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Posts Tagged ‘free speech’

June 16th, 2015 - 10:08 am § in America, Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene

I am Filipino

In some respects I feel like I am Filipino.  I know I would have been treated differently by some Filipinos if I could actually say I had Filipino blood in me.  I still have to show Filipinos pictures of my family for them to believe that I am a Cordova, or that I know anything […][...]

June 4th, 2015 - 4:24 am § in America, China, Politics

CHINA: Ai WeiWei

How can China be free when he is still treated like this?  READMORE The film starts with Ai Weiwei returning home after 81 days in detention for tax evasion, which is basically the Chinese government doing a cover of Eliot Ness because they’re tired of the artist speaking out and you can’t blac[...]

June 3rd, 2015 - 9:34 am § in America, Religion, The Ave Scene

Why I am not praising Caitlin

Caitlin, formerly known as Bruce Jenner has become the face of the Trans Gender community, despite the fact that Jenner’s reality does not reflect the majority of Trans Gender people’s reality. All I have heard about Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover shot is how “beautiful” so[...]

May 26th, 2015 - 5:00 pm § in America

Black protest in the world of sports, or lack thereof

Professional sports are a huge component of Black male culture.  Historically, Black professional athletes took full advantage of their influence  and used the platform sports presented to address social issues that were affecting the Black community. Black athletes use to be more than athle[...]

May 15th, 2015 - 6:45 am § in America, Hypocrisy, Misc., Politics, Religion

Stall em out

The world is Sick and tired of the ongoing fighting between Israel and Palestine, it is safe to say that the world wants peace between the two.  135 nations recognize Palestine as a state, the UN granted Palestine with observer-state status in 2012. The recent news that the Vatican now recognizes P[...]

April 1st, 2015 - 10:34 am § in China, Hypocrisy

China: Government blocks restaurant promise of free food to the beautiful

    In February,  teams of security guards and demolition workers descended on the restaurant to remove the sign..  Authorities in Zhengzhou  accused the restaurant of damaging the city’s image and claiming the garish sign did not have official permission.. Xue Hexin, the restaurant m[...]

April 1st, 2015 - 8:26 am § in America, Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges, Science

Is This For Real? Michael Eisen Goes Turncoat

Why I, a founder of PLOS, am forsaking open access By Michael Eisen | Published: April 1, 2014 PLEASE NOTE BEFORE YOU READ THIS THAT IT WAS WRITTEN FOR APRIL FOOLS DAY ON DR. EISEN’S WEBSITE!!! I co-founded the Public Library of Science (PLOS) in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open a[...]

March 23rd, 2015 - 10:33 am § in Uncategorized

Supreme Court tackles free speech on vanity license plates

Is a license plate design a state action or personal speech? This question is at the heart of a dispute that the U.S. Supreme Court will begin considering today in a case arising from Texas, where a state board nixed a specialty license plate design (photo to left) sought by the Sons of Confederate[...]

March 10th, 2015 - 10:48 am § in Uncategorized

ACLU, Wikipedia, et al., sue NSA to limit spying on internet users

Wikipedia and other organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and The Nation magazine, sued the U.S. National Security Agency today in an effort to halt the NSA’s pervasive eavesdropping on internet users. They’re represented by the ACLU. The Constitution is not[...]

March 5th, 2015 - 11:33 pm § in Hypocrisy

More O’Reilly

Fox News host, whose stories of past reporting exploits are under renewed scrutiny, claimed ‘we were attacked by protesters’ when covering the 1992 riots Readmore at The Guardian.[...]