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When a Little Dissent Is Too Much
2008-06-06 05:01:00 by Norman Solomon Over the years, once in a great while, I’ve been surprised to cross paths with a journalist at a major TV outlet who actually seems willing and able to go outside the conventional boundaries of media discourse. That’s what happened one day in the fall of 2005 at the Boston headquarters of the CN8 television network, owned and operated by the corporate media giant Comcast. I showed up for an interview about my book "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." My expectations weren’t very high. After all, I was setting foot in the studios of a large commercial TV channel with wide distribution of its programming in New England and beyond. And Comcast, shall we say, has earned a reputation as a voracious media conglomerate with scant interest in the public interest. I was scheduled to appear on a prime-time nightly show hosted by Barry Nolan, a longtime TV newsman. When the cameras started rolling, it quickly became clear that h...
Supreme Court: Texas Law Trumps International Court of Justice and Presiden
2008-03-25 23:51:00 Today the Supreme Court ruled in MEDELLIN v. TEXAS that Texas (and all the other states) do not need not provide new hearings to Mexican citizens on death row who were not told they could obtain consular help when arrested, as is required by the “Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Vienna Convention or Convention).” Here’s the ...
Liberal Fascism: Florida almost outlaws dissent.
2008-02-20 06:34:00 It's about Darwinism and ID, a subject on which I'm neutral. Here. Powered by b2evolution.
By: Asymmetric
Saskatchewan Coal - Consent, not dissent, the order of the day - Edmonton J
2008-02-09 19:21:00 Consent, not dissent, the order of the day - Edmonton Journal Edmonton Journal Consent, not dissent, the order of the dayEdmonton Journal, Canada - 7 Feb 2008The facility will take between 2.4 and 9.5 cubic metres of water per year from the North Saskatchewan River, somewhere between a big ...
By: SaskVentures
China Cracks Down on Dissent
2008-01-30 01:56:00 Mr. Hu, 34, and his wife, Zeng Jinyan, are human rights advocates who spent much of 2006 restricted to their apartment in a complex with the unlikely name of Bo Bo Freedom City.
By: Get rich
China Cracks Down on Dissent Ahead of Olympics
2008-01-29 20:12:00 Mr. Hu, 34, and his wife, Zeng Jinyan, are human rights advocates who spent much of 2006 restricted to their apartment in a complex with the unlikely name of Bo Bo Freedom City.
By: Get rich
Dissent is not disloyalty. And true patriotism is dissent against a govern
2008-01-21 02:14:00 Ron Paul will not be elected president, but he helped start a revolution. He was willing to stand up and challenge the state, and our corrupt leaders and system. And he helped change the collective consciousness in America. We'll see where it goes now.Happy MLK day. I hope to see more leaders who stand up for what is morally right, and fight back against the immoral and corrupt scoundrels and tyrants running the United States today, no matter the risks to their personal safety and freedom.
By: Housing PANIC
Gender Identity Politics And Free Speech; Hillarynauts To Gag Dissent
2008-01-11 13:25:00 How many times have you heard that we need a president who “can bring us together?” Those dissatisfied with the current course of the country lament the fact that public discourse has become so poisonous during the Bush 43 years. In the words of that great American philosopher, Gomer Pyle, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” It ...
Dissent In Putin Russia Not Welcomed
2008-01-09 08:08:00 The British Council was warned by the Russian Foreign Ministry not to attempt any reopening of its offices since the Russian government does not recognize its work or intentions. The British Council is a cultural arm of the its nation’s embassy and does not engage in political activities, but in Putin’s Russia any form of dissent it liable to be met with silence or closure. Not logical reason has been given to a non-government organization that focuses on cultural issues. The situation for dissent within Russia is no better. National Bolshevik activist, Maria Bideda, was assaulted before her apartment because she participated in open activities against the government. A colleague, Mikhail Kamyrin, was beaten to death in December for participating in a protest against the government. The sadness of Putin’s governance continues. He had an opportunity to become a true statesman and leader of his nation. He leaves a legacy of significant improvement in the Russian econ...
