Posts tagged France
Periodical Political Post *48
Mar 19th
- US general says Srebrenica massacre was fault of Gay Dutch soldiers
- UK passes bill to cut off internet for thousands of households
- Most British schools break law to spy on their pupils
- US court says govt. can put non-sex-offenders on sex-offender-list
- Texas rewrites school books to fit Republican agenda
- In the US loud sex is a reason for cops to search your home
- US department of defence fights secret war on WikiLeaks
- Canadian government tries to censor press about climate change
- Viacom sued YouTube over videos uploaded by… Viacom
- MySpace sells user photos, blog posts, names, zip codes etc.
- French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD
A man in Cornwall, England was barred from hosting a gay disco at a community hall because of fears a party full of homosexuals could offend the local Christians in the town of St Agnes.
Periodical Political Post *46
Feb 26th
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- Australian Senate rejects gay marriage bill even ‘tho 60% of Aussies support it
- New Bill will allow British schools to teach that homosexuality is wrong
- France first country to delist Transgenderism as a mental illness
- Lithuanian law bans promotion of gay marriage & sexual relations between minors
- US congress renews PATRIOT Act, keeps abandoning civil rights
- US fesses up to potentially illegal spying, including peace groups and Planned Parenthood
- Texas stores blood samples of new born babies for massive DNA database
- Citibank closes bank account of gay social network, says content is “objectionable”
- Iceland’s new free speech laws for media after Swedish model pass first discussion
- US copyright lobby says using open source software makes you a pirate
After threatening to end its adoption and homeless services programs in Washington D.C. if the City Council approved gay marriage there, the catholic church’s charities unit is indeed dismantling its foster care program because they fear the city might somehow "force" the church to officiate gay unions and recognize same-sex partners of employees. However, maybe this has turned out for the best. The children, their families, and even the program’s semployees have found a new home — at the National Center for Children and Families, which is not affiliated with any religious institution. Which means these children will still have the services they very much need, without the intervention of a church that abandoned them to uphold discrimination and seeing how church institutions have sexually & physically abused thousands of kids it might be for the better.
- Papst befahl Bischöfen die systematische Vertuschung sexuellen Missbrauchs
- Amnesty International kritisiert CDU & FDP für Blockade von Diskriminierungsschutz
- Zensurgesetz tritt in Kraft, CDU & FDP ignorieren Petition von 134.000 Deutschen
- Rot-Rote Regierung in Berlin beschließt Programm gegen Homophobie
- Parlament schickt mehr Soldaten nach Afghanistan, gegen den Willen der Bevölkerung
- Zu links um Deutsch zu sein, Linksparteipolitkerin darf nicht eingebürgert werden
Smoking is Gay. For Real.
Feb 25th
It looks like the Onion has more influence on the real world than they might prefer to think. Their satire video about a teen health campaign that compares smoking to being gay triggered a discussion about what comedy is allowed to say when it comes to minorities. The French, who aren’t exactly squeamish when it comes to sex or racy content in advertising, are already a step ahead. A controversy has erupted over an ad that some feel has gone a step too far: it doesn’t just evoke oral sex, but actually simulates it. And these salacious images are targeting young people in what is actually a laudable campaign — trying to stop them from smoking.
The ads are meant to link smoking to submission and have a caption that reads: “Smoking means being a slave to tobacco”
The campaign of the Droits des Non-Fumeurs (Non-Smokers’ Rights) association features male and female adolescents kneeling at the waist of a businessman with a cigarette in their mouth.. Queer activists are concerned the ads could rehash prejudices and clichés against gays; an organisation for rape victims says “the campaign trivialises sexual abuse – worse, it implies guilt on the part of the abused”. France’s conservative minister for families, Nadine Morano, said she would take measures to get the advert banned on grounds of “public offense to decency”.
Tobacco is the number one cause of avoidable deaths as well as of cancer in France, according to the health ministry. Half of French students over 14 have tried smoking at some point. While Droits des Non-Fumeurs argues that young smokers tend to ignore adverts focusing on health, other activists were doubtful about the effectiveness of the provocative posters.
What do you think, are these ads too much or just enough?
