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Book Review | The Politically Incorrect Guide To Islam (And The Crusades) – Video

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"Stream 13×6" Family Guy Season 13 Episode 6 Online – Video

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Family Guy Season 13 Episode 6 Full HD – Video

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Politically incorrect comedy hits the spot

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JOIN Club Lennox for an evening of laughs on Saturday when comedian Ellen Briggs will be supported by stand-up comic Paul McMahon in what promises to be a side-splitting show.

>>Bookings essential, phone 0266874313 or visit theClub Lennox websiteto buy tickets.

Ellen is a talented mother of two, with a sharp tongue and a rapidly rising career in the comedy industry.

She takes her audience on an observational and hilarious journey through life as an accidental mother of identical twins and the wife of a husband who is away working for nine months of the year.

She has made an art form of sneaking really politically incorrect jokes onto the end of "nice" yarns. She launches the punchlines stealthily. You won't see them coming, but you'll know when they hit.

It's been said that "Ellen says out loud the things other mothers only dare to think".

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Paul McMahon is a comedian, comedy writer and radio host based in Byron Shire.

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Modi govt makes an incorrect move

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The Narendra Modi government has come up with its most controversial decision just before it completes six months in office. It has accorded Z security for yoga guru Ramdev while it has withdrawn similar security cover for Congress leaders Jitin Prasad, Sachin Pilot, Rita Bahuguna Joshi and former union minister Beni Prasad Verma. This is a politically incorrect move and raises several questions. One, why should a yoga guru be given this facility in the first place? This is rather unprecedented. Extending such a security cover to a yoga teacher like Ramdev who professes to be a yogi questions the very credentials of the self-proclaimed sadhu, an ascetic, whose very claim to fame is that he is above the feeling of fear. Two, it smacks of a political move to return favor to somebody like Ramdev who had actively campaigned for Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded Indian general elections. Three, it gives an impression that the security cover for Ramdev is more out of political considerations rather than actual threat perceptions on the ground. Why should a yoga teacher, howsoever, high profile he is, be given such an elaborate security cover? As per the latest decision of the Modi government, Ramdev would be secured by contingent of 25 personnel from the CRPF (Central Reserve Paramilitary Force, an armed paramilitary force of the Indian government). Whenever Ramdev travels outside the state of Uttarakhand, he will be protected by an equal number of policemen from the local police. Why should a self-proclaimed spiritual personality be given such an elaborate security cover from unknown assailants at the cost of the taxpayers? Ramdevs self-proclaimed status of being a spiritual person is highly controversial and doubtful. He was among the most vocal supporters of Modi. So much so that Arun Jaitley, Modis Man Friday in his Cabinet who holds three key portfolios including that of finance, had described him as the new Mahatma Gandhi. Jaitleys comparison of Ramdev with Mahatma Gandhi is both ludicrous and questionable considering the controversial activities of this self-styled guru. The previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by previous Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had launched many cases of financial fraud against Ramdev. Modi and the BJP may well argue that that UPA government had launched a witch-hunt against Ramdev. They are actually moving in to protect their assets, which are being targeted by the opposition. But in public perception he is not a clean man and definitely not a man he projects himself to be. The Modi governments move to accord Z security cover was followed by an unrelated chain of violent incidents in Hissar, Haryana, involving another self-proclaimed religious man Rampal who enjoys BJP patronage. From the perspective of the Modi government the move to accord Z security status to its key supporter Ramdev is understandable. After all, it is the payback time. Ramdev has a proven high degree of political nuisance value. He was a prominent twisted knife into the previous Congress-led governments bowels when he joined Gandhian activist Anna Hazares high-octane peoples agitation against the Manmohan Singh government over the twin issues of corruption and black money. Such was Ramdevs clout that six top Cabinet ministers of the Manmohan Singh government, including the undesignated number two Pranab Mukherjee who is now the President of India, had rushed to the Delhi airport to meet him to dissuade him from joining Anna Hazares agitation. Ramdev had then discovered his immense political clout, refused to oblige the UPA government and eventually joined Anna Hazare at his agitation at Ramlila Ground a venue which was then fast turning into Indias very own Tahrir Square. Soon thereafter Ramdev was chased out from Delhis Ramlila Maidan in a midnight brutal police action, which saw Ramdev escaping dressed in womans clothing. Ramdev was already anti-UPA government but the Ramlila Maidan police crackdown hardened his attitude against the Congress-led UPA government. This explains Ramdevs pathological hatred for the Congress party. Now by giving him the highest form of security cover, the Modi government has actually settled old political scores with the arch political rival called the Congress. Ramdev has successfully minted his political rise and has become a thriving business entrepreneur. His business empire is worth well over a billion dollars, if not more! Recently he had even floated his own political party and contested elections, which proved to be a damp squib. The BJP might have repaid its political loan to Ramdev by giving him a nationwide Z-category security cover but eventually it is going to prove to be a costly political gamble for the Modi government. Watch this space!

The writer is a New Delhi-based independent journalist and a political commentator who tweets @Kishkindha.

