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What a great concept! Let’s take a slightly overweight, definitely middle aged and slightly balding Brit. Put him on a 50cc Vesper scooter and let him amble from the very southern tip to the northernmost parts of Italy, while he enjoys the food, drinks, sights and smells. I think his publicist summed it up well […]
Guest Post by David DeGeest “In China many families live in extreme poverty. This is especially true of the mountain villages of the Guilin/Yangshuo area of Guangxi Province where many farm families live a meager existence on a bit of land. They struggle to pay the school fees for their children to go to the […]
Fresh perspectives by: Whymrhymer “Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if (free speech) protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection” That is a quote from Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr. as he struck down a Federal law known as the […]
Organized retail crime, according to RILA (Retail Industry Leaders Association), is a $34 billion a year problem. A study at the University of Florida conducted by Dr. Richard Hollinger suggests that 9 percent of all refund activity or $16 billion is fraudulent.  At most merchants today, refunds are tracked with personal information. While this was […]
Horomsi:President Jammeh tells a family member that he will die “violently.” Ndure Cham spotted in Gambia! Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh had a history of mental deficiencies dating back his tender age, family sources unveiled. Born and raised in Southern Provence of Casamance, the Gambian leader spent his childhood days smoking wheat and drinking licko. Due […]
Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect To say that one needs money to live is to but state the obvious , but even with inflation and all , I am wondering as to how much money does one really need to live on in today’s age. The cost of […]
 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect One of two men accused and acquitted of blowing up Air India flight 182 in 1985 is suing the B.C. and federal governments for malicious prosecution. Ripudaman Singh Malik has filed documents in B.C. Supreme Court arguing the charges smeared his reputation and […]
 Finally the D-Day has arrived for India at the Cricket World Cup 2007. India is not yet in the finals but the match against Sri Lanka is perhaps more crucial than the finals. If India loses today, then it would be a disappointing exit for the team on which the media had built up […]
 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect India and Japan Thursday invigorated their strategic partnership in the context of a rising Asia and agreed to push for an early bilateral free trade pact, cooperate in maritime security and hold their first energy dialogue that will also include nuclear energy. External […]
 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect One of the world’s top computer makers, Dell says its first India made computers will roll out of its new factory in Chennai from July. However it says computer sales and new investments in the hardware sector are unviable due to high tax […]
Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Iran, it appears, may have too little gas to offer and at too expensive a price. The controversy-ridden $7-billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline project is fast beginning to lose economic value for India and New Delhi is toughening its stand. It has made it […]
Bangladesh government’s livestock advisor has confirmed that bird flu has been detected in a poulty farm in Savar near Dhaka, the country’s capitol. C.S. Karim said in a statement that results of laboratory tests showed existence of the deadly virus of H5N1 in chickens in the farm. “There is no reason for any panic or […]
Democrats scrambled today to find 218 votes to pass a war spending bill that would establish a timetable to bring American troops home. Even as the administration and Congressional Republicans worked aggressively to foil their effort. The White House said the $124 billion spending measure had “zero chance†to survive a presidential veto, and the […]
Yuppies playing at conservation ha. In her book “Rights Talk”, Mary Anne Glendon discusses the libertarian ideal of freedom, where the individual was completely free. She then traces the libertarian idea back to Rousseau and others, who waxed lyrically on that imaginary primitive man who lived off the land and was free of laws and […]
Arrested leader of Bangladesh nationalist party,Tarique Rahman, had met with notorious underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai in March 2006, according to a report by Central Bureau of Investigation of India reported in Anandabazar  - a daily from Kolkata, India. Former Bangladesh army intelligence Chief Major General Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury, who was fired from his job […]
The situation in Zimbabwe continues to unravel. Aging dictator Robert Mugabe is facing increased opposition. After the violent breakup of a prayer meeting last week, opposition both inside and outside of the country has increased. Opposition leaders now have a face in opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, and Archbishop Ncube is urging churches to continue peaceful […]
By Shimon Z. Klein There are signs that cracks are appearing in the sanctions against the Palestinian national unity government. Norway (who is not a member of the EU) acts independently. It has decided to recognize the Palestinian Authority and offer aid to it. Israel, however, has decided to tighten sanctions against the PA. They […]
Many in the technical community attribute the rapid growth and spread of the Internet to innovation that took place at the “edge†of the network, while its “core†was left largely application neutral to provide a universal and predictable building block for innovation. It is this core neutrality that provides a basis for the security and stability of the Internet
as a whole. And it is this same core neutrality that is critical to the continued spread of the Internet across the Digital Divide. Unfortunately, when the politics of censorship rather than solely technical concerns drive the coordination of these “core†Internet resources, it threatens the future security and stability of the Internet. This paper proposes a paradigm upon which all the governments of the world have equal access to these core Internet resources to empower them and their citizens with the rights acknowledged in the WSIS Declaration of Principles.
