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Tell Hershey?s to Kiss GM Sugar Goodbye!
2008-10-02 19:24:00 Consumers in Brazil can now eat Hershey?s Kisses(TM) without fear of GM ingredients. Unfortunately, that is not the case for US consumers. Several weeks ago, Hershey?s in Brazil announced that it will not use GM ingredients, including GM beet sugar, in the products it makes in Brazil, but it remains ...
By: News for Greens
Supreme Court issues stay of execution for Davis
2008-09-24 16:34:00 By RHONDA COOK, BILL RANKIN, MARCUS K. GARNER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Jackson ? The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a stay of execution for Troy Anthony Davis less than two hours before he was to be put to death by lethal injection. Davis? family and supporters, who for years have pressed for a new ...
By: News for Greens
Congress eyes restrictions on exporting e-waste
2008-09-19 03:22:00 by Stephanie Condon WASHINGTON–Electronic waste is still being exported to other nations, a move that has negative environmental consequences and may run afoul of federal law, government auditors told Congress on Wednesday. Environmental Protection Agency regulations over e-waste exports are very limited, according to a new report (PDF) from the Government Accountability Office, and the existing regulations ...
By: News for Greens
Obama Favors ?Equivalent Rights? for Gays
2008-09-19 00:30:00 Just finished the chapter on faith in Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream and found it to be the best so far. Here, he presents a largely sympathetic portrait of the rise of social conservatives, reserving more of his criticism for Alan Keyes, his self-righteous 2004 rival for ...
By: GayPatriot
Nature Rights
2008-09-16 08:57:00 Nature Rights par&nbs-p;tentonjohn Et si la nature reprenait un jour ses droits...Fin des votes 14/10/08 08:57commentaire : 1-
By: Rue du tee-shirt
A Summary of Your Rights As An Airline Passenger . . .
2008-09-16 05:41:00 "ZIPPO. ZILCH. NADA. "That is the extent of your rights when you step onto an airplane (or "INto" an airplane as George Carlin liked to point out) according to Marc Britton. He should know - he's an attorney who was once General Counsel at Expedia and now runs his own legal advice website called Avvo. He recently wrote a succinct article on this topic at the Journey etc. website Airlines cannot discriminate against you by selling your seat to someone better looking or more pleasant. Nor can they punch you if you get on their nerves. But beyond that, the sky is the limit, as pilots like to say. And who gives them the right to treat you like cattle? You do. When you buy a ticket, you agree to abide by their terms in the Carriage Agreement that they print on their tickets in microscopically small and very light type. However, they are not heartless bastards. Bastards, yes. But not heartless. Maybe we should qualify that with the word "usually" not heartless. They are a slow, incons...
EU?s Women?s Rights Committee Wants to Ban ?Sexist? Ads
2008-09-11 21:49:00 So typical–a TV ad portraying women as attractive and alluring is “sexist,” but men and fathers can be made to look like idiot husbands and bad fathers all day long and that’s not sexist. Of course not–after all, men have everything and women have nothing, so how dare men ever complain about “sexism”? The photo with ...
World?s Gutter Governments To Sit In Judgment Over U.S. Human Rights Record
2008-09-10 16:46:00 -By Frederick Meekins No one is perfect. As such, at times correction and admonition may need to be promulgated to set the ethically concerned back on the right path. When issued by those adhering to the high standards to which they profess, such criticism can be looked upon as a helpful corrective to assist ...
By: Publius Forum
My Rights, Your Responsibility
2008-09-09 23:41:00 I?m home now in Vancouver, with the daunting task of summing up and integrating a journey that covered four continents and more than eight months of my life. It can leave a person wondering how to bring that much home, or what home even means.That said, there are a few common themes that became clear over the course of the journey. A major one concerns the views and assumptions that tend to guide the actions of our culture with the rest of the world, the damage of which becomes obvious when viewing there effects on some of the most impoverished nations on Earth.In the case of Rwanda, we have been told that there horrific genocide was the culmination of tribal conflicts that stretched back centuries. After a mere days in that country, the truth became quickly and overwhelmingly obvious ? that the division between Hutus and Tutsis was a colonial weapon established by the Belgians, and exploited by the French, in order to gain greater control over the population and later to profit ...
