British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in speaking out against Uganda's Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009. Brown spoke to Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni at the...
An OpEd journalist in today's LA Times believes the Manhattan Declaration, a manifesto of civil disobedience by religious leaders in the face of a secular democracy and its laws, - which was...
I found this a little hard to swallow, it was a stupid stunt, and I hope the youngsters who did it grow up soon, but one wonders, if this live one was a poor sheep, how would they describe the dead ones that they sell?"The RSPCA has hit out at pranksters who put a live sheep...
opinion by stejeb | 3 hrs ago | updated 3 hrs ago 265 views | 29 recommendations | 5 comments
A statement by a French official has put Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in an embarrasing situation. Qureshi, in May this year had gone on record saying that France is ready for a...
Washington, DC: In a 5 page memorandum, the US Department of Justice has made concluding remarks and a statement asserting that the group Acorn may be lawfully paid by the Obama...
Commonwealth leaders have got behind a proposal from the UK and France to create a climate change fund that would see wealthier countries supporting poorer countires to combat global warming and climate change....
Here's an interesting story: A guy who worked with Oprah Winfrey years ago is now calling for her to have a certain type of guest on her show before it comes to an end in 2011: " And why, in almost 25 years...
In an act described as 'shoplifting in reverse' a UK artist has been putting items of clothing into shops rather than buying or stealing them.The clothes have special labels telling shoppers that if they like the...
Talks between the Canadian Teamsters Union and Canadian National Railways (CNR) broke down at midnight and the Locomotive Engineers of CNR are now on strike. The union says that the talks broke down over their...
Dirty hospitals may be the new reality with increasing patients and decreasing budgets. News this morning about a university hospital in Essex, England brings to mind the problems that are plaguing our local hospital in Nanaimo, Canada. Named in the latest report are...
november 25 ,,was the International day of the UN, on stopping violence against women. And here , Icelands prime minister,Johanna Sigurdardottir, led a walk , from the culture house in Reykjavik ,to the seaside....
Much has been made by NP writers on the intend of the Examiner after the bought NP. Some of the stories brought out some valid points and concerns of those of us that write here. This morning while...
What if Obama is not FDR, but Hoover?, a Nation columnist asks. . . Journalist William Greider of The Nation magazine was startled by a faux pas Obama made in China; moreover, he...
Recently, a maritime security company, IMSN, conducted system testing of a not-lethal Anti-Piracy System including safety drills with crewmembers onboard the Horizon, a US flagged container ship operator...
opinion by aurealeus | 2 hrs ago | updated 2 mins ago 130 views | 14 recommendations | 2 comments
"Tiger Wood’s accident came two days after the National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing a New York night club hostess, and that they recently were together in Melbourne, where...