Posted in May 13th, 2008
Russian based news organization Cnews is reporting that the Russia Post (Postal service) is testing Linux as their software platform for the future. Whether this is a cost control method or a strategic move has yet to be determined.
Some time ago the Russians also announced using Linux exclusively in their schools. That move though was […]
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Posted in May 12th, 2008
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End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!
End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!
The impoverished nation of The Gambia, is currently witnessing untold human rights, social and political crisis. Faced […]
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Posted in April 16th, 2008
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It’s true! Would hysterical conservatives lie to you about a Godless Muslim Koran-fondling wild man like Scary Barry? A man who doesn’t always wear a flag pin on his lapel? That was mighty careless of him. You’d think the Anti-Christ would be a little more devious than that. Since Christ was clearly a white American, […]
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Posted in April 10th, 2008
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On April 12, 1961, one of mankind’s greatest achievements occurred.
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space, carried there on a Vostok rocket.
In those days, it was an embarrassment for the United states, and led to Kennedy’s aim for the US to be first on the moon. The ultimate result of […]
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Posted in March 14th, 2008
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This article is a second release of this musing. It was published last June, but should have another revisit by Catholic readers. In light of the recently listed “sins” that include those against the environment. HJMN
There are always ways that the Catholic Church can join in the environmental movement in small but yet effective ways. […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
For some strange reason, many Germans insist upon pronouncing the words Tomb Raider as spelled above, more or less. That has nothing to do with this post, of course, but I just thought you might blike to know. No, I take that back. Now I remember. The latest news about the search for the missing and […]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
The MSM views the creation of a second Muslim state in Europe as a positive development, seeing it as a satisfyingly just conclusion to the suffering inflicted on ethnic Albanians by Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, whose repressive measures against the minority culminated in the Srebrenica massacre.
Here are a few alternative views about this legacy of […]
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Posted in February 21st, 2008
Strange, all you ever heard about over here up until now was how perfectly reliable Russian gas shipments to Germany were. But now, suddenly, for some inexplicable reason, their pipeline technology seems to have developed a few bugs.
The Russians are working hard to alleviate the problem, I’m sure, just like they did recently with Ukraine, […]
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Posted in February 4th, 2008
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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]
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Posted in February 2nd, 2008
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Autism Campaigners around the world are appealing for greater support on Autism Sunday 2008 - the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Churches of all denominations will be remembering over 60 million people worldwide who are on the autism spectrum, in prayer.Parents groups and charities have been calling for more support and better […]
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Posted in January 17th, 2008
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Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy and JESUS.
Written by David Vaughn Parry, Sr.; Illustrated by Christine Alt Parry
When I received this book, I was impressed by the balanced montage on the front cover, one that encompasses pictures of all four central characters of the text. There are whimsical pictures of Santa with […]
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Posted in January 17th, 2008
Reacting to the harsh criticism regarding the immigration rhetoric initiative set into play by her fellow conservative Roland Koch, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that all this recent talk about placing foreign delinquents in German re-education boot camps was in fact an “unfortunate misunderstanding” and that in reality, “the worthless, lawless punks will now be […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2008
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Yesterday I wrote about the changing Middle East, and wrote that Iran really did need nuclear energy to supply their people with electricity, but that the hotheads were probably trying to use the nuclear reactors to build an atomic bomb to intimidate the neighboring states.
Iran is one of the major petroleum exporters, but ironically it […]
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Posted in January 6th, 2008
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I may vote for someone I don’t like. John Edwards is a junkyard dog dressed in a collie suit. He is not a nice guy. But the last thing we need in the White House is someone likeable who lacks the savvy and ruthlessness to muscle through nice “plans.”
Behind the slick smile and underneath the […]
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Posted in January 6th, 2008
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What was the Top Weird News Story of 2007?
Vote from among the DBKP Top 44
Hard Choices: 2007 Was a Boom Year for Weirdness
What was the weirdest story in 2007?
Now, you can decide!
Vote for your Favorite Weird Story of 2007,
From the safety of what promises to be an utterly Non-weird 2008.
What was the weirdest story […]
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Posted in December 27th, 2007
Doctors without Borders has a little list, and they’re hoping someone will read it.
The Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007.
The reason why these stories are ignored are probably twofold: One, many have been going on for years, and two: They are in countries where the disasters can’t be blamed solely on America.
Number ten is […]
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Posted in December 19th, 2007
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— “Barefoot and Pregnant: The Secret Life of Hillary Clinton”
— Tim LaHaye’s latest Christian horror novel, “Kicked in the Behind”
— 2008 Swimsuit Calendar featuring Karl Rove and Fred Thompson
— Spinach Patch Doll (Aside from the green, leafy head, the manufacturer swears its adorable.)
