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Turkey Threatens to Block Social Media Over Released Documents - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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turkey block social media

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  • Turkish officials threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless the social-media company blocked the account of a left-wing newspaper that had circulated documents about a military police raid on Turkish Intelligence Agency trucks that were traveling to Syria last January.
  • issued an order barring coverage of the investigation
  • Networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus complied with the court order on Wednesday, removing content from accounts to avert a shutdown, Turkish news outlets reported.
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  • The court argued that publication of the information violated national security and interfered with a continuing inquiry
  • But the BirGun newspaper, as well as other Twitter users, continued to challenge the ban by posting new messages
  • We continue to work diligently to protect the rights of our users and preserve access for millions of Twitter users in Turkey.”
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    Turkish government threatens to shut down Twitter if it doesn't comply with a ban on the newspaper that is spreading documents a controversy over possible weapons being carried to Al Qaeda.  
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OS GUINNESS: Religious equality can combat religious terrorism - Washington Times - 0 views

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religious equality terrorism

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  • How do 7 billion people on a tiny blue ball of a planet live with their differences when the deepest of those differences are religious and ideological?
  • In short, how do we respect diversity, and still promote liberty and maintain harmony?
  • Today, even when we are not talking to the world, we can be heard by the world, and the world can organize its response, frequently violent.
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  • The basic level is unquestionably one of security and
  • taking the necessary steps to counter the violence that no civilized society can tolerate
  • And at the highest level of all, it raises the question of whether we are able to protect and expand political and social freedom for everybody, with all our rich human diversity
  • we must set out and pursue a positive vision of the way in which religions and ideologies should relate constructively in the public square
  • America’s crying need is not for more scholarly research, for longer or louder talk show debates, or for another presidential commission
  • Thus, a right for one citizen is a right for another and a responsibility for both
  • Free societies not only need the structures of freedom, such as the Constitution and the law, but the spirit of freedom,
  • The alternative to these extremes is the vision of a civil public square
  • The truth is that the United States is squandering its proud heritage of both freedom and freedom of conscience
  • E Pluribus Unum was once not only America’s motto, but its greatest accomplishment. It could be so again
  • That is the heart of the blood-red challenge raised by the Islamist slaughters in Paris. We must live together or die.
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    Discusses the ingrained issues of religious violence such as the Paris terrorist attacks.  
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Newtown school panel to include proposed gun ban in report - Washington Times - 0 views

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gun ban

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  • An advisory panel charged with looking at public safety in the wake of the deadly Newtown school shooting agreed Friday to include in its final report a recommendation to ban the sale and possession of any gun that can fire more than 10 rounds without reloading
  • recommendations in three categories: law enforcement and emergency response; safe school design and operation; and mental health and wellness.
  • “Whether or not this law would stand the test of constitutionality is not for this commission to decide,”
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  • there needs to be more regulation of guns that can inflict mass casualties, even if it causes some inconvenience to recreational shooters.
  • “We’re hoping that some of our recommendations will go far beyond the borders of the state of Connecticut.”
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    A school panel in Newtown puts together a list of recommendation to create safety in the school systems with gun regulation.  
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Gay marriage: Supreme Court sets stage for historic ruling - Washington Times - 0 views

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supreme court marriage

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  • Setting the stage for a potentially historic ruling, the Supreme Court announced Friday it will decide whether same-sex couples have a right to marry everywhere in America under the Constitution.
  • argued in Apri
  • decision is expected by late June
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  • Proponents of same-sex marriage said they expect the court to settle the matter once and for all with a decision that invalidates state provisions that define marriage as between a man and a woman
  • advocates for traditional marriage want the court to let the political process play out, rather than have judges order states to allow same-sex couples to marry
  • Same-sex couples can marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia.
  • Now there are just 14 states in which same-sex couples cannot wed.
  • The justices will consider two related questions. The first is whether the Constitution requires states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The other is whether states must recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
  • The federal appeals court that oversees those four states upheld their same-sex marriage bans in November, reversing pro-gay rights rulings of federal judges in all four states.
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    Supreme court will rule on two questions: whether states are required to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and whether they must recognize same-sex marriages from other states.  
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Xi's Selective Punishment - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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china

