There’s a minor kerfluffle on the blogs about the BBC refusing to air a film about a heroic medic who served in Iraq. For the BBC, however, his story is “too positive” about the conflict.The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain’s youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it [...]

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Ah, look at all the lonely people. The “flip side” of a culture where independence and freedom is valued is…loneliness. Second life, for those of you who have a life, is a fantasy world where you can choose what you look like and meet virtual people. In someways, it’s like the board game “Life”, where [...]

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buySAFE bonds sellers after verifying they are reputable and honest. They also contribute their time to protecting the average person in the sometimes murky waters of e-commerce. Most recently, buySAFE has been taking on the (huge) issue of counterfeit merchandise. Consumers are protected when they buy from a merchant bearing the buySAFE seal. Not a [...]

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Evidently, while visiting the White House to give the President of the United States a full demo of Ford’s new hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid, Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s fast action prevented Dick Cheney from becoming our 44th President. As Bush, extension cord in hand, stepped to the hydrogen port at the rear of the vehicle instead [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders The headlines that followed last Thursday’s daylong NYU conference, “Alger Hiss and History,” focused on author Kai Bird’s claim that “new evidence” suggested that U.S. diplomat Wilder Foote—not Alger Hiss—had spied for the Soviets under the code name ALES in the 1930s and 1940s. A widely-distributed Associated Press story on the conference [...]

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To no one’s surprise, Iran has denied that it mistreated the 15 British military personnel it held hostage for nearly two weeks. A spokesman for Iran’s president said such claims were “lies” and that the claims of abuse were made “under pressure” from British intelligence forces. The British crew members were seized two weeks ago [...]

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[Anyone who has lived in Britain is aware of the ethnic self-centeredness of the English. I say English because those who live south of Scotland, east of Wales, or as Prods in North Ireland believe that they are somehow superior to their countrymen -- or at least this was the manifest situation when I was [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog There’s a joke that says a statesman is a dead politician and Lord know we need more statesmen. That may be funny but this is closer to the truth. A politician has his eyes on the next election. A statesman has his eyes on the next generation. There is a [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Thailand’s energy-related companies seeking to diversify their portfolios can take advantage of various incentives India is set to offer to promote investments in the northeastern part of the country, a senior Indian government official says. “The region is abundant with natural resources and [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Reports of bird flu in neighbouring Bangladesh has sent the Tripura government into an overdrive to pre-empt any possibility of an outbreak in the state. BSF jawans posted along the border with Bangladesh are on high alert to prevent smuggling of chicken infected [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  The church in the predominantly Christian northeastern state of Mizoram is grappling to fight a bizarre phenomenon of tribal youths worshipping Satan, seeking supernatural powers to perform miracles. ‘The trend is nothing but shocking,’ Reverend Vanlalchhungah, moderator of the Mizoram Presbyterian Synod, told [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  The manna-like bonus for being the most peaceful state has not made Mizoram any peaceful, nor “self sufficient”. The tag, otherwise, peacefully remains. And so does that tag mints money for the state. Even if Mizoram find enough reasons to celebrate that, it [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  The harsh winter of ‘88, the earth dragon year, had blossomed into shades of spring. I vividly remember it was the fourth day of March. A group of monks from far south of India reached my home. As they were honourably seated and [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  As I move around the city of Delhi, I come across two kinds of people. In the seedy Nehru Place area of Delhi, where I have my office the lunch break sees every empty space occupied by groups of men squatting on newspapers. [...]

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Hitler was never elected to power by a majority. He only received 30.1% of the vote in the election of 1932, Through a series of manoeuvres he was eventually  designated chancellor in 1933, then declared a state of emergency, and ruled Germany by dictate from that time on: http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp I strongly recommend a read of [...]

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Traditional German peace activism is getting less and less active all the time. Especially when it’s raining and there’s something good on TV, it seems. Of course it always rains here and there’s never anything good on TV, but who cares? Even traditional marchers like the Greens are criticizing these quaint, if not rather elderly, [...]

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Traditional German peace activism is getting less and less active all the time. Especially when it’s raining and there’s something good on TV, it seems. Of course it always rains here and there’s never anything good on TV, but who cares? Even traditional marchers like the Greens are criticizing these quaint, if not rather elderly, [...]

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(London) Autism Campaigners in Great Britain have asked the British Prime Minister to end the patchy services for all people with autism. Ivan and Charika Corea of the Autism Awareness Campaign UK have stated in London that a postcode lottery exists in education, health, specialist speech therapy and respite care where the 587,900 people with [...]

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The China experiment seems to be catching on. China has a large number of people employed for the purpose of monitoring web sites, chat sites and other internet medium so that political and other information deemed unworthy for the Chinese people is filtered out (blocked). Saudi Arabia also carries out this policy, blocking content deemed [...]

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By Honey Gillard  MANDY Moore looks effortlessly beautiful as the face of the May 2007 issue of ELLE magazine.  Moore also starred on the cover of the June 2006 issue of the style and beauty magazine.  “Mandy Moore is done being a pop music also-ran and somebody’s girlfriend. Now–with another big push at film stardom [...]

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“Even as Africa Hungers, Policy Slows Food Aid” insists the NYTimes. Ah, so. Another “bashbadbush” article, we presume. But actually, the article is a “Bash big agribusiness and big bad shipping companies” article. And the problem is not Bush’s proposals, but pork barrel politics in Congress. If you bother to read the entire “MEGO” (my [...]

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