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Why do we get these mountains of clothes? No one is freezing here. Instead, our tailors lose their livlihoods. They're in the same position as our farmers. No one in the low-wage world of Africa can be cost-efficient enough to keep pace with donated products. In 1997, 137,000 workers were employed in Nigeria's textile industry. By 2003, the figure had dropped to 57,000. The results are the same

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In my mail this morning came a note from a chap named Brian Mertens. He has a blog, called, appropriately enought, Free Advice. In his email he allowed as how he knew a bit about PHP and if I needed any help...I wrote back with a number of the issues at The Canadian Bullet. This afternoon I check my email and there is a full on stylesheet fixed! Thank you Brian!

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Great feedback, links and support for my little aggregator. There are any number of issues, the worst being the rather random nature of the truncation. This is my number one priority to fix because without it long posts take way too much space. Traffic is beginning to build with links from Let it Bleed, Anonalogue and Crawl Across the Ocean adding to the stream. One of the reasons I wanted to

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A controversial Toronto imam warned Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan at a closed-door meeting to stop "terrorizing" Canadian Muslims. "If you try to cross the line I can't guarantee what is going to happen. Our young people, we can't control," Aly Hindy, the head of Scarborough's Salaheddin Islamic Centre, recalls telling the minister at the May meeting she held in Toronto with dozens of

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Conservative MP Vic Toews (Provencher, Man.), his party's high-profile justice critic and a former Manitoba justice minister, told The Hill Times that the Conservatives will definitely make it an election issue out on the hustings and said if the federal Conservatives win the next election they will attempt to repeal the law. "The Conservative government will bring forward an alternative; that's

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Yipee! If you have been coming to this blog using certain flavours of FireFox you may have noticed a gap, a big, honking, gap. Blogger has finally fixed it....Thank you for your patience.blogger

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I ran across this excellent Avian Flu site while getting the dirt from the Zerb.Avian FluCanada, like many other countries, has failed to stockpile sufficient anti-viral drugs like Tamiflu in preparation for a (bird) flu pandemic. The government simply has not been paying attention until recently, and it is too late now: the sole manufacturer of Tamiflu has worldwide orders for at least 40

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I am still fighting with the code to try and get the posts to truncate. Two reasons: first because I want The Canadian Bullet, which is the "brand" for the blog aggregator as in, "Have you seen the Bullet?, to be a quick skim. Hit it, read what's up in the Canadian political blogosphere, hit an ad, and off. Second, because I think people, once their are interested in a post, should go to the

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Stephen Harper talked tough on security and not at all on same-sex marriage on Saturday as the Conservative leader's 10-day tour of Ontario drew to a close. Harper said Friday's deadly bombings in Egypt should serve as a warning to Canada.cpGood for Harper...It has finally dawned on the brainiacs in the CPC that SSM is a non-issue outside North Armpit Alberta. But if you are riding the subway in

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So now I have The Canadian Bullet up and, more or less, running. And I go to take a look at it in Explorer. And it renders with everything wrong. Grrr!microsoft

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The horrific Egyptian bombings have draw the comment from one Canadian lefty blogger,In the wake of the assorted terrorist incidents in London, and the interesting news - which took my by suprise, because I was not planning to move to the UK - that we are now all Londoners, I am relieved today to discover that we are not suddenly all Egyptians. I didn't want to move to Egypt. Of course, the

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The latest, and perhaps gravest, challenge to the journalistic establishment is the blog. Journalists accuse bloggers of having lowered standards. But their real concern is less high-minded - it is the threat that bloggers, who are mostly amateurs, pose to professional journalists and their principal employers, the conventional news media. A serious newspaper, like The Times, is a large,

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Just a quick update: the Canadian political blogs aggregator will be moving to its permanent home http://canada.info-syn.com shortly...Now if I can just get Kate's posts to truncate properly. [And, hey, talk about the perfect time to launch...I can get the bugs worked out while everybody is away, too hot, too lazy, too kidded out...Perfect!blogs

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Poor Frank...it never did have very interesting graphics...now it has this. E-Frank.

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The height of summer and all the bloggers are on vacation. Which will give me a chance to iron the kinks out of my new blog aggregator....Info-Syn.com. Everything, including the final url - likely a sub domain - is going to change. But go and kick the tires and send any suggestions along. Critically, which bloggers am I missing who I shouldn't be. I could really use help from my more leftish

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The Making of a Legend by Rod Stewart (Reader’s Digest/Dec/2004) "For me, just shaking his hand – knowing all the great musicians whose hand he’d shaken before –was mind-blowing. But so was John. Picture this elegant man with a proper English accent, never without a tie, a towering six-foot-seven. I was a huge fan and I was intimidated by his offer. Rod Stewart wasn’t in demand in those days; no

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Well, digging actually. Three people have been arrested after police raided a sophisticated tunnel intended to smuggle drugs under the U.S.-Canada border between Vancouver and Seattle, investigators said on Thursday. The smugglers spent more than a year building the 360-foot (110-meter) tunnel that ran from a Quonset hut-style storage building in the rural Aldergrove neighborhood of Langley,

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Our friends on the American Left seem to be taking London 1.5 in stride.... Atrios - nada - Rove and Roberts Kos Front Page - nada - RU-486, DeLay, Republican internal briefing memo on Roberts Others are better. But it is amazing that a blog like Kos would not have something up. Though, given the moonbat reaction to the last bombings....It's the Jews and Blair and Bush...it may also be a

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Details at Tim Worstall who links to news and blogs. This does not, at first reading, seem as serious. No deaths reported as I write. However, the co-ordination is worrying. The speculation is off to a huge start - copycat? Right wing extremists? Al-Qaeda farm team? My own speculation is that this may have been a botched set of suicide bombers. Bad explosive. After the first bombings no one

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For those of you who find Masonic symbols in your cornflakes....Check this out. (Thanks Flea)buildings

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I've had enough. I awoke today at 7am. By 7.23am I'd heard two apologias for suicide bombing. I wake to the BBC's Today programme, you see. A nice woman presenter politely thanked both apologists very much for their time. I turned off and turned on my PC. At the BBC website I find the Tory Party Vice-Chair Sayeeda Warsi saying, 'Mr Blair should negotiate with the terrorists. We need to bring

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I never thought that in the run up to the war we were discussing simply the difference between war and peace. We were discussing the difference between war and continued torture and genocide and abuse of human rights by a fascist state. I missed any sense of that complexity in the peace camp. I certainly had the feeling that whatever the strong moral arguments were for deposing Saddam, the

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The guys at Google take one more giant step for man....zoom right in heregoogle

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The UK is to set up a global database of extremists who face automatic vetting before being allowed in, Home Secretary Charles Clarke has told MPs. He said the database would list "unacceptable behaviour" such as radical preaching, websites and writing articles intended to foment terrorism. bbcOne might be forgiven for thinking that this should have been done....five years ago!

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Glenn Reynolds does an interview with J.D. Johannes of Faces From the Front. Basically, Johannes got fed up with MSM coverage of the war in Iraq and, with less than $10,000 in equipment and software, set about shooting video about a group of Reserve Marines from Kansas City. It is a pretty cool idea and it certainly represents a bit of a challenge to legacy media. Plus, Johannes gets what is

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