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Saudi-based blogger Nzingha, a mother of five, feels that Sarah Palin has been judged on the wrong criteria: “One shouldn't choose to not support Palin because she is a mom just as one shouldn't choose to support Palin simply because she is a woman. Her ability to do the job isn't a question about her womb, it is a question about her political positions, experience, and plans for her country if elected.”
Part 2 of “Briefs from the elections” from Angolan blogger, Koluki: “Earlier on Saturday, the main opposition party, UNITA, announced its intention to impugnate the election, claiming a “collapse” of the process in the capital, Luanda, and “numerous cases of organisational failures, forceful prevention of some electors from exercising their right to vote, violence and political intolerance” in the 18 provinces, of which they were in the process of collecting evidence to submit to the Constitutional Court.”
Photos of elections in Angola on flickr. This was the first elections in sixteen years.
Koluki writes about elections in Angola: “Earlier on Friday the head of the EU mission, the Italian Luisa Morgantini, called the election “a total disaster” . The same assessment was made by the leader of the opposition, Isaias Samakuva, who called for a repeat of the election in Luanda, where of the 584 polling stations 320 didn't function.”
Camilo Uribe writes about an illegal downloaded MP3 file found on the Colombian police's website [es], after which they used a password to cover it up, but didn't remove the file. This is after they destroyed more than 70 thousand pirated dvds, cds and mp3s in the city of Medellin. A screen grab of the file is included.
Claudia Jean analyses the number of Chinese tourists and the impact of direct flights on Taiwan.
According to Jafaa blog that covers news about Iranian converted Christians, two newly converted Christians were charged with the crime of being an infidel by the judicial court of Fars province in Iran. They may face the death penalty.[update: They were released at the end of September]
The 2008 Paralympics opens in Beijing. RY in his Blog Land thinks Singapore has strong chances of winning in the swimming event.
Senor Pablo supports the Love Food, Hate Waste campaign in Brunei - He reminds readers about the “need to ascertain that what we eat is enough for the family and not to create unnecessary waste.”
A blogger thinks Cambodia should be called “gamblodia” because of too many casinos in the country's capital.
That's a great list. Now that Afrigator is no more, how do we get another list of such Top Ranked...
Quite interesting! Global Voices indeed has moved out-of-the-box, you're sure going places.
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Came to find this post after signing the AllOut petition (which already has almost 50k signatures, and needs to grow...
Please sign this if you are pro