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The Times take on The New Yorker cover

The New Yorker cover that normally brings only admiring glances has this week been subject to a huge amount of debate - most of it critical. The cover pictures the Obamas in the Oval Office dressed as their worst enemies would imagine them. The Obama campaign has declared itself offended. Are they right? We've done a Comment Central ring round. Daniel Finkelstein: I see what the cartoonist was trying to do. I realise it was satire. But I quite understand why the Obama camp was not amused read

Judging a magazine by its cover

In a new issue that will hit newsstands today, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza has an interesting piece on the political identity Barack Obama forged in Chicago. It’s 15,000 words long, and adds details and insights I haven’t seen anywhere else. But before anyone gets to the article, there’s the issue of the magazine’s cover to deal with. As he flies around the country, Senator Barack Obama has a fondness for magazines. The New Yorker is often among the titles at the front of his campaign plane. read

In A New York Minuet

Interesting that Barack Obama’s camp is so outraged that Hillary Clinton’s hometown magazine does this … … while the rest of America is still put off by the New Yorker doing this: read

More on the New Yorker Cover

More on the New Yorker Cover By Jeff Fecke | July 14, 2008 Ampersand thinks that I’m being overly concerned about what other people think, asking, “do you really think that all liberals should base what we say on whether or not the stupidest people in the world could misunderstand?” Well…that depends. It depends on where the discussion is taking place, and in what context. In the context of an election in which Barack and Michelle Obama have been the targets of a rash of vile smears, I do read

The Morning Report

Permalink | Email Author In the Headlines "Obama slams Muslim portrayal" (Mike Allen, The Politico) - Barack Obama's campaign is condemning as "tasteless and offensive" a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Obama in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife. "McCain takes a Social Security risk" (Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times) - McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, spoke several times last week about changing how the popular retirement program is funded, at one po read

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Darfur Refugee Tells Her Story

A simply engrossing story from the first to last: Darfur doctor: ‘I was raped and taunted as a black dog’ A survivor of the conflict tells of her abuse at the hands of the Sudanese regime Halima Bashir - From The Times - July 14, 2008 My name is Halima. I come from a warlike black African tribe, the Zaghawa, who inhabit the southern Darfur region of Sudan. But I live as a refugee in London, and it is the horrors of the war in Darfur that drove me from my homeland, scattering my family to t read

Angola, land of Endless War

At Ondangua, northern Namibia, I met up with the convoy I was travelling with into Angola. We encountered no border controls and continued on past Ruacana Falls to Xangongo, which was once a prosperous Portuguese town, but now most buildings had no roofs and the town was quiet and overgrown. Many of the crumbling buildings’ white-washed facades were riddled with bullet holes. In some places, the road was not clear and the convoy needed to back track several times. On one such occasion, when the read

Mal de Chagas-Mazza

1. Review hist ó Rica 2. Who transmitting the Chagas disease-Mazza? How it conveys? 3. Evolution of Evil Chagas-Mazza 4. Is it possible to cure the Chagas disease-Mazza? 5. How to combat insect vector? 6. Social impact of Evil Chagas-Mazza 7. No Conclusion ó 1. Review hist ó Rica At be studying diseases in the malarious area Lassance (state of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Dr. Carlos Chagas found a number of patients who had symptoms that were differ read

The Sida

Index 1. No ó INTRODUCTION 2. What is AIDS? 3. How does HIV? 4. SID: History 5. Even today a mystery: Where does HIV? 6. What contagious? 7. Transmission of HIV during sexual contact 8. Sexuality between men and HIV 9. Tests diagn ó sticas 10. Treatments 11. HIV / AIDS and Sport 12. AIDS in Argentina 13. Pregnancy and HIV in Argentina 14. The position of the Church against the AIDS and discrimination ó No 15. "Ways to conduct towar read

On '60 Minutes' Tonight (July 13)

From CBSnews DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL - With the military struggling to recruit and retain soldiers, gay soldiers claim that commanders are reluctant to discharge key personnel - even those openly gay - in the middle of a war, despite the don’t ask, don’t tell policy. Lesley Stahl reports. Karen Sughrue is the producer. LIFELINE - Remote Area Medical was founded to bring free medicine to remote parts of the world but now also helps thousands of the estimated 47 million Americans who have no hea read

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Scientology’s crushing defeat

Read Tony Ortega’s article about how and why the money-making sham cult $cientology decided to pay a judgement of almost $9 million to Larry Wollersheim. Anonymous Canada pickets Scientology's Toronto office read

Anonymous Takes On Scientology at Toronto Pride

I got an email from anti-Scientology group Anonymous hipping me to the above clip which combines information about Scientology's anti-gay policies with images from the Anonymous protest in front of Scientology offices during last week's Toronto Pride, during which Scientology members threatened protesters with physical violence. Anonymous plans on bringing hate crimes charges against the cult, which says that gay people must be "removed from society quietly and without sorrow".Subscribe. read

Die! Die! Dianetics!

SCIENTOLOGY PROMOTES HATRED AND VIOLENCE AT GAY PRIDE TORONTO - Anonymous from STOPCanadianHATEGROUP on Vimeo. Anonymous is a group committed to bringing down Scientology...and in spite of the fact that the cult has been chastised regularly for years, this group is having some good successes. I like this video for its no-nonsense approach to exposing the anti-gay angle of this poisonous belief system.It incenses me that Scientologists are allowed to hand out literature on the NYC subways an read

Kabbalahcize It!

What do celebrity Kabbalah and Scientology have in common? You never hear about either unless some celebrity is wearing red string beads or making idiotic videos. Now that we have had our fill of the Scientology rantings of Tom Cruise, it is time for the celebrity version of the Jewish mystical practice to “Kabbalahcize” us into a trance. It appears to be working. The public has been transfixed on Madonna’s alleged Kabbalah brain washing of New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, leading him a read

Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers, Scientology is a Cult

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