JULIA Gillard has denounced the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ahead of anti-Israeli protest action planned at the University of NSW today. BDS action at UNSW has turned ugly, with anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying material appearing on a Facebook page opposing the opening of a Max Brenner chocolate shop on campus. Postings on a Facebook page [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Economics, Education, Funnies, Media, Middle east, Politics
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Tagged anti-Semitism, BDS, boycott divestment and sanctions, chocolate, Facebook, IDS, Israel, israeli strauss group, Julia Gillard, Max Brenner, max brenner boycott, Palestine, university of new south wales, zionism
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February 19, 2013 – 9:15 am
In a his excellent The World Is Not Enough blog, Charles Richardson comments on an essay by Israeli journalist Yossi Gurvitz. Gurvitz’s essay applies the analogy of Germans expelled from the Sudetenland, Silesia, Prussia etc after 1945 to the Palestinians expelled from Israel in 1947-48. As Charles notes, it is a revealing analogy. But revealing not [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in History, Immigration, Middle east, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, The Left, The Right
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Tagged Algerian Civil War, Arab Spring, Arab-Israeli conflict, Armenian Genocide, Auschwitz, Charles Richardson, Christian exodus, debt bondage, EU, Fascism, Greece, Haj Amin al Husseini, Hamidian massacres, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, Israeli Labour movement, Lebanese Civil War, Leninism, Likud, Nazism, population exchange, refugees, scapegoat, Shin Bet, Sudanese Civil Wars, Syrian civil war, the holocaust, Turkey, Yossi Gurvitz
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December 23, 2012 – 9:17 am
A friend who works in the City sent me the picture on the left; it is an advertisement for the Bushmaster .223, the rifle used in Sandy Hook. He’d attached it to a report indicating that Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that owns much of the Freedom Group–of which Bushmaster is part–was trying to [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in History, Law
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Tagged 2nd Amendment, Bedlam, Bill of Rights, Bushmaster, Connecticut, Hogarth, Martial, mental illness, Newtown, NRA, Poe, Sandy Hook Elementary
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December 1, 2012 – 9:02 am
Today I came across an interesting post, via Letters of Note, which details a letter which a former slave, Jourdon Anderson, wrote to his former master, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee. Colonel Anderson had written to Jourdon Anderson, requesting him to come back to work on his farm. According to sources of the [...]
November 26, 2012 – 3:00 am
Prisoners in relationships will be prevented from sharing jail cells in a crackdown on sex in prison by the new Justice Secretary. Chris Grayling, who took over the role in the September re-shuffle, is understood to be looking at banning prisoners from setting up “cosy, domestic” living arrangements as part of his drive to make [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Fark!, Funnies, Law, Politics, Sexuality
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Tagged Chris Grayling, her majesty's prison service, HMP Haverigg, HMPS, justice secretary, ministry of justice, prison reform
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October 13, 2012 – 10:00 am
The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe. The committee said the EU had helped to transform Europe “from a continent of war to a continent of peace”. The award comes as the EU faces the biggest crisis of its history, with recession [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Economics, Fark!, Funnies, History, Immigration, Politics, Society
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Tagged 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, der norske nobelkomite, European Union, nobel peace prize, norwegian nobel committee, peace and reconciliation, thorbjoern jagland
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September 6, 2012 – 4:16 pm
The war aim of the victorious North in the the War Between the States was simple — that the Union not be divided. As Abraham Lincoln put it, the Union position was “We won’t go out of the Union, and you shan’t”. The Northern victory was, indeed, the Union victory. Freeing the slaves was a natural outcome [...]
September 5, 2012 – 5:53 pm
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. (L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between) I was forcibly reminded of the truth of Hartley’s statement while undertaking some legal research today. I have been conducting research into the doctrine of specific performance, which is when a court orders a party to a contract to perform [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, England, History, Law, Personal liberty, scotland, Society
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Tagged abolition, Equity, History, James Somerset, Joseph Knight, Lord Hardwicke, Lord Mansfield, pearne v lisle, serfs, slave labour, slavery, slaves, Somersett's Case, specific performance
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August 17, 2012 – 3:35 am
Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK. It cited fears that Mr Assange’s human rights might be violated. Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK would not allow Mr Assange safe passage out of the country. But [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Britain, Free Speech, Funnies, Internet, Law, Politics, Technology
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Tagged asylum, Ecuador, Julian Assange, sweden, USA, WikiLeaks
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August 16, 2012 – 4:47 am
As many of you know, I won the 2012 Law Society of Scotland Essay Award for a piece entitled ‘A Plea in Law for Equal Marriage’. The question to which my paper was a response was this: An MSP would like to bring forward a member’s bill in the Scottish Parliament. She would like it [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Law, Marriage, Personal liberty, Science, scotland, Sexuality, Skeptics
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Tagged #equalmarriage, Amanda Spalding, John Deighan, Law Society of Scotland, Parliamentary Officer for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, Robert Gordon University, Scots law, Scots Law Commission, The Journal, The Journal Online, university of edinburgh
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