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- Mexico’s Famed Monkey-Boy is Back, Black and on Wal-Mart Shelves
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  Mexico's favorite monkey-boy, Memin Pinguin, may now find an audience in the U.S. That's because Wal-Mart has decided to carry the reissued comic books series, first released in the 1960s. There's just one problem. Memin Pinguin isn't simply a monkey-boy but referred to in the series as a "Negro."
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- Ideas and Trends - When Human Rights Extend to Nonhumans
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  Spanish attempts to grant rights to apes parallels our coverage of Ecuador's constitutional attempts to grant rights to nature.
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- President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'
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  George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 summit in Japan. The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
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- Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution
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  On July 7, 2008, the Ecuador Constitutional Assembly - composed of one hundred and thirty (130) delegates elected countrywide to rewrite the country's Constitution - voted to approve articles for the new constitution recognizing rights for nature and ecosystems. "If adopted in the final constitution by the people, Ecuador would become the first country in the world to codify a new system of environmental protection based on rights," stated Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
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- Christians Attacked in Egypt Police intervene and detain scores of suspects
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  Charge of ridiculing religion brought.
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- Suicide Car Blast Kills 41 in Afghan Capital
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  A huge blast from a suicide car bomb at the gates of the Indian Embassy in Kabul killed 41 people and wounded more than 130 on Monday in the latest sign of a sharp deterioration in Afghanistan, where combat deaths have surpassed Iraq's in the past two months.
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- Will the U.S. Support Terrorists to Destabilize Iran?
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  All attempts to justify a military attack on Iran have failed and the US is now looking at supporting fringe and terrorist groups to destabilize the country. It won't work, says NAM contributing writer, William O. Beeman, but it will destabilize the region for years to come. Beeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He is President of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association. The second edition of his book, The "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs": How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press.
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koroth comments on:
Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

Yeah, you’re right about that, but unlike other communist dictatorships China is allowing westernization and capitalism in at the edges. The USSR collapsed, and Venezuela is heading that way, because they didn’t allow it.
I think it will be interesting to see how that evolves, especially as illegal internet access starts to creep in around the edges.
It’s a wonder that there are still people in the west singing the virtues of communism. Some of them teach in and run our colleges and Universities.

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9:10 am 8/21/08
mg0314a comments on:
Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud

Site is down, I mirrored it here: http://mgraham.us/sports/2008%20Olympics/China/China.html

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2:08 am 8/21/08
jsmersh comments on:
Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

Communist dictatorship suppresses dissent.
What’s the matter, you thought the Chinese government was nice?
Think of the most oppressive government action you can.
Then check to see if China has done it.
You’ll find it has.

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12:21 am 8/21/08
koroth comments on:
Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

Well, it’s China. Is anyone surprised by this?
I think that as time goes on China will find it increasing hard to keep that iron lock on society and still allow modernization. It will be interesting see see how that resolves.

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10:47 pm 8/20/08
mynaffy comments on:
Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

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8:36 pm 8/20/08
thaimat comments on:
Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud

This is typical of how the IOC has bowed very low to China in every way, regarding these Olympics. From lax to a lack of, enforcement of even the mildest of prerequisites China agreed to in order to secure Beijing as the host city, to staying mum while China stops athletes from competing based on their politcal beliefs, the IOC have shown what they are really about: the money!

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8:35 pm 8/20/08
johnhancock123 comments on:
Will Russia get away with it?

PROTECTION FROM WHAT???????????????
How can you think they are great? A country that has a weaker economy, lower cultural level, higher criminal level, and lower lifestyles. A country that supplies prostitution (with a high infectuous disease rate), drug and arms trafficking because of a corrupted regime and army, etc.
We are apart of a great regime that has more liberties than I care to extend. A country that still favors INDEPENDENCE!!!!!!!!! AND FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!
As far as being over in Iraq.
We made our move to help stop the war on terror. What has Russia done? We have taken our own means to "HELP" rebuild a country that counld one day become great again.
What positive influence has Russia had on this world???????

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11:55 pm 8/12/08

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