I love Guangzhou, really….But, I don’t like travelling near the expat’ district. It is rife with professional beggars, fake watch hawkers, DVD pirates, and young boys throwing fist-fulls of massage parlor adverts into your cab window. I did happen to have to cross a pedestrian bridge–I should have braved the traffic instead–near this combat zone [...]

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I had a very interesting conversation with someone that works in this arena as an attorney. I will not reveal his name, but if you are a regular reader of this news source it probably would not take an IQ of 150 to figure it out! However it was not part of our planned interview [...]

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You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but you can tell a lot from what comments make it on the back of the book. So it is with New York Times bestseller The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Observe the following review from Philip Pullman: “Many religious leaders are men who, it’s obvious to [...]

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According to the article excerpted below, it is the fault of white Australians. No mention that large numbers of Australian blacks (Aborigines) destroy their own health from childhood on. As kids, many sniff dangerous substances for the “high” and as adults many spend most of their days blasted out of their brains with alcohol. In [...]

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The Brides of DraculaOriginally intended as a sequel into Hammer’s first foray into fangdom, The Horrors of Dracula, the studio ran into a snag when their original Duke of Doom refused to reprise his role. (Some rumors say Christopher Lee flat out refused, other say that Hammer Studios feared he would demand more money.) So [...]

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Mercury in fish is now recognized as a major health threat, especially for children, but surveys show that only about two-thirds of the public know which fish are high in mercury. The EPA and FDA issued a joint advisory in 2004, warning women of childbearing age, expecting and nursing mothers and young children to not [...]

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Following up on my earlier article about the IPCC reducing their estimate of the human impact on climate change comes this incredible report entitled “Livestock’s long shadow” by the LEAD (Livestock, Environment and Development) Initiative, which is supported by the World Bank, the EU, various government minstries and departments in Europe and the US, and [...]

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According to an article in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper, the upcoming report from the IPCC (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) will reduce its estimate of the human effect on climate change by 25% and cut in half their estimate of the maximum rise in sea levels which climate change could cause. The changes are [...]

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Another Democrat has thrown his hat into the ring for his party’s presidential nomination in 2008. CNN.com is reporting that Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2004, is planning another run because he doesn’t think his party is trying hard enough to end the war in Iraq. One move he says he [...]

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A woman from Australia who allegedly stalking American Idol 3 runner up Diana DeGarmo pleaded guilty today to blackmail and stalking. According to reports, 20-year-old Tanya Maree Quattrocchi tried to extort the 19-year-old singer, telling DeGarmo she’d leave her alone for $15,000 to $25,000.     DeGarmo told The Age, a newspaper in Australia, that Quattrocchi’s [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer The big news story today is that 67 “foreign researchers” from 30 countries are meeting today and tomorrow in Tehran to discuss the Holocaust. The conference was organized by the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies at the request, no doubt, of Iran’s President Mahmoud [...]

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Snopes.com has a sequence of photographs that show some bad guys scamming a good citizen out of his ATM card and his pin number. Then a sequence of photos that show how it was done. Check it out One way to stay on top of scams and learn how the bad guys are evolving their [...]

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the so-called ‘moderate’ Muslim organization and advisor to the Bush Administration and Washington bureaucats on Muslim/non-Muslim relations, has shown its true colors again. Not that it’s the first time. Anti-CAIR has been exposing CAIR’s radical agenda for years. But now even the Administration has to see that CAIR’s recent communiqué [...]

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In “First in Second Life“, Crain’s Detroit Business reports that the Leo Burnett Detroit ad-agency is among the first to launch an ad-campaign within the virtual world of Second Life. In Second Life — a game with 1.7 million users (and growing) — players create characters (who may or may not be very much like [...]

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by Allan Doherty A MLB team should secure one of the biggest names and best performing pitchers in the game with $16M. On the surface, that was achieved with the weekend agreement between former Astros pitcher Andy Pettitte and the New York Yankees. But, did the Yankees once again pay too much for a pitcher [...]

