Tag: united states
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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May 23, 2009 07:31 AM EDT --
When one day, hopefully, Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld are charged for torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, it will be very hard to get all the valuable and important information to successfully . . .
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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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June 19, 2009 08:48 AM EDT --
Sherri Goforth, an executive assistant for Tennessee State Rep. Diane Black (R-Gallatin), emailed a profoundly racist photo to other legislative staffers on May 28 under the headline "Historical Keepsake . . .
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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 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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April 11, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Blogcritics Magazine on April 10, 2008
For me, Nelson Mandela is a hero, a saintly figure, a role model.
In contrast, the United States government still considers . . .
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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 24, 2009 07:26 AM EDT --
According to the American National Prison Rape Elimination Commission , about 60,000 inmates are raped and sexually abused each year in the United States.
The commission quotes a 2007 study by the . . .
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June 25, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
Last night's 2-0 victory over the European champions Spain is seen as the greatest win for the United States soccer team since they beat England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup .
At the same time, this is . . .
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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 09, 2009 09:11 AM EDT --
Vincent Smith Jr, who worked for Cocoa Services Inc in Camden, New Jersey, died after falling into a vat of hot chocolate at the factory where he worked.
Local prosecutor's office issued a statement . . .
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July 12, 2009 06:38 AM EDT --
According to a new study by travel company Expedia, French tourists are considered "the worst in the world."
Expedia asked 4,500 hotels around the world to rank tourists' behavior.
French tourists . . .
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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 18, 2009 09:20 AM EDT --
People who buy a vehicle at Max Motors in Missouri during August 2009 "will receive an AK-47 assault rifle with their purchase."
"We really are different than the big city dealers," says Mark Muller, . . .
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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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