Huge World News Calabash Friday
Outrage over #PersepolisTrial verdict | The Stream
stream.aljazeera.com – [View the story "Outrage over #PersepolisTrial verdict" on Storify]Storified by The Stream · Thu, May 03 2012 18:05:55On Thursday, a Tunisian court found Nabil Karoui, head of a private TV station,…
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#Mauritania’s Bonfire of the Vanities
lissnup.wordpress.com – It took considerable self-control to suppress my gag reflex at the sight of Abdel Aziz rushing from the palace to greet the protest march against Biram Ould Abeid’s sacrilegious act, dressed in ful…
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Hot Docs: How the Mohawk tobacco industry caught…
toronto.com – RICK EGLINTON/TORONTO STAR Rainbow Tobacco CEO Robbie Dickson lights up, with Smoke Traders director Jeff Dorn, who recently quit smoking, in the background. May 03, 2012 Where there’s smoke there’…
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Chen case is another human rights issue for Obama
cnn.com – WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 27: President Barack Obama speaks at the National Issues Conference hosted by the Women’s Leadership Forum and Women for Obama April 27, 2012 in Washington, DC. With former M…
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Tell Leader Pelosi: Don’t slash benefits
progressivesunited.org – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s recent comments signaling support for a plan that could slash benefits from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security send a disturbing message — one that millions o…
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What China’s Dissidents Are Saying About Chen
online.wsj.com – ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING—On Thursday, legal activist Chen Guangcheng told the United States that he wants to leave China, deepening a diplomatic dispute. His case has drawn comments from other prom…
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Anti-Tank Grenades Found At Arizona Massacre Site
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com – Nick R. Martin May 3, 2012, 5:18 PM Six anti-tank grenades designed to be fired from a launcher were discovered on Wednesday at the scene of a horrific Arizona mass murder-suicide, which authoritie…
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Hundreds Protest In Front Of Ramla Prison, 20 Kidnapped
imemc.org – Friday May 04, 2012 02:21 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & AgenciesIsraeli policemen kidnapped, on Thursday evening, more than 20 protesters during a massive protest that was held in front of the Al-Raml…
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Missed exit? Spend 35 years in Mexican jail
wnd.com – Text smaller Text biggerA Dallas-based truck driver is in prison in Mexico and facing a possible 35-year sentence because he missed his exit and had no way of turning around without crossing the bo…
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Shell Gets Permits For Arctic Ocean Drilling
fitperez.com – A spokesperson for Shell Alaska has recently said that they are a step closer to exploratory drilling off of Alaska’s northern shores. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued the company haras…
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Give Gulf Residents a Voice in Oil Drilling!
secure.sierraclub.org – Please support the creation of a Gulf of Mexico Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council (RCAC) to help inform future oil and gas operations and give impacted communities a much-needed voice in energy i…
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Automakers agree on ‘single-port’ charging system for electric cars
thehill.com – A group of eight U.S. and foreign automakers announced an agreement Thursday on a standardized charging system for electric cars, which they say will “harmonize” the technology and speed up chargin…
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Video: Remember Two Things About Lifting and Moving
everydayemstips.com – In the latest installment of the Remember Two Things video series the host, Steve Whitehead, talks about the importance of asking for help. Have you found a good way to ask for lifting help? What …
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Ann Romney: She and Mitt were so poor in college they had to liquidate some stock
digg.com – @AbeFroman “My real, non-trolling the sensationalists opinion?” I think Ann Romney has a right to state her opinion. I dont think anyone, left or right, has credible integrity to challenge that, co…
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The Night Junior Seau Picked Up A Marine Captain’s Tab And Serenaded Bar Patrons With A Ukulele
deadspin.com – An email arrived this morning from Albert Flores Jr., a U.S. Marine Corps captain who lives in Sneads Ferry, N.C. It’s about a chance encounter Flores had last year in a Southern California bar wit…
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Get Up Get Real about Coles Woolies & Gambling
sydneyhomeless.blogspot.com.au – Get Up Get Real about Coles Woolies & GamblingSupermarkets and pokies? If you’re shopping at Coles or Woolies, the two are more closely related than you might realise. Wesfarmers (Coles) and Wooli…
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Conservatives to discuss plan to censor the internet after campaign in right-wing press
independent.co.uk – Internet service companies could be obliged by law to provide an automatic block to stop children being able to view hard core pornography online.The Government is expected to discuss proposals wit…
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Live from Global Conference: Fixing K-12 education
smartblogs.com – I’m at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles this week. On Monday, panelists discussed K-12 education in the U.S. and what reform is needed — just one of a host of panels directly o…
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Chen case is another human rights issue for Obama
cnn.com – WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 27: President Barack Obama speaks at the National Issues Conference hosted by the Women’s Leadership Forum and Women for Obama April 27, 2012 in Washington, DC. With former M…
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Journalists and Netizens in Govt Crosshairs
ipsnews.net – Friday, May 04, 2012 00:47 GMT Journalists and Netizens in Govt CrosshairsBy Johanna Treblin and Emilio Godoy* UNITED NATIONS/MEXICO CITY, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – Two years ago, Ashkan Delanvar w…
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Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani | American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ
aclj.org – Illegally Imprisoned, 834 days Iranian Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been charged, convicted and sentenced to death for apostasy – becoming a Christian. When Iranian officials demanded tha…
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Three Years After Bush, the GOP is Still Wrong About Everything
eclectablog.com – What did the GOP learn from eight disastrous years of George W. Bush and the worst financial crisis in a half-century? Nothing good. If we’d followed their advice to shrink government spending dram…
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RealClearPolitics – Politics – May 02, 2012
realclearpolitics.com – May 02, 2012The Associated PressFlorida Gov. Rick Scott has rejected a request from the Tampa mayor to prohibit the carrying of guns in downtown during the Republican National Convention this summe…
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m.guardian.co.uk
m.guardian.co.uk – A US Pentagon contractor that was involved in building Guantánamo Bay is on a shortlist of seven private consortiums bidding for a £1.5bn contract to run key policing services in the West Midlands …
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