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• Obama Urges Burma to Release Aung San Suu Kyi

  
  Axis of Right — Authority: 426
  During his recent trip to Singapore, President Obama urged the Prime Minister of Burma to release pro-democracy dissident Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.  Given Obama’s warped sense of good and evil and his tendency throw his support behind some pretty shady characters , the request must have been a bit ...
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• Sometimes this industry does the right thing

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 704
  It may be that it was simply never as visible in the days before social media, but it seems to me that this new level of connectivity is allowing the media and marketing industry to do more positive deeds than ever before. Whether global poverty, climate change, male suicide or simple compassion, there seems to be a ...
  9 hours ago

• Rock Star Turned Spider Man

  
  NY Bloger — Authority: 138
  Reeve Carney has been selected to play the superhero Spider Man in the new Broadway musical, ‘Spider Man, Turn Off the Dark’. A press release was sent out last week, saying “After an exhaustive search that included a casting call tour spanning six cities and thousands of candidates, the producers and creative ...
  17 hours ago

• Bono’s Latest NYT Piece Covers Some Notable History

  
  ONE — Authority: 516
  ONE co-founder Bono is a contributing columnist for the New York Times and his latest column appears today. Written as a screenplay that spans 20 years, the piece focuses on both the artistic process and some important work in Germany during the 2007 G8 summit. Below is an excerpt from a scene at the 2007 [...]
  18 hours ago

• The Daily Habit: History

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 140
  Long Live the Velvet Revolution http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091114/ap_en_mu/eu_czech_velvet_revolution
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• One Republic – Wake Up

  
  popwreckoning — Authority: 143
  It’s very hard to try and put a genre label on One Republic . They utilize almost every type of music, from R&B to alternative rock to even some reggae influences. Most people try and compare them to fellow “piano-rockers” The Fray , but that’s just it: the only similarity linking the two bands is ...
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• Brüno

  
  ReadJunk.com — Authority: 142
  Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen,Gustaf HammarstenWritten By: Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeff Schaffer, Dan Mazer, Peter Baynham, Anthony HinesDirected By: Larry Charles, Dan MazerStudio: Universal StudiosBuy on Amazon.comSacha Baron Cohen’s Borat follow-up is Bruno, another hilarious character from the Da Ali G show! This ...
  2 days ago

• Oh the Humanity!

  
  Diva Diaries — Authority: 124
  Have you ever acted like a geek with a new gadget? Did you attend U2’s Rose Bowl concert? If you answered yes to both those questions, I probably saw you ask the people around ‘can you take my picture?’  Yes, October 25 th could have been considered the Olympic Games of People Watching. First off I never ...
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• Geoff Vreeken Launches Homeless Copywriter

  
  AdHack Blog — Authority: 415
  AdHack member Geoff Vreeken has launched his new project — Homeless Copywriter . Here’s the story, straight from Geoff: I got laid off, and needed a website to show my old work. Instead, I created new work: this pro bono campaign for Covenant House, an international street youth rehabilitation group. On the ...
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• U2 Concert!

  
  Summer Friend — Authority: 103
  U2 in the house! Last month, I went to see U2 LIVE! They brought the house down; Raymond James Stadium in Tampa will never be the same. The stage ensemble, known as the spaceship or the claw, was massive, the effects spectacular, and the concert only established what I already knew--U2 is the worlds greatest rock ...
  2 days ago

• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,Pro Bono

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 460
  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,Pro Bono resident Barack Obama said the September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be put on trial in New York City. Speaking in Tokyo, Mr Obama said Mohammed, the self-proclaimed organiser of the al-Qaeda terrorist plot that killed almost 3,000 ...
  2 days ago

• Fame After Death: Whos Still a Celebrity Post-Mortem?

  
  Popeater — Authority: 788
  Filed under: Movie News , Celebrity Deaths , WTF The recent DirecTV commercial with the image of the late Chris Farley cavorting with David Spade begs the question - which living celebs have that kind of afterlife? Will Jay-Zs relatives have Hova sell a Honda? Will Taylor Swifts estate ... Read more   ...
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• Annie Lennox Awarded As Woman Of Peace

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 593
  Singer Annie Lennox has been honored by Nobel Peace Laureates for her work promoting awareness of AIDS and peace at the 10th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Berlin. The 2009 Woman Of Peace award was presented by former Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev . Lennox was chosen by 22 Nobel Peace ...
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• Emergency cushions and white elephants

  
  Irish Mammy on the run — Authority: 111
  """""""""" "" Following my blog post yesterday I had quite a few supporters and quite a few questions on my financial alternatives to cutting child benefit so here in this (yet another long - sorry) post I will attempt to clarify yesterday’s musings. By the way, I continue to hold out hope that sanity will prevail ...
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• All You Need Is Love At Starbucks For Charity

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 593
  The holidays are all about giving, and Starbucks is passionate about supporting communities in which they do business. As part of the ongoing partnership between Starbucks and Bono’s ( RED ) , this holiday season customers will have the opportunity to turn all of their purchases ( RED )! Beginning November 17, ...
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• Nobel Peace Laureates honor Annie Lennox

  
  Glamour Vanity — Authority: 484
  It’s like winning a humanitarian activities Oscar ! Former Eurythmics vocalist and singer Annie Lennox has been honored with the 2009 Woman Of Peace Award by Nobel Peace Laureates at 10th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates on Nov. 11, 2009. Laureates praised Annie for her work raising awareness of HIV/AIDS and ...
  3 days ago

• Best Rolling Stone Cover Ever!

  
  Diva Diaries — Authority: 124
  I can’t take my eyes off this photo.  It’s amazing to even think these three can exist in the same space. This is definitely not something you see everyday.  Yet, at the same time, they’ve all have stuck around for decades. They remain at the top of their game, in one case ahem, 40+ years later.  I’ve ...
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• Are There Radical Lawyers?

  
  Slaw — Authority: 600
  The Times Online has a curious nostalgia piece entitled, “ Whatever happened to the radical lawyers ,” that keys off Michael Mansfield ’s autobiography, Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer (co-written with Yvette Vanson). Mansfield, president of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, has been practising in ...
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• Lets See How You Like It

  
  Swampland — Authority: 748
  This recess, a Democratic outside group is spending more than a $1 million on television commercials lambasting GOP lawmakers for voting against health care reform. The Foundation for Patients Rights, which is aligned with the Service Employees International Union, is planning ads in Delaware and Illinois against ...
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• Minnesota Lawyers Protect Rights of Those on Death Row

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the title of Sam Barrs Behind the Bar column at MinnPost. LINK   Heres an extended excerpt from the beginning of the article. About 3,300 people are on death row right now. Few are represented bycompetent lawyers at public expense, despite the need to be sure —certain, if possible — that only the guilty ...
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