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Jalal Alamgir

Jalal Alamgir: The Congressional Hearings That Are Really Needed - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...essional-hearing_b_834682.html

Islam

shared by Jalal Alamgir on 14 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Jalal Alamgir on 14 Mar 11
     
    Argues that the hearings on radical Muslims in the US have focused on the wrong side of the equation
  • Jalal Alamgir on 14 Mar 11
     
    My latest article in the Huffington Post
Sonny Cher

Who Says Smoking Pot is Illegal? - 1 views

I have always been addicted to marijuana. It started out with my friends at high school, since then I cannot turn myself away from experiencing high times puffing marajuana. It feels so nice. Howev...

marajuana

started by Sonny Cher on 01 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Kelly Bounce

Why I Like IgniteAV - 2 views

My team makes a living from organising high quality events. Our job would have been difficult without the help of IgniteAV. They, without a doubt, are the best AV hire and PA hire team we have ever...

AV hire the Obama and Glenn

started by Kelly Bounce on 31 May 11 no follow-up yet
High Syn

The Best Thing Happened to Party People Like Me - 1 views

I really have my doubts when I first heard about herbal highs and legal weed. I said "there is no such thing" but everything changed when I tried Kronic original. True to its promise, it gives the ...

legal weed

started by High Syn on 13 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Kelly Bounce

Capture Special Events with Ignite AV Equipment - 2 views

I love to capture events, especially the said events are oh, so, very special. With this, I really need high quality video recording equipment to capture the moment. At Ignite AV, that is not only ...

projector hire

started by Kelly Bounce on 20 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
Sarah Usher

Police Jobs Through Police-Recruitment UK - 1 views

I was searching for police force jobs that will suit the qualifications that I have. I searched in offices and online until I came across Police-Recruitment UK. I was able to set my sights on a sp...

police force jobs

started by Sarah Usher on 06 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Anne White

I Passed the UK Police Recruitment for 2011 - 1 views

I really wanted to become a police officer, not because being a police officer is exciting, but, because I knew being a police officer is a noble profession and I wanted to make a difference in the...

started by Anne White on 11 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
Peter Dearman

Mainstream Populist Democrats: Taiwan may provide a health care model for the U.S. - 0 views

populistdemocrats.blogspot.com/...provide-health-care-model.html

Taiwan medical medicine health health care insurance hospital

shared by Peter Dearman on 12 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Peter Dearman on 12 Apr 09
     
    A National Public Radio profile from last year points out that Taiwan has one of the world's best health care systems and it is cost efficient too. All Things Considered, April 15, 2008 · At the end of the 20th century, Taiwan became a rich country, almost overnight. But it still had a poor country's health care - about half the population had no coverage at all. So Taiwan set out to design a national health care system from scratch. What makes Taiwan unique is the way the country figured out how to cover everyone.
  • Peter Dearman on 12 Apr 09
     
    My first post here. Just joined. Live in Taiwan and can attest to the brilliance of the healthcare system here. It's a much better model than Canda. (And I'm a Canadian.)
Ahmad Al-Shagra

Saddam is Hanged for His Crimes, Who will Hang Bush/Blair for Theirs? - 0 views

www.paltelegraph.com/index.php

shared by Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Rumsfeld's famous hand shake with Saddam provides the proof on tha
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
       
      Ridiculous misinterpretation to back such a statement
  • Saddam was originally a CIA man recruited to assassinate the previous Iraqi president Abdel-Karim Qassem
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
       
      First time I hear this one, also not substantiated with references, this article should be in the science-fiction section
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2849.htm Info on Saddam's relationship with the CIA
  • his war of aggression against Iran
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
       