Supreme Court Says Judges Can Go Easy On Sentencing for (Drug) Crimes
2007-12-11 21:43:00 So, in 2 cases that goes strongly against my law and order opinion of harsh sentences, on Monday, the Supreme Court decided that judges should have more liberty to give sentences that fit the crime better instead of following sentencing guidelines set down by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The act dealt mostly with drugs ...
AFP: Malaysia rolls out crackdown against dissent
2007-12-10 10:00:00 Related Post: Where the heck is SUHAKAM?! Related Post on MalaysiaKini: Hadi: M'sia heading towards a police state Tired of Malaysian politics? Come and visit Orlando's Walt Disney World Resort anytime soon and have the fun of your life! Technorati Tags: malaysian, malaysia, malaysiakini, human rights day
In Chávez Territory, Signs of Dissent
2007-11-29 21:29:00 But venturing into Coche's homes reveals new fissures among Mr. Chávez's once cohesive supporters, pointing to his toughest test at the polls in a nine-year presidency.
By: Get rich
Hillary Clinton's SMUG MUG & Her Bush-like Disdain For Dissenters
2007-11-19 13:40:00 by Linda Milazzo After nearly seven long years of Americans being derided by a smug dictatorial President, there is a near compulsion amongst the electorate to choose a leader in 2008 who understands participatory democracy. A leader who sees the President as the RESPRESENTATIVE and SERVANT of The People. A leader who accepts dissent and dissenters - not simply as Constitutionally ordained - but as sincere patriotic investors in their nation. Under the regime of George W. Bush, those who oppose him have been ridiculed and persecuted. Patriots are arrested and jailed when disputing his policies. The FBI has compiled a list of citizens charged with misdemeanors for non-violently opposing the war on Iraq, rendition, torture, and other unConstitutional and impeachable crimes of his administration. For his part, Mr. Bush doesn't personally arrest or convict those who oppose him, although he does sanction their arrests and convictions. Instead, Mr. Bush disparages detra...
A New Music Band: 'CAIR And The Dissenters'
2007-11-14 23:42:00 Keeping in step with their standard beat of attacking anything that dares to challenge the islamofascists ideal of "Life Liberty, and the SAHRIA way," CAIR has essentially declared a media 'jihad' against conservative talk radio hosts.The first victim of CAIR's campaign against free speech was radio host Michael Graham, who was forced out of his job in the Washington, D.C., market for refusing to apologize for remarks that offended a Muslim group. Graham has since landed a new job in Boston, Mass. The comments that got Graham fired?; "Islam is a terrorist organization," "Islam is at war with America," "The problem is not extremism. The problem is Islam," and "We are at war with a terrorist organization named Islam."CAIR pushed for the removal of Graham, after it received complaints from Muslim listeners who heard Graham's comments. Graham was placed on suspension from his job at ABC-owned WMAL in Washington on July 29, 2005, after he refused a management request to apologize for...
By: Hoopy Frood Dude
Muslim Apostasy vs. American Dissent And The Hypocrisy Thereof
2007-11-11 07:46:00 Samir Khan a.k.a. inshallahshaheed has pushed the envelope off the edge this time! Warning: Links CONTAIN EXTREMELY GRAPHIC images! Do NOT click on them if you are faint of heart! I can not stress that enough. Including the H/T. H/T Rusty of The Jawa Report The defeated US Army Credit: Caption above - inshallahshaheed Cute. Hahaha Being flip ...
Dissent and satire still alive in Russia
2007-11-08 23:02:00 '); E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size MOSCOW: In glossy packaging, sly observations While the biggest puzzle over Russia's parliamentary elections in December may be simply the size of
By: Get rich
Dissent From Guru Cults Draws Slander and Harassment
2007-11-05 01:29:00 Discussions with activists from other movements of exposure of corrupt gurus are revealing. The various types of comparison between our separate experiences fall thick and fast. Those who speak out have typically and intensively undergone: threats of injury or death cyber and other forms of stalking vilification, demonization, libels, character assassination attacks on privacy and attempts at muckracking attempts at intimidation ...
