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PHILOSOPHY News, Feb 05, 2012

Philosophy

World famous philosopher chairs Cumbrian student debate
News & Star
By Kelly Eve Education Reporter A world famous philosopher visited Cumbria for the first time this week to inspire 200 school pupils. Dr Peter Vardy, vice principal of Heythrop College at the University of London, chaired a one-day conference in ...
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News & Star
Irish to take attacking philosophy into Wales game
SI.com
DUBLIN (AP) -The names will be the same but the philosophy could well be very different when Ireland begins its Six Nations campaign by hosting an injury-ravaged Wales at Lansdowne Road. Sunday's match is a repeat of the World Cup quarterfinal in...
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What Moral Philosophy Tells Us About Income Inequality
The Atlantic
But, these two principles don't suggest how one might start with an unjustworld, and then make it increasingly fairer to reach the ideal. There is no "undo" button in the real world for injustices that have already been committed. As a philosopher ...
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The Atlantic
On The Inadequacy Of The Empiricist Tradition In Western Philosophy
NPR (blog)
On to logical positivism: "Only those statements (about the world) are meaningful which are empirically verifiable," which, ironically drove Western philosophy, yet whose founding statement just noted is not itself empirically verifiable.
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Politics, economics and philosophy in the Nigerian context
Vanguard
This is based on finding how Nigeria is where it is today among other nations of theworld. Questions are often asked, and justifiably so, on why Nigeria is still a poor country in the midst of abundant human and material resources.
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Schopenhauer; philosopher of culture and virtue
Iran Book News Agency
And while Kant thought that the will is the truth of the world and it equals freedom, Schopenhauer opposes this view by calling freedom as lack pure reason. He continued: "As a philosopher Schopenhauer had realized the boredom and monotony of quotidian ...
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Iran Book News Agency
Frank Cioffi, Philosopher and Critic of Freud, Dies at 83
New York Times
Dr. Sulloway, an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, described Mr. Cioffi as “a Gregor Mendel figure” in the world of Freud debunkers, referring to the Austrian scientist who pioneered genetics but received no ...
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New philosophy to put showbiz at the fore
Sydney Morning Herald
However, Melton said the club's ''football philosophy'' was rapidly evolving and a new coach was instrumental to that end. ''We're in a tough town, this is the toughest sporting landscape in the world and there's 19 or 20 professional franchises,'' he ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
New lectures diversify Philosophy Department
Whitman Pioneer
“Philosophy is often considered a discipline full of old, white men. But these classes remind us that philosophy exists all over the world . . . It's exciting to see the department trying to diversify and emphasize a wider perspective,” she said.
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LONDON CALLING: World title failure fires Rowbotham
This Is Wiltshire
It's a sentiment that has become deeply ingrained in the 30-year-old's philosophy as he and his teammates prepare to compete in the quadruple sculls at London 2012. This is because the foursome have the proverbial monkey on their back that no amount of ...
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The right philosophy
Fiji Times
Today's world is so fast changing that what was new yesterday becomes obsolete today and what is new today becomes out of date tomorrow. So ask yourself a very simple question: Can we survive in a society like this without education.
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Pat Churchland fights for supremacy of the brain
Vancouver Sun (blog)
They went on to teach philosophy and neuroscience at the University of Manitoba before being scooped up by the US university. Together, the combative academic stars have been working to shake up the world of science, religion, philosophy and ethics.
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Vancouver Sun (blog)
Bubbles: Spheres, Volume I: Microspherology
Brooklyn Rail
by John Ganz It could almost be a proverb: The difference between the United States and Europe is that in Europe a philosopher can have a television show. The Germanphilosopher Peter Sloterdijk hosts just such a weekly talk show.
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FoxSoccer.com MANUEL BARCIA
FOXSports.com
In principle, this not a major problem for sports - athletes have all the right of this world to talk and demonstrate their beliefs. Occasionally, however, these displays can be troublesome, for reasons that rank fromphilosophical to behavioral.
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General Philosophy of Thomas More's Utopia
Asian Tribune
Socialism (added with liberalism) perhaps in its broadest sense of the term might be the viable philosophy that can unite the people in the North and the South, transcending their narrow ethno-nationalism. But the primary objective of socialism is much ...
