Another Mavi Marmara story, this time a wounded Australian Student.,

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Friday June 11, 2010 · 6:13 AM PDT

2010/06/11 · 06:13

20-year-old Ahmed Luqman Talib, an Australian (of Sri Lankan origin) student majoring In international Relations at the Bond University, in Queensland, Austalia was part of the group of volunteers on the Mavi Marmara who was shot by the Israeli troops. His story was published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.smh.com.au/...

Blacking out several times as his captors forced him to drag his broken body up a flight of stairs, pushing and kicking him, the 20-year-old Gold Coast student finally fell through a door. It led to the top deck of the Mavi Marmara, the protest ship on which Israeli commandos killed nine activists during a dawn attack last week.

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Monday November 02, 2009 · 6:58 AM PST

2009/11/02 · 06:58

Chief of Defence Staff General Sarath Fonseka, now on a private visit to the United States, has been told to face a "voluntary meeting" with the Department of Homeland Security, prompting fears in Colombo that Washington is asserting its legal authority over the "war crimes" report released last week.

General Fonseka said one of the officials had asked him whether he was prepared to be a ‘source’ against the ‘Defence Minister’ of Sri Lanka. General Fonseka had responded by asking him whether whom he meant was the President, who is the Defence Minister.

The official had then told him he had meant Gotabhaya Rajapaksa

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http://www.dailymirror.lk/...

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Tuesday October 13, 2009 · 8:30 AM PDT

2009/10/13 · 08:30

I will remove it as soon as someone posts a more detailed diary.
from http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has issued a statement about the audit it performed for America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) that we have been following closely.

Most notable about the statement, issued late last night, is an acknowledgment the cost savings from the bill weren't included, though PWC points out that is noted on page one of the report.
The analysis concluded that collectively the four provisions would raise premiums for private health insurance coverage.
"The reform packages under consideration have other provisions that we have not included in this analysis. We have not estimated the impact of the new subsidies on the net insurance cost to households. Also, if other provisions in health care reform are successful in lowering costs over the long term, those improvements would offset some of the impacts we have estimated."

Heath Shuler, BlueDog Democrat, HotDog Developer!

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Tuesday June 09, 2009 · 11:19 AM PDT

2009/06/09 · 11:19

Heath Shuler, the "conservative" Democratic Congressman from NC , the man who ....

voted against stem cell research. He argued against "amnesty" for immigrants. He voted against hate crimes legislation. He was praised by the Family Research Council, spoke at NC’s version of CPAC with Rudy Giuliani and Liddy Dole, and voted against SCHIP. He voted twice against the stimulus package.

http://scrutinyhooligans.us/...

The man who declared that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid "failed" the bipartisanship test on stimulus. http://www.politico.com/...

Now we hear that apparently Heath Shuler isn't shy about using his influence to pad his purse.....

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Monday June 08, 2009 · 8:08 AM PDT

2009/06/08 · 08:08

The Sri Lankan Government continuing its 60 year history of brutality, discrimination and disenfranchisement towards the its own Tamil citizens has now in violation of all international standards and laws, imprisoned more than 10% of the Tamil population in barbed wired concentration camps. (I had written about this last week..)
UN officials concealed carnage to keep Sri Lanka goodwill http://www.dailykos.com/...

Now Sarath Silva the Sri Lankan Chief Justice, a Sinhalese has blasted the Sri Lankan Government for Human Rights Violations.

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Saturday May 30, 2009 · 9:40 AM PDT

2009/05/30 · 09:40

http://www.lemonde.fr/...

The Sri Lankan Civilian Tamil massacre and the internment of 250,000 civilians in barbed wire surrounded concentration camps has been already forgotten by the international community. What is going on in Sri Lanka now is the largest internment of native civilian population by its own government since the Germany locked up the the it's own Jewish population 1945. This is a FACT! The 250,000 is the number given by the Sri Lankan Govenment, and does not include tens of thousands of young men and women whose locations are unknown.

Now what many of us had suspected has been documented by Le Monde. Very senior officals of the UN, one whose brother has a direct financial stake with the Sri Lankan Government, actively worked with the Sri Lankan Government to conceal the carnage

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Monday May 11, 2009 · 7:12 AM PDT

2009/05/11 · 07:12

As many of you have heard, allegedly about 1000 Tamil Civilians have been killed by shelling just TWO DAYS in the so called "no-fire zone in Sri Lanka . These people have been caught in the ongoing battle between the Sri Lankan Army and the Tamil Tigers. Though there is ample evidence and history to prove that the Sri Lankan Army is behind these shelling, I was not there to state it as a fact. The fact is civilians are being massacred.

