Hot pink posters in the Downtown Community Clinic warn clients that their personal information may be in the hands of a thief. Clients who have had clinic staff fill out “financial” applications are possible victims, Maureen Whyte of the Downtown Clinic/Vancouver Health Authority announced in the headline of a Aug. 21 memo which was photocopied onto the hot [...]

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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. —  The mere mention of Elections was enough for the pollsters to manufacture some late Monsoon Masaala. So we are now told that [...]

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Amnesty International (AI) has come under increasing criticism in recent years for what many see as a shift in emphasis away from its original efforts to secure the release of political prisoners to a more stridently partisan positions that cause friction with former allies. A current case in point is a recent switch in Amnesty [...]

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Sounds like a hit song: There’s a hole in the center of the universe A hole in the center of the universe A hole in the center of the universe, And it chills the microwaves But the news today is that scientists at the University of Minnesota discovered a huge area in the center of [...]

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Another week of the soaps are over, here is what happened in today’s episodes.  Days of Our Lives Jeremy tells Max that they have almost all the girls rounded up that they smuggled in to fly them out tomorrow night. Max tells Jeremy that they need to go to the cops after they get the [...]

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REXANO Editorial by Zuzana Kukol, www.rexano.org Las Vegas, NV, August 24, 2007—With elections, family holidays and spirit of giving season approaching, we can expect lots of solicitations from various politicians and charities. One of them will be ‘The Humane Society of the United States”, HSUS. HSUS is an animal rights (AR) group that many confuse [...]

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Rick Wakeman has had a fascinating career that has spanned 4 decades and shows little sign of slowing up anytime soon. Perhaps he is best known as the master of the Moog synthesizer for the bands The Strawbs and Yes, but he is also a very, very accomplished solo musician. Over the past couple of [...]

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REXANO EDitorial, www.rexano.org Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) August 24, 2007 — In response to a number of local, state and federal legislators introducing bills to ban or curb private ownership of exotic animals in the name of public safety, REXANO (Responsible Exotic Animal Ownership) has been organized to refute claims that these animals are dangerous [...]

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Night at the Museum without Ben Stiller, oder was? In what surely must be a concerted protest action against something really bad, although I just cannot figure out what the hell it is yet (maybe against cultureless Neanderthals like me?), 110 Berlin museums will be remaining open again tomorrow night during another one of Berlin’s popular [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog The political insurgence of up to now moderate Muslim nations goes pretty much unreported by the Western MSM and when those moderate Muslim countries are mentioned, they are painted in a positive light as shinning examples of Muslim living peacefully with other religious sects. Malaysia is one such moderate Muslims [...]

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“Who’s your nanny!” _ The Nanny Diaries _ Title: The Nanny Diaries I love being surprised at the movies. That feeling of going into a film expecting one thing and getting something totally different. Even if it is bad, if it is at least surprising that counts for something. The previews and poster for The [...]

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We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the death of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta on September 5. Not by accident it seems that the secular press in the United Kingdom is already churning out reports of Blessed Teresa’s period of spiritual darkness over the period of the last 40 years of her life. Based upon [...]

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This ‘lost tape’ of a 1996 impromptu concert at a California winery is classic Jon Anderson, you can spot his unique vocal style from the opening word. The CD contains an enjoyable mix of YES, Jon and Vangelis, and solo songs. The music is great, and the quality, considering it is an ‘official’ bootleg, while [...]

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[Given that roughly half the eligible voters in the U.S. do not vote, a right wing Christian takeover is not all that unlikely -- at least something to worry about -- abortion, homosexuality, criminalized again, women rejected from the workplace and a variety of other disastrous moves -- war on Islam wherever, preparation for the [...]

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Opera is not a genre that I often dip into, but this one is different. I have always enjoyed the Baroque period, and Henry Desmarest (1661-1741) certainly left his mark with Venus and Adonis. The remarkable French harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset and the dynamic period-instrument ensemble Les Talens Lyriques have a passion for musical [...]

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Needless to say not all Palestinians and Israelis hate each other.  But a significant percentage do.  This is an understandable phenomenon in war times when the enemy is collectively labeled as such and made eligible in the course of time for the worst sorts of brutality up to and including genocide.  I remember all too [...]

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The AP’s headline gravely informs us that Alcohol-related driving deaths up. Yet, here is a wonderful case where a headline screams an alarmist message that the story itself does not really substantiate. Now, it is true that columnists and journalists rarely, if ever, write their own headlines so maybe we shouldn’t tsk tsk writer Natasha [...]

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