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Contributed by Daya
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 Daya Stand Being there in Delhi among so many of the young people I have grown to love renewed my energy and restored my intention to stay here among them a while longer. This is a very moving time here in Dhasa and it doesn't feel like whatever I've come here to do is finished yet.
Instead of trying to protest against the Olympic torch
in Delhi, the Tibetans decided to create their own
torch and relay. It was a beautiful huge peaceful
experience with many government officials and
Bollywood celebrities speaking at the opening ceremony
and supporting us. We marched from Raj Ghat on the
Yamuna River (where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated) to
the designated protest area near Jantar Mantar (one of
Jai Singh II's observatories just south of Connaught
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Monsanto's We are told genetic foods are safe but in this documentary we are told something very different, and what we are told in this documentary is backed up by shocking facts. The connections between Monsanto and the FDA are very alarming, many highly influential politicians have worked for and or have tie with Monsanto. We are told that the FDA can be trusted but when you look at the facts they prove they can't when it comes to Monsanto.
Look at this: Clarence Thomas, Prior to being the Supreme Court Judge who put George W. Bush in office, Clarence Thomas was Monsanto's lawyer, Anne Veneman, Former US Secretary of Agriculture Anne Veneman was on the Board of Directors of Monsanto's Calgene Corporation..., |
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Contributed by Rakesh Saxena
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 Taliban Goons
In Washington, both Republicans and Democrats regularly reiterate the link between Islamic radicalism in Pakistan and the safety of the American homeland. Across the porous border in Afghanistan, NATO forces also claim to be fighting Islamic insurgents. And just recently, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared that India was facing a common threat with Pakistan, the threat emanating from religious extremism.
But who exactly are these Muslim men (and women, in some instances) who have been painted with the broad terrorist brush since 9/11? |
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Contributed by William Frank Diedrich
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 Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Dr. Yunus began Grameen Bank by loaning $ 27 to a poor bamboo stool maker and 41 other desperately poor villagers in Bangladesh in 1975. A whole new industry of micro credit, loaning small amounts of money to poverty stricken people, was born. As of August, 2006, Grameen has loaned over 6 billion dollars to over 6.6 million borrowers, 96 percent of them women. Interest rates on Grameen's loans are about 16 percent, and 98 percent of them are repaid. (Typical independent money lenders in poor countries charge 50 percent.) Grameen now employs over 17,000 people. |
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Contributed by David Cox
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 The Fight for the Poles But success is fleeting, today Carnegie is largely forgotten yet Lenny’s legacy lives on. The humor in Lenny’s title was that he did indeed talk dirty and indeed did influence people. Lenny was the first truly modern comedian; he didn’t just tell jokes about his mother in law or about how fat his wife was. His comedy was of current events and it was biting and sarcastic and sometimes even those who loved Lenny were offended by it. Lenny could be a comedic Rorshach test as he discussed the issues of race, nuclear weapons, homosexuality and even incest. |
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