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Posted on 08 September 2008
WASHINGTON -- North of the border, it's more of the same -- four aging white guys who led their parties in the last Parliament once again making the same old appeals to election-weary Canadian voters.
South of the border, it's the U.S. election of a lifetime, featuring not just an eloquent young senator aiming to be the first black president in U.S. history, but now the youngest woman to make it onto a presidential ticket.
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"Islam has bloody borders." So wrote Samuel Huntington in "The Clash of Civilizations?," his 1993 Foreign Affairs article later expanded (minus the question mark) into a best-selling book. Huntington argued that, eclipsing past eras of national and ideological conflict, "the battle lines of the future" would be drawn along the "fault lines between civilizations." Here, according to Huntington, was where current and coming generations would define the all-important "us" versus "them." [...more]
Phantom Observer | So What Can We Learn From the Palin Press Pummeling?
-- Plenty, according to the Guardian’s Nick Cohen. His thesis is that the American liberal media are solely responsible for turning a Barack Obama coronation into an Obama-McCain horse race — solely because of their negative reporting on Governor Sarah Palin’s family.
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The Star | Chantal Hebert: Tories set to gain from Bloc's loss
-- With the calling of a general election for Oct. 14, the stage is tentatively set for the most dramatic make-over of the federal scene in 15 years.
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BBC | US rescues giant mortgage lenders
-- Shares in Europe and Asia have rallied after the US government said that it was taking over troubled mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
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CTV | Tories make strong gains in battleground ridings
-- The Conservatives made strong gains in key battleground ridings leading up to the election call, but voters are divided on whether they should trust the party with a majority government, according a new Strategic Counsel poll of tight ridings in three provinces.
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Tony Blair believes Gordon Brown should consider standing down as Prime Minister rather than face the humiliation of defeat at the General Election, it was claimed last night.
Well-placed sources close to the former leader said he was shocked and dismayed at how badly Mr Brown has done since succeeding him last year.
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The police submitted a unanimous recommendation to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Sunday, urging him to indict Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in two corruption cases.
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A roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan has killed a Canadian soldier nearing the end of his second rotation, and wounded seven others, in Kandahar province's Panjwaii district.
Sgt. Scott Shipway, an infantryman with the 2nd battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, died less than a week before he was set to go home, Brig. Gen. Denis Thompson told reporters Sunday at a new conference in Kandahar.
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DESPAIR among human rights workers in Pakistan over a rash of so-called "honour killings" intensified yesterday when it was disclosed that a girl forced into marriage with a 45-year-old man at the age of nine had been killed by her parents because she asked for an annulment.
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Everyone hates their Internet service provider. And with good cause: In the age of ubiquitous Internet access, Web service in America is still often frustratingly slow. Tired of being the villain, telecom companies have assigned blame for this problem to a new bad guy. He's called the "bandwidth hog," and it's his fault that streaming video on your computer looks more like a slide show than a movie. The major ISPs all tell a similar story: A mere 5 percent of their customers are using around 50 percent of the bandwidth—sometimes more during peak hours. While these "power users" are sharing three-gig movies and playing online games, poor granny is twiddling her thumbs waiting for Ancestry.com to load.
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