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• Reduce military in Tibet, say exiles

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Dharamsala, Jan 27 (IANS) The Tibetan government-in-exile based in this north Indian hill station Friday asked China to reduce its huge military presence in Tibet, release political prisoners and resume dialogue with the Tibetans.In a missive to Chinese President Hu Jintao, the parliament-in-exile has expressed ...
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• Culture of Fashion

  
  The Urban Times — Authority: 428
  This article marks the third in Urban Times’ EcoFashion Series. We hope to shed some light on the eco fashion industry by exploring elements such as the sustainability, culture, ecology, psychology, labour and future of fashion. Our authors explore to what extent eco fashion is on the cusp of becoming the next big ...
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• Join the national call-in to defend Carlos Montes

  
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  Carlos Montes appears in court on Tuesday, January 24. Join the national call-in day to -- President Obama at 202-456-1111 and -- Attorney General Holder at 202-514-2001 Demand: “Dismiss the charges against Carlos Montes. There is no evidence!” Contact us and let us know how your calls went: info@stopFBI.net ...
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• Merseyside police attack demonstration at Town Hall

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 140
  Today, as Liverpool City Council met in the Town Hall to implement the citys budget cuts, a small number of protesters gathered outside in opposition. It started as a decidedly muted and tame event. But it would not end that way, thanks to the violent intervention of Merseyside Police. Police force a ...
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• Psycroptic Trailer for ‘The Inherited Repression’

  
  SMNnews.com — Authority: 434
  Tasmanian technical death metal outfit PSYCROPTIC will return this February of 2012 with their upcoming fifth studio album, The Inherited Repression ! You can now check out the third “making-of” video for the highly anticipate follow-up to their 2008 release, Ob(Servant) . ...
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• ANTI-SOPA BLACKOUT

  
  YayaCanada — Authority: 109
  Contributor: "YYC" From: English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Date: January 16, 2012 Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, ...
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• Bad Double Standards, Good Double Standards

  
  Like The Dew — Authority: 121
  What U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen says that she wants from the Obama administration is a foreign policy of consistent toughness toward repressive authoritarian regimes. On October 27, 2011, she complained that the administration talking tough to the governments of ...
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• Should Prison Inmates Have the Right to Masturbate?

  
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  I was interviewed about this on Public Radio yesterday. Since it’s a subject I hadn’t given a lot of thought, I prepared by reading up on it just a bit. And I was shocked. It’s actually against the law to touch yourself sexually—in private—if you’re in jail. Sounds barbaric, doesn’t it? OK, you’re ...
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• How Sneaky Governments Steal Your Money

  
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  Debt Do-Do Many nations in the developed world are in deep do-do with their debt levels. On one hand they need growth to earn their way out of their problems, while on the other they’re being forced into anti-growth austerity measures by markets, concerned about their spiralling interest obligations. It’s a ...
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• Repression on a TV Set

  
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  FUCKING SHUT UP I cant stop laughing. Its only crazy because its on television. Omg, wtfuck. Yes. Enjoy.
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• The Drowning Room

  
  WANDERLUST — Authority: 128
  Synopsis: “A sequence of domestic vignettes from the sunken suburbs. In the house, the stagnant atmosphere has slowly thickened to liquid. The inhabitants try to carry on as normal but beyond the borders of asphyxiation, communication is limited and expression difficult. Filmed entirely underwater in a submerged ...
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• Syria Calls for Mass Amnesty of Political Prisoners on Eve of Arab League Monitor Report

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 619
  Syrian protesters in Damascus, 2011 (Photo: syriana2011, flckr) The Syrian regime, trying to walk a fine line between staying in power and avoiding the ire of the international community, abruptly announced a general amnesty for “crimes” committed during the uprising, which began last March. The fact that ...
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• Belarus KGB Attempts to Recruit Informants - Digest of Belarusian Politics

  
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  Mikola Statkevich Belarusian authorities have not changed their ways in 2012. The former presidential candidate Mikola Statkevich will be transferred to a detention facility with harsher conditions, the KGB is trying to recruit new informants and more democratic activists are under pressure.   ...
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• Italian Government Restricts the Use of Cash

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 120
  My wretched airport experience last year has a link to what’s going on in Italy. Basically global governments have used money laundering as an excuse or as a front to compel the public to migrate their transactions into the politically privileged banking system so that these transactions can be monitored ...
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• UN chief tells Assad path of repression is ‘dead end’

  
  PCT Thailand's Free Expatriates Blog — Authority: 146
  UN chief tells Assad path of repression is ‘dead end’ UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday urged Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his own people, saying the path of repression was a “dead end,” as Damascus announced a general amnesty for crimes committed during the unrest. UN chief tells ...
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• Milligan and Murphy – a review

  
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  Perhaps this is as good a place as any, as our heroes wend their way towards the future, to describe in some small detail the countryside through which they trudged. If I were to provide you with a simple-to-understand expression to describe where Lissoy was, then ‘in the middle of nowhere’ would be fairly ...
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• Law and Order

  
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• SCHOOL OF AMERICAS – SCHOOL OF TORTURE.

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 140
         We all know that the School of Americas, SOA, is a US government organisation for the export of torture and repression. It functions for the purpose of training forces of repressive regimes around the world in brutal methods of supressing political and public dissent. It is part of the US foreign ...
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• Arab League Observer Leaves Syria Mission, Calls It “Farce”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 619
  Arab League officials planned to send more observers to Syria to monitor protests there, but they abruptly delayed that today. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that one observer left the mission after calling it a “farce.” A former Arab League observer in Syria has decried the organisation’s ...
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• Military Force to Be Used Against ILWU

  
  Modern School — Authority: 117
  Coast Guard Gun Ship Protecting Seattle Ferries Today, EGT Grain Shipments Tomorrow? (Image from Flickr, by ArtBrom ) Members of the International Long Shore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in Longview, Washington have been battling EGT over its use of scab labor at its grain terminal at the Port of Longview. This is ...
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