Posts tagged India
Periodical Political Post *139
Nov 26th
Queer News
- Delhi gay pride breaking taboos in conservative India
- Cuba elects first transgender woman to public office
- Thousands march for marriage equality in Australia
- Being gay added as reason for army expulsion in Turkey
- Twelve men to be executed by Libyan militia for being gay
Other News
- Student suspended for refusing to get spied on by school
- German record industry thinks that kids should be beaten
- Anti-gay US Senate candidate faces trial for abusing boy
- Pro-Life US Congressman pressured mistress to get abortion
- Studies in US, Europe & China find boys start puberty at 9
0Periodical Political Post *108
Jun 7th
Queer News
- Tunisia rejects United Nations call to decriminalise same-sex acts
- Moscow police cracks down on banned gay pride rally, arresting 40
- Petition urges Ukrainian president to stop anti-gay “propaganda” law
- High School graduation party turns into attempt at burning gay man alive
- Support for gay marriage higher among African-Americans than U.S. average
Other News
- Cardinal pays $20K to priests who raped kids, then rails against immorality of gays
- India sets age of consent to 18, makes sexual intercourse for consenting teens illegal
- U.S. Republicans block law aiming to battle wage discrimination against women
- Researchers funded with European tax money release anonymous BitTorrent client
- Mother in U.S. state of Connecticut arrested for letting 13-year-old son babysit siblings
0Periodical Political Post *89
Feb 13th
Queer News
- Politicians predict full marriage equality will come to Scotland in 2013
- Gay-marriage ban in California unconstitutional, federal court rules
- British government won’t pardon war hero Alan Turing for being gay
- Gay suicide victim Asher Brown’s parents harassed by their own town
- Two transgender women appointed to official state positions in India
- High school in Maryland distributes ex-gay therapy flyer to students
- Student requests Westboro protest to save school from homosexuals
Other News
- Massive street protests in Europe wage war on draconic ACTA treaty
- Canadian government ignores protest against pro-censorship proposal
- 8000 cases of child molestation by 75 Catholic priests in one city revealed
- Latin American leaders call for legal drug regulation to stop war over drugs
- UK Government ‘may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters’, scientists fear
- Canadian secret service says it may use information derived from torture
- Public Service Announcement: Video is your protection against the “protectors”
0Periodical Political Post *81
Nov 28th
Queer News
- Students who bullied teen into suicide won’t face criminal charges
- Marriage equality in Spain threatened by new conservative leadership
- Canadian was stabbed 130 times for killer’s fear of homosexuals
- Tragic fire at a transgender gathering in East Delhi, India killed dozen
- Outcry prompts St Petersburg to reconsider gay propaganda law
- Canada’s new age of consent gets man on sex offender list for 20 years
Other News
- Six deaths linked to bad HIV advice given by evangelical churches in UK
- American Senate considering repeal of recent anti-torture measures
- EU court: Censorship in name of copyright violates fundamental rights
- Canadians face frightening online spy proposals threatening civil liberties
- NZ raids news outlets over recording of negotiations with far-right party
- Massive Republican campaign in U.S. trying to suppress minority voters
- Fox News viewers less informed than people not watching news at all
0Periodical Political Post *73
Sep 24th
Queer News
- Gay civil partners less likely to split up than straight married couples
- Five year prison sentence for attack on transgender woman at McDonald’s
- Gay men in UK can now give blood… if they don’t get laid for a year
- Philippine president says gays should be able to marry but not adopt
- New Australian passport allows to state third gender
- Teen says he killed gay man because he came on to him
- Serbian interior minister wants to call off pride parade to protect police
- Klaus Wowereit, gay mayor of German capitol Berlin to get third term
- Judge tells gay dad he can never leave kids with his husband
- Police in India arrested 133 people at an “indecent” gay party
- Jesus may love everyone, Christian schools don’t: Next Lesbian kicked out
- US politician Sally Kern: Gays are more dangerous than terrorists
- Belgian ex-footballer comes out and starts career as gay porn actor
Other News
- U.S. state of Georgia executes man despite glaring doubts of his guilt
- Italy wants to turn off internet for everyone who is suspected to be a pirate
- Christian coalition leader says bullying a non-issue & part of growing up
- “Speedo” doesn’t want to be a gay brand, sues man over fetish website
- Studies find no evidence that single-sex schools are better than coed
- CERN claims to have measured particle that travels faster than light
- Cops say it’s not excessive force when you taser an 11-year-old boy
- Right-wing moms get steamy over “Schweddy Balls” Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
- Online gamers have solved a decade-old scientific puzzle: In three weeks
- Outcry over novel casting Hamlet’s father as gay paedophile
0Periodical Political Post *68
Jul 17th
Queer News
- Irish Government announces plans for more transgender rights
- Chile’s president about to introduce civil unions bill
- Two candidates for U.S. presidency pledge to outlaw gayness & porn
- HBO first TV network to hire actual trans actor for trans role
- North Carolina Pizza Hut kicks man out for wearing a dress
- India’s health minister says being gay is a disease
- Atlanta fires six cops for lying, not for illegally harassing queers
- Jamaican police claims gays cause 80-90% of all crime on the island
Other News
- U.S. internet providers to slow down web access for copyright violators
- UK copyright lobby holds meetings with gov’t to discuss web-censorship regime
- New Zealand’s Three Strikes law was pushed, bought and paid for by the U.S.
