Like the title character, this film has been hidden from the public eye for far too long. How can a film that boasts a cast of Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O’Hara, and Reese Witherspoon (working double time as a co-star and producer) fly so far under the radar? As with anything in Hollywood, there are surely in-depth [...]

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Weeks after 800 plus people lost their lives, questions about the ferry and about it’s cargo continue to linger here in the Philippines. The first question is why did the ferry leave port when Manila was under a Signal one and the destination port was under a Signal two. Well, part of this is because [...]

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The presidential candidate for change has adopted the twin themes of "hope" and "change" for his political campaign. These themes are the creation of David Axelrod, Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser. It was a stroke of brilliance to tap into the widespread disaffection with Washington D.C. and the growing irritation among normal citizens that they [...]

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Jack fills Nick in on asking Adrian to go to Australia for them. Nick says this is news to him. Jack says well they still need to talk him into it. Jeffery claims someone stole the cream from him. He denies taking it and doesn’t know who did. Michael orders him to get that cream [...]

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Luke and Noah tell Lily that Noah wants to move back in at the farm and Lily is excited about it. She tells him this would make her happy. Luke promises Noah there would be no pressures if he does move back in. Lily comes in with a package for Luke. It is from his [...]

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Bo and Hope are back in the office and they discuss what evidence they have in the Paul Hollingsworth case. They try figuring out what post office Paul sent the package to Morgan from. Morgan and Phillip go to the post office to pick up the package Paul sent her. She said she is weak [...]

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Boy, people are so easily upset these days. As I recall it was Zsa Zsa Gabor, that came out with the great line “The only worse than being talked about, is not being talked about”. In Ms. Gabor’s world, press was everything, there is no such thing as bad press. Any press is better than [...]

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Writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian religion editor Barney Zwartz has tried to create a new image for Pope Benedict XVI on the eve of his visit to Australia. According to  Mr. Zwartz, Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, is a far more gentle and liberal figure than his immediate predecessor and former boss, [...]

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The discovery of asbestos at a site of the London 2012 Olympic Stadium has resulted in construction work on the stadium being halted on a temporary basis. Officials stated that work was stopped on one part of the site after the potentially deadly substance was discovered in order to try and protect the workers. Exposure [...]

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“The Economist” is a rightly respected commentator on the US Elections but in a recent article about Barack Obama they disappointingly argue that: “Mr Obama needs to embrace centrism as a matter of conviction rather than flirting with it as an instrument of political expediency.” For many of us looking at Obama as a real [...]

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Despite a lot of official denials, it seems pretty clear the Chinese have no qualms about stealing as much intellectual property as they can get their hands on. On Friday, the Department of Justice announced that one Gregg William Bergersen of Alexandria, Virginia was sentenced to 57 months in prison (plus three years of supervised [...]

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For someone who is selling himself as a “uniter,” Barack Obama has managed to create fissures and fault lines between and among every conceivable voting bloc – and has even divided spouses and families. Case in point: Jesse Jackson père and fils having a public falling out over the elder Jackson’s having been caught on [...]

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The Serious Threat of Terroristic Attacks Here? [As a child of WW2 -- that now distant event -- I read the following in-depth reports on things including national security which in those days included the slogan, "Loose lips sink ships." I was particularly connected here because one of my uncles with a back too injured [...]

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New-age Capitalism converted financial markets to casinos. Rather casinos have better orders than present financial markets. Bernanke often repeats that objectives of the Federal Reserves now are to bring financial markets to function in an orderly manner. One can’t be blamed if one sees that as a bold attempt when markets work worse than casinos. Financial [...]

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The regime in Zimbabwe is evil and the ruthless criminals who rule there deserve to be punished for the crimes they have inflicted, and are inflicting, on the people of Zimbabwe.  But neither Europe nor Britain has the moral right to criticise Mugabe and his Zimbabwean Zanu-PF for lack of due democratic process.  On June [...]

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