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• “Proteus”: Plotless One-Person Fictional World?

  
  (mass)think! — Authority: 103
  [A rendering of the sea-god Proteus by Andrea Alciato]After Stephen Dedalus is introduced in the first two episodes of James Joyce’s Ulysses, hardly anything happens in “Proteus,” the third episode. After the reader is acquainted with Stephen’s character (a struggling and aspiring artist), his job (teaching ...
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• Freedom fighters

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 461
  The Africans who fought the Nazis – and colonialism See the original post here:  Freedom fighters
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• Give this lackey a new directive

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 145
  BagnewsNotes has juxtaposed two photos of African colonialism. One taken more than a century ago shows a white bwana being ferried by two porters, the second is the recent image at left. The difference is that today’s servants are trusted with weapons because they have to double as security, the continent being ...
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• Rising of the Moon: Sindhis Demand Freedom

  
  Sherryx's Weblog — Authority: 112
  Sultani-e-Jumhoor ka aata he zamana Jo Naqash-e-kuhan tum ku nazer aye mita do Sindhies come out in thousands to demand freedom! The oppressed nationalities of Pakistan are now demanding their rights. The ruling elite and its allied middle classes are devoting all their energies to destroy PPP, but their acts are ...
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• The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 140
  By Margot Mifflin University of Nebraska Press The Blue Tattoo tells the story of Olive Oatman, a nineteenth century woman with an unusual life. In 1851, Oatman was violently abducted along with her younger sister by Yavapais after watching this group of Native Americans brutally slaughter the rest of her ...
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• 1550: Jon Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Iceland

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  At dawn this date in 1550, two sons* of Jon Arason were beheaded at Skalholt , followed by the energetic sextegenerian prelate himself — cementing Lutheranism in Iceland. As bishop of the northern diocese of Holar and one of the most powerful pols in Iceland, Arason did what he could to maintain papal authority ...
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• LIVES OF WILLIAM HARTNELL: ‘After riding and walking for a month, Hartnell reached Santiago in time to celebrate his twenty-first birthday,’ Susanna Bryant Dakin, page 11

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 126
  Hartnell’s own life record commences with a journal entry on St. Patrick’s Day, 1819. Leaving Buenos Aires accompanied by the “jolly guide Morales,” the Englishman proceeded overland more than a thousand miles, straight across the continent; sometimes by stage, as on the military road traversing the slowly ...
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• Converging Narratives

  
  ignoblus, for the moment — Authority: 118
  So, last night I went to an event at the JCC . It began with a few short film clips and then broke into discussion groups. Join other young social justice and Israel activists for an exciting evening of short films and an open, facilitated dialogue, which will grapple with the Arab experience in Israel. A lot comes ...
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• Big Oil, Corporate Greed, and Social Sin

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 629
  As an urbanite fortunate to live within walking distance of work and trendy restaurants, I rarely drive these days. But running late to a pickup basketball game recently, I was low on gas and quickly pulled into the first station…
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• Did you know that Biden called for a U.S. invasion of Iraq as far back as 1998?

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 483
  Macho Shithead of the Week Arthur Silber   powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2009/11/macho-shithead-of-week.html Did you know that Biden called for a U.S. invasion of Iraq as far back as 1998? Do you know about his plan for a “soft partition” of Iraq, a plan which would necessarily involve suffering, ...
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• Verge LA 2009 – Speaker Topics Part II

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 496
  With Verge LA right around the corner, I will be posting some of the topics that various speakers will tackle, everyday until the event. The basic theme of this gathering is looking at what it means to be missional in imaginative ways. Verge LA is where the next BIG idea meets UNconference. Check out this Verge LA ...
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• Settler Colonialism: Return to the Middle Ages

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 141
  By Bouthaina Shaaban, Counterpunch , Nov 2, 2009 W hen you read a news story saying that “the United Nations called on Israel to stop demolishing Palestinian homes and put an end to the policy of forced evictions in East Jerusalem, warning that there are 60,000 Palestinians threatened of becoming ...
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• RBI to buy 200 tonnes of IMF gold – Home – livemint.com

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 108
  RBI’s decision to shore up its gold reserves needs to be seen in the context of other central banks across the globe increasing their gold reserves. Among them are the central banks of China, Russia and a few countries in the European Union. In the last one year, China has increased its gold holdings, by weight, by ...
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• Outcry against ‘colonial’ takeover by BP of Rumaila oilfield in Iraq

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 483
  Outcry against ‘colonial’ takeover by BP of Rumaila oilfield in Iraq Oliver August in Baghdad   www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6900112.ece November 2, 2009  -   The British oil giant BP will today take control of Iraq’s biggest oilfield in the first important energy deal ...
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• W.E.B. DuBois and The Black Radical Tradition w Prof. Reiland Rabaka

  
  voxunion.com — Authority: 112
  In this week’s Jazz and Justice “redux” Dr. Reiland Rabaka joined us for a discussion of his latest book, Africana Critical Theory and the Black Radical Tradition from W.E.B. DuBois to Amilcar Cabral.  In addition to a wide-ranging discussion of DuBois’ work, his increasing radicalization in opposition to ...
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• DESERTEC $555 Billion Renewable Energy Project Moving Forward

  
  Green Options — Authority: 147
  The huge project to build a $555 billion renewable energy “ belt ” in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, funded largely by German companies, moved another step forward a few days ago. The articles of association for the DESERTEC Industrial Initiative (DII) were signed by the joint venture group of ...
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• “Your husband has a right to expect regular sex” and related CRAP like the “Duty Shag”

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  [image is from here, a site dedicated to bringing to light the problem of mens violence against women in heterosexual marriage and effective means to intervene on such violence. More about this in the next post]What follows is from a UK white feminists blog called Too Much To Say For Myself, that Im now going to link ...
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• Big Oil, Corporate Responsibility and Catholic Guilt

  
  Progressive Revival — Authority: 419
  John Gehring is the Media Director and Senior Writer for Catholics in Alliance for the Common GoodAs an urbanite fortunate to live within walking distance of work and trendy restaurants, I rarely drive these days. But running late to a...
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• Every Day is Groundhog Day in the Middle East

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 583
  In the movie, “Groundhog Day”, the main character wakes up day after day, trapped in the same events, desperately looking for a way out of that living nightmare. It’s a very good metaphor for the Middle East. Here are some quotes from a book whose title I will reveal in a moment: “The only truly ...
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• 1463: David of Trebizond and his heirs

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  On this date in 1463, the last regal claimants of Byzantium’s last successor state were executed in Constantinople. They were, by this time, two years deposed from actual power. David of Trebizond (aka David Comnenos) had inherited the enclave “empire” clinging to the Black Sea coast in 1459, and proved ...
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