- Want to guess which story Murdoch’s Fox News don’t want to report on?
- Meanwhile it turns out Murdoch had heavy influence on UK politics
- Apple’s mail service secretly blocks some outgoing messages based on content
- In Belarus a one-armed man was arrested… for clapping
0Periodical Political Post *66
Jan 15th
Queer News
- Federal inquiry into American gay teenager’s suicide started
- Ireland recognises foreign gay marriage and partnerships
- Police raid gay party in India because of, “terrorism fears”
- LGBT group in north-west Turkey shut down by court
- U.S. politician says HIV funding should be cut for ‘perverted’ people
- Canadian province still lists homosexuality as a mental illness
- Brazilian brothers bury father alive for beating them for being gay
Other News
- Republicans in U.S. state stop poor kids from going to good schools
- Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal find
- U.S. Tea Parties want to clean textbooks of mean things about Founding Fathers
- Afghan Taliban ready to drop their ban on schooling girls
- Sex education in Europe an ‘attack’ on religious freedom, says pope
- Visa, Mastercard, PayPal: No donations for WikiLeaks but for illegal Israeli settlements
0Periodical Political Post *65
Dec 21st
Before we dig into the last Periodical Political Post of the year I’d like to note something about the comments regarding the article about cross dressing in Qatar. I guess it was inevitable that some would use the chance to bash Islam over it but as much as I despise all the big religions and would love to see a world free of them I’d like you to read this: 5 ridiculous things you probably believe about Islam. So, to quote this very article: “All right. Now we look forward to a completely civil and logical group of article comments.” 
Queer News
- Czech Republic stops measuring how hard gay refugees get by watching porn
- Hungary bans abortion and gay marriage in its new constitution
- Brazilian government says gay couples are entitled to pension benefits
- Gays have no right to children, says politician of Germany’s ruling party
- Italy’s PM & top criminal Silvio Berlusconi loves prostitutes but hates Lesbians
- Smithsonian museum under fire for gay portraiture exhibit
Other News
- UK police is considering ban of political protests in London
- FBI plants spy to incite terrorism in mosque, Muslims report him to FBI
- French government can censor the internet thanks to new law
- How the U.S. are spending billions of dollars to spy on their citizen
- Church youth group leader raped boy because the bible said it’s ok
- Priest tried paying $5000 to kill the teenage boy he raped at gunpoint
- U.S. airport security terrorises disabled 4 year-old with leg braces
- U.S. actor placed on terror list for opposing oil drilling method
- British police tries to scare kids to prevent them from protesting
- Court blocks U.S. govt. attempt to spy on cell phones without a warrant
- Violent clashes erupt in Italy after Berlusconi survives no-confidence vote
- U.S. Homeland Security shuts down dozens of Web sites without court order
- Black teen who filmed campus cop hitting a student faces years in prison
- Cop put 14 year-old boy in choke hold for blowing him a kiss
- Surprise, surprise: Fox News viewers are the most misinformed
WikiLeaks News
- WikiLeaks cables: India accused of systematic use of torture in Kashmir
- U.S. cooperated with China against Europe to sink Copenhagen climate summit
- WikiLeaks cables reveal that the U.S. wrote Spain’s proposed copyright law
- Vatican was offended that Ireland was investigating sex abuse by clergy
- WikiLeaks reveals U.S. tax dollars fund child sex slavery in Afghanistan
- Iceland considers banning Mastercard & Visa over their WikiLeaks ban
- Report about the inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention
- UK, not Sweden, behind efforts to keep Assange in jail according to report
0Can Kids Teach Themselves?
Sep 11th
It’s a bit more than 15 minutes long but you should watch it, it’s really impressive :)
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
0Holi
Mar 4th
Last Monday (March 1st), people in India and other countries with large Hindu populations celebrated Holi, the Festival of Colours. A welcoming of Spring, Holi is celebrated as the triumph of good over evil. Hindu devotees and others enthusiastically drop their inhibitions, and chase each other in temples and through the streets, playfully splashing colourful paint, powder and water on each other. People also attend bonfires to commemorate the story of Prahlada, a Hindu figure and devout follower of Lord Vishnu who prevailed over his father and the demoness Holika with the power of his devotion. The Big Picture collected a handful of images from this year’s Festival.
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