Peedom Isn?t Free (In Yankee Stadium)
2008-09-02 17:06:00 Full Size at: Dustinland
By: News for Greens
Rights - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-09-02 11:01:00 The modern liberal will strike a militant posture in defense of rights, but he can no longer explain why that biped who conjugates verbs should be the bearer of rights.- Hadley Arkes, Natural Rights and the Right to ChooseNo one has a right to happiness. - Eric HofferIndividual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).- Ayn Rand
By: Christian Quoter
Human Rights World Report 2008. India In Sore Shape
2008-09-02 04:25:00 The Human Rights Watch World Report 2008 is in marked conflict with Sathya Sai Baba’s promises made over many decades. He has said that he would first save India and then the rest of the world - this within his own lifetime. His millions of followers hear his blatantly untrue statements but remain silent and blindly ...
The Gamers Bill of Rights: Reasonable demands of the gaming industry
2008-08-31 09:21:00 Stardock and Gas Powered Games recently issued what they like to call the "Gamer's Bill of Rights". It has some pretty good points and is fundamentally sound top to bottom. The points they bring... Hi, want more? Visit http://starfeeder.com for more StarCraft 2 news, rumors, videos, contests & more!
The Troubled Tourist
2008-08-29 17:14:00 [From The American Prospect] Travel is so broadening. It shows you other nations’ narrow-mindedness, so that when you get home you can see your own more clearly. GERSHOM GORENBERG All year long I write about tribal conflicts. In August, when Israeli tribal customs dictate vacation, I want to get away not just from e-mail but also from news, ...
By: News for Greens
Video de Human Rights Foundation por los presos polticos venezolanos. net
2008-08-24 06:46:00 Lo acabo de poner en portada. Este es un video realizado por la HRF que les recomiendo colgar en sus blogs, por la libertad de los presos polticos venezolanos. Conoce sobre ellos. Ya previamente le di entrada a la Campaa ?Dile a Chvez? por la Libertad de los Presos Polticos venezolanos al pulsar. ...
Alleged Human Rights Abuser on Vancouver?s 2010 Winter Olympics Organizing
2008-08-24 02:20:00 During the Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese media asked British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell tough questions about how he intended to clean up the squalor of homelessness and drug abuse on Vancouver?s impoverished Downtown Eastside before hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics. They were legitimate questions. The Chinese media had obviously been ...
Why Prince Charles is right: we need GM free food and agriculture for food
2008-08-22 04:35:00 By Dr Vandana Shiva We are grateful to Prince Charles for cautioning the world on the blind and head long rush worldwide to spread GM seeds and crops especially the Third World. Prince Charles warns GM crops risk causing the biggest environment disaster Prince Charles accused by scientists of abusing position over GM comments Why we need GM trees His ...
By: News for Greens
Beijing: Five US activists detained after lighting up ?Free Tibet? LED Thro
2008-08-20 08:37:00 [I used to print for Students for a Free Tibet. Good, hardworking folks. -RS] [From boingboing] An update on the pro-Tibet tech-art protests happening in Beijing: Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) tells Boing Boing that a group of five pro-Tibet activists displayed an LED Throwie Banner near the Olympics site in Beijing. The protesters, all of ...
