What has been the unquestionable power center of the world for nearly last two decades? It would probably have some between two likely answers – The White House and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). However when one considers the reality beyond legitimacy where the White House has had the ability to unilaterally influence the [...]

continue reading.....

Todays spiraling gas prices appear to be as much America’s fault as well as “Big Oil” or any of the Islamic Oil producing nations. A large part of the blame can be shouldered by a program established 32 years ago designed to buffer Americans from the threat (imaginary or otherwise) posed by volatile governments in [...]

continue reading.....

Sir Dawda in the news again!               Jammeh                Joof refuses to hand over BB Darboe??? By Lamarana Jallow, son of the Gambia. Dear Mr. Editor, The NIA reported some years ago that Bakary Bunja Darboe was part of the November 11 abortive coup. A file classified issued by the Agency accuses Darboe of having close ties [...]

continue reading.....

Gambian says he has been ofended by Michael Scales writes up on illegal immigrants!! By Gambian Boy Dear Editor, Please allow me to send a few lines to respondt to Mr. Scale’s’ Illegal immigrant issue. First, I thank Mr. Scales for that big donation he gave to our this widely read paper, to support sport [...]

continue reading.....

Breaking news:MFWA and NAFIO launched campaign on the Gambia Press Statement    MFWA and NAFIO launched campaign on the Gambia    The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and the Network of African Freedom of Expression Organizations (NAFEO) on May 21, 2007 in Accra launched a campaign advocating for the end of President Yahya Jammeh’s [...]

continue reading.....

Breaking News:Gambia ALERT: Police arrest, maltreat journalist Gambia ALERT: Police arrest, maltreat journalist Fabakarr Ceesay, a reporter of Foroyaa Newspaper, a pro-opposition bi-weekly was on May 18, 2007 arrested and maltreated by six policemen of the Police Intervention Unit (PIU), a Para-military wing of Gambia Police Force while covering a student demonstration. Ceesay was threatened [...]

continue reading.....

Breaking News:Gambian police arrest UDP Youth President and head of security Kebba Fatty Police in the Gambia have arrested a leading political activist Kebba Fatty. Mr.Fatty who is the National Youth President and also head of  security of the opposition National Democratic Party UDP was arrested Monday by security officials numbering about 14. His Brikama [...]

continue reading.....

During a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing that asked, “Is Reconstruction in Iraq Failing,” committee chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) discussed several of the problems related to the reconstruction of Iraq.

continue reading.....

As everyone reading Drudge knows, a monkey in Denver’s Zoo has died of the plague. It seems that an enterprising monkey must have caught and eaten a squirrel, and developed the disease. Zoo officials note 23 animals, mostly squirrels, have been found to have the disease, which is spread via fleas. Actually, about a thousand [...]

continue reading.....

Some of those founding the ecology movement are shortsighted. They want protected species but don’t see how their protection might hurt locals. And because they don’t truly include humans in their ecological sights, often their agenda do more harm than good. So we read a wonderful article in the WaPo that celebrates Rachel Carson: “…Carson’s [...]

continue reading.....

Reuters are running what I consider to be the ‘Crime Of The Year’ story. Our good friend Johnny Cash only ‘walked the line’, these guys decided to ‘steal the line’. Yes, you heard that right, steal a railroad! In what has to be the most daring and overt crime of the year, three German thieves [...]

continue reading.....

News Item: Registered voters found to be illegal aliens   One citizen, one vote, that’s the law of the land, but your vote may be getting a little diluted.  Instead of counting as a full vote, it could now only be worth 9/10ths of a vote, or 7/8ths, or 3/4ths. How? Individuals who are not [...]

continue reading.....

The opposition to the bipartisan immigration reform agreement that was announced at the White House last week is proving to be broad, diverse, and determined. This week senators will begin debating and introducing amendments to the immigration bill.

continue reading.....

 Several news sources (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/22/war.funding/, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052200163.html) have now apparently confirmed that Pelosi, Hoyer, Obey, and other House “leaders” have agreed to give Bush the Iraq war funding he has been demanding since February. They will now go, hat in hand, to the Republicans for support to pass the funding over the objection of the “Out of Iraq” caucus. Whether [...]

continue reading.....

After much anticipation, T-Mobile’s long awaited successor to the discontinued MDA, the Wing, has launched officially. Some new improvements include a rubberized body for more durability, a few button changes, and a few other tiny upgrades. But the big upgrade would be its use of Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6 Professional, which [...]

continue reading.....

Dang. I may live to see commercial space flight after all. An article by Spencer Reiss at Wired bangs the drum for the commercial space flight efforts of Burt Rutan and Richard Branson. The major roadblock isn’t engineering — Rutan and his engineering company, Scaled Composites, are proven innovators. I would bet my youngest child [...]

continue reading.....

Pickin’ Up the Pieces Relief Corps has a chance to help build new homes for two families made homeless by Hurricane Katrina. Yes, that Hurricane Katrina. Almost two years ago. Pickin’ Up the Pieces has a donor lined up to purchase materials for the house — but the donation has strings. The money has to [...]

continue reading.....

Waking up in the morgue and discovering you are now part of the un-dead would likely be an unsettling experience to say the least! This is exactly what happens to investigative reporter Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) in Rise: Blood Hunter. Armed with a very nasty looking miniature crossbow and presumably silver bolts, Sadie sets out [...]

continue reading.....

