Posts tagged “Civil liberties”
Visibility of protests gives them power
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard about the recent protests in the Arab world, from Iran in 2009-2010 to those in Tunisia that toppled an authoritarian government, to the current protests in Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and more. The protestors are largely non-violent, but are having very large political effects. Can you imagine this […]
Presents
Image via Wikipedia I usually get quite a lot of presents this time of year since my birthday and Christmas fall just a few days apart. Now that I’ve gotten clever about it and put my wishlist online, I usually even get presents I want. I love getting presents and I wouldn’t turn one down […]
What I’ve Noticed
The higher education bubble. A million dollars in copyright infringement on Glee demonstrates the ridiculousness of current copyright law. A whistleblower in the NYPD exposed some pretty serious problems, but all anyone is going to remember is “cocking the memo books.” I was thinking about saving for a fancy phone and AT&T ruins it.
Doing the right thing
French protesters rock my world. They actually extinguished the Olympic torch. And they did it multiple times. I think the quotes from Chinese officials are really telling: “The torch represents the Olympic spirit, and people welcome the torch,” said Wang Hui, the spokeswoman. “The general public is very angry at this sabotage by a few […]
Putting Big Brother out of business
The FBI thinks that Hasan Elahi is a terrorist and he doesn’t trust them to get things right. So, he records pretty much everything about his life and puts it on his website. The globe-hopping prof says his overexposed life began in 2002, when he stepped off a flight from the Netherlands and was detained […]
mad in the morning
Two stories via Majikthise that should inspire you to write letters. A 14 year has the self possession to get to a hospital after being raped and she isn’t offered EC. A British civil servant and legislator’s aide who leaked a memo quoting a Bush threat to bomb Al Jazeera have been found guilty of […]
articles worth reading
Cleaning up Yet emissions keep on rising. If greenhouse-gas concentrations are to be stabilised, then the carbon price or the support mechanisms for clean energy, or both, will have to rise or be adopted worldwide, or both. And if that happens, the returns on clean-energy investments will increase even further and the companies that have […]