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Facebook's 'Letter from Zuckerberg': The Annotated Version
Wired News (blog)
It discusses the company's business and technological philosophy and what Zuckerberg calls its “social mission” — ie, “to make the world more open and connected.” Statements like these serve as a manifesto, a declaration, a founding document for the ...
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Wired News (blog)
Tracing Gandhi in Joburg
Joburg
It was in Johannesburg that world leader Mahatma Gandhi developed his satyagraha philosophy. This story is told at an exhibition at Museum Africa. AN in-depth story of the life of a religious man, a philosopher and an activist for free society, ...
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Joburg
Global Epic on Karma to Benefit World's First Museum of Buddhism and Yoga
ChakraNews.com
To help everyone with their New Year's resolutions, complimentary digital downloads are being offered of the most ambitious international film ever made on Eastern philosophy – 'Karma Yoga: The New Revolution'. Filmed all over the world in India ...
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ChakraNews.com
Breaking down TU's 2012 football recruiting class
Tulsa World
Tulsa World file By ERIC BAILEY World Sports Writer Tulsa focused on areas that will soon be hit by graduation (offensive line, defensive secondary) while keeping itsphilosophy of recruiting speed. Bill Blankenship's second recruiting class stayed ...
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Stone Links
New York Times (blog)
He teaches philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York. To contact the editors of The Stone, send an e-mail to opinionator@nytimes.com. Please include “The Stone” in the subject field. A fifth of the world's population lives without ...
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Is Canada helping the world's poor, or Canadian companies?
Ottawa Citizen
The joint projects between some Canadian mining companies and NGOs to do development work near where mines operate are part of this philosophy. Many have questioned who really benefits from this policy - Canadian companies and shareholders, the world's ...
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Potshots from a sceptical scientist
Irish Times
He gives an excellent introduction to each hypothesis, describing how it developed in the context of the history and philosophy of science. Questioning how such hypotheses harden into accepted truths, he invites the reader to consider alternative world ...
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Irish Times
PU organises seminar on philosophy of martydrom
Business Recorder (blog)
The issue of whether US will rule the world or not, would be determined in the battlefields of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. It was our responsibility to realise the threat because only those nations, which prepare themselves for the inevitable ...
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Respect Dignity of Life, Desert 'Star Wars'
The International News Magazine
BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) - In a variation of the legendary slogan "make love, not war", an eminent Buddhist philosopher is calling for a nuclear-free world in which genuine human security, sustainable development and unwavering respect for the dignity of ...
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130 Years After His Birth, We Still Live in FDR's World
Huffington Post
This new "philosophy," which included the embrace of Keynesian economic policy, stood at the root of what President Obama has correctly called the post-1945 creation of the "strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known.
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In Honor of Ken Wilber: The Philosopher of Everything | Andrew ...
By Andrew Cohen
Put differently, I sought a world philosophy. I sought an integral philosophy, one that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and the world's great ...
Andrew Cohen
3:AM Magazine » Philosophy as the Great Naïveté
By Susan Tomaselli
The talk of “crisis” falsely suggests that there is something new about the issue of the relevance of philosophical work. Hannah Arendt is right when she describes as unavoidable the question, “How can anything relevant for the world we live in ...
3:AM Magazine
Jagdeo conferred with honorary doctorate of philosophy
By admin
Jagdeo conferred with honorary doctorate of philosophy. February 4 ... “There are very few heads of government in the world who understand the scientific, economic and social dimensions of climate change like President Jagdeo. His sense ...
Guyana Times - The Beacon of Truth
Facebook's Philosophy | TightWind
By Kyle Baxter
Facebook's Philosophy. February 2nd, 2012. Mark Zuckerberg's letter to investors in Facebook's IPO filing solidified how they think about the world: People sharing more – even if just with their close friends or families – creates a more open ...
TightWind
Anyone who is serious about saving the world ....... - Atlas Shrugs
By Pamela Geller
Anyone who is serious about saving the world ....... What is needed, what is required in America now, is a philosophical war. The futile and exhausting political games we are subjected to on a daily basis are nothing more than propaganda ...
