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...bash these folks too hard. Before unveiling the creation, Moore explained her purpose to a crowd of eager do-gooders: "With this ... I think that we try to plant a seed in hopes of sparking a desire for all of you to give your pledge." Not good enough? There's more. The video, complete with a Michael Jackson-style note - "You are not alone!" - at the beginning, will be presented to Obama during the Inaugural festivities. Much like the call-to-action videos of campaign yesteryear, Moore asks others to post their own videos and add to Eva Longoria Parker...
...Brown and Darling gathered on Monday to unleash a slew of new schemes, the stakes for the Prime Minister - and the British economy as a whole - could scarcely have been higher. Central to those plans is the creation of a bumper insurance scheme that will permit banks to buy cover against losses on bad loans in the hopes that this will encourage banks to start lending to Britain's cash-strapped companies and consumers. Also announced: a $74 billion scheme allowing the Bank of England - Britain's lender of last resort - to buy high-quality assets directly from financial institutions...
...Bush Administration's strategy for Afghanistan was largely defined by its absence of one. Once the Taliban were defeated, U.S. troops remained here in a mostly counterterrorism capacity that ultimately proved self-defeating. Terrorists cannot be wiped out if the factors that lead to the creation of new terrorists - indoctrination, fear, poverty and lack of education, foreign influences and sanctuaries across the border - are not also eliminated. Despite a steady increase of troops in Afghanistan from both the U.S. and NATO, the Taliban insurgency, all but defeated in 2001, has grown in strength and capacity. More of the same...
...creation of a "Ministry of Immigration and National Identity", for example, was applauded by rightists and deplored on the left with equal vigor - and for the same reason: the notion that safeguarding French identity is directly tied to controlling foreigners coming to France...
There's no such thing as balancing the truth. It's a well-done straw man, probably a creation of marketers, not journalists. If a fact is staring you in the face, you don't balance a fact with a non-fact...