Periodical Political Post *45
Feb 16th
- US Comic Collector jailed 6 months for importing lolicon manga
- Iceland plans future as global haven for freedom of speech
- France is introducing internet censorship “to protect the children”
- Australia wants Google to censor YouTube like they did in China
- Homosexuals are gay! Or not? Americans are confused ;p
How easy it became for boys to scare the hell out of our society. They just have to dare to look a little bit too feminine: A suburban Dallas school district has suspended a 4-year-old from his prekindergarten class because he wears his hair too long and does not want his parents to cut it. The boy, Taylor Pugh, says he likes his hair long and curly. But the school board in Mesquite voted unanimously to enforce its ban on Beatles haircuts, much less anything approaching coiffures of bands like Led Zeppelin. School officials say the district’s dress code serves to limit distractions in the classroom. No exception could be made for the pint-size rebel, who sat through the hearing with his hair in a ponytail, manifestly bored. Read more at the New York Times.
- Subversiver Protest in Österreich: Hetero-Paar will Homoehe
- Schweiz rächst sich, will Schwarzkonten deutscher Politiker offenlegen
- Nazis? Nicht so schlimm. CDU & FDP jagen lieber “Linksextreme”
- Deutschlands Arme leben in römischer Dekadenz: Findet Westerwelle.
- Island will Hafen für Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit werden
La Fonte des Neiges
Feb 14th
Twelve-year-old Leo thinks he’s going to faint when he finally gets to the nudist camp where his mother has dragged him. But then an encounter with Antoinette and her magic mushrooms makes him change his mind entirely.
Paris, 3 a.m.
Feb 13th
Omar
Nov 23rd
Omar is one of five French short films against homophobia. The story is pretty easy to follow even with my poor French skills from school ;) The other videos can be seen here. Thanks to shezatokyo for posting this on the milkboard.
C’est l’histoire d’Omar, un jeune homosexuel qui vit dans une cité. Une cité qu’il aime et qui l’aime mais où la pression est telle qu’il ne peut vivre, ni même révéler son homosexualité. Pas même à son meilleur ami Morad. Jusqu’au jour où son histoire d’amour cachée avec Arthur est découverte. Une décision s’impose alors : renoncer à son amour ou quitter la cité pour d’autres horizons.
Periodical Political Post *38
Oct 23rd
- Anti-gay groups asked to prove how gay marriage threatens traditional unions
- Church of Sweden says yes to gay marriage meanwhile
- Europe paves way for Three-Strikes style ISP disconnection policy
- U.N. Human Rights Council endorses report of Israel’s war crimes
- US military data-mines America’s kids for war recruiting
- French soldiers killed after Italy bribed Taliban in Afghanistan
- Broadband internet for all citizens a legal right with new law in Finland
- US man made coffee in his own home while nude, facing 1 year prison
- Socialists and Greens best for business according to Swedish survey
- Leftist states of Latin America agree on new currency
- Verfassungsgericht behebt mal wieder Fehler der Politik: Diesmal Homoehe
- Auch deutscher Atommüll lagert tonnenweise in Russland
- UN zwingt Israel zur Untersuchung begangener Kriegsverbrechen
- FDP knickt ein, Union plant mehr Überwachung & Ausländerdatei
- Einigung über Internetzensur & VDS kein FDP-Erfolg
- CDU & FDP verharmlosen Nazigewalt und warum das so gefährlich ist
- 28.000 Betriebe verlieren Betriebsrat wenn FDP sich durchsetzt
- Richter: Forderung von FDP & Union nach härteren Jugendstrafen Populismus
- FDP & Union legalisieren Löhne 30% unter normalem Lohnniveau
- "Tricksen, tarnen, täuschen": FDP liebäugelt mit einem Schattenhaushalt
- Grüne lassen Linke Abgeordnete in Landtagen auspionieren
- Grünen Spitze kanzelt Parteijugend wegen Kritik an Jamaika-Koalition ab
- Grüne begrüßen das Mitführen von Maschinenpistolen von NRW-Polizisten
Periodical Political Post *37
Oct 13th
- US House approves Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill against resistance of Republicans
- Gay hand-holding campaigner has been honoured with award by UK government
- Gay marriage bill will most likely pass in Washington DC in December by congress
- Catholic Church blames gays for child abuse, says there are no pedos in church
- Family values group says 500,000 to boycott Pepsi over its ‘homosexual advocacy’
- Poland as a role model: France considers castration of sex offenders too
- US Department of Justice admits that telco companies are part of the government
- Canadian government using lies to sell Internet wiretapping law
- FBI arrests social worker because he helped organising G20 protest via Twitter
Matthew Wayne Shepard (1976 – 1998) was a student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured & subsequently murdered.
