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• Half-way Through Eating Animals

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 530
  It’s strange to me that some people will argue that a book they haven’t read isn’t worth reading. It’s like someone who has never been to Paris saying that Paris isn’t all that special. Maybe it is or maybe it isn’t, but someone who’s never been to Paris probably isn’t a trustworthy source of ...
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• Islam is a Hate Crime

  
  A COMMENT OR TWO — Authority: 127
  A current report states that Malki Hasan,   who killed 13 good Americans last week at Fort Hood, Tex., did not formally seek to leave the military as a conscientious objector or for any other reason, an Army official said, despite claims by one of his relatives   that he explored seeking a discharge.   ...
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• Absent from Berlin, Obama Misses Grand Opportunity: Le Figaro, France

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 730
  ‘HOPE FOR THE OTHER WALLS’ Despite the mind-boggling number of issues he must attend to – was it a mistake for President Obama to refrain from traveling to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall? According to Le Figaro’s chief editorialist, Pierre Rousselin , President Obama not ...
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• Coptic Blogger in Egypt Threatens Hunger Strike

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Authorities deny Christian’s application for release.ISTANBUL, November 9 (CDN) — A Coptic Christian blogger in Egypt held in prison for more than a year without charge said today he will go on a hunger strike unless authorities grant his next application for release.Hani Nazeer, a 28-year-old high school social ...
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• CEI - Video tribute to story of the Berlin Wall

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 446
  Dear Subscriber,   Today, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, CEI offers a video telling the story of the day that liberty triumphed over the death and oppression wrought by Communism.  I hope you will post it, write about it, or send it around, especially for those among us who are too ...
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• Violence meets violence in China

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 508
  A state news agency in China confirmed today that nine people have been executed for their role in the rioting that overtook the northern city of Urumqi in July. As reported earlier on this blog, the rioting had a long simmering ethnic component to it that pitted the majority Muslim Uighur population against the ...
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• November 9th Response to Show Cause Hearing set Battered Mothers loose Custody to Abusers; Domestic Violence on rise in Shawnee County

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
  2009 November 9th Response to Show Cause Hearing set November 13 dombrowski   http://www.ktka.com/news/2009/oct/20/domestic_violence_rise_shawnee_county/Domestic violence is on the rise in Shawnee County "I remember curling up in a ball to protect her from the ...
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• Hearing Tomorrow in Ft. Worth on LGBT Inclusive City Policies to Spark “Christian” Protests

  
  jaysays.com | — Authority: 421
  Tuesday evening in Fort Worth, Texas may prove to be a night of fireworks for gay rights in the state. Recent events in Texas have brought the need for gay rights legislation on a local, state and national level to the forefront.In the last year, events in San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso, and Fort Worth have each ...
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• There Are Still Walls Out There

  
  CitizenReporter.org — Authority: 112
  There are so many beautiful and inspiring photographs of when the Berlin wall came down, everyone who remembers it talks about what a great moment in history it was. After hearing such testimony I feel a great sense of shame and disappointment that 20 years later, we still have walls dividing cities, nations, and ...
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• New York Times “Celebrates” the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  In a way, I always knew it would happen. I knew that, come November 9, the left-leaning NYT would publish an article focusing on the supposed crisis of capitalism rather than the end of communist dictatorship. Still, I was not prepared for Slavoj Zizek’s op-ed entitled “ 20 Years of Collapse .” First, a few ...
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• Germany celebrates Berlin Wall Fall’s 20th anniversary

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Berlin, Nov 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Prayers, blaring music and pomp, marked the 20th anniversary of the day the historic Berlin Wall fell, when the East Germans started moving west and the country’s reunification soon followed.November 9, 1989, marked the beginning of a new unification era in history. It signaled the ...
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• Looking back to see ahead

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 508
  Tomorrow marks the 20 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which is typically seen as the end of the Cold War. I expect that the blogospherewill be filled with far more in-depth commentary on the subject tomorrow, but for today I would just like to point out one of the articles that is already out there and ...
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• “Proteus”: Plotless One-Person Fictional World?

  
  (mass)think! — Authority: 106
  [A rendering of the sea-god Proteus by Andrea Alciato]After Stephen Dedalus is introduced in the first two episodes of James Joyce’s Ulysses, hardly anything happens in “Proteus,” the third episode. After the reader is acquainted with Stephen’s character (a struggling and aspiring artist), his job (teaching ...
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• UN Pogram: Ejecting Jews from the UN, Bayefsky Thrown Out for Denouncing Jewish Blood Libel

  
  Atlas Shrugs — Authority: 148
  I have followed Anne Bayefskyw work at the UN for years. The nazis threw her out - ejected here. This is astounding. Atlas readers know her well. She is a superb human rights activist.The take over by the Organization of the Islamic Conference is complete in the age of Obama. Evil is made possible by the sanction ...
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• Black Indians at Smithsonian

  
  American Red Tory — Authority: 108
  Specifically, the National Museum of the American Indian .  Fascinating, maddening, enlightening, racist and anti-racist, historical and anti-historical discussion among the Comments, too! Here’s the exhibit’s website . Speaking as a controverted Nanticoke (who doesn’t qualify for Indian Assn. membership at ...
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• "Men’s Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective They’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws.

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
  "Men’s Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly EffectiveThey’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws. http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/mens-rights-groups-have-become-frighteningly-effective?page=0,0 By: Kathryn Joyce Posted: November 5, 2009 at 7:45 AM At the end of October, National ...
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• Crossing the Lines: A White Reporter’s View of the Civil Rights Movement

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 635
  In Crossing the Lines: A Novel , author Richard Doster enabled me to enter the world of Jack Hall, an idealistic white reporter based in the South during the late 1950s who struggled between his need to report the truth with…
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• Converging Narratives

  
  ignoblus, for the moment — Authority: 118
  So, last night I went to an event at the JCC . It began with a few short film clips and then broke into discussion groups. Join other young social justice and Israel activists for an exciting evening of short films and an open, facilitated dialogue, which will grapple with the Arab experience in Israel. A lot comes ...
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• We Are the Modern Day Paul Revere’s

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  We Are the Modern Day Paul Revere’s The modern day conservatives of this country are following along in the footsteps of one of the early compatriots that in the early days of this country stood up against the established governing body to right the wrongs and injustices that were being handed down through over ...
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• Remember, Remember

  
  rudis dot net — Authority: 91
  Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason & plot I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot While Bonfire night may not have originated in the Colonies, I cant think of a better time to be more watchful and distrusting of government with the oppression that began during ...
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