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With participatory democracy citizens are involved in decision making
directly. Citizens don’t need to worry about political campaigns, they
can think long-term. If most of the citizens share the vision of a
sustainable city, and if they have a direct influence on budget
spending, than realizing this vision becomes possible. And, what’s
also important, all projects are not imposed on people by the mayor,
but they are agreed upon by the majority of the population.
When a recent flight from Miami touched down at Havana's Jose Marti Airport, a passenger shouted "Viva Cuba!" in a show of the enthusiasm Cuban Americans have for returning to their homeland.
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Coulter campus speech canceled in Canada
Coulter expressed her outrage, calling the University of Ottawa a "bush league" institution in an interview for The Washington Times. The Vancouver Sun has ...
Dogs die every year in Alaska's grueling Iditarod race. It's time to relegate the Iditarod to the history books.
| Dubai unveils $9.5bn debt restructuring |
The government, which said the plan would take several months to implement through talks with creditors, will fund the new business plan with the $5.7bn left over from the $10bn bail-out loans from Abu Dhabi last year, and the remainder from internal government resources.
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The bloody-minded, death-obsessed state of Texas, which has already demonstrably executed at least one innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham (who was falsely accused and ultimately killed by the state for the alleged arson "murder" of his two little children when in fact they’d died because of a fire caused by an electrical fault), may be about to execute yet another innocent man. This time it’s Hank Skinner, 47, a man who has spent 16 years on the state’s busy death row protesting his innocence in the 1993 New Year’s Eve murder of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two sons, aged 20 and 22... Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases
Damning ambulance report that could put Michael Jackson's doctor behind bars
Mogadishu's mayor orders some 1,000 Somali refugees to move away from the city's airport, citing security concerns.
By Border Jumpers
1,500 Words About Uganda
By Jerome Starkey
Jerome Starkey recently reported for The Times of London about a night raid on Feb. 12 in which U.S. and Afghan gunmen opened fire on two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials -- an atrocity which NATO’s Afghanistan headquarters then tried to cover up. Now, in a blistering indictment of both NATO and his own profession, Starkey writes for Nieman Watchdog that the international forces led by U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal are rarely called to account because most reporters are too dependent on access, security and the 'embed culture' to venture out and see what's happening for themselves...
Perennial vegetables are species of plants that can save you lotsz of
labor in the garden, since they come back year after year, and require
much less work than the more common annuals.
Deniers are dancing on the graves of their reputations, to say
nothing of reality itself. But Earth will still get the last laugh on
all of them, and us for that matter.
Health
and Healthier Talk
Today should be the day that we start training our muscles for
additional activity that our bodies may encounter in the future.
Changing our sedentary lifestyle and keeping our bodies hydrated
plays an important role in body performance and repair. The ability
to perform tasks and awaken the next day feeling refreshed will
increase our quality of life whether our living situation changes or
stays the same.
Jordan cancer cases increase
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