One person has been killed, and dozens more injured after a tent collapses at the Pohoda music festival in Trencin Slovakia. The music festival has now been canceled. About 33,000 people were at the event that featured Patti Smith, Basement Jazz and Travis, and all have...
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Houston, TX -- A Federal Civil suit has been filed in Texas alleging problems of gross, illegal discrimination and unethical conduct by one of the largest YMCAs in the nation. The conflict seems to involve a former...
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Living in a recession apparently doesn’t have much of an effect on concert-goers. At least that’s what nearly 200,000 sunburned, sweat-covered fans proved to skeptics when they scampered around the Empire...
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[Source - MSNBC.COMLink - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29528182/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/1/] This is a series of 13 photographs from a tent city, occupied by the homeless just outside of Sacramento, California. It is presented by MSNBC at the above link. I am sceptical...
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"by Mosharraf Zaidi Perception is reality. So while there is an almighty chorus of those that are warning the people of the world to be cautious and not invest so emphatically in the hope that the US election result has inspired, it is important to listen not only to our...
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Nevada, Reno "Tent city" no work, nowhere to go " People who had lost their jobs to the ailing economy, or newcomers who had moved to Reno for work and discovered no one was hiring. Within weeks, more than 150...
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"HELSTON, Cornwall, UK (CNN) -- A huge cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008. It was the largest recorded disaster in that country, killing more than 130,000 people and leaving millions homeless. ...
BARACK OBAMA A Workout at the Ritz Instead of Meeting U.S. Troops? Bad Move, Senator Obama. By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com, Opinion-EditorialScheduling Snafus happen, we all are aware that...
Probabally Germany's best known festival, the Munich Oktoberfest begins September 20 and runs until October 5. Last year the Bavarian festival drew in 6.2 million visitors who drank 6.7 million litres of...
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Christian devotees from all over world have gathered to welcome the visit of Pope in Sydney. The festival will start on Tuesday and more than 200,000 pilgrims are expected to attend this event. "Thousands of...
created by Sanjay Jha | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 237 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
I was here on Saturday, and let me just say that they had only planned for around 100,000 people to show up. German Police estimates show that about 250,000 showed up and took part in the festivities. ...
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A 45-year old German stumbles upon his stolen tent put up for auction on eBay, and uses the site to catch the thief. " "Bigger even than his delight at getting the tent back, was his surprise when he discovered in the course of the transaction that the seller lived in his...
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Trevor Boddy critiques a proposed new urbanist development in South Delta as "a last-gasp attempt to reform suburbanism from within,before high energy prices and new respect for land compels much denserdevelopment." "The 13th of May brought several downer developments — and...
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Over 80,000 people are missing or dead in China, and the final toll might be far worse as disease, the rainy season and aftershocks could still affect millions. At least 3.3 million tents were requested by the...