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Remarks by the President Urging Congress to Pass the Infrastructure Piece of the American Jobs Act

President Obama's words from Georgetown Waterfront Park, 11:42 a.m. Wednesday.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - "Of all the industries hammered by the economic downturn, construction has been among the hardest hit. Since the housing bubble burst, millions of construction workers have had to look for a job.

"So today, I’m joining many of these workers to say that it makes absolutely no sense when there’s so much work to be done that they’re not doing the work. (Applause.) Not when there are so many roads and bridges and runways waiting to be repaired and waiting to be rebuilt..."

Commonwealth Should Stand Up for Human Rights

Canadian opposition members have called for Sri Lanka to be suspended from the Commonwealth until alleged war drime perpetrators are properly held to account.

(PERTH, Aust.) - A government accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and numerous human rights violations is set to take control of an organisation of governments representing more than 2 billion people around the world.

Sri Lanka is to pick up the baton from Australia as the next head of the Commonwealth from 2013 to 2015.

For Rwanda`s Sake, the Commonwealth Must Get Relevant

... I am very concerned that the Commonwealth membership is being used as a public relations cover for the Rwandan Government..." - Frank Habineza, President, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda

(PERTH, Aust.) - The President of the Opposition Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, Frank Habineza has travelled to Australia to share with the Commonwealth family what is happening in Rwanda, because in his own country he cannot speak out.

Mr. Habineza’s Party Vice-President was murdered in suspicious circumstances before the 2010 election.

Child Sacrifice for Wealth

Witchcraft has taken an insidiously dangerous proportion, leaving the future - as represented in young lives - hanging precariously on a precipice.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Of recent, the mainstream media has been awash with reports of a gruesome wave of pagan impunity sweeping across the East African sub-region. Every country has had their unique cases, some of which are as peculiar as they are harrowing.

Debating Greg Felton`s Exploding Middle East Myths

In Exploding Middle East Myths, you'll see the real Israel: brutal treatment of Palestinians, blatant disregard for Christians and Muslims, and parasitic control over foreign governments, especially the US.

(TEHRAN / LONDON Press TV) - In this edition of the show we discuss the book: Exploding Middle East Myths, written by Greg Felton. For nearly 63 years, since its creation in 1948, the state of Israel has carefully controlled what the Western world knows about the Zionist state.

As a result, what we have received from the mainstream media is reams of propaganda and little truth when it comes to the racist and bellicose state.

Agent Orange--Vietnam`s Last Battle

This essay is part of the Vietnam Reporting Project, a journalism fellowship program created by the Renaissance Journalism Center and funded by the Ford Foundation.

(DANANG, Vietnam VTimes) - The famed China Beach where war-weary GIs once went on R&R is now lined with luxury beachfront villas, five-star resorts, and even a golf course designed by the great Greg Norman.

Not far from this sun-drenched, white-sand stretch of paradise, I met a 57-year-old illiterate subsistence farmer and her 19-year-old severely deformed son, who share a one-room shack with a leaky roof and no running water.

ALEC-Model Legislation Undermining Constitutional Legislative Decision-Process

Continuing corporate dollar-power IS deciding questions of law, superseding Electees - Voters Defrauded by Set-Up semblances substituting for Democratic political process.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - The ALEC-crisis continues, threatening every state-level law enacted since 1973 with possible, even probable, distortion and perversion from what might have been enacted, lacking corporate dollar-millions spent to provide carefully-constructed and controlled "model legislation" for passage.

Rwanda Peoples Party Calls on International Community to Freeze President Paul Kagame`s Personal Assets

We believe President Kagame is neither in support of peace nor the interests of the people of Rwanda... - Rwanda People’s Party

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The RPP request to impose a travel ban, freezing of personal assets and other punitive measures to President Kagame

On behalf of my party, the Rwanda People’s Party, we would like to remind you about the continued miseries that have been subjected upon the people of Rwanda since 1959. These range from the notorious and heinous regime of the late Kayibanda, the regime of murder, terror and genocide of late Habyarinama to the current murderous and brutal regime of President Paul Kagame.

Palestine Hip-Hop - DAM Performs in Portland Friday

"Let us introduce ourselves... we are from a town called Lid where those that kill and demolish go without punishment"- DAM

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Mark your calendar for this Friday, Portland will host one of the coolest bands in modern history, DAM is from Lod, Israel is the face, heart and soul of Palestinian Hip-Hop.

Two brothers, Tamer and Suhell Nafar, and their friend Mahmoud Jreri, comprise the core elements of the band. Their music is raw and brave and who has more of a right to express anger in music than people living in a place where their rights are diminished simply because they aren't from the right religion?

Gaddafi Believed Libyans Still Loved Him Till His Death: Bodyguard

Gaddafi could have escaped from Libya, but he insisted on dying in the land of his ancestors.

(TRIPOLI) - Muammar Gaddafi believed Libyans still loved him despite being repeatedly told that Tripoli had been occupied," his former bodyguard had claimed.

"He believed the Libyan people still loved him, even after we told him that Tripoli had been occupied," The New York Daily News quoted Mansour Dao, as saying.