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• in Politics
  The Moral Bankruptcy of the UN Human Rights Commission
  The UN's obsession with Israel hatred continues.
  by raypcook / on Oct 14, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “UN”

• DRACULA THE UN-DEAD IN FRANKFURT

  
  Literary manager | Producer | Ken Atchity — Authority: 128
  Interview mit Dacre Stoker Frisches Blut für den Grafen Dacre Stoker, der Nachfahre des Dracula-Autors Bram Stoker, holt den Ober-Vampir zurück. Im FR-Interview spricht er über den Hype und die Auferstehung des "wahren Draculas". Dacre Stoker (Bild: afp) Mr. Stoker, Sie ...
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• Japan increases Afghan aid to $5 bn

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New York, Nov 12 (DPA) Japan has informed the UN of its intention to increase assistance to Afghanistan to $5 billion over the next five years, the UN said.Japan decided to add $2 billion to the current $3 billion it had allocated for assistance to war-torn Afghanistan.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed ...
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• Love of the Land: Thunder and Lightning

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 162
  Thunder and Lightning Marc Prowiser Yesha Views 11 November 09 Thunder and Lightning, or in Hebrew – Rahm and Barak, can either bring rains of blessing or a damaging storm. Rahm Emanuel spoke to the General Assembly of Jewish leaders regarding Israel and US involvement in achieving peace between ...
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• Veterans Call For Clean Energy And Climate Legislation (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  A few months ago I wrote about Operation Free , a growing group of U.S. veterans advocating for a clean energy future and climate legislation, so in honor of Veteran’s Day I wanted to share with you a video of some of the organization’s members touring the country by bus to raise awareness of the threat that ...
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• Angelina Jolie Is Named UN Ambassador For Next Of Kin

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 624
  ANGELINA Jolie will adopt a child from Syria . So says OK! magazine. Right now Syrian children are smoothing down their hair and widening their eyes. Mums dreaming of Amerika are kicking their children out into the cold night air. Coachloads of Iranians booking package tours to Damascus. This is it. This is the ...
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• No Man-Made Global Warming, Because There Has Been No Increase In Airborne CO2

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 611
  There has been a ground breaking discovery in the global warming debate – there has been  no net increase in CO2 since 1850 : New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having ...
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• Asin On Grazia: (Un)Covered

  
  High Heel Confidential — Authority: 443
  Sculpted shoulders being the norm for Fall and green one of it’s (Fall’s) hottest hues, it doesn’t surprise us to see this dress on the latest cover of Grazia’s, nor the background. Do however like the way they both came together.We love how Grazia never shies away from using color, this cover being no ...
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• Vande Mataram- The Controversy

  
  TechBanyan — Authority: 594
  “Singing of Vande Mata Ram is a prayer and against Islamic law as Muslims cannot offer prayers to anyone except Allah. Muslims should not sing Vande Mataram.”This was the fatwa declared by Mufti Ehsan kazmi the deputy-in-charge of Darul Uloom, during the 30th general session  of Jamait-Ulema-e-Hind held on the ...
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• United Nations Envoy Hails Positive Outcome of DRC, Rwanda Reconciliation

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The rapprochement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda has “positive outcome for peace and stability of the Great Lake region,” the UN special envoy to the Great Lake region, Olusegun Obasanjo, said. For one year, Obasanjo has been taking actions with co-facilitator former Tanzanian President ...
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• When Is a Trial Not a Trial? When the Registry Says So

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 578
  by Kevin Jon Heller Another day, another attempt by the Registry to undermine the fairness of Dr. Karadzic’s trial. Rule 3.3 of the Registry’s Remuneration Scheme for Persons Assisting Indigent Self-Represented Accused provides that a self-representing defendant’s legal team is entitled to be paid for “a ...
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• Love of the Land: Haaretz Errs on U.N. Resolution 242

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 162
  Haaretz Errs on U.N. Resolution 242 TS CAMERA/Snapshots 10 November 09 Haaretz , considered by some the New York Times of Israel, claimed in its editorial Friday: . . . Israel must seek peace with Syria in the context of Security Council Resolution 242 of November 1967: full and ...
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• Deepika on Verve India: (Un)Covered

  
  High Heel Confidential — Authority: 443
  The November edition of Verve serves up Ms. Padukone wearing a Monisha Jaisingh sequin jumpsuit fresh off the Couture Week runway. While I am not a fan of the design of the jumpsuit (the v-neck), angelic is what came to mind when I saw Deepika on the cover. Your thoughts on the cover?Left: Monisha Jaisingh, [...]
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• Climate Change Threatens China’s Yangtze River Basin

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  paulmannixs Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Climate change threatens to unleash severe storms, droughts, floods across China’s Yangtze River Basin in the coming decades, unless proper mitigation measures are taken to protect the region from catastrophe, according to a new study from the WWF. While we should ...
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• Ethiopia Gearing Up for Regional Economic Forum

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Ethiopia is gearing up for a three-day regional 4th Annual Africa Economic Conference (AEC) starting on Wednesday in Addis Ababa in the presence of African economists and policy makers. The regional 4th Annual Africa Economic Conference (AEC) is hosted by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African ...
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• How To Start Your Own Country

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 567
  Even though I remain convinced of a U.S. financial crash in the short-run, longer-term, I think the United States will be okay. In the future, it may be a lot different from the economic powerhouse and bastion of consumerism it once was (is?), but that might not be such a bad thing. However, there are some who ...
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• Live review: Dirty Projectors @ the Bluebird Theater

  
  Reverb — Authority: 132
  Take note, fellow musicians: Dirty Projectors’ performance prowess should be inspiring, not discouraging. Photos by Robert Castro. As intimidating as both tUnE-yArDs and the Dirty Projectors are in terms of raw talent, there is nevertheless something compelling about these bands that refuses to hold their fans ...
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• EDIFACT D.09A Released With—Egad!—A New Message…and a Few Problems

  
  The Inovis Blog — Authority: 120
  Last month, UN/EDIFACT released their latest directory of EDI messages, D.09A.  The “A” in the version designation means it was the first one for 2009.  For those who follow EDIFACT, that’s rather late in the year for the first directory.  But at least it’s here.  What’s much more interesting about this ...
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• Obama Administration Moves to Destroy Gulf Coast Oyster Industry

  
  Red Alerts — Authority: 474
  Raw oysters are one of the few pleasures in life a man grows into instead of out of. While a man of my age should have long ago forgotten what being high even feels like, and should be happily totaling tea with his wife at home rather than drinking himself into a stupor at some bar, we still can enjoy a richly ...
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• Kuwaiti MP threatens to grill PM over music classes

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 536
  Because music is “un-Islamic”Why? Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of...
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• US Urges North Korea Not to Escalate Tensions in Yellow Sea

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 128
  Washington has urged North Korea not to escalate tensions in the Yellow Sea following a naval skirmish between the North and South Korean navies Tuesday.More Articles
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