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The movement protesting the establishment of an aluminium smelter in a community in south-western Trinidad gains momentum with the setting up of a protest camp in the north of the island, reports the Rights Action T&T blog. The camp will be launched on Friday to coincide with a demonstration in London on Friday jointly staged by anti-smelter activists from Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago.
Alexpappas in Japundit blogs about the confession of a 84 years old former Japanese military medic's confession of human torturing during the WWII.
Citizen reporters in Ohmynews has an interview with George Soros. The interview has touched upon many issues including economy, new media, and the recent nuclear test.
In preparation for the Olympics, Beijing city government is now catching street dogs without proper license. Han song wrote a short piece fiction on “city without dogs” (zh).
Trinidad blogger Jeremy Taylor reviews the book Londonistan by British journalist Melanie Phillips: “What causes intelligent people to slither across the political spectrum from left to right (and sometimes the other way) as they get older? When she was a young journalist, Melanie Phillips used to write outstandingly sensible and readable pieces for the (London) Guardian.“
Sir Arthur Foulkes is highly critical of the handling by the Bahamian Prime Minister of a fight between two members of parliament in the Cabinet room.
A new anti-expat flyer hits the streets of Bermuda. Christian S. Dunleavy reports.
Nice to note year after year, Bangalore Pride Parade is improving a lot. Hope next year we see some recoreded...
I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...
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Next time we will be there again :)