Atlas Shrugs
The ascetic aesthetic | Superfluities Redux
By George Hunka
Where philosophy ends, art begins. In a sense, after Schopenhauer's “Nothing,” the word which concludes The World as Will and Representation, there is the emergence of the chord that opens Tristan und Isolde. It is not therefore a philologist ...
Superfluities Redux
Political Theory - Habermas and Rawls: Book on "Kant and ...
By Thomas Gregersen
The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship by Pauline Kleingeld (Cambridge University Press, December 2011) 232 pages. Description This is the first comprehensive account of Kant's cosmopolitanism, highlighting its moral, political, legal,...
Political Theory - Habermas and Rawls
daily sun | Metro Polis | 'Gandhi's philosophy can help overcome ...
Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique on Monday said cultural crisis has become one of the major problems in the world. “Mahatma Gandhi's (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) humanitarian philosophy could be ...
daily sun
Black Sun: Jewish philosophy...or the sick and the healthy
By billoo
Common sense action: "we are responsible for what we have thought and done in the past, responsible now, intellectually and practically, and that is what makes us thinkers, rational agents in a world at all. Posted by billoo at 11:47 PM ...
Black Sun
Brazil's Soccer Philosopher King | Play Ball
By Zach Richards
Brazil's Soccer Philosopher King. January 30th, 2012 | Author: ... The 1982 Brazilian team that he captained was perhaps the greatest never to win the World Cup (along with Hungary in 1954 and Holland in 1974). It was also one of the last ...
Play Ball
The World Is An Illusion?: Philosophy Forums
The idea is found in most religions that I can think of, and it's also found in mostphilosophical traditions (West, East); the idea can even be said to be the ...
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Philosophy & The Modern World | Independent Colleges - Diploma ...
This new and fascinating course is designed as a practical and accessible introduction to contemporary critical thinking for those who are interested in.
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philosophy « Cannonball Read IV
For anyone who has not yet entered De Botton's philosophical world via his writings, A Week at the Airport is short enough, at a little over 100 pages, and put ...
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UC Philosophy Class on Harry Potter Conjures Popular Appeal
When he began watching the movies and reading the books in earnest, he soon found many philosophical references and issues inside Potter's world. In class ...
www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=15037
Chinese Philosophy in the Western World | 中国制造 Made in China
He combined these books with his own ideas to make what would be called Confucianism – a philosophical system studied all over the world. Within China this ...
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Exploring The Real 'Conflict': Science Vs. Naturalism | KQED Public ...
And I'm sort of delighted to see that Christianity is doing much better in thephilosophical world now, than it was when I began in philosophy. MARTIN: You have...
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philosophy for young men « Kid in a Man's World
Little did my mom know that she was advocating a practice of Stoicism, a philosophicalschool of thought. Stoics are major proponents of the idea of “ negative ...
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Fickle Philosophy | Intro to Women's Lit: Adventures in Form
It is with this topic that makes me question how this will apply to our world, specifically in the field of philosophy. Cavendish even targets this area when she ...
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From Troubles of The World | love's philosophy
The fountains mingle with the river. And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever. With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, ...
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Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Peter Ludlow: "Is it time to ...
A broad range of topics are on offer, but we end up going to talks in our individual areas. There are other options for philosophical breadth, not least is the World ...
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OPINIONS, Feb 05, 2012


OPINIONS

Vonn wins downhill race for 50th World Cup win
Sacramento Bee
"It is a great feeling. Fifty is amazing. I never thought I would achieve this," said Vonn, who escaped a scare in the mid-section of the course. Vonn's 50 wins are the third most in the women's World Cup. Only Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell and Vreni ...
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3 Predictions From the World Economic Forum
Motley Fool
That's why I paid close attention to the recent panel titled "Pundits, Professors, and Their Predictions" at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here are three predictions that came out of the session. Prediction No.
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3 Predictions From the World Economic Forum
DailyFinance
That's why I paid close attention to the recent panel titled "Pundits, Professors, and Their Predictions" at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here are three predictions that came out of the session. Prediction No.
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'Engineering War On Iran: All Options On Table?' – OpEd
Eurasia Review
By Adrian Salbuchi Question: How do you convince the world that – even though you're armed to the teeth and have a bad track record of invading countries – you really have “no choice” but make a “pre-emptive military strike” against another country you ...