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  • A Chinese government official I know was put under
  • shuanggui, the secretive system of internal Communist Party investigation in which victims are detained, questioned without counsel and sometimes tortured
  • the most probable reason for his travails with the authorities was that his political patron also got in trouble.
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  • A huge number of top officials have been either arrested or placed under investigation.
  • Whenever a top official falls, people aren’t concerned about what he has done, but with those he might bring down with him.
  • In the past two years, President Xi Jinping’s anticorruption drive has burnished his reputation with the Chinese media
  • the anticorruption push is more of a Stalinist purge than a genuine attempt to clean up the government
  • Most telling of all, the purge has mainly targeted specific party factions, while those groups that support and pledge loyalty to Mr. Xi appear untouched.
  • High officials in China exercise unchecked power (until they don’t)
  • This privileged tribe enjoys almost unimaginable power
  • Mr. Xi’s most important supporters are the so-called second generation reds — descendants of senior Communist Party founders. (Mr. Xi himself is one of them.)
  • Recently the question was raised in a post on the Internet: Why have no “big tigers” been found in Fujian and Zhejiang? The message was almost immediately deleted.
  • This professor seemed to think that Mr. Xi might use his authority to guide China toward democracy. But this notion is wishful thinking. For a dictator, power is not a means to an end, power is the end.
  • Besides, anticorruption campaigns don’t guarantee real justice.
  • He is just another dictator
  • When the government media runs reports about cases that are still under investigation and gloats about how severely corrupt officials are being punished, it seems improbable that the accused will get a proper defense
  • They may well have committed crimes, but they have rights too, even if they have denied them to others.
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    An opinion article that equates Chinese President Xi's recent attack on corruption in the government (directly almost completely towards politicians not from his party) to a dictatorial action such as that of Stalin.  
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BBC News - David Cameron and Barack Obama in anti-terror push - 0 views

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obama cameron

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  • Britain and the US are to share expertise on preventing radicalism and tackling domestic "violent extremism
  • Mr Cameron also said Britain would deploy more unarmed drones to help ground forces tackle Islamic State
  • Concerns over additional attacks by Islamic extremists intensified on Thursday, after an anti-terror raid by police in Belgium
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  • came a week after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris which killed 17 people.
  • We face a poisonous and fanatical ideology that wants to pervert one of the world's major religions, Islam, and create conflict, terror and death
  • UK police have said there is "heightened concern" about the risk to the UK's Jewish communities and are considering stepping up patrols in certain areas.
  • Mr Cameron said the terror threat level, set independently by the Joint Terrorism Assessment Centre, was currently at "severe" - meaning an attack is "highly likely
  • he prime minister also announced that the UK would send an additional 1,000 troops to take part in Nato military exercises in the Baltic states and eastern Europe amid heightened tensions in the region following Russia's conflict with Ukraine
  • On Iran, Mr Cameron cautioned against further sanctions on the country over its nuclear programme, warning that it would be "counter-productive" and could undermine efforts for a diplomatic solution.
  • it was announced that the UK and US are to carry out "war game" cyber attacks on each other as part of a new joint defence against online criminals.
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    British Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama meet to discuss strategies to combat terror, both physical and cyber (especially important following the terrorist attacks in Paris and the Sony hack).  
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Hague Court Opens War Crimes Inquiry at Request of Palestinians - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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war crimes hague UN Israel-Palestine

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  • Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court opened a preliminary examination on Friday into possible war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories,
  • the first formal step that could lead to charges against Israelis.
  • to raise the level of antipathy between Israel and the Palestinians
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  • use Palestine’s status as a nonmember observer state at the United Nations to join the International Criminal Court, which investigates war crimes and other atrocities
  • Israeli government had warned against taking such a step, and it froze Palestinian tax revenue after Mr. Abbas began the formal process of joining the court
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    After years of conflict between Israel and Palestine, Palestinians have taken their opportunity, as nonmember observers in the UN to initiate a investigation into Israeli war crimes against Palestinian territories.  
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German Leaders Attend Muslim Rally In Berlin : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views

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  • "xenophobia, racism, and extremism have no place in this country."
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Jochaim Gauck were among political and religious leaders who attended
  • "xenophobia, racism, and extremism have no place in this country."
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  • Germany has become more diverse through immigration - religiously, culturally and mentally,
  • "we all mourn" with the victims' families and France
  • counter the growing support for the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West
  • 25,000 people
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    Shows how Germany's Nazi period of prejudice and persecution under Hitler extends into policies and culture today, especially in the actions of the Chancellor and President making a point to show up at the rally in support of Muslim groups.  
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