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Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come…

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come…
No one can resist an idea whose time has come…
Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come…
Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come…
No army can stop an idea whose time has come…
Nothing is as powerful [...]

Iraqi bloggers at home and abroad
Not many of the people who were blogging in English from inside Iraq appear to be still there.
Mohammed is a 25 year-old dentist in Baghdad. In the first of two extracts, his experiences seem to support the latest figures suggesting a recent fall in the number of violent deaths in [...]

that great bunch of people… Ken Copeland, Benny Hinn, Oral Roberts, Tammy Faye and Jim, Richard Roberts, Jerry Falwell… then add Carl Rove, GWB, Dick Chenny, “Russ Limberger” , Fox Entertainment News,… they make a great team… add a few hundred others and we have a real scarry creep show…….more frightening than any Muslim fundamentalists…the [...]

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of men.
‘Our great industrial [...]

Thailand’s ousted PM Thaksin youtube video

Thailand’s ousted PM Thaksin youtube video

Will Google Free the mobile Phone?
Marty Manley
Google is about to become your phone company. Indeed, if current technology pans out, Google won’t charge you much if anything for your phone, which may serve nicely as your computer and your TV.
As of tonight Google stock trades at $700/share making it the fifth most valuable company in [...]

Obama: Time to Call Al Gore
 
 
 
Three questions are likely to absorb the chattering classes for the next week: will Al Gore run for President? Should he run? And if he were to run, how would he capture public imagination with Iowa only 12 weeks away?
 
My view, repeated often in these pages, is that Gore will [...]

CNN interview ousted Thai PM Taksin Shinawatra

CNN interview ousted Thai PM Tkaksin Shinawatra

Thaksin-linked party claims ‘victory for democracy’ in Thai election polls
12.23.07
BANGKOK- The People Power Party, the political outfit aligned with ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, said Sunday’s elections were a victory for democracy, after exit polls gave them a strong lead.
‘This is a victory for people and democracy. It shows that the coup one-and-a-half years ago [...]