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• Somehow this is all the fault of George Bush..

  
  Where Are My Keys? — Authority: 147
  Remember how Obama was going to restore our standing in the World?  Not so much in Copenhagen recently: The Obama team tried to schedule a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and was told he was at the airport readying to leave. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also was unavailable. ...
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• Kenya to Open up New Investment Opportunities

  
  The Entrepreneur - Cameroon's Premier Economic & Business Journal — Authority: 136
  Encouraged by a steadily rising number of tourists, Kenya’s tourism ministry has opened offices in Russia, the Middle East, Australia and India as part of its source markets diversification programme. “The UK and the US are among our traditional source markets,” says Kenya’s Tourism Minister Najib Balala, ...
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• Looks like something big is up in Israel

  
  Jeremiah Films Announcements — Authority: 441
  The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced a call up to all top Israeli diplomats serving around the world to return home for talks. First-ever Heads of Missions Conference at the MFA 24 Dec 2009 Israels ambassadors and consuls general serving throughout the world will discuss broad diplomatic ...
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• Tweet of the Day: Crazy Pete’s Never-ending Idiocy

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 126
  From the 140 Character Mind of Rep. Pete Hoekstra Yesterday America faced its first attempted terrorist attack of the Obama Administration. If you have not been watching the news, and come directly to Kicking Ass Ann Arbor for breaking news a day late, a Nigerian man attempted to light some sort of incendiary ...
  11 hours ago

• Russia set to display the nation’s first 5th generation fighter jet of the future

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 131
  by JasonThe reports of Russia’s attempt to answer for the U.S. 5th generation fighters, the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II, have been ongoing for years now. However, it seems that Russia is getting close to revealing it latest fighter jet with flight test scheduled next year.According to the official RIA ...
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• World Bank Development Report Overview 2010: Development and Climate Change

  
  The Entrepreneur - Cameroon's Premier Economic & Business Journal — Authority: 136
  World Bank report discusses the consequences of climate change...especially on developing countries. The report invites countries to act "together" in order to stabilize the warming around 2°C above preindustrial period. The report also stresses the importance of water and land management... More
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• British Court Issued Gaza Arrest Warrant for Former Israeli Minister Tzipi Livni

  
  The Entrepreneur - Cameroon's Premier Economic & Business Journal — Authority: 136
  The UK government is looking into reforming its law on war crimes after a British court issued an arrest warrant against former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni. The warrant was requested by Palestinian plaintiffs under the principle of universal jurisdiction to prosecute Livni for war crimes committed during ...
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• Kashmiri separatist leader reacts sharply on panel’s autonomy proposal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Srinagar, Dec 26 (ANI): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman, Mirwaiz Omar Farooq has reacted sharply to recommendations made by a high level committee favouring autonomy for the state. Talking to reporters here on Friday, Farooq said their agenda is “freedom, not autonomy”.”The agenda of Hurriyat ...
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• An Iowa Response to a Nuclear Holiday Greeting

  
  Blog for Iowa — Authority: 474
  An Iowa Response to a Nuclear Holiday Greeting by Paul Deaton "Despite politics as usual in Washington, we may still be able to celebrate the holidays with our friends and family, cocooned for a while, using the energy we find there to prepare for the work ahead to bring a sustainable peace to the ...
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• Efforts to Hold Donald Rumsfeld and Other High-level United States Officials Accountable for Torture

  
  The Entrepreneur - Cameroon's Premier Economic & Business Journal — Authority: 136
  The US is failing to investigate and prosecute high-level officials responsible for the implementation of "enhanced interrogation techniques" amounting to torture in Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan. These policies originated at the highest level, but investigations conveniently blamed it all on a few "bad apples" ...
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• Italian MEP Exposes Bilderberg / Trilateral Nominations For EU President. Foreign Minister

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 153
  Mario Borghezio, Lega Nord (ITALY), Member of the European Parliament with the group ‘Europe of Freedom and Democracy’, questions the nominations of Bilderberg and Trilateral attendees for the posts of EU President and EU foreign minister. ► European Parliament, Brussels, 11.11.2009 ► Debate: “European ...
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• Foreign Policy Blogging at OTB

  
  The Glittering Eye — Authority: 136
  This morning I’ve published a foreign policy-related post at Outside the Beltway : “Now That’s a Drumbeat”
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  3 days ago

• In Praise of Jane Hamsher, et al: Redefining the Art of the Possible

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 640
  Jane Hamsher has been taking a lot of flak in recent days for coming out against the Senate health care reform bill as well as for suggesting that “both the [progressive opponents] and the tea party activists are saying almost the exact same thing about the Senate bill” and that the ”painfully obvious ...
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• Burn, Baby, Burn

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 640
  I’d be remiss if I signed off until the New Year without touching one more time on the Canadian Afghan detainee scandal. I’ve been silent  over the past little while not for want of caring or lack of information, but only to sit back and watch how things shape up a bit before commenting again. As readers will ...
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• Shrewd Sarah Palin/Gullible Media

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 640
  I’ve argued before, and I will continue to argue, that there is nothing terribly unique about Sarah Palin as a politician other than the way in which her opponents and the media play right into her hands  by treating her as if she is somehow uniquely important and/or devious. Today, Dave Weigel documents ...
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• Moving Forward With Climate Change Management

  
  The Glittering Eye — Authority: 136
  As should have surprised no one the Copenhagen climate summit was a debacle. According to Mark Lynas the Chinese got just exactly what they wanted out of the summit: To those who would blame Obama and rich countries in general, know this: it was China’s representative who insisted that industrialised country ...
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• A united progressive/tea-party front

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 640
  I can see where Jane Hamsher’s tea-party/populist left united front thing could seem appealing as a movement against something (the no-good politicians in Congress and their corporate special-interest shenanigans).   But I can’t see how it could be a movement for anything.  Progressives want more ...
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• Formulating a Reliable Detainee Policy

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 640
  Will asked me to comment on this op-ed by Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes  pleading with Congress and the President to formulate clear rules regarding detention policy in the War on Terror.    Although I suspect I would disagree with Goldsmith and Wittes pretty strongly on what the substance of any rules ...
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• Politics As Tweener Chat Room Blather

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 640
  Honestly, every time I read a political message of substance delivered via Twitter from Sarah Palin that looks like this, …merged bill may b unrecognizable from what assumed was a done deal:R death panels back in?what’s punishment 4not purchasing mandated HC? I can’t help thinking, “Is this woman operating at ...
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