tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139014562011-04-21T14:44:13.919-04:00<a href='http://aliberalmind.blogspot.com'><img border='0' src='http://static.flickr.com/31/48119323_f416ad9c2d.jpg?v=0' alt='Hosted by the Truth'></a> <p> "A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth" -BarzunAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08132774649354920822noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13901456.post-1153414003236908932006-07-20T12:44:00.000-04:002006-07-20T12:46:43.250-04:00

In case you haven't heard, there's some fighting going on in the Mideast. It hasn't gotten much press, so I thought I'd bring it to light here. Israel is pissed off at a bunch of people, who are also pissed off at Israel. Violence follows.

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Monrovia, Liberia-- The results in Liberia's first "genuine" Presidential election are trickling in and with only 278 out of 3,000 polling stations counted, ex-AC Milan footballer George Weah is winning with 23% of the vote. American educated economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is trailing with 14% of the vote thus far. With so many votes left to count a winner is far off, but the election is playing

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Monrovia, Liberia-- Civil War has marred Liberia since it's inception, but the cycle of violent conflict has stopped for now; It's election day in Liberia. In a country that has never known stability, let alone democracy, the process is not going as smoothly as had been hoped.So far there have been no reports of violence or protests, however the country's poor infrastructure is showing through as

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Harare, Zimbabwe-- Every action has an equal and positive reaction. The leadership in Zimbabwe is finding this out as their payment to the IMF has created a fuel crisis in a nation that has been teetering on economic oblivion for some months. A recent IMF study of the country revealed that the rate of inflation is upwards of 250% per year. The nation has a long standing price control policy on

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Washington, D.C.-- Having read through the indictment of Senate Majority leader Tom Delay, I am going to be honest and say that I don't really understand what he is being accused of. The NYT explains, The indictment, in Travis County, which includes Austin, the state capital, accused him of conspiring with two previously indicted aides to violate a century-old Texas ban on the use of corporate

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Zimbabwe-- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced today that it has received a large payment in the realm of $120m towards debts owed by Zimbabwe. The southern African nation had been under severe scrutiny from the international community over the past year and was on the verge of being dropped from the IMF.While the money has saved the skin of President Robert Mugabe for the time being,

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Not to take anything away from the tradegdy in New Orleans, but please remember that there are thousands of other causes which can use donantions that are not, and never will, recieving even one tenth the media coverage that this hurricane has recieved. Therefore, if you are planning to donate money consider some other causes before you give. The NBA players union will never band together to

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I just wanted to point out quickly today's article in the NYT, Niger is in the Headlines, But Other African Lands Suffer, Too, by Stephanie Strom.Way to finally get around to that. I think I mentioned something along these lines, oh, a week ago?Better late than never for the mainstream media I guess. Check out the article anyway, it is a interesting read. The most important point mentioned by

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In an earlier post I pointed out an Op-Ed article in the NYT that lamented the western media's lack of desire to focus on stories that fell too far outside the realm of our everyday existence. That article's subject was the Sudan crisis, but its conclusions ring true for almost every other major human rights issue on the continent of Africa (of which there are, unfortunately, many).That being

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Beijing, China-- PRC President Hu Jintao and Robert Mugabe have announced agreement on an economic aid package from China to the beleaguered African nation. As reported here previously, Muagbe has found himself under scrutiny from the West due to his tenuous regard for human rights. With the threat of expulsion from the IMF, Mugabe embarked on a "Look East" campaign in search of finances to save

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New York--Nicholas Kristof has an important column in today's Times Op-Ed section. Please read it, I cannot stress enough how much I agree with his points and the notion that America needs to stop being so self-obsessed with trivial things and use its power to help those that can't help themselves. To quote briefly from the column, Kristof writes,When MTV dispatches a crew to cover genocide and

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Zimbabwe-- The United Nations have finally come out publicly against President Mugabe's policy of strategic urban destruction(See previous post 'Taking Out the Trash'). The UN has released a full report that describes the decimation of cities as well as stating that the policies were carried out in, an indiscriminate and unjustified manner, with indifference to human suffering. All told the UN

