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• What exactly is Labour for if it cant take care of the elderly?

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  More and more older people both rich and poor are being stripped of their dignity says Mary Riddell.
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• Modern Warfare 2 banned in Russia due to civilian massacre scene

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 148
  Russia has banned sales of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, the hottest-selling video game of all time, because it contains a scene where civilians are massacred at a Russian airport.The controversy has helped draw attention to the game, which sold an estimated 7 million copies on its first day of sales last week. But ...
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  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  
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• Hung out to dry if there is no majority

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  City traders are beginning to wake up to the awfulness of a hung Parliament.
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• Canadas Asbestos Industry

  
  Peoples-Blog: Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer — Authority: 142
  Candian production and exportation of asbestos has been a hotly debated issue for many Canadian politicians. The recent rejection by two politicians of their political party’s views that support the asbestos industry, may signal evolving attitudes regarding the exportation of the deadly toxin. In time, such evolving ...
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• Former union minister Upendra is dead

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Hyderabad, Nov 16 (IANS) Former union minister and Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) leader Parvathaneni Upendra died here Monday after a brief illness, family sources said. He was 73.Upendra is survived by wife, three sons and a daughter who is married to industrialist and parliament member from Vijayawada L. Rajagopal. ...
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• Rees and NSW Labor Party pledge to forego political contributions from developers, but will the Opposition agree?

  
  North Coast Voices — Authority: 141
  The Daily Telegraph on 15th November 2009 : "Developers are the biggest donors to NSW political parties, feeding suspicions that public policy-making could be bought. In the lead-up to the 2007 election, developers donated $8.2 million to the ALP and $4.4 million to the Liberal Party. Mr Rees said it was time ...
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• Dalai Lama reaches Rome to attend convention on Tibet

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Dharamsala, Nov 16 (IANS) After a weeklong visit to Arunachal Pradesh, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Monday reached Rome to attend a convention of parliamentarians on Tibet, an aide said.“His Holiness the Dalai Lama this (Monday) afternoon reached Rome to attend the fifth World Parliamentarians’ ...
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• Iraq’s January vote placed in doubt by presidency (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 516
  AFP – Iraq’s general election in January was thrown into doubt on Monday when the war-torn country’s presidential council demanded more clout be given to minorities and nationals living abroad. Read the original post:  (AFP)"> (AFP)">Iraq’s January vote placed in doubt by presidency ...
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• UPA Govt.committed to making IAF a dominant aerospace power: Antony

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  New Delhi, Nov.16 (ANI): Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday said the UPA Government is committed to developing the Indian Air Force into a dominant aerospace power. Addressing the first meeting of the newly constituted Consultative Committee of Members of Parliament attached to his ministry, Antony said the steps ...
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• Rehearsing the State Opening of Parliament

  
  IanVisits - The Blog — Authority: 463
  Although the State Opening of Parliament happens every year pretty much without fail, the people involved in it tend not to be there every year, so the huge precession needs to be practiced before the live event. While a fair bit of the public procession is basically following a route along easily defined roads ...
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• Speaker Bercow should act the part

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 794
  How depressing, yet how predictable, to discover that John Bercow, the Commons Speaker, will dispense with tradition at the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday and wear a black morning coat rather than the court dress worn by dozens of his predecessors. This is being done in the name of the great god “modernisation”; ...
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• Who is lying – father (2nd PM Tun Razak) or son (6th PM Najib Razak)?

  
  Lim Kit Siang — Authority: 478
  I asked in Parliament today – “Who is lying – father (second Prime Minister Tun Razak) or son (sixth Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak”?This was during the committee stage debate on the Prime Minister’s Department on the 2010 budget in Parliament.On 3rd November, while replying during question time, ...
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• Numerology: Money Spent on Additional Cost Allowance 2005-2008 vs Repayments following Legg Report

  
  The Wardman Wire — Authority: 542
  There has been a lot of trumpetting goung on about how the repayments due from MPs after the Legg Report Audit are now going to top one million pounds : I thought it would be useful to put this in context. It amounts to slightly over 2% of the Additional Cost Allowance expenditure over the period covered by the ...
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• Should Lone Parents of Under 5s Have Their Benefits Cut if they Don’t Attend Government Courses?

  
  Richard Taylor — Authority: 103
  A couple of days ago I started a thread on the discussion site Mumsnet . I had been following a debate in parliament which had cumulated in Labour MPs voting to cut the benefits of lone parents of under 5s who won’t attend government run “back to work” courses. My post was removed from the site, but not ...
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• European Members Of Parliament Under Threat Of Assassination

  
  Tony Blair — Authority: 433
  Original Home Page All Contents of Site – Index Is ‘President Blair’ a shoo-in? Yes and No “Ban Blair-Baiting” petit ion - please sign Why the Iraq war is NO reason to reject President Blair Why the Iraq Inquiry is NO reason to reject President Blair Comment at end 16th ...
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• Climate change: Reported back

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 605
  The Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back [PDF] on the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill , but has been unable to reach any agreement on whether the bill should be passed, or even on whether it should be amended. Its hardly surprising, given the manifest flaws in ...
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• German foreign minister calls for Afghan withdrawal plan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Berlin, Nov 16 (DPA) German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called Sunday for preliminary work over the next four years towards laying down a plan to withdraw German troops from Afghanistan.Speaking on ZDF television, he said, “In the life of this parliament, we have to get sufficiently far with the concept of ...
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• The Scots language doesnt need help from politicians

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 794
  I love the Scots idiom; but the last thing it needs is state intervention. Just as governments were useless at building cars, running airlines and installing telephones, so they are feeble when it comes to telling us how to speak. I can understand why some MSPs regard their institution’s obsession with the dialect ...
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• Nick Griffin to contest Barking seat

  
  Lancaster Unity — Authority: 575
  Barnbrook for Barking? Apparently not. BNP leader Nick Griffin has said he is going to stand in the Westminster constituency of Barking, east London, in the next general election In June, the party won its first two seats in the European Parliament. Mr Griffin was elected for the North West region while Andrew ...
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