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	<title>Harry&#039;s Place</title>
	<link>http://hurryupharry.org</link>
	<description>Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don&#039;t want to hear</description>
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		<title>The PSC, Ben White &amp; Understanding Antonio&#8217;s hatred of Shylock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben White is a freelance writer, who has argued that Ahmadinejad did not deny the Holocaust, when Ahmadinejad claimed:
“They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets.”
Ben White asserts that Ahmadinejad is correct to describe the Holocaust as a &#8220;myth&#8220;.
Ben [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/26/the-psc-ben-white-understanding-antonios-hatred-of-shylock/</link>
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		<title>Exam question controversy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been suggested, seeing as the topic has come up on more than one thread, that this issue deserves a post of its own. As you have probably read elsewhere, GCSE students sitting a religious studies exam, were asked: &#8220;Explain, briefly, why some people are prejudiced against Jews.&#8221;

I understand why some people found the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/26/exam-question-controversy/</link>
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		<title>IUF slams human trafficking in Thailand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IUF is inviting signatures to a petition against human rights abuses in a Thailand shrimp factory which is also a major supplier to Walmart:
The workers, from Cambodia and Burma, protested the seizure of their passports by factory owners in Thailand. Police were called. Shots were fired.
It wasn&#8217;t just the passport seizure that incited the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/26/iuf-slams-human-trafficking-in-thailand/</link>
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		<title>Where tweeting can get you hard labor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In China, of course, tweeting messages that certain people don&#8217;t like can get you in a lot more trouble than it can in the UK.

In April 2011, retired forestry official Fang Hong posted a scatological tweet, mocking a powerful Chinese politician, Bo Xilai, the Chongqing party secretary.
Fang had been critical of Bo in the past. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/26/where-tweeting-can-get-you-hard-labor/</link>
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		<title>From the Vaults: Salisbury Young Liberals, September 1967</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, located in the vaults and kindly sent in a copy of the Young Liberal Songbook from September 1967. They correctly assessed that I would find it of interest. I copy below a song from that book ridiculing the Labour Party for a perceived inability to get rid of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/25/from-the-vaults-salisbury-young-liberals-september-1967/</link>
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		<title>Twitter eugenics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, of course Kerry McCarthy didn&#8217;t mean it, but &#8211; WTF?
She wrote: &#8220;Oaf on train drinking lager and playing techno music out  loud. Everyone being very British about it and not complaining.&#8221;
She then described how he was wearing a T-shirt with an  offensive message about his sexual prowess, adding: &#8220;Should have killed  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/25/twitter-eugenics/</link>
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		<title>Libel Laws Force JC To Lie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an apology in today&#8217;s JC:
On May 13 2011, we published an article entitled &#8220;Pears funded charity which hosted jihadist&#8221; which related to the Pears Foundation, a charity called Forward Thinking, and an individual called Tafazal Mohammed.
We have since accepted that Mr Mohammed is not a jihadist and have apologised to him, the Pears Foundation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/25/libel-laws-force-jc-to-lie/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s their patriotism now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a somewhat related development, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship, apparently to avoid a large tax payment.
Saverin, a native of Brazil, denied his decision to become an ex-American was related to taxes. But:
Two immigration lawyers said his explanation hardly passes the laugh test. Saverin’s move was timed to the initial public offering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/24/wheres-their-patriotism-now/</link>
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		<title>Who are the &#8220;job creators&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if any of our readers are fans of the TED talks that are posted on YouTube and are supposed to disseminate &#8220;ideas worth spreading.&#8221;
But there was one recent talk&#8211; by billionaire venture capitalist Nick Hanauer&#8211; that didn&#8217;t make the cut. Hanauer&#8217;s topic was income inequality, and TED &#8220;curator&#8221; Chris Anderson considered it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/24/who-are-the-job-creators/</link>
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		<title>Senseless acts of violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a cross post from the Jerusalem Post by Nic Schlagman Program Manager, ARDC Israel
Last night saw the culmination of weeks of national and local incitement against the African refugee/asylum seeker population in Israel. Hundreds of local residents and settlers from the West Bank settlements rampaged through South Tel Aviv neighborhoods attacking Africans and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hurryupharry.org/2012/05/24/senseless-acts-of-violence/</link>
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