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The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Not only are the Spanish Government hopeless communists, they’re also hopeless idiots. Because there is no other way to explain the measures they approved today. The Spanish Government, lead by the Mr Bean lookalike, but about 1000 times stupider Jose Luis Zapatero, approved a decree today that sets limits on the temperature that air conditioners and heaters can be set to in public spaces such...
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
This is a campaign by the UN Secretary General by men and aimed at men and boys around the world: The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has unveiled a renewed campaign opposing violence against women. He says about 70% of women experience some form of physical or sexual violence from men. Ban Ki-moon said men must teach each other that real men don't violate or oppress women. The 14 men currently in...
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UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Summary: Death toll in South Philippines massacre at 46 and rising, prime suspect is a close ally of the Arroyo government; 250,000 Irish workers strike; Gadhafi volunteers to mediate soccer row. Top Story: 46 SLAIN IN PHILIPPINE PRE-ELECTION MASSACRE The southern Philippines is in a state of emergency after at least 46 people were kidnapped and murdered in one of the worst acts of political violence...
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Massively (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
While Massively's own EVE Online contest is off to a great start this week, we also want to point out something of interest happening on our friend CrazyKinux 's site. Have you ever wanted to see your name in print in E-ON , the official EVE Online magazine? Well now is your chance. CrazyKinux is running a contest where EVE players can make their predictions about how the game will change in 2010...
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Next Left (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Gordon Brown has sent an open letter to Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, accepting the formal invitation to attend the summit and setting out what the British government believes must be achieved. Yesterday the Danish government announced that 65 heads of government have confirmed that they would attend the conference, with no refusals to date. Others to confirm include Chancellor Merkel...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
With Spain facing its worst recession in decades, the government will approve this week a sweeping package of reforms aimed at changing the nation's economic growth model, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Sunday. The reforms will touch on all areas of the economy from labour laws to the education system so that "Spain once again grows strongly and in a more sustained way,"...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
With Spain facing its worst recession in decades, the government will approve this week a sweeping package of reforms aimed at changing the nation's economic growth model, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Sunday.
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The Age (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
With Spain facing its worst recession in decades, the government will approve this week a sweeping package of reforms aimed at changing the nation's economic growth model, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Sunday.
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Tenerife News Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In a couple of months Spain's president of the government will assume the presidency of Europe.
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Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA) says that women in the Philippines are being driven into prostitution by climate change. Women in coastal areas are particularly sensitive to the effects of climate change. In other news, Gibson’s guitar plant in Nashville, Tennessee was raided by federal agents on the suspicion that the company might be using wood from endangered...
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scaryideas (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Rolling Stone : Silvio Berlusconi rockstar of the the year [Image] The best cover in the last 150 years I sincerely believe I am by far the best prime minister Italy has had in its 150-year history (since unification in 1861), Mr Berlusconi said in a televised news conference in Sardinia with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. September 10th 2009. Advertising Agency (Name,...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
&$ &$Argi Galbarritu (L), sister of the captain of tuna fishing boat Alakrana, mayor of Bermeo Xabier Legarreta and family member Jon Iturbe (R) remove a sign indicating the number of days of a hijack in the Basque town of Bermeo November 17, 2009. Spanish Fishing boat Alakrana has been freed by pirates who hijacked it in the indian Ocean six weeks ago and all its crew are safe Prime Minister...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero expressed relief Tuesday as 16 Spanish fishmen, who had been held hostage by Somalian pirates for 47 days, were released. The 16 Spaniards were among the 36-member crew of the fishing boat 'Alakrana', which is based in the Basque port of Bermeo. Alakrana was seized on October 2, while fishing for tuna in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia in...
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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
And guess why the pirate attacks are on the rise? MOGADISHU, Somalia ( AP ) — As a Spanish warship looked on, a $3.3 million ransom was delivered by boat Tuesday and Somali pirates freed a Spanish trawler and its 36 crew members. Spain's prime minister did little to deny paying off the hijackers — one reason the lucrative attacks are on the rise. "The government did what it had to...