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With the elections over, one would think that there wouldn’t be much politics in the headlines. False. Investigation information finds over the Jill Kelley scandal are being released and The Weekly Standard is keeping everyone updated. Check out what else is going on around the world.

This blog categorizes itself by different countries around the world and gives you the latest breaking news in the country of your choice. Whether you want to know what is going on in Darfur or North Korea, they have it all.

Like the United States, India also experiencing a recession that needs to be examined. This blog brings India’s recession situation into light and covers topics that need to be addressed. Find more information on India and what is going on with the economy.

Is Newt Gingrich's WWIII declaration real or just good old politics?

Newt Gingrich's declaration on Meet the Press that World War III has already started, brought a quick demurral from Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), who was also a guest on the show. According to Jay Bryant, though, Newt is Right: It's World War III, Yahoo News.

From a long post refuting Alvin Plantiga's refutation of the Dover School Board decision on Intelligent Design.

But there is something even more insidious implied here. Plantinga suggests that the judge legislated that “the scientific community has successfully refuted the criticism of unguided evolution brought by the IDers” and this is utterly false. The judge did not ‘legislate’ this conclusion at all. What he did was summarize the general consensus within the scientific community. Intelligent Design has very very little support within science, so, in fact, if it is a question for science then ID has lost and lost catastrophically. This much is obvious to anyone who bothers to actually take a look. What is insidious in Plantinga’s argument is the suggestion that the judge did not have the right to do this, that the judge was not qualified, somehow, to take the advice of experts.

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Tony Juniper began by putting the demonstration in context, noting Blair's recent change of heart, away from international emissions targets and towards voluntary technology uptake, revealed in comments to Condoleeza Rice at the Clinton Global Initiative two months ago (this contradicts my post of Tuesday, but I think Juniper is right on this). You can get more of Tony Juniper's view in his piece in the Guardian yesterday.

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According to Braverman, who held a number of positions at the World Bank, Israel needs to adopt the social democratic outlook of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, the American concepts of the Constitution and free enterprise, and the socio-economic policies of Sweden and Finland.