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43% US Income Tax Dollars goes on Military Spending…

Posted in Life, News, Politics, tagged , , , , on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

According to the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) a peace lobby group in Washington, the break down for US federal income tax spending for 2007 was as follows:
43% Military Spending
20% Health Care
12% Poverty, housing and income support
11% National Debt interest
7% Government operations police, courts, etc.
3% Education and Jobs
3% Science and the environment
1% Diplomacy
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Testing Muslim Racism in the USA

Posted in News, Politics, TV, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

ABC News Primetime recently ran a test to gauge reaction to Muslim racism in the USA. This video on YouTube.com shows quite surprising results: 15% approved racism, 32% challenged racism, but most surprising is that 53% were silent. Obviously this is just one test so it doesn’t represent the broad US opinion, however [...]

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Chinese Turning Hoops to Keep the Tibet Uprising out of the Olympics

Posted in News, Photography, Politics, tagged , , , , on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Many images from the Tibet struggle over the last few weeks have been censored by the Chinese Public Security Bureau, however Wikileaks.org has created an archive of these censored images, which only hint at the brutality which has occurred there in recent times.
View the Wikileaks photo archive here.
The biggest challenge now for the [...]

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America for Sale?

Posted in Business, Finance, News, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As the US economy and dollar falls virtually on a daily basis, wealthy Gulf states,
rich from the huge increases in oil prices in recent times, have set their
investment sights on significant chunks of US property and companies. But could these investments ever be used for political leverage?
This CNN Video explores the issue.

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Race to the top

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It was always on the cards and only a matter of time until Barack Obama
confronted the Race issue head on. Obama refused to abandon his controversial pastor, Jeremiah Wright over his comments on race. This speech and the reporting of it by different sources has caused a wave of comment. View a clip of the [...]

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Iraq – a five minute summary

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On 20th March 2003 the USA invaded Iraq and over the last 5 years its never been out of the news. So much has happened during that time its hard to get a complete view. Channel Four has compiled a five minute overview to bring you up to date.
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