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LifestreamThis week’s award for most deceitful act goes to a Swedish school. Talk about attacking the symptom, if it is even that. Personally I suspect that there is something darker afoot. The concept is of course courtesy of the so called Liberal Party. No surprise there. The same party that at one point or another [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Now they’re at it again …
Germany hopes to make Holocaust denial a crime across the EU as part of a package of laws it wants to introduce during its presidency of the bloc.
Berlin is also set to outline plans to ban Nazi symbols like the swastika, which, like denying the massacre of the Jews, is [...]
On a whim, development aid money is being confiscated by US banks under the guise of anti-terror legislation.
Swedish trade union confederation LO-TCO has had its development aid money confiscated by an American bank. The money had been earmarked for a project in Liberia but the bank, citing US anti-terrorism laws, blocked the payment and initially [...]
Noam Chomsky is to be awarded an honorary degree by the faculty of languages, Uppsala University, Sweden on May 26, 2007.
Professor Noam Chomsky took his doctorate in 1955, with a dissertation on formal grammar that laid the foundation for his groundbreaking work in linguistics. Since then he has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [...]
The police seems to be on their toes outside of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta. For some reason they chose to suddenly enforce jaywalking regulations in a rather hands-on fashion. Say what you will of fascist regimes, but at least they protect the public … from dangerous and subversive elements like [...]
Here is a brilliantly overt case of self-censorship that says a lot about the intellectual climate in the US today. Target Corp pulls Ernesto “Che” Guevara CD carrying case from shelves, following complaints from right wing butchers and fellow travelers. On account of “Che” being an alleged left wing butcher and instrumental in installing “communism” [...]
Vitamins and saunas … don’t forget your medical tricorder.
Devotees of the Church of Scientology have gained access to thousands of British children through a charity that visits schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs. A Sunday Times investigation has found that Marlborough College is one of more than 500 schools across Britain where the [...]
What else is there left to break after overcoming the taboos of phone tapping, “knock and announce”, posse comitatus, torture, the right to a proper legal defense and a great number of other “obstacles.” Opening mail just doesn’t seem like that big of a deal anymore, in the grand scheme of things. Oh well, [...]
Apparently, US “law” is positioned to replace national legislation wherever American corporations are allowed a foot in the door. Or at least that is what US buffoons like to think. Of course, the abomination that Americans call law, we call racism, discrimination and terrorism.
Oslo - A Cuban business group visiting Norway that was forced to [...]