Rice tries to quell staff dissent over forced duty in Iraq
2007-11-02 18:07:00 http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITIC-S/11/02/state.iraq/ WASHINGTON (CNN) — State Department officials should serve where they are needed — even in war-torn Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday. Rice was responding to foreign service officers’ objections to “directed assignments” in Iraq. The issue has caused an uproar in the State Department, resulting in a contentious town hall meeting Wednesday. WOULD ...
By: I Call BS!
See Manufacturing Dissent - Free
2007-11-02 09:24:00 Great documentaries on TV.
By: MAD About Movies
Dissent or Disgrace: The Only Choice Left for Americans
2007-10-27 12:07:00 by Chris Floyd My final guest-blog for Glenn Greenwald is now up at Salon.com: Dissent or disgrace. As EB readers might recognize, it's an extrapolation of themes I've sounded here many times before, but I wanted to lay it out before a wider audience while I still had the platform of the Salon gig. Anyway, here's an excerpt: Every day it becomes clearer that Thoreau's answer is the only basis for a genuinely effective resistance to the accelerating depredations of the Bush-Cheney regime. Disassociation, boycott, filibuster, strike — call it what you will, but the Gandhian tag might be the best: "non-cooperation with evil." The corruption and authoritarian tyranny that the regime has imposed on the nation are evil. The war of aggression it has launched against Iraq is evil. The war of aggression it is fomenting against Iran is evil. If you would not be complicit in evil, then you must not cooperate with it, and you must not acknowledge its power as righ...
Rangers suit proves dissention in NHL (Blog)
2007-10-02 22:24:00 As I struggled to turn that onerous corner known as Monday morning with lukewarm coffee to mask a sleepless night, it took a while for me to actually comprehend why the New York Rangers were suing the NHL.I couldn't even feign interest, so I shrugged my shoulders and looked for something a little more newsworthy. Needed a little more caffeine, I suppose.But as disinterested as I was initially, you can bet Chris Chelios and his NHLPA brethren have more than a passing interest in this lawsuit. Just as, I might add, the search for a new NHLPA Executive Director soldiers on.In case you missed it, the Blueshirts are suing to stiff-arm the NHL's threat of a $100,000-a-day fine against MSG if they don't give "virtual control" of their website to the league. The Rangers, with pure charm and a little reckless abandon, fired their own salvo, labeling the NHL an "illegal cartel". Zing. Them's fightin' words.Nit-picking, you say? Not so fast. Here's where the one-plus-...
By: Hockey.com
Decent Dissent
2007-09-25 22:14:00 "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it." -Edward R. Murrow, American Journalist, Edward R. Murrow books// Dissenters are often viewed unfairly in a negative light; however, dissent is a very positive force that drives government and organizations to examine itself and its actions thoroughly and completely. Dissent ensures that questions are asked and answered by the powers that be. Dissent probes motives to uncover truth. Dissent is an American tradition ingrained in our society. Loyal dissent is one of the truest forms of honesty and involvement, and it should be embraced by those in positions of power or... To read the rest of this post, please click the headline and go to the Thoughts On Quotes site.
CD Review: I Will Fight No More Forever by Kinetic Dissent
2007-09-14 16:09:00 This is Prog Metal the way it is supposed to be! The golden age of Prog Metal may have been the late 80?s, and bands like Kinetic Dissent show that the genre is one that should be supported. It is 7:45am here in Calgary, and this is just what you need as an early morning ...
Tomgram: Tony Karon on Growing Dissent among American Jews
2007-09-14 08:10:00 by Tom Engelhardt I often think of the letters that come into the Tomdispatch email box as the university of my later life — messages from around the world, offering commentary, criticism, encouragement, but mainly teaching me about lives (and versions of life) I would otherwise know little or nothing about. Then again, the Internet has a way of releasing inhibitions and, from time to time, the Tomdispatch email box is also a sobering reminder of the mindless hate in our world — of every sort, but sometimes of a strikingly anti-Semitic sort, letters that are wildly angry and eager, above all, to shut down or shut up commentary or debate of any sort. It's ironic, then, that the threat of sparking such "anti-Semitism," as well as charges of being functionally anti-Semitic, have been used for a long time in this country as a kind of club to enforce, within the Jewish community, an exceedingly narrow range of correct opinion on Israel and its behavior in ...
