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  Venezuela's new Continental Bolivarian Movement: 15 Minutes on Latin America

  Faustas blog

  Date / Time: 12/9/2009 4:00 PM UTC

  Category: Current Events

  
  

  While Chavez travels to Argentina, a new summit in Caracas for an anti-American initiative.

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  Original Air Date: 9/27/2007 1:00 AM UTC

  Libel tourism

  Cinnamon Stillwell discusses the international trend on libel tourism, where reporters are sued for libel in countries other than where they reside. Dr Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It will discuss her book and the libel lawsuit following its publication.
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  • Cinnamon Stillwell
  • Fausta Wertz
  • Fausta's blog
  • Khalid bin Mahfouz
  • libel tourism
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• Date / Time: 9/21/2007 7:20 PM UTC

  Nilofar, Lars, Mahmoud, and immigration, all in the podcast

  Fausta's blog

  Fausta fortuna adiuvat

  Friday, September 21, 2007

  Nilofar, Lars, Mahmoud, and immigration, all in the podcast

  Dymphna, Siggy, Baron Bodissey and I discussed four different topics last Wednesday night:
  
  I opened by mentioning Nilofar Bakhtiar, whose France2 interview aired right before the podcast started. Ms Bakhtiar went skydiving in France last April and has a fatwa on her head because she hugged her male skydiving instructor. Following the scandal, she offered to resign but the Pakistani Prime Minister refused her resignation.
  
  During the France2 interview, Ms Bakhtiar calmly discussed that
  

  In February a female provincial minister was shot dead by a man who, police said, did not think women should be in politics.

  Mrs. Bakhtiar is unveiled, her daughter is unveiled, her two sons are proud of their mom, and her husband in firmly on her side.
  
  They all live under 24-hr armed custody.
  
  Mrs. Bakhtiar's situation illustrates "the two Pakistans", the way Ahmadinejad illustrates "the two Irans", so we went on to talk about Ahmadinejad's upcoming visit to New York next week. I'm sure you won't be surprised that we all agree with Mitt Romney's position that the UN indict Ahmadinejad under the Genocide Convention.
  
  The latest on 'Jad is that he won't be visiting Ground Zero but Columbia University said it does not plan to call off his upcoming speech. As Roger (who was not in the podcast) asks,
  

  I have a question for the Columbia crowd, since Holocaust deniers are welcome, would you allow a speaker in favor of a return to black slavery?

  Certainly Columbia can't be hosting 'Jad for his scholarship or for his legitimacy as a world leader.
  
  'Jad update: The New York Times editorial board will host Ahmadinejad for lunch at the Four Seasons hotel on Monday.
  
  Back to the podcast: From there we talked about how Lars Vilks's artwork earned him a fatwa, and a $100,000 bounty on his head, with an additional $50,000 if he's decapitated. Gates of Vienna has been following the story from the start, and the latest is that the chairman the Muslim Association of Sweden wants "a clear law to protect the Muslim minority in this country."
  
  Siggy refers to Wednesday's as Podcast As Slugfest, because we got into the subject of the DREAM act. I am totally against providing in-state tuition breaks to illegal aliens if the dependents of the taxpayers of that state can not get the same in-state (lower) fees, but Siggy is equally adamant that we should educate them at tax payer expense - even when the taxpayers don't get the same break.
  
  Yesterday I heard from the friend that I mentioned in my post. She was hoppin' mad, because, aside from being the taxpayer I mentioned in the podcast, the DREAM act
  1. denies in-state tuition to legal aliens with student visas
  and
  2. repeals a 1966 Federal law that requires that states offer all US citizens in-state tuition if it's to provide it to illegals.
  
  She was ready for a slugfest, but turned down my offer to come on the podcast to discuss it.
  
  If this podcast was a slugest, I'd say it's a couth, gentle, slugfest, but you must listen and tell me, was it a slugfest?
  
  
  
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  • Tags:
  • illegal immigration
  • Iran
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Pakistan
  • terrorism
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• Original Air Date: 9/20/2007 1:00 AM UTC

  The Modoggie Cartoons & the skydiving fatwa

  Nilofar Bakhtiar goes skydiving in France & gets a fatwa on her head, Ahmadinejad wants to visit the WTC, Lars Vilks makes some drawings, and Siggy gets riled over immigration
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  • Tags:
  • Mitt Romney
  • Pakistan
  • Sweden
  • Iran
  • Lars Vilks
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• Original Air Date: 9/10/2007 4:00 PM UTC

  GM Roper

  GM Roper of GM's corner talks about life and blogging
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  • Democrats
  • Fausta Wertz
  • Fausta's blog
  • GM Roper
  • health care
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• Original Air Date: 9/3/2007 4:00 PM UTC

  Labor Day: here, and in the EU

  Siggy and I discuss attitudes toward work around the world
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  • Tags:
  • employment
  • work
  • Fausta Wertz
  • France
  • Labor Day
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