— 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. — So the inevitable happened, and we have been gifted with Shmt Rashtrapatil, Swapan Dasgupta in the Pioneer summed it up best, Pratibha [...]

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Oakland, Singer/songwriter Alexa Weber Morales recently released her second CD, Vagabundeo on Patois Records. She co-produced the CD with another Bay Area musician, jazz trombonist and three time Grammy nominee, Wayne Wallace. “Alexa is one to try things that others won’t. In this day and age of commercialism, I think it’s important to put out [...]

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Remember Shirley Manson flying through the air shooting down planes in a desert landscape? That’s the video for the Garbage hit Special, probably one of their most memorable videos. Well, Garbage fans rejoice: now it’s available on DVD, along with 15 other videos and over an hour of backstage, live concert, and interview footage, on the new music [...]

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“A man calumniated is doubly injured – first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. Herodotus TNR’s editor Foer is under attack by Milbloggers and others for an article that paints soldiers in Iraq as callus monsters who should be despised by all good people. Foer defends himself from [...]

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Letters and emails by the thousands have been pouring into the offices of the National Football League, newspapers and broadcast stations, and the offices of various advertisers, as Michael Vick, the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, faces charges of cruelty against animals and illegal gambling on dogfighting. Vick and three others are accused of [...]

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Although usually miserable at orderly waiting in orderly lines, German Harry Potter fans are doing to be doing just that. They have to, I suppose, it is an English book after all. That’s right, today’s long-awaited publication of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in Germany (and elsewhere, of course) is going to be just [...]

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[Canadian Union of Public Employees is just beginning a strike in Vancouver. Following is a letter that was e-mailed to the Downtown Eastside Enquirer by a Downtown Eastside resident whom we know to be a credible person. Like many Downtown Eastside residents on pensions or other fixed incomes, this reader has for years been regularly [...]

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Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) delivered the Democratic response to President Bush’s weekly radio address this week. Levin first pointed out that Senate Republicans again blocked a vote on an amendment to withdraw the troops from Iraq.

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 By Shimon Z. Klein In the midst of the frustrations and futility between the Palestinians and the Israelis, President Bush gave a speech on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from the White House on Monday, July 18, 2007– a sort of a sequel since his last major speech on the subject about 5 years ago. This sequel [...]

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This week President Bush used his radio address to discuss al-Qaeda and the release of the National Intelligence Estimate on the Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland. After thanking the troops for their service, the president said, “The Director of National Intelligence released a summary of an important document called the National Intelligence Estimate on the Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland.”

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From The Gathering Storm Blog I thought I’ve seen all of the mental contortions that believers in Islam must go through to try and live in the modern world, but this one takes the cake. I’m sorry but I’m at a loss for words on this one so here it is. Fatwa Recommending Breastfeeding of [...]

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Advertisements for junk food have been blamed for sparking childhood obesity. In response to this, several companies that manufacture high-sugar products have voluntarily announced that they will no longer run these advertisements during children’s programming. These companies include Kellogg, Kraft, Cadbury, Campbell Soup, General Mills, Mars, McDonald’s, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Pepsico, and Hershey. In the past, [...]

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In a confusing and surprising move, Twentieth Century Fox announced Wednesday that it will not be showing several films that it had planned to at next week’s Comic-Con in San Diego. They claim that the material is not yet ready to air. The decision does not appear to have anything to do with Comic-Con itself. [...]

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Two teenage girls being transported in a Department of Juvenile Justice vehicle escaped on Tuesday by choking a youth worker who was transporting them and fleeing with the car. The vehicle was later found in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. However, the two girls, 17-year-old Amber Tucker and 16-year-old Brandi Murrah are still on the loose. The two [...]

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This week’s steam pipe explosion in New York City has once again reminded its inhabitants that the city is in need of major repairs. It has gone too long without the update of vital resources to keep the city going, and incidents will continue to occur and most likely become more serious as problems go [...]

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We are seeing all over the MSM the reports highlighting the Republicans in the House and Senate who are turning away from the Party line and voting against — or at least seeming to vote against — the President’s Iraq war policies. The MSM is presenting this revolt as a momentous thing, unprecedented and presenting [...]

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When I retired to the Philippines, I couldn’t bring my collection of nice g rated films (ok a few R rated ones too) because I never had bought a DVD player, but relied on my lowly VCR. I had a nice collection of films from TBS and TNT and AMC, and a few from the [...]

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After a little online research on this band I discovered that most people label them as ‘New Punk’. Well I completely disagree, this is a band that is high in style and ability. They have a true creative talent that is sadly lacking in a lot of today’s music. This brit based band deserves more [...]

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Country Joe McDonald is no newcomer to the music scene. Following the demise of Country Joe And The Fish he did temporarily fall off the music radar, however in 2004 he re-emerged with The Country Joe Band. Turned Up And Turned On is a concert filmed in the UK in 2004. This aging hippie has [...]

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