Guardian serves readers with short stories

You can read or listen to short stories. I like this service. I have been sharing my book at NowPublic without complaint. It seems that this might be the wave of the future....

Occupy wall st in SF

     from: http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/10/05/goals-occupy-wall-streetOccupy Wall Street is an easy target -- a group of protesters taking on one of the most powerful institutions in the...

For Readers Only

God knows I need an editor I am an American word slinger; can’t say that is a writer. My critics will climb aboard to whack at my stuff. They correct me all of time, for which I am grateful. As a former magazine...

Genetic propensity to liberal leaning

You may have little control over your political orientation as it may be genetic based on new research findings. DRD4 gene defines you political leaning. I have leaned this way from birth and I knew it all along....

Robin Hood disappointed at Britain forest sale

This cannot be good news. According to the Guardian, Great Britain wants sell off its’ forests to raise some cash. I can tell you from America’s experience that having those pristine assets is far better than...

Copyfighters, On Guard

Warning: The following article contains many new terms and could-be colloquialisms, Reading it is at your own risk. Skyping with my daughter in London, I overheard a conversation that someone else had in the...

Courtney Love loose legal control of Daughter Frances Bean Cobain

Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, now 17, has been appointed to new legal guardianship.  The guardians appointed by the court are Wendy O'Connor and Kimberly Dawn, Kurt Cobain's mother and sister.This gaurdianship was established because of a...

British Press Banned from Reporting Parliament. Seriously.

Alex Massie reports that: "This time, perhaps even the lawyers have gone too far. It's hard to recall, even in the long history of appalling gagging orders, a more disgraceful injunction than this." He then goes...

Germany's Biggest Women's Magazine Bans Models From Its Pages

Germany's most popular magazine for women, Brigitte, will no longer feature professional models on its pages. Instead, it will use images of "real life" women. Brigitte's editor-in-chief Andreas Lebert told the Guardian that the magazine will stop using skinny models from the...

Iraqi Militia find way to target innocent gays - the Internet

Torture and killing of innocent Iraqi gays and lesbians has reached a critical state, and Iraqi militia have found an efficient way to target innocent gays - the Internet -, with no intervention from the Iraqi or...

Privacy law, free press or self-regulation?

""As a paper we do believe in effective self-regulation and we don't want a privacy law. When it comes to effective self- regulation, it seems to me it can only work if newspaper groups are truthful and open with the regulators.""What many don't understand is that the UK...

New allegations of phone hacking by Murdoch papers

There are times when I don't know where to begin - whether it be a matter of disgust or simple amazement at the business practices in the UK.The linked story simply blows my mind - for more than one reason but mostly that - because of fleeting privacy laws - no action has...

Obama praise for Iran's Mousavi

" US President Barack Obama has praised the opposition candidate in Iran's disputed presidential election. Mr Obama said Mir Hossein Mousavi had captured the imagination of groups in Iran that were interested in...

Choksy on Iran: 'situation very grave for Iranian people'

Indiana University professor of Iranian Studies and specialist on Iranian history and religions, Jamsheed Kairshasp Choksy, thinks the situation is very grave for the Iranian people. " "I think the situation is...

Video of British police assault on a citizen, who died at G20

..." The Guardian obtained this footage of Ian Tomlinson at a G20 protest in London shortly before he died. It shows Tomlinson, who was not part of the demonstration, being assaulted from behind and pushed to the...

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