By: News for Greens
McArthurthyist "Academic Bill of Rights" Laws
2008-08-11 11:58:00 Here's one in Colorado and the effects it is having. Wow. Professors getting death threats. Professors sleeping with shotguns under their pillows. Students filing complaints against professors and trying to get them fired for political reasons. A list of subjects that university professors are not allowed to discuss (WTH?)Threats of "quotas" for hiring conservative professors and threats of money cutoffs if quotas are not met. Professors quitting their jobs and living in fear. Whew. Jesus Christ man.By the way, Jewish Zionist ultra-sleazeballs David Horowitz and Daniel Pipes have been behind a lot of this shit. And US Jews have been behind some of the worst examples of academic censorship and retaliation seen in recent days - the refusal of Yale to hire Juan Cole, and refusal of De Paul University to give the excellent scholar Norman Finkelstein tenure, followed by a monetary settlement and his subsequent resignation.
By: Robert Lindsay
President Bush Human Rights in China VIDEO
2008-08-08 00:21:00 "So America stands in firm opposition to China's detention of political dissidents and human rights advocates and religious activists. We speak out for a free press, freedom of assembly, and labor rights not to antagonize China's leaders, but because trusting its people with greater freedom is the only way for China to develop its full potential. We press for openness and justice not to impose our beliefs, but to allow the Chinese people to express theirs."President George W. Bush gestures as he delivers remarks at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center Thursday, August 7, 2008, in the Bangkok. White House photo by Chris GreenbergPresident Bush Visits Bangkok, Thailand Bangkok, Thailand FULL STREAMING VIDEO In Focus: Trip to Asia 2008 9:30 A.M. (Local) PHOTO GALLERYTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Sawatdee khrab. (Laughter and applause.) Thank you for the warm welcome. Laura and I are delighted to be back in Bangkok. Such a beautiful city, full of gracious and hospitab...
Norway: Radical Imam Deemed Security Risk Says His Rights Have Been Violate
2008-08-05 21:03:00 I have wrote about this Imam named Mullah Krekar before. He has been facing deportation for some time as you can see here. He also had this to say "It is allowed for me to kill Australian soldiers in Iraq. It is allowed for me in Islam to kill his translator, to kill the people which give him food and water, give him medicine. All of them is in the line of the war." Now hes saying his rights have been violated. How absurd. It is ridiculous this man walks freely in Norway.OSLO (Reuters) - The founder of a radical Islamist group, deemed a security risk to Norway, has complained to a European human rights court that Norwegian authorities are violating his rights, Norwegian media reported on Tuesday. Mullah Krekar, born Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, is an Iraqi Kurd and founder of the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam. Norway's Supreme Court upheld a ruling to expel him last November, saying he posed a security risk to the country.But he cannot in practice be deported because Norway does...
Christian the Lion and the Hypocrisy of the Extreme Animal Rights Movement
2008-07-30 07:26:00 REXANOwww.REXANO.org Editorial By Zuzana Kukol There are probably not many animal lovers who haven?t read the article or seen the latest YouTube sensation ?Christian the Lion? . It tells the heartwarming story of a pet lion bought in 1969 and raised in the apartment bytwo Australians living in London. It is not a surprise that pretty ...
Fw: Working a campaignPhoto rights
2008-07-20 13:32:00 Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: John Pettitt <jpp@CLOUDVIEW.COM> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:06:23 To: <NPPA-L@LISTSERV.CMICH.EDU&g-t; Subject: Re: Working a campaign Richard As Greg said - don't expect to make any money working a campaign. Negotiate access and rights up front - the campaign will want to give images away as hand outs but that shouldn't stop your niece from retaining rights for use after the campaign is over and for non news uses for example books (I'm still selling the occasional image from my time as Howard Dean's photographer). On the access side you want really good access - you trade publication control for access. The deal I had with Dean was if there was no press present or less than 5 people present they had veto rights over the image - otherwise it was my call on publishing it. If it was published on the campaign web site it became my call on future publication. ...
