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Closure imposed on occupied territory in anticipation of protests after Friday prayers.

US secretary of state says Israel is putting ties at risk over new settlements in West Bank.

Following the debate and community discussion hosted by rabble.ca last month on the topic of the Vancouver Olympic protests, I was asked to write a short commentary piece. You can read the piece here. For those who have been following this from other parts of the country, it's worth stressing the achievements of all those activists who put in years of work, which include:

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Commission counting votes for national poll says fraud claims are "complete fabrication".

Robert Zollitsch says church is "dismayed" by claims of abuse at Catholic institutions.

Security tight as ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra's supporters seek to converge on Bangkok.

Deal for 12 nuclear reactors and sale of MiG fighter jets among pacts signed by Putin.

More than 45 people killed in series of attacks on security personnel in Lahore.

On behalf of the Internet: welcome aboard Mr. Harper!

The Prime Minister's new tricked out YouTube site is hosting a pre-approved, moderated Q&A between the PM and Canadian citizens. This comes on the heels of a budget brought to you by Twitter and Michael Ignatieff's own pre-vetted, realtime chat sessions.

Have our elected representatives suddenly developed an appetite for Web 2.0?

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Sworn in amid strong aftershocks, Sebastian Pinera pledges "huge leap forward".

In 2009, just before the Copenhagen conference, some scientists working on climate change models at the University of East Anglia were exposed for proposing that some data should be concealed. The chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was then widely criticized for predicting the precise year that Himalayan glaciers will disappear without any peer-reviewed evidence.

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Who counts? In Harper's budget world it isn't women, the environment or indigenous issues.  But he counts deficits.  And plenty is being counted for the U.S. health care bill but not necessarily what matters - like universal coverage.  That said, maybe the progressives have something up their sleeves.  Single payer does exist in parts of the bill, if we can only get it to count.  And we also serve up some rumours about something Obama might do and if he does, it will be very bad. 

Of course we have our feature Below The Fold (News You Might Have Missed)

Terroism Debate

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Casey Leung talks to writer and editor Kevin Hollett about Megaphone, the Downtown Eastside, and the Olympics.

In this episode, we really get to play with our food. What does MakerCulture have to do with food and how do chefs, artists, farmers and everyday people

interact with their own food? We try to pin point why so many makers have decided to turn to self-reliance and creativity when it comes to their food, rather

than just eating it.  

Feature Interviews:

David Berg, artist participant of the Medium: Coffee, Latte Art for Non-Latte Artists event 

Meredith Alex, fashion designer who uses food

Chef Don Kumarasinghe, a chef and Olympian fruit carver 

John Sinopoli, executive chef at Toronto's "Table 17"

Joseph Watters, executive chef at Taste Restuarant

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The Not Rexes have spoken and the people have voted.  rabble.ca is pleased to present the winner of our Not Rex Murphy Context -- Humberto DaSilva! 

Humberto is a union representative and writer born and bred in Toronto. His father and mother, now retired, were respectively a miner and a shopkeeper in their native Portugal.

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Qatar's news channel and Al Arabiya offices raided over coverage of southern unrest.

Americans don’t know what to think about climate change anymore. A few years ago, the public more or less trusted the science that said human activity was raising global temperatures, but now that Congress and the Obama administration have hemmed and hawed about climate issues, we’re not longer so sure.

Forty-eight percent of Americans—more of us than ever before—believe that reports of global warming are “generally exaggerated,” according to a new Gallup poll. Climate science hasn’t changed, so it’s not crazy to look at these numbers and think that conservatives’ incessant critiques of climate change may be working.

A perfect political storm

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Full closure for 48 hours imposed in anticipation of protests after Friday prayers.

It is striking and, to use a religious term, a bit awe-inspiring to see how central that religion has become to politics in the post-Cold War era. For more than 200 years, the defining split was left versus right. Now religion is in the equation in a big way.

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A federal judge has reaffirmed her earlier ruling blocking the congressional effort to defund the anti-poverty group ACORN. On Wednesday, Judge Nina Gershon cemented a decision from last year that such action amounted to an unconstitutional “bill of attainder.” Judge Gershon has asked all federal agencies to allow ACORN funding without delay. We speak with National Housing Institute president John Atlas, author of Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America’s Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Group. [includes rush transcript]