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Original Technorati articles tagged “great britain”

• in Politics
  Unrest Continues in Belfast
  Northern Ireland Is Raging Again
  by novivlad / on Jan 7, 2013
• in Sports
  US Open 2012: Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic to win his first Grand slam.
  Andy Murray wins his first Grand-slam by defeating Novak Djokovic. First Grand-slam for Britain in 76 years !
  by sahilds / on Sep 11, 2012
• in Film
  Devil’s Playground (2010) Is No Place for Red Bull
  Product testing fails again as the residents of London become ravenous for each other.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 10, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “great britain”

 

• Shocking Abortion Study In Great Britain from 2012, Life Of Mother Argument Crushed

  
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  Less Than Half of 1% of All Abortion Performed in The UK Were For Medical Reasons, i.e "Life Of The Mother" Of the 6.3 Million Abortions Performed in the UK from 1968 to 2011 only 143 or (0.006%) were performed for immediate threat to the "Life of the Mother". Only .37% (less than half of 1%) were performed over ...
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• Venice Biennale 2014: British Council Calls for Proposals

  
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  Responding to Director Rem Koolhaas’ theme “Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014” for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, titled “Fundamentals” , the British Council has launched an open call for exhibition proposals that investigate how an aspect of British architecture has adapted to the condition of ...
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• The moral case on tax avoidance is overwhelming - and we all know Google wants to do the right thing - Independent

  
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  There is nothing law-breaking about tax avoidance and this is of course the point. The law is rigged in favour of the wealthy and the state is at the service of the rich Eric Schmidt is an ambitious sort of bloke. The chairman of Google says his tax-avoiding company “has always aspired to do the right thing.” ...
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• ‘Like hardened criminals’: UK police sample DNA from 120,000 children in 2 years

  
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  British police collected the DNA of more than 120,000 children in just two years, with a thousand of them aged 10 at the time of the swab. Most of the youngsters have committed no punishable crime, but their DNA data will be stored for years.
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• UK Pound Gains as Home Prices Rise

  
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  Hopes for the UK economy are driving the UK pound higher, especially against the US dollar, today. Rising home prices are providing optimism that the UK economy is improving, and that is reflected in sterling gains today. (...) Read the rest of UK Pound Gains as Home Prices Rise (141 words) Posted on Forex ...
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• How The British Banking Industry Became An Organised Crime Enterprise

  
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  I know it. You know it. We all know it. It’s the elephant in the room that the subservient cowards in the mainstream media are too afraid to mention; the banking industry is run and controlled by criminals. Among the growing mountain of evidence that has been gathered over the decades to prove this accusation, a ...
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• IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: May 20

  
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  The scene in a Kabul store selling burqas, a garment that has come to exemplify the many limitations women in Afghanistan face.
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• David Cameron Facing Criticism From Own Party

  
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  As a fellow Conservative accused Prime Minister David Cameron of “running scared” from the party’s right wing, that right wing continued to show its displeasure.        
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• Father dies in a fireball after being hounded by payday loan companies over £1,600 debt

  
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  A debt-ridden father doused himself in petrol and turned himself into a human fireball after being harassed for money by payday loan firms. Antony Breeze, 36, died after setting himself alight, telling passers-by who tried to extinguish the flames: ‘I’ve had enough.’ In the hours before the tragedy Mr Breeze, ...
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• Catchy tune from a young Danish girl with an interesting family history wins Eurovision

  
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  This catchy tune from a 20 year old Danish girl, Emmelie de Forest , won the 2013 Eurovision song contest last night. Besides the song, “Only Teardrops,” Emmelie’s family name caught my attention. “de Forest” isn’t your typical Danish surname so I did a little looking around. Wikipedia is the quickest ...
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• Ron Briley: Review of David Simonellis "Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s" (Lexington Books, 2013)

  
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  Ron Briley reviews books for the History News Network and is a history teacher and an assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of "The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad." For anyone coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s, ...
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• Over in (fG)Britain,

  
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  A town has voted not to fly the flag of St George in case it offends Muslims . Radstock in Somerset has a population of 5,620, 16 of them Muslim, census data shows. But a Labour councillor said the red and white cross could upset people because of its links to the Crusades . Note that local muslims say this ...
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• Lazy Sunday Afternoon: “Stuff” Continued

  
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  Good Afternoon Doesn’t this frog have a skeptical look about him…or maybe it is more of a look that says…don’t mess with me man! Don’t you bullshit me man. Whatever it is, I always thought this “ Iconographia Zoologica”   illustration of a Hyla arborea (Tree Frog from Suriname, 1772) had so much ...
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• New headaches for the EU

  
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  People entering a job centre at Folkestone in southern England. (Image: Reuters) Nhan Dan – The European Union (EU) is suffering a new headache as waves of immigration pose the risk of social chaos and insecurity in economies that are still recording positive growth, such as the region’s ‘backbones’, ...
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• Do the Right Thing – Even If It’s Unpopular

  
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  ABRAHAM LINCOLN  LET GO OF A DESPERATELY NEEDED VICTORY FOR THE SAKE OF INTEGRITY.  Union victories on the battlefield early in the  Civil War  were nearly non-existent, so when sailors from a Union naval vessel boarded a British ship called The Trent and captured two Confederate representatives headed to ...
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• The Staggering Cost of Israel to Americans

  
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  There is no good reason to keep throwing good money after bad in a failed, ill-founded policy. It’s long past time for a fundamental rethinking of the American government’s blank check to Israel. According to the Congressional Research Service , the amount of official US aid to Israel since its founding in 1948 ...
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• 10 Downing Street’s Love Letter to the Arab World: Sealed with a Sour Spring

  
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  Britain’s Gift to the Arab World In the initial euphoric months of the Arab Spring, a seemingly unstoppable tide swept away corrupt, repressive regimes as people throughout the Arab world suddenly lost their “fear of government.” The Western media passionately assumed the role of cheerleaders of this regional ...
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• In Britain, a Return to the Idea of the Liberal Arts

  
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  Having been on a continual retreat from the Continent, a broad-based humanistic education is now making a comeback at some British universities.        
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• Over in (fG)Britain, this counts as progress

  
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  A new law has finally come into force giving householders the right to ‘bash a burglar’…but not if they are stealing from your garden shed. ... But it yesterday emerged the new rules contain a string of exemptions . For instance, in guidance sent to prosecutors, officials say that homeowners cannot ...
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• Ukip vote is payback time for a political class that has lost the plot

  
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  Many times since 1997 I have shared platforms with Nigel Farage, discussing that sea-change in how we are governed which has since become ever more intrusively obvious. The sense that we are now ruled over by a political class cut off from the rest of us in a bubble of unreality has become the most conspicuous feature ...
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