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Prosecutors have started to outline the case against a former Khmer Rouge leader in Cambodia, 30 years after the brutal Maoist regime fell.
Get the low-down here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7971231.stm
Tags: cambodia, khmer rouge, khmer rouge leader, maoist, prosecutors, regime, testimony
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I just think this stuff needs to be seen on digg after I’ve had conservatives tell me that the republicans really are the equal rights party.
From:http://www.norcalblogs.com/post_scripts/2009/03/womens_right_to_vote_the_1.html
Tags: beginning of the end, conservatives, digg, republicans, submitter
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her finance minister Peer Steinbr¼ck have spent months saying that they will never let irresponsible German banks off the hook by taking their toxic assets and putting them into some sort of government-backed bad bank..
Read the full story here:http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1888327,00.html
Tags: angela merkel, assets, berlin, chancellor angela merkel, finance minister, german banks, german chancellor angela merkel, hook, peer steinbr¼ck
Whether youre a horse and buggy maker or a newspaper publisher, the bottom line is youre a business. And when you stop making something that people want or need, you go out of business-thats capitalism . . . thats America.
Get the low-down here:http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/29/glenn_beck_newspapers/
Tags: bottom line, capitalism, horse and buggy, newspaper publisher, newspapers
While the state and the feds may now agree on enforcement, what happens to pending trials and convictions in cases that, today, would no longer be pursued?
The full story is here:http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1888172,00.html?iid=digg_share
Tags: convictions, feds, marijuana, truce
Even as Merrill Lynch & Co. bled money and warily eyed a merger with Bank of America, company executives were preparing for a windfall.
Following the federal government’s promise of $10 billion in TARP funds to buoy the ailing firm, Merrill paid out $3.6 billion in bonuses: a package 22 times larger than compensation given [...]
Tags: aig, bank of america, company executives, federal government, kucinich, merger, merrill lynch, merrill lynch co, money, windfall
A hundred years ago geisha numbered eighty thousand; today there is a thousand at most.
Luckily, Jodi Cobb can show us- before they disappear- both the ceremonial world of the geisha in Tokyo and Kyoto and their private world as few outsiders have ever seen it.
Check it out here:http://bestbooksreview.com/2009/03/geisha-the-life-the-voices-by-jodi-cobb/
Tags: geisha, hundred years, jodi cobb, kyoto, outsiders, private world, tokyo, voices
One member of the press corps, however, brought up the fact that marijuana legalization is a serious subject to many people, particularly with Mexico right now, and when Gibbs didn’t really respond, the reporter asked him to explain “Why?” “Why he feels that way about legalizing marijuana?”
Source:http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2009/03/29.html#a3384
Tags: gibbs, legalizing marijuana, marijuana legalization, mexico
Political leaders have a far greater ability to change public opinion than they want people to believe they have.
From:http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/28/webb/index.html
Tags: courage, excuse, jim webb, political leaders, politicians, pragmatism, public opinion
China’s hi-tech ‘death van’ where criminals are executed and then their organs are sold on black market. China executed 1,715 people last year, so one more death would hardly be remarkable.
Read the full story here:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1165416/Chinas-hi-tech-death-van-criminals-executed-organs-sold-black-market.html?ITO=1490
Tags: china, criminals, hi tech, organs