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From the Washington Post, apparently Hillary Clinton spends one and a half hours getting ready each day. Not reading advisers briefs, not studying the people or community’s she’ll be meeting. She spends the time picking out what she’ll wear and doing her make-up.
In a society where we try to limit gender abuse I cannot believe [...]

The recent trend of human rights abuse is nothing new, so far the outcome of protests against their abuse has seen:

Steven Spielburg pull out from being artistic adviser to the Olympic games opening and closing ceremonies.
Several European politicians considering taking their nations out of the games and boycotting the event.
Thailand’s six torch bearers dropping out [...]

Prime Minister Rudd today announced that he’s setting off on a 17 day global tour which will see him meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, United State President George W Bush, and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Prime Minister Rudd is quoted in media as saying:
“The Government believes the maintenance of global economic and financial stability [...]

Well it would seem very bad, in a recent study according to Greenpeace rising seas and water shortages will displace about 125 million people in India alone.
Climate change will also trigger erratic monsoons and ruin agricultural systems. We’ve already seen the Bureau of Meteorology put out warnings for extreme conditions leading into winter.
According to Vinuta [...]

For the second day in a row, a day to mark the start of the sixth year of the US-led invasion of Iraq has seen Katyusha rockets hit the green zone.
The green zone is apparently the safest zone in Iraq yet it’s seen double digits death in the last two days. It would seem that [...]

The new directive, let’s block everything we don’t agree with. This could be the pivot point of technology freedom versus government control. Recently Syria has tightened requirements of ISP’s to log users. Following the recent scene where we see the “great firewall of China” block Tibetan protesters views, Syria has tried to follow-up.
Let us hope [...]

Does China really have a place in this? Or shall I say does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have a word on this? They’ve come out and said the attempts to disrupt the Olympic torch relay were shameful.
This comes after I tried to add my blog to Chinese search engines, it was initially visible but [...]

It has been widely known that accused terrorist Osama Bin Laden has been holding out in the mountainous areas that border Afghanistan and Pakistan. We now see a change in leadership in Pakistan and with that a change in the approach on the “war on terror.”
What does this mean for the western world?
At the moment [...]

In what appears on the surface to be sideshow antics by the lawyer in the Bali bombers case, he has now retracted the appeal because his clients were not allowed to appear in court.
The three accused men – Amrozi Nurhasyim, his brother Ali Ghufron (alias Mukhlas), and Imam Samudra have been in court for [...]

This is an interesting article I found when reading the ABC News website. Apparently Britain has accepted 2,000 applications for resettlement from Iraqi’s that helped British forces whilst in Iraq, translators, etc.
A great point was made by one of the comments on the site:
You don’t pull your local “assets” out unless you are about to [...]

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