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• Well done and go forward with Chapter 2, Malaysiakini, with new approaches and perspectives

  
  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger — Authority: 480
  November 29, 2009 Change is possible and you, Prem Chandran, Steven Gan and Malaysiakini, have shown us the way. It takes Integrity, Vision and Guts (IVG) to operate in uncharted waters. I admire and respect your courage and quest for excellence. Proceed to Chapter 2 and beyond. –din merican November 28, ...
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• EU & USA: SWIFT agreement ─ Euroblogs and civil society

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 432
  Is the proposed SWIFT financial data transfer agreement between the European Union and the United States of America an example of how civil society and Euroblogs take up important societal issues, where our governments are less than forthcoming? I have not traced the matters to their roots, but I suspect that ...
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• Watchdog citizen journalism against gender violence

  
  Gender Masala — Authority: 112
  The sisters can do it by themselves. By A. Vilanculos The buzz in Mozambique during the recent elections was not the TV debate among presidential candidates debate (there is none) or their programs  (all vague). What had tongues wagging was citizen’s journalism, dispatches by ordinary folk about electoral ...
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• Biro Tata Negara (BTN) by an Undergraduate Inductee

  
  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger — Authority: 480
  November 27, 2009 Biro Tata Negara taught me the Chinese are “the Jews of Asia” By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani Defender of Racist Biro Tata Negara I am one of the privileged few to have attended a local public university and learned the meaning of hate, thanks to the ever popular Biro Tata Negara. ...
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• Asian rights body to visit communal-hit areas in Mizoram

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov.27 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today accepted the offer of the Mizoram Home Minister Pu R. Lalzirliana to visit Mizoram from 4 to 11 December 2009 or any other dates convenient to the State government. In a press held in Aizawl on 22 November 2009 in response to the [...]
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• World Bank Promises and Pitfalls

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  What factors erode the legitimacy of World Bank?  They are: Democratic governance; Accountability; Weaknesses in bureaucratic transparency; Corruption within borrowing nations; and Perceptions of ideological rigidity. The other scenarios that prevail are: Unchecked mission creep; Persistent gaps between ...
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• Biro Tata Negara BTN): A Racist-Facist UMNO Outfit

  
  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger — Authority: 480
  November 27, 2009 BTN promotes National Unity. My Foot! DPM trained by BTN under Mahathir to be an Idiot   “I have attended this BTN course. It is a brainwashing session where they tell us that our country will be destroyed if we don’t support BN. Learning about ‘1Malaysia’, ...
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• Yemen Targets HR Activist Amal Basha in Campaign of Attacks

  
  Armies of Liberation — Authority: 508
  What follows is the Arab Sisters Forum press release on the escalating attacks on Amal Basha, head of the organization. She was repeatedly threatened, had a liquid sprayed in her face on the street, the headquarters was broken into and trashed, and the brakes on her car were cut in an assassination attempt. ...
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• Hegel, The Family, Society, and The State

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  Hegel states two moments of love whose main consequence is the foundation of a family. The first moment constitutes an essential evolution of the will, which leaves the sphere of the abstract rights and, in general, the subjective, to wish a contact with other with other will. The second moment of love is that in ...
  3 days ago

• Yemen Targets Human Rights Activist Amal Basha in a Campaign of Violence and Intimidation

  
  Armies of Liberation — Authority: 508
  What follows is the Arab Sisters Forum press release on the escalating attacks on Amal Basha, head of the organization. She was repeatedly threatened, had a liquid sprayed in her face on the street, the headquarters was broken into and trashed, and the brakes on her car were cut in an assassination attempt. ...
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• Americk Interview Part 2

  
  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger — Authority: 480
  November 26, 2009 Americk Interview Part 2: Anwar Ibrahim is not involved in the latest twist in the  Bala versus Najib Altantuya Rumble Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim is not involved in the latest twist to P Balasubramaniam’s sensational allegations against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, said the ...
  4 days ago

• Americk Interview Part 1: Najib lined to PI Bala’s Disappearance

  
  Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger — Authority: 480
  November 26, 2009 Part 1 of Interview with PI Subramaniam’s Lawyer, Amerik Singh: Najib linked to Bala’s Disappearance November 25, 2009 Any reasonable person would draw the conclusion that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is somehow linked to the disappearance of P Balasubramaniam, according to the ...
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• CHOGM will dispel pessimism about Copenhagen: Trinidad PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Paras RamoutarPort-of-Spain, Nov 24 (IANS) The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) here will “lead the way” for the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, according to Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Patrick Manning.CHOGM can overcome the pessimism surrounding the ...
  6 days ago

• All the Sons (and Daughters) of Darfur

  
  Save Darfur Weblog — Authority: 470
  The Darfuri civil society consultations in Doha concluded Saturday with representatives  finalizing the “Doha Declaration” and delivering it to African Union/United Nations chief mediator Djibril Bassolé and their Qatari host, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs H.E. Ahmed Bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud.  The ...
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• John Atlas: Enough is Enough! No one is Too Big To Fail

  
  John Atlas — Authority: 92
  Was the bank bailout fair? Citizen Action (NJCA) the state’s largest citizen watchdog coalition claims that Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs, bailed out by tax dollars, are now making record profits and will soon hand out multi-billion dollar bonuses. ...
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• THE STORY ON RACIST RABBI YITZHAK SHAPIRA CONTINUES

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  I was immediately compelled by the Holy Spirit to reinforce the calls for peace made by an atheist on Facebook in her argument with a fellow atheist of hers. This may strike some who call themselves Christian as an anti-Christ activity, but I assure you that it is not. The female (Alex) is an Iranian. The other one is ...
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• America’s Growing Black Market: Freedom in Action

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 609
  The CS Monitor has a neat little piece on America’s burgeoning shadow economy: Perhaps the biggest surprise about America’s shadow economy is its size. Long associated with colorful street hawkers in the developing world, the shadow economy makes up a larger portion of the economies of countries like Greece ...
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• Get Ready for The Book Lounge’s Biggest Week Ever

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 481
  Alert! And you thought they couldn’t do it. Top their previous record for “most book frenzy in a five day stretch”, that is - set around this time last year, I believe, when The Book Lounge team hosted six events in five days. Well, never underestimate Mervyn Sloman and Co. This week is the Lounge’s ...
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• Tradtional Advertising, Non-tradtional Brands: Colombia’s Ministry of Defense and The Government of Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli

  
  Latin American Thought — Authority: 107
  Colombian Government Spends Money to Talk to FARC RebelsThe front page of Advertising Age, a leading trade in the advertising industry, published a story on its front page during the week of 16 November about an established ad campaign with a non-traditional target audience: members of the FARC.The campaign, sponsored ...
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• Now that’s a socialist haircut!

  
  North Korean Economy Watch — Authority: 426
  Back in 2005, the North Korean media was mocked in the western press for encouraging its population to maintain hairstyles consistent with a socialist lifestyle .   Judging by the imagery, this was no laughing matter! Well, the AFP reports that Rodong Sinmun has once again taken on the task of reminding the ...
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