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Why Won't China Let Director Lou Ye Show His New Movie? The Bisexual Storyline, Perhaps
Queerty less than a day ago
Three years ago, China banned director Lou Ye from making any more movies for five years, after he showed Summer Palace — about the government's crackdown on 1989's Tiananmen Square massacre — at the Cannes Film Festival.
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EU cracks down on mobile services
BBC Technology News 5 days agoWebsites mis-selling mobile ringtones are forced to clean up their acts, following a European Union crackdown.
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Iranian student criticizes Ayatollah Khamenei in person
America Blog Nov 07 09The exchange was recorded and was first published on Khamenei's website. Lots of talk about this story but for now, it's more a mystery that will be answered later.
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Notes On A Crackdown
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Oct 06 09Radley Balko wonders why the police presence at the G20 in Pittsburgh looked more like Tehran in June than America in September.
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Handling The Iran Scorpion
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Sep 23 09On the one hand: I would hope by now that the murderous crackdown on Iran’s mass democracy movement by the country’s oil-funded ruling cartel would have removed the last scales from the eyes of those Iran watchers who think this.
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Life & Entertainment Post for Tuesday
Gay News Bits Sep 22 09Tuesday’s Life & Entertainment Post Features A Real Mixed Selection of Gay Related News, Gossip and Profiles.
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Elton John calls for crackdown on music piracy
Pink News Sep 22 09Singer Elton John has written to business secretary Peter Mandelson to back the clampdown on music piracy.
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Ayatollah Fiorina
America Blog Aug 31 09San Jose Mercury News:
Over the past dozen years, Hewlett-Packard has sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of printers and other products to Iran through a Middle East distributor, sidestepping a U.
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Daily Grumble
Joe My God Aug 23 09This week New York City did another 24-hour crackdown on using cell phones while driving, issuing over 7000 tickets in one day, more than ten times the daily average, netting the city about $1M in fines.
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Dubai launches yet another ‘morals’ crackdown on ‘cross-dressing’
Qnews Aug 07 09A rendering of the Palm Trump Hotel in Dubai (via blog)
Buildings in the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai have taken on a bizarrely Jetsons-esqe quality as developers push architects and engineers to create ever-more unlikely and awkward structures.
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China Bans Organized Crime (Games)
GayGamer Jul 29 09 China, known to favor games as a crackdown target, and known to dislike any organized activity not under its direct control, has added "simulated organized crime" to its hit list.
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OMG, finally: Tanning Bed Crackdown
OMG Blog Jul 29 09
The cosmetic tanning industry in the UK is getting slapped with regulations due to cancer concerns:
A report by Dr Fatiha El Ghissassi and colleagues from the IARC in France published tomorrow in The Lancet Oncology said: "The use of UV-emitting tanning devices is widespread in many developed countries, especially among young women.
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Schools secretary Ed Balls in crackdown on gay bullying
Pink News Jul 06 09Schools secretary Ed Balls is to issue fresh guidance on how to deal with homophobic bullying in schools.
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Ft. Worth Police Play Blame Game with Texas' Alcohol Commission
Queerty Jul 03 09
And so it's come to this. In the aftermath of the Ft. Worth Stonewall-esque bar raid on the Rainbow Lounge, the Ft.
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Ft. Worth Cops Who Stonewall'd Gay Bar Are Up Shit's Creek
Queerty Jul 02 09[See post to watch Flash video]
The news isn't good for the Ft. Worth police and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, which raided the gay bar Rainbow Lounge in a hostile "crackdown on underage drinking" that left Chad Gibson in the hospital with a brain injury.
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Innocents accused of net piracy
BBC Technology News Jul 01 09The crackdown on illegal file-sharers is catching innocent people alongside the pirates.
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Iran detains members of UK Embassy staff
America Blog Jun 28 09Definitely not a good sign in Iran. The extremists are looking for someone to blame and the UK is taking a lot of the blame for the problems.
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Two Views of Stonewall
Kenneth in the 212 Jun 26 09From today's New York Times Op-Ed page:
A raid at the Stonewall Inn that galvanized gays was primarily a crackdown on the Mafia, writes Lucian K.
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The Next Supreme? (With Apologies To Diana Ross)
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Jun 24 09Not all young Iranians have the reformist spirit: Iran’s supreme leader’s second son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has emerged as one of the driving forces behind the government’s crackdown, diplomats and observers said.
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