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unusual facts about blacklist



Censorship in the Republic of Ireland

Using the Black List and White List to target certain mail, the small staff were unable to effect 100% censorship; however, continental European mail was all reviewed, as was all incoming and outbound airmail.

Christian Picciolini

Picciolini also managed, co-managed or released albums for such musical acts as Flatfoot 56, The Frantic, Street Dogs, Treaty of Paris (band), The Briggs, Joey Briggs, Blacklist Royals, State and Madison, Urbanites, The Noise FM, Random55, Dead Town Revival, The Spent .50s, Graham Isaacson, Koo Koo Kanga Roo, and The Tattle Tales.

Donald Ogden Stewart

During the Second Red Scare Stewart was blacklisted in 1950 and the following year he and his wife, activist and writer Ella Winter (they had married in 1939), emigrated to England.

East Turkestan Islamic Movement

On June 16, 2009, Representative Bill Delahunt convened hearings to examine how organizations were added to the US blacklist in general, and how the ETIM was added in particular.

Eric Whelpton

During World War II, Whelpton worked as a BBC news correspondent as a news correspondent in France and, as recounted in his travel book, The Balearics:Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, he was told by a Swiss correspondent that he was on the Gestapo blacklist.

Erwin Marquit

He was blacklisted as an engineer and barred from completing a master's degree dissertation in physics at New York University in 1950 due to his Communist Party affiliation and he emigrated to Poland.

Harry Gibson

His career went into a tailspin in 1947, when his song "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine" put him on the music industry blacklist.

Hermitage Capital Management

Although the fund's founder William Browder was a supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin, in November of 2005 he was blacklisted by the Russian government as a "threat to national security" and denied entry to the country.

Jam Master Jay

In 2003, Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, a convicted drug dealer and longtime friend of Murder Inc. heads Irv and Chris Gotti, was investigated for targeting Mizell because the DJ defied an industry blacklist of rapper 50 Cent that was imposed because of "Ghetto Qu'ran", a song 50 Cent wrote about McGriff's drug history.

Joan LaCour Scott

Producer Hannah Weinstein, who had fled Hollywood when the blacklist began, was hiring blacklisted writers for work with her new production company, Sapphire Films, in England.

John Henry Faulk

Other supporters in the blacklist struggle included radio pioneer and Wimberley, Texas native Parks Johnson and reporter and CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite.

John Perlman

This blacklist included prominent analysts Karima Brown, Aubrey Matshiqi, William Gumede, Paula Slier, Sipho Seepe, Moeletsi Mbeki, Elinor Sisulu, and Trevor Ncube.

Lapsiporno.info

Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) have noticed that the blacklist includes non-pornographic websites also, including a Windows advice forum, a computer repair service and the Internet Initiative Japan server nn.iij4u.or.jp that, among others, hosts websites for a violin factory, a doll store and a hearing aid manufacturer.

Migrant workers in Kuwait

On October 2, 2007, Waleed Al-Tabtabaie called for the interior ministry to draw up a blacklist of employers who mistreat their domestic helpers and urged stiff penalties for physical abuse.

Silvia Richards

Following her divorce from Richards, Silvia married screenwriter A. I. (Buzz) Bezzerides, himself a victim of the McCarthy-era blacklist.

Tax haven

The Philippines took steps to remove itself from the blacklist and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak had suggested earlier that Malaysia should not be in the bottom tier.

The Front

The scripts are submitted to network producer Phil Sussman (Herschel Bernardi), who is pleased to have a writer not contaminated by the blacklist.


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