Historian and professor of Islamic studies at the University of London’s Birkbeck College, Basheer Nafi, puts the Egyptian protests in the following context:My feeling is that we are witnessing a second wave of the Arab liberation movement … In the …
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Historian: The First Wave of the Arab Liberation Movement Was Against Colonial Domination; The Second is for More Democracy, Freedom and Human Rights
January 31st, 2011 |
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Belgrade to host Non-Aligned Movement jubilee
December 24th, 2010 |
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The Non-Aligned Movement will officially celebrate its 50th anniversary next year in Belgrade, where the first summit of the non-aligned countries was held.
The Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau has decided to hold the official meeting in the first week of September in Belgrade.
Self-Determination activists arrested
November 29th, 2010 |
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Three activists of the radical ethnic Albanian Self-Determination Movement have been arrested in Kosovo, said reports. This movement stated that the police in Lipljan, near Priština, had arrested three of its activists while they were replacing the Kosovo flag with the national flags of Albania.
Welcome to the tea party
September 15th, 2010 |
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Who supports the tea-party movement?
ON SEPTEMBER 14th tea-party conservatives struck another blow to the Republican establishment when Christine O’Donnell defied expectations to win the Republican Delaware Senate primary, beating Mike Castle, a nine-term Republican congressman. The tea-party candidate may also secure the nomination for the New Hampshire Senate seat as counting continued on September 15th, and Carl Paladino was victorious in the New York governorship nomination against the party’s experienced candidate. A recent poll by YouGov for The Economist suggests that the movement’s supporters are older, whiter, richer and far more likely to be Republican than Democrat.
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Self-Determination opposes talks
September 14th, 2010 |
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Supporters of the ethnic Albanian radical movement Self-Determination wrote “No to negotiations, self-determination” on the Kosovo government building. The movement is campaigning against the announced dialogue between PriÅ¡tina and Belgrade.
Technology and protest: A town crier in the global village
September 2nd, 2010 |
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A cross-border fraternity that strives to be seen, heard and heeded
NEARLY four years ago, a web-based political movement set itself the modest task of “closing the gap between the world we have and world most people everywhere want”. Calling their group Avaaz, which means “voice” in several languages, the founders aimed to reproduce globally some of the success which their progenitors—like America’s Moveon.org, and Australia’s Getup!—had enjoyed in national political arenas.
By its own lights, the movement, using 14 languages and engaged in a mind-boggling list of causes, has had some spectacular successes. Within the next few months, membership will top 6m. The number of individual actions taken (from bombarding a politician with a well-aimed message, or funding a poster campaign, to helping provide satellite phones to Burmese monks) is estimated at over 23m. Among the recent developments Avaaz claims to have influenced are a new anti-corruption law in Brazil; a move by Britain to create a marine-conservation zone in the Indian Ocean; and the spiking of a proposal to allow more hunting of whales. …
Non-Aligned to meet in Belgrade
July 30th, 2010 |
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The Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau has decided to hold two summits on the occasion of the movement’s 50th anniversary.
One of the meetings will be organized in Belgrade.
Intel Supercomputer Tracks Movement of BP Oil Spill
July 12th, 2010 |
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An Intel supercomputer, “Encanto,” is helping researchers track the direction of the oil spewing from the massive BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. – Some of the oil from the massive BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico will
migrate around the tip of Florida and make its way up the East Coast,
according to the calculations from a supercomputer at an Intel campus
in New Mexico.
The Intel supercomputer, powered by 3,500 quad-core
Xeon processors, ha…
Radical ethnic Albanian leader arrested
June 13th, 2010 |
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Self-Determination Movement leader Albin Kurti was arrested at the movement’s headquarters in PriÅ¡tina, according to Kosovo police, KPS. Kurti will be on trial for the organization’s protests organized on February 10, 2007 in PriÅ¡tina, in which two protesters were killed and 80 people were injured after UNMIK forces intervened in the protest.
