Obama and mass media

The Ad Campaign: An Obama Infomercial, Big, Glossy and Almost UnavoidableBy Jim RutenbergTHE PROGRAM The program gave a new meaning to the word “infomercial” and, for that matter, to all notions of political advertising. Executed with high standards of cinematography, with help from the director of “An Inconvenient Truth,” Davis Guggenheim, the infomercial was part slickly produced reality program; part Lifetime biography; and part wonkish policy lecture with music that could have come from “The West Wing.”Its imagery was acutely Middle American:...

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environmental conservation is nonsense

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Threat of Religious Freedom

By RumadiReligious freedom in Indonesia is now under serious threat. On one hand we see a strong wave of Islamization as manifested by the formalization of Islamic law in several regions. On the other, we have witnessed discriminatory acts against groups that practice religious forms of expression outside of the mainstream. The latter cases are a serious violation of human rights and threaten the very foundations of the nation.The attack on the Ahmadiyah complex in Parung, Bogor, West Java, by a hard-line Islamic group represents a serious threat...

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Forget oil, the new global crisis is food

Alia McMullen, Financial Post Published: Monday, January 07, 2008A new crisis is emerging, a global food catastrophe that will reach further and be more crippling than anything the world has ever seen. The credit crunch and the reverberations of soaring oil prices around the world will pale in comparison to what is about to transpire, Donald Coxe, global portfolio strategist at BMO Financial Group said at the Empire Club's 14th annual investment outlook in Toronto on Thursday."It's not a matter of if, but when," he warned investors. "It's going...

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