Tag: global politics
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November 13, 2009 06:46 PM EST --
SHOULD 911 SUSPECTS BE TRIED IN NEW YORK? IF NOT WHERE DO YOU THINK WOULD GIVE THEM A FAIR TRIAL?
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November 27, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Merrill Lynch has published the 2006 World Wealth Report that provides some interesting details on the 9.5 million high net worth individuals (HNWI) in the world that have . . .
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December 21, 2005 05:46 PM EST --
This was posted 2 years ago, before groups existed on Gather
Several times in the recent past I have heard the term "fascist" applied pejoratively . . .
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May 28, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
According to the popular press and other media sources, ethanol and ethanol-gasoline blends are going to be the solution to the current and future oil crisis. TV ads point out that corn, one of our . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
As I sit down to write this article, much of the Middle East is in crisis. Rockets are falling on Israel and bombs are falling in Lebanon. Hundreds of people have been killed on injured on . . .
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September 20, 2006 11:56 AM EDT --
An official Canadian commission has found that a Canadian computer specialist of Syrian birth, Maher Arar, had no ties to any terrorist groups or individuals. Arar claims . . .
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October 18, 2006 11:05 AM EDT --
The Census Bureau announced that the population of the US reached 300 million sometime on Tuesday. China and India are the only countries that have larger populations. The average population . . .
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September 04, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
A study completed by the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business has developed quantitative data linking increased immigration to depressed wages in South Carolina. . . .
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May 03, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
A pastor from South Carolina has been sentenced to three years in jail in Russia for being caught carrying in his luggage a carton of rifle cartridges for a Russian pastor he planning . . .
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February 04, 2006 06:23 PM EST --
NOTE: I did not write this, so don't rate me on it! (grin)
I copied it from a discussion on the Americans United for Separation of Church and State web site. I thought the writer made some very . . .
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July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . .
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January 17, 2006 08:59 PM EST --
Two of the most common cognitive mistakes, Confirmation Bias and Attribution Error, have far reaching consequences in everything from politics to auto repair.
Attribution Error is where, . . .
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May 17, 2006 10:54 AM EDT --
Americans are always encouraged to believe in the power of free markets. If someone invents a new product that is needed and fills a demand, the free market system will ensure that the inventor . . .
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July 30, 2006 12:05 PM EDT --
CNN reported this morning that at least 54 Lebanese women and children were killed by Israeli air strikes in the village of Qana, near Tyre. The bombs stuck a four-story building where the . . .
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August 10, 2006 10:52 PM EDT --
although i don't read much about politics on gather, i am so glad that jennifer hodge recommended a new author to me. his name is ambrose musiyiwa, and he's written quite a bit about . . .
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September 08, 2006 10:58 AM EDT --
The Stanford Social Innovation Review's Summer 2006 issue has ten new technological innovations that promise to improve the quality of life and the environment around the world. . . .
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August 05, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Sometimes just reading the individual captions of articles and columns in my local newspaper can be either informative or raise troubling questions. Today’s Sunday edition of my . . .
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December 07, 2007 09:40 AM EST --
Recently the CBS program Sixty Minutes ran a segment on the plight of Iraqi Christians still living in Iraq. Since our invasion of Iraq the minority Christian . . .
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January 10, 2008 01:57 PM EST --
The lack of outrage in the Muslim world over the hijacking of their religion is striking. The silence is deafening when Shiites murder . . .
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January 26, 2007 09:56 AM EST --
If you are a farmer that raises corn, times are good. Corn prices are at new highs thanks to the speculation that corn will provide a way to reduce the dependence on oil and oil . . .
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