- CDU in Hessen verhindert entgegen Wahlversprechen Gleichstellung homosexueller Beamter
- Internetzensur von Gericht gestoppt bis gesetzliche Basis geschaffen wurde
- Französische Innenministerin will Gesetz zur chemischen Kastration von Sexualstraftätern
- Schäuble gibt zu, dass Internetzensur vor allem Wahlkampfpopulismus war
- Grüne ermöglichen Mitte-Rechts-Bündnis im Saarland, Schuld sind die Anderen?
- Platzeck bweweist mal wieder, dass er der einzige SPDler mit Restverstand ist
- FDP verabschiedet sich rasant von Vor-Wahl-Idealen: PKW-Maut angeregt
- CDU und FDP begraben Solarenergie und sagen Atomausstieg ab
Periodical Political Post *36
Oct 2nd
- Study finds no difference between children raised by gay or straight adoptive parents
- Poland’s lower house approves forcible chemical castration for sex offenders
- Amnesty calls for immediate repeal of new medieval anti-gay laws in Indonesia
- Germany obviously dumb: Gets Center-Right government of Christians & Capitalists
- Germany mulls realities of first openly gay foreign minister in Europe but he’s a bitch
- Pirate Party and Socialists with strong results at German Federal Election (at least)
- Vatican doesn’t want that monopoly, says child abuse is rife in other religions too
- Wal-Mart employee reports mother to police over her kids’ bath time photos
- Apropos Wal-Mart: Short overview of the “values” of one of the biggest US companies
- UK Border Agency wants DNA test to detect “true race” of asylum seekers
- 3 of 763 house searches under PATRIOT Act in US in 2008 were related to terrorism
- New law in France to cut off your internet if industry says you’re a pirate
- Weitere Studie bestätigt: Gleichgeschlechtliche Paare sind keine schlechteren Eltern
- ..in die Traufe: FDP würde gern in eimem Runumschlag den Sozialstaat abschaffen
- FDP als Bürgerrechtler? Haha. Erste Amtshandlung in Sachsen: Mehr Überwachung
- Dass ist also der Politikwechsel in Thüringen? SPD will mit CDU statt mit Linken regieren
- Rechtstaatlichkeit in Bayern: Zwei “Islamisten” werden grundlos “vorsorglich” festgenommen
- Potenzieller Außenminister Westerwelle spricht kaum Englisch, lässt BBC-Reporter abblitzen
- Studie des Bundesumweltamtes: Atomausstieg und Kohleverzicht keine Gefahr für Stromversorgung
- Verdammt in alle Ewigkeit: Amerikas Gesetze für Sexualdelikte erklären verliebte Teenies zu Verbrechern
Periodical Political Post *35
Sep 18th
- Change we can believe in: White House seeks renewal of Bush’s surveillance laws
- Leftist government of Labour Party, Socialists and Greens in Norway re-elected
- An American dies every 12 minutes because there is no universal health care in the USA
- France passes three-strikes-law, will cut off internet if music or film industry says you’re a pirate
- Child-safety software sells kids’ IM conversations to market-research companies
- Israeli government ads warn people against marrying Non-Jews
- German police beats up guy at demonstration because he tried to report another cop
- US author of middle-grade novels not allowed to see class via Skype because he might be a pedo
- For peace in the world? US holds huge lead in global weapons sales
- Sci-Fi becomes real: US High-Tech drone software fails and ignores human commands
- How the financial crisis changes the markets: Europe now richer than the USA
- Man in Brazil held because he dared to kiss his own daughter, faces 15 years in jail
- Verfassungsschutz überwacht komplette Fraktion der Linken im Bundestag
- Wolfagng Schäuble will die parlamentarische Kontrolle der Geheimdienste abschaffen
- Warum die Pläne der Linken kein unfinanzierbarer Populismus sind
- BKA und CDU warnen mal wieder for Terroranschlägen vor der Wahl damit auch ja alle CDU wählen
- Dokumentation von Polizeigewalt in Frankreich durch neues Gesetz verboten
- Französische Nationalversammlung winkt Three-Strikes-Sperrgesetz durch
- Italien entsorgt Atommüll bequem über die Mafia im Mittelmeer, 120 Behälter entdeckt
- Wie die Interessen einen deutsches Konzerns die Souveränität eines ganzen Staates gefährden…