Human Rights a Drug War Casualty
2008-07-20 05:35:00 Image via Wikipedia The drug war's dirty washing is exhibited everyday in popular media, absent scrutiny or oversight from academic or civil society.I suspect all those living in this institution we call New Zealand would be generally appalled if it were argued that by our collective (in)actions we were held to be unfit members of the UN, yet everyday we incarcerate and continue to deprive the freedom of thousands of people in the name of compliance with one UN "Single Convention" - and to what end?I have on many occasions raised the glaring human rights anomaly with government select committee and commissions including the NZ Human Rights Commissioner Rosslyn Noonan.It has been the character of the response that 'drugs are illegal' and that people may choose not to consume them, thus consumption or possession is not a 'rights issue', rather society has the preeminent right to be protected from drugs' harms and consumers. Else why the law?This is wrong. It doesn't matter how...
Democrat Lies About ?Rights?
2008-07-18 13:50:00 -By Warner Todd Huston It’s amazing to see how a Democrat so warps the word “right” these days. Last week California Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman was only the latest Democrat to take the word “right” and misuse it for his disgusting, partisan ends when he decided that it was a “right” to unionize, but NOT a ...
By: Publius Forum
Christians: Help! The Gays Are Persecuting Us! News
2008-07-13 13:07:00 [From Pinke.biz] I’ve always struggled to understand the mindset of those opposed to gay marriage rights on religious grounds (which I’m quite sure is all opposed whether they realize it or not), but thanks to a new column in a publication called “The Christian Post” I have some insight: they’re going to get persecuted. Continue reading Christians: ...
By: News for Greens
The War on Boys: Where Feminists and Men?s Rights Activists Go Wrong
2008-06-30 12:35:00 By Selwyn Duke One problem with one-issue activists, it seems, is that they often view matters from only one dimension. This has always been one of the characteristics of feminists. Men get blame for being history?s conquerors and killers, for instance, but no credit for being its innovators and healers. We will hear ...
By: Publius Forum
Heller Decision: Gay Rights? Victory
2008-06-27 19:10:00 While Ann Althouse finds in yesterday’s Supreme Court Heller decision overturning the District of Columbia’s handgun ban a victory for women’s righsts (via Instapundit) as the overturned law banned certain guns which are easier for women to use, I see it as significant advance for gay rights victory . Indeed, I believe this decision ...
By: GayPatriot
Bob Barr Calls Heller Decision on Gun Rights “One of Court’s Most Impor
2008-06-26 19:24:00 Bob Barr Calls Heller Decision on Gun Rights “One of Court’s Most Important Rulings on behalf of Liberty ”Washington , DC - Today the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the individual right of Americans to own guns in District of Columbia v. Heller. The ruling “will go down as one of the Supreme Court’s most important rulings on behalf of liberty,” says Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr. Until today, the Court had never held that the Second Amendment directly applied to individuals. “Today’s decision marks a new era for gun rights in America ,” explains Barr, who is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association. Barr also drafted the Libertarian Party’s amicus curiae brief in Heller. “By protecting an individual’s right to keep and bear arms, the Second Amendment ensures that all Americans are able to participate in sporting activities, hunt, and protect themselves and their families,” he explains.The rig...
Bill of Rights for People Who Self Harm
2008-06-26 00:20:00 Bill of Rights for People Who Self-HarmPreambleAn estimated one percent of Americans use physical self-harm as a way of coping with stress; the rate of self-injury in other industrial nations is probably similar. Still, self-injury remains a taboo subject, a behavior that is considered freakish or outlandish and is highly stigmatized by medical professionals and the lay public alike. Self-harm, also called self-injury, self-inflicted violence, or self-mutilation, can be defined as self-inflicted physical harm severe enough to cause tissue damage or leave visible marks that do not fade within a few hours. Acts done for purposes of suicide or for ritual, sexual, or ornamentation purposes are not considered self-injury. This document refers to what is commonly known as moderate or superficial self-injury, particularly repetitive SI; these guidelines do not hold for cases of major self-mutilation (i.e., castration, eye enucleation, or amputation).Because of the stigma and lack of readil...
