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• C-FAM for FAMILIES

  
  Musings at 85 — Authority: 120
  I wonder how many conservatives are aware of the work done on our behalf by C-FAM — the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute.  Under the headship of Austin Ruse C-FAM was instrumental in protecting the Vatican’s observer status in the United Nations when pro-abortion groups (including Catholics for Free ...
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• Government Skeptical about Climate Deal

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 140
  For the past few months debates about the environment have raged all over the world.  It has long been thought that the upcoming United Nations summit on climate change would be one of the most important meetings about the environment, where countries can finally come to a binding solution over carbon emissions.  ...
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• Carbon Trading Bad for Environment and Economy

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 140
  Over the last few weeks the news has been filled with activists and environmental protestors who are trying to get the world’s attention.  Some have taken to chimneystacks to protest pollution, while others have tried to raise awareness about climate change by taking over the rooftop of Parliament.  All of this ...
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• Portents

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 760
  Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West By Christopher Caldwell (Doubleday, 422 pp., $30)  
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• Will President Obama Sabotage the Health Bill in the name of Abortion Rights?

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 633
  One of the big blocks against the Health bill in Congress was the possibility of taxpayer money paying for abortion.The Catholic Bishops, who have been on record supporting universal health care for thirty years, declined to support the bill because the clintonsque language in the bill allowed what the bishops to call ...
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• Tell me how contacting al-Qaeda is "academic research".

  
  Right Truth — Authority: 563
  Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan exchanged e-mails with 9/11 al-Qaeda terrorist imam Anwar al-Aulaqi, a U.S. citizen in Yemen.  That sounds damning to me, but a terrorism expert cautioned that the exchanges may have been part of Hasans academic research .  Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House ...
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• United Nations Launches $300m Peace Building Initiative for Africa

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The United Nations Peace Building Commission (UN PBC) is undertaking peace building initiatives worth $350 million in four post-conflict African countries, UN officials said on Monday. Officials of the UN commission and the AU Peace and Security Council officials discussed peacemaking efforts in the post-conflict ...
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• Love of the Land: The Right Way to Investigate Gaza

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 163
  The Right Way to Investigate Gaza NATO Belgrade bombing campaign in 1999 Evelyn Gordon Contentions /Commentary 09 November 09 A group of South African immigrants to Israel submitted a novel proposal to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week. Netanyahu, they said, should accede to the ...
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• Nicole Kidman cancelled a trip to Kenya due to influenza.

  
  The Dishing Diva — Authority: 129
  Nicole Kidman cancelled a trip to Kenya due to influenza. The Australian actress decided to stay home to take care of herself, it was reported. She does not have swine flu. Kidman, 42, an ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund For Women [Unifem], and spokeswoman against women’s violence, was travelling ...
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• Australia plan to rattle Englands young half-backs in Four Nations final

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • 20-year-olds Kyle Eastmond and Sam Tomkins will be targeted • England expect young duo to handle extra pressure England have reacted calmly to an unsubtle Australian warning that their 20-year-old half-backs Kyle Eastmond and Sam Tomkins will be targeted for special treatment in Saturdays Gillette Four Nations ...
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• Middle East International Refounded

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  The Middle East International has  restarted its printing press  after a six-year hiatus, releasing a  free PDF issue  online in commemoration. According to the Arabist, MEI offers “long articles and analysis from writers based in-country who [know] what they [are] talking about.” There are several articles ...
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• Claudia Schiffer and others commemorate children’s rights’ convention

  
  Lucire: Insider — Authority: 131
  The fall of the Berlin Wall is not the only 20th anniversary being celebrated this month. UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassadors have recorded a series of PSAs to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which takes place on November 20.    Supermodel Claudia Schiffer appears in ...
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• UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Visits Los Angeles

  
  LA CAN — Authority: 98
  Amid a global economic recession precipitated by the U.S. sub-prime lending crisis, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing recently conducted the office’s first official mission in the U.S. to investigate the foreclosure crisis, growing homelessness, and concerns around low-income housing with ...
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• kearns to LA city atty: medical cannabis peace mission letter (2054)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 126
  chers— this is the second publication of this letter, which originally went to rocky degadillo, the LA city attorney at the time (march 4, 2009). in it, i itemize the many problems with a “cultivation only” type ordinance for people who are sick & dying, an ordinance such as the current city attorney, ...
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• Frequent Flier: In Africa, the Flight Is Just a Trip’s First Leg

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Flying in is usually not a big deal. But getting from a major city to a final destination can be difficult.
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• No Impact Man Screening Spectacular

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  The shopping frenzy of the holiday season is approaching quickly, but fortunately The No Impact Man Screening Spectacular will offer the chance for us to examine the impact that holiday spending has on our lives and the planet, and hopefully we can find saner, more sustainable ways to celebrate.  You’re invited ...
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• UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Leaves the US, but not without criticism.

  
  LA CAN — Authority: 98
  UNITED NATIONS Press Release “Millions lack access to affordable and adequate housing in the U.S.” WASHINGTON D.C. (8 November 2009) – The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, warned at the end of her official visit to the United States of America that, “Millions of people in the U.S. ...
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• Gender Inequality Worst in South Asia

  
  Haq's Musings — Authority: 467
  Gender gaps are among the widest in South Asia. Pakistan is ranked at 132, third from the bottom on a list of 134 nations compiled by the World Economic Forum for 2009. Only Chad and Yemen rank worse than Pakistan. This is not a surprise considering one of the lowest female literacy in Pakistan. Pakistans gender ...
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• African Agriculture Development Meeting Opens in Abuja

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The 5th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Partnership Platform Meeting opened on Monday in Abuja with more than 50 African countries and donor agencies in attendance. The meeting is being held in preparation of the three-day World Summit on Food Security in Rome (16-18 November) where ...
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• Brazil Loses Face in Honduras Political Fiasco

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 723
  Its not clear who will be running Honduras from now on, but the clear loser in the nations protracted political crisis is Brazil. Ever since the June ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, Brazil has been working to restore him to power. Brazils President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the "coup makers" at ...
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