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• Azerbaijan: bloggers’ sentences further proof of backsliding

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  A Baku court today sentenced two opposition bloggers to prison in a case that has highlighted declining media freedoms and curbs on civil society in Azerbaijan. Emin Milli, 30, and Adnan Hajizada, 26, received sentences of two and two-and-a-half years, respectively.The verdict came on the same day as a round table ...
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• Kazakh activists’ prosecution politically-motivated

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The prosecution of leading Kazakh democracy and human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis is politically motivated, new reports suggest.Zhovtis, director of the Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, was sentenced to four years in prison last month for accidentally ...
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• President Obama Must Press China on Web Censorship

  
  learning.now — Authority: 671
  In China, Google is forced to censor its search engine, Facebook and Twitter are blocked, U.S. news agencies are barred from selling their services freely, and foreign investment in the media industry is closely watched. Yet when President Obama visits the country in a few days, its unknown if he will publicly ...
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• The Temperature Heats Up --- Catholic Coalition for Church Reform Questions Archdiocese; Archdiocese Responds!

  
  Stella Borealis Catholic Roundtable — Authority: 133
  . Last August 13, Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis issued the following announcement : It has come to the attention of the Archdiocese that a group calling itself the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (CCCR) is planning a 2010 ‘synod’ in the Archdiocese entitled, ‘Claiming Our ...
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• The Fall of the Berlin Wall - 20th Anniversary

  
  Leading Questions — Authority: 118
  Twenty years ago today, the unthinkable occurred. The Berlin Wall, which had divided the city since the early 1960s, came crumbling down. It was an act of freedom for those who had lived under the Communist rule in eastern Europe. Two years later the Communist government in the Soviet Union collapsed and new ...
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• BJP sets up panel to supervise its Karnataka government

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi/Bangalore, Nov 8 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday not only resolved the crisis in its first government in Karnataka but also became the first major political party in the country to set up a sort of oversight panel over its own government.The party has proposed a coordination committee, likely ...
  3 days ago

• BJP resolves Karnataka muddle, Sushma to play key role (Roundup)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi/Bangalore, Nov 8 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party Sunday ended the two-week-old crisis in its first government in Karnataka by assigning a key role in the state affairs to senior party leader Sushma Swaraj in return for dissidents dropping their demand for removal of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa.“From ...
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• Djakarta Artmosphere: The Report

  
  jazzuality.com - Indonesian Jazz News — Authority: 125
  It’s been an amazing year so far. As I predicted earlier at the dawn of 2009, this year becomes the year of jazz revival in Indonesia. I predicted there would be more events as jazz got more power to capture the interest of music lovers, and that’s what exactly going on. The thing that excite me is, not only we ...
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• BJP says Karnataka crisis over, details under wraps (Second Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi/Bangalore, Nov 8 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday heaved a sigh of relief as it announced an end to the 14-day crisis in its Karnataka unit, triggered by dissidents demanding ouster of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. But it did not give out details of the understanding reached between the two ...
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• Crisis plagued Yeddyurappa seeks blessings of Vaishno Devi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Jammu, Nov 8 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is battling a political crisis, visited the revered cave shrine of Vaishno Devi in Jammu and Kashmir and offered prayers.Yeddyurappa was at the shrine Saturday in the Trikuta hills, about 5,500 feet above sea level, for more than an hour. His visit ...
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• Solidaria con Yoani Sanchez y la Resistencia Cubana

  
  Blog for Cuba — Authority: 124
  Martí Noticias - Yoani Sánchez Golpeada en La Habana junto a otros blogueros Dos desconocidos secuestraron y golpearon a las blogueras cubanas Yoani Sánchez, Claudia Cadelo y el escritor Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, en una zona de La Habana, denunciaron desde Cuba. Sánchez dijo que vio a sus atacantes muy ...
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• IANS top stories at 10

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  NATIONALHeavy voting in Lok Sabha, assembly by-elections — Roundup moved at 1915 Ashok Chavan, 37 more ministers take oath in Maharashtra — Roundup moved at 2023 Yeddyurappa sheds tears at fate, dissidents firm on his sack — Roundup moved at 2004 Hooda accommodates all independents in Haryana government — ...
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• Yeddyurappa sheds tears at fate, dissidents firm on his sack (Roundup)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Bangalore/New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Left with little option but to bow to dissident’s demands to save his chair, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Saturday shed tears publicly but the rebels stood firm on his removal.In a rare spectacle in Indian politics, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) first chief ...
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• IANS top stories at 6

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  NATIONALAshok Chavan sworn in Maharashtra chief minister — Moved at 1753, Lead by 1900Dissidents insist on Yeddyurappa’s removal - Lead moved at 1428‘Supportive’ Independents gain most in new Hooda government — Lead moved at 1638CSIR asks sacked Indian American scientist to vacate house — Moved at 1551 ...
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• Dissidents insist on Yeddyurappa’s removal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Bangalore/New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Karnataka Tourism Minister G. Janardhana Reddy, who leads the campaign for the removal of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, Saturday said there was no change in his stand and rubbished reports of a compromise between the warring groups.“The party leaders have not given us any such ...
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• The longest year? 1989 started in August 1980 – Walesa

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The writing was on the wall (no pun intended) for communism way before the Berlin Wall collapsed, says Lech Walesa. In fact, he feared that the mass exodus of East German “deserters” might provoke the Kremlin and jeopardize Solidarnosc’s struggle for democracy.But Solidarnosc had stolen the communists’ ...
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• Democracy events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  November 9, 2009. 20 Years Ago: The Fall of the Berlin WallThe Friedrich Naumann Foundation invites you to a Roundtable Discussion with Torsten Herbst, Member of the State Legislature of Saxony, Secretary General of the Saxon Free Democratic Party (FDP). The Willard InterContinental Hotel, Crystal Room, 1401 ...
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• Interesting conversation I was having wi…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 453
  Interesting conversation I was having with another moderate Muslim. Her point: Mainstream/moderate American Muslims deserve the suspicion of our fellow Americans for having allowed this thing to grow among us that resulted in the violence at Fort Hood and other recent expressions of extremism, for shrinking back ...
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• Officials and dissidents

  
  A Step At A Time — Authority: 124
  …in our social system there are no “politicians of the governing majority”, in their place are officials, performers, whether outside the Duma or inside the Duma. There are no opposition politicians – instead of them there is a procession of clowns. Finally there are no politicians outside the system — the ...
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• Officials and dissidents

  
  A Step At A Time — Authority: 124
  ...in our social system there are no "politicians of the governing majority", in their place are officials, performers, whether outside the Duma or inside the Duma. There are no opposition politicians - instead of them there is a procession of clowns. Finally there are no politicians outside the system -- the only ...
  5 days ago

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