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Salem-News.com (Aug-02-2012 21:42:00)

Sri Lanka`s Fragile Gains In The Balance

Unless the present government reverse course and integrate the Tamil community into the mainstream, the invaluable opportunity the end of the civil war presented to Sri Lanka will be lost.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Tamils of Sri Lanka In May 2009, the civil war in Sri Lanka drew to a close. It had been a sanguinary conflict claiming anywhere between 80,000 and 100,000 lives.

Not surprisingly, there was a palpable sense of relief amongst the majority Sinhala population. Even the Tamil population, many of whom were not active supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), had reasons to celebrate.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-02-2012 17:44:00)

Annan Quits as Special UN-Arab League Envoy to Syria

Kofi Annan has decided to quit his mission as the special UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, citing lack of support and increasing militarization of the unrest.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - Kofi Annan resigns as the special UN-Arab League envoy to Syria. (File photo) "I did not receive all the support that the cause deserved,” Annan said at a press conference in Geneva on Thursday.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-02-2012 16:34:00)

Dear Jon, The Palestinian Culture and If I Can`t Laugh-It`s NOT My REVOLUTION

Israeli officials have admitted that the siege is not motivated primarily by security concerns, but is part of a strategy of "economic warfare" against the people of Gaza.

(CLERMONT, FLA) - Salem-News.com As a candidate for US HOUSE, District 5, Florida who has been to BOTH sides of The Wall seven times since 2005, the best laugh of my day came when Al Madrigal nailed the US-Israeli Palestinian conflict vis-a-vis CULTURE:

The Palestinians have been around for thousands of years and they still don't have their own country-the Israeli's for around 60 years -and counting Florida they have two!

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Salem-News.com (Aug-02-2012 14:37:00)

US: Intervene to Stop Campaign of Arrest, Arbitrary detention and Deportation in UAE

UAE must end arrests of activists.

(SALEM) - Lawyers Mohammed al-Roken, Mohammed al-Mansoori. Authorities in the UAE have arrested at least 50 Emirati civil society activists and human rights defenders since late March.

Among those arrested for rallying in the UAE in favor of political reform, are two prominent human rights lawyers, Mohammed al-Roken and Mohammed Mansoori.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-02-2012 12:45:00)

Criticizing the Dark Side of Radical Islam Doesn`t Make One Pro-Israel

I criticize and equally applaud all religions; what sets one apart from the next is always simply how they are applied.

(SALEM) - Coexist I write about the realities of resistance fighters and movements deemed 'terrorist' because I understand the struggle that leads to such falsely used nomenclature.

I stand against all forms of state terrorism first and foremost and believe that all hope is lost when totalitarian governments rule and are simultaneously allowed to illegally occupy the land of other nations.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-02-2012 10:54:00)

Free Syrian Army Threatens Christians Who Were Protected Under Assad

Pray for the persecuted Syrian Churches and Christians.

(FAISALABAD, Pakistan) - US-Backed Rebels Committing Christian Genocide In Syria The streets are most dangerous that is, unless it’s a Friday, when a few Syrian Christians dare to step outside of their homes amidst the persecution of Syria’s Christians by the Islamic rebels of the ‘Free Syrian Army.

The Christians in Syria (10% of its population) could be facing a bloodbath. The signs are there right now, and only Russian and Chinese resistance to ‘the West’ is keeping the Syrian church from complete extermination.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-01-2012 23:55:00)

The Bankers Are Not Just Calling the Shots, They Are Giving Them

Why isn't media in the UK and here reporting these huge stories?

(NEW YORK) - Banksters Goldman Sachs, known for its integrity around the bailout and around food markets, is also invested in vaccines.

Lloyd Blankfein, a major shareholder in the Goldman-Sachs/AstraZeneca partnershipis] is co-chairman with media mogul Rupert Murdoch in the David Rockefeller-founded Partnership for New York City (PFNYC), chartered by the Royal Family of England.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-01-2012 23:25:00)

Military Suicides Continued: Critique of the Time Article: One Suicide a Day

The military wrongly claims that marital relationship issues cause suicides. What causes the issues? PTSD = Marital Discord.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Soldier in war I wrote, Military Suicides: Are they Killing the Best Fighters? about 2 weeks before the TIME issue came out. I have some real issues with TIME.

TIMES author, Mark Thompson and Nancy Gibbs got it mostly correct with some serious errors or near errors. I will try to correct the worst.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-01-2012 20:12:00)

National Congress Attacked Peaceful Gathering of Around 1,000 Sudanese Lawyers

The attack on the lawyers marks a full-scale lawlessness not in the marginalized areas but in the capital, Khartoum, and against the guard of law, the lawyers.

(KHARTOUM) - Riot police on standby in streets of Khartoum Photo: Voice of America Today, August 1st, the police and security of the National Congress some hours ago attacked a peaceful gathering of around 1,000 Sudanese lawyers who gathered in the lawyers’ club in Khartoum for a Ramadan break fast and in order for them to look into the human rights situation in the country.

They were beaten and some of them arrested from inside the lawyers’ club premises in Khartoum.

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Salem-News.com (Aug-01-2012 19:37:00)

Feds Close Juarez Casinos

Despite the extreme violence that erupted in Ciudad Juarez after 2008, the gaming industry continued to expand locally.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Nationwide, an estimated 100,000 slot machines operated in Mexican casinos alone by 2011 Mexican federal law enforcement agents swooped down on three Ciudad Juarez casinos last weekend, detaining employees and placing “closed” seals on the businesses.

The target of the July 28 raids was the Uno bingo and sports book chain that maintained three casinos in different sections of the border city.

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