Burma Sanctions Revisited

Many years ago I did a stint for Food not Bombs in San Francisco, while there I met a student activist from the Free Burma group.  She was a cool gal.  We were riding the bus back from taking the food...

Who has survived going over Niagara Falls?

A man went over Niagara Falls today on the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side, but he survived the plunge in to the icy water below. The man is currently in hospital with hypothermia and a head injury. As it is...

What drops from the Sky on New Years? You will be Surprized!

In the United States most viewers watch the Ball drop in New York City but for many small towns other objects are dropped at the stroke of Midnight.  In Atlanta, for example, the Giant peach descends down a...

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Google Shares Drop Below $400

"Google shares are at a considerable low today. They opened with a value of $420 and by 12:26pm ET, had dropped below the $400 mark to $396.29 (according to a Google search for "goog")At one point the stock had...

Jobless claims hit 25-year high, imports plunge

Jobless claims hit 25-year high, imports plunge Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers drawing jobless benefits hit a 25-year...

Medvedev Urges Obama to Rethink Missile Shield Plans

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said he will call of his threat to deploy missiles in the Kaliningrad region, a Russian excave within the EU, if Barack Obama calls off the Bush Administration's plans to build a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. An...

B.C. Housing Plunges According To Report

According to a report released by the economics department of Central 1 Credit Union. B.C.'s housing market is definitely bleeding from the current world credit crisis. According to research done in the report,...

Stocks plunge anew as recession worries resurface

"Wall Street falls sharply as investors, worrying about recess, ponder Obama impact on economy NEW YORK (AP) -- A case of postelection nerves sent Wall Street plunging Wednesday as investors, looking past Barack Obama's presidential victory, returned to their fears of a deep...

UK house prices fall at record annual rate in Oct

Uk home prices are continuing to plummet, causing a great amount of anxiety for the sector. House prices fell at a record rate this month in the UK."British house prices fell in October at their sharpest annual rate since records began in 1991, the Nationwide building society...

Palin allies report rising campaign tension

Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign's already-tense internal dynamics.Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard...

Asian markets plunge after Wall Street slide

Taking cue from US stocks market of  Wednesday,  Asian stocks tumbled Thursday as fears that the world's biggest economies are shrinking sparked fresh panic, despite continued efforts by several governments to ease the financial crisis and bail out packages. The...

Parents Neb. have limited time to Get Rid of their Teens

Nebraska's safe haven law was designed to allow folks to drop off an unwanted infant  at a local hospital an other locations without worry of being prosecuted.  What the law didn't account for is parents...

Another copy cat site of google adwords to steal your log in data.

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Gasoline Price Makes Biggest Drop Ever

The average rate for a gallon of gasoline in the US fell drastically, as the largest drop on record.  Consumer demand, falling oil prices and the worldwide financial crisis have all driven the price of gas...

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