Texas congressman Ron Paul won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference for the second straight year and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney finished second. Paul got 30 percent of the votes cast, while Romney polled 23 percent. (Feb. 12)
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A Russian opposition leader and a dozen activists were detained by police during a protest in Moscow on Saturday. Hundreds rallied in Moscow against what they said was the Kremlin’s stifling of democracy, as well as corruption and rising prices. (Feb. 12)
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Here is a website with extensive evidence on ACU Board Member Suhail Khan’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood, as a case study. Then we have this from Pajamas Media: Suhail Khan is a member of the American Conservative Union’s board of directors. ACU hosts and operates the Conservative Political Action Committee’s annual conference, and during Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Vlad Tepes Discovery Date : 12/02/2011 23:07 Number of articles : 4
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[1] Five years ago [2], Warner Brothers was thinking of taking the cult 1980s cartoon series Thundercats and developing it for the big screen. They had a director, a script and everything. But now it’s 2011 and while there’s a brand new Thundercats television [3]series coming soon [4], the movie never saw the light of day. There’s evidence a lot of work was done on the project though. Movieline released… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 12/02/2011 22:12 Number of articles : 3
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Thousands of people gathered in Nova Friburgo’s central square on Saturday, to honour the victims of the massive landslides that killed nearly 800 people in Rio de Janeiro’s mountainous region last month. (Feb. 12)
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A wave of anti-government protests appears to be sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. It all started with Tunisia, and quickly moved to Egypt. The leaders of both those countries were forced to step down. Organisers told Al jazeera that around 10 thousand people joined the demonstrations in Algiers, the Algerian capital, including a key opposition leader. Al Jazeera’s Bhanu Bhatnagar reports.
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A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for ousted military leader Pervez Musharraf on Saturday over allegations he played a role in the 2007 assassination of an ex-prime minister and rival. (Feb. 12)
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Saeb Erekat, the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s chief negotiator, has resigned from his post after an investigation showed his office was the source of a leak. Al Jazeera published over 1600 documents, the Palestine Papers, which documented secret negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. Erekat had earlier said that he would resign if the source of the leak was found to be in his office, the Negotiations Support Unit. Al Jazeera’s Will Jordan has more.
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