Let’s face it. People don’t go to college because they have a fetish for writing term papers. Instead, they often put their life on hold for four years while they continue their education so that they can enter the permanent work force with the promise of an amiable, well paying job. However, due to the [...]

continue reading.....

Do it once, shame on him, do it 89 times, shame on…him. Daniel Montano of San Francisco has been leaving his mark throughout the city of Pittsburgh. On Monday, 22 year old Montano was caught and arrested for the fourth time, this time charged with 89 counts of criminal mischief and one count of defiant [...]

continue reading.....

Is Technorati in trouble? The BBC reports that Google has rolled out “Hot Trends” as a buff on its existing Trends service: A feature listing the day’s 100 fastest-rising search requests has been unveiled by Google. The chart, part of the search system’s trends service, will be refreshed several times a day using data from [...]

continue reading.....

By Amber Whitman  A recent story in the news really hit home for me.  For many years our family has been unable to go to the dentist.  The fact was that we simply could not afford the high costs of dental work.  My fiancée is a laborer and decided after much thought to leave his [...]

continue reading.....

By Carol Bogart I used to love to smoke. Snuck my first cigarette when I was about 8. Climbed up on the garage roof to smoke it. I didn’t get hooked on dad’s Lucky Strikes, though. No filter. ick. In junior high at lunchtime, my pals and I smoked up a storm at the hamburger [...]

continue reading.....

From The Gathering Storm Blog An Ohio cable TV company is promoting terrorist propaganda. Block Communications, which owns the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is now airing the Al-Jazeera English channel on its Buckeye Cable System in Toledo, Ohio. The channel is the sister station of the controversial Arab-language news network Al-Jazeera, which some call the “Jihad Channel.” [...]

continue reading.....

… of missing Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy were found in a remote corner of Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park. A year earlier, Ms. Levy’s disappearance was the subject of headlines worldwide for weeks, because she was a federal employee and the lover of California Congressman Gary Condit, widely rumored to have kinky, uhhh, [...]

continue reading.....

In spite of the fact that the new immigration bill has been moved off of the fast-track as it meanders its way through Congress, other special interest groups have seized the moment to press their respective cases.  Foremost among these is the Jersey City-based organization Homebound Italian-American Males for Justice which, according to their charter, ”advocates for the rights of our members to live [...]

continue reading.....

In a way cool and relatively new ritual established to, well, establish something relatively new and cool like this, German civil rights activists have published their annual Grundrechte-Report (basic rights report), hot on the heels of the government’s annual (take a deep breath here) Verfassungsschutzbericht (The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s Report), [...]

continue reading.....

Have picture of the Middle Kingdom you like and want to share with the world? OMBW will sponsor a contest that will run all year and culminate in a coffee table book that will raise funds for China charities and the Literacy Group The Reading Tub. It is simple: Send your best shot of people, [...]

continue reading.....

[American politicians who nervously assert their support of Israel should take seriously that not all Americans hold an 'Israel-can-do-no-wrong' stance towards the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It is not just African Americans who identify with the sufferings of the Palestinians.  I have been well aware of this fact as a member of African American lists, but also [...]

continue reading.....

[The Bush administration has wasted much public effort and money on half-baked efforts directed to American education at all levels that are now being viewed as both incompetent and destructive.  Time to throw these incompetents out.  The following was passed along by one of my CUNY colleagues.  Ed Kent] http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20070520.093602&time=07%2047%20PDT&year=2007&public=0 Mon May 21 07:47:05 2007 [...]

continue reading.....

Those famous Geico ads featuring perpetually offended cavemen run so often and have become so popular that ABC is creating a thirty-minute TV show starring the famed Neanderthals to air this fall. The show, simply titled “Cavemen,” will follow a trio of cavemen living in present day Atlanta and putting up with the prejudice that [...]

continue reading.....

In 1939, nearly a decade into the depression, author John Steinbeck immortalized the now famed Route 66 in his famous novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” Today, the stretch of road looks as condemned now as the rest of the country did back in the 30’s. The gas stations, drive-thrus, and motels that struggling families like [...]

continue reading.....

Drug Corporations and Crumbling Health Care by Nastya Petrovitch The health care system in America has become seriously broken. Many people do not even have health insurance and even for those that do, the costs of health care are becoming prohibitively expensive. Drug prices have been rising rapidly, while insurance coverage of drugs have been [...]

continue reading.....

Recently Nazi Holocaust files located in Bad Arolsen, have been opened to news media and other researchers. Previously, the access to these files has been restricted and utilized only for those trying to trace their relatives. The files reveal, what many people already knew. There was no great party right after the war. No joyful [...]

continue reading.....

Old media co-opts new media, much to the delight of the new-media maven. Howard Lindzon, founder of Wallstrip, yesterday announced that CBS has purchased the venture, a mash-up of financial news and pop culture. Under the headline You Can Make Money From Blogging!!!, Lindzon posts a history of the start-up: I first pitched the idea [...]

continue reading.....

News Item: Fiji dictator clamps down on internet access In case you hadn’t heard, there’s been a military coup in Fiji, and some self-appointed tin pot soldier named Bainimarama has named himself as the new big dog in town. Fiji?  Fiji?  That quiet little island getaway for the rich and famous? Yep, one and the [...]

continue reading.....

We’re in the post election phase here in the Philippines, and the good news is that the opposition got a lot of the Senate seats. Even if you don’t back the opposition, at least it shows that the government didn’t rig the election. But there have been some terrible things, such as someone burned down [...]

continue reading.....