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Suppose you woke up being Tom Brady
Sacramento Bee
The thought of this would bring most men to their knees. But you are in the body of a man who has won it three times. You envision success. You promised your owner, Robert Kraft, you would give him a great performance, better than the AFC championship ...
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Faith Forum: Why would God favor one football team over another?
Lawrence Journal World
By Shaun LePage and Matt Cox “Sure, Journal-World Editor, I'd love to answer a question for the Faith Forum. What's the question?” “Why would God favor one football team over another?” “Why would God ... what? What a dumb question!
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Op-Ed: Putting America's Economic House in Order
DigitalJournal.com
The United States of America is still the world's leading economic and military power. How can the US preserve that position? Pronouncements by politicians and the US State Department regarding other nations bring to mind the "policeman of the world" ...
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Super Bowl Party Planning for Lakers Fans
Lakers Nation
With kickoff rapidly approaching we thought we'd take a diversion from our normal hoops talk to prep for the big game and share a few insights for those of you planning on throwing or attending a Super Bowl party this weekend.
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Letter from America: Armenian Genocide – fact or fiction? – Part 1
Asian Tribune
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Last month, the French Senate approved a controversial bill with a 127-86 vote that makes it a criminal offence to deny that genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians duringWorld War I. The measure has been sent ...
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Melanie Amaro's got the X Factor
gulfnews.com
She talks about the experience When Melanie Amaro sang, the entire worldstopped and listened. The 19-year-old and her impressive vocals scooped the crown as the winner of America's first X Factor in December — not to mention the $5 million (Dh18.36 ...
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Is Bleacher Report ready for some football?
CNET
Instead, it relies on sports enthusiasts around the country and the world who are passionate about the teams they love and who are happy to pen opinionand reaction pieces at a heavy pace--and do so mainly for free--in exchange for a prestigious slot ...
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The Daily Grind: Do you think there's too much group mentality in MMO discussion?
Joystiq
Some players think that immersion requires an open world, open PvP, and open targets; others think it just requires an interesting story and a player willing to invest. There are people who think that cash shops are a short step toward buying your way ...
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Super bowl Q&A with Steve Tisch
New York Post
If we can give the world a Super Bowl today like we did four years ago — hopefully with the same result — it's going to be a fantastic, fantastic day. Q: It's a team New York should be proud of. A: It's a team that New York is very proud of.
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New York Post
Former Test captain Steve Waugh talks about all things cricket with Robert ...
Courier Mail
John Buchanan had us throwing left- and right-handed and a lot of peoplethought he was mad. Looking back, Buck was 10 years ahead of his time. Darren Bravo from the West Indies. He is identical to Brian Lara in every way. He is world cricket's next ...
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Online Defamation
LawFuel.co.nz
For example, Eady J commented that bulletin board postings were “often uninhibited, casual and ill-thought-out; those who participate know this and expect a certain amount of repartee or 'give and take.'” He said that some inflammatory comments might ...
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Riding the prancing horse
Business Standard
Before Friday, I would have thought that Clarkson — given his strongopinions — was exaggerating. After all, he was just talking about a car. Well, that was because until Friday I had never driven a Ferrari. And after driving not one but three of ...
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Debate rages on after Carlos Condit slips past Nick Diaz at UFC 143
Las Vegas Sun
Condit thought he beat up Nick Diaz for 25 minutes in Saturday night's main event and couldn't imagine the scorecards reading any other way. They didn't. The three judges unanimously sided with Condit — by scores of 49-46, 49-46, 48-47 — to give him ...
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Las Vegas Sun
Call to 'tax sugar like alcohol'
Littlehampton Gazette
It is important to highlight that the researchers' article is a comment piece and, therefore, primarily reflects their views and opinions, rather than presenting direct research on the issue. While it is certainly an interesting concept, there is still ...
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Spray it dont say it
The Express Tribune
I just wanted to create a thought process in a person that, whether or not they make the Marilyn connection, they will understand what the image means. And even if people are completely outraged, I just want to bring about an emotional response in ...
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The Express Tribune
Chain Reactions | Winter Soldier #1
Comic Book Resources
An espionage thriller, the comic launches out of the revelation that the Russians created other Winter Soldier-like sleeper agents and features something I never thought would be a divisive plot point among readers–a gorilla with a machine gun.
