http://freelantern.com Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:41:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Beating peaceful protestors does not uphold the Olympics values Amnesty International (UK) has launched the second video of "Human Rights For China" campaign. They’ve used the viral launch to highlight the case of Huang Qi, a 45 years old cyber-dissident who runs the www.64tianwang.com website and has been detained ... http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/beating-peaceful-protestors/ It is interesting how McCain is trying to use Ahmadinejad's unpopularity to win votes for him! With a picture of Ahmadinejad and Obama the add says: Is it OK to Unconditionally meet with Anti-American foreign leaders? Select a leader with good judgment... well then from his point of view a good judgment in ... http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/using-ahmadinejad-to-win-votes/ Now that Hillary Clinton is out of the race Obama supporters are worried that some female supporters of Hillary will vote for McCain, so they are trying to show McCain's views on some issues like Birth control and pro-choice. (*my title is from The Huffington Post) Thanks to Arash. http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/unmasking-mccain/ Yesterday was world's environment day. I thought I'll share some links for this day: BBC has made a new webpage called "BLOOM=smart choices for the carbon conscience" for those who want to do their bit for the environment. It gives you practical suggestions to reduce CO2 emission, along with the costs ... http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/worlds-environment-day/ As all of you know the European Championship is starting in a few days and Germany's first game is with Poland. This is a funny advertisement for this match and it is about German and Polish football fans, and how they behave! ;) P.S. If you're wondering where are the ... http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/germany-poland/ Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to apologise for six decades of human rights failure and to re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements. ... Some of the most striking images of 2007 were of monks in Burma, lawyers in Pakistan, and women activists in Iran. See Amnesty International's report. Related: Every Human has Rights http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/amnesty-international-report/ I wrote about this in my Persian blog but I wanted to share it here too. Harrison Ford is not just appearing on the new Indiana Jones adds these days, he appears also on the Conservation International ads like the one bellow which he loses an acre of the forest ... http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/conservation-international/ In the recent volume of Lab times I read about the (bad) effect of beer on number of publications by scientists! (You can read the online version here Page 14). Well, honestly sometimes if there was no hope of one (or a few) cold beer after work scientific work ... http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/beer-is-bad-for-scientists/ I finished reading two novels from Kathy Reichs (Fatal Voyage and Monday Mourning), they are both great reads. So I thought I'll write a few sentences about Kathy Reichs. As all the other novels that I've read from her is featuring Dr. Temperance Brennan (Tempe) who is a forensic anthropologist. What ... http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/kathy-reichs/ RickB has provided a list of agencies that provide aid for the Cyclon-ravaged nation. If you want to help you can choose one of the agencies to donate money to help the victims. Unfortunately the slow processing of visas is restricting the aid agencies to help. The UN has urged ... http://freelantern.com/index.php/archive/burma-choice-aid/