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<span style="font-size: large;">Roger Ailes was a misogynistic ratings whore with a righty agenda. He set off an explosion "of cyberbullying and chyrons, trolls and tweets" and fake news. He showed no empathy for his many victims and could care less about accuracy. The following opinion piece is a very personal insight that should be read by all! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17687295681996191696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366049075431045821.post-67853772397553633942017-05-27T13:04:00.003-07:002017-05-27T13:09:33.471-07:00It's Time to Get Rid of Donald Trump<span style="font-size: large;">Trump has transformed the United States into a laughing stock and he is a danger to the world. He must be removed from the White House before things get even worse.
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Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the <a class="text-link-int lp-text-link-int" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/united_states/" style="color: #990000; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" title="United States">United States</a>. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does <a class="text-link-int lp-text-link-int" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/clinton-campaign-chair-john-podesta-on-president-trump-a-1146317.html" style="color: #990000; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" title="not understand the significance of the office he holds">not understand the significance of the office he holds</a> nor the tasks associated with it. He doesn't read. He doesn't bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has identified as his priorities. His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees.</div>
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He is a man free of morals. As has been demonstrated hundreds of times, he is a liar, a racist and a cheat. I feel ashamed to use these words, as sharp and loud as they are. But if they apply to anyone, they apply to <a class="text-link-int lp-text-link-int" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/donald_trump/" style="color: #990000; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" title="Trump">Trump</a>. And one of the media's tasks is to continue telling things as they are: Trump has to be removed from the White House. Quickly. He is a danger to the world.</div>
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Trump is a miserable politician. He fired the FBI director simply because he could. James Comey had gotten under his skin with his investigation into Trump's confidants. Comey had also refused to swear loyalty and fealty to Trump and to abandon the investigation. He had to go.</div>
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Trump is also a miserable boss. His people invent excuses for him and lie on his behalf because they have to, but then Trump wakes up and posts tweets that contradict what they have said. He doesn't care that his spokesman, his secretary of state and his national security adviser had just denied that the president had handed Russia (of all countries) sensitive intelligence gleaned from Israel (of all countries). Trump tweeted: Yes, yes, I did, because I can. I'm president after all.</div>
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Nothing is as it should be in this White House. Everyone working there has been compromised multiple times and now they all despise each other - and everyone except for Trump despises Trump. Because of all that, after just 120 days of the Trump administration, we are witness to an American tragedy for which there are five theoretical solutions.</div>
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The first is Trump's resignation, which won't happen. The second is that Republicans in the House and Senate support impeachment, which would be justified by the president's proven obstruction of justice, but won't happen because of the Republicans' thirst for power, which they won't willingly give up. The third possible solution is the invocation of the 25th Amendment, which would require the cabinet to declare Trump unfit to discharge the powers of the presidency. That isn't particularly likely either. Fourth: The Democrats get ready to fight and win back majorities in the House and Senate in midterm elections, which are 18 months away, before they then pursue option two, impeachment. Fifth: the international community wakes up and finds a way to circumvent the White House and free itself of its dependence on the U.S. Unlike the preceding four options, the fifth doesn't directly solve the Trump problem, but it is nevertheless necessary - and possible.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I took a picture of this poster in Cairo in March 2015.</td></tr>
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It continues to disturb me that so many of my fellow
countryman lump all Muslims into the same category. The people who identify as
Islamic fundamentalist practice a perverted form of Islam that has no resemblance
to the genuine Muslim faith. I compare the perverted Islamic fundamentalists to
the phony Christians of the Klu Klux Klan. The facts are: the phony Muslims of groups like ISIS have
killed more genuine Muslims than any other of their targeted groups. More importantly,
the most effective fighters putting their lives on the line against ISIS are
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Since 1964, when what we now think of the Religious Right set out to take over the Republican Party, the line between religion and politics have become increasingly blurred on the Right. We have seen conservative Christian theology legislated into law with damning frequency, whether it is related to abortion or contraception or marriage, or any of a number of other areas.<br />
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So when Indiana Republican Sen. Dan Coats <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/politics/pope-francis-congress-republicans-politics/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(205, 23, 19) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">says</a> of the pope’s <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/19/pope-enter-hostile-territory-gop-war-party-visits-congress.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(205, 23, 19) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">address to Congress</a> Thursday, “I’m always concerned about those who are bringing spiritual messages that step too far over the line in terms of political issues,” you have to laugh.</div>
