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....And this is just one of them.  Of course, if we lived in the ME, then there would be other concerns, but we don't, so this is definitely one of our main areas of concern living in India.  Let me make clear, however, that the average Indian is very peace-loving, but when emotions are stirred, and a mob mentality descends, there are definite ( Read more... )

So... how do you think it'll go tonight?

By the way, dunno if any of you guys remember who the Emergency Broadcast Network were, but they were this sort of political leaning art group... and now they're called Eclectic-method...

anyway, they did this video remix of InnerPartySystem's "Don't Stop" video that is very very very timely for tonight's ( Read more... )

"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSA) has proposed that (as of January 14) all airlines, cruise lines-even fishing boats-be required to obtain clearance for each passenger they propose taking into or out of the United States."

Even if said passenger is a citizen.

Here is the only link I could find to this story.

Here is a lengthy ( Read more... )

Anonymizer -- a company that offers a variety of safe-surfing products -- is making a downloadable software available free to people in China in order to avoid the government's Internet censors and filters. If you live in China or know someone who does, please share the link with them: Read more... )

almost time for presidential elections here in chile (11 december). i don't have a tv, so i probably have been spared the brunt of advertising (or propaganda, as we call it here :), but over the course of the last few months there has been more and more and more advertising in public space. i especially like how wherever there is an open area ( ( Read more... )

i was reading this post, http://www.livejournal.com/community/anthropologist/747596.html, over in the anthropology community, and it got me started thinking about religion in society. (especially the part where the representative of the school is quoted ( Read more... )

as a soon to be expat(hopefully) this part of Condoleeza's interview in Ebony Magazine caught my eye. What do you guys thinks of the question and the statement?
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it's just strange hearing and reading about this whole thing from so far away ( Read more... )