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    Lighter Note: Who would you want to date from Hollywood

    So on a lighter note instead of my usual dreary look on life as socialism battles the fanaticalism of every form of right-wing mumbo jumbo. I want to ask people. Now from hollywood, there are extremely hot looking ladies and men, doesn't mean they are intelligent, but hot. So if you had a...
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    Bob Marley: Good Musician or Drug addict?

    Was Bob Marley a good musician, a good reggie player or just a criminal who smoked weed. Me personally. I love Bob Marley and think he is one of the best reggie players in the world. And Lakia, I have not. Sorry.
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    American Business interests Killed Ken Saro Wiwa

    Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 - November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer and environmental activist. Ken Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni, an ethnic minority whose homelands in the Niger Delta have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s. Intitially...
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    Shell Oil Destabilizes Ogoni people

    Ogoni: MOSOP Decries Further Destabilizing Plot by Shell The Ogoni were admitted into UNPO on 19 January 1993, by the Membership of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP). The first president of MOSOP was the well-known Nigerian writer and poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was brutally...
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    Venezuela marks anniversary of 'US backed'? coup

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela unveiled a monument Tuesday to people killed in clashes leading up to a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez — a short-lived revolt that he insists had U.S. backing and that underlies his increasingly hostile relations with Washington. ADVERTISEMENT The U.S...
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    Israel: Foreigners taking over a terrority

    First off the Balfour Declaration of 1917 would create a Jewish HOMELAND which doesn't mean anything like a state, and even if it means state the Zionist Federation was suppose to accept other 'peoples' religious and political aspects. Which mean respect the Palestinian people. Which has never...
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    Israel shells populated areas: most definetly a crime somewh

    http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/WorldNewsArticle.htm?src=w041117A.xml Another murder by IDF forces. I am sure it is some kind of crime to shell an area with high civilian population. I believe they should be charged for war crimes.
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    Canadian Soldiers: Common debate important

    http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/WorldNewsArticle.htm?src=w041155A.xml So in the end the Commons debate is useful, has had no ill effect on Canadian troops, and to them was extremely important to them and the Canadian military which I am apart of. So, everyone elses response to it isn't...
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    Should we be remorseful for dead bikers

    Should we be remorseful for the dead bikers? I think so, they were human beings, they had families, and we don't know if they committed a crime in their lives, and its a sad story even if they are a biker or not, what makes a difference?
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    Hillier speech about the need for money

    http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/NationalNewsArticle.htm?src=n041155A.xml Now I hope, and this is a big hope that the Conservatives come through with more money for the military. That's the only thing they are good for, the military, I don't think they have any other use because they are...
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    So why are conservative people afraid of debate

    Now I hear the Conservative members of this forum as well as around Canada complaining about why we had a democratic debate in the first place about Afghanistan. Now I am glad that the NDP had this debate on Afghanistan, and I am not truly concerned as a Canadian soldier if two MPs from the...
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    U.S will blame U.N for failure in Sudan

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Efforts to stop atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region are unraveling, with a new peacekeeping force uncertain, relief aid under attack and U.N. sanctions stymied, U.N. officials and analysts say. ADVERTISEMENT "The situation is spiraling downward on the ground and...
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    Saddam Hussein Lawyers at disadvantage

    AMMAN, Jordan - Saddam Hussein's lawyers are denied the same rights and resources as the prosecutors in his trial, a U.S.-based legal adviser to the deposed Iraqi leader said Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT Curtis Doebbler said Saddam's legal team is at a disadvantage compared with the...
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    I am beginning to like Chavez

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. ambassador was "provoking the Venezuelan people" and threatened Sunday to expel the American diplomat, whose convoy was chased by pro-government protesters on motorcycles. ADVERTISEMENT Chavez condemned the crowd of...
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    Becoming a Writer: Its hard damn it

    Well not only am I a Canadian soldier, since my sister keeps saying that she is a better story writer than I, even though she has never completed one of them except the one that we completed together 8 years ago called Short Stories and Poems that appears in the National Library of Canada. So I...
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    Those Toronto Blue Jays: I think World Series

    I think with the additions, I wouldn't say of who unless no one knows about the Toronto Blue Jays, I will say that it is looking good for Toronto to win the World Series. Just watching them so far they are all pretty good, even the two call ups so far this season, minor-league guys from other...
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    For my Health

    Now it has been fun, but since I came back from field exercise last week I haven't felt well. So I have decided to cut back on my output for this forum here. I will leave all politic issues to everyone else. Just to note I am socialist, and I am Anti-Iraq war and a Canadian soldier. However...
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    Whats Happened since I left??

    So what has happened here since I left for a field exercise last week? It seems like everyone seems to be fighting each other. What's happened?
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    U.N Kosovo Talks are a bunch of BS

    The United Nations on Thursday dashed Serb hopes of their own "entity" in Kosovo and issued a stark response to those threatening to leave if the Albanian majority wins independence. "When told me they couldn't live in an independent Kosovo, if this is the outcome of the status process, I told...
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    Harper got nothing done in Cancun

    CANCUN, Mexico (CP) - Canadians need to get used to the fact that they'll soon have to show a passport every time they want to go to the United States, even if it's just by car, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday. Harper acknowledged at the end of two days of meetings with his U.S. and...