‘It was a humiliating experience. And how can a graduation speech be this political?’ said a UPenn student, taking issue with Biden’s comment that China cannot ‘think different’
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The US fuelled the dispute about a lot of islands in the China Sea by cleverly backing opposing claims from several nations. Now these nations are fighting amongst themselves while the US watches and laughs.
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People who post offensive messages on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter should face criminal charges only if their comments are harassing or threatening and not simply in bad taste, according to new legal guidelines in Britain that follow a spate of controversial prosecutions.
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Merkel and Putin have long had a contentious relationship, unlike Putin’s chummy ties with former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who joined Nord Stream, a Gazprom-led pipeline project, upon leaving office in 2005.
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International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has issued a statement clarifying comments with regards to Greeks not paying taxes after her Facebook page was bombarded with negative comments from irate Greeks and the country’s political parties slammed her assessment.
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He was arrested on Friday and charged over the weekend.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “He didn’t make his point very well and that is why he has landed himself in bother.”
Ahmed has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence and will appear at Dewsbury Magistrates Court on 20 March 2011.
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The conversation started after Greg Gutfeld used one of his patented analogies to compare Mitt Romney to a can of beer (it kind of made sense in context). The conversation then turned to what alcoholic drink Paul would be. “It’s crazy, whatever it is,” said Eric Bolling. “It makes you crazy.”
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ABC News’s Jake Tapper took White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to task over a comment Vice President Joe Biden made to Newsweek, saying “the Taliban per se is not our enemy.
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The days of internet anonymity are waning as the veil of privacy that used to accompany making comments on articles and blogs is a thing of the past. (Duh!)
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