Cultic Depersonalization or Demonization of Dissenters
2007-09-02 04:16:00 Where a strong belief system is under question, a state psychologists call ‘psychological denial’ kicks in. (A standard dictionary definition is given at Dictionary.com: ‘an unconscious defense mechanism used to reduce anxiety by denying thoughts, feelings, or facts that are consciously intolerable’). The results are very remote from commonsense, rigorous self-introspection and self-reappraisal. An irony is that ...
World Cup imposes zero tolerance on player dissent - Guardian Unlimited
2007-08-30 03:29:00 World Cup imposes zero tolerance on player dissentGuardian Unlimited, UK - 3 hours agoAll players and coaches preparing for the World Cup have been warned to button their lips and show respect for referees throughout the tournament. ...
World Cup imposes zero tolerance on player dissent - Guardian Unlimited
2007-08-30 03:29:00 World Cup imposes zero tolerance on player dissentGuardian Unlimited, UK - 3 hours agoAll players and coaches preparing for the World Cup have been warned to button their lips and show respect for referees throughout the tournament. ...
Did Keith Olbermann Anonymously Spam Copious Dissent?
2007-08-29 02:56:00 Yesterday, I wrote about the Michael Vick dog fighting case. Moreover, I made three simple arguments: 1) Pit bulls are not inherently evil dogs; in fact, they are great family animals; 2) Dog fighting is disgusting and Michael Vick should be punished to the fullest extent of the law; and 3) I posed the general question of why blacks are asked to defend Michael Vick and the ?subculture? of dog fighting. All three are legitimate points.Conversely to Vick?s situation, white people are never asked to defend the worst elements of their Culture; there is a clear double standard. Michael Vick?s conduct had nothing to do with race, and yet race was interjected into the conversation to satisfy liberal templates. The arguments made in the original editorial were succinct, and easy enough for anyone to understand.While any reasonable person would understand the arguments, evidently, the lunatic Left who comment on our blog respond with the same nonsense only seen by liberal Professors at o...
Scriptural Literalism as a Cause for Islamic Terrorism: A Short Dissent
2007-08-29 01:43:00 Ordinarily, citing one of Karen Armstrong’s devotional and haphazard apologias for Islamic Fundamentalism in your introduction, is not a good way to win me over to your essay. However Mahmood Sanglay did manage to keep my interest in his fine editorial for The Brunei Times. The Armstrong argument selected by Sanglay, is her view that a ...
By: postpolitical
Dissent Threatens U.S.-India Nuclear Deal
2007-08-26 07:19:00 NEW DELHI -- After two years of painstaking negotiations, a historic nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India appears to be unraveling as a broad spectrum of political parties calls on the government of Prime Minister Manmohan
By: Get rich
Dissent Threatens U.S.-India Nuclear Deal
2007-08-26 07:19:00 NEW DELHI -- After two years of painstaking negotiations, a historic nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India appears to be unraveling as a broad spectrum of political parties calls on the government of Prime Minister Manmohan
By: Get rich
Crushing of Dissent in Iran
2007-08-21 03:26:00 via Winds of Jihad Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged United States-backed plots to topple the regime, the British Observer newspaper has revealed. Many executions have been carried out in public in an apparent bid to create a climate of intimidation while sending out uncompromising signals ...
Silencing Dissent - Global Warming, more added
2007-08-09 18:04:00 By Walter Williams - At Townhall.com Global warming has become a big-ticket item in the eyes of its supporters. At stake are research funds, jobs and the ability to control lives all over the globe. Most climatologists agree that over the last century, the Earth’s average temperature has risen about one degree Celsius. The controversy centers around the ...
