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CHROMA – Wings For Freedom (Mateo Pascual) [2014 – Intense Pounding Choral Orchestral Hits] – Video

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Artist: CHROMA Title: Wings For Freedom Composer: Mateo Pascual Pascual Album: Chroma Music Sampler Vol. II Track No.: 18 Publisher: Chroma Music Now Released: December 25, 2014 (Industry ...

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Religious freedom and economic growth linked in 2014

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There may seem to be little, if anything, in the way of a connection, but it turns out that religious freedom and a healthy economy have a link, a leading researcher said this year.

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Making an economic case for the impact of religious freedom may seem odd, but in fact it's quite sensible, one advocate emphasized this year.

Brian J. Grim, who earlier this year left his job as a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center to become president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, emphasized the point at the American Enterprise Institute's leadership summit in September, according to the Christian Post.

"Why should businesses be concerned about religious freedoms?" Grim was quoted as asking. "Because religious persecution is a predictor of a lower GDP." Over 43 percent of the countries in the world have restrictions on religious liberties, the website said.

In a study published in June, Grim and his coauthors said, "Religious hostilities and restrictions create climates that can drive away local and foreign investment, undermine sustainable development, and disrupt huge sectors of economies."

Earlier, Grim told Religion News Service why he decided to concentrate on the religious freedom/economic growth connection: "For the past decade Ive been measuring the rising tide of restrictions on religious freedom around the world. Im always asked where the success stories are and what can be done to roll back the tide. As a data person, I saw that the business and sports communities were missing from the religious freedom field. I know how much religious freedom helps economic progress and how much it suffers without."

But it's more than mere economics, Grim maintains, saying that religious freedom in a country can enhance peace. In October, the foundation offered this observation about religious freedom's societal benefits: "Countries with greater religious freedoms are generally more peaceful, whereas countries with less religious freedom are generally less peaceful. Additionally, the most influential factor affecting religious freedom is the government type. Full democracies are the most peaceful and have the greatest level of religious freedom, regardless of the type of religious belief or various religious characteristics."

Not all is positive on the religious freedom front, as many tragic events in 2014 bear witness. Writing in the Deseret News, Grim and Brigham Young University's Robert T. Smith called for a greater emphasis by the United States on protecting believer's freedoms around the world.

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Councils keeping watch on freedom camper hot spots

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EYES ON CAMPERS: Marine Pde, New Brighton, is popular among freedom campers. Alex Doroschenko, a German tourist, camped near Thompson Park this week as part of a freedom camping trip around New Zealand.

South Island councils are taking a Big Brother approach to freedom campers this summer with officers monitoring hot spots across the city and Banks Peninsula.

Last year freedom campers clogged up the car park at the Akaroa boat ramp, creating chaos when boaties went to launch. They washed their hair under a tap. They cleaned their teeth at a drinking fountain.

Tensions boiled over and there were conflicts between boaties and tourists.

Residents at Catons Bay reportedly let out roosters to drive freedom campers away.

This year "no camping" zones were introduced around the Akaroa boat ramp to encourage people to use motorcamps instead, Akaroa-Wairewa Community Board chairwoman Pam Richardson said.

"That's where the facilities are and that's where people should be," she said.

The solution falls short of a bylaw, which councils on the West Coast and in the North Island have implemented.

In 2011 the Government passed the Freedom Camping Act, giving councils the power to regulate the practice.

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The world needs more internet freedom, not less

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To keep the Internet as the socially empowering and productivity-boosting tool it is today, we should guard against government attacks on internet freedom.

Late last month, the Americanbased non-governmental organisation Freedom House released the latest edition of its annual Freedom on the Net report, which assesses the extent to which citizens in 65 countries are able to access and use the internet without legal and other restrictions.

The report establishes an internet freedom index using measures capturing obstacles to access (including government blocking of apps and technologies), limits on content (such as filtering and blocking websites and social media censorship), and violations of user rights (through surveillance and legal restrictions of online activities).

On a global scale, internet freedom had deteriorated for the fourth consecutive year, Freedom House said.

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That is mainly the result of repressive tactics adopted in autocratic, or increasingly autocratic, regimes such as China, Russia and Turkey, which included blocking political dissent through social media, increasing surveillance of web users, and governments putting pressure on internet providers and online companies to censor themselves.

While the merits of the disclosure of United States National Security Agency activities by Edward Snowden continue to be debated, it is unfortunate that governments around the world are using the NSA revelations increasingly as an alibi to crack down on free expression over the internet.

And there have been some recent concerns raised about the effective future Balkanisation of the World Wide Web resulting from the United States, which has traditionally dedicated itself to promulgating an open internet, considering scaling back its role in global internet governance of web addresses and domain names.

Australia was ranked the 17th-freest country for internet access and usage - a position it has held the past few years - behind Iceland, Estonia and Canada in the international rankings of internet freedom in 2014.

This country is lauded for its relatively affordable, highquality internet and digital media access, and people's ability to discuss controversial and sensitive political and social issues freely online without the threat of political persecution.

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Community radio is the true voice of the people

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These days, terms such as ''freedom of speech'' and ''democratic media'' increasingly appear as empty statements, disconnected from real life or personal experience. Worse, they are shrieked from powerful places within society.

It was refreshing then to read Bec Zajac's article ''The freedom to speak'' in The Sunday Age and the profile it provided of Eritrean Voices. Here was Melbourne's Eritrean community enjoying a media freedom absent in their home country.

However, an essential element, not necessarily driven home in the article, is the type of radio Eritrean Voices broadcasts on.

The show goes to air on 3CR community radio - locally on 855AM and globally on 3cr.org.au. This is not just any type of radio: the station's structure and purpose are central in enabling precisely the type of ''freedom to speak'' Eritrean Voices enjoys.

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3CR has held a community radio licence since 1976. It is community-owned and run, and is not for profit. It's also volunteer-driven, democratically governed and exists with the clear intention of providing training, space and support to communities habitually ignored in the mainstream media.

Because of these factors, the Eritrean community can create a radio broadcast that allows for news and information specifically relevant to it.

This doesn't mean every community radio station around the country is actively engaged with pursuing the ''freedom to speak'' and facilitating programs such as Eritrean Voices.

Unfortunately, such examples across the hundreds of community radio stations in Australia are few and far between. However, 3CR boasts many, including Voice of West Papua, Chin Radio and Tamil Voice.

3CR programming features people and issues that are absent from mainstream radio - homeless people, people with disabilities, refugees, Aboriginal activists, the list goes on. Not as guests, but as producers and presenters of their own radio shows.

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Bharat Ratna For Atal Bihari Vajpayee And Freedom Fighter Madan Mohan Malaviya – Video

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Bharat Ratna For Atal Bihari Vajpayee And Freedom Fighter Madan Mohan Malaviya
Bharat Ratna For Atal Bihari Vajpayee And Freedom Fighter Madan Mohan Malaviya Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malaviya will be honoured with the...

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PART I : HUMAN NATURE LOVE FREEDOM contemporary art session gallery view – Video

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PART I : HUMAN NATURE LOVE FREEDOM contemporary art session gallery view
"Human Nature Love Freedom" is the contemporary art movement established in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia since 2013. This is the collaboration to consist of various field artists... PART I Artists:...

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Achieve Greater Personal Freedom! Allow Yourself To Become That Which You Judge – Video

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Achieve Greater Personal Freedom! Allow Yourself To Become That Which You Judge
Awaken dormant parts of your personality. Achieve greater personal freedom by learning to give yourself permission to act in ways that don #39;t necessarily resonate with your current identity.

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