Category: Politics
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Feeding Europe, Starving at Home
(Must see – good example of how filmmaking can actually be a potential catalyst for social change – this world is so fucked up, I almost cried when i read…
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A Pakistani Rape, and a Pakistani Love Story – New York Times
(Kate sent me this story with a one word description “infuriating”. I couldn’t agree more. At the bottom below the link I’ve included the contact info and how best to…
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A Chinese City's Rage At the Rich And Powerful –
By Edward Cody, Washington Post Foreign Service Mon Aug 1, 1:00 AM ET CHIZHOU, China — Liu Liang, a slightly built computer student with big glasses, was home in Chizhou…
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An Update on Sierra Leone from Kate
I should probably rename this site Incredible Fukn Kate! I can’t seem to correct the formatting errors, when I do, others appear…cd The end of our three months in Sierra…
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Solar Powered Rock and Roll
Sunshine and outdoor concerts, long valued by event organizers, now have a new partner: Sustainable Waves. This new event production company is tapping into those powerful light rays to bring…
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Is this the unforseen effect of the London Bombs?
I can’t help wondering if the IRA watched the senseless deaths in London and made the decision to put themselves above such stupid action….cd IRA says ceasing all armed activity…
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The Perils of China's Growth to the Chinese
STUFF : WORLD NEWS – STORY : New Zealand’s leading news and information website China facing epidemic of suicide, depression 26 July 2005 BEIJING: Suicide is the number one cause…
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Spoof of Bush Wins Faux Faulkner Contest
ACKSON, Miss. – A scathing parody that likens President Bush to the “idiot” in William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury” has won this year’s Faulkner write-alike contest —…
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Library leader questions Patriot Act -Kafka-esque
Books by Kafka, Orwell, Camus, etc… WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The president of the American Library Association has one word for the USA Patriot Act’s so-called library clause — “Kafkaesque.” “It’s…
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Canada Wins Award for Stupidest Country
National Post NATIONAL POST canada.com Entertainment Canada wins dumbest government at World Stupidity Awards; Bush wins one award Canadian Press Saturday, July 23, 2005 MONTREAL (CP) – The Canadian government…
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Hitlers Sketches Sold
MONTREAL (Reuters) – Four sketches by Adolf Hitler and two Christmas cards signed by the Nazi dictator were sold to a single buyer for an undisclosed sum, an auctioneer said…
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China fights Falun Gong sect in U.S. – ex-diplomat –
China fights Falun Gong sect in U.S. – ex-diplomat – Yahoo! News China fights Falun Gong sect in U.S. – ex-diplomat By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent Thu Jul 21, 7:36…
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25,000 Iraqi Civilians Killed Since Invasion
Xinhua – English Nearly 25,000 civilians killed in Iraq since US invasion: report www.chinaview.cn 2005-07-19 23:15:42 LONDON, July 19 (Xinhuanet) — Nearly 25,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the…
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What ever happened to Veruca Salt?
I saw the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the other night. While visually it was sort of cool to revisit Wonka’s factory. I hated the remake as a whole.…
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Over 10,000 activists to head to HK for WTO protests
HONG KONG (Reuters) – More than 10,000 overseas activists will head to Hong Kong in December to protest at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation, organisers said on Monday.…
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Karl Rove is a Dirty Snitch…
This is the kind of scumbag we have setting policy….the kind of guy that uses his power to settle (or attempt to settle) personal vendettas…but then we are in Iraq…
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Watch out for Terrorists and Their Plans
This one fed into the book chapter about the day the terrorists won. I wrote it in 2005, when the Department of Homeland Security had been publishing threat advisories for…
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Kim Jong Ils New Friend
Kim Jong-il changes travel companions July 05, 2005 For the last six months, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, at least in his public duties, appears to have changed his traveling…
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The Division of America…Let's Do It.
(note, I haven’t cross referenced these figures but if they are right, it explains a lot…thanks for sending this Matthew.) Dear Red States We’re ticked off at the way you’ve…
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Thousands march to push G8 on African poverty – Yahoo! News
Thousands march to push G8 on African poverty – Yahoo! News EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of demonstrators dressed in white marched through Edinburgh on Saturday to demand leaders…
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Live 8 warms up as McCartney rocks London
Live 8 warms up as McCartney rocks London – Yahoo! News LONDON (Reuters) – Paul McCartney and U2’s Bono fired up a huge London crowd with “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…
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Zapatistas on Red Alert
Since Sunday 19 the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has been on general red alert with EZLN troops called into the mountains of Chiapas, and Zapatista communities advised to flee…
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Worldwide Week of Action Against Poverty to Launch Friday
The Global Call to Action against Poverty marks its first global White Band Day mobilization on Friday 1st July © www.whiteband.org © www.whiteband.org Some of the world’s most famous landmarks…
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How to kill a leopard with bare hands
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said Wednesday. Peasant farmer Daniel M’Mburugu…
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Whale burger on menu at fast food chain
TOKYO (Reuters) – With Japan under fire for plans to expand its whaling program, a fast food chain is offering a new product aimed at using up stocks from past…
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