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Quasi-News & Commentary by Wordworks2001 The four expatriate hostages taken during an attack on the Brass River Oil Terminal last Thursday, will be spending Christmas with their Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) captors, according to an email statement Reuters received from the shadowy group today. “After this week, we intend to [...]

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… someday, but here goes: I love to read the Weekly World News, and I’d drop everything and move to Florida to write for them without a second thought if the opportunity ever came along. Is there any other publication on earth with so much seditious energy? If so, I don’t know of it. They [...]

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If you, like myself, are among the few people left who seriously want the United States to win the war in Iraq, it’s becoming harder and harder to crawl out of bed each morning not feeling like a nattering nabob of negativism. I don’t mean that infamous alliterative string of verbiage in the same sense [...]

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A leaked document from the NYPD might actually make the Bell shooting more, not less, murky. Up until now, the story that made the most sense was that cops were undercover at a strip club and believed three men were about to do something violent. They followed the suspects to a car. One officer tried [...]

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During the Katrina and Rita disasters, I blogged frequently about what appeared to massive amounts of fraud going on. Reuters is now reporting that the dollar loss has topped 1 Billion dollars, here. From government employees to fake charities, it appears a lot of people took advantage of those less fortunate than them in their [...]

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I am sending out a salute for the creativity and wry sense of humor displayed by the Young Conservatives at the University of Texas for their spoof of the ACLU’s war on Christmas. As the ACLU has donned their crusaders dunce caps, the Young Conservatives have set to skewer them on a lance of parody [...]

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Whenever the EU bureaucracy revolts (and it has always been revolting, of course), it tries to be more revolting than it was the last time. And this time it has gotten just about as revolting as it can get. Germany’s European commissioner, Günter Verheugen is now facing calls to resign after photographs showing him naked [...]

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Those of us who care about peace are well aware of the not permitted words — Nazi, Apartheid, etc. in describing some of the tactics that Israel has adopted to control its occupied territories. Sad this is. I all too well recall the Israeli scholar defending “preventive detention” as an Israeli tactic at the Columbia [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect The Bangladeshi banker who established the practice of making small, unsecured loans to the very poor, has warned that the globalised economy is becoming a dangerous “free-for-all highway”.“Its lanes will be taken over by the giant trucks from powerful economies,” Muhammad Yunus said [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect According to a study by a researcher at Yale University, carbon dioxide emissions will play a vital role in present-day global warming, just as they had around 55 million years ago. Mark Pagani, associate professor of geology and geophysics at Yale, who conducted [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect A CENSUS of the world’s oceans has made a host of new discoveries, stretching the frontiers of mankind’s marine knowledge. About 150 breeds of fish were among 500 new marine species, including furry crabs, found in the seas this year. An international team [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Condoms designed to meet international sizes are too big for most Indian men, a two-year Indian study has found. The study, co-ordinated by a leading state-run centre, found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international [...]

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I can’t help but wonder what students such a school would serve?  Presumably if Columbia is going to locate several thousand faculty and technicians in biotech to that locale, most, perhaps all of the students included in such a school would be those of Columbia personnel — also lifting the burden also of the shortage [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  Prof Ananda M. Chakrabarty — the scientist who fought a long legal battle to patent the first living organism — has his way, we could soon have a bacteria drug that can fight HIV and cancer. In three years time, I can have [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  Former players were united in blaming selection controversies and poor attitude of the players for India’s worst-ever men’s hockey performance at the Asian Games.The former champions did not qualify for the semi-finals in the Qatari capital on Sunday, the first time that they [...]

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I can’t help but wonder what students such a school would serve?  Presumably if Columbia is going to locate several thousand biotech faculty and technicians in lower West Harlem, most, perhaps all of the students included in such a school would be those of Columbia personnel — also lifting the burden of the shortage of [...]

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While the old species that we have been studying slowly move into extinction, there are new species that are being discovered. Many species, especially those in the most northern cold regions, are dying off. Those who are south of that are moving up farther north. According to the Associated Press: While over the past several [...]

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