Sejdiu sees “movement” from 5 EU states
March 19th, 2010 |
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Kosovo Albanian President Fatmir Sejdiu has said that the five EU countries that do not recognize Kosovo are “moving” on the issue. Greece is especially “positively moving†toward recognition of Kosovo, he was quoted as saying.
NoSQL Database Movement Gains Ground as Alternative
March 19th, 2010 |
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Recent announcements from Twitter and Digg.com underscore the growing awareness of NoSQL databases as an alternative to relational database management systems. But just what the future holds for NoSQL is an open question.
– The buzz around the NoSQL movement in the past year has grown
considerably, to the point where advocates organized a one-day conference in
Boston
just last week
to discuss its future.
Recent announcements
from Twitter and Digg.com supporting a NoSQL approach added fuel to this
buzz, and wh…
PriÅ¡tina: Radical movement in “poster campaign”
February 9th, 2010 |
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Radical ethnic Albanian Self-Determination Movement has started a campaign asking for “justice for two of its killed members”. According to reports, PriÅ¡tina is plastered with posters of Mon Balaj and Arben Dzeladini, who were killed in a clash with UNMIK police on February 10, 2007.
“Same Wahhabi movement in Serbiaâ€
February 3rd, 2010 |
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Wahhabis from Gornja MaoÄa in Bosnia are linked to those in Novi Pazar, in Serbia’s Sandžak area, says Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić. “It is the same movement that has appeared in the region after the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina,†according to Laljić.
Pakistan government seeks ban on A.Q. Khan’s free movement
January 19th, 2010 |
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The Pakistani government Tuesday sought a ban on the free movement of Abdul Qadeer Khan, who mentored the country’s nuclear programme and was then accused of proliferating nuclear secrets abroad.
In a petition filed in the Lahore High Court Tuesday, the government said Khan’s free movement should be banned as he was a threat to national [...]
The Red Cross movement: How much evil can you not see?
December 10th, 2009 |
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Impartiality is still the best policy, a giant humanitarian network says
AS EVERY student of warfare knows, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is staunchly, and at times controversially, neutral. Its work as a guardian of the laws governing conflict has obliged it to deal with all manner of bad people, including the Nazis.
Less well known, probably, is the neutral tradition of the other wing of the Red Cross movement, which is much larger: the network of humanitarian volunteers in 186 countries which offers medical aid and practical help to victims of disaster, both natural and man-made. But the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), whose leaders met in Nairobi last month, is adamant that impartiality has served it well, and worked to the advantage of the people it succours. …
Lagrangian coherent structures: The skeleton of water
November 12th, 2009 |
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Research is revealing a hidden structure within liquids and gases that guides the movement of everything from pollution to aeroplanes
THE connection between an 18th-century savant called Joseph-Louis Lagrange and the problem of landing safely at Hong Kong International Airport may not, at first, be obvious. But there is one. Hong Kong airport is notorious for rocky and sometimes aborted landings caused by the disturbed air flow from nearby mountains. Though laser technology is deployed alongside its runways to monitor changes in wind speed and thus forewarn pilots, that is often not enough. What is needed is a better understanding of the theory of the winds themselves.
And this is where Lagrange comes in. He was a pioneer of the study of moving fluids (among many other things), but his ideas outran the computational tools of his day. Only now, with supercomputers available to help with the calculations, is it possible to explore those ideas completely. What is emerging is a picture of fluid dynamics more subtle and more complex than anything dreamed of even a decade ago. The atmosphere and the ocean are, it seems, dominated by invisible barriers that have come to be known as Lagrangian coherent structures. They govern the movement of everything from the trajectories of aircraft to the distribution of pollution, the migration of jellyfish and the tracks taken by hurricanes. They are, as it were, the skeletons of the sea and the air. …
Weapons uncovered at house of 1389 member
September 25th, 2009 |
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The police have found illegal weapons at the flat of MiÅ¡a VaÄić, a spokesman for the 1389 Movement, B92 understands. The public prosecution has filed a motion calling for a ban of the ultra right-wing organizations, Obraz and 1389.