges against ethnic Arakanese activists who participated in peaceful protests against Chinese-led oil and gas projects, Human Rights Watch said today. Ten activists are scheduled to face criminal charges in court on May 13, 2013, for demonstrating and holding a peaceful march ...
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• Terrorist Anders Breivik Wants To Create His Own Party

  
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  Terrorist Anders Breivik has decided to create his own party -”Fascist Party of Norway and the Northern League.” A representative of the structures responsible for registration of such initiatives, explained that Breivik’s application does not meet legally required preconditions. “To create an association at ...
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• Need Help With Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Survey – Use of Web-based Tools in Transit Agencies For Feedback

  
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  A new study from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) led by Georgia Institute of Technology is looking at how transit agencies can use web-based tools including online polls and surveys, social media, mobile applications, and crowdsourcing to gather feedback from customers and other stakeholders. The ...
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• Saudi Arabia: Cleric Who Backed Protests On Trial For His Life

  
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  Saudi authorities should ensure a fair trial for the Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, Human Rights Watch said today. Criminal justice authorities should make sure he gets immediate access to adequate medical care for gunshot wounds received during his arrest 10 months ago and conduct an immediate bail review, as ...
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• Paraguay’s New President Determined To Fight Poverty And Corruption

  
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  Horacio Cartes, Paraguay’s president-elect, trumpeted again on Friday his determination to lead the war against corruption and poverty in the first 100 days of his upcoming government. In his first official speech as president-elect, Mr. Cartes promised a better country for all and “since [his] political campaign ...
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• THE BROKEN HOME

  
  CROWNED WITH LAURELS — Authority: 125
  The fuse box was flickering, it needed updating. The faucet came off the sink, it needed changing. The light switch snapped, it needed doctoring. The cord of the fan came out, it needed rewiring. The kitchen window cracked, it needed replacing. The heater stopped working, it needed ...
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• That’s The Question, Isn’t It?

  
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  From Mr. Pinko at iOTW : I want to know who – exactly what person – decided to change the narrative of the Benghazi facts and blame an obscure Youtube video? Who the f*ck EXACTLY did that? And who was in the room high fiving each other when they thought to go to the cameras with that bullsh*t story? Poor ...
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• Quick Hit: This is Hard

  
  The Blue Door — Authority: 137
  Please; watch this . I am a motherless daughter.  I cannot begin to fathom what it would feel like to be a daughterless mother.  Please, go here and sign the card for the mothers whose babies can’t bring them cold cereal, burned toast, a handmade card and a glass full of dandelions in bed on Sunday ...
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• Please, please educate the fuckwits

  
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  Please, please educate the fuckwits by lprent This morning news revealed an inadvertently humorous story about particularly stupid bigot – Karen Ruskin of the Pilgrim Planet Lodge in Whangarei. After causing a lesbian couple to seek alternative accommodation she made this statement to a reporter…. ...
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• Ekaterina Panikanova | Errata corrige

  
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  Rome & St. Petersburg I love these conceptual illustration-compilations which strive to “investigate elements of mental disorder…” See more here .
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• “European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government”

  
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  Who would have thought that this would happen? It sounds like any attempt at self-reliance is to be stopped. A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to “grow, reproduce or trade” any vegetable seeds that have not been “tested, approved and accepted” by a new EU bureaucracy ...
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• IRS Apologizes For Targeting Conservative Groups

  
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  The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words ...
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• Normally Left-Leaning Politico Is Not Silent About Benghazi

  
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  Politico has an entire section devoted to the raid in Benghazi, Libya where four Americans were killed. It’s not entirely sympathetic to the Obama administration, either. Here is one of their stories about a subject that has been bothering me for some time. The Benghazi Patsy is about the man who made the ...
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• Asking the Boy Scout questions that matter the most

  
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  If you know anything about the politics of gay rights, you know that there is absolutely nothing that the Boy Scouts of American can do right now that will not lead to major divisions in their organization. The key force that will cause a future split is, of course, the deep divide among mainstream religious [...]
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• Lower the Age of Consent to Thirteen? Why Stop There?

  
  Acton Institute PowerBlog — Authority: 491
  Barbara Hewson, a London barrister, has made the call for lowering the age of sexual consent in the United Kingdom from 16 to 13. Her reasoning (if one may call it that) is that the current age of consent leads to the harassment and “ persecution of old men .” She also believes that under-age victims should have ...
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• Innumeracy on the Godbeat

  
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  In the summer of 1992, toy-company Mattel was criticized when their new Teen Talk Barbie included in her list of stock phrases, “Math class is tough!” The company offered to replace the doll for disgruntled customers, but they could have saved both time and money by simply rebranding the dolls as Journalist ...
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• So-Called Social Games

  
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  [The following text is part of my upcoming masters thesis on the use of game mechanics in therapy games for children. This is just a rough first draft, and I gladly welcome all critique and suggestions – be it on a content level or regarding my use of language. After having analysed some of the most-played Facebook ...
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• When did you choose to be straight?

  
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  This is a fairly short video (exactly 3 mins), but its a terrific examination of peoples way of thinking around sexuality as a choic (Source, WHEN DID YOU CHOOSE TO BE STRAIGHT? ) I know there are many here on the Forum who believe that homosexuality is a choice, but I think it would be interesting to spend 3 mins ...
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• A Review of Getting the Marriage Conversation Right. By William May.

  
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  Emmaus Road, 2012. In this brief booklet (a 40-page essay with 30 pages of Q&A) the president of Catholics for the Common Good lays out some helpful pointers in how to engage in the homosexual marriage debate. He shows us what the real nature of marriage is, why it is so important for children, and how it ...
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• Barack Obama vs. James Madison

  
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