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Marat Gelman - LJ user galerist, Russian art dealer and, allegedly, Victor Yanukovych's “spin doctor” in 2004 - describes his recent brush with Russia's multilevel reality and inspires readers to comment on how much Putin's regime has to do with uncivilized behavior of certain individuals.
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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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From Bahrain, Silly Bahraini Girl posts two videos - one showing a rap song by Saudis targeted against Egyptians and the other containing a response for the first video.
Tom Gara, who usually lives in Cairo, was in for a rude awakening in Abu Dhabi - where he discovered that Flickr was blocked.
“The Jordanian street is today boiling after the lifting the subsidiaries off the economy, which sent prices to the roof ; meanwhile, after ranting about the cost of Iraqi refugees here, the Jordanian government has supposedly forgiven the cumbersome 1.5 JD a day fines from 360 thousand “illegally staying” Iraqis, this was presumably done at the request of Vice president Tariq al-Hashimi (I caught myself before adding the S-word before his excellency's name) who said this move would encourage Iraqis to return home due to the improved security conditions currently in Iraq,” explains Iraqi blogger Abbas Hawazin, who lives in Jordan.
Kabobfest draws our attention to the oldest woman alive - a Palestinian woman, born in 1888, who lives in Israel.
Mideast Youth has published an interview with Smira,Persian electronica artist.
Kamangir has published a report on “statistics of the Persian Blogosphere“.Thanks to his project, he discovered a lot of interesting information about Iranian blogs.
Nice to note year after year, Bangalore Pride Parade is improving a lot. Hope next year we see some recoreded...
I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...
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Next time we will be there again :)