      From this I can safely say a Pro-Iran biased writer is the author
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980 - partly instigated from a border dispute between the 2 countries - Iran was supplying the Kurds with weapons in the border areas. http://www.brucekelly.com/saddam-hussein-iran.html Both countries deployed chem weapons http://www.fas.org/irp/gulf/cia/960702/72566_01.htm The US supported Iraq against Iran. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/irq8-m29.shtml
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      From a Facebook commentor on the article: "In a secret 1981 memo summing up a trip to the Middle East, then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig wrote: "It was also interesting to confirm that President Carter gave the Iraqis a green light to launch the war against Iran through Prince Fahd" of Jordan." U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniev Brzezinski met with a Saddam Hussein in July 1980 in... Read More Amman, Jordan, to discuss joint efforts to oppose Iran."
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      From a commentator on the article on Facebook: "In a secret 1981 memo summing up a trip to the Middle East, then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig wrote: "It was also interesting to confirm that President Carter gave the Iraqis a green light to launch the war against Iran through Prince Fahd" of Jordan." U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniev Brzezinski met with a Saddam Hussein in July 1980 in Amman, Jordan, to discuss joint efforts to oppose Iran."
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      Why doesn't this diigo thingy remove my posts when I tell it too ... grrrrr
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  • 700 thousands mostly civilian Iraqis during the last three years of American occupation
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
       
      actually 6 years, and more than 1,000,000
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      The article refers to the past 3 years - the last estimate by Lancet (as we know the US doesn't count the results of its carnage) was in 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_casualties_of_the_Iraq_War 654,965 to 2006 - so a ballpark for the last 3 years around the 700000 mark is plausible if one accepts the Lancet methodology. http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ OTOH says around 100,000 all told.
  • hundreds of thousands of Iraqis
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
       
      Millions in Syria Alone
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      Which incident are you referring to here?
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      Death counts from wars - good link is here: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat4.htm
  • Saddam is just a "baby" ruthless dictator compared to Bush and Blair.
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
       
      Is this still an article?
  • when he converted Iraq's reserve funds from Dollars to Euros
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
       
      This happened in the 21st century, not the 80's, but its agreed on by many that it changed the game
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      Saddam's fatal mistakes of trading oil in euros, not dollars happened twice - In 1999 and in November 2000. http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/sovereign/dollar/2003/03oil.htm
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      Saddam's fatal mistake of switching to euros from dollars for oil happened in 1999. http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/sovereign/dollar/2003/03oil.htm
  • that were used to bomb Kurdish Halabja
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
       
      CIA published a report back in the 80's stating Iraq did not own the Chemical Weapons used in Halabja, yet, coincidently Iran did.
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      Some still dispute the events, yet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack and see discussion.
  • last three years
    • Ahmad Al-Shagra
      Ahmad Al-Shagra on 23 Apr 09
       
      For the last time, 6 years - not 3
    • Jin Jirrie
      Jin Jirrie on 23 Apr 09
       
      Sure - the article refers to the last 3 years though. I can't find any stats that cover the last 3 years death toll, so it's a fuzzy figure to me also.
David Corking

The Iain Dale interview | LabourList.org | April 2009 - 0 views

www.labourlist.org/alex_smith_iain_dale_interview

education culture politics

shared by David Corking on 12 May 09 - No Cached
  • Boris Johnson, the test case for a Tory government. He’s overturned the tariff on gas-guzzlers; he’s only building social housing in already deprived areas, he praised the sub-prime mortgages in America; he destroyed cycle lane budgets but still called himself green. And those are the very few things he has done…Good. I like politicians who don’t legislate a lot.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 12 May 09
       
      Great exchange!
  • I don’t regard it as a Socialist Conspiracy, but I do regard it as a monolithic bureaucracy where not enough is spent on direct patient care. To my mind, you could break it up into smaller geographical units, decentralise it more efficiently on a regional basis.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 12 May 09
       
      Is this a vote _for_ the postcode lottery?
  • I was selected as a candidate by a very conservative constituency – having told them I was gay. If you’d said to me ten years ago that that could happen I’d have laughed. Margot James herself was selected in a marginal seat. I willingly pay tribute to Labour on gay rights
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  • I hit back. Having said all of that, I’ve always had a soft spot for Derek, and he shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that he set up LabourList up and it’s going to go on without him,
  • David Corking on 12 May 09
     
    I would love to increase the number of teachers by 20%. I would love to, and to be fair to the Labour government have done a lot on that. But to just say that everything's perfect and we need to spend every pound that we're spending now is just being an ostrich.
anonymous