— “Teaser: Unauthorized Biography of Ann Coulter” (She reportedly claims she would never […]
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Posted in December 11th, 2007
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For the past two weeks, the media has been full of Mugabe and Zimbabwe because the old dictator was invited to attend the European Union (EU) Summit with Africa. The invitation was issued despite Mugabe being banned from travel to the EU way back in 2002 for his disgraceful record on Human Rights. In a […]
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Posted in December 8th, 2007
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You get a strange feeling reading the different links cited in this article. See if you get the same impressions as the ones I will list. They are only impressions, not necessarily facts, but they do form a pattern.
“Haas ‘was not poisoned.’” The suspicious illness of German tennis star Tommy Hass was thus dismissed after […]
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Posted in November 11th, 2007
By Alfred and John Donovan
The Minutes of the Royal Dutch Shell Committee of Managing Directors (CMD) meeting in September 2001 reveal that the Group Managing Directors of Shell, including the current Chief Executive, Jeroen van der Veer, “expressed considerable concern over a number of aspects” relating to the prospect of the Russian energy giant Gazprom becoming […]
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Posted in November 11th, 2007
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Here’s a news story you could have missed. What happened is something of a mystery as of this writing. Maybe you can figure it out or guess the truth. Frankly, I cannot. Arguments on both sides of the controversy seem full of holes, yet obviously this either happened or it didn’t.
First, here are the facts […]
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Posted in October 28th, 2007
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Everyone should see the photograph displayed on the link in the next paragraph. When John McCain looked into Russian President Putin’s eyes, he got a different sense of the man’s soul than did President Bush. McCain said he saw three letters: K. . . G. . . B. He finally stated what is becoming obvious, […]
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Posted in October 20th, 2007
In what the White House is calling “poetic justice,” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin yesterday ate a handful of rat poison and washed it down with a gallon of antifreeze in an apparent attempt to assassinate himself.
Alert security forces responsible for the president’s safety wrestled him to the ground and rushed him to a local Moscow […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2007
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According to reports of many security firms, there appears to be one company in USSR which hosts support services for nearly half of all the Phishing scams that occur in the globe.
The Company, Russian Business Network in St. Petersburg, is considered a shelter for all illegal activities, be it child pornography, online scams, piracy or […]
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Posted in October 12th, 2007
Robert Daniels the 27 year old tuberculosis patient held for months in a room draped to block out the sun and denied appropriate treatment by sheriff Joe Arpaio. Until mounting National media pressure forced county health officials to allow travel for medical treatment in Colorado has fled to Russia, unable to “take the abuse” any more, his lawyer reported.
Declared by Maricopa county Arizona health officials to be suffering […]
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Posted in September 23rd, 2007
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The world has lost its most famous and best-loved mime.
Marcel Marceau revived the art of mime after World War II and his “Compagnie Marcel Marceau” performed as the only mime troupe glabally until the late 1960s. Many performers were influenced by Marceau and he directed the Ecole Internationale de Mime before beginning Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame in Paris in the late […]
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Posted in August 29th, 2007
Reporters Without Borders’ press release raises several concerns about the announcement of arrests in the murder last year of independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, FreeMediaOnline.org reported. We also noted that the Russian prosecutor pointed to unidentified ‘persons outside of Russia’ as the masterminds of Politkovskaya’s murder. Murders in Russia of many other independent journalists still remain […]
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Posted in August 23rd, 2007
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Breaking News:Journalist Deyda Hydara’s Killers Finally named!! Jammeh masterminds killing!!
Deyda Hydara’s Killers Finally Named-NIA Official releases scary and damning report!!
Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, Major Musa Jammeh, alias Maliamongu, Late Captain Tumbul Tamba and Lieutenant Kawsu Camara, alias Bombaredeh killed Deyda Hydara-NIA operative alleges!!
“President Jammeh ordered the murder of Hydara.”
“Shortly before Deyda was killed, a planned […]
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Posted in August 15th, 2007
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Today, The Washington Post published a major news story reporting that: -
“The United States has decided to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a ‘specially designated global terrorist,’ according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group’s business operations and finances”.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401662.html?hpid=topnews
As the Revolutionary Guard is […]
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Posted in August 13th, 2007
By John Donovan: 13 August 2007
PREFACE: The article below was supplied to the high command of the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell plc this morning including its Chief Executive, Jeroen van der Veer, its Chairman, Jorma Ollila and the Chief Executive of Shell Exploration & Production, Malcolm Brinded.
The invitation with the article contained the […]
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