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| Bloggers United For Human Rights Day |
| 2008-05-15 17:01:00 |
Well, that is what I usually do but today it's extra important. May 15 is Bloggers Unite For Human Rights day!!! This event has spread like wildfire thanks to Amnesty International and Facebook. Check it out here.
Some the issues the group is hoping to see blogs promote are:
1. Human Rights in China. This is especially on our minds after their tragic 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck over...
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| President Bush To Meet With Sudan! |
| 2007-11-15 10:42:00 |
President Bush will meet in Washington with Sudan's Vice-President Salva Kiir. The President will discuss with Sudan's leader how to reenact peace in the suffering African country. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed in 2005, but peace has rarely and minimally existed there since. Reports BBC, "Mr Kiir has said the CPA is 'staggering like a drunk person' but had not yet collapsed."
Sudan...
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| Health Care Shut Down |
| 2007-10-04 13:39:00 |
President Bush has vetoed a bill sensitively called "kid's health bill". The President had previously warned Congress he would veto that type of bill. The President has previously used his veto powers on other bills, such as ending the war in Iraq and stem cell research.
Hillary Clinton, a big supporter of universal health care, was disappointed. She was quick to critize Bush quite harshly,...
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| Convincing Bush! |
| 2007-09-27 17:24:00 |
President Bush held a secret meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. He is wanting the Chinese government to put presure on Myanmar because of the killing against Buddist monk protesters. He asked Beijing "to help bring a peaceful transition to democracy in Burma". Way to know your audience, Bush!
Myanmar has agreed to accept a UN envoy....
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| Ahmadinejad Has A Mouthful Too! |
| 2007-09-21 14:49:00 |
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in town! Yes, his plans include NYC, the site of the Twin Towers (nevermind), the UN, and Columbia University. The famous Holocaust denier will be given a platform to speak. While he should be able to speak it is important to not call him an honored guest. He should not be allowed to spread hate and malice. The forum at Columbia should be a place where...
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| Albright Speaks Hyperbole? |
| 2007-09-15 19:37:00 |
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had a mouthful to say about President Bush and foreign policy. She made these remarks on Thursday night:
"President Bush's Plan B is to leave this for the next president," "Iraq will go down as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy, bigger than Vietnam -- which is quite a statement... Everybody has talked about the problem of a unilateral...
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| Iraq surge |
| 2007-09-13 11:21:00 |
Iraq will be the center of political discussion this week, and in the months to come, as General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, and President Bush begin to report progress and plans in the War on Iraq.
Many groups are hoping to see wide-ranging discussion among policy-makers. One group, Sojourners, is sending a petition of 20,000 prayers for peace to Congress (see here)....
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| Sanctions on Sudan! |
| 2007-06-05 03:20:00 |
Sanctions this week on the Sudanese government mark a much-needed victory for the Bush administration. The on-going violent situation in Sudan's Darfur has been declared a genocide. The world and popular media has paid little attention, except when "pop" stars like Angelina Jolie make a comment about it in Hollywood. President Bush announced the sanctions last Tuesday from the White House.
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| War in Israel next? |
| 2007-05-27 21:30:00 |
Maybe President Bush just doesn't like countries that start with "I"...
Eruptions, political and literal, are breaking out in the Gaza Strip. Israeli aircrafts have been striking at Hamas. The AP reports today:
“An 11-day campaign of Israeli airstrikes aimed at halting the rocket attacks from Gaza has killed 49 Palestinians, mostly militants. Hamas said the attacks would continue as long as the...
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| War and Marriage and Bush |
| 2007-05-25 13:27:00 |
As President Bush pushed for a time-table-less stay in Iraq, subtle manipulations of evidence were taking place to convince the public of the mess in Iraq. TIME reporter Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, reports on "More Bad Intelligence on Iran and Iraq":
This week the White House made a big show of declassifying intelligence alleging that in 2005 al-Qaeda...
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| Iran Iran Iran... inevitable? |
| 2007-02-17 13:33:00 |
Is war with Iran inevitable? The NIE says the Tehran isn't supplying deadly weapons to Iraqi insurrgents, Bush's Administration says they are.Just to give you a look at the political climate in Iran:"For two weeks worshipers at Friday prayers even stopped chanting 'Death to America.' " --NEWSWEEK, Feb. 19, 2007, on the political climate in Iran after September 11.Nice....
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| Great and Horrible Day For Republicans |
| 2007-02-08 02:58:00 |
Good for Republicans: In raids in Iraq this morning, Iraqi and US forces captured the deputy health minister, reports the BBC. As for positive foreign relations, six-party negotiation talks with North Korea seem to be looking up, report many media, including
Reuters,
AP, and The New York Times. Not much talk on why and how the talks are going well. Let us hope. Lastly, an Army official reports...
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| Bush's today: Skin cancer and a dangerous Iraq |
| 2006-12-18 23:21:00 |
Today it became public that President Bush's right-hand woman, Laura Bush, was treated for skin cancer on her leg just around Nov. 7. The First Lady had a squamous cell carcinoma removed, the second most common type of skin cancer. It was in very early stages. Reuters story here.
Attacks in Iraq are at a record high, as published today by the Pentagon. Reports Reuters. ,
Attacks in Iraq on U.S.-...