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Comic Book Resources
Op-Ed: Game on - a look at the video games 2012 has to offer
DigitalJournal.com
The latest game in the series is shaping up very nicely with critics, but probably not wise to be played by people who have not yet stepped foot into the world of Cocoon which was the realm of its predecessor. This installment, as The Kansas City Star ...
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DigitalJournal.com
Evolving with the times
Malaysia Star
I thought someone was playing a joke on me and I felt sad when it turned out to be true,” said Pahang exco member Datuk Sharkar Shamsuddin. The Umno and DAP view of each other has always been extremely polarised – ultra Malay versus Chinese chauvinist.
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Residents given chance to balance Baltimore's budget
Baltimore Sun
The 75 citizens who attended the meeting were informed, they had opinions, and they were eager to contribute. But McGuirethought the half-hour allotted to questions and answers was far too little time to delve into issues this complex.
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Baltimore Sun
Will the people of Egypt become divided like the people of Turkey?
Today's Zaman
For years, Egypt was one of those rare countries that prove people with different thoughts and beliefs can live peacefully together. It was almost impossible to see people fighting in the streets of Egypt, which witnessed some of the world's most pious ...
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NightWatch: Supreme Leader Khamenei Declares "Will Help Any Nation Fighting ...
Town Hall
Not even North Koreans thought of Kim Chong-il in remotely heroic terms. This issue is completely contrived. The larger significance of the questionnaire is that it backtracks on solemn vows to not deal with the Lee government in South Korea.
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Mixed Reactions Trail NSE's Entry Criteria for Dealers
THISDAY Live
This proposal since it was exposed to the chief executive officers of stock broking firms a fortnight ago has generated mixed reactions writes, Malachy Agbo Since the global economic downturn that affected several economies in the world including ...
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KUDIRAT: Has justice finally been served?
Daily Sun
But while these thoughts still pervade the land, those who understand the technicalities involved, voiced their opinions on what they feel would have transpired behind the scenes. In the thoughts of Professor Itse Sagay – a legal colossus, ...
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The Case Of Uri Avnery II: Hasbara, Supremacism And The Future Of Solidarity
Intifada Palestine
It is mind-boggling that an 'anti-war, pro-peace' activist would take a liking to any candidate of the American presidency, the figurehead of a military empire that has been used to fight one war after another for international Zionism since World War ...
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On Patrick Henry's -- "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased ...
OpEdNews
But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my ...
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The Mog Log: One year, two courses
Joystiq
And there's plenty to find interesting about FFXIV's world, but I've either ignored it or just given it a brief aside while discussing FFXI. I don't mean to say that I don't think this was a good year for the column. I'm quite happy with how a lot of ...
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The Cranberry Show is spooky good on new album Paranormal Karaoke
OnMilwaukee.com
In the music world where everyone has a baseball bat made of opinions that they're ready to whack you over the head with at any given time, he checked his swing. Actually, he bunted, and that nudged us in the right direction as far as letting us know ...
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OnMilwaukee.com
MIA PREMIERES “BAD GIRLS” VIDEO ON NOISEY - VICE'S NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Altsounds.com
“I thought I was gonna die on the shoot when I saw the drifting. It was a four day shoot so everyone was on edge the whole time specifically ME when I had to do bluesteel singing to the camera while the cars did doughnuts on the wet road ten feet away.
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Admit it when you are off base, Mr Christie
Jamaica Observer
'All this would suggest that Mr Wignall is of the belief that CHEC is the only competent company in the world that has the capacity to cost-effectively undertake and/or finance such projects, although he has absolutely no empirical or credible basis ...
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Jamaica Observer
Romney's Olympics: Mitt came on board in dark days of 2002 Winter Games
Salt Lake Tribune
He left behind a world inspired by the Salt Lake Olympics, especially coming as it did just five months after the horrors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Just how much credit Romney personally deserves for Salt Lake City's stellar showing varies.
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Learning the Difference Between "Neutrality" and "War on Gay Teens" in Anoka ...
Autostraddle
These were kids who, gay or straight, had lost friends and peers at an age where in a perfect world they wouldn't even understand what mortality really was yet. And whose community was watching it happen with their hands held up in the air, ...
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