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updated 10:08 AM EST, Sat December 10, 2011

-- Senior Palestinian leaders on Saturday strongly criticized comments by Republican presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich that the Palestinians are an "invented" people, calling them ignorant and racist.

Top Palestinian negotia... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/679 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:08:27 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

[i]Top 10% have incomes 12 times greater than bottom 10%, up from eight times greater in 1985, thinktank's study reveals[/i]

Randeep Ramesh, social affairs editor | Monday December 5 2011 10.39 GMT

Income inequality among working-age people has risen faster in Brit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/678 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:01:02 Source: [b]Washington Post[/b]

By Scott Clement

[b]Republican split on global warming[/b]

Belief in global warming has recovered somewhat this year after a sharp falloff in 2008 and 2009, according to a [link:http://www.people-press.org/2011/12/01/modest-rise-in-number-saying-there-is-solid-e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/677 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:21:02 Source: [b]NYT[/b]

By NADA BAKRI and NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Published: November 27, 2011

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Arab League approved tough economic sanctions against Syria on Sunday because of its violent crackdown against antigovernment protesters, an unprecedented step against an Arab country.

Th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/676 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:07:55 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

[i]Washington increases pressure on ruling generals to cede power to civilian government as protests continue in Cairo[/i]


Chris McGreal | Friday November 25 2011 17.24 GMT

The White House has called for the Egyptian military to surrender all power immediately to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/675 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:01:43 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

[i]US-based Egyptian journalist uses Twitter to describe sexual and physical assault she says took place at the interior ministry[/i]

Shiv Malik | Thursday November 24 2011 10.18 GMT

The US-based Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy has been released, according to he... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/674 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:05:59 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

When Alice Walton, heiress to the Walmart supermarket fortune and the the 10th richest woman in the United States, opened a spectacular fine art museum in her home town, she might have expected plaudits and gratitude. It hasn't quite worked out that way.

The long-awai... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/673 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:53:47 Source: [b]Reuters[/b]

By Janeman Latul
JAKARTA | Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:38am EST

(Reuters) - Little over a decade ago, Indonesian budget airline Lion Air served a single route on remote Borneo island. On Friday, it placed a $21.7 billion order with Boeing (BA.N), the airplane giant's biggest comme... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/672 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:26:57 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

[i]If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will 'lose for ever' the chance to avoid dangerous climate change[/i]

Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent | Wednesday November 9 2011 10.01 GMT

The world is likely to build so many new fossil-fu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/671 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:13:45 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

The secretive oil billionaires the Koch brothers are close to launching a nationwide database connecting millions of Americans who share their anti-government and libertarian views, a move that will further enhance the tycoons' political influence and that could prove si... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/670 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:29:49 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
Thursday November 3 2011 03.08 GMT

The conservative oil billionaires Charles and David Koch are spending millions on television ads meant to turn the failure of the Solyndra solar energy company into an election liabi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/669 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:26:33 Source: [b]CNN International[/b]

Tokyo (CNN) -- The decommissioning of four reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will likely take more than 30 years to complete, according to a report by Japanese officials.

The draft report, released by Japan's Atomic Energy Commission ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/668 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:26:22 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

[i]Ten years on from its creation, calls are mounting from legal and human rights experts for closure of the 'torture' centre on Cuba[/i]

Ed Vulliamy in New York | Sunday October 30 2011

The former chief prosecutor for the US government at Guantánamo Bay has accuse... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/667 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:42:19 Source: [b]CNN International[/b]

From Mohammed Jamjoom and Hakim Almasmari, CNN
October 26, 2011 -- Updated 16:33 GMT (00:33 HKT)

Yemeni women defiantly burned their traditional veils Wednesday in protest of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.

T... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/666 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:27:26 Source: [b]NYT[/b]

By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Published: October 21, 2011

A British seismologist said Friday that two minor earthquakes in northwestern England “appeared to correlate closely” with the use of hydraulic fracturing, a method of extracting natural gas from wells that has raised concerns abo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/665 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:41:21 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

The world is getting warmer, countering the doubts of climate change sceptics about the validity of some of the scientific evidence, according to the most comprehensive independent review of historical temperature records to date.

Scientists at the University of Calif... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/664 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:53:49 https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/300990_10150331645721275_177486166274_8568874_391621000_n.jpg

Hat Tip to the Being Liberal FB Group for [link:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150331645721275&set=a.180479986274.135777.177486166274&type=1&ref=nf|the heads up].... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/663 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:52:13 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

[i]Oil company rejects watchdog's claims that its local contracts made it complicit in the killing of civilians[/i]

David Smith Monday October 03 2011

Shell has fuelled armed conflict in Nigeria by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to feuding militant groups,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/662 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:04:46 Source: [b]AP[/b]

By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press – Sun Oct 2, 7:11 pm ET

NEW YORK – The protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan's Financial District for more than two weeks eat donated food and keep their laptops running with a portable gas-powered generator. They have a newspaper ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/661 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:40:46 Source: [b]Sydney Morning Herald[/b]

Malcolm Ritter
September 23, 2011 - 10:47AM:


It sounds like science fiction: while volunteers watched movie clips, a scanner watched their brains. And from their brain activity, a computer made rough reconstructions of what they viewed.

Scientists repor... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/660 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:21:59 [b] ... Wait, Fox News is a 15-year-old? That explains so much!"[/b]


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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/659 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:54:10 [i]In his 2003 Oscar acceptance speech, Michael Moore denounced President Bush and the invasion of Iraq. Overnight he became the most hated man in America. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Here Comes Trouble, he tells of the bomb threats, bodyguards and how he fought back.[/i]

http://st... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/658 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:00:34 [b]Colouring books, colouring young minds[/b]
By [link:http://blogs.aljazeera.net/profile/imran-garda|Imran Garda] in [link:http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas|Americas] on Tue, 2011-09-06 18:04.

[link:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/|http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/657 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:18:29 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

[i]Comedian whose phone was hacked says he was motivated to sue NoW by seeing Andy Coulson 'at the heart of power'[/i]

James Robinson | Monday September 05 2011 21.09 BST

Steve Coogan recalls clearly the moment he decided to sue the News of the World. "What motivat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/656 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:32:29 Source: [b]The Guardian[/b]

[i]Secret documents detail clandestine lobbying of Nato and even Obama following fear of full-scale US invasion[/i]

Luke Harding in Tripoli | Thursday 25 August 2011 21.19 BST

The Gaddafi regime carried out an extraordinary clandestine lobbying operation to try to ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/655 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:32:03