7 hours ago by fromthewilderness

By Chris Floyd 12-18-09 While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty. It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice and took little time. In fact, ...

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9 hours ago by brobinson

The commander of U.S. and ISAF forces in Afghanistan, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, visited Ottawa Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan strategy with Canadian Chief of Defence Staff General Walt Natynczyk and other officials. He also made a speech at an event sponsored by the Conference of Defence As ...

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10 hours ago by Aaron Wherry

The opposition requested a meeting of the special committee on Afghanistan for next Tuesday and that meeting is apparently now scheduled. The Liberals humbly ask that Rick Casson, the Conservative chair of the committee, deign to preside over said meeting.

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11 hours ago by Wade

haiku for 12/18/09

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13 hours ago by Aaron Wherry

In a two-part post—here and here—Kady O’Malley reviews all that has befallen Parliament’s committee system. The first one to collapse was Procedure and House Affairs. where a motion to investigate the Conservative Party’s in-and-out electoral financing scheme led to meeting after meeting after meeti ...

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14 hours ago by realistic bird

US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank by Ian Cobain in Ramallah, guardian.co.uk Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been work ...

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15 hours ago by Aaron Wherry

Global details the case of a detainee kept in extreme conditions while in Canadian custody and the alleged indifference of Canadian authorities. The Star tries to sort out what our allies were doing and why a separate prison was never constructed. And the Globe depicts a mission sorely lacking in or ...

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17 hours ago by Babozor

Encore un tshirt topissime trouvé pendant la période Threadless à 9$… Plutôt rigolo, tout cet assortiment d’ustensils ostentatoirs… (moi en tout cas j’aime bien) Moi ça m’avais couté 9$ et je l’avais trouvé ici Related posts Roooh, la vilaine tête (de mort!) (0) Tshirt Anti-transpiration (0) Pinpin ...

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18 hours ago by Antony Loewenstein

Sometimes, a story about Palestine speaks volumes about the ways in which Washington truly views the region ( such as this classic 2008 tale of a US-backed, attempted coup against the ruling Hamas party). This piece in the London Guardian is both utterly unsurprising and brutally frank. This is the ...

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18 hours ago by دوراندیش

نماینده آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای در بنیاد شهید با استناد به یکی از آیات قرآن تاکید کرد: «باید سران فتنه به بدترین وجه ممکن اعدام شوند زیرا در هر کشوری در جهان با هر اندازه ادعای دموکراسی، با براندازان همان گونه می‌شود که قرآن فرموده است.» به گزارش رویداد در راهپیمایی که روز جمعه به دعوت شورای هماهنگی تبلیغ ...

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