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• The Stupak Amendment: An Assault On Women

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 709
  The Abortion Care Network, a national organization of independent abortion providers and allies, decries passage of the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Once again the United States Congress has turned its back on women.   In a shocking act of disdain for American women, the ...
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• Profiling

  
  The Sirens Chronicles — Authority: 429
  Saw a thread on a forum I visit that asked the question of whether we should start profiling Muslims. Listened to a bit of the rightwing “news” shows that was just a bunch of anti Muslim rhetoric that listed assassinations, bombings and kidnappings by Muslim males between 17 and 40 since Sirhan Sirhan killed Bobby ...
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• Federal Court backs protesters wearing empty holsters

  
  Eideard — Authority: 491
  Court backs symbolic empty holsters.
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• Russia: So what was U.S. diplomat doing at an illegal rally in Moscow?

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  Every act of the “dissenters” is a revelation. For instance, on October 31st, during an unauthorized rally organized by “The Other Russia” on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow, police arrested Robert Bond, Second Secretary, Vice-Consul of the Embassy of the United States of America. Bond was released after his ...
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• NYT > World: Obama to Meet With Prime Minister of Myanmar

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . President Obama plans to meet with the prime minister of Myanmar in a high-level affirmation of a policy of engaging the country despite its human rights record.
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• Tamil women begin new hunger strike off Indonesian coast

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Merak (Java, Indonesia), Nov.9 (ANI): Ten women among a group of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia have begun another hunger strike.The move comes after the spokesman for the Tamils, known as Alex, confessed he was once a member of a violent gang in Canada and was jailed ...
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• Myanmar leader Senior-General Than Shwe and his wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing will pay an official visit to Sri Lanka in the near future

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 498
  This official announcement without giving the specific date was revealed in the New Light of Myanmar, the official organ of the Myanmar’s ruling junta. It is believed Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, will pay the visit near this weekend and the trip will last for three days. ...
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• Economic crisis

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 490
  Britain: Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has just announced the world’s biggest bailout for a single bank in a bid to rescue the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS): here . Quebec: The ruling elite views the province’s deteriorating fiscal position as an opportunity to press for changes in ...
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• One Day, One Struggle: A Campaign for Human Rights in Muslim Societies

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 140
  Today over twenty organizations in eleven countries will hold "simultaneous events and public demonstrations on topics like protesting customary practices such as honor killings and FGM/C, overturning discriminatory and life threatening laws like stoning or lashing of women, and calling for LGBT rights, the right to ...
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• Opponents of animal research should get their facts right

  
  Speaking of Research — Authority: 460
  Dr. Lawrence Hansen, along with fewer than a dozen other anti-research activists from PeTA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), demonstrated at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago.  His opinion piece reveals that they were protesting neuroscience experiments on animals that, they maintain, will ...
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• Dog Drag Dog

  
  The Dreamin Demon — Authority: 478
  Knoxville, Tennessee – What’s up with all the animal cruelty stories lately? I swear to God I am not looking for them – it just seems as if all the local news outlets have a story about some jackass doing something stupid to an animal. In this case the jackass is 45-year-old Jimmy Lovell (nickname “Dog”) ...
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• Officer Exposes Police Corruption Using the Web

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 716
  On November 6, a police officer at the Department of Internal Affairs in Novorossiysk used his personal Web site to address Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and talk about numerous problems police officers face in Russia. In his video address available on www.dymovskiy.ru and YouTube ( part I and part II ...
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• Late Late Night FDL: Fork You

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 763
  A French video response from GayClic readers to the Stevie Bee Bishop’s “Big Fat Gay Collab” on the International Day Against Homophobia, May 17, 2009. Also an appropriate song for those 64 D’s who voted for the Stupak Amendment.  And the Party of No GOP.   Fuck You by Lily Allen .  Totally not ...
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• Aborting Health Care reform (or “Why Bart Stupak Should Be Savagely Violated With A Rusty Coat Hanger”)

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 524
  Last night after 12 hours of feverish debate, our neighbours to the south finally got the health care reform they’ve been waiting (and in some cases, dying ) for.   In spite of overwhelming public support for the public option included in the bill, the vote was a squeaker : The U.S. House of ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Oh No They Didn't! — Authority: 164
  JENSEN ACKLES AND DANNEEL HARRIS ENGAGED!   Jensen Ackles and his longtime girlfriend Danneel Harris are engaged, her rep confirms exclusively to JustJared.com. The 31-year-old Supernatural actor and 30-year-old One Tree Hill actress have been dating for about three years but have been friends for nearly a ...
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• Age and responsibility

  
  Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog — Authority: 127
  Age and responsibilityOnce we finally turn our backs on coercive "government", who will protect the "minors"? I have heard people claim that there needs to be some way for society to decide who is a "minor", in other words one who is not responsible for his or her own safety and actions, and who is not a "minor". I ...
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• Fort Worth, TX Home Invaders Shot in Self Defense

  
  LearnAboutGuns.com — Authority: 128
  As reported, a Fort Worth, TX man used his gun to fend off a pair of home invaders who kicked in his front door and rushed inside. Police say that at about 11:30AM, two men jumped out of a slowly moving Ford Explorer then kicked in the front door of a home on the 4400 [...]
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• TV Guide Network, TV Land Acquire Basic Cable Rights to ‘Curb

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Hit comedy to appear on TV Guide net starting February...
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• Congressmen read the fine print and try to reverse health care vote

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 510
  Several members of Congress are asking the Speaker of the House to change their vote on the Affordable Health Care for America Act, HR 3962, from a YES to a NO. The reason is that some male members of Congress only now discovered hidden language that will make it more difficult for men to receive [...]
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• Joker Arroyo: Cunning Linguist

  
  Indolent Indio — Authority: 106
  Years after being turned into a cartoon, or, ahem, a caricature of his former self, Senator Joker Arroyo tries to show us that he’s still a nationalist by attacking the go-to guy for instant patriotism points, the United States of America. He slams the US for cutting US$2 million in military aid to the ...
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