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Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air
By VALUR GUNNARSSON – 1 day ago
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A nationally televised meeting between Iceland’s prime minister and other political leaders was forced off the air Wednesday night when angry protesters disrupted the broadcast.
For more than two decades, the leaders of Iceland’s political parties have met every New Year’s Eve over champagne and spiced herring to talk about the year ahead on Iceland’s Channel 2 television.
But (…)

by William Sieghart
Last week I was in Gaza. While I was there I met a group of 20 or so police officers who were undergoing a course in conflict management. They were eager to know whether foreigners felt safer since Hamas had taken over the Government? Indeed we did, we told them. Without doubt the past 18 months had seen a comparative calm on the streets of Gaza; no gunmen on the streets, no more kidnappings. They smiled with great pride and waved us goodbye.
Less than a week later (…)

Louise Arbour’s public profile is of a human rights champion and a distinguished jurist of International Law. This version is widely held, especially in Canada. However the University of Calgary and the Consortium for Peace Studies can’t all be unaware of Arbour’s darker history. What are they afraid of? Why doesn’t somebody object? Most recently Arbour joined the Soros think tank International Crisis Group where sits Zbigniew Brezinski, Wesley Clark, Lawrence Summers, Ernest Zedillo, George (…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL_B4vSaYGw&NR=1

(OKLAHOMA CITY) I’m hoping you had a safe (in more ways than one) calendar New Year’s celebration and are ready to commit to a political and social New Year of acquiring the legal recognition of our GLBT equality which is already ours as a right of citizenship.
This morning I watched the "The Times of Harvey Milk", a documentary of Harvey Milk composed of interviews with people who knew and worked with Harvey Milk, combined with news clips illustrating the important events in Milk’s public (…)

http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1959
On 29 December 2008, I attended a peace rally in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was fortunate enough to find two people willing to talk about their perspectives on the Israeli offensive in Gaza that began two days earlier. My thanks to both interviewees.
What follows are their perspectives:
Further information on a peaceful resolution at: Jews for a Just Peace.
http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1959

The Globe and Mail, Canada’s ’newspaper of record’ is making a campaign for the country’s political elite to once again defy public sentiment and extend the Canadian Armed Forces’ intervention in Afghanistan beyond the current deadline of December 2011". Sadly assisting in this terrible project is Canada’s ostensible ’left’ party the NDP...
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/d...

God is With Us By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
Tom Lehrer, one of the first satirical, political song writers, once penned a song entitled “National Brotherhood Week.” The song went, “Oh, the black folks hate the white folks and the white folks hate the black folks and the Indians hate the Mexicans and everybody hates the Jews." Funny, because it is was so true.
But then as now, to confound cause and purpose with religion and race discolors the argument and cheapens the (…)

On the Israeli offensive in Gaza, and The Grand Chessboard: 1) Setting The Stage.
2) Political Status of Gaza.
3) The Humanitarian Situation in Gaza.
4) The Significance of Palestine.
5) The Implications of the Most Recent Events.
1) Setting The Stage
The Gaza Strip is “one of the most densely populated tracts of land in the world,” is home to approximately 1.5 million Palestinians, “about 33% of whom live in United Nations-funded refugee camps.”
“Gaza has the highest (…)

Happy New Year 2009: Put all your Love, Wisdom and Truth into your first right foot step in the New Year. This will trigger very healthful energies for the whole year!
"In a few hours it will be New Year, and tomorrow when you speak about today you will already be saying ‘last year’. Up until twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds, it will be ‘this year’, and as midnight strikes the new year will begin. One second, just one second, separates one year from the next! (…)