Monday, February 28, 2005

elections

Growing up with Condi
http://news.bbc.co.uk

The US has insisted abortion should not be recognised as a human right, at a review of progress 10 years after a major conference on women's rights.
The issue has dominated the opening proceedings of the UN session...
http://news.bbc.co.uk

No one wants to drill in Alaska. Yet unlike the sloppy Russian rigs in Siberia that nevertheless send their fuel to environmentally conscious Europeans, Americans can tap some of their own oil in a safe fashion. So it makes no sense to import petroleum under dubious conditions abroad, but not to drill safely at home
http://www.victorhanson.com/


In basic training in the United States military, new recruits who are broken down to break the human inhibition to killing take part in training chants like, “What makes the grass grow? Blood, blood, bright red blood.”
http://www.worldpress.org/

What would LOST do? A new transnational tribunal, the International Seabed Authority, would take jurisdiction over 70 percent of the planet – all of the oceans' resources, living and non-living – as "the common heritage of all mankind."
http://www.wnd.com/

Under growing pressure over its occupation of Lebanon and its alleged involvement in a suicide-bombing in Israel, Syria has handed over a half-brother of Saddam Hussein, suspected of fomenting Iraq’s insurgency from Syria.
http://www.economist.com/
Egypt’s all-powerful leader, Hosni Mubarak, has announced, to general surprise, that he wants the constitution changed to allow for contested presidential elections.
http://www.economist.com/
Saudi Arabia took a small step towards democracy today as men in and around the capital voted in the kingdom's first municipal election.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Images from Afghanistan's first democratic presidential election on Saturday, which observers have pronounced fair despite claims of fraud by opposition parties.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Millions of Iraqis cast ballots Sunday in the nation's first free election in half a century
http://www.cnn.com
Bush's "warmongering" has made no difference.

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