Chevron Attacker Larry Bowoto Avoids Human Rights Violation Claim - SF Sent
2008-06-24 16:17:00 The SF Sentinel now reports a story we first broke over at this blog where Larry Bowoto, the Nigerian man who claims he was shot by persons employed by Chevron, and whom Chevron points to as the person who held their employees hostage for several days, has dropped his lawsuit claim of human rights violations. The Sentinel observes:It is looking more and more likely that Bowoto and 150 of his compatriots took over the Chevron oil platform off Nigeria in a hostage takeover ? which is far different from their claims of human rights abuse.The trial is in September.
Burma ? UN Report on Human Rights
2008-06-10 21:00:00 The United States appreciates the recent report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Burma, which compiles important evidence of continuing violations of human rights in the country. The U.S. shares the conclusions of the UN human rights monitor in his sobering report that the referendum on the regime?s draft constitution was far from credible; that the ongoing detention of political prisoners, including National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the conditions under which they are held, is appalling; and that the Burmese regime must respect the human rights principles of non-discrimination and accountability in the international effort to assist the victims of Cyclone Nargis.We remain committed to helping the victims of this humanitarian disaster and calls on the Burmese regime to uphold its pledge to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to allow international humanitarian workers and supplies unhindered access to cyclone-affected areas. We are concerned that fo...
Barely Autistic Spokespersons of the Alleged Autism Rights Movement Misrepr
2008-06-10 18:21:00 News & OpinionHarold L Doherty FACING AUTISM IN NEW BRUNSWICKTuesday, June 10, 2008"Barely Autistic Spokespersons of the Alleged Autism Rights Movement Misrepresent Their Constituency" "How many of the spokespersons for the alleged Autism Rights Movement are actually autistic? At best it can be said that, to the extent that they share symptoms with persons with severe Autistic Disorder, they are barely autistic, and not representative of those with severe Autistic Disorder and they have no right to speak on their behalf.There are several disorders on the spectrum of Pervasive Developmental Disorders. As a group these are casually referred to as the Autism Spectrum of Disorders. But they are in fact the PDD spectrum of disorders. The five distinct disorders on the PDD Spectrum are described in the addendum following this comment.There are similarities, and differences, between the five disorders. Many of the leaders of the so called Autism Rights Movement actually have diagnoses of ...
Egyptian Bloggers Lead Human Rights Fight
2008-06-10 15:09:00 In a nation of eighty million which contains about forty million illiterate people, highly educated individuals who have access to the computers and the Internet increasingly are becoming voices protesting human rights abuses. Blogger Karim el-Behein described his imprisonment and torture in a jail because he supported worker efforts at a textile mill to obtain ...
Curb Your Fundamental Rights Or Else!
2008-06-10 01:21:00 Pakistan will ask the European Union countries to amend laws regarding freedom of expression in order to prevent offensive incidents such as the printing of blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) and the production of an anti-Islam film by a Dutch legislator, sources in the Interior Ministry told Daily Times on Saturday. They said that a six-member high-level delegation comprising officials from the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Law would leave Islamabad on Sunday (today) for the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium and explain to the EU leadership the backlash against the blasphemous campaign in the name of freedom of expression. The delegation, headed by an additional secretary of the Interior Ministry, will meet the leaders of the EU countries in a bid to convince them that the recent attack on the Danish Embassy in Pakistan could be a reaction against the blasphemous campaign, sources said. They said that the ...
How Many Rights Are Democrats Willing to Forfeit?
2008-06-10 00:00:00 -By Frank Salvato With the announcement that Hillary Clinton is abandoning her quest for the Oval Office the Democrat National Committee (DNC) ? and specifically the DNC?s Rules and Bylaws Committee ? has effectively selected the candidate for their party. I say selected because, by construct, the decision making process was taken away from the party ...
