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EDITORIAL The microwave tax
Obama administration published new rules that will make microwave ovens less efficient and more expensive. It’s in the service of the global-warming scam.This is one of the first uses of ...
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EDITORIAL Hugos gun dream
Venezuela bans the sale of guns, requires universal gun registration and threatens to send violators to prison for 20 years. The law, which was ';guaranteed'; to save lives, was not the work ...
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Tick Tock Make The Serve Pitch Putt Or Shot
who swallowed a clock and shadows a terrified Capt. Hook. Somebody has to scare athletes into playing faster. In baseball, golf and tennis in particular, we are being slowwwwwwly lulled to sleep before every pitch, every shot. The pretentious preparation is interminable. In baseball, the pitcher holds the ball, pondering what to throw as if his decision -- a two-seamer or breaking ball -- would ...
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Child labor jars with Islamic tradition
By Ramzy Baroud In the hotel lobby of an Arab Gulf country, a family walks in aiming for the Westernized cafe that sells everything but Arabic coffee. The mother seems distant as she presses buttons on her smartphone. The father looks tired as he puffs away on his cigarette, and a whole band of children run around in a refreshing chaos that breaks the monotony of the posh but impersonal ...
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Militants torch NATO lifeline
By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR - The United States is laying meticulous plans ahead of its 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, but it has clearly overlooked how its continued drones strikes on the tribal areas of neighboring Pakistan will affect the much-anticipated pullout. Last week, militants belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) torched three containers stuffed with supplies for ...
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Movie Review
Crash (1996)
It's rare that a controversial film deserves all the heated debate and hype surrounding its release, so when a film like David Cronenberg's "Crash" comes along, it's a shock in the truest sense. Here is a film that is genuinely disturbing, but not for the reasons you would immediately think of. While the sexual lives of the characters are deviant and often times repulsive, it's the film's cold, ca ... ...
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US-Taliban talks set to begin
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Nearly 12 years after the United States ousted the Taliban from power, the White House announced on Tuesday that the US will begin formal talks with the militant Islamist group in Qatar later this week as part of Afghanistan's national reconciliation process. The announcement, which coincided with ceremonies marking the formal transfer of primary security ...
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Hawks doves and pipeline politics in Syria
By Peter Dale Scott Like President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, United States President Barack Obama's Syrian policy is being tugged strenuously in Washington by hawks and by doves. On June 13, Obama handed two limited but ominous victories to the hawks: a finding of fact that the troops of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad "have used chemical weapons [i.e. Sarin] against rebel ...
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Modernity makes a mark in Iran vote
if you are interested in contributing. The June 14 election in Iran has not only shattered many prejudgments about the supposedly predetermined results of the 11th Iranian presidential poll on the international level, but it has also taken many inside Iran by surprise. The reformists, who have been subject to the most severe media criticism and sabotage ...
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Cambodian opposition calls foul on election
By Radio Free Asia Leaders of Cambodia's main opposition group said Tuesday that they will reject the results of upcoming national elections if the ruling party, which is widely expected to win, continues to disrupt campaigning activities of opposition party members. Nhem Ponharith, spokesman for the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) opposition coalition, told RFA's Khmer ...
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My view People deserve rights at our borders
The policies and practices of our harsh immigration system violate human rights: basic respect, dignity, safety and needs of ...
Making the news
Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
Hassan Rouhani
Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
Hotel Review
Amora Hotel Jamison Sydney
This hotel is located right in the heart of the CBD of Sydney in Jamison Street. The hotel neighbours the ...
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