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• International Roundup: Yi’s return, Pau Gasol

  
  Interbasket — Authority: 434
  This week’s quick international roundup of the player performances during the last few days. This post includes discussion about Yi Jianlian ’s return to the New Jersey Nets, Pau Gasol ’s extension, Luol Deng and Joakim Noah’s contributions to the Chicago Bulls, J.J. Barea’s career year, and Žalgiris ...
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• Nuclear Energy: Safe, Clean, and Affordable

  
  A few thoughts — Authority: 120
  Image via Wikipedia Dr. Mir F. AliIn these days of climate change and energy crisis, it’s too bad that the word “Nuclear” has a connotation that brings back memories about the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl and the near miss of Three Mile Island. People are rightfully scared of potential accidents and the ...
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• Lithuania weakens anti-gay law

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 698
  The Baltic state of Lithuania appears to be backing away a bit from previous anti-gay legislation. ( Agence France-Presse ) In a 58-4 vote, with 25 abstentions, parliament approved amendments to legislation that sparked criticism from rights groups in Lithuania and abroad when it was passed in July. The original ...
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• The future of mobile: Q&A with GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Lithuania revises “gay promotion” law, rights activists still wary

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 533
  Agence France-Presse : "The original law, which had been due to come into force in March 2010, barred the public dissemination of information favourable to homosexuality, claiming it could harm the mental health and physical, intellectual and moral development of minors . . . The changes approved on Tuesday give the ...
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• Investigation finds Lithuania had secret CIA jails

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 141
  ReutersVILNIUS (Reuters) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison in Lithuania and al Qaeda suspects may have been held there, a parliamentary probe in the Baltic state found on Tuesday.Talk of secret jails have been a hot topic in Lithuania and the head of the domestic intelligence agency ...
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• Lithuanian parliament revises gay ban law

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 683
  Lithuania has revised a controversial law banning the "promotion" of homosexuality. The countrys parliament voted 58-4, with 25 abstentions, to amend the law. It prohibited the "public dissemination" of any materials which could be seen to promote homosexuality.
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• Lithuania: Anti Gay "Promotion" Law Watered Down, Still Dangerous

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 148
  Lithuanian lawmakers revised a controversial law on Tuesday that banned the promotion of homosexuality, but gay rights campaigners warned the move did nothing to assuage their concerns. In a 58-4 vote, with 25 abstentions, parliament approved amendments to legislation that sparked criticism from rights groups in ...
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• Probe Confirms CIA Operated Secret "Black Site" Prisons in Lithuania by Jason Leopold

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 460
  Lithuanian government officials confirmed that the countrys intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret black site prisons in the country where alleged high-value al-Qaeda operatives were to be rendered for interrogation. The four-month investigation commissioned by President Dalia Grybauskaite and conducted by ...
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• Lithuanian Probe Reveals Two CIA Black Sites

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  CIA Conducted ‘Interrogations’ in Stable by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com , December 22, 2009 Email This | Print This | // Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum The Lithuanian Parliament released its findings into a probe of CIA activities in the nation today, ...
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• Lithuanian Probe Reveals Two CIA Black Sites

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 440
  CIA Conducted ‘Interrogations’ in Stable by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com ,  December 22, 2009 Email This | Print This | // Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum The Lithuanian Parliament released its findings into a probe of CIA activities in the nation today, confirming that ...
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• Lithuania ‘hosted at least two secret CIA prisons’

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 521
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/PressTVDec. 22, 2009A Lithuanian inquiry has found that the US Central Intelligence Agency set up and used secret prisons on its soil following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US.Lithuania’s intelligence agency assisted the CIA-run secret prisons, which were used to ...
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• U.S. Put Jails in Lithuania, Premier Says

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  A report contends that state security officials never informed senior government officials about two small secret prisons.
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• Guantanamo In Lithuania

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  The government of Lithuania confirmed today that the U.S. government has been operating two secret prisons within its borders . The prisons’ operations took place outside all systems of international law, meaning that they violated U.S. law as well. Reports call these “black site prisons” because they’re ...
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• Lithuanian spy agency set up secret prisons for CIA

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Parliamentary committee finds no evidence of interrogations in Lithuania or that senior politicians were informed Lithuanias intelligence agency helped the CIA to set up secret prisons in the Baltic country, a parliamentary panel said today. However, the national security committee found no evidence that any ...
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• Lithuania hosted secret CIA prisons

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 648
  The CIA used at least two secret detention centers in Lithuania after the September 11th terrorist attacks, a Lithuanian inquiry has found. The report by a Lithuanian parliamentary committee says that in 2005 and 2006 CIA chartered planes were allowed to land in Lithuania. It says that no Lithuanian officials were ...
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• Frontrunning: December 22

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  Eurostar may struggle to move passengers by Christmas ( Bloomberg ) Lithuania let CIA use secret prison for interrogation ( Bloomberg ) A rising euro poses a threat to parts of block ( WSJ ) FBI probes hacker attack on Citigroup ( WSJ, AP ) Dubai stock markets to merge amid debt woe ( WSJ) Are S&P 500 growth ...
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• Lithuania may have hosted two US ‘war on terror’ jails (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AFP - Staunch US ally Lithuania may have hosted two war on terror lock-ups used by American agents to interrogate suspected Al-Qaeda members, the head of a commission of inquiry said Tuesday.
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• Debunking Myths about me (Part II)

  
  Kazakhnomad's Blog: A Westerner's View of Kazakhstan — Authority: 127
  Myth#5 – The most painful lie used against me was when I was betrayed by someone I thought of and trusted as a friend.  She twisted a sentence that I wrote in a handout for an international TESOL conference paper that I delivered last March in Denver, Colorado.  She immediately flew into a rage that she did not ...
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• Domus247 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

  
  Travel & Vacation Listings @ RealAdventures — Authority: 153
  Domus247 Vilnius, Lithuania Vacation Rentals - 35 Euro Per Night We also have a lot of apartments in Old Town. Please contact us for more options. We can pick you up at the airport and bring to the apartment of your choice. The cost of transfer is 15 Euro. RealAdventures | Vilnius, Lithuania Vacation Rentals ...
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