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In the spirit of Friday's everywhere, and the constant sick feeling I get in my stomach every time I read about Karl Rove, I've decided to write a non-current event related post.I was walking on the street yesterday and spotted a young lady in a t-shirt with the great state of New Jersey outlined on it that read: What Happens in New Jersey, Stays in New Jersey. Now, I realize that this is a

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Slate has updated its Rove Death Watch column. It is an interesting read, responding directly to the Wall Street Journal's attempt to paint Rove as a whistleblower exposing the truth behind Ambassador Wilson's lies.Read both and see what you believe. I think the idea that Rove was a whistleblower is ridiculous if for no other reason than he wanted to remain anonymous. If he was truly calling out

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Washington D.C.-- As much as I hate to do it, I return to the topic of Karl Rove. Rove has recently been implicated in the Plame-CIA leak scandal after Time reporter Matthew Cooper identified him as one of his sources. Internal e-mails from Time magazine clarify this, but do not show that Mr. Rove himself specifically outed Plame as an undercover operative. The L.A. Times quotes one of the emails

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London-- One day later. The death toll is over 50 and expected to rise as there are more trains left unsearched and those inside are feared dead. Subway and bus service has resumed, but Londoners are clearly reluctant to use any mass transport. The bombs appear to have been on timers, and at this point Metro Police are saying that there is no evidence to support the claims that the attacks were

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Fox News-- What a fine bunch of journalists. A quick perusing of the blogs led me to this text from FNC's coverage of the London bombings today...That these people are, If necessary, prepared to spill Arab blood in addition to the blood of regular -- of nonarab people living in London. To quote a famous American satirist, Sweet merciful crap. I mean, are they serious with this? Has the propaganda

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London-- Officials in London have said that no advance warning was giving for the attacks that occurred earlier today in 3 London Underground stations as well as an attack on one commuter bus. As of this minute the death total sits at 33 with over 350 people injured and officials expect both of these numbers to rise. The questions that have been raised are two-fold, was this attack a success or a

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Bujumbura, Burundi-- The ethnic conflict in Rwanda, recently brought back to the forefront of U.S. consciousness thanks to the stunning Hotel Rwanda, has been rigorously examined in academics and journalism. However, despite all the attention Rwanda has received in the decades since the atrocities ended it has failed to develop democratically and remains what is essentially a dictatorship run by

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Just a quick thought/analogy I had. I was reading through the myriad of Right-Wing bogs (I am shocked by how they seem outnumber the left-wing ones by about 3-1) and I crossed a quote in reference to a U.S. exit strategy from Iraq which stated,"Because exit strategies are for fighting and ending wars -- not winning them."Why exactly, is winning so great? What will we have 'won' exactly? More

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I have been considering writing about a few of the different human rights violations going on around the world, the crisis in Darfur, the killings in Andijan, and the continued madness that is Liberia. Today I stumbled across an article that was hidden back on the 12th page of the New York Times about the recent government programs in the large African nation of Zimbabwe. The campaign is called

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Karl Rove is a smart and cunning man who got caught spekaing his mind in a public forum. I think he represents everything that can go wrong when a brilliant mind ends up fighting for the flithly rich and privledged of the world, but that shoulnd't take away from the fact that he is one of the most talented political strategists/propagandists of our time. Rove attended the University of Utah, the

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Rumsfeld rejects setting timeline to leave Iraq - June 23, 2005What a crazy idea, setting a timeline to leave Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld is a man of integrity, he has no need for time or lines, he doesn't even own a watch. A timeline for removal of U.S. coalition forces from Iraq in his eyes would be the same as admitting defeat. What he and the Bush administration can't seem to grasp, is that this a

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Dateline Bucharest---The AP is reporting that four nuns and monk are facing charges of murder after allegedly killing a 23-year old orthodox nun that had become possessed by the devil. According to the report the young woman was, "...said to be possessed by devils - was allegedly chained to a cross, gagged with a towel and left in a dank room at a convent for three days without food, eventually

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The Washington Post is reporting on a story that the Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 in favor of allowing city governments to seize private land that is deemed to serve a "public use". In this particular case, the city of New London (home of Connecticut College, go Camels) has claimed the land of numerous private homes for the development and support of a huge 300 million dollar, Pfizer research

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