Tag: government
member name: Savo Heleta
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July 17, 2009 08:14 AM EDT --
Ah, those Western values. The world is a better place because of them. Or is it?
For example, what do rich Western countries do with their toxic waste? They dump it illegally in poor(er) countries. . . .
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July 06, 2009 08:35 AM EDT --
American health-care industry is currently spending $1.4 million a day on lobbying the Congress to prevent health-care reform, writes the Washington Post.
For the campaign, the health-care industry . . .
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August 27, 2009 10:58 AM EDT --
U.S. Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, Republican from Kansas, "told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a 'great white hope' to help stop the political agenda . . .
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July 23, 2009 12:52 PM EDT --
Pakistanis who send jokes ridiculing their president , Asif Zardari, via text message, email, or blog risk being arrested and given a 14-year prison sentence, writes the British Telegraph.
Under the . . .
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April 06, 2009 05:04 PM EDT --
As soon as the new Israeli government was recently inaugurated, the new ministers took a group photo.
While the majority of Israeli newspapers published the photo, two ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspapers . . .
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August 04, 2009 02:35 PM EDT --
The US media is full of compassionate stories about the three Americans who were arrested in Iran as they illegally entered the country.
Why so much publicity? As if the Iranians did something wrong. . . .
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August 21, 2009 04:25 AM EDT --
The release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, on compassionate grounds is really about oil and natural gas.
As the London Times writes , quoting the British oil industry sources, . . .
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September 02, 2009 04:49 AM EDT --
As a white person living in South Africa for a number of years, I find the recent decision by the Canadian immigration board panel to grant Brandon Huntley, a white South African man, refugee status due . . .
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September 07, 2009 12:10 PM EDT --
Politicians will do anything to manipulate the public for political ends!
As the British Telegraph writes , twenty short people were ordered to stand behind the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, . . .
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December 02, 2008 03:08 AM EST --
In an interview that will be aired on ABC on Monday night (December 2), George Bush said that " the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq... I . . .
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July 19, 2009 10:34 AM EDT --
The company that makes Crocs is heading toward bankruptcy, writes the Washington Post.
No surprise here... in my opinion, Crocs were some of the ugliest shoes ever!
After selling 100 million . . .
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July 22, 2009 11:56 AM EDT --
Lakhdar Boumediene is an Algerian who spent seven and a half years in the Guantanamo prison.
On November 20 2008, US District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that the US government had no evidence to . . .
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August 23, 2009 06:40 AM EDT --
The parliament of Ireland has decided to return the country to dark middle ages after passing a bill establishing a crime of blasphemy.
The new law states:
"A person who publishes or utters blasphemous . . .
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August 15, 2009 08:30 AM EDT --
Wasn't Afghanistan supposed to be a better place since the US government replaced the ruthless Taliban regime with the new "pro-democratic" government?
Not really!
Afghanistan has recently "passed . . .
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September 04, 2009 08:47 AM EDT --
67 people have died so far of shock or committed suicide in India after a widely popular politician, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the chief minister in the Andhra Pradesh state, was killed in a chopper crash . . .
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April 04, 2009 09:34 AM EDT --
CNN reports that journalists who recently dialed the White House phone number hoping to talk to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Jim Jones were surprised when they . . .
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July 26, 2009 07:58 AM EDT --
Despite having to fight Pakistan's security forces and facing attacks by the United States military, the Taliban are becoming more powerful in Pakistan with every passing day, writes German Spiegel . . . .
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July 31, 2009 11:58 AM EDT --
French citizens who travel to dangerous places around the world will be helped by their government if they are captured and held hostage.
The government may even send commandos to rescue them.
But, . . .
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September 07, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
The "evidence" that Iranian election were stolen was the fact that the results were released too quickly.
This was enough for Western politicians and media to condemn the Iranian regime and cause rage . . .
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June 23, 2009 05:29 AM EDT --
What's currently happening in Iran regarding the censorship of the international media should be a very important lesson to governments around the world.
That lesson is: Do not restrict media freedom . . .
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