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• Funding for leftist group to be cut – Alternatives; ‘It doesn’t fit with our priorities,’ source says

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 127
  By John IvisonThe Conservative government is set to slash millions of dollars in funding to Alternatives, a Montreal-based nongovernmental organization associated with a number of left-leaning causes and which has been critical of Canada’s involvement ... Related Posts B CSIS forced to reveal info on secret ...
  15 hours ago

• ECOBC: B. C. Environmental Network: links to over 150 environmental groups in Canadian Environmental Network

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 137
  ECOBC is the website of the B. C. Environmental Network (BCEN), established in 1981 as part of the Canadian Environmental Network (CEN). The ECOBC website connects to over 150 environmental groups in CEN. BCEN groups such as Alexandra Morton’s Adopt a Small Fry, Friends of Cathedral Grove, Living Oceans Society, ...
  17 hours ago

• Friday Night Prayers End In Death

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  It was just another Friday evening in a Pakistan city and men, women, and children had gathered to say their prayers. For the moment, they were at peace with their God, but unknown to them, fellow Muslims were angry. Suddenly, without warning men armed with guns began to shoot randomly at the worshippers. Eye ...
  18 hours ago

• The Earth Is Flat, Isn’t It?

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  Any intelligent person knows the Earth is flat and if you walk too far, there is danger of falling off and hurtling into outer space, or, maybe it is hurtling into downward space or something like that. In modern times, the flat-Earth people have become the anti-climate change folk who believe fervently the Earth is ...
  18 hours ago

• Another Operation In Afghanistan

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  There is scant doubt the United States military and its Afghan allies together with Coalition forces are winning the battle of interesting names to depict battles being fought. There is no way the Taliban can surpass our ability to give names to operations which supposedly are aimed at destroying the Taliban. Back in ...
  18 hours ago

• No Cars For London?

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  As a native born New Yorker who has left the confines of that wonderful city, I am impressed with Mayor Boris Johnson of London who is fed up with cars polluting his city. He is threatening to ban cars from many parts of London due to the high level of pollution in those areas. London with 7.5 million residents has ...
  18 hours ago

• Parenting Is Not Work Says Court

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  The Swedish Supreme Administrative court ruled that being a parent is not classified as engaged in work. A Malmo woman who wanted to collect unemployment benefits was told to go find a “real job” and quit pretending that she was working by raising children and caring for a home. The court also applied the same ...
  18 hours ago

• After Psalm 137

  
  Ma Hamatzav? (Was' Up?) — Authority: 104
  by Anne Porter We’re still in Babylon but We do not weep Why should we weep? We have forgotten How to weep We’ve sold our harps And bought ourselves machines That do our singing for us And who remembers now The songs we sang in Zion? We have got used to exile We hardly notice Our captivity For some of us There ...
  18 hours ago

• Scary

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 138
  John Deweys Democracy and Education sits at #5 between The Kinsey Report and Das Kapital on the Wingnut Top 10 List of Most Dangerous Books of the Past 200 Years. For such Palinoid miseducationists, in fact, the two scariest side-by-side words besides "John" and "Dewey" are "social" and "justice." Mike ...
  19 hours ago

• Arabian Kingdom Speaks Out On Climate Change

  
  Global Patriot — Authority: 113
  As the COP15 talks in Copenhagen get underway, this interesting video has surfaced. It’s staged, of course, but imagine how different the world would be if the leaders of oil rich countries had the guts, the honesty, and the integrity to step forward and make a commitment to alter the course of history. Click ...
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• Serve Together: Interfaith Platform on Humane Immigration Reform ADVOCACY

  
  FAITH HOUSE Manhattan — Authority: 115
  Have you ever heard the phrase "Jesus was a Refugee"?  The image to the left is a depiction from the Gospel of Matthew (chapter two) where we learn that King Herod feels threatened by the birth of Jesus and wants to kill him.  An angel of God appears to Joseph in a dream and tells him to flee from Herod into ...
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• HEADLINES FROM THE WORLD PRESS

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  Each day we offer a sample of headlines that appeared in the world press along with our comments. Sweden, The Local: “How Sweden Handles Swine Flu” Kill all the swine in Sweden? China, China Daily: “Tainted Soft Drinks Safe” For people who want to die? Australia, Sydney Morning Herald: “Couple ...
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• Memento Mori

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 557
  Some links, comments and thoughts on the 20th anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre... The guys who dont get it: The Blogging Tories, brought to you by the ever-watchful Canadian Cynic who notes that none of the drooling Con fans care a whit about violence against women. Only one (at the time of my posting) ...
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• Meeting Muhammad Yunus

  
  The Social Business — Authority: 119
  Liam Black is in Bangladesh visiting a number of social businesses run by Grameen.  Ive handed the blog over to him for a week to tell us what hes up to.  Heres his latest post.... Not every day you get to meet the worlds best known social entrepreneur and Nobel prize winner and have dinner at a British ...
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• Has the Protestant Work Ethic Theory Been Proven a Fraud

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 444
  Well this is interesting. I want to see this paper. The UK Telegraph has Has the theory of the Protestant work ethic just collapsed?
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• VICTORIA MAYOR DEAN FORTIN’S ‘OPEN DOOR’ IS CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 15: ‘No appointment necessary’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 137
  ‘DEMOCRATIC CONSULTATION’, FORTIN-STYLE   Dean Fortin, the Mayor of the City of Victoria, sure has odd ideas about ‘democratic consultation.’ In this very crucial month leading up to the January 4th liveline for submission of ‘elector response forms’ to the City of Victoria’s very own ...
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• Reply turned post, need to walk away style

  
  Mom's Tinfoil Hat — Authority: 486
  Well, if anyone is up to following the drama, plus some new drama, please head on to the next thread on The Unnecesarean: Stuff White People Like: Talking About Birth . If you want to take a controversial topic like birth advocacy and throw in something MORE to argue about, talk about privilege in birth. I love ...
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• The roots of morality: It’s time to look far beyond religion.

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 479
  Many articles purporting to examine morality bore me. They tend to be laundry lists of personal preferences, completely un-anchored by the scientific method, or by any sort of disciplined thinking. Such articles have been around for a long time, many of them having been written prior to 1785, when Immanuel Kant wrote ...
  2 days ago

• Atari_Democracy

  
  Daradiction — Authority: 405
  So check out this excerpt in a recent Rolling Stone article on Al Gore, and I’m not necessarily a fan or advocating, but read on… So we’re starting to see the kind of digital democracy you envisioned when you entered Congress as an “Atari Democrat”? The Internet is now getting close to the ...
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• What Do Levi Johnston, Evangelicals and Oprah Have in Common? They All Blind Us to What Really Matters

  
  World Change Cafe — Authority: 120
  By Chris Hedges, Truthdig   Will Tiger Woods finally talk to the police? Who will replace Oprah? (Not that Oprah can ever be replaced, of course.) And will Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the couple who crashed President Barack Obama’s first state dinner, command the hundreds of thousands of dollars they want ...
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