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Beijing 2008. The Olympics of shame.

Why should we be happy and complacent about the 2008 Beijing Olympics? Now, just as in 1936 at the Berlin Olympics in Germany, nobody minds participating in such an important international event. The countries that took part in that event later regretted the mistake they had made – in the years which followed the Games, a war took place which caused over 50 million deaths: World War II. Let’s take a look back.
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Rule2Gether.com - A FLOSS project for political consensus building

A new FLOSS project started, to help citizens discuss, build consensus and make pressure on politicians, to respect citizens' rights and commonwealth. For non-techies: * Future Roadmap (by priority): http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pJJFyJNuvPdofpF8Gc6fGPA&gid=0 * English Demo: http://www.rule2gether.com * User Interface Mockups: http://www.slideshare.net/tff/rule2gethercom-decidiamoit * Actually in use by an Italian Political Party: http://roma.listapartecipata.it For techies: * Future Roadmap (by priority): http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pJJFyJNuvPdofpF8Gc6fGPA&gid=0 * Tickets in progress: http://trac.listapartecipata.it/trac/report/6 * English Demo: http://www.rule2gether.com (giuseppeverdi / tftscreen) * User Interface Mockups (short): http://www.slideshare.net/tff/rule2gethercom-decidiamoit * User Interface Mockups (full): https://partecs.conceptshare.com/dev.aspx?ws=2141 (apps@partecs.com / guestmember) * DEV Instance: http://dev.rule2gether.com * SVN: http://trac.listapartecipata.it/trac/browser * Actually in use by an italian Political Party: http://roma.listapartecipata.it The project is licensed under the FSF GNU Affero GPL. Contact us if you have interest in funding the project, building a custom implementation or just to say "hello". Giovani Spagnolo - Manager
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Stamp Act Stamp Act Of 1765

Stamp Act describes in detail what a stamp act is, the first British stamp act of 1689, the stamp act of 1765 which sparked the American Revolution, and stamp acts today.
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US Bars Gitmo Detainees From Lawyer Memos

The US military has suspended detainees' rights to view confidential papers from their attorneys. Government uses recent suicides as excuse for the needed crackdown.
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