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Drogba, New King Of African Football  Amin George Forji  Didier Drogba- the Ivorian and Chelsea prolific striker was on Thursday March 1st named by the African Football Governing Body, CAF, as it’s 2006 player of the year, following a ballot of Africa’s 53 national team coaches in the Ghanaian capital of Accra. In […]
By Honey Gillard GREENPEACE have stated that they will continue pressuring Japan to stop the inhumane whaling operations, following their retreat from this year’s hunt. Last Wednesday, Japan called their 6 ships, situated in the Southern Ocean, back into harbour. The retreat called following a disastrous fire aboard the Nisshin Maru, two weeks ago. The […]
CastleCops, the all volunteer site dedicated to fighting phishing, fraud and dastardly deeds on the Internet is back in action. The site had been under a massive DDos attack (Distributed Denial Of Service) for the past couple of weeks. Paul Laudanski (CastleCops founder) announced the sites return to action via an e-mail to the community tonight. […]
After much contentious debate, both internally and publicly, House Democrats seem to have come to an agreement on legislation for the Iraq war.
Philadelphia’s murder wave crested yet again on February 12th when self described real estate investor Vincent Julius Dortch shot and killed 3 men in the Philly waterfront offices of a website development and marketing firm called Zigzag Net. The murder victims were board members of another company, Watson International Inc. Vincent Dortch was a Watson […]
All the politicians get the headlines. They pander to the anti war pacifists, you know, those pacifists who claim they never would hurt a flea, and if we just sang Kumbaya things would be peace and love? Right. That’s why “insurgents” shot 30 plus of my fellow doctors/nurses/ teachers/ nuns/priests/pastors and an elderly bishop in […]
I made up the last part of the headline. Actually the UK is withdrawing troops from Bosnia. Remember Bosnia? Where 100 000 people were killed by the Serbs and “local insurgents” under the eyes of Europe, and the killing only stopped when Clinton bombed Serbia? Yup. It still needs peacekeepers…”Britain, which has had a presence […]
The BBC link reports: China’s parliament is to consider reforming a controversial law allowing police to send crime suspects to labour camps without trial, state media said. Reforming the “re-education through labour” system is one of 20 items to be tabled at next week’s National People’s Congress, the China Daily reported. Under the law, police […]
— 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 cabinet Thursday gave its approval for enactment of the Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill. The bill purportedly […]
News Item: Film producer claims to have found the body of Christ Full Story: NewsDay Cartoon from Sid in the City
 David Schussler The current (fear induced) trend in thinking regarding global warming has spurred some creative entrepreneurial minds to new levels of ruse and deceit on our unsuspecting and trusting souls worldwide. Seduced by too little information, much of the world is railing against industry and private use of carbon based fuels in an […]
From The Gathering Storm Blog The Islamists have learned well from their mentors – the Nazis – and are reading straight from their playbook. One of the biggest Nazi lies of all was the lie that Germany was the victim of British and French humiliation (Germany’s defeat and crippling reparations), a Jewish conspiracy (international bankers, […]
Just a quick debunking of a recent research report that has been widely misrepresented in the press. The study is: Debunking the Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Imprisonment Among First- and Second-Generation Young Men by Ruben G. Rumbaut, Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, and Charlie V. Morgan, University of California, Irvine The take-home message of the […]
News Item: Museum of the Confederacy to change name Full Story: CNN Site Link: Museum of the Confederacy Cartoon from Sid in the City
I watched the Bob Woodruff program detailing his recovery from serious brain injury — and the exposure of the Veterans Administration’s down playing of the real figures for the seriously wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Iran: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/11129161/detail.html http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20070228/CLW18828022007-1.html While the official figures for wounded are around 15,000, some 205,000 have actually been seeking medical […]
Attention public interest lawyers. Do I have a claim for you…you can now sue the big evil drug company for oodles of money because a commonly used medicine that prevents people from dying of the flu can make a tiny number of those people hallucinate and kill themselves. Actually, the lawyers are already on it…and […]
A small group of disgruntled Muslims who think that Islam is inherently political and radical, unreformable and goes way too heavy on the headscarves, has launched what they call the National Council of Ex-Muslims here in Berlin. The hopeless dreamers actually believe that “coming out” like this will somehow eventually produce a counterweight to other Muslim […]
The New York Post yesterday laid out the sordid tale of the AP’s lionization of a convicted cop-killer, calling this criminal a “former freedom fighter.” The Post did a great job of detailing the AP’s disgusting hero worship of this murderer, so I’ll let them take it from here… AP’s Ode to a Cop-Killer February […]
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