Secular Café: Hugo Chavez dies . . .

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Hugo Chavez dies . . . Mar 6th 2013, 02:11 . . . immediately after Venezuela officials start throwing two American embassy officials out of the country and suggest that Chavez was poisoned. http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/world/...ain/index.html This should prove interesting. Rob

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Secular Café: Gaza marathon cancelled

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Gaza marathon cancelled Mar 5th 2013, 11:38 Hamas veto participation of women. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21667883 Quote: The UN agency which organises Gaza's marathon has cancelled the event, blaming the refusal of the territory's governing Islamist Hamas movement to allow women to run. The marathon was scheduled for Sunday and would have been Gaza's third. Hamas said the marathon could go ahead if "local traditions" were respected... ...The UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) said in a statement that it had taken "the disappointing decision" after "discussions with the authorities in Gaza who have insisted that no women should participate"... ..."We regret this decision to cancel the marathon but we don't want men and women running together," Abdessalam Siyyam, cabinet secretary of the Hamas government, told AFP news agency. "We did not tell Unrwa to cancel the marathon and we haven't prevented it, but we laid down some conditions: We don't want women and men mixing in the same place," he added... ...In previous years, Hamas has supported the race and provided security

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Secular Café: Expect the worst in Egypt

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Expect the worst in Egypt Mar 3rd 2013, 15:26 They promise to be pussycats... for now! http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/44...an-muslim.htm? Quote: Egypt has quietly introduced a Saudi-style Islamic religious police force in order to implement the moral principles of Islam using "non-violent methods". The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, an informal group, made the announcement at a press conference in Cairo. The Saudi ones are a total nightmare.

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Secular Café: Afghanistan In The 1960s. Prepare To Be Very, Very Surprised.

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Afghanistan In The 1960s. Prepare To Be Very, Very Surprised. Mar 2nd 2013, 00:15 http://www.upworthy.com/afghanistan-...rprised?c=upw1 Amazing how religion can fuck up a country.......

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Secular Café: Will Switzerland slim the fat cats?

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Will Switzerland slim the fat cats? Mar 1st 2013, 11:26 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21615080 Quote: Switzerland's voters will go to the polls on Sunday to decide on controversial proposals which would impose strict limits on the salaries awarded to top executives. The proposals are the brain child of Swiss businessman turned politician Thomas Minder, who runs a small family company producing natural cosmetics. Mr Minder wants shareholders to have a veto over managers' salaries, and to ban golden handshakes altogether. The "fat cat initiative", as it has come to be called, would, if approved, be written into the Swiss constitution, and would apply to all Swiss companies listed on Switzerland's stock exchange. Mr Minder, an outspoken man, says the culture of high salaries and high bonuses in Switzerland has got out of hand, pointing to the fact that huge sums have been paid out even when the companies concerned were doing badly. The bankruptcy of national icon Swissair back in 2001, and the subsequent huge payoffs to its failed boss Mario Corti, were the catalyst to Mr Minder's decision to act. "That really stuck in my throat," he told Swiss television. "It made me absolutely furious. "I'm still furious today, to think that a chief executive like Mr Corti could get five years' salary to go. I mean, the company was in a disastrous situation. At the end he wasn't even paying its bills. Swissair went bankrupt. The company doesn't exist anymore."... ...If passed, the measures would give Switzerland some of the strictest laws on executive pay in the world, far tougher than the limit on bonuses just approved by the European Union.

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Secular Café: Oh Those Clintons - Such Christian Empathy!

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Oh Those Clintons - Such Christian Empathy! Feb 28th 2013, 15:34 Oh those Clintons! Remember the evening President Clinton addressed the nation, looking into the TV camera as millions watched, and stating, "I did not have sex with that woman"? Can you say "Sociopath"? So guess who they put in charge of the mutli-million$ collected for the Haitian Earthquake relief funds? Who better to trust than a barefaced lying sociopath? Here's where the money went: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022415607 There are still 400,000 people living in tents with nothing and no hope, while the "relief funds" go to the wealthy hotel and sweat shop owners. A 60 Minutes program featured revelations of Seventh Day Adventists bringing in building supplies to build homes and shelters being charged "storage fees" while Haitian officials claimed the shipments did not comply with regulations. Confronted, the President admitted some documents supposedly lacked an official stamp! What could be more important during an emergency. Wonder whose Swiss account the "storage fees" wound up in! Did you know that more than 99% of Haitian property is owned by less than 1%? Sound familiar? The real icing on the cake was Hillary Clinton's trip to Haiti to see first-hand the poor suffering natives who had lost everything, had nothing, and lived in fields of sewage under plastic tarps. Hillary, as a good Christian who attends the United Methodist Church (http://atheism.about.com/od/hillaryc...onReligion.htm) felt so moved, she went home and spent FOUR MILLION DOLLARS on her daughter's wedding! Does it get any more reptilian than that? :mad:

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