Margo MacDonald, a member of the Scottish parliament, has introduced legislation that would make assisted suicide legal in Scotland. The announcement comes a day after a British high court rejected an English petitioners request to clarify the law on whether it is illegal for...
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" WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional leaders said that adding tax breaks and increasing federal deposit insurance should improve chances a $700 billion financial rescue plan will pass the Senate Wednesday...
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Glenn Greenwald comments on the bailout vote failure in Congress; the Establishment politicians among the Democrats and Republicans did their best to push through a $700 billion dollar government intervention into the "free market" to benefit immoral and corrupt globalist...
A campaigner from the climate action group, today super-glued himself to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the State Dining Room of 10 Downing Street. " Dan Glass, a 24 year old MSc student based...
Politisite has just learned that New York Rep. Vito Fossella will not seek re-election. He will post the following statement on his website Tuesday.
May 20, 2008To the Constituents of the 13th Congressional...
In his latest Tyee piece, Rafe Mair offers his fix to the issue of larger electoral ridings proposed under the new BC provincial electoral map. " The new constituency map has been fraudulently argued not just at...
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Adding to tensions already stretched to the breaking point and beyond, a second Opposition member of Parliament was killed today by a police officer. Despite police insistence that the murder was not...
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"The Troop Funding Trap
By Michael Kinsley
Saturday, June 2, 2007; Page A13
What are you supposed to do, according to supporters of the Iraq war, if you think that the war is a dreadful mistake? Suppose you are a member of Congress, elected by constituents who also, like most...
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"Following in the footsteps of Queen's Park and Parliament Hill, the City of Toronto has banned its employees from using the social networking site Facebook on work computers.
Starting Wednesday, the city's 23,000...
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"The arrest and imprisonment of political opponents is nothing new in Egypt, which has been ruled by a succession of authoritarian leaders since 1952; secular democrats are in jail along with the Islamists. Egypt is generally rated as one of the more repressive countries in...
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"Senator Mike Gravel is running a populist anti-war campaign for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. Gravel, who is no novice to Washington, DC politics, is direct and clear in his views on the war. And, he has a long history of fighting unjust wars and...
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"By common consent, the most influential figure setting the economic course of the Democratic Party is banker Robert Rubin. But his counsel isn't likely to help either the Democrats, their constituents, or the economy.
By Robert Kuttner"
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This was on the front of crooksandliars.com today, the article published in Playboy magazine is really a good read. We knew large corporations were making off with billions of American tax dollars, while Veterans lose benefits, children lose their arms, and more people keep...
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"1. "I can't lose."
This year 404 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are standing for reelection. For most it's a formality: On average, more than 90% of House incumbents win, according to a 2005 report by the Cato Institute.
What's behind the incumbency advantage?...
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"Dr Hywel Francis, MP for Aberavon has urged local constituents not to hand their identity over on a plate to fraudsters.
The calls come as Dr Francis signed a Parliamentary Early Day Motion in support of National Identity Fraud Prevention week, being held from 16th to 22nd...
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