By: Publius Forum
Technical Buy Calls for Coming Week + Rights Issue + Market News
2008-06-08 10:40:00 *If you like to receive every morning updates like this in your email, please **subscribe to the blog*by giving your email ID ** :: Start of the week Updates on Stock Market and Finance :: - Mid-Cap Stock Pick - PVR Cinemas. Target Price: Rs 230 - Technical ...
Technical Buy Calls for Coming Week + Rights Issue + Market News
2008-06-08 10:40:00 *If you like to receive every morning updates like this in your email, please **subscribe to the blog*by giving your email ID ** :: Start of the week Updates on Stock Market and Finance :: - Mid-Cap Stock Pick - PVR Cinemas. Target Price: Rs 230 - Technical ...
U.S. Quits Human Rights Council
2008-06-08 02:00:00 As if it wasn’t obvious enough already, here’s another example that we don’t take human rights seriously. ©2008 Garling Gauge. All Rights Reserved..
By: Garling Gauge
US Walks Away From UN ?Human Rights? Council
2008-06-07 13:32:00 Well, it is about damned time the United States did this (Reuters) The United States has quietly informed Western allies of its intention to walk away from the U.N. Human Rights Council, diplomatic sources said on Friday. The U.S. delegation has observer status, with the right to speak, in the 47-member state forum, which meets in Geneva, ...
By: Pirate's Cove
?eBill of Rights? Proposed by Liberty Coalition
2008-06-06 09:12:00 From Liberty Coalition Release Transpartisan Alliance Seeks Internet Privacy/Security Guarantees; Demands Government and Business ?Stand Up and Play Right? (Washington, DC) … A broad range of advocacy organizations, ranging from the Rutherford Institute and the Equal Justice Alliance to the International Association of Whistleblowers, are uniting in support of a newly drafted eBill of Rights, created to ...
Academic paper: How can people negotiate complex land rights in West Africa
2008-06-05 19:50:00 Source: id21 How can people negotiate complex land rights in West Africa? Land is an increasingly scarce resource in West Africa. As access to land becomes increasingly regulated, conflicts are becoming more common. Who wins and who loses in the struggle to gain access to land? http://www.id21.org/nr/n5ct1g2.-html
WAAH! Gays are going to push for their rights. WAAH!
2008-06-05 17:49:00 As the inevitability of same-sex marriage becomes ever more apparent, our opposition becomes ever more desperate. Which is exactly why in reaction to the news that there will be no "stay" on the California Supreme Court's marriage ruling, the folks...
By: Good As You
Photographers Rally for Rights in Hollywood
2008-06-05 15:29:00 Just a quick note on this topic… I might cover it more in-depth later. I went to a photographers rights rally in Los Angeles on June 1st, and it was a great event for both educating people and grabbing some awesome shots. There are quite a few photos in the Flickr group currently, ...
Obama: Your Rights Are Human Rights
2008-06-04 16:31:00 Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (First Amendment to the US Constitution: the Bill of ...
By: I Call BS!
Freed Rights Activist Calls Uzbek Prisons
2008-06-04 15:52:00 Freed Rights Activist Calls Uzbek Prisons
A commenter's Bill of Rights? Let's think first
2008-06-03 03:50:00 A commenter's Bill of Rights? Let's think firstA blogosphere spat triggered by a few ticked-off folks leads to a more searching conversation about the rightful extent of a commenter's prerogative. h-ttp://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_-3-9957956-60...
A commenter's Bill of Rights? Let's think first
2008-06-03 03:30:00 A commenter's Bill of Rights? Let's think firstA blogosphere spat triggered by a few ticked-off folks has led to a more searching conversation about the rightful extent of a commenter's prerogative. h-ttp://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_-3-9957956-...
Gay rights musts: (1) Bang the gavel (2) Ask social conservatives if they a
2008-06-03 00:49:00 Hey "pro-family" peeps: You have taken it upon your selves to push an initiative that would amend the California constitution so that it bans same-sex unions. However, your lil' "democratic process" is not something to which you are owed as...
By: Good As You
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