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July 31, 2009


South Africa will arrest Sudan's president

After immense pressure by South African NGOs , legal experts, and media, the government of South Africa has changed its position on the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Omar al Bashir, . . . more
  
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German party to start a Nazi-style training center

German National Democratic Party (NDP) has announced plans for creation of a Nazi-style "training center" in Germany, writes British Independent . Behind the training center is Jürgen Rieger, . . . more
  
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July 30, 2009


Britain: Inquiry into Iraq war lies

Britain will soon begin a long awaited inquiry into the Iraq war and the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who followed George Bush to war despite enormous protests and criticism, will be one of the . . . more
 


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Republicans – Rural, Uneducated, and Southern Party

Appearing on "Hardball," Tom Davis, a former Republican Congressman from Virginia, explained how "the politics of culture has wounded the GOP's mass appeal" in the recent years: Politics has been defined . . . more

  
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Hillary Clinton pressures British Government not to reveal torture details

George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld must be very happy that Hillary Clinton is following their footsteps. Clinton recently warned UK’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband that America . . . more
  
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Microsoft and Yahoo in a war against Google

Microsoft and Yahoo are teaming up to fight Google’s supremacy. As the BBC writes , "Microsoft's Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising . . . more
 
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Senator Paul Stanley (R): It’s ok for married people to have extramarital affairs

It’s ok for married people to have extramarital affairs and cheat. But God forbid if unmarried people have sex! Senator Paul Stanley , a Republican from Memphis, often spoke out against funding . . . more
 
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British Queen Elizabeth II to see Bruno movie

British Queen Elizabeth II and the rest of the Royal family want to see the movie Bruno! The Telegraph writes that the movie producers received "an official email from Buckingham Palace asking for . . . more
 
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Investment banks making money on the crisis they helped create

Ordinary people around the world are suffering, unemployment is rising, governments are spending billions to bail out banks and corporations, and no one knows when the global financial crisis is going . . . more
 
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How two broke Texans made millions from Afghanistan's contracting bonanza

In March 2002, and Del and Barbara Spier, an older couple from Texas, "were flat broke" with more than $260,000 in debt, writes Daniel Schulman in Mother Jones. However, in May 2002, the couple's . . . more
 
0 comments Published on July 30, 2009 07:22