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| Dems to support Bush? And impeachment q's left out of polls? |
| 2006-12-18 01:43:00 |
In Miss Gerry Charlotte Phelps's fantastic blog, she predicts that Dems Will Move Toward Bush's Iraq War Policy: 1. A Democrat Congress is already credited with "losing" the War in Vietnam. (After Nixon and Kissinger negotiated a "withdrawal with honor" with the North Vietnamese in December 1974, the South Vietnamese government was managing the war on its own with U.S. financial support - just...
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| A bit bereaved… |
| 2006-12-17 23:47:00 |
Eager bloggers hear about a topic that drives people crazy and haste to bash everybody up and down. I’m days away from feeling that angry and ready to dip my feet in the angry water. There is a lot of mention about impeachment these days. There are elements of the same go-around as last time we had a President. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, on her way out, has filed a bill to impeach President Bush....
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| Still digging for answers to 9/11? PART II |
| 2006-12-13 01:23:00 |
CBS is reporting that a third of American people feel that the government was behind 9/11. The past few weeks there have been mumblings of conspiracy, but is the thought gaining ground? Seems so. Just a few days ago, here is what CBS had to say:
According to a July poll conducted by Scripps News Service, one-third of Americans think the government either carried out the 9/11 attacks or...
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| Digg this: Still digging for answers to 9/11? |
| 2006-12-13 00:33:00 |
Nothing in my life shocked me to my core as much as the morning of September 11, 2001. NYC's twin towers crashing down broke the hearts of a nation. And nothing wells up as much emotion and heartbreak as that day America wept... except when I hear mumblings suspecting fowl play. The humdrum of conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 has died down, or so I thought. When I hear people or blogger (well...
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| Iraq offended... lol |
| 2006-12-10 19:52:00 |
Iraq's President is offended that the U.S. wants to continue to train the Iraqi police and army. The Iraqi president on Sunday sharply criticized the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war, saying it contained dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country's sovereignty and was "an insult to the people of Iraq."
President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and one of the...
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| Iraq = not as bad as it seems? |
| 2006-12-10 19:38:00 |
The bloggers at Blogs For Bush don't think Iraq is falling apart. Perhaps only some of the media likes to portray it as so? As President Bush and Sen. McCain push for more troops in Iraq, and after 3 years developing a democracy in Muslim-ruled Iraq, one must ask... What is really going on in Iraq? Iraq Oil Revenues Surge proves the opposite of a failing, dilapidated Iraq. One would hope......
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| My return to the blogging world |
| 2006-11-15 21:55:00 |
After taking a hiatus from blogging the past few months I
have come back to my senses. After beginning the application process to teach
English in China I panicked-- a world war could go on and I wouldn't even know!
No more news, no more blogs (I read a few dozen!), no more political and social
thought! Ick! Then my normal flow of political, social, spiritual, and
why-are-we-living-this-life...
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| Saddam and I both aren't feeling too hungry... WWIII crisis and Venezuela gas crisis?? |
| 2006-07-24 00:33:00 |
Saddam Hussein is on trial and has been conducting a hunger strike for the past 17 days!! Today, as the Washington Post reports car bombs in Kirkuk,Iraq killed at least 66 Iraqis, ex-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein awaits trial for murder and genocide.
Reuters reports that Saddam is currently on-trial for killing 148 Shi'ite men and teenagers in Dujail in 1982. Soon he'll be on trial for genocide...
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| Violence in Iraq and Israel... so early in the morning? And a Lewinsky scandal for Bush? |
| 2006-07-23 03:42:00 |
BBC News greets us early this morning of a car bomb that has killed at least "26 people in a mainly Shia Muslim area of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. More than 60 others were injured in the attack near a market in the eastern district of Sadr City" (here).
And this just in: British Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has publicly bashed Israel's bombing of Lebanon. The U.S. ally, Britain, has thus...
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| Hezbollah: The next WWIII or major humanitarian disaster? |
| 2006-07-22 18:39:00 |
An AP reporter has labeled him as "the unlikely new hero of Arab nationalism" (here).
He is Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. Today Israeli troops began a large ground assault on the militant group of Lebanon. What else could they do? They want to stop the rockets being launched across the border. Hezbollah began the fighting and the crossing of the borders on July 12 when members...
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| Bush faces moral issues and war war war |
| 2006-07-20 20:09:00 |
Well, he did it. President George W. Bush vetoed the stem-cell research funding bill yesterday. Government funds will not be used for stem-cell research. Newspapers, like the Arizona Republic, ran headlines that read "Bush's stem-cell veto likely to cost GOP in fall elections. Many are predicting that the timing and moral issues surrounding Bush's veto could negatively affect the November...
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| President Bush Opens His Mouth! |
| 2006-07-19 07:18:00 |
This week President George W. Bush has a lot to say! To begin, the USATODAY reports on what has liberals everywhere in a rage this week: President Bush personally blocked a Justice Department ethics probe of the government's warrantless anti-terror eavesdropping program, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales disclosed to Congress on Tuesday.... Although Bush barred Justice Department ethics...
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| The Right Speaks Back To President Bush |
| 2006-07-19 00:50:00 |
Apparently the right wants to talk to President Bush! They have a few things to say. The Washington Post reports,
"At a moment when his conservative coalition is already under strain over domestic policy, President Bush is facing a new and swiftly building backlash on the right over his handling of foreign affairs. Conservative intellectuals and commentators who once lauded Bush for what they saw...
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