The major leagues of Europe, like the Premier League in England and La Liga in Spain, are billion-dollar businesses, with some of the biggest and most valuable sports teams in the world under their banners. But there may be trouble in paradise, in one of the top leagues in Europe, Italy’s Serie A.

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Just like the Swedish Security professional Dan Egerstad had exposed the security weaknesses in the e-mail communication system in Indian embassies, an Internet user in Ahmedabad by name Mr Pathanjali Vyas created a sensation by publicizing the existence of websites which allow telephone calls and SMS to be put through with any telephone number to [...]

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The best selling book about Afghanistan, the Kite Runner, is being made into a movie. Like every “good” filmmaker, the producers are putting in the graphic child rape scene. After all, look at all that free publicity for raping little girls in the films, and look at all those awards for Brokeback Mountain. Let’s go [...]

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Some say it’s the end of a dictatorship.  Others say it’s the end of the Carnegie Newsletter, a left-wing newspaper that has been published on a shoestring in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for over 20 years. For 21 years, Paul Taylor (photo above), a Downtown Eastside resident and American ex-patriot in his fifties, has been editing the [...]

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What is not to love about the Bee Gees? I put disc one on the player and within 30 seconds my wife Jan was in disco heaven! She was sat at her computer, but just grooving along, you know the style, waving your hands around, and occasionally pointing at non-existent objects! Oh, those good old [...]

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The Philippine Inquirer notes that a recent report from HRW says that none of the “extrajudicial killings” of leftist politicians/activists/sympathizers/insurgents has resulted in arrests. (PDF of report HERE). Essentially, there are right wing hit squads that some suspect are made up of military or policemen, who kidnap or shoot at or murder those causing trouble [...]

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What’s a major deity to do when he finds himself washed up on Mt Olympus? Jupiter, once mighty Roman God has spent two millennia sulking about his defeat at the hands of Yahweh and the loss of the great Roman Empire. Jupiter and his motley assortment of gods have become complacent, even the eternal fountains [...]

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Here are today’s updates for Days of Our Lives, As The World Turns, and The Young and The Restless. Days of Our Lives Will walks in and over hears Lucas talking to Sami about her leaving him. He wants an explanation and doesn’t like it when they say she is going to marry EJ Wells. [...]

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  As the 20 month old BJP-JD(S) marriage is headed for the rocks, the real story is playing out in the Supreme Court away from the media’s gaze. While HD Kumaraswamy has now suddenly re-discovered “psuedo-secularism” and finds the BJP “communal” the father HD Deve Gowda is talking in code on new terms and rules/regulations. [...]

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Today in Des Moines, Iowa Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) unveiled his plan to give each child in America 16 years of free public education. Biden’s plan would give every child in America their regular K-12 education plus, two years of preschool and two years of higher education.

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According to the Associated Press, on September 27, President Bush signed into law the “College Cost Reduction and Access Act” which in effect pumps another $20 billion into higher education Pell grants raising the maximum grant to $5,400 from $4,310 by 2012. It also cuts the interest rate on federally backed student loans in half [...]

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For your Thursday Snack, Rob looks at the online auction market to find everything from Reagan posters to an election itself. Dig out that old memorabilia for this one.For your Thursday Snack, Rob looks at the online auction market to find everything from Reagan posters to an election itself. Dig out that old memorabilia for [...]

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Evgeny Kissin was a child prodigy. Born in Moscow, he was improvising on the piano at 2 and humming along with Bach while his sister played at the tender age of 6. He was one of those kids who amazed people with an almost innate disposition to the piano. His ability to play serious music [...]

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The Minnesota judge hearing Senator Craigs motion to withdraw his guilty plea ruled today the Idaho Republican had his day in court and the conviction will stand. Judge Charles Porter of Hennepin County District Court denied Craig’s contention his plea resulted from a rushed desire to avoid exposure when an undercover officer arrested him in an airport men’s room. Senator Craig’s initial announcement he [...]

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Presidential Candidate and U.S. Senator Barack Obama has decided to quite wearing a flag pin on his lapel. Asked about the decision Wednesday in an interview with KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Illinois senator said he stopped doing so shortly after the attacks and instead hoped to show his patriotism by explaining his ideas [...]

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In a heroic effort to help save the Umwelt (environment) and not spend any of those less than hard earned euros sprudelnd (bubbling up) so impressively from the booming German economy, German consumers have instinctively and spontaneously begun an open-ended strike and now steadfastly refuse to buy any of the gas guzzling and environmentally threatening [...]

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Since when did it become a bad thing to call a phony a “phony?” Well, since Rush Limbaugh referred to a phony soldier as a “phony soldier” and the antiwar crowd thought it could make hay with it. The idea that Rush Limbaugh would denigrate U.S. troops on the air for millions to hear, and [...]

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Without changing anything since prior to the 2004 presidential election, California’s Republican Party is causing a ruckus among Republicans who are finally noticing a rule changing how delegates are allocated to the national nominating convention. An AP story by Glen Johnson describes how the rule change might allow Republican presidential candidates to focus on tiny [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Ever see that commercial with the huckster slaps their forehead and says, “Gee. I could have had a V-8!” after realizing that they made a stupid mistake? Will there be a “Gee. I could have had a V-8!” moment when the useful idiots on the Left and the dhimmis in [...]

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One of the built in features of fraternities in this country is the practice of torturing pledges (and others available for same).  I am all too aware of this feature, as my father had been a frat member at Yale and retained his heavy wooden frat paddle which he tried out on me as a [...]

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From TIME magazine to The Washington Post – from Jon Stewart’s TV show to internet blogs – the focus was the same: Hillary Clinton’s laughing out loud. As Slate magazine put it, “Stop it now before someone gets hurt.” In fact, the Slate article by John Dickerson even had an audio link which allowed the [...]

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[I have had it with the C.I.A. getting away literally with murder and torture behind the backs of Americans.  Had the C.I.A. not destabilized the elected Iranian government in 1953 and replaced it with the brutal Shah to keep control of its oil, we would not be facing enmity from Iran today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax And I [...]

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tathaastu says Offstumped Karnataka power transfer drama got a fresh twist on Thursday. Chief Minister Kumaraswamy has now said that if the situation continues he will break his promise to the BJP and face elections. The new twist comes after he called a cabinet meeting for Friday morning 9:30am though 17 BJP ministers had already [...]

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By Shimon Z. Klein  The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to be a smoldering problem in the Middle East and remains a threat to the stability of the region. The world today has become a smaller place – a global village. The ramifications of what happens in this region affect the stability of the world. There are [...]

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Rush Limbaugh has done it again. He’s driven the left mad. The lies about Limbaugh that Democrat Party House members are promulgating have rekindled talk of the dreaded Fairness Doctrine. And in a piece on the brewing battle between the anti-free speech Democrats and conservative talk radio supporters in the House of Representatives, the Washington [...]

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(Birmingham, UK) The multi-talented Rozagy, a mother of two children who was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism has hit the airwaves in the United Kingdom with a cover version of ‘Open Every Door,’ the song for autism. Rozagy is a gifted musician who is based in Birmingham. Radio stations in the UK [...]

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(Westminster, UK) The influential British parliamentarian, Lee Scott MP, has called on Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the government to provide ring fenced funding for autism services run by local authorities. His call came in Autism Awareness Week in the UK (1st – 7th October 2007).Lee Scott has joined forces with Ivan Corea of the [...]

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A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” The man consults [...]

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