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Congress must act on TV switch, rights group says - CNN.com
civil rights groups need to be dumped in a giant grave and buried. Alive. When is saddam when you need him?
Two children should be limit, says green guru - Times Online
fucking nazis
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Porritt, who has two children, intends to persuade environmental pressure
groups to make population a focus of campaigning.
“Many organisations think it is not part of their business. My mission with
the Friends of the Earth and the Greenpeaces of this world is to say: ‘You
are betraying the interests of your members by refusing to address
population issues and you are doing it for the wrong reasons because you
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s shifting money from curing illness
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CFP: The “Hidden Soros Slush Fund”
In practice, this Barack Obama brainchild would serve as a permanent, taxpayer-backed pipeline to Democrat partisan outfits masquerading as public-interest do-gooders. This George Soros Slush Fund would be political payback in spades. Obama owes much of his Chicago political success to financial support from radical, left-wing billionaire and leading “social entrepreneur” Soros.
As America’s preeminent funder of liberal activism, Open Society Institute founder George Soros is always on the lookout for new ways to undermine traditional American values. Who knows how many of Soros’s wealthy left-wing friends in the Democracy Alliance, which aims to create a kind of “vast left-wing conspiracy” to compete with the conservative movement, would love to siphon taxpayer dollars to support their utopian schemes?
Malkin suggests that Obama’s rival for the White House, John McCain, hasn’t criticized the slush fund proposal because his Reform Institute received $150,000 from the Open Society Institute in 2003. The Reform Institute is a tax-exempt nonprofit that focuses on good government-related issues and so-called campaign finance reform.
Stop buying those throwaway clothes, shoppers are told by Lords | Mail Online
'The attitudes of individuals and organisations must be altered so that waste is not just viewed as being costly, but as being socially unacceptable,' the report said.
'We must tackle the high rate of wasteful consumption to which our
society has become accustomed.' The committee called for a shake-up of VAT, suggesting that tax rates could be reduced on products which used sustainable materials.
Secret meeting on abortion policy exposed | Spero News
A group calling itself the "brain trust" met in secret recently to plot how to take advantage of conflict situations to advance the abortion and radical feminist agenda. A new group called the Global Justice Center (GJC) hosted the New York meeting on June 9 of this year. The Friday Fax was given the chance to listen to a recording of the inaugural meeting of the "brain trust” which details the GJC's plan to exploit ceasefire and peace talks to gain leverage in newly-formed governments.
The GJC meeting brought together academics, lawyers, practitioners with ties to radical groups as the George Soros’ Open Society Institute, Equality Now, Center for Reproductive Rights, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) and Amnesty International. Jeremy Sarkin, the current UN Special Rapporteur for Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances was also at the meeting.
Participants at the meeting lamented the lack of international political will to enforce “gender justice” around the world and agreed that “shock treatment” was needed to change “the entrenched political and cultural norms that perpetuate male-dominated decision-making bodies and constrain women.”
Janet Benshoof, former president of the Center for Reproductive Rights and current president and founder of the GJC, asserted that conflict situations could be used as an “access point” to change the culture and the players. Benshoof argued that the prime opportunities for advancing their cause lay in the “transitioning government structures which afford particular opportunity for repositioning women's role in public life and decision-making.”
Post-Imperial Third Romes: Resurrections of a Russian Orthodox Geopolitical Metaphor
After presenting origins of the concept and its major interpretations in the past, the paper considers its reincarnations (‘Third Romisms’) in various contemporary Russian geopolitical ideologies, such as Orthodox Nationalism/ Fundamentalism, Geoapocalypt
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n reviewing modern Russian Orthodoxy-related geopolitics, I hope to achieve a larger goal of contributing to the discipline of geopolitics as a whole. Both Tsygankov’s and O’Loughlin’s studies are methodologically part of the so-called new geopolitics school that ‘emphasizes a socially constructed nature of geographical space’, need to ‘move toward delineating the particular cultural myths underlying [state] practices, such as the myth of national uniqueness’, concern with boundaries in a broader sense (than only power and domination), and plurality of geographic space.6 However, actual findings of these and similar studies are arguably only partially consistent with this agenda if the major Russian cultural myth (of the Third Rome) remains in the shadow, and plurality of geopolitical space underrepresents the main religion of the realm. The main reason for such partiality seems to be not the authors’ biases but rather the chronological limitation of the ‘new’ in the ‘new geopolitics’ that is commonly conceived as a departure from the classical western geopolitics and going beyond ‘the traditional boundaries of the Westphalian world’.7 This paper argues for further broadening of the chronological and topical scope of the new geopolitics: as in many instances of (re)emerging religious geopolitics throughout the world, the case of Russian Orthodoxy-related geopolitics shows that to understand the country’s current geopolitical imaginations, its ‘myth of national uniqueness’, scholars need to go not only beyond classical geopolitics but also prior to it, take more seriously imaginary proto-boundaries of the pre-Westphalian world. Such a more flexible version of the new geopolitics would attempt combining its serious take on the imaginary and the postmodern with attention to the traditional and the pre-modern, and should allow for greater latitude in studying cultural and political boundaries across different eras.
