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2010-07-31: Headlines

• Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Seth Rorabaugh: John Barbero: A remembrance 2010-07-31

  The text message arrived at 10:01 p.m. Monday night: RIP John Barbero. It was from my brother, who lets me know when someone from our childhood memories dies. He sent me a text a few months ago when Baron Mikel Scicluna passed away. The latter sparked fond memories of watching studio wrestling in the 1970s, of Scicluna pulling a foreign object from his trunks. Of the referee turning his back at an oh so inopportune time.

• Newsbreak: Will Noynoys truth commission succeed? 2010-07-31

  MANILA, Philippines—Twenty-four years after President Corazon Aquino launched the first Philippine truth commission in 1986, her son, President Benigno Aquino lll, has launched his own. | Corazon's commission, called the Presidential Committee on Human Rights, was to investigate the human rights abuses of the Marcos dictatorship from 1972 to 1986. | It was along mainstream truth commission lines.

2010-07-30: Headlines

• FinalCall.com News: The Proof: Lessons from Jewish Influence on World Affairs 2010-07-30

  What's your opinion on this article? | I want us to see how successful Jewish people are, and how we should study them, and learn how they have worked hard in a collective manner to become the powerful people that they are. | Here is a quote from Jews about themselves: "As a group, Jews are the most successful in terms of income and wealth."

• Inquirer.net: The South African experience after apartheid 2010-07-30

  Keywords: addthis_logo= 'http:/ / images.inquirer.net/ images/ inquirerlogo150x45.jpg'; | ContentSlider("newslistbox", "", linktext) | A Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formed in South Africa after Nelson Mandela and his party, the African National Congress (ANC), won the general elections in April 1994.

• The Standard: Chelsea admirers hopes hit dead end 2010-07-30

  Chelsea Clinton and her fiance' Marc Mezvinski met as schoolchildren but began dating five years ago. | Godwin Kipkemboi Chepkurgor [PHOTOS: COURTESY and MAXWEL AGWANDA/STANDARD] | Everyone considered her married, but when she passed away, 'Queen' Jane Nyambura's marriage to James Kariuki was cast in doubt.

• Kingston Daily Freeman: EDITORIAL: Around the world 2010-07-30

  We're calling him Dr. Ration. He is Don Berwick, MD, whom President Barack Obama just appointed as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs the huge Medicare and Medicaid government health programs. | This was a recess appointment, meaning it bypassed the usual Senate approval process. Berwick thus avoided hearings in which Republicans would have questioned him closely.

• Jordan Independent: One year of waiting: Al Bauer holds out faith 2010-07-30

  Al Bauer dreads the night. | Lying in bed, the moon shining on the open fields of corn and soybeans outside his window, Al's mind is half a world away in a dim prison cell where his son, Shane Bauer, spends his days. | "I wake up about 2 a.m. in the morning because that's their daytime, because I know they're thinking of us," said Al, who lives in Sand Creek Township. "It's a whole different way of living."

• Irish Times: Dunnes urged to boycott Israeli goods 2010-07-30

  DUNNES STORES has received a petition signed by 6,000 of its customers which calls on the supermarket chain to stop stocking Israeli products because of its policies on Palestine.

• International Solidarity Movement: Desmond Tutu backs US food co-op boycott of Israeli products 2010-07-30

  Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. | South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Wednesday that he supports the Olympia Food Co-op's boycott of Israeli products.

• Seattle Weekly: Caleb Hannan: The Olympia Grocery Store at the Center of the Israeli-Palestinian Debate 2010-07-30

  Yohanna Kinberg says that the last boycott taken up by the Olympia Food Co-op, the grocery store where she's a...

2010-07-29: Headlines

• Arizona Republic: War goes on for longtime immigration activist 2010-07-29

  I glanced at pictures on our living room wall recently. Three of these hold a special interest. On one, I am mounted on an ostrich, which I rode. In another I am attached to bungee cords that allow me to jump on a trampoline and fly extremely high. Lastly, there is a picture of me standing in front of giant aquatic shrubbery that is housed in the Durban aquarium in South Africa.

• Religion Dispatches: Building Jesus out of Toast, €œPro-Life€ Effigies, Apple is a Religion, and Taunting Muslims with Dogs 2010-07-29

  Archbishop Desmond Tutu has decided to retire from public life this coming October. "The time has now come to slow down and sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoon," said the 79-year-old. | Olive Stone put his foot in his anti-Semitic mouth. Again. | A group of pro-life protesters plan to beat and hang an effigy of Lindsey Graham over his decision to vote for Elana Kagan's confirmation.

• ArabianBusiness.com: Andrew White: Leaders in Dubai to skip 2010 event 2010-07-29

  Organiser blames 'copycat events' for restructuring; next forum to take place 2011.

• Salon: The end of (military) history? 2010-07-29

  The end of (military) history? | U.S. soldiers run to firing positions after coming under attack by Taliban insurgents in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 27. | This article originally appeared on TomDispatch. | "In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history."

• NorthernLife.ca: Travel 2010-07-29

  I glanced at pictures on our living room wall recently. Three of these hold a special interest. On one, I am mounted on an ostrich, which I rode. In another I am attached to bungee cords that allow me to jump on a trampoline and fly extremely high. Lastly, there is a picture of me standing in front of giant aquatic shrubbery that is housed in the Durban aquarium in South Africa.

• The Palestine Telegraph: Omar Ghraieb: Tutu asks the world to boycott Israel 2010-07-29

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• Battle Creek Enquirer: Omar Ghraieb: Out of Our Past 2010-07-29

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• Prison Planet.com: | | Grim Tidings From the Netherlands: Prince Bernhard€™s Grandchildren Continue Bilderberg Legacy | 2010-07-29

  In the following article, we set out to trace the steps of two brothers, both of whom are grandsons of Bilderberg-founder Bernhard, who have now been destined to carry along the torch of treason.

2010-07-28: Headlines

• Marthas Vineyard Times: Film : 'Rescuing Emmanuel' playing at Oak Bluffs Tabernacle 2010-07-28

  Vineyard filmmakers Len and Georgia Morris of Galen Films have framed the issue of street children with poignant immediacy in their new film "Rescuing Emmanuel."

• Haaretz: News in Brief 2010-07-28

  Plans to evacuate the illegal West Bank outpost of Migron have been put off again, after the the Supreme Planning Council of Judea and Samaria decided to hold a land survey in the area, which is expected to take several months.

• Valley Sun: In Theory: An interview with Desmond Tutu 2010-07-28

  Vineyard filmmakers Len and Georgia Morris of Galen Films have framed the issue of street children with poignant immediacy in their new film "Rescuing Emmanuel."