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Skepticism
Global Quickies: Indecent Acts, Rickets, and Diplomatic Incidents
UGANDA (from a bunch of you) The Minister for Ethics and Integrity told Stephen Fry, on camera, that men raping girls is the right kind of rape. AUSTRALIA (from Jack99) Victoria’s Education Department has launched an investigation into what it calls “inappropriate and offensive” religious material distributed at a primary school. The material instructed children to seek counseling if they…
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Skepticism
Global Quickies: Lizard people, bigots, and breaking taboos in Iran
IRAN Maryam Namazie and a group of activists originally from Iran want to start Bread and Roses – a weekly taboo-breaking, freethinking political-social TV magazine in Persian and English broadcast in Iran and the Middle East as well as globally via satellite TV and social media. They’ve set up an Indiegogo page so you can help them out. NEW ZEALAND…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Blackmail, abortions, and enemies of god
SAUDI ARABIA – Staff at a Riyadh university barred male paramedics from entering a women’s-only campus to assist a student who had suffered a heart attack and later died. – The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is monitoring Twitter accounts to identify and track sorcerers and witches. (From Criticaldragon1177) SPAIN – The horribly restrictive abortion…
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Skepticism
Global Quickies: Abortion in Spain, shaking hands with women, and dino-chickens
SPAIN Tens of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid last Saturday in protest of government plans to roll back access to abortion in the country. SCOTLAND A bill which allows same-sex weddings to take place in Scotland has been passed by MSPs in the Scottish Parliament. THE VATICAN The UN has said that the Vatican should “immediately…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Saints, Smoke, and Axolotls
CHINA The Ministry of Education has banned smoking in kindergartens, elementary and middle schools, and vocational schools. Yes, apparently, smoking was permitted in kindergartens. UK/MEXICO/THAILAND/PHILIPPINES/LEBANON Gary Bolton, who was sentenced to seven years in jail for selling fake bomb detectors, paid the UK government to enlist serving soldiers and a British ambassador in the sale of the dangerous devices overseas.…
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Skepticism
Global Quickies: Racist candy, Brazilian Dolphins, and Bad News for Moroccan Rapists
MOROCCO The parliament of Morocco has unanimously amended an article of the penal code that allowed rapists of underage girls to avoid prosecution by marrying their victims. CHILE (From Will) A bill that would allow transgender Chileans to legally change their name and sex without sex reassignment surgery advanced in the country’s Senate. BRAZIL Scientists in Brazil have discovered the…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: 18/01/14
I’ve got a lot of links for you today, so sit back, relax, and find out what’s been going on in the world. UK (From Criticaldragon1177) An Afghan immigrant was granted asylum on the basis of his atheism, as he could have faced a death sentence for apostasy if he had been deported to Afghanistan. INDIA After the Supreme Court…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: 11/01/14
TUNISIA The constitutional assembly voted in favor of article 20 of the draft constitution, which states that male and female citizens are equal under the law without discrimination. Human Rights groups argue that non-discrimination should extend to foreigners, and that it also should also prohibit discrimination of race, religion, class, etc. MALAYSIA As mentioned in a previous post, the government…
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