Tag: politics
member name: Savo Heleta
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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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July 14, 2009 07:40 AM EDT --
Pastor Wiley Drake , a Southern Baptist pastor from Buena Park, California, says he is praying for Barack Obama's death.
He says his prayers request that God smite Obama "with—among other things—plagues, . . .
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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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March 22, 2009 09:20 AM EDT --
Americans love making fun of Canadians and their country. They say Canada is boring, quiet, slow, and what else.
But now that the United States is in financial and every other mess, many are looking . . .
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June 10, 2009 05:40 AM EDT --
With voter turnout in the European elections held last weekend lower than ever, some German politicians are suggesting mandatory voting and fines for the apathetic voters in the future.
Across . . .
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December 23, 2007 03:37 PM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Sudan Tribune on December 23, 2007
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25283
The crisis and human suffering in Darfur is for a long time one of the prime . . .
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March 07, 2009 05:59 AM EST --
With all due respect to Jon Stewart, one of my favorite comedians, the US media should be ashamed that more and more people have to rely on comedy shows to get real and reliable news stories.
After . . .
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March 08, 2009 10:30 AM EDT --
The British are angry. Their prime minister, Gordon Brown, traveled all the way to Washington and Barack Obama couldn't take a few days off to entertain him and give him some nice presents.
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June 09, 2009 05:02 AM EDT --
This question is posed by Senator James Webb, Democrat from Virginia.
The United States, according to Webb , "with 5 percent of the world's population, houses nearly 25 percent of the world's prisoners." . . .
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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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August 02, 2009 06:13 AM EDT --
No, this is not a story from the 1960s.
Two black employees at a Philadelphia waste transfer plant have recently filed a complaint against the city for racial discrimination, writes CNN.
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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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June 06, 2009 04:56 AM EDT --
Over the last few decades, God has reappeared around the world as a "political sidekick, ready to justify whatever is required."
This very accurate statement is from a book titled "The Collapse . . .
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July 10, 2009 08:14 AM EDT --
The officials at the federal supermax prison in Florence , Colorado, have "determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material 'potentially detrimental to US national security' . . .
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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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January 13, 2008 02:16 PM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Sudan Tribune on January 13, 2008
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25558
What is wrong with Africa? Why is the largest number of failed . . .
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February 22, 2009 04:01 AM EST --
In a recent interview , US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged (read begged) China to continue investing in American Treasury bonds .
"We are truly going to rise . . .
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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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June 08, 2009 05:40 AM EDT --
Sweden's Pirate Party , which attract voters who want more free content on the Internet, has won one seat in the European Parliament.
"The party wants to deregulate copyright, abolish the patent system . . .
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July 07, 2009 09:18 AM EDT --
Poor Sarah Palin. Even Fox News is after her.
Liz Trotta, a Fox News contributor , said Palin "is inarticulate, undereducated."
"I think all the liberal stylists ... really have a case. She just . . .
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