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• Iran Thumbs Its Nose At The Rest Of The World

  
  QandO — Authority: 143
  W ell, so far this new policy of “engagement” is paying off handsomely with Iran. Here’s how they unclench their fist : Iran’s government will build 10 new sites to enrich uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday, a dramatic expansion of the country’s nuclear program and one that is bound to ...
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• Paper Tiger Alert: Iran Calls Obama’s Bluff

  
  Verum Serum — Authority: 141
  From the we-didn’t-see-this-coming department : Iran’s government has approved plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, according to state media. The government told the Iranian nuclear agency to begin work on five sites, with five more to be located over the next two months. It comes days after the ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rise of the little big man

  
  Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! — Authority: 430
  Little Sarkozy is feeling pretty big now! I don’t know whether to laugh or cry :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Posted in Europe, Events, Foreign Affairs, News, politics Tagged: Little Sarky
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• one casualty

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 677
  Read this important and heartbreaking column from Nichalos Kristof. I have said before and continue to say that opponents of health care reform simply have nothing to say in the face of the real, persistent and growing pain of a vast number of Americans without adequate access to health care. You will find, in ...
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• Weekend reading on foreign policy and national security issues

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 475
  by JasonNY Times | Diplomacy 1o1 (on Obama’s failure between Israel and Arab states)Peacemaking takes strategic skill. But we see no sign that President Obama and Mr. Mitchell were thinking more than one move down the board. The president went public with his demand for a full freeze on settlements before securing ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Risky business

  
  All World News - PakMahfil.com — Authority: 164
  At 10.20am on October 25, postman Mussa Sallus delivered letters to a bank at the Ministry of Justice in Baghdad.
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• Sarko’s reward from Angie for helping her “kill off” Tony AND Britain

  
  Tony Blair — Authority: 434
  Original Home Page All Contents of Site – Index “Ban Blair-Baiting” petit ion - please sign Comment at end 29th November, 2009 MURDERING BRITAIN AS WELL AS BLAIR HAPPY NOW? Before we investigate more fully this ‘murder most foul’, MEET BARROSO’S EU COMMISSION 2009-2014 . These names and ...
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• The experience of one Irish family

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 138
  A comment posted at Pams House Blend : My mother and her sisters were removed from their mothers home when a parish priest in Northern Ireland deemed my grandmother to be an unfit Catholic.  The girls were sent to an "orphanage," which was a euphemism for "Industrial School."  The abuse there was unimaginable. My ...
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• Ireland again roiled by child abuse report

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 138
  Irelands Department of Justice released the report of its special Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin on Thursday.  The Commission was headed by Judge Yvonne Murphy.  The chief finding of the "Murphy report" is that four archbishops of Dublin systematically covered up child abuse ...
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• Train Derailment in Russia Caused by Terrorist Bombing…

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 475
  by MikeThe BBC is reporting that a train leaving Moscow on its way to St. Petersburg derailed as a result of an improvised explosive device being placed on the tracks. Causing the deaths of 26 people, with numerous more inured. From the BBC.The Nevsky Express derailed with nearly 700 on board as it ran through [...]
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• Britain’s Role in Pakistan Torture: The Human Rights Watch Report

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 607
  Long-time EA readers will know that I have been none-too-happy with the evasions of the British Government over torture in the War on Terror, criticising Foreign Secretary David Miliband for using deceptions as well as court action to prevent the truth from emerging. This week Human Rights Watch brought out a bit ...
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• Dubai Risks Major Emerging Market Default

  
  Blogs For Victory — Authority: 570
  The trigger for the next collapse is out there - I thought it would be the Chinese or US bubbles making it all come crashing down, but it could end up being this Dubai mess : Dubai’s debt woes may worsen to become a “major sovereign default” that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging ...
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• Yeah, About That Dissent You Were Expressing

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 677
  The newest troubling twist in the Canadian Afghan detainee torture scandal is that the chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission that was investigating Colvin’s allegation and who blasted government for, “stonewalling the inquiry by withholding the requested documents, ” (sound familiar? yeah…) will ...
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• Marriage Of Convenience

  
  waka waka waka — Authority: 129
  A recent item in the Long War Journal informs us that it appears that al-Qaeda is consolidating a Waziristan-style presence in Eastern Syria. Nothing happens in Syria without the consent of the Ba’ath Party, and the story does indeed tell us that there appears to be a working partnership in place between al-Qaeda ...
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• Achieving Interfaith Understanding

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  The Lesson of the "Interfaith Amigos" On Monday, The New York Times carried a story about three clergymen who have formed a kind of traveling road-show to promote interfaith understanding. The approach worked out by Rabbi Ted Falcon, the Presbyterian minister Don Mackenzie and Sheik Jamal Rahman is counter-intuitive ...
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• The Shine Is Tarnishing – The True Obama Appears

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 570
  * bumped up * Well, it seems like it is finally happening. The world community to which Obama pandered during the campaign is starting to realize what many Americans now know (and some of us always did): He’s not all he’s cracked up to be. In this article from Spiegel , “ Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him ...
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• Engagement: The Breakfast of Champions

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 677
  Reading through this story coming out of Iran , I find myself increasingly agreeing with Maziar Bahari about pressing engagement with Iran in terms of pointing out how the actions of the current government have “consequences”. As more and more stories like the aforementioned, along with Bahari’s Jon Stewart ...
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• Dubai: a question of bankruptcy

  
  Gideon Rachman's Blog — Authority: 578
  By Alan Beattie, world trade editorIf anyone can explain this to me, I’d be very grateful. I have been reading everywhere that Dubai has no modern bankruptcy law, meaning you can go after your debtors with criminal sanctions if they default.Does this mean that thanks to this week’s events a whole bunch of really ...
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