Remember, this is drained through the filter of my interest…
United Nations
U.S.-led “war on drugs” questioned at U.N. (The Moderate Voice)
European Union
EU working group produces the stupidest set of proposed Internet rules in the entire history of the human race (Boing Boing)
Middle East
Alleged Anti-Muslim Film Maker Arrested, in Court (The Moderate Voice)
Man behind “Innocence of Muslims” video ordered jailed for violating fraud probation by using computers (Boing Boing)
Bahrain
CNN suppresses its own award-winning doc on human rights abuses in Bahrain; has commercial ties to the regime (Boing Boing)
Canada
Copyright lobbyists secretly engineering clawback of Canadian user rights (Boing Boing)
Art textbook with no art: school trying to fix it (Boing Boing)
Denmark
Michael Sinan, Mr. Gay Denmark 2012, On Being Out And Proud As A Muslim (Huffington Post)
Egypt
Let Us Boycott and ‘Put on Trial’ Those Who Mock Muhammad) (Gomhuria, Egypt (The Moderate Voice)
‘Prophet Mohammad Endured Personal Insults without Retaliating’ (Web Site of the Grand Mufti, Egypt)
France
French doctors on trial for cancer radiation overdoses (The Guardian)
Greece
Greek State Tries to Stem Neo-Nazi Rise (The Moderate Voice)
Honduras
India
Walmart Aims for First India Store in 12-18 Months (The Moderate Voice)
Italy
Eurocrisis Spurs Italy’s ‘Big Baby’ Boom: Grown Children Living with Parents (The Moderate Voice)
Iran
Iranian cleric beaten and hospitalized by “badly covered” woman (Boing Boing)
Mexico
In Mexico, Breaking Out of Jail the Easy Way (Guest Voice) (The Moderate Voice)
New Zealand
New Zealand’s spies illegally bugged Kim Dotcom, complicity may go all the way to the prime minister’s office (Boing Boing)
Prime Minister of New Zealand apologizes to Kim Dotcom for letting spy agency wiretap him (Boing Boing)
Pakistan
Pakistan Rejects Filmmaker Bounty as Muslims Keep Up Protest (The Moderate Voice)
Pakistan Minister Offers Bounty for Anti-Islam Film-Maker (The Moderate Voice)
New Film Protests in Pakistan as Death Toll Rises to 21 (The Moderate Voice)
Panama
Panama’s new copyright law is the worst in the history of the universe (Boing Boing)
Russia
Pussy Riot Punks and the ‘Innocence of Christians’ (Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia) (The Moderate Voice)
Spain
Man dresses as car seat in attempt to move to Spain without the usual red tape (Boing Boing)
After Spain Nixes New Fiscal Deal, Catalonia Considers Independence Push (The Moderate Voice)
United Kingdom
UK government spent millions arming and training Congolese and Sudanese soldiers (Boing Boing)
Pranksters crash final speech of corporate tax avoidance taxman, posh hilarity ensues (Boing Boing)
