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The Inbox Stuffer: Five Articles To Read Over the Holidays

Delia Lloyd | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Inbox Stuffers, Anne Patchett, Pavel Somov, A Christmas Carol, Green, Naughties, Gordon Brown, Walter Kirn, Recommended Reading, British Politics, Decade Review, Druids, Winter Solstice, Living News
Delia Lloyd

In an information age it's so much more useful (not to mention fun) to expand our loved one's minds - rather than their cupboards - by sending them a list of our favorite readings.

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A Clear Agenda for Reform in 2010

Gordon Brown | Posted 12.23.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, World Economy, International Institutions, Copenhagen 2009, Globalization, Banking Crisis, Climate Change, Imf, Un, Copenhagen, World News
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As the balance of economic power changes over the next two decades, new and stronger power-brokers may be less willing to embrace change. We must avoid this race to the bottom. Here is how.

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Gordon Brown Pushes For Gay Rights Across The EU

BBC News | Posted 12.15.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Europe, Gay Rights, European Union, Gordon Brown Gay Rights, Gays, Gays Europe, Gay Marriage, World News

Gordon Brown is pushing for British civil partnerships to be recognised across the EU - including Eastern Europe, he has told Attitude magazine....

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Drug Money Saved Banks Last Year, Says U.N. Drug And Crime Czar

The Observer | Rajeev Syal | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Gordon Brown, Drug Trafficking, Antonio Maria Costa, Organized Crime, Un Office on Drugs and Crime, Financial Crisis, Barack Obama, Business News

Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar ha...

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Gordon Brown: Son's Rogue Tweet Taught Him A 'Big Lesson'

Telegraph | Urmee Khan and Kate Devlin | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown Twitter, Prime Minister Son, Gordon Brown Son, Gordon Brown Internet Supervision, Technology News

A rogue tweet by Gordon Brown's three-year-old son taught him "a big lesson" about the importance of parental supervision when it comes to the interne...

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France To Follow Suit On Britain's Bank Bonus Tax (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 12.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Gordon Brown, Windfall Tax, France, Bank Bonus Tax, Angela Merkel, Dylan Ratigan, Bank Bonuses, Nicolas Sarkozy, Financial Crisis, Business News

France is looking to match Britain's decision yesterday to impose a one-time 50% windfall tax on bank bonuses, French government officials said today....

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The Consequences of Climategate

Janet Ritz | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Political News, Recession, United Nations, Economy, Climategate, Drought, Copenhagen, Green News, Ipcc, World News, Global Warming, Gordon Brown, University of East Anglia, Climate Change, Politics, Refugees, Copenhagen 2009, Green News
Janet Ritz

At what point, when we're dealing with wars over resources and the growing chasm between rich and poor leading to political upheaval, will these skeptics step back and say: oops?

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Downing Tweet Parties to Support Maternal Mortality Campaign

Sarah Brown | Posted 12.05.2009 | Technology

Read More: Million Mums, Gordon Brown, Beverley Knight, Twitter, #DowningTweet, Downingtweet, Biz Stone, Wraglobal, Technology News
Sarah Brown

The inaugural #DowningTweet party brought together Twitter users with the desire to stop the scandal of a woman dying every minute of every day from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications.

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Gordon Brown Slams Climate-Change Skeptics As 'Anti-Science, Flat-Earthers'

Daily Telegraph | James Kirkup and Louise Gray | Posted 12.05.2009 | Green

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The Prime Minister launched an outspoken attack on climate-change sceptics amid growing signs of public doubts about the scientific and political cons...

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Yousaf Raza Gilani, Pakistan PM, Says Bin Laden Not In Pakistan

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER and GREGORY KATZ | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Gilani, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Osama Bin Laden Pakistan, Pakistan, Bin Laden, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Osama Bin Laden, World News

LONDON — Pakistan's prime minister on Thursday defended his country's efforts in fighting terrorism, saying he didn't believe Osama bin Laden wa...

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Reese, Renee, Whatever: Gordon Brown Confuses Leading Ladies

AP | Posted 12.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gordon Brown, Renee Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon, Entertainment News

LONDON — When it comes to Hollywood stars, Britain's prime minister can't tell a Reese from a Renee. Gordon Brown was asked in the House of Com...

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Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, Mocks Rival David Cameron's Eton Past (VIDEO)

timesonline.co.uk | Philip Webster, Political Editor | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, House of Commons, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, David Cameron, England, Eton, World News

Gordon Brown produced his most combative Commons performance for many months today as he mocked David Cameron as a smooth-talking PR man who dreamt up...

