Guinness beer celebrates 250th anniversary

Guinness, Ireland's most famous beer, is celebrating it's 250th anniversary. The founder of the brewery, Arthur Guinness, signed a 9,000-year lease on the brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin on Sept. 24, 1759...

Fighting Sex Trafficking One Tweet at a Time

"A Florida journalist plans to fight sex trafficking one "tweet" at a time by using the social networking site Twitter to mobilize 9,000 people to give $9 on Sept. 9. Diana Scimone, founder of Born to Fly...

Reactions To The Death Of Eunice Kennedy Shriver

The world has rected with sadness to the news of Eunice Kennedy Shriver's death on Tuesday morning. Kennedy Shriver is remembered as a sister, wife, mother, grandmother and humanitarian. Some of the reactions to her death follow. "Michelle and I were deeply saddened to learn...

Web founder makes online privacy plea

Tim Berners-Lee continues to champion a free internet. His latest appeal should concern all who wish to see the internet protected from enclosure and abuse by for profit vested interests. The fact that...

Edelman Says Incarceration of Black Men is New Slavery

I write for Associated Content.com, this morning I recieved a message from another producer.William Edward Thomas. William sent me this link  "Incarceration of Black Men is New Slavery". He is the National...

Every 20th Pakistani an eye patient

" Every 20th person in Pakistan is suffering from eye diseases and there is a pressing need to rescue people from this menace, says Lt Gen (retired) Jahandad Khan, founder and president of Al Shifa Trust, an eye hospital. He says there were 1.7 million blind in Pakistan...

Retired Florida voters to vote for Obama

Youngsters try to convince Grandma in Florida " Got Bubbies living in Florida? (That's a Yiddish term for grandmothers.) Or any other crucial swing state for that matter? If so, you are qualified for this...

Maldives heads to historic presidential poll

Asia's longest serving political leader is facing the prospect of losing his job as the President of the Maldives. The Indian Ocean tourist paradise is having its first taste of democracy with multi-party elections being held to choose a president for the next five years. The...

Lawsuit over ACORN filed in New Orleans Court

"by Rebecca Mowbray, The Times-PicayuneWednesday October 01, 2008, 8:34 PM Since Hurricane Katrina, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has fought to make sure that displaced New Orleanians...

Strange Bedfellows

"According to CBC: The federal New Democrats have lost a candidate over a very public love of cannabis. The NDP has confirmed that Dana Larsen submitted his resignation to the party’s provincial campaign manager. Party spokesman Brad Lavigne said information came to light...

Google Cofounder, Sergey Brin, Blogging

Sergey Brin, Google co founder, launched a personal blog earlier today on BlogSpot, opening with a post about the difference between his blog, too, and Google. The next post followed a minute later recounting his...

Great Gig in the Sky - Richard Wright of Pink Floyd dies **update**

***10/7/08 BBC Radio tribute "A radio tribute entitled 'Remember A Day: Richard Wright In His Own Words' runs on BBC Radio 2 in the UK this Saturday, 11th October, at 7.00 PM. Including his last ever radio...

OiNK Founder, Several Users Charged

Prior to being shut down by authorities, British bit torrent site OiNK was an amazing place to discover and share new music. But despite its file-sharing modus operandi, it's surprising to learn that the site's...

Obama Terrorist Supporter Ayers Unrepentant for Bombings; Another Obama Agent...

On one side, there's Weather Underground bomber and terrorist William "Bill" Ayers, now nicely cleaned up by the Barack Obama camp and touted as a positive role model for Obama's mantra of "change."  Then...

William Shatner joins in with futuristic autograph concept.

I'm not one for Autographs. I do own a few, but for the most part I just don't see much need to have them. That being said, this is a brilliant concept that should make millions. "At a time when the $2 billion per year autograph business runs rampant with counterfeits,...

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