"More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report. Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of...
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Canadian students, in a rush to make sure that no one thinks they are not crazier than Sharon Stone came up with this."Toronto:Canadian women have launched a Panties for Peace! campaign to sendtheir undergarments to the Myanmar military junta to frighten it intoending...
"The Irish Olympic Council has said the Irish team and its athletes will be taking part in the Beijing Olympic games regardless of any political or diplomatic boycott that could be staged.Under the Olympic Charter sport and politics always remain separate. The Irish Olympic...
About 50 Tibetans on 28 March demonstrated in Kathmandu with the placard of “FREE TIBET”. They demonstrated in front of the UN Building in Lalitpur around 10 o’clock in the morning. About 17 of the...
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"RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A research team led by Mark Hoddle, a biological control specialist at UC Riverside, has nearly eradicated the glassy-winged sharpshooter, a major agricultural pest, from the island of Tahiti...
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This grim report from on the ground of a slaughter of monks at a Monastery in Yangon,(Rangoon) Burma just came in to me through a very reliable source on my network. It flies in the face of "official" reports of monks being "detained" in the incident, exposing a...
The Washington Post scores with this accurate editorial about China's bloody oppression of other peoples and nations. As is being shown in the military slaughter in Myanmar, just as it was earlier demonstrated in Tibet, China intends to hammer other peoples into submission...
The JacksonVille Times-Union's story on vote caging has gained some traction."U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has joined the call for a federal investigation into possible voter suppression in Jacksonville as part of the probe into firings of several U.S. attorneys."
"The extent of the destruction of records is consistent with the covering up of the fraud that we believe occurred in the presidential election," said Cliff Arnebeck, a Columbus attorney representing the King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association, which filed voter...
"Voter suppression in America may have affected our last three Congressional and last two Presidential elections. The efforts uncovered so far have been aimed at suppressing minority votes or those who traditionally...
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White House For Sale
David Corn
March 29, 2007
David Corn is The Nation 's Washington editor and the author with Michael Isikoff of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War .
It's a cliché: what a difference a Democratic congressional...
"A lot of advice weâre getting from our progressive friends is to take photos of your ballot and silly stuff like that. Well, thatâs all about how to complain after they steal it. I have a better idea: Win, donât whine.
The regimeâs sneak attack via vote...
The memory cards used in Diebold touchscreen voting systems could carry computer viruses that would infect voting machines and steal votes on the infected machines.