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Gordon Brown Confirms 500 Extra British Troops For Afghanistan

Posted 11.30.2009 | World

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The Prime Minister announced today that Britain's total military effort in Afghanistan will increase to more than 10,000 troops. In a detailed Comm...

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Commonwealth Leaders Call For Ambitious, "Legally Binding" Climate Change Deal

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Gordon Brown, Commonwealth Countries, Stephen Harper, Manmohan Singh, Commonwealth Climate Change, Climate Change Summit, Ban Ki-Moon, Kevin Rudd, Lars Loekke Rasmussen, Global Fund, Commonwealth Leaders, Copenhagen, Nicolas Sarkozy, Green News

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change ...

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Politicians Who Look Like Turkeys (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Gordon Brown, Slidepoll, Harry Reid, Turkey Politics, Edward Nalban, Thanksgiving, Mitch McConnell, Bill Bradley, Thanksgiving Jokes, Thanksgiving Humor, Chris Dodd, Politicians Turkeys, Political Turkeys, John McCain, Turkeys, Politicians Who Look Like Turkeys, People Who Look Like Turkeys, Politicians, Comedy News

Is it just us, or is the political scene overrun by guys who look like turkeys? It's probably just us, but we thought we'd compile our favorites. ...

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The White Man's Handshake

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Great Britain, World News
Eric Margolis

Of course Afghanistan is corrupt, like all third world nations, but compared to his western critics, poor Hamid Karzai is a mere beggar in the Kabul bazaar.

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Iraq War Inquiry Begins In Britain: Tony Blair Will Be Witness

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Uk Military, Uk, George Bush, White House, Michael Howard, Wmd, Britain, US Military, 10 Downing Street, mi5, George W. Bush, London, Barack Obama, Peter Ricketts, Foreign Policy, Gordon Brown, Iraq War, Sir John Chilcot, Downing Street, Nato, Baghdad, Iraq, Dossier, World News

LONDON — An inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration...

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Pop Star Joss Stone Under Attack for Marijuana Comment

Mason Tvert | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Marijuana Legalization, United Kingdom, Marijuana, Joss Stone, Alcohol, Gordon Brown, Cannabis, Medical Research Counsel, Medical Marijuana, David Nutt, Safer, Entertainment News
Mason Tvert

Stone is not alone in her belief that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. She has some pretty solid back-up among the UK's scientific community.

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Brown: NATO Troop Increase For Afghanistan Possible

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

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LONDON — Britain's prime minister says NATO nations may contribute 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan – offering key backing as the U.S. dec...

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Gordon Brown, British PM, Faces "Bullying" From British News Corp Paper The Sun

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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Gordon Brown's poor spelling and awkward telephone manner may have won him sympathy this week, as the British public begins to feel sorry for a prime ...

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Brown Apologizes After Misspelling Name Of Dead Soldier In Letter To His Mother

Guardian | Adam Gabbatt | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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Gordon Brown has apologised to the mother of a dead serviceman who took offence after he sent her a handwritten letter of condolence that misspelled h...

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Bank Tax: Geithner And U.K.'s Gordon Brown Face Off On Bank Transaction Tax At G20 Meeting

Times Online | By Suzy Jagger | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Gordon Brown, Bank Tax, U.K., Tim Geithner, Stimulus, g20, Bank Transaction Tax, Saint Andrews Scotland, Business News

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner clashed over potential taxes on bank transactio...

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Parliamentarians for Pneumonia

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Carol Shea-Porter, Gordon Brown, Bill Frist, Des Turner, Pneumonia, Bangladesh, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Pneumococcal Vaccine, Treatment, GAVI Alliance, Save the Children, Child Survival, Vaccines, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

More importantly than events in Washington and London, for the first time ever, parliaments in developing countries, where the bulk of pneumonia deaths occur, were active locally on World Pneumonia Day.

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Brown: British Troops Will Be Removed If Afghanistan Does Not Tackle Corruption

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

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LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington's closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan...

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Gordon Brown: Murdoch's Sun Trying To "Become A Political Party"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Gordon Brown, The Sun, The Sun Labour, James Murdoch, Labour Party, Gordon Brown the Sun, Media News

Another international leader has come out attacking a Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlet as a political operative. As the White House continues its wa...

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