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Peter Dearman

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
       -- Margaret Mead

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Peter Dearman is a Canadian teaching English and living in Taiwan. (edit) Now he runs a bar too. He is concerned about the generally high level of bad things happening in the world today, especially on the matters of depleted uranium, repression in Burma, stolen elections, organ harvesting, Islamophobia, aspartame, sugar, species depletion, animal abuse, ocean pollution, helium depletion and likely several other things too, like 9/11. He holds a Bachelor of Science with honours (major in Biology) from Acadia University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Concordia University and a Certificate in Teaching English to Young Learners from Trinity College of London. He was editor or co-editor of the Acadia University student newspaper, Athenaeum, for two years and chair or co-chair of the Acadia Environmental Society student group for three years. He is a past member of the Council of Canadians. Now, he runs a bar.

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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 2, 2020
It Has Always Been a Matter of Masks A high profile case study from Covid-19 champion Taiwan suggests widespread use of masks may be the deciding factor. Nearly 30 infected sailors on shore leave failed to infect a single other citizen of Taiwan. Everyone was wearing masks all the time. Crickets.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 14, 2011
This Revolution Has Not Been Televised -- " Not Yet International broadcast media has been shut out of Tunisia forcing activists to take their bona fide revolution to the Internet. The results are now shocking the world.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Duh, but isn't this how electronic voting should be done? Why trust private companies to provide secure, standard "voting machines" when factory-sealed standard PCs are widely available, and open-source software could be run on them to achieve the same effect without having to trust any particular companies?
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Why Israel's Offensive Must Be Considered an Attempt at Genocide Israel's actions can only be seen as genocide because they destroy all hope for peace and a two-state solution.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 2, 2008
I have just one question about this bailout Why isn't there a search to find the best plan, rather than a rush to patch up Paulson's plan?
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SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 23, 2008
Why isn't sepak takraw an Olympic event? Now that China dominates the gold medal tally, it may be even less likely we will see one of Asia's fastest growing and most exciting team sports added to the Games.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 4, 2008
Harvesting the Olympics Exploring the connections between the Olympics, Organ Harvesting, Falun Gong and China's Reeducation Through Labor (RTL) system of extra-judicial punishment.
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(36 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 23, 2007
Icelandic woman chained on arrival at JFK for 1995 overstay She was chained, fingerprinted, publicly humiliated and denied sleep and phone calls for 24 hours. Though reported in IHT and AFP, this story was ignored by major media, and its authenticity was questioned in the blogosphere by many anonymous commenters.
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(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 14, 2007
Burma coverage teaches us Goebbels' Corollary If you tell the truth seldom enough, and without conviction, the people will not believe it. The mainstream media machine is failing to fairly report the current news from Burma/Myanmar; it is also covering its own ass against exactly this accusation.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 10, 2007
Wherefore Nagasaki? It is a question a child would ask. Why did America have to nuke the Japanese two times instead of one?
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Unknown Terror of DU (review) 'Unknown Terror of DU – Iraqi children now' is a documentary made by two Japanese photojournalists who were in Iraq during the second invasion. They used a geiger counter to gather evidence of widespread and rampant use of depleted uranium munitions by U.S. forces.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 4, 2007
Please Lord, not the bees Everything you didn't want to know about Colony Collapse Disorder
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 19, 2007
Jumping in... In the rush to not assign blame for the Virginia Tech killings some important questions are not being asked.

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