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Zimbabwe ban angers UN expert

Manfred Nowak calls for UN action after he is stopped at Harare airport.Go to Source

Dr. Susan Albers: Getting Motivated to Eat Mindfully: 5 Tips

Do you need motivation to start eating more mindfully but don’t have the money to hire a trainer like Jillian Michaels? If so, don’t worry. Watch this short youtube.com video cut by Matthew Belinkie. It is 40 inspirational speeches in 2 minutes including famous characters and actors such as Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, Charlie Brown, Rudy, and Braveheart. Watching this two minute video is enough to get anyone pumped up. Here is some advice you can take from this motivational video and apply to

Progressiv TV på bloggen: Democracy Now! Senaste USA-nytt 29 Oktober

Note: There is a print link embedded within this post, please visit this post to print it. Tryck på pilen för att spela videon A my Goodmans Democracy Now! grundades 1996 och är USA:s främsta progressiva nyhetskanal. Democracy Now! är syndikerad över stora delar av USA och innehåller nyheter och intervjuer med akademiska experter, författare och människor som man sällan ser på de vanliga kommersiella tevekanalerna här i USA   Dagens löpsedlar Pelosi to Unveil Public Opt

Zimbabwe ban angers UN expert

Manfred Nowak calls for UN action after he is stopped at Harare airport.Go to Source

Still Life with Elephant-Judy Reene Singer

Still Life with Elephant Judy Reene Singer Harper, Jul 2009, $13.99 ISBN: 9780061713750 Horse trainer Cornelia “Neelie” Sterling is stunned to find her spouse Matt, a veterinarian is cheating on her with his practice’s partner.  Outraged, she tosses him out of their house, but fails to finalize their separation with a divorce though as a former social worker she knows she should.  Neelie cannot make it permanent even when she learns his girlfriend is pregnant. Neelie turns to do

Newsreel 04.08.09

News stories for Tuesday 04 August Vice President Joseph Msika dies Various news websites have reported that Joseph Msika, one of the country’s Vice President has died. At the time of broadcast there was no official statement as to when he died, or the cause of death. The Vice President had rarely been seen in public in recent months. News reports say the veteran nationalist leader had been unwell for several months and had suffered a stroke in June, and underwent an operation in South A

Diaspora Diaries 04.08.09

On Diaspora Diaries Alex Bell examines the role the exiled Zimbabwean community in the Diaspora needs to play in Zimbabwe’s constitutional reform process. Alex speaks to Daniel Molokele, the national Coordinator of the Global Zimbabwe Forum, which has recently engaged with the unity government on inclusion of the Diaspora in rebuilding the country. Molokele says the government is committed to involving the usually excluded community of exiles in the constitutional reform process. He says

Zimbabwe vice-president Msika dies at 85

JOHANNESBURG - One of Zimbabwe’s vice-presidents, Joseph Msika, has died at the age of 85 after a battle with illness, the South African public radio reported Tuesday. Msika died Tuesday in a hospital in Zimbabwe, the report said. He was admitted to hospital in South Africa in June after falling ill at a summit of eastern [...]

Bill Clinton in surprise North Korea visit

The former US president has met North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-il, in a surprise visit to the communist nation that risks clouding Washington's policy of isolating Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programmes Tags: Finance , financial times , World News Related posts Zuma should learn from Lula (0) Zuma says crisis will slow progress (0) Zuma appointments ease business fears (0) Zimbabwe turns to China for $950m credit line (0) Zimbabwe criticised over diamo

Zimbabwe vice-president Msika dies at 85

One of Zimbabwe's vice-presidents, Joseph Msika, has died at the age of 85 after a battle with illness, the South African public radio reported Tuesday.

Zimbabwe: A Turbulent Marriage

Recent moves by Zimbabwe's unity government to adopt several outstanding commitments to the Global Political Agreement (GPA), the basis of the current system, are encouraging, but genuine dedication to the necessary reforms is hard to come by.

