Tag: politics
member name: Debra C.
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September 30, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
"Fear is, I believe, a most effective
tool in destroying the soul of an
individual -- and the soul of a people."
-- Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat was the third president . . .
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July 12, 2008 08:51 AM EDT --
Earlier this morning I was reading about the financial industry. Its a bit hard to miss articles about this in view of the mortgage crisis and, last night, the government seizure of IndyMac. Some . . .
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September 16, 2008 10:09 PM EDT --
The US Federal Reserve announced, according to several news outlets, that it is providing an $85 billion loan to rescue embattled insurance giant AIG.
While the downfall . . .
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June 11, 2008 11:07 AM EDT --
Anyone who is capable of
getting themselves made President,
should on no account
be allowed to do the job!
-- Douglas Adams, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . . .
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June 27, 2008 09:28 AM EDT --
Air France-KLM fined $350 million
Thursday 26 June 2008
French-Dutch airline company Air France-KLM was ordered by the US Justice Department to pay $350 million for fixing air cargo prices . . .
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August 07, 2008 09:37 PM EDT --
While the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 , signed by President Bush last week is "... aimed at resurrecting the housing market from its worst slump since the Great Depression and stabilizing . . .
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September 07, 2008 08:01 PM EDT --
A number of years ago, I subscribed to an online publication, The Bonehead of the Day Award . In many ways it mirrors the Darwin Awards , though in this case, most of the contestants live through . . .
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September 26, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
Carla G. posted an article regarding the 9/23 incident of Obama being hung in effigy at George Fox University. She quoted from President Robin Baker's denunciation of this action.
That . . .
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July 17, 2008 04:04 PM EDT --
We cannot kill or capture our way to victory .
-- U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, issuing a stark warning against U.S. overreliance on military responses, to the detriment of diplomacy: . . .
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July 30, 2008 11:04 AM EDT --
Wednesday 30 July 2008
By AFP
China will censor the Internet used by foreign media during the Olympics, an organising committee official confirmed Wednesday, reversing a pledge to offer complete media . . .
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August 03, 2008 05:48 PM EDT --
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, born December 11, 1918, died today (August 3, 2008) of a stroke. He was 89 years old.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, Solzhenitsyn made the world aware . . .
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June 18, 2008 02:17 PM EDT --
The Following Article appeared on France24 today. It has been reported in other sources as well, but I am providing this link as there is a video option as well:
Hamas confirms truce with Israel . . .
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August 07, 2009 01:46 PM EDT --
Jim Wallis, Executive Director of Sojourners , contributes to a blog entitled " God's Politics ". He has presented a "call to reason" (my words) on that blog:
Truth-telling and Responsibility . . .
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June 23, 2008 11:28 PM EDT --
George Bernard Shaw -- Irish dramatist, literary critic, socialist spokesman, 20th century theater figure, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1925), freethinker, defender of women's rights, and advocate . . .
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June 12, 2008 11:02 AM EDT --
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
-- Bertrand Russell
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June 13, 2008 09:41 AM EDT --
Update: noon EDT
Official results confirm that Irish voters have rejected the European Union's Lisbon treaty by a 53.4% majority.
RTE, the major broadcast news source in Ireland, has projected . . .
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June 16, 2008 01:58 PM EDT --
Lesley Riddoch, an English Journalist, wrote the following in The Scotsman (4 June 2007):
Public discourse has been hijacked by people who treat language as a shield not a bridge. And as a nation . . .
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July 28, 2008 03:59 PM EDT --
The Constitutional Court begins deliberating on Monday on whether the ruling AK Party has engaged in Islamist activities and should be dissolved, a move that could plunge Turkey into political crisis. . . .
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July 31, 2008 09:54 AM EDT --
By one vote, the AKP party has retained its status in Turkey. Six of the court's 11 judge panel voted to close down the Justice and Development Party (AKP) -- seven yes votes would have enacted the . . .
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June 12, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
Breaking News
GUANTANAMO PRISONERS ALLOWED TO APPEAL TO US COURTS
June 12, 2008
The US Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have the right to seek full judicial . . .
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