We Brits are rightly suspicious of toutes les choses francais. I was brought up to know that everything francais was suspect. "Don't drink the water". "Of course, the French don't wash themselves: they just add...
opinion by gerrypopplestone | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 226 views | 5 recommendations | 0 comments
Some have said before, Wrongly, that no idea is a bad idea. "The local government in ShanXi province, China, decided they had enough of people speeding on their highways. In an effort to stop speeders once and for...
"Starting a business requires adequate capital. However, many entrepreneurs are finding that capital alone is not a guarantee for success. Some businesses start out with millions in the coffers, yet end up in the dumps. While a few businesses with shoestring budgets...
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Eight pandas arrived in Beijing today after a long journey from their damaged reserve near the epicentre of the recent China earthquake."The pandas will spend the next six months at the Beijing Zoo on a special...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 881 views | 5 recommendations | 0 comments
If elected the next US president, Barack Obama says his will seek direct diplomacy with communist Cuba."The frontrunner for his party's nomination for the presidency was speaking to Cuban exiles in Florida.Mr...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 414 views | 17 recommendations | 8 comments
The U.S. Army has doubled its use of 'moral waivers' for enlisted soldiers over the past year as the demand for more soldiers reaches a high because of teh Iraq War troop surge. The army is now allowing...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 624 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSurrey’s Mayor Diane Watts certainly shows Politicians everywhere she definitely wears the pants in her City, with the Cajones to fill em. Not unlike Cojonless...
created by Barry ORegan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2835 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
"America's Role as the First, Only, and Last Truly Global Superpower
The Grand Chessboard Part 1
Brent Jessop - Knowledge Driven Revolution.com
October 1, 2007
In Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997), he...
created by vizpix | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 6185 views | 3 recommendations | 2 comments
First, China issued a travel advisory warning for our dear native land, and now Australia?Oh my!"The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade recently updated its "Smart Traveller" website - intended to...
created by cynthia yoo | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1067 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
"His real name is Derek Dugdale but all his mates call him Indiana Jones.
He's the man who visited Exeter's very own Temple of Doom and emerged with a treasure beyond the dreams of avarice.
Derek was digging deep and hard in Princesshay when he saw something strange,...
This truly begs the question ladies and gents, if even the New York Times, perhaps the most unabashedly anti-Iraq Campaign mainstream publication, would print an op-ed supporting the "Surge"...
created by phrolen | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 273 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"At about 10.15 AEST this morning, Andrew Boe (pictured above), who is the lawyer for the Palm Island Council, announced that S/Sgt Chris Hurley will be charged with manslaughter over the death of Aboriginal man Mulrunji in a police station on Palm Island in November 2004 -...
1956, Video
of Elvis Presley (January 8th 1935 - August 16th 1977).
He was years ahead of his time.
God bless you Elvis, we love you!
Video Source: http://www.YouTube.com
"The news that American forces had captured Iranians in Iraq was widely reported last month, but less well known is that the Iranians were carrying documents that offered Americans insight into Iranian activities in Iraq.
An American intelligence official said the new...
"We're smack in the middle of prime house-selling season. The National Association of Realtors predicts that 6.6 million existing homes will change hands this year.
But many markets around the country are cooling, and the inventories of homes for sale are rising. Compared to...