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< p>A few weeks ago, eBay, the largest auction web site on the Internet, quietly halted the sale of items associated with hate groups. While ebay has long disallowed merchandise promoting hate, it has now broadened that prohibition to include t-shirts bearing the likeness of notorious murderers, crime scene photos, and even historical items such [...]
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Erdogan To Obama: Strong Horse Or Weak Horse? 18 May 2013, 5:59 am
At a joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told us what we already knew: They agree that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “needs to go.” The problem, however, lies in the actual playing out of teamwork. Since the start of the civil war [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Elisha Maldonado
Authoritarian Can’t Hide Embarrassing Story In The Internet Age 16 May 2013, 9:41 pm
Horses and powerful rulers have an odd relationship. Roman Emperor Caligula named his horse a consul. More recently, the horse of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov almost killed him. Wearing traditional national dress Turkmen, the authoritarian leader was thrown from his horse last month in a race held in Turkmenistan. He was apparently briefly knocked unconscious [...]Source: AFF Doublethink Online | Joseph Hammond