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Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers|Belgian television viewers were given a preview of the 25-second film earlier this week, when it was shown on the main evening news. The reactions ranged from approval to shock and, in the case of small children who saw the episode by accident, wailing terror....The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing

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karmagrrrl: tales of a karmically challenged life...: Wake Me Up When September Ends |...because I have to be dreaming ...having a nightmare, in which case, please pinch me now - hard. |

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Anti-War signs. FREE. Borrow and contribute!|"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918"I feel it is a patriotic thing for me to resist this war. I am against those who have brought it on, Saddam and

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***R.H.D. HOME***tune into the realm of Beastmaster Romance & the Earl of Bandwidth...|Readers of this site may have noticed that we here at RHD are a bit obsessed with recombining things: humans with dragons, faces with beards, text with image, and so on. In an attempt to explain why this is so, and why we see recombinance as an important condition of our times, with serious consequences for our

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Project for the OLD American Century-liberal news from unbiased sources The Project for the OLD American Century is a grass-roots organization that strives to protect and strengthen democracy primarily by disseminating unreported and underreported news stories from a perspective untainted by political or corporate sponsorship. The Project was founded in 2002 in response to a rigged election,

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53�44'N� 0�26'W |If you have ever tuned a radio beyond the medium wave band, you will have entered the weird and wonderful world of short wave. You will hear many strange transmissions, such as ranting American evangelists warning you that the end of the world is near, people trying to sell you gold and silver before the economic collapse (SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT SOME!), jammed clandestine radio

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VotersUnite! |A non-partisan national grassroots network for fair and accurate elections! Active local communities increasing your voice by uniting with others across the nation.|

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Seattle Weekly: News: The Minus Touch by Rick Anderson |Lehto and Hoffman theorize that computers might also have automatically assigned under-votes—when a voter fails to choose one candidate or another—to a candidate not of their choosing, and they say a forensic analysis or audit of the machines' programming could settle that and other claims. The county and the machine maker, Sequoia Voting

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Untested voting systems used |"We had (counties using) untested, uncertified software (to run voting systems) ... and we had the secretary of state making up last-minute emergency rules to circumvent the law to let them do it," said Linda Franz, a member of the non-partisan activist group Citizens For Voting Integrity-Washington. "In my opinion, it raises a lot of questions." Counties with

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The Seattle Times: James Yee Investigation |"Some of the things he said sounded extremely sympathetic to the detainees," said Army Reserve Capt. Jason Orlich, a newly arrived intelligence officer. "I mean, it made the hair on the back of your neck stand up at attention." That simply, Capt. James Yee became a suspect. For the next two years — 76 days of it in solitary confinement — Yee would

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The Tharwa Project | The Tharwa Project is an independent initiative that seeks to provide a forum for identifying the aspirations and addressing the concerns of the various ethnic and religious minorities inhabiting the Arab World. In this, the Project seeks to foster better relations and establish a free channel for communication and dialogue between minority groups and the majority population

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Project Syndicate |Project Syndicate is an international association of quality newspapers devoted to: * bringing distinguished voices from across the world to local audiences everywhere; * strengthening the independence of printed media in transition and developing countries as well as upgrading their journalistic, editorial, and business capacities.|

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HoopsHype: Stern rewards Detroit's latest Bad Boys at least one sports columnist realizes that Detroit's fans aren't the first to interrupt an NBA game by harrassing the players... |Piston fans have raised the bar. Let’s see if San Antonio’s notorious “Baseline Bums” can provoke Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell, thereby eliminating the team that’s most likely to defeat the Spurs in

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DJ Danger Mouse & Jemini now have a video for "Bush Boys"

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BBC NEWS: Toilet summit opens in Beijing |"The entire toilet movement is taking on the world scale. People are saying, 'We want good toilets'....because you see a toilet is a basic human right and this basic human right has been neglected. So the world deserves better toilets..."| on a related note...TOILET PHOBIA! |Vicki has toilet phobia - she has a phobia of not being able to go to the toilet

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The Consortiumnews.com |While it’s extraordinary for a candidate to get a vote total that exceeds his party’s registration in any voting jurisdiction – because of non-voters – Bush racked up more votes than registered Republicans in 47 out of 67 counties in Florida. In 15 of those counties, his vote total more than doubled the number of registered Republicans and in four counties, Bush more than

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Virtual Canadian |Many talk about fleeing the United States to Canada, but between the hardships of relocation, and the difficulty of obtaining actual Canadian citizenship, that may not be an option for many. There's also the lingering desire to stay and try to do some good in the States. The solution: become a Virtual Canadian. It's idealist protest, combined with pragmatic reality.|

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Electing to Leave (Harpers.org) |Given how much the United States as a nation professes to value freedom, your freedom to opt out of the nation itself is surprisingly limited.|

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Black Box Voting |Black Box Voting has taken the position that fraud took place in the 2004 election through electronic voting machines. We base this on hard evidence, documents obtained in public records requests, inside information, and other data indicative of manipulation of electronic voting systems. What we do not know is the specific scope of the fraud. We are working now to compile the

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Taking on Tom Delay: |Here are the latest headlines exposing Tom DeLay's arrogance and abuse of his position. You can help remove this power-monger from office by contributing to Richard Morrison's campaign.|

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Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling, National Security, and Human Rights in the United States |Despite promises by President George W. Bush shortly after his taking office to end racial profiling, the number of American ethnic, racial, and religious groups whose members are at high risk of being subjected to this scourge has increased substantially. To address this growing national problem,

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radiohead news: : Rodeohead? |comedian Chris Hardwick and his band mate Mike Phirman have recorded a "Radiohead bluegrass medley" under the moniker Rodeohead.|

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WALK FOR LABOR: Annual march draws unions, a voter drive and a lone dissenter |"I'm not afraid of dying or getting beat up," he said. "I've had a good life."|

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ignoring the most obvious targets |The DivestTerror report (you have to provide your name and e-mail to read the whole thing) shows that such pension funds have $188 billion invested in the stocks of some 400 companies that provide "critical revenues and advanced equipment and technology," as well as "moral and political cover to the governments" of terror-sponsoring states. ... While shareholder

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moovin' on up |We figured there was a vast, untapped treasure chest of archaic racial names that DQ was missing out on, so we contacted the spokesman listed on the bring-a-cow press release. Chad Durasa was most helpful: Q. This drink, it's not the "Mulatto"? A. No. No. No. "Moo," meaning cow, and then "latte," meaning -- Q. OK. We were thinking of some other possible items, and I just wanted

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