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Republicans have no shame when it comes to utterances like this.</div>
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Coats thinks Pope Francis should not be able to say the sorts of things Evangelicals say every day. Republicans like Coats want Pope Francis to stay out of politics, even though Evangelicals not only cross the line every day into politics, but control a major political party.<br />
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You want to know how much Coats hates mixing politics and religion? Check out this <a href="https://twitter.com/SenDanCoats/status/644246893082443776" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(205, 23, 19) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tweet</a>:<br />
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Jeb Bush <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/jeb-bush-knocks-pope-on-climate-change-push-119084" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(205, 23, 19) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">told voters</a> in New Hampshire, “I don’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals.” No indeed. He gets his policy from the largely Protestant Religious Right, like every other Republican candidate.</div>
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Apparently, only Republicans can speak for God, even when the pope is in town.</div>
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The pope has really riled up Republicans since he <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/18/eco-encyclical-pope-francis-delivers-definitive-answer-what-jesus-do.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(205, 23, 19) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">began to address</a> the threat of climate change. After all, hell hath no fury like a Republican whose income is threatened. Never forget these men are not employed by the American people; their real employees are the fossil fuel industry.</div>
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“I think it’s totally inappropriate that the pope is weighing in on all the real sensitive, far-left issues,” Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/politics/pope-francis-congress-republicans-politics/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(205, 23, 19) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">said</a>. “I’m not a Catholic, but my Catholic friends in Oklahoma are not real pleased with it.”</div>
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What is amusing is that Inhofe can insist the pope remain silent on “far-left issues.” If he was saying there was no climate change, Inhofe would be urging him to speak up. If Pope Francis was a big supporter of capitalism, Inhofe would be beside himself with joy.</div>
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I think in a court of law that would be hearsay. The only relevant part of that statement is that Inhofe is against it. I’m not a Catholic either, and I think it’s great. Unlike Republicans from Donald Trump to Ted Cruz to Ben Carson, the pope is not running for elected office in the United States.</div>
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But the pope is talking Jesus talk, not capitalist talk, and certainly not fossil fuel industry talk, or even the Religious Right’s culture war talk. And this is a problem for all those Republicans in Congress who cringe at the thought of the things Pope Francis might say when he addresses them Thursday.</div>
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The worst part, from their perspective, is undoubtedly that Francis will have a huge television audience. Things might be said that Republicans don’t want Americans to hear. Things that undermine the Right’s idea of an AR-15-armed white Anglo-Saxon Jesus who hates poor people and immigrants.</div>
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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) isn’t even going to show up, for crying out loud. “When the pope chooses to act and talk like a leftist politician, then he can expect to be treated like one.” If you listen, you can still hear the echoes of his feet stomping, a sound that will echo through eternity.</div>
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Gosar is going into hiding while the pope speaks, and is probably in search of a suitable happy space to curl up in a fetal ball until it’s all over, hoping when he comes out, some semblance of the Republican world still exists.</div>
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It is funny also that the pope has finally made the Right realize there is a difference between religion and politics after decades of Republicans actively combining the two.</div>
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Certainly if they are free to do so, then so is the pope.</div>
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Obviously we don’t know what Francis is going to talk about, or what he will say. What is critical right now is that it is only conservatives who fear the Pope. You don’t see Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders fretting over the pope’s appearance, or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.</div>
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Bernie Sanders is even tweeting the pope’s message, because as it happens, his message is identical:</div>
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The Hill <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/news/254274-gop-braces-for-pope-francis" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(205, 23, 19) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">opined this morning</a> that, “The pope has become a political football,” but I would suggest here they have it all backwards. This Pope is nobody’s football. He is not the guy who is kicked, but rather the guy who does the kicking.</div>
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Thursday, the pope can say anything he wants, and there is nothing anyone can do to stop him.</div>
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And that’s why Republicans are so afraid.</div>