My Dissent on the Council of Foreign Relation’s China Report
2007-07-24 14:15:00 Leading China expert and FSM Advisory Board member Arthur Waldron, Ph.D., warns that preparation for a likely regime crisis in China is perhaps our most urgent task. The Council of Foreign Relation’s recent report, which Waldron has signed with substantial reservations, tends to discount China concerns. Read why Professor Waldron’s dissent is so important. Therefore Professor Waldron found himself in disagreement on a series of key points. These included the failure of the report to deal with the fundamental nature of the Chinese regime, a dictatorship having no legal or electoral processes and thus fundamentally wanting in legitimacy; the report’s overly optimistic assessment of China’s military build up, which he believes is dangerous and clearly targeted on U.S. forces and U.S. allies; an upbeat assessment of the Chinese economy that fails to deal searchingly with the lack of market mechanisms or genuine private entrepreneurship, state allocation of capital thro...
By: 1913 Intel
Bush Counters G.O.P. Dissent on Iraq Policy
2007-07-11 04:13:00 WASHINGTON, July 10 - Fearful of a Republican rebellion over Iraq that his own aides believe could force him to change course, President Bush said Tuesday that the United States would be able to pull back troops in a while, but asked Congress to wait
By: Get rich
Bush Administration Wrote the Manual on Repressing Dissent
2007-07-10 15:00:00 ?If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all ...
By: Kmareka.com
Iran Cracks Down on Dissent
2007-06-24 23:49:00 From the NY Times:By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Published: June 24, 2007 Iran is in the throes of one of its most ferocious crackdowns on dissent in years, with the government focusing on labor leaders, universities, the press, women?s rights advocates, a former nuclear negotiator and Iranian-Americans, three of whom have been in prison for more than six weeks. The shift is occurring against the backdrop of an economy so stressed that although Iran is the world?s second-largest oil exporter, it is on the verge of rationing gasoline. At the same time, the nuclear standoff with the West threatens to bring new sanctions. The hard-line administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, analysts say, faces rising pressure for failing to deliver on promises of greater prosperity from soaring oil revenue. It has been using American support for a change in government as well as a possible military attack as a pretext to hound his opposition and its sympathizers. moreThe regime in Iran ha...
By: Dyre Portents
Iran Cracks Down on Dissent, Parading Examples
2007-06-24 15:38:00 Iran is in the throes of one of its most ferocious crackdowns on dissent in years, with the government focusing on labor leaders, universities, the press, women's rights advocates, a former nuclear negotiator and Iranian-Americans, three of whom have
By: Get rich
Daily Kos Bans Copious Dissent
2007-06-19 23:58:00 I am proud to say that I have been banned from posting on the Daily Kos after my very first diary on their website. The irony is that I was banned because I submitted a diary titled, ?Energy Independence: Solutions Limousine Liberals Don't Want You to Hear.? It is the exact same article I wrote on Copious Dissent, without changing any of the words. Evidently, they ?really? did not want to hear it.My situation, absent the obvious violence, reminds me of when the Danish cartoonist drew a cartoon demonstrating that Muslims are violent, and then the Muslims tried to kill him for it. The funny thing is that, in my case, I was banned for outlining libertarian solutions to achieve energy independence. I guess real solutions to problems are intolerable to liberals.The only other potential explanation is that the word ?Limousine? when used in front of the word ?Liberal? is worse than calling George Bush a terrorist, as those comments are perfectly acceptable on the Daily Kos. Well, what oth...
Sai Baba. Some Dissenting Themes and Resources
2007-05-31 01:43:00 Robert Priddy, former head of the Sathya Sai Organization in Norway, and retired lecturer in Philosophy and Social Science at the University of Oslo, has just posted a number of thematic links, for which, click HERE. Many further links accompany the articles themselves. For this post, I have selected a quote from all but the first of ...
Immeasurably Brave Dissent in Iran
2007-05-10 20:14:00 A young Iranian woman tears off her state-sanctioned Islamic dress in public, exposing her bra, in protest against the theocracy’s repressive modesty laws. According to Aryamehr, the Farsi comments of the bystanders are actually supportive. They’re telling her to stop for fear of her safety. (source: Aryamehr via GatewayPundit) For every Leftist who stupidly denounces his own ...
