I am happy that President Obama is trying to mend fences with Arabs and Iranians in the Middle East by giving a speech in Cairo. And many Americans agree, although many think he is being naive, or is sending a message to the radicals in the area that he is willing to “throw Israel under [...]

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This is a guest post, BNN is not responsible for the content.  Family of Haleigh Cummings upset about financial exploitation of the missing child The Haleigh Bug Center in Satsuma, FL has reportedly been re-located to the city of Mckenny in Baker County. According to early media reports the center was created so Crystal Sheffield, [...]

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My favorite author is John Le Carre and my favorite character in literature is George Smiley. Smiley is an unassuming man, badly dressed, overlooked, but has a mind sharper than a Katana sword. He plays in the murky world of espionage, looks at the facts, and un-facts and reveals the truth. The same is true [...]

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It’s nice when someone takes the time to read an article and provide some thoughtful rebuttal. With the payday loan debate, it almost never happens. That’s because when the facts get thrown in the face of opponents, they slink away because they don’t have any actual rebuttal. I turn now to Alan Krishnan’s reply to [...]

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Satsuma, Florida – In seven days Haleigh Cummings will be missing for four months. Four long agonizing months, sleep lost, time lost, nerve lost, love lost. Everything lost, why? Where did she go, this has been the hardest four months I have ever endured personally. Torn from her fathers home, when? No one seems to [...]

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By John Donovan of royaldutchshellplc.com Information received from an Ogoni source seems to confirm press speculation that Shell is secretly engaged in out-of-court settlement negotiations with plaintiffs in the Wiwa v. Shell trial which on Wednesday was mysteriously adjourned again, apparently indefinitely. The plaintiffs contend that Shell colluded with the Nigerian Military Government in the [...]

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A forum on climate change occurred on June 3rd in association with World Environment Day events in Omaha, Nebraska. The theme for this year is “UNite to Combat Climate Change” and the forum Wednesday afternoon was part of the events being held in Omaha, the North American host city for celebrating World Environment Day on [...]

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An asbestos campaigner from the UK is hoping that he can raise awareness about the deadly carcinogenic, asbestos, by cycling for twelve hundred miles. Jason Addy is hoping that his momentous cycling journey will enable to help him raise awareness about the dangers of this substance. Addy is a campaigner with the group called Save [...]

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My appointments diary for the week beginning 23rd April 1989 has a few brief entries in it. On Monday 24th I caught a flight at 10:10 in the morning from Kong Hong to Beijing and on Thursday 27th I flew back. In between there were a number of meetings in the Chinese capital with business [...]

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Cane and Lily are at Crimson Lights picking up a cheesecake for her birthday when he explains to her that as much as he appreciates her gesture about them going to Australia, he would really rather not go. He says he thinks his past should just stay in the past. Chloe goes to the Abbott [...]

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It has been reported that staff members at a dental clinic in Cairns, Australia, have refused to come into work due to concerns over exposure to the deadly carcinogenic asbestos. This is said to be the third asbestos scare that the clinic has had in the last year, and staff members are now refusing to [...]

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This is Stuart Nachbar’s second foray into the literary world, I greatly enjoyed his first book The Sex Ed Chronicles, and when I got wind of the imminent release of Defending College Heights I immediately put it on my must read list. At first glance there seems little to connect the two books, Sex Ed [...]

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Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots has teamed up with concerned citizens in Atlanta and Chicago to hold a protest of CNN on Friday June 5, 2009 at CNN Headquarters in Atlanta and the CNN Chicago Bureau. The protest will begin at 10:00am EDT in Atlanta and 12:00 noon CDT in Chicago. Atlanta will also [...]

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The headline of an Opinion column written by JAMES KIRCHICK, in the latest Wall Street Journal (linked below) reads: “The Religious Right Didn’t Kill George Tiller.” Of course that’s an accurate statement but the underlying sentiment — the “story” in the piece — is that anti-abortion activists are completely blameless and that’s absurd. When you [...]

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