Peter Davies, author of the BNN series on why we’re not winning the War against terror spent time in Russia during June and has some thoughts.  What country is 86% bigger than the USA – and almost the same size as the USA and Canada combined?  Russia is the largest country on earth; it spans [...]

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This week’s Rasmussen Reports poll of 587 likely GOP voters finds the Fred Thompson freight train continuing to bear down on Rudy Giuliani.

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Top secret leaks again. On the whole Aziz Tamba,Mustapha Bojang and Famara Kolley were used to mask another scandal that was never meant to leak! It leaked two days ago. President Jammeh is at ease thinking his secret was wrapped.All of a sudden an anrgy state house insider who so likes Aziz and others decided to [...]

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Horomsi: As promised, I intend to share my Mile Two Prison diary with the Freedom Newspaper readers. It was on or about April 3,  2006, when Gambia’s Intelligence Chief  Daba Marena, Lt. Ebou Lowe, 2nd Lt. Alieu Ceesay, Warrant Officer, Alpha Bah and Staff Sgt. Manlafi Corr were escorted from their tiny confinement cells to [...]

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There’s a lot of stuff going on in the cyberwars, but little of it hits the headlines. Now there is a report that part of the Pentagon Email system has been hacked, and it is being investigated to see why. Since redundant systems are in place, it will not affect the business of the Pentagon. [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —    India’s powerful communists protested yesterday against the first port call by a US aircraft carrier to the country, saying Washington was using [...]

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Why would Rosie O’Donnel, a woman known for her wild-eyed rants against firearms, the war on terror, and the military, dress her child in a camo shirt, camo bandana and a bandolier of bullets and then post that picture on her own website? I certainly can’t answer that stunner and neither can the denizens of [...]

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In the dark days of World War II, the United States started flying B17 bombers across the Atlantic to England. Operation Bolero was the name given to the operation that ferried the airplanes and crew on this difficult route, where original estimates was that ten percent of the flights would never arrive. But arrive they [...]

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That’s right, I said fuel rationing, IN IRAN. The rationing restrictions, which took effect at midnight local time, are reported to limit private motorists to 100 liters of fuel each month. Given only two hours notice, Iranian motorists are experiencing long lines at filling stations. At least one filling station in the western suburbs of [...]

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I recently had the pleasure of reviewing an advance copy of Cobra Gold, Damien Lewis’s latest blockbuster novel. Cobra Gold takes a factual event, a huge bank robbery in the mid 70’s that occurred in war ravaged Beirut, Lebanon. A robbery that to this day has no suspects and the gold is still missing! This [...]

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In yet another ominous sign that the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign is desperate to right their sinking ship, the former mayor of New York City accused former President Bill Clinton of being weak on terrorism.

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —    HK Surjeet influenced by Russia to setup an underground organization CPI did proceed to recruit a secret organization within the Indian Army [...]

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Jim Baen’s Universe arrived as a zip of .htm and other files. Once I’d worked out that I was supposed to start with the toc file, navigating through the issue in my browser was straightforward. However, reading the issue on screen was uncomfortably like working through slush, and I found it difficult to turn off the inner editor, or even to bash it into silence for long enough to enjoy the read.

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Promoted by publisher Pretend Genius Press as “underground classics: read these on the tube/subway/metro and look cool while missing your stop”, New Short Stories 1 is a collection of thirteen mainstream stories selected as prize winners in the Willesden Herald’s International Short Story Prize 2007. This POD book is handsomely presented with a moody cover by Stratos Fountoulis, and its production standards are generally high, although some stories betray evidence of less-than-perfect editing.

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Earlier today the Senate took the first step towards passage of the immigration reform bill by voting 64-35 to revive debate on the controversial legislation.

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First published @ Celestial Junk It may come as a surprise to some that NGOs that fly under the umbrella of “Aid Groups” are in the midths of a dispute with Human Rights groups over how to deal with the Darfur crisis. The squabble isn’t trivial … in fact, it is centered around a fundamental [...]

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If I hadn’t told you, you might never have known, but today is a day of silence for most of the nation’s web-radio stations. The miniscule broadcasters are trying to raise awareness of a rather one sided ruling by the Copyright Board –a three judge panel appointed by Congress- which drastically raised the royalty rates [...]

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From a post @ Celestial Junk A wonderful glimpse into the mindset and etiquette of Islamic Terrorists is offered us via the New York Times. I don’t know how accurate the Times article is (after all it is the Times), but even if half of what the piece claims is verifiable and accurate, it offers a [...]

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 San Francisco’s Hall of Justice   Identity theft victims often get pretty frustrated after being accused of being deadbeats by collection agencies, or even being charged with a crime they didn’t commit.  Trying to seek justice seems to do little good, either. Law enforcement rarely has the resources to investigate individual cases, unless an identity [...]

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Continued tensions between German Defense Ministry authorities and recently “cleared” actor Tom Cruise about the filming of his latest film in Berlin have led to mutual demonstrations of animosity and a veiled threat by Cruise to destroy parts of the city using an invisible death ray which emanates from the palm of his right hand. [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Where are the Muslim Moderates? Hiding for their lives. A Labour MP is stepping down after receiving death threats over his role in bringing three racist killers to justice. Mohammad Sarwar, who became Britain’s first Muslim MP in 1997, said he feared the lives of his family were also in [...]

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Yesterday I watched the testimony of Christie Whitman, former EPA head when somewhere between 20,000 and 40,000 workers on the “pile” — former World Trade Center site — were destroying their health with asbestos and many other dangerous chemicals which they were by necessity forced to inhale during the course of doing their jobs. Whitman, [...]

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On Saturday, a University of Pittsburgh student who had been missing since April was reunited with his family after living with some homeless squatters in Glacier National Park in Montana. A park ranger had reported seeing him among the homeless people at the Montana park. After running his name through a National Crime Information Center [...]

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Summer is known as storm season. Tornadoes and hurricanes are covered extensively throughout the summer seasons. However, it is thunderstorms that we see the most of. These can be as damaging as any other storm due to its prevalence. Lightning is said to hit the earth about 100 times per second or 8.6 million times [...]

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Even a self-proclaimed animal hater would shake their head at Cheryl Ann Magnotta, a 59-year-old woman from Bradford, Pennsylvania who is being charged with the deaths of 21Great Danes who were found in her home earlier this month. She is also being charged with 41 summary counts of scattering rubbish on the property. The discovery [...]

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[I happened to catch an npr interview with the Israeli producer of this film which examines face to face a cross-section of the 9-10,000 Palestinians now imprisoned in Israeli jails -- many with multiple life sentences, including Marwan Barghouti, whom many see as the natural political leader of the Palestinians towards peaceful conciliation with the [...]

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