By: postpolitical
A Dissenting Opinion On The Use of Deadly Force
2007-04-26 16:20:00 We've all heard the stories, seen the movies, or experienced for ourselves shotgun-totting Farmer McGee, wearing not but his thermal underwear, chasing off "those damn kids" from tipping his cows or taking fish out of his pond in the middle of the night. The story is a charming cliche in rural life, but absolutely illegal....for Farmer McGee.This is a summary of the Tennessee State Law on the use of deadly force. It reflects the most fundamental reasons for possession of deadly weapons.(a) A person is justified in threatening or using force against another person when and to the degree the person reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force. The person must have a reasonable belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. The danger creating the belief of imminent death or serious bodily injury must be real, or honestly believed to be real at the time, and must be founded upo...
US wall of dissention in Iraq condemned
2007-04-22 10:08:00 The wall US troops are building around a Sunni enclave in Baghdad has provoked widespread criticism among Iraqis who condemn it as causing more strife.According to the local council leader, the community did not approve the project before construction began. The US military says the wall is meant to secure the minority Sunni community of Azamiyah, which "has been trapped in a spiral of sectarian violence and retaliation." The area, on the eastern side of the Tigris River, would be completely gated, with entrances and exits manned by Iraqi soldiers. Although Baghdad is replete with blast walls, checkpoints and other temporary barriers, including a massive wall around the Green Zone, the wall being constructed in Adhamiya would be the first to essentially divide a neighborhood by sect.Ahmed al-Dulaimi, a 41-year-old engineer who lives in the area lamented and said :"We are in our fourth year of occupation and we are seeing the number of blast walls increasing day after day, suffocatin...
By: Munaeem's Blog
Atlantic Yards Dissidents Dissent!
2007-04-18 10:04:00 After a rocky start, the two coalitions fighting the Atlantic Yards development, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn and BrooklynSpeaks, begrudgingly accepted the other one’s existence, like a cat and a dog sharing the same house. That was, until the mild-mannered BrooklynSpeaks coalition announced plans to protest demolitions at the site, and a couple of litigious folks ...
Dissent Among Atlantic Yards Dissidents
2007-04-17 20:04:00 After a rocky start, the two coalitions fighting the Atlantic Yards development, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn and BrooklynSpeaks, begrudgingly accepted the other one’s existence, like a cat and a dog sharing the same house. That was, until the mild-mannered BrooklynSpeaks coalition announced plans to protest demolitions at the site, and a couple of litigious folks ...
Dissenting priest sentenced to jail
2007-03-30 19:31:00 HUE, Vietnam, March 30: A democracy activist Roman Catholic priest, under house arrest since February in Vietnam, was sentenced to eight years in jail after a one-day trial.
By: newkerala.com
Zimbabwe dissenters prevented from leaving
2007-03-19 18:20:00 HARARE, Zimbabwe, March 19: The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition movement says he believes he can see the end of President Robert Mugabe's 27-year reign.
By: newkerala.com
BREAKING NEWS: Jamaica's LOC ranks dissent and Dehring gets Vex!
2007-03-10 17:41:00 Chris Dehring has already smelled mutiny in his own backyard and is looking to quell it before the big rush for the opening at Sabina Park in less than 24 hours... It seems one of his own crew is upset over accreditation procedures, but they must shut up despite other eyes on them? This is his view on the matter - "In particular it has been drawn to my attention that comments reportedly made by Ms Lisa Ogilvy of the Jamaica Local Organising Committee (LOC) in Friday’s (9 March) Jamaica Gleaner sought to attribute blame to our contractor Rushmans for the difficulties at the Sabina Park Accreditation Centre on Thursday 8 March. "In fact any difficulties were principally caused by incorrect instructions issued by the Local Organising Committee to the 1,200 people asked to attend the Accreditation Centre."They were supposed to have arrived in batches of thirty to undertake collection and it is wron...
By: Bajan Reporter
Vietnam cracks down on dissenters
2007-03-09 18:52:01 NEW YORK, March 9: Human Rights Watch is accusing Vietnam of launching one of the worst crackdowns on peaceful dissidents in two decades.
By: newkerala.com
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