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• Swiss vote on proposal to ban minarets

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  By ELIANE ENGELER GENEVA — The campaign posters are inflammatory: Minarets rising like missiles from the national flag. A proposal championed by right-wing parties to ban minarets in Switzerland goes to a nationwide vote on Sunday in a referendum that has set off an emotional debate about national identity ...
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• Swiss vote on proposal to ban minarets

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 575
  With thanks to the Islamization Watch:The worry about Muslim boycotts is truly amazing – and it sends out one message – everything is expected from the West and nothing is expected from...
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• Switzerland to vote on Islamophobic plan to ban minarets

  
  War in Context — Authority: 502
  Switzerland to vote on plan to ban minaretsBy Imogen Foulkes, BBC News, November 27, 2009On Sunday Swiss voters will have their say on a controversial proposal to impose a constitutional ban on the building of minarets.The proposal is backed by conservative Christian groups and by the biggest party in Switzerland’s ...
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• Ski Bum: Roman Polanski Could Escape To France On Skis [The Fugitive]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 817
  It sounds crazy, but a new report about French President Nicolas Sarkozy s "helpfulness" in getting Roman Polanski released to house arrest seems to suggest the possibility of a daring action-movie escape for the 72-year-old fugitive filmmaker. The article, in todays Times of London, is ostensibly about the ...
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• Pull a SWIFT One

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 765
  Normally, discussion of the "Surveillance State" touches on Zero Hedges core focus (finance) only tangentially.  But every once in a while something significant bounces us radar returns in this sector.  This definitely qualifies: SWIFT is now moving all its data centers outside the EU and the US, to ...
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• Commuting

  
  Maya Photography - A Day in the Life — Authority: 129
  I think this epitomizes life around the UN in Geneva. Many people in suits. Many bike riders. In the background are the flags of nations in front of the UN.
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• Cows on the roof

  
  StreetViewFun — Authority: 158
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• Europe Holiday Travel Deals - Castles !

  
  Jetsettersblog — Authority: 160
  CHRISTMAS IN A CASTLE Ashford Castle, County Mayo The new Christmas à la Carte program at Ashford Castle in County Mayo, Ireland, transforms a guest room or suite into home sweet home with a Christmas tree, traditional ornaments and even “music to trim by” for €200 (approximately US$287). Guests can choose the ...
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• Swiss vote to ban new minarets too close for comfort

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 635
  (Photo: Poster to vote ”yes” to minaret ban in a Swiss meadow, 13 Nov 2009/Dario Bianchi) A threatening image dominates Switzerland’s streets in the form of a dark woman dressed in a Muslim  niqab veil, looming over a Swiss flag covered with missile-like minarets with a call to vote “yes” in a ...
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• Roman Polanski to Stay in Jail until Monday Ahead of House Arrest

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 567
  Director Roman Polanski will stay in prison outside Zurich until at least Monday, according to a Swiss official on Friday. Polanski will not be placed under house arrest in Switzerland for at least three more days, as he has not yet fulfilled all the requirements to make sure he remains in his chalet in the luxury ...
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• A/H1N1 flu spreads in Switzerland, vaccine available

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland confirmed 2,423 new cases of swine flu in the week ending 21 November, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) announced Friday 27 November, bringing the total to 6,691 since the outbreak began. The pandemic has already claimed four deaths in Switzerland, all from ...
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• Swiss Style In More Ways Than One

  
  Cycle Chic from Copenhagen - The Original. Streetstyle and Bike Advocacy in High Heels — Authority: 474
  A Swiss designer by the name of Thomas Neeser converts bicycles into design icons. He started his... For the full photographic glory and the rest of the text, you know where to go. The Original Cycle Chic awaits.
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• Geneva mosque vandalized, third time

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The sign in front of the mosque in the Geneva suburb of Petit-Saconnex was covered in pink paint during the night of 25-26 November, reports the Tribune de Genève . It is the third time this month that the site has been a target for vandals and troublemakers: the façade of ...
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• Switzerland, China, inch closer to free trade

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland and China will initial an agreement in Geneva 30 November to undertake a feasibility study for a free trade agreement. The two countries agreed early in 2009 to work together to this end and they will now formalize the work. Bilateral trade between the two was CHF11.1 ...
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• The Uruguayan Rivaldo & The YouTube Era.

  
  The Offside — Authority: 615
  [101gg]I like the benefit of the doubt. Often times I give it for absolutely no reason at all. I’d like to believe that Uruguay’s Oli is secretly part canine and the Swiss keeper was emitting a high-pitched shriek which only Oli could hear and be pained by. Or maybe, as some have suggested, it’s merely [...]
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• Kudelski Group Announces Close of Tender Offer to Acquire OpenTV

  
  Your Story — Authority: 570
  CHESEAUX, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Kudelski Group (SIX: KUD.VX) announced today that it has closed the subsequent offering period of its tender offer to acquire Class A s
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• Runway Free – Red Watermelon

  
  Christopher Ross — Authority: 148
  Now flying to Sydney, Australia!---Enter the fast paced and exciting world of Runway on your iPhone and iPod Touch. You start the game as the lead Air Traffic Controller at Honolulu International Airport. Help Gulfstream G650 aircraft land at your airport before they run out of fuel. Direct them to the gate to ...
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• Japan Prepared To Sell Yen To Keep Currency Below 14 Year High Against Dollar

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 765
  The $ PET (Plunge Enforcement Team) will have its work cut out for it tonight and tomorrow, after speculation was rampant that both Japan and Switzerland would intervene in their respective currency markets to halt the dollars collapse, in essence making Tim Geithners self-proclaimed job of maintaining a strong dollar ...
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• Bathroom Porn for Your Design Enjoyment

  
  Chris Abraham — Authority: 143
  While I am not (yet) rich enough to indulge my passion for design, architecture, style, or interiors, I must say that I am feeling a little aroused by the selection of fixtures offered by Swiss bathroom products manufacturer Laufen . Via the Contemporist .
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• Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, On the Origin of Species, debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation.
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