Author: Joop Beris
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Let’s make this the march of our time
Please consider donating to help Avaaz organise the biggest climate march ever. I did! In five weeks, our community is hitting the streets for the the biggest climate march in history. We will rally from Paris, where the world summit is happening, to Melbourne, to Sao Paulo, to Dhaka, and thousands of towns in between.…
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Why science does not disprove God
On April 27, 2014, Amir D. Aczel published an article with the title in “Why science does not disprove God” in Time magazine. This article is a comment on that article because after reading it, I felt it contained several logical errors and unfounded assumptions.
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Stand Up for Strong Security
Certain factions within the US Congress and the FBI are insisting on the government requiring US technology companies to grant the government special access to devices and cryptographic measures. In essence, they are asking for US technology to be insecure by design. Adding a backdoor for US government agencies is possible but there are serious…
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Parents fatally whipped teen who wanted to quit church, New York court hears
There are many people who claim that religion is a force of good, that it is essentially harmless. Again and again, the faithful remind us how wrong that opinion is. A teen lost his life in a barbarous “counselling session” because he wanted to leave the church.