"It has given me the chuckles the few times I have been behind somebody at the grocery store, and their total comes out to be $6.66.It never fails that they reach for a pack of gum or breath mints to buy so they can change the total.OK, even if I believed there was really...
"It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States and...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorDropping everything to Cash in on the Energy Bandwagon, may in principle sounds like a good idea, but many have tried to make a living on principle, leaving many with a...
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AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...
"Necessity is the mother of invention – or in this case adaptation. Information technology in Cuba, with its heavy-handed oversight of human activity, is in a process of breaking out of the grip of the government...
A video of two young women looting stores in Belgrade while the Serbian riots are taking place is quickly becoming a hit on YouTube. The YouTube community seems to be very unamused by these two thieves, and they have...
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Lifestreaming is all the rage and Valleywag is reporting that one of the big players in the space is the target of a pretty hefty purchase offer."Sources tell Valleywag that lifecasting startup Ustream.tv is in...
While the opposition parties have agreed to talks and both have promised to attempt to end the violence that has plagued Kenya since the December 27 elections. A recent UN report released today says that rape is...
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"The Government’s online tax return system crashed today, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded and unable to file their tax returns on time.
The chaos could not have come at a worse time, with the system grinding to a halt on the day the deadline expired for people...
"With rumors of government complicity in Benazir Bhutto's assassination rife throughout Pakistan, the country's stability may depend on the absolute transparency of the investigation into the murder. But a constantly...
"The nation's shoppers - taking advantage of deep discounts and expanded hours - jammed stores over the last weekend before Christmas to try to grab a hard-to-find Wii or scoop up bargains on other items. But the spending surge may not be enough to offset what is shaping up...
"Until recently, many employers didn't vigilantly enforce the provision, and some states and federal courts didn't think the claim held water. But as the cost of covering workers continues to escalate, employers and health plans are getting more aggressive about going after...
August Hanning, state secretary in the Interior Ministry
and a former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service reported that the three men arrested were members of a larger network, and ten other fugitives...
Image on right is a screen grab of Microsoft's Virtual Earth showing the Ohio class ballistic missile submarine in dry dock near Bangor in Washington state. Inset: 2003 photo of USS Virginia in contstruction showing...
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In Nachu Kenya there is trouble stirring, for months the village women have suffered at the hands of a brutal troop. Think it is just the work of another run of the mill African, warlord, tyrant....