Category: Politics
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Iran says moving assets
Why is this starting to feel like the shit is going to hit the fan? (Don’t worry though, the US Army just raised the maximum age for enlistment so all…
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Crime does pay for North Korea
A state department investigation claims that North Korea runs a MASSIVE criminal enterprise which is at the heart of the North Korean economy. North Korea has become a gangster nation,…
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Beyond the Headlines: Top ten list of under-reported stories in 2005
The stories that MSF identifies accounted for EIGHT out of 14,529 minutes coverage on the top three networks’ nightly newscasts for 2005! The immense human toll caused by conflicts in…
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Fire razes Hemingway island haunt
This is a super bummer. I’ve spent some of the happiest afternoons and evenings of my life sitting under the couryard tree at the Compleat Angler or playing the ring…
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Iran threatens to end nuclear co-operation –
This article is one to pay attention to Kids. Funny how I’ve never heard about the Iranian law that requires them to resume….watch for the rhetoric to build, remember WMD?Iran…
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Toxic waste creates hermaphrodite Arctic polar bears
We’re talking one in fifty polar bears!! From the article – “The arctic is now a chemical sink.” Scary how chemicals get concentrated as you go up the food chain.…
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Cash award for 50-year jail error
By far the saddest line in this story is, “Even his family had forgotten about him.” An Indian man who spent more than 50 years in jail without trial has…
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Report: Angelina Jolie Expecting Baby
Hmmm….and here I thought they were just friends…cd LOS ANGELES – Angelina Jolie is expecting a baby this summer with Brad Pitt, according to a report on the People magazine…
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Where is N.Korea's Kim? Is he in China? Or in Russia? Did he fly?
The plot thickens further…is Kim Jong Il anywhere? Where’s Waldo? cd Where is N.Korea’s Kim? Officials hunt for clues – Yahoo! News UK SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea’s Kim Jong-il…
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Sundance Films Institute Moves to Brooklyn
Still doesn’t seem real to me that I’ve never been to New York City…or Istanbul…or Madrid…or Islamabad…. but here is one more reason why New York is cool…. cd Robert…
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Kim Jong-il 'makes Chinese visit'
Oooo, he has a special armored train! What do you think it looks like inside? North Korean leader Kim Jong-il travelled to China on Tuesday in a special armoured train,…
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Kyrgyz wrestling hero shot dead
When I was in Kyrgyzstan in 2003, it seemed like the most stable and tolerant of the Stans. Then came the overthrow of President Akayev last March, followed by continued…
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Skunk on Bellingham airport runway diverts planes
This story made me laugh…cd The Seattle Times: Local News: Skunk on Bellingham airport runway diverts planes Skunk on Bellingham airport runway diverts planes The Associated Press BELLINGHAM — This…
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Israeli links to 9/11? – from Al Jazeera….
I’ve heard these allegations before…the problem with any fingerpointing of this kind is that it is now far too late to come to any solid conclusions….the evidence if it ever…
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Isreal in political turmoil
Ariel Sharon, the hawkish Prime Minister of Isreal has suffered a major stroke and will most likely not return to power. Some of you may remember that it was Isreal…
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US government warns it's running out of cash
one can only hope…… US government warns it’s running out of cash Treasury Secretary John Snow has warned that unless Congress raises the national debt limit, the US government will…
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Hunan government employees were required to have "symmetrically shaped breasts"
Wow, the Chinese take job discrimination to a whole new level. BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese tradition holds 2006 will be a year of bad luck for people born under the…
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Master and Margarita overcomes "curse" to reach small screen
A previous film adaptation “disappeared” from the director’s home. A TV adaptation of cult novel The Master and Margarita has become a ratings hit in Russia despite superstition that it…
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The Americanization of Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger is severing ties with his hometown in Austria after politicians there had the gall (gasp!) to criticize him for allowing the execution of Tookie Williams to proceed. Arnold…
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Wafah..Wafah..hummidy…yikes…Bin Laden..that is Dufour!
I’m completely at a loss as to what to say…I’d love to hear her music…and you can be sure I will be buying January’s GQ…suffice to say, I certainly hope…
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Arianna Huffington: 2005: Things I Want To Forget | The Huffington Post
She continues the list on the following day – if you really want to read about even more things that Arianna would like to forget, go to her blog (link…
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Zoo tiger kills SA crime suspect
A criminal suspect on the run ended up being mauled to death by a caged tiger, South African police say. The man took refuge in the Bengal tiger’s cage at…
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Canadian Court Okays Group Sex in Clubs
For some reason, I would have expected the membership to be a little more than $20 Canadian…the question is…who are these Canadian Swingers and what do they look like? cd…
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Coming Home in a BodyBag…a Christmas Story
Thanks again to David Stacy for his continually interesting and disturbing articles at stacynet “You are an asset! An expendable asset, and I used you to get the job done,…
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Paul Theroux: Don't patronize Africa, money alone isn't the answer
Millions of dollars in foreign aid have done little to improve the lives of many Africans. At the end of the day, Africans need to “save” Africa. People like Ellen…
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