Politics

It's official: Vancouver's centre-left parties form civic coalition

Posted by Shemuses from CBC

The coalition of Vancouver's centre-left civic parties is now official. After some debate Sunday, members of the Coalition of Progressive Electors voted to join forces with Vision Vancouver and the Green Party. The parties will field a joint slate of candidates for city council, school board and the park board in the Nov. 15 civic elections, with Vision Vancouver candidate Gregor Robertson running for mayor.

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House of Race Cards

Posted by Shemuses

Why McCain's nasty racial politics may come crashing down around him. John McCain and his minions are banking on the idea that this is still the America I grew up in, where politicians will say and do whatever it takes to win an election, even if it means throwing away their integrity and decency, even if it means lying and appealing to the most bigoted common denominator.

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tehran times : Pakistan army ordered to hit back at U.S. forces

Posted by okami

TEHRAN (Press TV) -- The Pakistani Army has been given orders to retaliate against any unilateral strike by the Afghanistan-based U.S. troops inside the country.

Army Spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas confirmed the orders in a brief interview with Geo News on late Thursday night.

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Sex, Drug Use and Graft Cited in Interior Department

Posted by Shemuses from New York Times

As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal - including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct.

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B.C. NDP reserves 25 ridings for female and minority candidates

Posted by Shemuses from CBC

The B.C. NDP has set aside 25 ridings for female and minority candidates to contest in the next provincial election. The selection of the ridings follows a motion at the party's annual convention last November that required the party to nominate women to run in at least 30 per cent of seats not currently held by the NDP.

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Who Do We Think She Is?

Posted by Shemuses from Washington Post

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's nomination as the Republican vice presidential candidate has stirred the hypocrite within us. Women judging women. We watch the polls while examining her stockings. We listen to her speech while calculating how many bobby pins hold up her hairdo. We parse her record while commenting on the shade of her lipstick. We measure our child-rearing skills against hers. She's a hockey mom. We are soccer (or swimming or softball) moms. We can give a pretty good PTA pep talk, and nobody asked us to be vice president.

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Some 25,000 people disappeared in Colombia over 20 years

Posted by Shemuses

Some 25,000 people disappeared in Colombia over the past 20 years in incidents related to the internal armed conflict that has affected the country for over four decades, the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday. Office representative Luis Gonzalez told Colombian radio network Caracol that the department has received 17,000 formal complaints of disappearances in the past 16 months alone, most of them involving the extreme-right paramilitary groups.

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