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• USA Intrusive Ambassador In Pakistan

  
  IB Islamic Forum — Authority: 157
  While the Boston Globe advises President Obama to scale back meddling in Pakistani politics, US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson launches a covert campaign to convince politicians to support President Zardari. The disconnect is breathtaking. Globes position ("Show US neutrality in Pakistan") also serves to ...
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• Pope knocked over during Christmas Mass

  
  IB Islamic Forum — Authority: 157
  Quote: The Pope is celebrating the traditional Christmas Eve Mass, despite being knocked down by a woman at the start of the service in St Peters Basilica. The woman - who is believed to be mentally unstable - jumped the security barriers as the Pope entered the basilica, causing the pontiff to fall. ...
  19 hours ago

• Anwar al-Awlaki may have died

  
  IB Islamic Forum — Authority: 157
  :sl: its not yet official, but there are reports that he might have been killed in the air raid on Yemen. Ina lillahi wa inna lillahi rajoon. May Allah(swt) grant him jannah and the status of martyr. :Amen. :wa: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_402917.html
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• climate musings and link dump (prasad)

  
  Accidental Blogger — Authority: 421
  SuperFreakonomics and Geoengineering: The Benefits of Procrastination: The Economics of Geo-engineering: Although procrastination is often a sign of immaturity, in the context of climate change it may not be. In the typical debate over geo-engineering, proponents argue that it is...
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• Attention Larry King, Attention US publishers!

  
  Idiotprogrammer — Authority: 426
  Glen Greenwald deconstructs a New York Times piece on the wrongful Gitmo imprisonment of a Sudanese journalist . Greenwald writes: By stark contrast, the American public is, as Stelter notes, almost completely ignorant of what our government has done in this regard.  And why is that?  Because the same media that ...
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• Merry Christmas everyone – be charitable and happy you lucky bastards!

  
  ultraorange.net — Authority: 128
  No I don’t celebrate "Weihnachten" nor do I care about the religion or consumerism behind it. But I like the Winter Solstice – good to know that the sun is reborn (and not the Son is Born). But it is a great time to be charitable and reflect on your own fortunes. If you can read this you … have an education ...
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• Do you know NK Dictator Kim Jong-Il was sued to ICC?

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 155
  I am hipoby Lee. I work for East Asian Studies Group in the Institute for Unification Policy of Korea. So I am much concerned about the tendency and politics of Asia-pacific countriies including U.S. and, especially, about North Korea matters. For example, Recently hundreds of North Korean defectors in Korea sued ...
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• You meet some really interesting people in hot tubs.

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 155
  And I met this guy last night while taking a soak at the Grand Residence Inn at South Lake Tahoe. And hes exactly what youd expect from an elite academian: sniffy, superior, snide and dismissive. Interrupted every single time I tried to talk. He called me (and every other Bush supporter) troglodyte. He actually ...
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• I am really proud to announce...

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 155
  That at 7:48 PM EST this evening the Boy Scouts of America added another Eagle Scout to its ranks....Doug Buchanan...aka AR Junior. What a great Christmas gift for us as a family and for him in particular!
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• The grim theme that links the year’s main events

  
  Gideon Rachman's Blog — Authority: 547
  The oddest thing about 2009 was how normal it was. At the beginning of the year, the global economic crisis was still causing panic in prime ministers’ offices and presidential palaces across the world. Many politicians were looking anxiously back to the 1930s.Those fears of a return to a world of soup kitchens and ...
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• Merry Christmas to all Wabbers

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 155
  Merry Christmas to all :)
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• Reincarnation / Reincarnated?

  
  IB Islamic Forum — Authority: 157
  Whats your opinion on this 11 year old boy? http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bes...iref=allsearch I dont really think its reincarnation...:hmm::phew:skeleton:
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• BBC news website asks users: Should homosexuals face execution?

  
  IB Islamic Forum — Authority: 157
  Quote: BBC news website asks users: Should homosexuals face execution?Talkboard post seeks readers views ahead of interactive World Service programme Africa Have Your Say Comments (484) Buzz up! Digg it Stephen Brook guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 December 2009 17.00 GMT Article history The BBCs Have ...
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• Copenhagen – the Madness and false Hope of the Green Movement

  
  ultraorange.net — Authority: 128
  So it’s over – we are all doomed! At least when you believe the international outcry over the failure of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen. Especially the Green Movement cried foul especially loud. Gimme a break! Anyone who seriously follow international politics knows that it is VERY hard to many countries ...
  2 days ago

• The next decade from hell?

  
  Politics or Poppycock — Authority: 136
  By Ruth MarcusWednesday, December 23, 2009This was, nationally and globally, a lousy decade. I hate to put a damper on your holiday season, but the next one has every prospect of being worse.The name never really took, but it’s too bad this decade wasn’t called the “oughts,” because so much that ought to have ...
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• WR-12-22-09-World-Affairs-Prophecy

  
  WARN RADIO Archives — Authority: 118
  WARN Radio 12-22-09 World Affairs, Prophecy, NewsNo Balm, is there no Physician?‘A Wise Man Once said “I Returned and I Saw vanity under the Sun!’ Ecclesiastes 4:1  ¶So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no ...
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• What great feature do the EuroStar and German ICE Trains share?

  
  ultraorange.net — Authority: 128
  They are completely useless in a proper winter. Both highly engineered top products of European Engineering fail in temperatures under –15° Celsius – which is not very rare around here. Train services in the EuroTunnel as well on German Rail have been disrupted, because these highly expensive trains failed. ...
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• sympathetic joy (to the world)

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 129
  Indian teachings are chock-a-block with lists: three of this, ten of those, 108 of the other. They’re easy to remember in oral traditions where disciples repeat them regularly in quiet prayer or public chanting. Drawing on my fledging understanding of Buddhist teachings, I’ve already mentioned the Four Noble ...
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• Why do I just can watch a part of video in youtube？

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 155
  Well，now I use Usejump to avoid the great fire wall to visite Youtube and watch videos there.But theres a problem here：when I watch one video，it just play a part of it and then stop.It wont continue to play the remaining part of it no matter how long I wait.What happened？BTW，can I download the video in ...
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• First Solar, fund manager in tussle over cab fare

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 155
  First Solar, fund manager in tussle over cab fare Mon Dec 21, 6:30 pm ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Solar power industry bellwether First Solar Inc and a fund manager who has wagered the companys stock will fall are locked in a tiff over a $9 cab fare, after the bear manager was invited to a meeting in Times Square and ...
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