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“Operation Ore”: "A huge miscarriage of justice"?1 comment

paulabowles wrote 2 weeks ago: by paulabowles In 2001, the British police launched “Operation Ore”, hailed as a ground-breaking opp … more →

Tags: Anthony O'Shea, “Operation Ore”, Card Not Present [CNP] fraud, child abuse, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre [CEOP], Court of Appeal, Credit Card, Crime, Cyber Crime

Too Fat To Work - Send Money13 comments

anniemcphee wrote 3 months ago: There follows, in this article, after the picture, a bunch of names and weights, reducing these peo … more →

Tags: Obesity Epidemic, war on obesity

Sr. Rose Looks at Hollywood5 comments

sisterrose wrote 4 months ago: Today a colleague asked me if I thought there was an anti-Catholic bias in Hollywood. It got me thi … more →

Tags: Media Literacy/Media Mindfulness, media, Religion, Media Analysis, Urban Legends

Big Fat Infertility, Part 12 comments

bigliberty wrote 4 months ago: Hello, all! Sorry I haven’t posted in so long. I’m working on getting my old literary ma … more →

Tags: Body Engineering Children, Dangerous Waters, Eugenics, Fat Infertility, Fat Myths, Fat Pregnancy, Moral Crusades, war on obesity

This is what a press release looks like.1 comment

bigliberty wrote 5 months ago: This is taken from the Google news search: “adenovirus obesity study.” This, this, is wh … more →

Tags: Obesity Epidemic, Dangerous Waters, News, Mainstream media

When Your Body is No Longer Yours

bigliberty wrote 6 months ago: Many civil rights activists agree: your body, you business. If you’re not hurting anyone else, … more →

Tags: Criminalizing Weight, Nanny-Statism, Obesity Epidemic, Dangerous Waters, healthism, Moral Crusades, war on obesity, universal healthcare

Niggemeier and the fifth estate

discoursology wrote 6 months ago: So, the fifth estate (the People; citizen’s journalism, social media) is to function as a chec … more →

Tags: Journalism, media, Politics, News, Blog, Niggemeier

On paralleling breast reduction and weight loss1 comment

bigliberty wrote 6 months ago: Bri recently wrote a very thought-provoking post on the different perceptions at Shapely Prose betwe … more →

Tags: Fat Acceptance, Obesity Epidemic, Dieting, Moral Crusades, war on obesity

Obesity Tax proposed in New York4 comments

bigliberty wrote 7 months ago: Governor Paterson proposes ‘Obesity Tax,’ a tax on non-diet sodas Continuing in the them … more →

Tags: Criminalizing Weight, libertarianism, Nanny-Statism, Obesity Epidemic, Dangerous Waters, healthism, Moral Crusades, war on obesity

Creating a deviant class: "There's something wrong with you"5 comments

bigliberty wrote 7 months ago: What are the ingredients of a deviant class? First of all, there has to be an easy marker of devianc … more →

Tags: Dangerous Waters, healthism, Moral Crusades, war on obesity

Socialization, Internet and Youth1 comment

socanonymous wrote 8 months ago: by socanonymous An article in the New York Times demonstrated from anecdotal evidence how many teen … more →

Tags: Communication and Media, Culture, technology, Internet, Youth, Socialization, Cultures

Up close & personal with Irvine Welsh

Dean Samways wrote 8 months ago: Irvine Welsh He is one of the most celebrated and infamous writers of our time. He epitomises everyt … more →

Tags: Fiction / Features, Screenplay / Features, Alan Warner, Bedroom Secrets, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Crime, Dean Cavanagh, Dean Samways

Universal Healthcare is not automatically fat-friendly13 comments

bigliberty wrote 10 months ago: As one individual in the UK put it, commenting on the recent article by Marianne Kirby from the Rotu … more →

Tags: General Ignorance, Fat Hate, Criminalizing Weight, Nanny-Statism, Obesity Epidemic, war on obesity

What's wrong with the Greens2 comments

Tim B wrote 11 months ago: I think the following piece of smug middle class nonsense, reposted from a Greens’ supporters … more →

Tags: Green Party, Sue Kedgley

Prohibition is not the answer!7 comments

WP Admin wrote 11 months ago: The extension of the Wellington City Council’s liquor ban into Aro St and Aro Park is not the … more →

Tags: NZ 2008 Elections, Party News, Poverty in New Zealand

I know this is cross-posting, but it's worth it. 2 comments

bigliberty wrote 11 months ago: Here’s richie79’s reply in this the thread “The Fat Police Are Coming” over … more →

Tags: Fat Hate, Criminalizing Weight, Nanny-Statism, Obesity Epidemic, Dangerous Waters, war on obesity

Libertarians don't care if you're fat.1 comment

bigliberty wrote 11 months ago: Libertarians don’t care if you’re fat. But they do care about your civil liberties. So t … more →

Tags: Fat Bias, libertarianism, Obesity Epidemic, Moral Crusades

Violent crime in capitalist New Zealand3 comments

WP Admin wrote 11 months ago: - Byron Clark, Workers Party candidate for Christchurch Central Crime has become a hot issue in Ne … more →

Tags: Law and Order, Crime in New Zealand

Moral panics and social dramas4 comments

John Postill wrote 11 months ago: What’s the connection, if any, between moral panics and social dramas? I’m not quite sur … more →

Tags: Field theory, media anthropology, Anthropology, practice theory, Ethnography, Political Anthropology, Manchester School, Media Studies, Journalism Studies


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