Alone in the industrialized world: The American healthcare system

Americans are not divided about the state of their health care system, according to national polls. In a February 2007 poll, 91 percent believe health care in America needs reforming. Sixty-four percent of those...

Can Israel take out Iran's nukes?

"Barring a "catastrophic development," reports Middle East Newsline, George W. Bush has decided not to attack Iran. An administration source explains that Washington deems Iran's cooperation "needed for a withdrawal [of US forces] from Iraq." If correct, this implies that the...

Mobile marketing best way to reach audiences

The Mobile Marketing in the News blog has this interesting report from the Mobile Marketing Forum in the USA. In some ways use of mobile in the USA is behind Australia but in other ways it is ahead. Considering Australia (and most of the world) had a several year head start...

Hillary calls for a mulligan

"In last week’s Democrat debate, one candidate actually showed some testosterone on the subject of National Security. Yesterday, realizing that the strong rhetoric left her uncomfortably alone on the Peace Train, Hillary Rodham-Clinton decided to join former klansman Robert...

Pope Benedict confuses a journalist again

I should keep track of each spectacularly skewed sentence that Mr Malcolm Moore writes for the Telegraph.  In today's installment in the series, however, he seems to me to get the sense of things mostly correct: so it is just the one sentence I'll poke fun at. ...

NY Cab Driver's Asylum Case Reopened

 Illegal immigrant Mamadou Soumare will travel to Mali to bury his family and then be able to return to the United States , courtesy of a humane decision on the part of U.S. immigration officials. A taxi driver in New York and technically an illegal alien, Soumare's visa...

The New 'Visa' Card?

"Bank Of America's policy to issue credit cards to illegal aliens"

Islamophobia - Putting Virgil Goode (R-VA) In His Place

"Virgil Goode's (R-VA) paranoid ravings, warning of "In Muhammad We Trust" on US Currency and "The Islamic Flag" flying over Washington are the most recent examples of a rising tide of Islamophobia in the United...

Camp Pendleton Marine regiment bids farewell to its 100 dead

"THOMAS WATKINS Associated Press CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Two weeks after returning from a yearlong deployment to a joyous midnight homecoming, Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5 gathered under the California...

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media Sources: Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005 Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story” Author: Elliot D....

"Israel May Have to Act Alone"

""Israel May Have to Act Alone" Deputy Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman on his country's response to the Iranian nuclear program and the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN

Kidnap plot charge man in court

" Last Updated: Friday, 9 February 2007, 16:05 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Kidnap plot charge man in court Police van arriving at court The accused were taken by police escort to London A man accused of involvement in an alleged plan to kidnap and kill a...

I DID NOT LEAVE A CLIMBER TO DIE ON EVEREST.. HE WAS BEYOND SAVING

I just posted a related article on NowPublic, but wanted to follow up with this one which explains the story of David Sharp's death this spring in a bit more detail. Again, it shows that, as Russell points out,...

Update on Jim Gray disappearance. Help still needed

Jim Gray took his sail boat and left alone to spread his mother remains in the San Francisco Bay Area a few days ago. He has not been seen or heard ever since. The Coast Guard started a search and came out empty handed, had to give up. Then a few friends and colleagues of...

Environmental Crime

Tackling environmental crime costs this country in excess of £1.5BN per year. Every community suffers from the effects of environmental crime and Worthing is no exception. New legislation, the Clean...

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