A Bill recently introduced in the House,H.R. 1547 would prohibit the sale of certain inefficient light bulbs, and require the development of a plan for increasing the use of more efficient light bulbs by consumers and businesses
From time to time we all hear stories that reveals the stupidity of a dreaded PCism run amok. We hear the tales, shake our heads in disbelief and go about our day without taking much more notice of it afterward. It seems, as we hear of each case, that they are isolated stories, outrageous yes, […]
From The Gathering Storm Blog The UK is becoming the biggest threats to US security. Their incessant accommodations to Muslims in the name of political correctness are undermining the security of the free world. An article in the New Republic magazine details how this summer’s terror alert has left a question mark in the US […]
George Soros On Israel, America and AIPAC [It is good to see George Soros telling it as it is. As I read him here and in my own view, Israel’s greatest enemy in the U.S. is AIPAC which is playing a neocon game and deterring American politicians of both parties from helping Israel to negotiate […]
More payment cards have been skimmed (financial details hijacked) as a result of PIN pads being replaced. This time the breach occurred at a Wendys in a busy part of Edmonton, Canada. A “Bluetooth” device was used in the phony PIN pads to transmit all the card details, using a wireless connection. The fraud was […]
Warren Throckmorton, PhD Of late, every time Ted Haggard speaks, he brings the issues of homosexuality, religion and psychotherapy into the national spotlight. Stepping into this discussion is one of the most influential and innovative psychologists in the nation, Dr. Nicholas Cummings. Past president of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Cummings practiced psychotherapy in San […]
[Fewer than 3,000 people were killed by the 9/11 attack and most of their families were compensated out of a federal fund after the event. Little publicized or even recognized until most recently is the fact that somewhere between 20 and 40 thousand workers — many volunteers from far states — were subject to horrendous […]
— 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. —  Giving no assurance to PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on troop withdrawal from civilian areas in Jammu and Kashmir for the time […]
One of the lousiest cancers to have is lung cancer, because of the low cure rate. And today the blogosphere is mourning the death of Cathy Seipp, who just died at age 49. Ironically, Ms. Seipp had the type of lung cancer not associated with smoking, but 85percent is caused by smoking cigarettes. Most of […]
Authorities here in Phoenix have linked two more crimes to accused “Serial Shooter” Dale Hausner. Hausner and his alleged accomplice, Samuel Dieteman, are accused of committing a string of late-night shootings that took seven lives and rattled the Valley for months. This is the third time Hausner has been indicted in connection with the case. […]
(Westminster, UK) British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke out on autism yesterday during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons in Westminster in London. The Prime Minister was quizzed on autism by leading parliamentarian Lee Scott MP for Ilford North. Lee Scott MP recently launched a landmark debate on autism in Westminster Hall – […]
Yum! calimari WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A colossal half-ton squid, believed to be the largest ever caught, may be destined for the microwave oven….But researchers say they don’t want to cook the massive creature – just defrost it so they can study it better….At the time it was caught, O’Shea said it would make calamari […]
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