Tag: politics
member name: Savo Heleta
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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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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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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 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 27, 2009 02:11 PM EDT --
It was fun having Sarah Palin around! Things she said in public will stay with us forever.
Below are some very interesting Sarah Palin quotes :
"It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep . . .
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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.
Among . . .
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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July 12, 2009 08:25 AM EDT --
Angered by a US ban on imports of Chinese chicken product , the Chinese have now stopped all imports of American chicken, writes Reuters.
China is a huge market for American chicken. About half of . . .
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July 23, 2009 08:26 AM EDT --
On July 17, the California legislature "quietly approved a landmark bill to apologize to the state's Chinese-American community for racist laws enacted as far back as the mid–19th century Gold Rush," . . .
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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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