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• Top Iran dissident cleric Montazeri dies at 87 (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Reuters - Irans top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a fierce critic of the hardline leadership who denounced Junes disputed presidential election as fraudulent, has died at the age of 87.
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• Irans dissident cleric dies

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Irans senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died aged 87, official media reported. Montazeri was an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution who fell out with the present leadership and was under house arrest for some years. "Hossein Ali Montazeri passed away in his home last night," the ...
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• Iran military court charges 12 over death of protesters in prison

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Beirut (Lebanon), Dec. 20 (ANI): A military court in Iran has charged twelve prison officials with murder and other crimes for the death of at least three protesters in prison after the disputed presidential election in June.A New York Times report said that the court’s statement followed months of denials by the ...
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• Iran Admits 3 Prisoners Were Beaten To Death [Wheres The DNC and UN Outrage?]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Iran Admits 3 Prisoners Were Beaten To Death Acknowledgment follows months of repeated denials by police, authorities TEHRAN, Iran - Irans hard-line judiciary acknowledged for the first time Saturday that at least three prisoners detained after Junes disputed presidential election were beaten to death by their ...
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• Update on Latest Attack on Twitter

  
  The Lede — Authority: 679
  Despite the obvious intention of the attackers to make it seem as if the attack had come from an Iranian group, it seems wise to not assume that everything hackers say about themselves is in fact true.
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• Leading Iranian Reformist Speaks to BBC

  
  The Lede — Authority: 679
  Despite the threat of arrest by the authorities, one of the leaders of Irans opposition, the reformist cleric Mehdi Karrobi, has invited a BBC television crew into his home in Tehran and repeated his claim that male and female opposition supporters were raped in captivity by government agents.
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• Twitter Attacked by Iranian Cyber Army

  
  The Lede — Authority: 679
  Twitter was apparently attacked on Thursday night by a group identifying itself as the "Iranian Cyber Army."
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• Billboards: Using Palin as a Prop?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Jeffrey Herson, a Nevada businessman, and his father, Alan, an Oregon lawyer, are on a mission to change billboard laws in the Bay Area. They are seeking to erect a new billboard in San Carlos promoting Sarah Palin for president in 2012 and have gone to federal court to win permission.
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• Defector Says He Helped Rig Irans Election

  
  The Lede — Authority: 679
  Britains Channel 4 News broadcast an interview with a man who said he helped rig Irans June 12 presidential election, and repress the protests after it, as a member of the regimes feared Basij militia.
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• U.N. Officials Say American Aide Plotted to Replace Karzai

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  As widespread fraud in the Afghanistan presidential election was becoming clear three months ago, the No. 2 United Nations official in the country, the American Peter W. Galbraith, proposed enlisting the White House in a plan to replace the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, according to two senior United Nations ...
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• Top UN official proposed to replace ‘tainted’ Karzai with a US-friendly figure

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Kabul, Dec. 17 (ANI): A top UN official in Afghanistan had proposed a plan to replace President Hamid Karzai with a more Washington-friendly figure three months ago - when the widespread fraud in the presidential election was becoming clear.The top UN official in Kabul, Norwegian Kai Eide, has revealed that his ...
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• Pawlenty in New Hampshire: GOP needs to rebuild

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  CONCORD, N.H. — Do you know who Tim Pawlenty is? "Never heard of him," said Patricia Goulet, of Concord, shopping for books at a local Borders. How about you, Susan Chabot, of Manchester? "No." Hes the governor of Minnesota. Ring a bell, Rich Audet, of Northfield? "Nope." Little more than a year after the last ...
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• Sarah Palin is on Time Magazines PEOPLE WHO MATTERED IN 2009 List

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  She may not be the Person of the Year, but Time considered her influence significant enough to put her on the list of PEOPLE WHO MATTERED in 2009. Heres their explanation : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you thought Sarah Palin was just ...
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• The mad testing the sane…

  
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   ”The cross”: let him carry it, for nothing is so necessary, so beneficial, so agreeable, or so glorious as to suffer something for Jesus Christ.   – St. Louis de Montfort This drawing, released by Chester Johnson, of Taunton, shows a sketch of Jesus on the cross created by his son as part of ...
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• Speaker Pelosi to shield vulnerable members from controversial votes

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 443
  Stephen Steinlight emails: Despite high decibel aggressive junk talk by President Obama, the Hispanic Congressional Caucus, the appalling Rep. Guttierez, and what some took to be that very worrying interview with DHS Secretary Napoletano recently, I knew NOTHING would happen with “comprehensive immigration ...
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• Images of Tehran Before the Turmoil

  
  The Lede — Authority: 679
  A documentary shot furtively on a mobile phone in Irans capital in 2008, appears to offer outsiders glimpses of the private lives of Iranians.
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• Images of Tehran Before the Turmoil

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  A documentary shot furtively on a mobile phone in Irans capital in 2008, appears to offer outsiders glimpses of the private lives of Iranians.
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• 23 candidates to contest Sri Lanka presidential poll

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Colombo, Dec 16 (IANS) Twenty-three candidates, representing 18 political parties and five independent groups, will contest the Sri Lankan presidential election Jan 26, an official said Wednesday.Incumbent President Mahida Rajapakse of the ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance and former army commander Sarath ...
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• The other Joe

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 653
  By GottaLaff Sheriff Joe Arpaio is in a class all by himself. Here are three posts that will fill you in on who this guy is: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Forces Woman to Give Birth While Shackled VIDEO: Sheriff Joe Arpaio could be next Arizona governor? Sheriff Arpaio Watch: Activists Letter of ...
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• GOP Rep. Paul Ryan Says He Does Not Believe Obama Would be Re-elected if Election were Held Today - Video 12/14/09

  
  Freedom's Lighthouse — Authority: 569
  Here is video of Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan today on CNBC talking about the grade President Obama gave himself on his first year in office (B+ or A-). Ryan said he would give him "below a C," and when asked, said he does not believe Obama would be re-elected if the election were held today. Ryan said he had ...
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