End the blood libels against Israel & the IDF.

  by Isi Leibler The current global campaign accusing the IDF of "crimes against humanity" and "genocide" exceeds all the obscene libels that have ever been launched against the Jewish state. One of Israel's proudest achievements is the IDF code of conduct, which instills awareness that Israelis are obliged to act as role models of decency. It is all the more impressive that such an ethical military code was implemented in Israel, the only country in the w

Public thinks foreign policy has been a failure

A survey finds that most Britons feel that the UK’s moral authority has been weakened by its foreign policy over the last decade, according to PoliticsHome . In a survey of 1,248 UK adults, weighted to reflect the political balance of the country’s population, 65% said that they thought the UK’s foreign policy over the last ten years had weakened its moral authority on the international stage. … The survey results also suggest that most of the public would like to see the UK reduce its ove

Investors sense fresh chances in Georgia

Last year's war and the global financial meltdown, followed by political unrest against the rule of President Mikheil Saakashvili, have shocked investors and damaged confidence – but not irreparably Tags: Finance , financial times , World News Related posts Zuma should learn from Lula (0) Zuma says crisis will slow progress (0) Zuma appointments ease business fears (0) Zimbabwe turns to China for $950m credit line (0) Zimbabwe criticised over diamond field abuse (

World Books Review: Confronting Zimbabwe

A vibrant collection of stories that artfully combines humor and horror in its depiction of the struggle to survive in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 224 pages, $23. Reviewed by Alexander Nemser President Robert Mugabe’s reign of nearly thirty years has made Zimbabwe an emblematic country in crisis. The country, once the British colony of Rhodesia, was liberated from British rule in 1980 by the guerrilla warfare of which M

Kind words from our friends at Wrapped With Love

“AID FOR AFRICA DOWN UNDER (AFADU), ZIMBABWE, CHIKOMBEDZI COMMUNITY, MWENZI DISTRICT Aid for Africa Down Under, an Australian non-profit, non-government charitable organization, was founded in 2004 by Julie and Ian Routledge. When travelling in Zimbabwe they had seen the extremely harsh conditions suffered by orphaned and vulnerable children in Chikombedzi in the Mwenzi District. Julie was inspired by a white farmer, Ezelle Schimper, to work with the local community to help create a better

Merkel victory appears likely

Eight weeks before the general election, the mood in Germany seems to have settled into the quiet certainty that Angela Merkel will return for another four years Tags: Finance , financial times , World News Related posts Zuma should learn from Lula (0) Zuma says crisis will slow progress (0) Zuma appointments ease business fears (0) Zimbabwe turns to China for $950m credit line (0) Zimbabwe criticised over diamond field abuse (0)

Merkel victory appears certain

Eight weeks before the general election, the mood in Germany seems to have settled into the quiet certainty that Angela Merkel will return for another four years Tags: Finance , financial times , World News Related posts Zuma should learn from Lula (0) Zuma says crisis will slow progress (0) Zuma appointments ease business fears (0) Zimbabwe turns to China for $950m credit line (0) Zimbabwe criticised over diamond field abuse (0)

US income slides as stimulus payments slow

US personal income fell slightly more than expected in June, after jumping in May, as transfers from the US economic stimulus tapered off Tags: Finance , financial times , World News Related posts Zuma should learn from Lula (0) Zuma says crisis will slow progress (0) Zuma appointments ease business fears (0) Zimbabwe turns to China for $950m credit line (0) Zimbabwe criticised over diamond field abuse (0)

Fed Governor Tarullo on Bank Supervision: "Hand Over the Damn Keys Already, Idiots"

Hey look, Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo wants to throw in his $0.02 ($0.000002 seasonally-adjusted for inflation of course) on bank supervision before the House and who are we to deny him? Well that isn't our job. But it is our job to shoot as many holes in his story as possible while LOLing all the way so let's try that, shall we? Without insisting you read the entire speech, found here via the Fed Board of Governors, it is safe to say that Tarullo thinks handing over the regulatory keys t