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It’s that time of year for lists, predictions and so forth. I don’t want to make predictions myself – I know all too well how hard it is to predict anything in this world, and even more so in the online world. I do, however, have wishes. Many of these are pipe dreams, I’m afraid, but some of them do have some small hope of coming true. So here they are, my twelve wishes for online privacy…
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Claiming that collective bargaining rights must be swept away in order to balance budgets is like claiming that free speech rights, the right to privacy or the right to bear arms must be eliminated in order to address fiscal challenges.  
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Hundreds of demonstrators in Geneva formed a human chain, despite heavy whether condition, connecting UN’s High Commission for Human Rights headquarters in this city to High Commission for Refugees Friday to show concern about the safety of Iranian exiles living in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
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LONDON — A legal action charity says the head of Tripoli’s military council is suing Britain and its security forces for their alleged role in his rendition in 2004.
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Twelve French activists from a group called Boycott 68 have been acquitted on charges of “inciting discrimination and racial hatred” for calling on French shoppers to boycott Israeli goods.  
Via electronicintifada.net

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Should President Obama sell $53 million worth of arms to Bahrain when it continues to violently repress its citizens?
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MOSCOW: Bhagvad Gita, one of the most sacred Hindu religious texts, is facing a legal ban and the prospect of being branded as “an extremist” literature across Russia, with a court in Siberia’s Tomsk city all set to deliver its final verdict on Monday in a case filed by state prosecutors.  
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The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet.  
Via cis-india.org

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Two Freedom Riders who risked their lives to integrate Montgomery’s bus station 50 years ago are back in the capital city with a new cause: repealing Alabama’s immigration law.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — One of three Hungarian journalists staging a hunger strike said he hopes their protest brings more attention — and an end — to acts of censorship and increasing government meddling in state-funded media.  
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