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

  
  Thaindian News — 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: 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 Issues — 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 Issues — 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 Issues — 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 Issues — 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 Issues — 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 Issues — 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: 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 ...
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• Norway: Nobel Peace Prize Seized from Shirin Ebadi’s Bank Box

  
  niacINsight — 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.

  
  ModernityBlog — 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 [...]
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• A Rare Chinese Look at Secret Detentions

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — 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 ...
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• Divine Inspiration

  
  Newsroom Magazine — 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 Village — 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 ...
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• Philippine massacre suspect blames Muslim rebels for carnage

  
  Thaindian News — 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 ...
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• Quebec’s ‘Fundamental values’ bill passes first reading

  
  No Apologies — 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 Daily — 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 ...
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• Call it Ecocide: Babies With No Heads, 2 Heads or Monstrous Deformities

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — 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 Gutenberg — 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 ...
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• Guinea: More Violence Against Women

  
  Women of History — 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 ...
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