The Hacktivist - 0 views

www.thehacktivist.com

electronic civil disobedience ECD politics international hacktivism activism online activists online activism Media information

shared by anonymous on 10 Apr 09 - Cached
  • David Corking on 10 Apr 09
     
    some interesting snippets in this blog: it is a shame it hasn't been updated since 2006 ( a bit like my own blog!)
David Corking

David Cameron and the Masters of Disaster | LabourList.org | March 2009 - 0 views

www.labourlist.org/opi-sen-david-cameron-disaster

Culture Finance

shared by David Corking on 26 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • "Do We Need All This Regulation? Government claims that this regulation is all necessary. They seem to believe that without it banks could steal our money...”And went on: “Mortgage Regulation: We see no need to continue to regulate the provision of mortgage finance, as it is the lending institutions rather than the client taking the risk”.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 26 Mar 09
       
      This quote confirmed my worries.
  • David Corking on 26 Mar 09
     
    This would be entertaining if the possible outcomes weren't so serious.
David Corking

Come on, AIG guys! Cough it up. - The Bing Blog | March 16, 2009 - 0 views

stanleybing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/...come-on-aig-guys-cough-it-up

shared by David Corking on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • In my experience, perhaps the top five guys in any corporation usually have that kind of protection. Here we seem to have an entire executive class that has the clause in their deals.
  • David Corking on 09 Apr 09
     
    The UK argument about bonuses has crossed to the US. Year-end rewards for pushing the world economy over the brink? I don't think so.
nalmeida75

Berlusconi - 0 views

I wrote a little piece on my blog about Italy's PM and his ability to evade legal responsibility and preserve in power. Check it out and leave comments: http://nalmeida75.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/...

Berlusconi Machiavelli Borgia Mafia Bossi Network Italy Politics Mills

started by nalmeida75 on 19 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Sarah Usher

PoliceRecruitmentUK Helped Me Pass the Police Application Sift - 1 views

Becoming a police officer is my dream job. Since grade school I can only picture out myself as a police officer and so upon the first opportunity I applied at Wales in hopes to become a police offi...

become a police officer

started by Sarah Usher on 06 Apr 11 no follow-up yet
Bakari Chavanu

The root cause of war is oligarchic capitalism | Middle East Eye - 0 views

www.middleeasteye.net/...igarchic-capitalism-1397733231

capitalism middle east

shared by Bakari Chavanu on 06 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • After World War Two, Britain and the USA pressured the United Nations into confiscating Arab land to form the state of Israel, making the Arabs pay for the crimes of the Germans. In addition to providing a nation for the Jews, Israel would be a forward base for Western economic and military power in the Middle East. To the Arabs it was another European invasion of their territory.
  • In the early 1950s, the USA and Britain overthrew the government of Iran because it tried to nationalise its oil industry, which was under Western control.
  • In the mid-1950s, Egypt decided to nationalise the Suez Canal and use the income from it to help their people out of poverty. They were willing to pay its British and French owners the full market value for their shares, but Western governments and Israel responded violently, invading and bombing Egypt into submission.
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  • The USA and Britain committed similar atrocities in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Indonesia and Afghanistan. We overthrew their governments, installed dictators, undermined their economies - all to strengthen our business interests. In every nation where we now have terrorism, we had first assaulted them.
  • Capitalism is always at war. The violence, though, is often abstract: forcing us either to accept low-paying, exhausting jobs or starve; denying us adequate healthcare, education and economic security; convincing us that human beings are basically isolated, autonomous units seeking self gratification. But when this doesn't suffice to keep their profits growing, the violence becomes physical, the cannons roar, and the elite rallies us to war to defend "our" country and destroy the fiendish enemy.
  • Since 9/11 the USA has killed over 300,000 - a hundred times more than died in the World Trade Center. The overwhelming majority have been civilians.
  • As Martin Luther King stated with simple eloquence: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government."
  • Since they don't have our military power, they resort to guerrilla warfare. As Mike Davis wrote, "The car bomb is the poor man's air force."
  • www.amazon.com/dp/1897455844
bill butler

chrysler and compuware blacklisted engineer viewer count update - 5 views

just search blacklisted engineer fro any search engine and it is now at 3,101,947 viewers thanks for your support!

chrysler compuware jeep dodge

started by bill butler on 23 Jun 11 2 follow-ups, last by bill butler on 27 Oct 11
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