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Jack Random
Making It Real: State of the Union 2010 - Members of congress and distinguished guests, as I stand before you to deliver the annual state of the union address, I am keenly aware that decorum and tradition mandate a message of optimism and hope. I will do my best. As a proud people accustomed to confronting challenges and overcoming whatever barriers are placed in our path, we are not prepared to receive or accept any message that acknowledges the hardships we are likely to face in the years and generations ahea


Alan Caruba
I Prefer Local to Global Perhaps it is just the product of the times in which I grew up and my experience with the events of the world. Or perhaps it is the spin that has been added to the word 'global', endowing it with an almost spiritual quality. Mostly, though, I think it is my utter disgust with 'global warming', having spent the better part of three decades striving to defeat this plot to enable all forms of governmental intrusion into people’s lives and choices. A bit of personal history; as a child I recall riding


Paul Driessen
Not Exactly Mother Teresa Unethical Greenpeace actions threaten the livelihoods and lives of millions - Should corporate ethics principles apply only to profit-making companies? Or should they also cover nonprofit corporations, especially those that badger for-profits to be more “socially responsible”? Should corporations be judged partly on creating jobs, supporting communities, or improving and saving lives? And should nonprofit corporations be penalized for impeding the enhancement of human life? The answe


Haresh Daswani
An Open Letter To Tobacco Companies To my suppliers of Tobacco - I wish to complain the lack of support tobacco companies have to their clients. We smokers have to endure the hardship of understanding the health risk involved in smoking, the social alienation by society, the discrimination on places we can consume tobacco, the increase in health insurance cost, and many other burden that smokers constantly face for either choosing or being addicted to tobacco. Many of use might not have chosen to remain smokers, but quitting has been


Michael R Shannon
When Borrowing Ideas from Democrats... First Consider the Source - One of my former jobs was group creative director at an ad agency. My largest client was Blue Cross & Blue Shield, the health insurance company. Inside BCBS you could find decision–makers, decision–avoiders, heartless bureaucrats, soft–hearted bureaucrats, dedicated employees and paper shufflers. But what you could not find was a money tree just ready to be plucked by opportunistic politicians. Which brings me to the latest revenue–raising id


Helen Briton Wheeler
The Dreaded 'R' Word Racism. It sounds nasty and it is. Racism is part of the soft underbelly of human reaction that flinches at the splinter of difference between human beings and shrugs off the telegraph pole of similarity. We people are brothers and sisters in the one human family. We’re all capable of fine, noble behaviour from time to time, and long periods of moderately good behaviour. However, there are also some negative behaviours that we prefer to overlook. Racism denies the self-evident reality of how much


Ron Marr
Do Not Mistake An Independent... For A Moderate - Life is funny. A year ago Barack Obama thought that he had a mandate to rule - not govern, but rule - as a totalitarian dictator. Now, it turns out the only mandate he can count on is dinner and a movie with Representative Bawney Fwank. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. In the days leading up to Scott Brown’s amazing victory in Massachusetts, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of their misbegotten ilk were publicly stating how they would ram socialized healthcare through Congress


Publishers Notes
The Earth Will Do Its Own Thing Either we absolutely bake, cook or sizzle in unheard of heat waves, or we freeze our tootsies off in sub-zero temperatures under mountains of snow and skate down the street after an ice storm. If you’re not on fire somewhere because of unusually dry weather fanned by the winds of the day, you’re up to your ears in water because of a simple but over-zealous rain storm, a hurricane, or a flash flood; and/or a nearby river has lost its mind and has flooded you out of house and home.

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Nigeria: Protect Survivors, Fully Investigate Massacre Reports Print E-mail
Organizations - Human Rights Watch
Written by Human Rights Watch   
Wednesday, 03 February 2010

A Nigerian Red Cross official tends to a wounded man at an emergency center in Jos on January 21, 2010.At Least 150 Killed by Mobs in Kuru Karama - Nigeria's vice president should order an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents of a town in central Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said today.

The killings, allegedly by groups of men armed with knives, machetes, and guns, were in the town of Kuru Karama, 30 kilometers south of the city of Jos in Plateau State in central Nigeria.