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Of various contemporary authors, this paper highlights Mikhail Nazarov who is becoming arguably the most outspoken voice of Russian nationalists. What makes his writings a noteworthy case is, first, his visibility: a talented publicist with the experience of a protracted stay in the West, he was often in the spotlight in 2005 as one of the initiators of several letters to the State Duma requesting that all Jewish organisations in Russia be made illegal on the grounds that one of the publications, a collection of Jewish religious regulations “Kitzur Shulchan Aruch”, ignites religious intolerance.38 A major public defender of the request, he got a lot of publicity from the case, helping him to promote his recently published nationalist manifesto, a voluminous book entitled matter-of-factly To the Ruler of the Third Rome.39
Nazarov’s two-fold historiosophical worldview is based on Filofei’s original eschatological meaning of the Third Rome, and is representative of most Orthodox N/F:40 Russia is opposed to the rest of the world as the only country that potentially could keep it from the alleged apostasy (decline) of the coming anti-Christian kingdom (often equated to globalisation and/or the USA). Therefore (and not ‘just because of its natural resources’) the world conspiracy forces consider Russia its main enemy in their global war: without full control over Russia, the world ‘behind-the-scenes’ system (mirovaia zakulisa) can’t establish the kingdom of anti-Christ. Hence the fate of the world is dependent on the Third Rome, its catehon, restraining, hold-back power of the Russian empire to provide humanity with a lighthouse for salvation. If Russia fails to restore the Third Rome, then nothing would be able to prevent the world from its own collapse.41
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HealthZone.ca - News & Features - MPPs reopen organ-donation debate
It's a concept known as presumed consent, making every eligible person in Ontario an automatic organ donor upon death unless they specifically opt out ahead of time.
Though it has yet to win much support in Canada, a pair of New Democrats are taking one
Recognizing Profound and Urgent Threats to Democracy, the Open Society Institute Charts New Direction for Its Work in the United States
Recognizing Profound and Urgent Threats to Democracy, the Open Society Institute Charts New Direction for Its Work in the United States
Press Release
June 12, 2008
Contact:
Amy Weil
aweil@sorosny.org
+1-212-548-0381
NEW YORK—Building on a ten year com
DECADENCE LURKS AMID TORONTO AFFLUENCE
y readers are familiar with my view that marriage and family are heterosexual activities while sexual promiscuity is homosexual. We are being re-engineered to behave like homosexuals, unable to bond with the opposite sex because of gender confusion. Unis
CNSNews.com - Democrats Float Bill to Curb Gasoline Demand
According to the Environmental Defense Fund, the bill -- called the Transportation and Housing Options for Gas Price Relief Act of 2008 -- would allocate taxpayer money to:
-- expand public transportation;
-- encourage “pay-as-you-drive” auto insuranc
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H.R. 6495 was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and it is cosponsored by Reps. Chris Shays (R-Conn.), Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and California Democrats Ellen Tauscher, Jerry McNerney, and Hilda Solis (D-CA).
Republicans say instead of spending money to curb demand, Democrats should think about boosting supply.
Republicans insist it’s time to drill for more oil on American soil. They have adopted an “all-of-the-above” approach to energy policy that includes expanded domestic drilling as well as conservation and development of energy alternatives.
Swans Commentary: The Soros Media "Empire": The Power of Philanthropy to Engineer Consent, by Michael Barker - barker02
Working within a Gramscian theoretical framework that is informed by power elite research, and draws upon Professor Joan Roelofs's critical insights into the cooptive strategies of liberal philanthropists, this article will illustrate how liberal foun
Next on school agenda:Teaching communism
A new plan by a California lawmaker would allow schools to be used to promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, and let teachers in public district classrooms "inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," according to a traditional
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Worse yet, the group said, "the bill would also strike the law that prohibits a teacher giving instruction in a school or on public school property from teaching communism with the intent to indoctrinate or to inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," CRI said.
"SB 1322 is simply shocking," said Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for the affiliated Capitol Resource Family Impact. "The socialist members of the legislature are now advocating that communism, one of the most brutal forms of government in history, be taught favorably to government school students. Anyone espousing communism, which does advocate for the violent overthrow of existing government, will be permitted to not only use government property, but work in schools and colleges, and teach their freedom-hating propaganda to impressionable young people."
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