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December Events { #5 }
16 hours ago ago from The Mickelson Family
School events may not seem to count as big events, but Clay spent a month in preparation for the fifth grade country big book presentation and yesterday was the culmination of all of the efforts to make that happen. Clay's country was Bolivia. He worked very hard to learn about Bolivia, write a short story incorporating Bolivian facts, he made a Bolivian treat for his class and we went to a good friend to find a "good enough" Bolivian ...
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16 hours ago ago from COP-15
With access restricted to NGOs, no transparency in the UN negotiations, absurd emission target proposals that would rise emissions to 770ppm by the year 2100, and two decades of people organizing for environmental justice, the people took it to the streets and to Bella Center! Chanting Reclaim Power, hundreds of people from all over the world participated in this action to send the message to the UN and the World that real solutions are not ...
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22 hours ago ago from Ryer blog
C-SPAN: Last week, Congress reached a compromise on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that left many civil libertarians critical of the continued breadth of executive power. Gene Healy, author of The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power , discusses similar excesses of executive power that presidents of both parties have enjoyed and the willingness of both Congress and the American people to give a ...
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15 hours ago ago from Northern Voices Online, North India News
Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy or legitimacy, because these mechanisms are merely symbols of the antithesis of the mechanisms of democracy as practiced back home by the U.S. occupying power. An editorial of The Washington Post on December 8 hailed the passing two days earlier of an amended version of ...
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12 hours ago ago from GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
Should Great Satan be into democracy promotion? Spin that around, right round, baby right round . Should Great Satan be into despotry promotion? Whoa! That's the real quiz. After all, if the status quo features intolerant regimes that tend to act out in a wild variety of diplo polit itary actions against their own people (not to mention - any democracy in weapons range) then it's off the hook . Eschewing sharing of sexyful desires ...
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The Media Consortium: The Mulch: Peaceful Protests Turn Violent in Copenhagen
20 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
By Alison Hamm, Media Consortium Blogger The United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop15) turned ugly today when police officers beat back hundreds of demonstrators, including a group of 50 to 100 delegates that were trying to meet with the protesters. More than 250 people were arrested, including spokespeople for Climate Justice Action (CJA), a global network of NGOs that organized a walkout at the Bella Center today. CJA's ...
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