Tag: united states
member name: Savo Heleta
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Among . . .
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June 01, 2009 12:03 PM EDT --
General Ricardo Sanchez , the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, has called for a truth commission to investigate the abuses and torture which occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaking . . .
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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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September 13, 2009 06:17 AM EDT --
Creation , a British film about Charles Darwin, has failed to find a US distributor because "his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences."
The British Telegraph writes that . . .
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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 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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