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[POLITICO Top Stories] Sunday talk show tip sheet - Dianna Heitz - POLITICO.com: Now, I was no fan of President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security (mostly because there was no “opt-out entirely” provision). However, while liberals claim that Joe Wilson’s shout during Tuesday’s speech was “unprecedented” and “racist,” we can see the Democrats were just as capable of such behavior.

[Pambazuka News :Features] Pambazuka - Does Tanzania need dual citizenship?: However, all these pro-globalisation conceptualisations have a blind spot that subject them to historical amnesia: They ignore that historically and conceptually globalisation, or globalism to put it more crudely, is part and parcel of Imperialism which has and is still eroding the freedoms and rights of those in the margins of the so-called Global Village, who happen to be nationals of ”˜nation-states’ who cannot access the privileges of multiple or dual citizenship let alone those of single citizenship that they are still struggling to reclaim from states whose laws and policies, including those on citizenship, are now prescribed by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and ”˜development partners’ rather than the very people who struggled to decolonise those states.

[Legal News] Guinness family beauty accused of sex romp on Kingfisher flight: When staff stopped serving Irby, who was estimated to have shared at least three bottles of wine with Melia, she showed the finger to one stewardess and called another a bitch, the court heard.

[ROCARE - ERNWACA] Cameroon: Report of ERNWACA Café for the 2008 edition of ERNWACA ...: In conclusion Dr DZE NGWA gave the following point, it is evident that for sustainable peace to reign in Cameroon, it is incumbent to introduce peace education and enhance the current curriculum content on citizenship education in Cameroonian schools and colleges.

[Migration Information Source] Migration Information Source - DHS Rescinds "No-Match" Rule, Moves ...: Recently, several congressional leaders, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), head of the Senate Judiciary Committee's immigration subcommittee, have publicly suggested that Congress could pass an immigration reform bill in the coming months. Others argue that internal disagreements over whether the bill should include a temporary worker program, combined with an already crowded legislative agenda, make it unlikely that Congress will pass such a bill soon.

[The Court] The Court » Blog Archive » The Women's Court of Canada: Gosselin v ...: In addition, as catalogued by Bastarache J., the programs had eligibility criteria and restrictions that made them not open to all the under thirty welfare recipients. Originally, the Remedial Education Program was not available to illiterate people at all nor was it ever available to those who had only completed elementary school, left their studies for less than nine months, or been financially independent of their parents for less than six months(Gosselin SCC, at para.

[Live and Work in Alberta] How to contact CIC Citizenship and Immigration Canada | Live and ...: My mother has applied for visitor visa for canada.She has been to canada 2 yrs back on visitor visa and now applied the second time.First time she had applied when she was in US Atlanta. And she went back before the visa expired.This time she applied from India and she was told to get the medical done.The medical was done on 27 March 2009 but till now until April 14 th there is no reply.The local doctor who is a designated med practitioner from immigration deptt admitted that he sent the report one week after the medical was done becuase he had gone out of town for personal reason.Which is very irresponsible.But now I dont know how much time it will take for her to receive a reply and she was coming for my delivery on April 15th which became impossible now for her to be here when the baby is coming.Plz suggest

[SSIR Articles: Nonprofit Management] Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : Catalytic ...: Create Actionable KnowledgeMost donors rely on their grant applicants and recipients to provide them with information about the social problems the nonprofit is tackling, focusing their inquiries narrowly on the program to be funded without researching the issue more broadly. Catalytic philanthropists, by contrast, gather knowledge about the problem they are tackling and use this knowledge to inform their own actions and motivate the actions of others.

[Migration Information Source] Migration Information Source - New and Revised ICE Agreements with ...: Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on August 12 after the Senate confirmed him on August 7. Prior to his appointment, Mayorkas, an immigrant from Cuba, was a partner in the law firm of O'Melveny and Myers.

[Labor & Employment Law Blog] Recent LEL Articles - July 2009: Susan Hippenstelle, Revisiting the Promise of Mediation for Employment Discrimination Claims, 9 Pepp. Orly Lobel, Citizenship, Organizational Citizenship, and the Laws of Overlapping Obligations, 97 Cal.

[Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Blog] Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Blog : Global social justice ...:  As Maxwell highlights, the Millennium Declaration was located in a general framework of rights and justice and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focus on goals which aim to narrow disparities between the rich and the poor across a range of indicators (income, hunger, health, education, etc).  And although increasing the incomes of the poor is a key aim, growth does not feature explicitly in either the framework or the MDGs, and as a result, the Millennium Declaration has been critiqued for ignoring the central role of growth in development.

[The Gun Toting Liberal] United States Supreme Court Agrees To Review The Legal Citizenship ...: I understand all the partisan crap that fills the airwaves and the blogosphere, but I don’t understand why democrats would be so bitter, partisan, and hate-filled that they would rather see an Indonesian citizen as President-Usurper than a true American citizen. If this happens, we WILL have a full-blown –

[Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)] Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Published Applications as Prior Art: Since then, almost two-million patent applications have published. What there is is the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments defining US citizenship, securing citizens' rights against state encroachment, and abolishing slavery.

[Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ”” A Group Blog] Steve Pinker gets the memo (sort of) | Savage Minds: Schneider’s critique is an important one, and one that should have been integrated into existing frameworks rather than used as an excuse to abandon formal approaches to kinship altogether, a response I find especially unfortunate since these approaches were beginning to mature precisely at the same time. But, and correct me if I am wrong, Schneider’s critique was not directed at formalism per se, but at a particular approach to the study of kinship that presumed too much.

[dotCommonweal] dotCommonweal » Blog Archive » Oklahoma! Tulsa goes East”¦: The orthodox branch would be for those Catholics who want the Mass in Latin with the priest facing east, who hate altar girls, lay Eucharistic Ministers, liturgical dancers etc., etc., etc. and the reform branch would be for those Catholics such as myself who like the Liturgy the way it is now, but with a few minor revisions such as ignoring the new incoming Roman Missal, adding inclusive language, allowing qualified lay people to preach at the time reserved for the homily, allowing women deacons and priests…

[The Court] The Court » Blog Archive » The Women's Court of Canada: Law v ...: These factors are reinterpreted as pointing to three forms of indignity that may be inflicted by law or policy: grounding law or policy in prejudice, the use of, or reliance on, stereotype, and exclusion from dignity-constituting benefits. In analyzing the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) limitation on eligibility for a spousal survivor’s pension to those over age thirty-five, the Women’s Court finds that the exclusive focus on the age-related differential treatment in the courts below provides an incomplete picture of the program and its rationale.CPP cannot be properly understood or evaluated absent this gendered context.

[Bartlett's Blog] Immigration detention and deportation in the USA: One toxic remnant of one of the Bush administration’s failed wars ”” the one on illegal immigrants ”” is immigration detention. Wanting to appear tough, Bush officials cobbled together, at great speed and expense, a network of federal centers, state and county lockups and private, for-profit prisons.

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