en-US Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:53:18 -0800 60 144 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo_144.jpg /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/228579-south-sudan-remember-the-past-while-deciding-the-future-in-2011 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:53:18 -0800 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/228579-south-sudan-remember-the-past-while-deciding-the-future-in-2011 South Sudan: Remember the Past While Deciding the Future in 2011

Over the next two years, and especially on the day when they cast their vote during the 2011 referendum on self-determination, the people of South Sudan need to remember the past while deciding . . . more

posted by Savo Heleta on November, 29 ]]> /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/185100-afghan-war-is-a-war-of-choice-not-a-war-of-necessity Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:06:51 -0800 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/185100-afghan-war-is-a-war-of-choice-not-a-war-of-necessity Afghan war is a war of choice, not a war of necessity

Richard Haass, US Foreign Policy expert and the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, says the war in Afghanistan is no longer a war of necessity but rather a war of choice. In an interview . . . more
  


posted by Savo Heleta on November, 29 ]]> /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/185101-film-about-charles-darwin-too-controversial-for-religious-and-fundamenta Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:19:17 -0700 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/185101-film-about-charles-darwin-too-controversial-for-religious-and-fundamenta Film about Charles Darwin too controversial for religious and fundamentalist America

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 . . . more
  


posted by Savo Heleta on October, 09 ]]> /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171836-for-blackwater-mercenaries-terrorizing-and-killing-iraqis-was-sport-pa Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:35:29 -0800 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171836-for-blackwater-mercenaries-terrorizing-and-killing-iraqis-was-sport-pa For Blackwater mercenaries, terrorizing and killing Iraqis was sport, payback time

Driving around Baghdad, Blackwater mercenaries competed who can hit an Iraqi civilian with a water bottle or smash a windshield or a window. Some fired their weapons indiscriminately in unprovoked and . . . more
    


posted by Savo Heleta on November, 17 ]]> /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171837-crazy-michele-bachmann-wants-to-be-first-female-president-of-the-us Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:46:27 -0700 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171837-crazy-michele-bachmann-wants-to-be-first-female-president-of-the-us Crazy Michele Bachmann wants to be first female president of the US

In an interview with World Net Daily on August 15, Michele Bachmann, Republican member of House of Representatives from Minnesota, was asked whether she would ever run for US president. "If I felt . . . more
    


posted by Savo Heleta on October, 23 ]]> /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171838-western-hypocrisy-elections-in-iran-vs-elections-in-afghanistan Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:57:54 -0700 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171838-western-hypocrisy-elections-in-iran-vs-elections-in-afghanistan Western hypocrisy - elections in Iran vs elections in Afghanistan

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 . . . more
    


posted by Savo Heleta on October, 23 ]]> /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171839-sudan-and-european-ignorance Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:30:45 -0700 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171839-sudan-and-european-ignorance Sudan and European Ignorance

Speaking at a press conference in Egypt, Javier Solana , the European Union foreign policy chief, said that he does not support independence for South Sudan. As agreed in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace . . . more
  


posted by Savo Heleta on October, 23 ]]> /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171840-the-worst-bible-verses-that-approve-brutality-murder-slavery-genocide Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:28:06 -0700 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171840-the-worst-bible-verses-that-approve-brutality-murder-slavery-genocide The worst Bible verses that approve brutality, murder, slavery, genocide, and sexism

The readers of Ship of Fools , a British "magazine of Christian unrest," have debated for some time about the worst Bible verses that seem to approve brutality, murder, slavery, genocide, and sexism. . . . more
  


posted by Savo Heleta on October, 23 ]]> /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171841-67-people-die-in-grief-after-their-beloved-politician-was-killed Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:24:55 -0700 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171841-67-people-die-in-grief-after-their-beloved-politician-was-killed 67 people die in grief after their beloved politician was killed

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 . . . more
 


posted by Savo Heleta on October, 23 ]]> /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171842-canadian-government-to-appeal-controversial-racist-refugee-case Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:56:37 -0700 /author/show/1196608.Savo_Heleta/blog/171842-canadian-government-to-appeal-controversial-racist-refugee-case Canadian government to appeal controversial 'racist' refugee case

The government of Canada will challenge the ruling by the Canadian immigration board panel that granted refugee status to a white man from South Africa who claimed persecution from black South . . . more
  


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