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Showing posts with label Free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free speech. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 July 2013

New RDFRS newletter revealed

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The Richard Dawkins Foundation(s) for Reason and Science (RDFRS) have released a newsletter, the first one being available here .  (As you m...
Monday, 1 July 2013

The rights of man - more Thomas Paine

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Last year I wrote about Thomas Paine, the first New Atheist , having just read his book ' The Age of Reason ' which was decades ahea...
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Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Failed Tory leaders . . .

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Iain Duncan Smith ('IDS') used to be leader of the Conservative Party.  He didn't last long.  He wasn't exactly inspirationa...
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Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Stridency is the least you should muster!

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Richard Dawkins sometimes seems to rejoice in the way that his critics refer to him as ' strident '.  Shortly before the death of Ch...
Thursday, 20 December 2012

Join Avaaz and choose the campaigns that matter to you.

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Avaaz is a significantly successful campaigning organisation.  They recently sent me an e-mail which I would like to share with you.  Join A...
Monday, 10 December 2012

Saving the internet - freedom of speech

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Here is another excellent campaign from Avaaz. Let's all sign up to prevent an increase in governmental control of the internet, in th...
Thursday, 1 November 2012

Its confusing

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It took me a while to tune into the Jesus and Mo meme, but this has got to be one of his best ever cartoons. Remember . . . the invis...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Einstein the agnostic

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Should we agree with Einstein's reported words? "From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an a...
Saturday, 6 October 2012

Hamza's Innocence!

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Hamza Al-Masri, otherwise known as Abu Hamza, is now innocent again - at least temporarily! At least that is, he is formally innocent but...
Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Visit London - this Saturday

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Every Saturday there are 'events' in London, capital city of the UK, but this Saturday, 15th September 2012, there are two that I pl...
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Saturday, 8 September 2012

The story of Atheism+ - Part 2

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Following on from yesterday's Part 1 , this is a continuation of some of the views opposing Atheism+.   Here, ' Hayesenberg '...
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Friday, 7 September 2012

The story of Atheism+ - Part 1

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Here are some links relating to the new saga of Atheism+, in case you did not know how it all started. I have probably missed out some crit...
Friday, 17 February 2012

Antidisestablishmentarianism is not favoured!

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Following on from yesterday's interesting revelations from the Ipsos Mori poll carried out on behalf of the Richard Dawkins Foundation f...
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

The Dawkins Announcement is here!

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As had been suggested, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science has made an announcement and if you want to hear Richard speak ...
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Thursday, 2 February 2012

Everyone is searching . . .

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I run Google Analytics on the Something Surprising blog and it tells me a bit about how my visitors found me.  Strangely enough, I even bel...
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Thursday, 26 January 2012

Protection from ridicule

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Have you heard about the fuss that erupted in London a couple of weeks ago?  It was all about the use of a Jesus and Mo cartoon on a poster...
Friday, 16 December 2011

Long live the legacy of Hitch

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Sadly, the news this morning tells us that Christopher Hitchens has finally lost his battle with cancer.  I wonder whether anyone could repl...
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

'Real' Militant Atheism

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This is another guest appearance by an reader of Something Surprising to celebrate the first 50,000 page views, comes from USA with permiss...
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Monday, 29 August 2011

For a secular Europe (London 17th Sept)

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If you live in England and read this blog I hope you will seriously consider joining this event in London on 17th September 2011.  (I'm ...
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Will ow.ly go extinct?

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Just a brief thought with #libya in mind. With the demise of the current regime in Libya, what will happen to all the internet domains wit...