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A new pacifist constitution, written by the Americans, banned the use of armed force.
It is totally banned in the United States.”
The borders of the kingdom cannot be sealed to ideas and from the desire for change, with people avidly watching Al Jazeera – officially banned in Saudi Arabia – as it reports about elections in Kuwait and democratic debates in other Gulf countries.
Moreover, bloggers can no longer be anonymous, and online media can be banned without warning.
Websites are blocked, bloggers are monitored, search engines and news aggregators are censored, and VPNs are banned.
In Tunisia, the banned Islamist party Ennahdha (Renaissance) was absent.
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, also banned but still a major force in terms of public support, has stayed very much in the background.
The Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, despite being banned, is a formidable organization.
I myself was on a French beach recently – one where the burkini has not been officially banned – and watched people’s appalled and scornful reactions to a covered Muslim woman splashing in the sea with her family.
In drought-seared California, some bottlers have faced protests and probes; one company was even banned from tapping spring water.
Methyl mercury became the most cost-effective fungicide, because it had recently been banned in Scandinavia and several American states due to environmental and toxicological risks.
Only then could they be banned and their total elimination begin.
Two generations ago, most countries had censors who not only tried to prevent younger people from seeing certain films but who actually banned books.
But the cinema proprietors banned the film on the grounds that it might give offense.
Yingluck has been banned from politics for five years.
Female circumcision and polygamy are banned, and Muslims accept this.
This was especially strange, given that Australia has been one of the big beneficiaries of the Montreal convention, which banned ozone-destroying gases.
The international community banded together, banned the substances, and the holes are now closing.
Within weeks, the Clinton administration must decide whether to impose sanctions on a French-Russian-Malaysian consortium set to develop Iranian offshore gas fields – a multi-billion consortium originally planned by the American oil company Conoco, which was banned from participation by the executive order.
In April, the US banned the sale of such chips to the Chinese telecom giant ZTE as punishment for the company’s violations of US export rules.
Recordings by the Rolling Stones and other Western groups were banned.
For example, France recently banned terms like vegan “burger” and “steak” on the grounds that only animal meat could be either.
The Council’s excuse is a smokescreen, and simultaneously kowtows to Chinese totalitarianism and insults those Chinese writers who have been imprisoned, banned, or forced into exile merely for writing what their conscience demands.
The works of these banned writers are packed with vivid detail about contemporary Chinese life.
The British Council’s decision to ignore them, as well as exiled writers banned from entering China, such as myself, has turned what should be a cultural event into an unprincipled commercial-political transaction.
French President Emmanuel Macron has introduced a bill to phase out all oil and gas exploration and production in France and its overseas territories by 2040; the Scottish government has banned fracking altogether; and Costa Rica now produces the vast majority of its electricity without oil.
China, for example, has banned shark-fin soup, a traditional delicacy, at official government dinners and functions – a move that contributed to a 30% drop in shark-fin sales from last December to April.
The Internet may be ubiquitous in modern China, but YouTube and Facebook, so accepted as a part of normal life around the world, are still banned, and the Public Security Bureau has built a vast Internet monitoring system to filter and censor whatever China’s leaders believe they must fear.
Until recently, we have not done much about the black market (the 2008 Declaration of Istanbul marks the beginning of a determined struggle against this market), but we banned altruistic directed donations by living non-relatives out of fear that they would become that legal loophole.
It is banned in Egypt, where it is widely abused.
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