Free Speech Harming the Speechless

By: Abigail Taggart
Ten years ago Congress put into place a federal law to make illegal video depictions of animal torture and murder that were made to appeal to “crush fetishists” among others. Crushing is a sexual fetish which generally shows women, often clad in high heals or dominatrix style clothing stepping on small animals [...]

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Green Cleaning Technologies

Author: oil
Green cleaning is a term that refers to cleaning techniques and products that make use of eco-friendly materials and substances rather than toxic ingredients. Certain products emit volatile organic compounds, which can cause irreparable damage, respiratory problems, and skin infections. Green cleaning techniques are a much safer and healthier way to treat water, [...]

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Making Smaller Footprints

by Anagarika Eddie Rock
On my way up the mountain carrying some roofing materials I stopped to catch my breath, and as I unconsciously gazed at a scrub cedar tree that I had trimmed a month before to make the trail, an insight popped up. They happen at random like this, and seldom have anything [...]

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Hindus & Jews demand probe into excessive exclusion of Roma children from England schools

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Hindus and Jews have demanded a thorough probe into the extraordinarily high rate of permanent exclusion of Roma/Gypsy children from England schools, which is about five times as compared to percentage of all excluded children.
Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich, prominent Jewish leader [...]

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Why natural is not necessarily good but you are sacred

By: Andy Pakula
Before I became a Unitarian minister, I was a scientist – a Ph.D. biologist. Ministry and science is an interesting combination – two fields that sometimes conflict and sometimes make for the most wonderful of synergies. I know a great deal about how living things work – about the chemistry and mechanics [...]

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Hindus & Jews express solidarity with Madonna, who was booed for backing European Roma cause

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Hindus and Jews have come out in support of entertainer Madonna who was reportedly booed and jeered by thousands of fans in Romania Wednesday night when she sympathized with Roma people, who they say face apartheid in Europe.
Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich, prominent [...]

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Revisiting Marx

This essay on Marxist theory was written in the 1980s when I was an undergraduate at Trent University.
Part of the pleasure in resurrecting it here involved learning how to best convert scanned text to PDF, watermarking, and so on.
Who would have imagined in 1985 that I’d be able to post this for the whole world [...]

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Newsweek says “We Are All Hindus Now”

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“We Are All Hindus Now”—headlines the article in the upcoming edition of prestigious newsmagazine “Newsweek”, saying “U.S. Views on God and Life Are Turning Hindu”.
Written by its religion editor Lisa Miller, it says, “…recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like [...]

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Review – The Conspiracy to Rule the World: From 911 to the Illuminati (DVD)

Back in the 1980s, I looked at the G-7 countries through an arguably simplistic lens.
Although getting top marks in sociology at university, in retrospect I was only dimly aware of what was happening in the world around me.
Graduate studies in India and later in Ottawa, Canada, certainly helped to open my eyes. But as Plato [...]

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“Walk the talk”: Hindus tell Church of England

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Hindus have blamed Church of England for double standards over the issue of environment.
Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Douglas Williams should clarify where he and the Church stood on the issue of bauxite [...]

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