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<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/18/1162786/-Inside-the-Hostess-Bankery"><span style="color: red;"><b>11/18/12 - UPDATE:</b></span> </a>For an insiders look at what happened at Hostess, Inc <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/18/1162786/-Inside-the-Hostess-Bankery"><span style="color: red;">CLICK HERE</span></a><br />
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owned by a private equity firm that bled the profits out of the company for
years. <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11/16/1203151/why-unions-dont-shoulder-the-blame-for-hostesss-downfall/?mobile=nc"><span style="color: red;">Top executives of Hostess paid themselves big fat paychecks and demanded the workers give up pay and benefits.</span></a> Before you blame the workers (Unions) for
the end of the Twinkies, look at the corporate mismanagement at the top of the
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groups of organized employees. Unions are
a democratic and their leadership is elected by the membership. To blame
something on the “Unions” you are simply referring to a group of workers whose majority
believes in collective bargaining. <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80571.html"><span style="color: red;">CLICK HERE</span></a> to see why Unions still matter!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Download a fact sheet on the strike from BCTGM: <a href="http://bctgm.org/PDFs/HostessFactSheet.pdf"><span style="color: red;">CLICK HERE</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://blog.workingamerica.org/2012/11/16/romney-style-economics-behind-decline-of-hostess-but-workers-are-paying-the-price/">Romney-Style Economics Behind Decline of Hostess, But Workers Are Paying the Price</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/18/1162645/-Giving-Thanks-for-Hostess-Workers" id="titleHref" style="line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Giving Thanks for Hostess Workers</a> <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/18/1162645/-Giving-Thanks-for-Hostess-Workers">CLICK HERE</a></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"It is my belief that unions help everyone. They not only make working conditions and compensation better for union workers – they make these aspects better for ALL workers. They help set the status quo for employers everywhere. If corporations really had their choice on a five-day work week, an eight-hour work day or child labor – you can bet your bootie everyone would be working a lot harder and longer for a lot less. It wasn’t just union workers who benefited from those battles. It was everyone". - </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Republicans like Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater and Bob
Dole. They fought hard to win their political offices but never
gloated once they won. When they lost an election they accepted the loss with dignity.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">McCain and <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/11/15/romney_s_gifts_defense_bobby_jindal_scott_walker_quick_to_denounce_former.html">Romney</a> bring shame to themselves and the
Republican Party with their vengeful actions towards President Obama. All we
hear from them is sour grapes and complaining. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/why-republicans-want-mitt-romney-hike-064500727.html">Romney</a> in particular reminds me
of a coyote, yipping like a baby in the faraway hills but afraid to show his
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17687295681996191696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366049075431045821.post-42314063383827061132012-11-12T18:27:00.002-08:002012-11-13T00:59:46.786-08:00The GOP Got Their Comeuppance this Election Cycle<br />
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obsessively to the political analysts and commentators as they exposed their
various theories on why Romney and the whole Republican Party took an electoral
beating in 2012. If the truth was known, there are numerous reasons the
Republicans got their comeuppance this election cycle. The <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/24/1149395/-GOP-Rape-Advisory-Chart-h-t-to-connecticutie">leading republicans</a> who publicly opposed abortion even in the case of rape or incest did not help the GOP at all. Making comments like a baby conceived by rape is a <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/rape-remarks-sink-gop-senate-hopefuls-article-1.1198170">“gift from god”</a> was unconscionable <i>(<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/karen-hughes-rape_n_2117174.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009">Go get em Karen Hughes</a>)</i>. In addition, Romney’s 47% comment, missing tax returns and Ryan’s medicare voucher
program, encouraged large numbers of voters to think twice about what a
Romney/Ryan America would look like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ignore the significance of the Hispanic vote either. As you know Hispanics
voted democratic in historic numbers. It is little wonder why. All the republicans who sought the GOP nomination (Romney in particular)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> did a fair
share of immigrant bashing during the primaries. Romney talked about a plan
whereby illegal immigrants would “self-deport”. Any rational analysis of the
Romney immigration policy knew it was just red meat for republican primary
voters and not a realistic plan. The republican pandering to the anti-immigrant
crowd in the Republican Party was unacceptable to many Americans but was a particularly bitter pill for Hispanic Americans. However, Romney and the republican’s
opposition to the </span><a href="http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/dream-act" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dream Act</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> sealed the deal for most Hispanic voters.</span></div>
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give children of unregistered immigrants a chance for citizenship if they
receive a college degree or two years military service. This means that the
military has a wider range of applicants to choose from. This act would also
improve the economy in terms of the increase in the level of taxable income. It