The world community needs to first stop this massacre and investigate the perpetrators

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Wednesday January 21, 2009 · 11:35 AM PST

2009/01/21 · 11:35

I have been a member of this site since 2003. Almost six years. I am beginning to see very disturbing trends of attempted censorship by groups with one point or the other trying to shout down, troll rate or hijack diaries with opposing points of view.

I assume as one of the premier Democratic (corrected, not liberal) sites, people with different points of view come here to share their opinions, express their feelings and listen and learn from others.

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Troll rating standards need to be..

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Troll rating standards need to be..

.. enforced more

23 votes

.. are just right.

7 votes

... eased up.

11 votes

Real Appeasement! Leiberman at his worst, failure to investigate Katrina

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Thursday May 15, 2008 · 10:56 AM PDT

2008/05/15 · 10:56

Joe Lieberman's Senate Assignments

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Chairman)

* Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery (Ex-Officio)
*Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration (Ex-Officio)
* Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Ex-Officio)
* Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security (Ex-Officio)
* Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia (Ex-Officio)

He deliberately chose not to investigate the Katrina disaster, unlike his Congressional counterpart, Henry Waxman (who endorsed Obama today) to protect his friends in the Bush administration.

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Which is worse...

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Which is worse...

...failure to investigate Katrina?

39 votes

.. attacking the Democratic candidates

9 votes

The beginning of the disolution of the Democratic coalition?

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Wednesday May 14, 2008 · 8:03 AM PDT

2008/05/14 · 08:03

Since the early 1960s, the the African American vote has been the backbone of the Democratic coalition, the Presidency won by a combination of a super majority black vote and a minority white vote. Bill Clinton winning approximately winning 40% of the white votes in 92 and 96 and winning 85% of the black votes. Even Jimmy Carter only won 47% of the white votes.

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the 2008 election ..

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the 2008 election ..

leave a lasting scar in the Democratic Party

50 votes

not leave a lasting scar in the Democratic Party

39 votes

Its official, the stupidest person on cable news is.... Joe Scarbrough!

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Friday May 02, 2008 · 8:00 AM PDT

2008/05/02 · 08:00

I am on my second week of Cable News Boycott. I am more relaxed, sleeping better, no anger issues, no frustration! I have realized that I used to watch Cable News, the fascination coming not from a desire to be informed but to watch the talking heads make outrages comments to each other and asses of themselves, laughing all the way to the bank.

My friends, when I have the desire to be shocked or outraged, I go to Toxicjunction.com and watch idiots tatoo their eyeballs or crash in to cars or even worse. When I get the urge to watch Glen Beck or Bill O, I go to the GRUESOME section of the TOXICJUNCTION site and watch idiots very seriously maim themselves.

This brings me to a very important question... Who is the Stupidest person on TV?

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Who is the stupidest person on Cable News.

357 votes Vote Now!

Who is the stupidest person on Cable News.

Joe Scarborugh

114 votes

Mika Berzinski

20 votes

Alan Colmes

33 votes

David Gregory

38 votes

Charlie Gibson

39 votes

Wolf Blitzer

62 votes

Or someone else not on the list. Please list your choice

51 votes

Targeted Boycotts of Media and Adverisers

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 9:49 AM PDT

2008/04/23 · 09:49

I am very frustrated this morning on how the audacious subtlety of the media, that basically turns and water in to wine for their chosen people.

We are talking about the 10% that is really and 8.6% gap. But how many of your less informed coworkers and friends actually know the real number? No one in my department, which is a cross section of the white collar populace. After the first couple of people I gave up. These are decent, open minded middle aged people, mostly Hillary supporters, people who liked Bill Clinton and are also intrigued by Obama and would vote for him if he is the nominee. There is one guy who is an ardent Bill supporter, who is still recovering from an "Obama is a secret Muslim" email" from last summer. He is generally an open minded guy, who regressed but slightly recovered after the Wright controversy but the "Bittergate" has set him back, and I am not sure he can be persuaded to change his mind by November.

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Shoud the progressive movement start a targetted boycott movement?

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Shoud the progressive movement start a targetted boycott movement?

No Boycott all offending media outlets and advertisers

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Yes, Targetted boycott

34 votes

No, Boycotts dont work

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