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Megamind | Unnecessary Censorship | Censored Parody Video – Video

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China and the New Internet World ICA Preconference: Censorship and Trust in Online Information – Video

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China and the New Internet World ICA Preconference: Censorship and Trust in Online Information
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Peter Sellars: The United States is coming close to censorship

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The difficult poor John Adamss The Gospel According to the Other Mary at English National Opera, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Their voices are almost completely missing from the Bible, yet it was women who were closest to Jesus in his final days. The Gospel According to the Other Mary, a new opera by John Adams, tells the story of that tumultuous time through what those women saw and experienced. In addition to the scriptures, the libretto draws on work by 20th-century writers, including Primo Levi and the journalist and activist Dorothy Day. Through their words, we are able to look at Mary and her sister Martha in much more depth and also tell the story of todaysdispossessed and disempowered generation.

You could take the piece in any number of directions, but for me therewas only one way. The production I am directing for English National Opera is set today, in Los Angeless Skid Row. Mary and Martha have opened a house of hospitality for homeless and unemployed women, which survives on small donations andsmall miracles.

Day, whose words form much of the libretto, was one of the founders of the Catholic Worker Movement and its newspaper. In the early 1930s, during the Great Depression, she opened the first soup kitchens in the Bowery and the Lower East Side of New York. Theywere for homeless people who had lost their jobs and were desperate. These were educated people, but like today there were no jobs. TheNew Yorker has called her asaint for the Occupy era and she was deeply radical: the church she believed in wasthe church of immigrants, the church of the poor. It wasnt enough to give someone a meal, she said, you had to give them a sense of what it is tofeel whole. Jesus, she said, was not on Earth to be with the decent poor. He was here to be with the deranged, the drunken, the degraded, the difficult.

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Adams and I responded strongly to this idea. Today, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have abandoned the poor and openly attacked the most vulnerable in society. But what also appealed to us was Days rawness and honesty about the struggle of trying to actually live your convictions, and not just have them as nice ideas. She was arrested many times, the first occasion at the age of 20 for picketing the White House on behalf of womens suffrage. The last arrest came when she was in her 70s, protesting for the rights of farm workers. This felt telling: in the US, the next generations struggle will be over food, who grows it and how.

It was important for us to connect the opera to the plight of migrant workers in California and across the US, still the poorest and worst-treated employees in the country. The immigration law is used to provide a workforce of slave labour. The conditions they work under are obscene: the strawberries they pick are covered in pesticides, meaning the women have miscarriages and shorter lives. But if anybody complains, the immigration department is contacted and theyre deported.

For me, the point about sacred material is that its not something that happened 2,000 years ago. Its contemporary. The great painters Rembrandt, Rogier van der Weyden, Bruegel depicted their own times. The events they portray ask us where we stand, who we are, what were doing right now. Bruegels religious scenes have people working in the fields, squabbling, eating, going about their daily business. I find the same sense of immediacy in the Bach passions. Theyre about what we did this morning and what were doing tonight, and the values they represent are deeply attached to universal questions of justice, reconciliation, restoration, suffering, illness, recovery and resurrection. These are challenging issues, but if were not willing to be challenged, were missing out on what life is asking of us.

Opera can make such a challenge beautiful. Even if some of its truths are difficult, Adamss music is ravishing, taking you deep into a place you would otherwise hesitate to go. Music is not about itself. Its about everything else we think, feel and care about. What I get to do is put music on a stage, and thereby peoples lives and hopes, too. We all need these mirrors, though we dont always appreciate what we see in them. In fact, the usual thing to do is blame the mirror. But its the artists job to reflect back to society things that dont always get seen with sharpness or moral intensity.

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Tinsel Town: Finding a way around censorship

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David Finchers Gone Girl opened in America to rave reviews from fans and critics alike.

Back home in India, though film buffs were visibly excited about thefilms release, there remained a niggling fear in the minds of many.

In 2011, Fincher had refused to release The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in India when the censor board imposed some cuts on it.

Audiences were also wary after their experience of The Wolf of Wall Street (in which significant portions were cut by censors in spite of the film being rated A).

This time around, however, the director and his team found a way to work around conservative Indian censors. Using innovative editing techniques and visual manipulation, Gone Girl was certified without a single cut.

A digital visual zoom-in, as the audio played unencumbered, instead of deleting scenes in entirety is all it took tomaintain a semblance of continuity.

Venkatesh Chakravarthy, regional director at L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy, said, Directors have found different ways to challenge censors, over the years. In Parasakthi, for instance, there was a scene where a part of the audio was muted while the visuals remained untouched. Despite this, theaudience knew exactly what was being communicated, beating the system of State censors.

In rural areas, which are less monitored, adding bonus footage is a regularphenomenon. The digital medium today has increased the possibilities for visual manipulation, said Mr. Chakravarthy.

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US Mint Sold out of Silver. Price Repegged at $100+ USD – Video

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US Mint Sold out of Silver. Price Repegged at $100+ USD
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