Ed Miliband’s Reckless and Provocative Manner, all round the Negotiating Table

Jim Cook 7/2/2011
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I don’t understand it: why don’t people in the UK trust the Labour Party? Maybe it’s because they can’t get anyone to “put aside the rhetoric”… read on to watch video documentary evidence that foolish politicians aren’t only a Made in the USA product.

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Despite Bible, Avowedly Christian Groups Engage in Usury

Jim Cook 6/26/2011
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The Bible is as clear as mud on many subjects, but it’s absolutely clear about the practice of usury (lending money at a high rate of interest). As far as I’m aware, there are no Bible verses that encourage Christians …

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A Hand Up or Usury? Kiva Fee and Interest Rate Review, June 2011

Jim Cook 6/17/2011
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Kiva, an organization promoting micro-loans to struggling people in the Third World as a benevolent practice, was found last years to be facilitating a number of loans featuring interest and fees at an annual rate frequently above 30% and often …

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Kiva Microloan Information — Unbelievable

Jim Cook 6/16/2011
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Some time ago, we at Irregular Times made it a practice to donate a portion of the proceeds of our made-in-the-USA t-shrits to the microloan outfit called Kiva, which depicts itself as a charity giving people in the third world …

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Canadian School Elevated Above The Rainbow

Peregrin Wood 6/8/2011
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The St. Joseph Catholic Secondary School in Cornwall, Ontario has banned rainbows out of fear that rainbows could encourage students to become gay. The school also took money from an unofficial student group seeking to fund a GLBT support line, and gave the money to a Catholic organization instead.

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The Myth Won’t Die: H.B. 1388, Barack Obama and Sending Hamas $20 billion

Jim Cook 5/30/2011
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The HB 1388 Myth in the 111th Congress Along with a belief in Christian End Times, the righteously violent rhetoric of the Hutaree was stoked by the belief that the current President of the United States had sent $20 billion …

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Recommended: Ken Silverstein on T-Shirt Jobs vs. the Sex Trade in Cambodia

Jim Cook 5/29/2011
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If you are considering buying a shirt made in Cambodia — or any shirt on a webpage like this one at CafePress where country of origin is obscured to keep you in the dark — I encourage you to read …

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Australian Climate Report Reiterates Strong Science On Global Warming

The Green Man 5/23/2011
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Will we still be having this debate about global warming 150 years later, in the shadow of a perpetually growing mountain of evidence, as has happened with the matter of biological evolution? Is a religion of Cold Earther faith developing?

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June 25 Nuclear Abolition Day Protests Concentrated in Europe… ish.

Jim Cook 5/19/2011
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ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, has declared June 25, 2011 Nuclear Abolition Day. While leaders of the Big Nuclear Five (the UK, US, Russia, France and China) negotiate in Paris on that day, ICAN is asking activists …

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Bananas for Murder

Jim Cook 5/17/2011
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Q: What do you call an organization shuttling money to a designated terrorist group that kills whistleblowing activists? A: Chiquita.

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Clean Coal Smashes Through Marine Sanctuary

The Green Man 5/13/2011
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A tanker filled with coal headed toward Australia has destroyed most of a coral reef in the Philippines. Is that what they mean by clean coal?

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Irregular Times Donation Outside the USA: China Labour Bulletin

Jim Cook 4/20/2011
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As residents of a country that imports a large volume of Chinese-made products, it is the responsibility of Americans to find out what we can about the working conditions in China and support the people trying to make those working …

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FOX News: France is Brave and Right to Ban people from choosing their own clothes

Jim Cook 4/19/2011
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And I remember when they used to mock France. This item comes from the network that holds a daily show called “Freedom Watch,” on April 13 2011: France is brave and right to ban the burqa. There is no reason …

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Replacing A Tyrant With A Tyrant

Truman 4/10/2011
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Replacing a single bad leader doesn’t guarantee that another bad leader won’t fill the vacuum. A bad system needs to be replaced with an better system.

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The War to End Torture that Didn’t End Torture

Jim Cook 4/6/2011
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“People are no longer disappearing into political prisons, torture chambers, and mass graves” – President George W. Bush speech on Iraq, May 1 2004 Human Rights Watch report on detention inside Iraq’s Green Zone, 2011: Recent interviews by Human Rights …

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62nd Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Pick and Choose on Health Care and Suicide

Jim Cook 3/28/2011
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On June 7 2011, conservative author James Delingpole sends out an e-mail blast simultaneously selling Ronald Reagan medallions and his book, 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy. His e-mail message of the day is also his 158th Way to …

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61st Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Arabic Muslim Plug-and-Play Foreign Policy

Jim Cook 3/28/2011
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How would you react if someone went on the radio to complain that “we haven’t identified yet who the opposition is to Barack Obama. We don’t know: is this led by interests from Belize? Or are we really better off, …

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Ali Alyami Speaks on Democracy (and Military Intervention?) in Saudi Arabia

Jim Cook 3/11/2011
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In the course of my preparations today for a protest against the Patriot Act in Washington DC at Noon tomorrow, I came upon another protest being held by Ali Alyami, Executive Director of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights …

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