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  • Brown will not back Lanka’s bid to host Commonwealth summit


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    London, Nov.27 (ANI): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that he will block Sri Lanka’s bid to host the next Commonwealth summit because of the conduct of its military campaign against the Tamil Tigers. According to The Times, Brown plans to tell the current Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) ...
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  • China Jails Five Underground Church Leaders


    China Digital Times (CDT)Authority Authority: 631
    Five underground church leaders in Shanxi have been given jail sentences on charges of “illegal land occupation” and “assembling a crowd to disrupt public order.” From Christopher Bodeen for the Associated Press : A court in northern China has sentenced five leaders of an unauthorized Protestant church to ...
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  • NOBODY ASKED ME BUT


    The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal IssuesAuthority Authority: 148
    We offer the rambling thoughts on the human condition of a twenty year old mind trapped in a 79 year-old body. As Americans await the arrival of 2010, many wish we were awaiting the arrival of 1910. I must be unusual, I have never hated anyone for more than 24 hours. Roast beef establishments weigh the amount, but ...
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  • What Price Love For Silvio Berlusconi?


    The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal IssuesAuthority Authority: 148
    Silvio Berlusconi is not only a man who stands tall for I taly , he also maintains a strict upward stance when in the presence of any woman who attracts his attention. Some men stand tall for moral behavior, but the Italian prime minister stands physically tall at all times of the day or night. Unfortunately, some of ...
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  • Anti-Muslim Attacks In UK Prove Incorrect!


    The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal IssuesAuthority Authority: 148
    The British Conservative Party has been denouncing government support for Islamic schools in their country using the argument it was money being spent to further the cause of Islamic extremism. Conservative MPs in Parliament claimed there was no evidence that Islamic schools had been registered or inspected by ...
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  • Rush To Judgment In Iraq Was Planned


    The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal IssuesAuthority Authority: 148
    During March, 2003, the President of the United States and his British allies insisted there had to be an immediate invasion of Iraq in order to rid that nation of its WMD. The frenzied atmosphere brooked no attempt to delay what was posed as a vital immediate need. However, recently revealed information indicate ...
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  • Israel Says Yes And No To Settlement Freeze


    The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal IssuesAuthority Authority: 148
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is running rings around President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on issues pertaining to peace in the Middle East. Netanyahu’s strategy is simple- make outrageous demands and proclaim refusal to make any alterations in Israel policy in the West Bank, and then ...
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  • More Troops Down Vacuum Of Afghanistan


    The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal IssuesAuthority Authority: 148
    President Obama is giving the America n people a Thanksgiving Day break before allowing the bad news concerning Afghanistan to hit the media. More troops will be sent to a war that has been going on for eight years on the assumption that more is better. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs assured one and all ...
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  • The Alliance of Media Advocates (TAMA) Condemns Media Killing in the Ampatuan Massacre


    Pagod Ka Na Bang Maging Si Juan?Authority Authority: 129
    Patuloy ang pagkokondena ng ibat-ibang grupo sa nangyaring Ampatuan Massacre na kumitil sa 57 katao kasama na ang 27 na journalist.  Ngayong araw, ipinahayag na rin ng The Alliance of Media Advocates (TAMA) ang kanilang nagkakaisang pagkondena sa patuloy na pagkamatay at pagpatay ng mga mamamahayag sa ...
    4 hours ago
  • Norway: Nobel Peace Prize Seized from Shirin Ebadi’s Bank Box


    niacINsightAuthority Authority: 573
    The Norwegian government today said Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma have been removed from her bank box. More from CNN: “Such an act leaves us feeling shock and disbelief,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said in a written statement. Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said ...
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  • Not My View.


    ModernityBlogAuthority Authority: 474
    This post from Left Foot Forward is not my view, but as there is a poverty of anything meaningful elsewhere, it will have to do:“President Barack Obama will announce his plan for Afghanistan in a national address to the US next Tuesday, and it is reported that the plan will include sending as many as [...]
    4 hours ago
  • A Rare Chinese Look at Secret Detentions


    China Digital Times (CDT)Authority Authority: 631
    The New York Times follows up on news that Liaowang published a detailed report on black jails in China: Liaowang, or Outlook, a dependably stodgy publication aimed at Communist Party bureaucrats and policy makers, ran an exposé on Tuesday laying out the Byzantine network of interceptors, guards and holding ...
    4 hours ago
  • Divine Inspiration


    Newsroom MagazineAuthority Authority: 129
    We may not be divinely inspired, but we aspire to be.Newsroom MagazineLevels Of ImperfectionQ You criticize politicians and ideologues for not having divine insight while openly speaking as if divinely inspired yourselves. Who anointed you to offer your own opinions as if fact?A No one.Your suggestion that our ...
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  • Am I Not Human? Universal Declaration of Human Rights


    Electronic VillageAuthority Authority: 523
    Soulclap to Jack Healy for reminding us that Human Rights Day is December 10 , the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) was adopted in Paris, France in 1948. Human Rights Day 2009 will focus on non-discrimination. “ All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights ”. These ...
    4 hours ago
  • Philippine massacre suspect blames Muslim rebels for carnage


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    Manila, Nov 27 (DPA) A scion of a powerful political family detained for allegedly masterminding a gruesome massacre of 57 civilians in the southern Philippines Friday blamed Muslim separatist rebels for the carnage.Andal Ampatuan Junior maintained his innocence concerning Monday’s grisly attack on mostly women and ...
    5 hours ago
  • Quebec’s ‘Fundamental values’ bill passes first reading


    No ApologiesAuthority Authority: 149
    Read the complete article here. Montreal Gazette – November 25, 2009 ‘Fundamental values’ bill passes first reading; But Liberals unlikely to support change to Quebec Charter of Rights By Kevin Dougherty A Parti Québécois bill to affirm three “fundamental values of the Quebec nation” – the equality ...
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  • Assassinated by the State


    Progressive News DailyAuthority Authority: 162
    By Salim Muwakkil In These Times Jeffrey Haas tells a story that many of us have long waited to read. His book, The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Lawrence Hill Books, November), is a much-needed corrective to a badly distorted mainstream narrative of a ...
    5 hours ago
  • Call it Ecocide: Babies With No Heads, 2 Heads or Monstrous Deformities


    The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing ConspiracyAuthority Authority: 639
    In the cradle of civilization, young women have become terrified about having children. This is the news I take with me into Thanksgiving and the season of gratitude and family togetherness: that doctors in Fallujah, the Iraqi city we devastated in two military assaults in 2004, have begun documenting a startling ...
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  • A Walkabout


    After GutenbergAuthority Authority: 493
    In “ Slouching Toward Copenhagen “, HuffPo contributor Carl Pope observes, “What do we make of the prospects for global action on the climate crisis, given recent events both in the U.S. Congress and in the international conversations leading up to Copenhagen? Something very peculiar is going on.” Most of ...
    6 hours ago
  • Guinea: More Violence Against Women


    Women of HistoryAuthority Authority: 141
    From Reuters : Guinean soldiers raped at least 100 women during a crackdown on protesters in September, a human rights group said on Thursday. The findings were released as United Nations experts began to investigate the repression, in which about 160 people were killed. The crackdown has drawn widespread ...
    6 hours ago

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