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Guardian - Swedish Pastor to Stop Criticizing Gays - A Pentecostal pastor who denounced homosexuality as a “cancerous tumor” in a sermon said Tuesday he would stop preaching against gays after Sweden’s highest court acquitted him of hate speech.
The Supreme Court in Stockholm said Ake Green’s anti-gay […]
Archive for November, 2005
Good riddance! But I reckon most people will take this the wrong way.
SR International - It’s been reported that two women students, one a Swede, the other South Korean, have been deported from Egypt for trying to convert Moslems to Christianity.
According to press reports, the trouble began when the Swede borrowed the Bible from her […]
Indeed. How does Sweden do it? And I can tell you at once it is not by cluster bombing shepherds in the middle east.
BBC - How the NHS could learn from Sweden - Whenever health systems are ranked, Sweden always seems to come top or at the very least a close runner-up.
With its dazzling array […]
The Church of Scientology has been busy lately. And they sure do get weirder with time. Apparently they have been marking a remote area of the New Mexico desert to make a, I don’t know, spiritual focal point, a giant business card … or … something. Considering the time lag of satellite imagery, this can’t […]
So much for issuing laws that supposedly protect us. Even if one buys into that whole terrorism fad, this is a bit much.
The Register - The entertainment industry is trying to commandeer the proposed European directive on data retention to help it prosecute filesharers in the European Union, it has emerged.
The newly-formed Creative and Media […]
The Unofficial IKEA Web Journal! By Armand B. Frasco of Moleskinerie. Great idea actually.
Welcome to Positive Fanatics - The Unofficial IKEA Web Journal. For most of us it starts with the catalog. Or a word overheard. The anticipation builds. Then the inevitable pilgrimage to the yellow-and-blue building. Wherever we heard it first, IKEA […]
A Harvard study on the effects of filesharing on album sales came to the following conclusion …
Slashdot - The Economics of P2P File-Sharing - […] it does indeed depress music sales overall. But the effect is not felt evenly. The hits at the top of the charts lose sales, but the niche artists further down […]
Sixty years ago … the US started Project Paperclip.
While I do think it is somewhat petty blaming the scientists, it is also unacceptable obviously that a few nations (the US first and foremost) took part in this plundering for their own benefit and thus flaunted the rules they themselves claimed to uphold. It seems not […]
Something else to take pride in, while shoveling in thanksgiving turkey, getting a little fatter and revelling in bloodthirst and inhumanity.
AP - U.S. Nears 1,000th Execution Since 1977 - Gilmore in 1977 became the first person to be executed following a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that validated state laws to reform the capital punishment […]
As today is Buy Nothing Day, I’d also like to make an ideological statement before the Xmas shopping really kicks off.
