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• NRO Cases are Political: Fehmida Mirza

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 463
  Pakistan News: All the NRO cases are political and the judiciary will decide about them, National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza has said. She condoled with MNA Ayaz Sadiq on the death of his father in law justice (r) Sardar Iqbal in Lahore. Talking to media she refused to comment on NRO. She said she couldn’t ...
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• Jewish support for Israeli-Arab causes goes mainstream, irking some

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 141
  NEW YORK (JTA) -- When the Reform movement passed a resolution endorsing advocacy for Israeli Arabs, it wasn’t the first time an American Jewish group had backed the cause of Israeli-Arab equality.In recent years, a growing number of American Jews have thrown their support toward Israeli-Arab causes, including civil ...
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• Coincidence or EU stitch-up?

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 150
  So until October 2008 Baroness Ashton was Labour’s leader in the House of Lords and played a key part in getting the Lisbon Treaty through the upper house and avoiding the calls for a referendum. Now Baroness Ashton is the surprise selection of the EUs 27 member states as high representative for foreign affairs ...
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• Democrazy

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 537
  When you think about it, democracy is really the tyranny of the majority. It is where the majority gets to impose it’s will on the minority, regardless of what is right or proper. This was made obvious to me in 1999 when Labour campaigned on introducing extra taxes for the “rich” (ostensibly to improve health), ...
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• As in 2005, PM the driving force for finalising nuke deal with US in 2009

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Geneva, Nov.22 (ANI): In July 2005 and in the months and years that followed, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, was feted as the visionary architect and driving force of the landmark US-India civil nuclear cooperation deal.At that time, the key significance behind the signing was the ending of India’s more ...
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• Caveat emptor

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 437
  Dr Munawar Hassan, Ameer Jamaat e Islami Pakistan, and his verbal acrobatics:After listening to his sermon on the Constitution, lets move on to the military dictator the JI fully supported. For those who say politicians are more corrupt than military dictators, who do not consider the Constitution to be law (let ...
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• Performance of NHS Cambridgeshire’s Exceptional Cases Panel

  
  Richard Taylor — Authority: 110
  I have been looking into the performance of Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust’s “Exceptional Cases Panel”. The panel is tasked with deciding if public money ought be spent on a treatment which is not covered by existing NHS contracts and policies. The kind of requests which the panel deals with include high ...
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• Bangladesh works towards media autonomy

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 117
  Mindful of the importance of media autonomy in a democracy, a certain stakeholder in Bangladesh had taken steps to push for the independence of the country’s government-run television and radio stations. Bangladesh’s human rights organisation Adhikar had filed a petition with the country’s High Court, which in ...
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• Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europe

  
  DhafirTrial — Authority: 123
  Glenn Greenwald  Salon 11/21/09 Lithuania is currently embroiled in a bizarre and deeply confusing political controversy which reveals what happens when a country becomes gripped by extremist ideologies.  Evidence has emerged that Lithuanian intelligence agencies allowed secret CIA prisons to be maintained in ...
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• Malaysia’s democratic deficit

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 432
  Author: Greg Lopez, ANU The reforms in the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) may be a step in the right direction. Already, there are detractors suggesting that the reforms are meaningless as corruption is entrenched in Malaysia. What is more serious is Malaysia’s democratic deficit which undermines the ...
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• George Soros on the Way Forward

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 753
  Soros lectures You can slog through the video , but I preferred the transcripts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 + to me, it started off rather abstract* (admittedly on his part) and slow (covered ground; note soros tag) and doesnt really get interesting until 3 -- "The event that forced me to thoroughly reconsider ...
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• Arise, Sir Rodney Bjelke-Petersen

  
  g.blog — Authority: 104
  Sir Joh would have been proud. Back in the1970s and 1980s one of New Zealand’s more infamous emigrants, the corrupt and racist Queensland Premier the late Sir Joh Bjelke-Peterson held onto power by what became known as the Bjelke-mander under which electorate boundaries were drawn so that rural electorates ...
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• Precariat meet & greet

  
  NewUnionism's Blog — Authority: 92
  The New Unionists of the 1880’s built trade unions as we know them by organizing the proletariat – the working class of the day. Similarly, today’s new unionists are beginning to organize the precariat – workers without security. To say this latter group represents the most rapidly growing sector in society ...
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• Less representation is a good thing? Yeah right!

  
  Brad Heap — Authority: 124
  David Farrar at Kiwiblog this morning posts that under the new structure for the Auckland council the total number of elected representatives drops from 258 to 147 and then proceeds to say “I’d say 111 less Councillors etc is a good start!”. How is it that less representation is good? Currently with 258 ...
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• Obama’s First Judicial Nominee Confirmed (5 Months Later)

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 652
  Judge David. F. Hamilton was confirmed Thursday in the Senate to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals 59-39, after breaking a GOP filibuster Tuesday and persevering through a painstakingly delayed process. Senate Judiciary Chairman Leahy (D-Vt.) made the following statement : “This is a nomination that should ...
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• Illegally crossing the border, received in an e-mail.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 129
  OK. I THINK I GET IT Let me see if I understand all this…. IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR. IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY. IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER, YOU GET SHOT. IF YOU CROSS THE TURKEY BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU SPEND THE ...
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• 28 arrests at Spanish event attended by BNPs Griffin

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 144
  . Spanish police Saturday detained 28 members of a far-right party who tried to disrupt an event held by a rival far-right group attended by British National Party leader Nick Griffin at a Madrid hotel. The detained are all members of Spains far-right Patriotic Socialist Movement and they were arrested after ...
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• Investigative Journalism

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 169
  I have deep respect for the work of investigative journalists. They often work under very difficult circumstances – risking persecution, law suits and harassment. But investigative journalism is indispensable Read More......( read more )
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• $100 a marcher

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 624
  The Herald reports : Between 4000 and 5000 people marched through central Auckland this afternoon, urging the Government to act on referenda. That can only be called a very disappointing turnout for the organisers, considering the target was 50,000 and the amount spent was $300,000 to $450,000 on promoting it. ...
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• While the Senate dithers on health care reform: some sharply directed anger

  
  Can it happen here? — Authority: 133
  Josh Marshall has a quote up from an anonymous "Senate Democratic Chief of Staff" whining about progressives. There is a lot of misplaced anger coming from many of our fellow progressives about Senate Democrats (which often is just shortened to "The Democrats") inability to pass a robust healthcare reform ...
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