Yes indeed, how about restoring “an atmosphere of respectful political discourse on campus.” In America of course that means pompous grandstanding, intimidations, and spying. Is the Bruin Alumni Association the forerunner of the new totalitarian US century?
Boing Boing - A radical right-wing group has compiled a black-list of progressive UCLA professors and it is offering [...]
Everyone is out to get Google these days it seems. Privacy doesn’t seem to be worth a damn in the new American century where Total Information Awareness is once again on the table.
Bloomberg - Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, was sued by the Justice Department after it refused to turn over information that [...]
Old news by now, nevertheless interesting. First and foremost because singer/wongwriter Loreena McKennitt is an artist that I admire very much and second because this case introduces a very delicate problem of free speech vs. personal privacy. At least taken at face value. Reading the court ruling, it is clear that Niema Ash went a [...]
Via David Galbraith (1) (2). A recent documentary series on BBC channel four, featuring Richard Dawkins, exposes the fraud that is religion. And laments that the irrational practises aren’t waning despite increasing scientific knowledge.
Channel 4 - Drawing on such examples, it is not difficult to demolish the claims of religion as fairytales, and dangerous ones [...]
McGreevy!
EETimes - The European Union Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Charlie McGreevy, launched an initiative on Monday (Jan. 16) to establish a consistent European patent system, a move which would re-open the debate on the desirability of software patents.
As a part of his inititative, the commissioner launched a public consultation on how future [...]
Ironically, while the front page is covered with the dismal, but honest, projections of James Lovelock, the rest of the British newspapers are riddled with advertising for fossil fuels. Aside from noting the double standard of the corporate media, one should heed the warnings of one of the foremost experts on planetary modelling and planets [...]
A rather insignificant incident (I didn’t pick up on it until today) was all of a sudden transformed into a major international incident, thanks to the efforts of the US State Department.
Aftenposten - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with “serious political consequences” after Finance Minister and Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen [...]
The much talked about facility at Spitsbergen (in the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago) seems to be coming to life in the near future. The question is if it is good or bad. The article states that anti-globalisation campaigners have protested against other banks but I find it unlikely. At least if the banks in question were [...]
Thanks a lot. Now the talk of the town is that Europe in stifling free speech. Why? Largely because the ludicrous detainment of the British historian David Irving for “Holocaust denial” in Austria (for 15 year old alleged speeches no less). And who do we have to thank for this? The Holocaust Industry of course. [...]
Belafonte is still fighting the good fight.
CBC - American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called U.S. President George W. Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world” Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including actor Danny Glover, Princeton University scholar Cornel West [...]
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