The Real Lizard King: Why brand mascots should be CEOs

     I love corporate mascots. They’re friendly, colourful, often plush and always smiling. They give out hugs and treats and absolutely love posing for pictures. To a brand, they’re almost...

Uplifting the Russian Humpty Dumpty

After the opening of the former Soviet Union to the West, the economy of Russia and its satellite countries came under control of criminal groups. The reason is fairly simple. The only people who knew anything about business were people who had participated in what was know...

The return of blood diamonds

The Kimberley Process that sought to stop the illegal and bloody sourcing of diamonds is in disarray as it's key author Ian Smillie has walked out on it claiming that it is not being enforced leading to diamonds...

AIG bonuses four times higher than Originally MisRepresented

" The 2008 AIG bonus pool just keeps getting larger and larger. In a response to detailed questions from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the company has offered a third assessment of exactly how much it paid out in...

2008 a great year for hi-tech crooks

Crime thrives in the hi tech world. 2008 has seen the amateur days of tempting you to open an unknown email with promises of enlarged body parts, unimaginable sexual delights or cheap mortgage money die away. Now...

I was 4st and facing death

" A STUNNING former anorexia sufferer last night told how she turned her life around – after weighing just FOUR STONE. Victoria Crooks, 23, was warned by worried doctors she faced certain death in her mid teens....

Flowers & Hidden Camera Taken from Cemetery

"MACCLENNY, FL -- A Baker County woman was so set on finding the crooks that kept stealing her husbands' grave flowers, she bought a high-tech motion activated camera to catch them in the act. So was she...

Like Bush in 2000, Hillary plans to ignore voters and steal 2008 election

Hillary Clinton's campaign confirms they will ignore the popular vote by the people and go for the "super delegate" vote of the party bosses, ignoring millions of voters.

Ink-Stained Wretch: Man tattoos wife on back; she leaves

Ah, love...how you remind us not to permanently alter our bodies. Pledging eternal devotion with tattoo ink is not often recommended, but in this case it was almost akin to relationship suicide: A man spent nearly...

Conservative Jack Kingston Wants To COMMEND Rush Limbaugh

Funny, no one on the conservative end of the American political spectrum seemed to care for "fairness" or "free speech" when they took the time to officially condemn Moveon.org for asking whether or not Bush's war...

Customer debit PINs swiped from West Van mall

The 1939 Worlds Fair titled "Tomorrowland" touted Technology will make life easier for Humans in the Future, one wonders if  Scientists then  knew how technological advances would make it easier for...

Fly it proudly and say it loudly!

  Do not surrender the flag to the Republofascists. We all stood behind it on September 11th, and it is not we who corrupted that devotion afterwards. The flag stands for a government of laws, not men. ...

Don't lecture us about confronting evil, Bushky!

" Bush honors victims of communist regimes By BEN FELLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON -- President Bush, honoring the memories of those killed in communist regimes, said Tuesday that their deaths...

Don't give your senators a free vote on Gonzo!

" Democrats to push vote on Gonzales By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON -- Majority Democrats in the Senate are forcing their Republican colleagues on the record about whether embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should keep his job. No one is...

Popular Web sites targeted by crooks

" Popular Web sites targeted by crooks SAN DIEGO, May 2 (UPI) -- A San Diego company says ordinary Web sites are becoming greater targets for Internet criminals looking to corrupt users' computers.Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense, said Web sites...

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