would also improve the level of school drop outs among the immigrant boosting a
high literacy level and dropping the unemployment rates.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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to the <a href="http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/dream-act">Dream Act</a> was totally political. As a moderate to liberal Governor of Massachusetts, Romney supported policies consistent with the Dream Act. Then in a public flip
flop, candidate Mitt opposes the Dream Act. I truly believe Romney’s opposition to the
Dream Act was nothing more than a calculated move to out anti-immigrant his
republican opponents. Well Mitt, congratulations, you won the republican
nomination and at the same time lost the presidency as well as alienating Hispanic
Americans from the GOP for decades to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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numerous reasons the GOP took a drubbing in this election. However, GOP opposition
to the Dream Act was an inexcusable exercise in political pandering at its
worst. Has the GOP learned its lesson here? Time will tell.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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have to be disagreeable”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">―<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/369997.Barry_Goldwater" style="text-decoration: initial;"><span style="background: white; color: #666600;">Barry Goldwater</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have no choice but to be involved in politics. Whether you are active, well informed
or apathetic you are involved. If you vote you are a voter, if you don’t you
are a non-voter. If you have strong opinions, you are a “likely voter”, if you
are registered to vote and don’t have strong opinions you are an “unlikely voter”. It does not matter if you hate politics, love
politics or like me have come to believe involvement in politics is a responsibility
we all have, you are part of the system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you have acquiesced to the other side. That is if you are a middle of the road or
progressive, think all politicians are the same and don’t vote: you have become
a tactic supporter of <a href="http://mediamatters.org/">right-wing America</a>. The converse of this is true as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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right-wing grand plan. If the <em><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=8393">Limbaughestas</a></span></b></em> can keep you discouraged and
apathetic, they have you right where they want you. If you continue to believe it
does not matter who wins the presidency, the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/">right</a> has won.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17687295681996191696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366049075431045821.post-743808852947272062012-11-10T07:21:00.002-08:002012-11-10T07:28:12.368-08:00Right Wing-Nut Gun Dealer won't sell to Patriotic America loving Obama voters.<br />
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amendment respecting gun owning lefty, this blows my mind. Romney had a pro-gun
control record and the NRA leadership wing-nuts supported him anyway. This is
not about gun owners’ rights; this is about the extreme right-wing views of
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For Sportsman
and other folks interested in gun owners’ rights, check out this group: <a href="http://unionsportsmen.org/"><span style="color: red;">The Union Sportsman Alliance!</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17687295681996191696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366049075431045821.post-71721045192060282552012-11-09T02:55:00.001-08:002012-11-09T13:13:59.993-08:00Sign the Petition: Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai<span style="font-size: x-large;">To sign the petition: </span><a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/malala-yousafzai-nobel-peace-prize-for-malala-yousafzai" style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>CLICK HERE</b></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Malala Yousafzai, a 14 years old girl from Swat valley of Pakistan is a symbol of hope, resistance, struggle, bravery and courage who refused to bow down in front of the militants to get education and women rights. She also kept on struggling for peace in her militancy hit hometown of Swat by Writing, and Speaking at every forum she could get. She came to prominence through a blog she wrote for the BBC, detailing her life under the Taliban regime and their attempts to take control of the valley. Yousafzai has since been nominated for several awards, including International Children's Peace Prize, and has won Pakistan's first National Peace Prize. She was threatened and pressurized and ultimately shot critically by extremist elements on Tuesday 09 October 2012 while returning from school along with two other girls. She was first treated in a Pakistani Military Hospital till her stabilized substantially to give enough room to take her abroad after which she was transferred to UK where currently under treatment at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. This girl is a symbol of hope and courage for the whole world and she deserves the Nobel Peace prize for all that she has done and all that she has endured in the path of her struggle at such a tender age. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">To sign the petition: <b><a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/malala-yousafzai-nobel-peace-prize-for-malala-yousafzai"><span style="color: red;">CLICK HERE</span></a></b></span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Send an urgent appeal to ensure Malala, and other brave women activists like her, receive the protection they need to carry out their work without fear of attack.</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', 'Helvetica Narrow', Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1;"><a href="http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/30000/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=wallpost&utm_campaign=crisis">CLICK HERE TO SEND THE MESSAGE!!</a></span><br />
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