Last summer, Bruno the bear decided to stroll from Italy into Bavaria, to the delight of city living European conservationists. He became the first bear spotted in that area since 1835. However, Bruno didn’t recognize that certain foods weren’t supposed to be on his menu, so did what bears tend to do: kill domestic animals. [...]

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Although the threats from AlQaeda have decreased somewhat in the last year, the military and the NPA (communists) still shoot each other or perform “extrajudicial killings” of various sorts. These various sorts include killing opponents, arresting prominent opposition senators for twenty year old murders, and of course blowing up electric and telephone towers when those [...]

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Peace In Our Time Iran is scaring the Saudis so much they are trying to get the Palestinians to make peace with Israel: Under the plan, Arab nations would recognise Israel if Israel withdrew from all territories occupied in the 1967 war…which also allows for the creation of a Palestinian state and the return of [...]

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Breaking News:Foreign Investors to Leave Gambia-As gov’t announces 50% new tax regime! By Landing Badjie,Our National Correspondent Trade Minister Abdou Kolley The Gambia government and her people stand to lose millions of dalasis in revenue if the threat by foreign investors to leave the country is any guide.Some Gambian investors have also threatened to close [...]

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Breaking News:Senegalese Custom Officers Finally Get Respite,As Court Releases Them On Bail! By Landing Badjie, Our National Correspondent The five Senegalese custom officers who were reportedly intercepted in the Gambian territorial waters with firearms were today granted bail but would return to the Kanifing Magistrates` Court for the continuation of their trial. The men have, [...]

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For once, the Bush Administration (note: without Rumsfeld) may actually be doing something right. Sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military pressure are all pushing the right buttons. The push for sanctions at the U.N. shows that the world is united against Iran’s nuclear program. Of course the sanctions will never make life horrible, but will be [...]

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While speaking at the Communication Workers of America Legislative Conference, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barrack Obama (D-IL) said that the Bush and administration pursues a policy that leaves regular men and women struggling to make ends meet. Obama called this policy, “social Darwinism.”

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I believe it was the inimitable Zsa Zsa Gabor that came out with the great phrase “There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”. Ms Gabor should be glad that she was not mentioned in Schmucks! Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder have created a wonderfully irreverent, [...]

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United States Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has stayed the deportation of Mr. Mohiuddin Ahmed, a former Bangladeshi diplomat who lives in Southern California. A Bangladeshi court convicted Mohiuddin Ahmed of participating in the 1975 assassination of that country’s leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Mr.Ahmed’s lawyer’s last minute frantic efforts secured the stay order. In [...]

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On Monday President Bush met with automakers and praised ethanol and biodiesel, while trying to drum up support for his energy plan. He called on automakers to double their production of flex fuel vehicles.

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Autism Campaigners are calling on the DfES to act on the bullying of autistic children in primary and secondary schools. According to parents, autistic children not only suffer bullying but have been excluded through ‘internal exclusions’ and ‘indirect exclusions’ with the onus on the autistic child rather than the bully. There have been instances of [...]

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Condi Rice in my opinion is doing nothing to help the Israeli situation at all. It appears that all she has become is a conduit for the Palestinians. I get that Israel wants peace and is brokering at the expense of the state and their own citizenry unfortunately. But in a way I cannot blame [...]

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Recently on the Public Radio program Open Source, Christopher Lydon did a show on Iraqi Kurdistan, or, as it’s PR campaign calls it, “the other Iraq”. You can listen to the show and read the show notes here on Radio Open Source. He interviewed Qubad Talabani, Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States [...]

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News Item: Actor Sean Penn speaks at anti-war rally Sean Penn was the celebrity draw at a town hall meeting in San Francisco last night, with hundreds in attendence.  He was joined by Representative Barbara Lee of Oakland before the boistrous 800 or so supporters. Uhh… wait… back up – The official count by organizers [...]

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PANORAMA with ‘Bulfaaleh’-Lang Tombong’s narrow escape. Tape recorder and Ndure Cham’s nephew. Lang Tombong a friend or a foe for President Jammeh? Former COS Ndure Cham’s nephew a soldier was planted at the state house in favour of his uncle and who else? This soldier who many call Ndure Cham’s nephew was planted at the state [...]

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PANORAMA with ‘Bulfaaleh’-Essa Gibba,Mod Lamin Jarju DIG-NIA,Lang Tombong-Cold Serial Killers! Who is Alhaji Essa Gibba? Alhaji Essa Gibba was born in the village of Ndemban The Gambia West Africa. He was a mediocre student. Later on he disappeared for a while from the country.He was one of those who escaped from home only to be [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Europe is in a life or death struggle with Islam and Denmark and the Netherlands along with Great Britain are on point and multiculturalism is the jihadist’s weapon of choice. First the Netherlands. Dutch politicians and media are downplaying excesses of multicultural society and thereby increasing these, in the view [...]

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(*Warning. The normally high standards of this column have been temporarily lowered in order to deal with an odious subject matter.) Just when you think that band of washed up hippie leftists and America-hating reprobates known as the “peace” movement can’t get any more offensive, along comes one individual to lower the standards for human [...]

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On March 18th, the New York Times published a piece titled “The Women’s War”. It was a feature of great length (18 pages on the Internet) centered around the plight of several female Veterans of the war in Iraq. It detailed the mistreatment they suffered by the US Military, sexual harassment they received at the [...]

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You don’t ever want to get sentenced to five life sentences in Germany. It could cost you up to twenty-four years of your life (you do the math). The German penal system, feared the world over for its severity and heartlessness, has decided not to make an exception with the Baader-Meinhof Gang member/RAF terrorist Brigitte [...]

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I received several emails after my last post on China CEO expressing interest in helping put together a text on grass roots business leaders in China. We would tell their stories complete with insights as to how to succeed in small to medium ventures in the Middle Kingdom. If you know if an expatrepreneur that [...]

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The Pain Relief Network (PRN) has questioned whether Anna Nicole’s Autopsy Report was correct in finding she deceased due to a common sleeping pill overdose and possibly complications from an infection. Members of the organsation HARMD (Helping America Reduce Methadone Deaths) are also incredulous at the coroner’s claim that because methadone had not been recently [...]

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[Hebron is a West Bank Palestinian city of constant conflicts between a small Jewish settlement located in its midst which divides the Palestinian community into unequal halves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron Tensions abide there daily. The Christian Peacemaker Teams do what they can to moderate these with periodic reports such as that following this excerpt from the Wiki [...]

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