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• Hubinette and Trenka on Transnational Adoption

  
  FAMILY PRESERVATION ADVOCACY — Authority: 430
  Ive quoted Hubinette here before without digging deeply into who this adoption scholar is. Tobias Hübinette was born Lee Sam-dol in Korea. Adopted by Swedes, Hubinette, who earned a PhD in Korean Studies in the Department of Oriental Lan-guages, Stockholm University, Sweden in 2005. Along the way, he earned a BS ...
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• Albions Southwestern Seeds -- Roman Slavery To Virginia Slave Trade

  
  Fox Home — Authority: 466
  Reading along in Albions Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989) by David Hackett Fischer. The second folkway is that of "South of England to Virginia,", i.e. a/k/a the Chesapeake region of the New World Atlantic coast. In the section titled "The Cradle of Virginia: The South of England," pp. 241 - 43 Hackett ...
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• The Worlds Slave Markets Are Alive And Well

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  (Slavery is a problem around the world and very difficult to measure. The following examples are listed in geographical order and not in terms of the magnitude of the problem.) 1. US: An estimated 20,000 people are trafficked into the US annually - many are forced into prostitution. 2. Dominican Republic: ...
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• The truth of ourselves - why do we resist equality?

  
  Beneath the Rose — Authority: 91
  What I have seen much lately, is people that go into opposition when they hear about an "equal money system". It is like the words : equal and money trigger reactions of resistance within them. Instead of working on ways to make this work, people complain and bitch on how that will never work, and bring up excuses ...
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• China equates Tibet to US Civil War

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Beijing, Nov.14 (ANI): China has equated the unrest prevailing in Tibet to the US Civil War of the 1860s.In a special message for President Barack Obama, Beijing said he (Obama) is black, he admires Abraham Lincoln, so he, of all people, should sympathize with Beijing’s effort to prevent Tibet from seceding and ...
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• Friday Cleansing

  
  Covenant Zone — Authority: 572
  Washing the dirt off a confounding week of highs and lows, with stories glimpsed between the headlines on a damp Friday night. Apology For Slavery... From Africans: Nigerian Civil Rights groups are demanding that Nigerian tribal chiefs apologize for their role in capturing and selling fellow Africans during the ...
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• How to argue against those claiming health care is a positive right

  
  Michigan Taxes Too Much — Authority: 426
  Health care is a negative right. People certainly have the right to health care, but as long as acquiring it or financing it does not impose any sort of involuntary obligation upon third parties. In essence, John is more than free to seek medical attention or have health insurance, but not if such action requires Paul ...
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• The Enemy Within

  
  A View from the Nest — Authority: 416
  4 And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;  Gal 2:4 (BBE) Powered by ScribeFire .
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• What do foreign governments want in return for loaning our government money?

  
  Harmony Health and Wellness — Authority: 119
  “The Money That Is Sold Abroad Is You!” George Orwell wrote that, “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” You ...
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• Should Africans Apologise For Slavery?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Should Africans Apologise For Slavery? November 13th, 2009 Oh no, not another call for a slave trade apology – come on, it’s raining outside and we’re miserable enough as it is. But hold on a minute. As AFP reports: Traditional African rulers should apologise for the role they played in the slave trade, a Nigerian ...
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• Lies, damned lies and the health care debate

  
  Reality Hammer - For People Who Can Handle The Truth — Authority: 131
  The faux victim stories are making the rounds in the press. And just like all those jobs "saved or created" by Obama, no one can really point to a specific job but everyone has "estimates". And, of course, it is usually some poor, orphaned, Hispanic, black waif who fought in Iraq that suffers the most. Never mind ...
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• Apologising for slavery

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 437
  David Davis T his caught my eye quite accidentally : I was not intending to write anything about slavery today, with the possible exception of a suitable comment about true things that White People are not allowed to say. It occurs to me that _if_ West African Tribal Bigmen had refused to trade their (own slaves) ...
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• Month of Protests Reveals Grocer’s True Colors

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  Young and old, large and small, farmers and pastors, men and women all lined the streets in front of Publix grocery stores in Florida last month. They weren’t waiting in line for the next sale or big-ticket item, they were…
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• Should Africans apologise for slavery?

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 798
  Oh no, not another call for a slave trade apology – come on, it’s raining outside and we’re miserable enough as it is. But hold on a minute. As AFP reports:Traditional African rulers should apologise for the role they played in the slave trade, a Nigerian rights group has said in a letter to chiefs.“We ...
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• Purchasing Ethics: Picking out Clothing With Limited Information

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 548
  The United States Department of Labor has come out with a 194-page report in which it identifies products made in various countries under conditions where “there is a significant incidence of forced labor and/or child labor in production”. The following are countries in which the Department of Labor finds there ...
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• Best of Civil War Memory (3)

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 471
  Some of my favorite posts over the past four years address themes of religion. While the last few years have produced an impressive amount of new scholarship on religion in the nineteenth-century our popular memory of the war continues to be mired in overly-simplistic and narrow assumptions about the subject. Much ...
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• Chinese official: Communist Lincolns freed Tibetan slaves

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 534
  A Chinese official bizarrely claimed that Barack Obama should understand China’s opposition to Tibetan independence because he is a black president who understands Abraham Lincoln’s role in emancipating African Americans. Obama should understand Chinese rule in Tibet ‘because he is black’, official says ...
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• China warns Obama over meeting Dalai Lama (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Beijing, Nov 13 (IANS) A Chinese government spokesman has said US President Barack Obama should be sympathetic to China’s opposition to the Dalai Lama, as a black president who lauded Abraham Lincoln for helping abolish slavery.Foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang made the remarks Thursday when asked to respond to a ...
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• Study: 3 in 4 U.S. mosques preach anti-Western jihadist hate

  
  Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian — Authority: 441
  Study: 3 in 4 U.S. mosques preach anti-Western jihadist hate It isn’t as if we haven’t seen this coming. For years now I have pointed out the shallowness and flimsiness of condemnations of terror by American Islamic groups , and noted that American mosques and schools have no programs to teach against the jihad ...
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• Uncle Sam Goddamn by Brother Ali

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 155
  This might just be the most kick ass song ever recorded. Its a show tune, but the show aint been written for it yet. Hopefully, a team of writers somewhere is working on that.
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