Poll disaster for Bavaria leaders

Elections in the German region of Bavaria yesterday saw a major blow dealt to Germany's conservative party. The result was the party's worst result since 1954. The result is bad news for Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel."Bavaria's ruling conservatives, the Christian Social...

The BMW of Bongs (Or Mercedes Benz depending on your preference)

I stumbled onto this story by accident (no really!!!) and even though it is a bit of old news, I thought it was worth sharing on here. "Being the responsible lot that we are, Crave occasionally posts public...

Sean Kingston Heads To Fiji For Mega Rock Festival

Fiji's largest free concert will mark the entry of the newest player in its lucrative mobile phone market next week.Caribbean-based Digicel Group will launch its new mobile network in Fiji on October 1, taking the...

Celebrate Car Free Day today

Cities across the world - from Athens to Taipei - are taking part in 'Car Free Day'. This is a day that gives us a chance to think of an alternative to driving to work. It encourages everyone to think about how...

Aussie 'free hugs guy' to donate kidney to stranger

In this self centred world at the time when we are witnessing so much of violence, hatred and being carpet-bombed daily with messages of fear and disconnection.Everyone is running for their own life but Juan...

Man who had sex with girl, 12, admits rape but is freed after woman judge say...

She should go to a juvenile detention facility, she should get counselling as should her family"A barman who admitted having sex with a 12-year-old girl walked free from court after convincing a judge she had tricked him into believing she was an adult. Michael Graham, 25,...

Arctic sea ice at second lowest extent ever recorded

More alarming news on the global warming front as Arctic sea ice reaches the second lowest extent ever recorded. This comes at a time when some high profile politicians such as Republican vice-presidential...

New York City Broker Charged With Scamming Elderly Clients

"NEW YORK  --  A New York City stockbroker has been charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients -- many of them elderly -- and sending the money...

Protesters Wreak Havoc At Casey Anthony Home

The case of Casey Anthony, the Florida mom who is suspected in the death of her child, seems to be getting more bizarre and more volatile. Protestors have been gathering outside the woman's parents' house, and he says they've been throwing rocks, forcing him to engage in...

Why the Financial Meltdown Reflects the Fundamental Failure of the Bush-McCai...

"The financial meltdown on Wall Street is more than a cyclic correction brought on by a mismanaged business cycle. It is emblematic of a problem at the very foundation of the right wing economic philosophy that...

US mother convicted of sex with underage Australian boy

An American woman from the Virginia flew halfway around the world  to meet her teenage boy friend. She had  sex with a 15 year old boy and not been charged in an Australian court. Barbara Case, 33 met her teenage lover on internet.  She was arrested after the...

The $70 Billion Spectrum Rip-Off

The airwaves belong to the People, but the FCC plans to cut us out and give away the new digital spectrum to the same corporations that have been ignoring and violating the public interest provisions in their license in the analog spectrumhttp://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html"On...

Iraq or Osama Bin Laden - Please exlain

"Iraq or Osama Bin Laden - Please exlain"I keep reading different post where people are using the war to say that Obama does not respect soldiers and does not want us to fight the war on terror. Where is the war...

Parkinson drugs turned headmaster into paedophile

A headmaster with thousands of indecent pictures of children on his computer has been aquited after a judge ruled that the drugs he was taking to combat Parkinson's disease turned him into a paedophile."A former headmaster who amassed thousands of indecent images of children...

Fly Free Contest on September 11

As Today is the seven anniversary of September 11, I could hardly believe what I was seeing in this morning’s Toronto Star, a two full page ad for a contest called” Fly Free Contest”, “Play Fly Free with the Toronto Star and West Jet Vacations daily and could win a...
 

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