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Should there be limitations on freedom of speech? – Video

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Sports Hotline: What happened to freedom of speech – have Rangers fans lost their right to offend?

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NO surprises that the thorny subject of sectarian singing should prompt a major backlash on yesterdays Hotline.

After Keith Jacksons column savaged both sides of the Old Firm support with a particularly fierce blast at Rangers for their songs of hate at Starks Park the outraged Whataboutery defence was as predictable as it was depressing.

Chris Lowe, Glasgow, emailed: So Rangers get a kicking once again from the media.

Compare and contrast to Celtic Park only 24 hours earlier where clear, audible pro-IRA chants were heard, something Celtic have been fined for in the past by UEFA .

The Celtic support were largely praised all round for creating a magnificent atmosphere and not one person reported what their fans were chanting let alone go seeking the match observer to ask if he would be including it in his report.

Whatever happened to the whole of Europe claiming freedom of speech and the right to offend after Paris? Are Rangers fans exempt?

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Robert Forrest emailed: I have no problem with Keith Jackson criticising Rangers fans singing banned songs, it is not right.

However, he fails to point out the difference in the way the support of either team has been treated by the authorities. A Rangers supporter was jailed for singing a banned song but no Celtic fan, and I could include their player Leigh Griffiths, has been anywhere near this.

He also completely ignores the offensive banner on display at Hampden.

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Atheism is simply a lack of belief

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Editor: I cannot sit idly by while a belief system gets completely misrepresented in The Times opinion section. The response from James Paulgaard (The Times, Feb. 17) brings into the debate a completely debunked point of atheistic governments committing atrocities, when those governments are wedded to no religion.

I must clarify this point, although it digresses from Robert Rocks original letter (The Times, Feb. 12). Atheism is simply a lack of belief.

Totalitarian regimes like the USSR and Cambodia of the 20th century simply replaced religion with leader worship. They still included faith in the dear leader and an unquestioning attitude towards their governments. A little critical thinking and a good look at their policies and practices clears this right up.

Until a society or country decides to raise their young for generations with an enlightenment attitude among the works of great thinkers like Spinoza, Einstein, Thomas Paine, Bertrand Russell, Phillip Larkin, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens, just to name a few, you cannot even know how a true atheistic society would be put into practice.

When you have rational thought and reasonable thinking combined with literature, science, philosophy and critical thinking put into place, you might have a good start. Even then, atheism is simply a lack of belief. Stalin and Hitler both had moustaches, but this doesnt mean than moustaches caused the genocide of millions of innocents.

This gets away from the debate of what right and influence does a private university have over its students sexual preferences and conduct? I for one am in favour of human rights for all. That being said, I dont believe a private university should be forced to hold views contrary to their belief doctrine.

While I am conflicted, in the end I do believe in basic human rights trumping discrimination. I respect a persons right to believe in whatever religion they happen to practise, just so long as it doesnt hurt others.

I would expect the same courtesies for those who lack belief, but I will not stand silent while certain people conflate and misrepresent a position I am proud to hold.

Zak Graham,

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How NASA Is Readying the Successor to the Hubble Telescope

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NASA is getting ready to put part of the James Webb Space Telescope through a litany of cryogenic challenges that will simulate space.

The goal is to make sure the space telescope, which is set to launch in 2018 and be the eventual successor to the immensely successful Hubble Space Telescope, will be fully operational when it reaches its freezing destination 1 million miles from Earth.

NASA researchers will be watching especially close to see how the telescope performs in the newly renovated space simulating Chamber A at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The vacuum chamber is the same place where the Apollo spacecraft were tested.

Moving even a test part of what NASA said is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built is no small feat. With the 3,000-pound Pathfinder Backplane in a clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the team glided in a shipping container on air pads, a move NASA likened to a puck on an air hockey table.

Using a crane, engineers were then able to lift the part and safely lower it into the Space Telescope Transporter for Air Road and Sea (STTARS), which was then hooked up to a semi truck that plodded along at a gentle 5 mph to the nearby Joint Base Andrews.

The largest cargo plane in the United States fleet, a C-5 military plane, then had the honor of flying to the engineers in Texas what will surely be a vital piece of space history.

We've got to test the test, Andrew Booth, a NASA engineer, said in a statement. "That's why this Pathfinder is so valuable because it will ensure the testing on the actual telescope is accurate."

The telescope is named for James Webb, a former NASA administrator, and is a collaboration with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

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Ramin novruzov feat Nato – Haqqa Devet – Video

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NATO roblox – Video

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NATO General Warns Over Russia and Baltic – Video

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Turkey drives hard bargain over crucial missile deal

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ANKARA - Turkey has alarmed fellow NATO members by raising the prospect of handing China a multi-billion dollar missile contract, yet the long-running saga is far from over and Ankara may just be trading for a better deal.

Turkey, NATO's only Muslim member, entered discussions in 2013 with the China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corporation (CPMIEC) over its first anti-missile system, a contract worth US$3.4 billion (S$4.6 billion).

French-Italian consortium Eurosam and US-listed Raytheon Co have also submitted offers, but several recent statements by Turkish officials have indicated the Chinese may be the front-runner.

Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz, in a written answer to a parliamentary commission, sparked speculation that CPMIEC was the winner by saying no new official bid had been received from rivals and its system could be used without integrating with NATO systems.

Yet there are serious concerns over the compatibility of CPMIEC's systems with NATO missile defences, as well as strategic worries about a key member of the military alliance concluding such a big deal with Communist-ruled China.

Other officials said talks were continuing with all bidders.

"This is not a done deal," said Sinan Ulgen, visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels.

"It is totally wrong to assume that Turkey made its final decision to buy missile defence systems exclusively from China. American and European firms are still in the game," he told AFP.

Nihat Ali Ozcan, security expert at the Ankara-based TEPAV think tank, said Turkey was doing all it could to secure a better deal by promoting the Chinese bid.

"Talks are continuing at the bargaining table. We are talking about a lucrative deal," he said. "In my opinion, the Europeans and the Americans are the frontrunners, not the Chinese."

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Tech News Today 873: NSA Eats Your Fiber – Video

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Tech News Today 873: NSA Eats Your Fiber
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NSA Planting Viruses IN COMPUTER HARDRIVES BIGGEST GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY IN 2015 – Video

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