"Something extremely serious has happened in the town," said Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The authorities need to act now both to bring those behind these heinous crimes to justice and to protect both the survivors and those at risk of renewed violence."

 
Where is the Aid in Haiti? Print E-mail
Organizations - Miscellaneous
Written by Canada Haiti Action Network   
Thursday, 28 January 2010

Haitians occupy a damaged area of the city January 28, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians remain displaced as aid continues to trickle into the city in the aftermath of the deadly January 12, magnitude 7.0 earthquake. Evidence of monstrous neglect of the Haitian people is mounting following the catastrophic earthquake a few days ago. As life-saving medical supplies, food, water purification chemicals and vehicles pile up at the airport in Port au Prince, and as news networks report a massive international effort to deliver emergency aid, the people in the shattered city are wondering when they will see help.

BBC World Service reports that Haitian officials now fear the death toll could rise to 140,000. Three million people are homeless.

 
Peoples Solidarity with Haiti - Make Demands on the U.S. Government Print E-mail
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Written by The International Action Center   
Sunday, 17 January 2010

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (2ndR) speaks with displaced Haitians in front of the damaged Hatian National palace January 17, 2010 in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Haiti is trying to recover from a powerful 7.0-strong earthquake on January 12 that struck and devastated the country while displacing millions and killing thousands.Justice for Haiti means immediate aid, reparations, debt cancelation, restoration of President Aristide, asylum for all Haitians and self-determination not military occupation.

The International Action Center expresses its full solidarity with the Haitian people at this time of greatest crisis following the devastating Jan.12 earthquake. In the Haitian capital, tens of thousands of lives have been lost and the lives of hundreds of thousands of additional people are at stake. It is essential that there be an all-out effort for immediate and massive humanitarian relief effort.

 
Lessons from Afghanistan for Yemen Print E-mail
Organizations - Human Rights Watch
Written by Human Rights Watch   
Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Al-Mazraq refugee camp, near the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada October 19, 2009. Around 8,000 displaced people live in the camp near the Saudi border, after fleeing battles raging between the army and Shi'ite rebels in northern Yemen for the past two months.The news that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly trained to blow up a US airliner at al Qaeda camps in Yemen has drawn sudden attention to a country that is not well known in Washington. The prospect of deeper US involvement in an Arab nation already warring with domestic rebel groups should raise a number of red flags.

The Yemeni government has a lot on its hands. For more than five years, it has been battling Huthi rebels in the mountainous north of the country, with successive ceasefires punctuated by new rounds of fighting. The United Nations estimates that more than 175,000 people have been displaced by the conflict, with reports of extreme scarcity of water and malnutrition.

 
A Child of the Revolution Print E-mail
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Written by Christian Democratic Alliance   
Tuesday, 12 January 2010

African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president, Julius Malema.“The insane notion that Julius Malema could be the heir apparent to the ANC throne, as suggested by Jacob Zuma and the latest report that he is not a factory fault, but the representative of a new generation of ANC leaders, should cause a chill to run down the spine of every sane South African and more especially the whites. 

His public statements that he, apparently single-handedly, conquered the apartheid regime and the colonialists and that he will conquer the children of their children, bears this out.” So says Rev Theunis Botha leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) and acting chairman of the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA).

 
Human Rights Group Slams Exclusion of Women Ski Jumpers from Vancouver Olympics Print E-mail
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Written by The League for Human Rights   
Tuesday, 05 January 2010

Lawyer Ross Clark, right, speaks to reporters after a British Columbia Court of Appeal denied a bid to have women's ski jumping included in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. The women were appealing a lower court ruling that allowed Games organizers to hold a men's ski jumping competition but not a women's event - something the women say violates their charter rights.The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada, has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) to reconsider the continued exclusion of Women's Ski Jumping from the upcoming Olympic Games.

According to the League's National Chair Allan Adel, and its National Director, Ruth Klein, although the recent Supreme Court decision technically places the IOC outside the ambit of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the position taken on women's ski jumping violates the spirit of the Charter, which prohibits discrimination based on gender.

 

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