"China's free pass
Posted by Damian Lanigan on 31 Jan 2008 at 00:09
Tags: China, Hu Jintao, Gordon Brown, Beijing Olympics, Hu Jia
China's government is rounding up human rights activists in preparation for the Olympics. Hu Jia is under house arrest for the crime of airing...
"Director Oliver Stone, who has made movies about Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, is developing a project about the current occupant of the White House, but promises it will not be a hatchet...
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"Rights-free zones: illegal and unjust
Mukul Sharma
The Guantanamo model signifies the abandoning of basic principles of human rights. It de-legitimises us.
“O Father, this is a prison of injustice.
Its iniquity makes the mountains weep.
I have committed no crime and am...
Target markets for the iPhone and BlackBerry are starting to overlap. The iPhone is a media consumer's dream, playing movies and music
with ease. But it's not as finely tuned for the corporate user; large
companies have resisted letting employees use iPhones on...
This has got to be a shock to the Clinton camp:"DES MOINES, Iowa - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, claiming to be unbowed by a third-place finish in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, hailed a "great night for...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorVancouver and Toronto are having a Banner Year in 2007 in what amounts to the "Year of the Assassin", rivalling our 2010 Olympic Status as the best country to live in...
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Daughter of the West
Tariq Ali
Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...
"WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes plunged last month to their lowest level in more than 12 years, a grim testament to the problems plaguing the housing sector.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that new-home...
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The British Royal family is keeping up with the internets. Yes, their newly established Royal Channel on YouTube will help to deliver both the Queen's annual holiday message as well as other "unique royal video...
It will be interesting to view this as a televised asteroid attack if scientists are proven correct in their assertion that an asteroid impact on Mars would be on a scale of 15 megaton nuclear bomb. ...
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Way to go, guys! "The Band is on a list of recipients of Lifetime Achievement Grammys announced Tuesday by the U.S.-based Recording Academy." The Band is one of my favourite groups; it's nice to know that I'm...
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In a move that can only be shouted back to the "Leftosphere" ... "FACTS DO MATTER"!
It was only a little over one month ago as was observed here, at...
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"Hitwise monitors how more than 25 million Internet users interact with over 500,000 Web sites across 160 industry categories. It collects Internet usage information through a combination of ISP data partnerships and opt-in panels. Data are collected in accordance with local...
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"2007-12-07: I saw Comet Holmes again the night before last, one of the few clear nights during this cloudy late autumn near Erie’s southern shore. Being far enough from city lights to see the milk of the Milky...
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"The latest execution brings to at least 280 the number of people
hanged in Iran this year, according to the AFP news agency. Many are
public hangings."
"Capital offences in Iran include murder, rape, armed...
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