Justin Bieber faces a public backlash over his note in the Anne Frank Museum’s guestbook, saying he hoped the Holocaust victim would have been a fan. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Vatican Quest, from U.S. game maker RoundGames.com has sparked outrage abroad with critics saying it mocks both sex-abuse victims and the Roman Catholic Church. Original post on nydailynews.com Comments on reddit.com
I’m not sure why it is that PETA feels it needs to pick fights with video games, but it continues to do so even after its last couple of efforts (vs. Pokemon [catch ALL the fake animals!] and Cooking Mama [dead animals for dinner!]) have… Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
From Yahoo! News: CAIRO (Reuters) – After eight days of protests that killed nearly 60 people, a video of one demonstrator stripped naked, dragged across the ground and beaten with truncheons by helmeted riot police has fired Egyptians to a new level of outrage. Hamada Saber, 48, lay in a police hospital on Saturday, the morning after he was shown on television naked, covered in soot and thrashed by half a dozen policemen who had pulled him to an armored vehicle near the presidential palace…. Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
Outrage is growing over Republican sabotage of … well, everything. Original post on alternet.org Comments on reddit.com
A US judge has prompted outrage after saying that a rape victim didn’t put up a fight during her assault and that if someone doesn’t want sex, the body ‘will not permit that to happen.’ Original post on independent.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Hold up on the congratulations for Arpaio, Flake, and a number of other office seekers in the state – Arizona’s got a problem. Original post on addictinginfo.org Comments on reddit.com
If the Democrats don’t pay more attention, Big Money and new state laws may just help the Republicans run away with the election. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
King Juan Carlos of Spain has been removed as honorary president of a leading conservation group after the row over his elephant hunting trip to Botswana earlier this year. Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Vietnamese authorities detain three soldiers suspected of torturing and killing two rare monkeys, state-run Voice of Vietnam newspaper reports. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Outrage from advertisers appears to have hobbled Microsoft’s renegade plan. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
Richard O’Dwyer, the UK-based ex-administrator of the video linking website TVShack will be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement charges. Despite public outrage Home Secretary Theresa May approved the extradition order today. The 23-year-old student has never visited United States, but now faces several years in a US prison. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
The practice of bear farming — and the milking of the bears for their allegedly medicinal bile — is gruesome enough that hundreds of thousands of Chinese have attacked a pharmaceutical company with online complaints over the firm’s plans to triple the size of its bear farms with a public offering of shares on the Shenzhen stock exchange. Still, the practice continues. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
If we don’t speak out, we’re part of the problem – Progressive blogging for the middle class, not corporate welfare. Original post on freakoutnation.com Comments on digg.com
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A boy wearing a cloth cap and the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew was the centrepiece of the Jerusalem protest late on Saturday. His hands were raised in surrender and a yellow Star of David inscribed with “Jude,” Jew, in German, was sewn on his jacket. The image mimicked a memorable photo of a terrified Jewish boy during a roundup in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto in World War Two. “Nazis, Nazis,” some of the protesters shouted at police. Other children and young men were dressed in replicas of striped concentration camp uniforms at the protest attended by hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in traditional black garb. “Prisoner uniforms and yellow patches with the word “Jew” written on them in German are shocking and appalling,” Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement. “The use of yellow patches and small children raising their hands in surrender crosses a red line which the… More
