Britain is planning to ban advertising jobs overseas due to economic meltdown, a process which could hit foreign professionals aspiring for employment opportunities in UK. The government is mulling an idea to ensure that existing jobs go to British workers. The employers are...
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The devastating Cutty Sark blaze was caused by an overheating vacuum cleaner, according to reports today. Apparently guards failed to notice that the vacuum cleaner was running, and it burst into flames."Lazy guards failed to spot a running vacuum on the Cutty Sark which...
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"Posted: 4:36 am, September 6, 2008, by Amir Taheri, NY POST IN one of his last sermons before his death, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned of "three threats" to his vision of Islam: the US, the Jews and women....
"A protest rally of about 100 representatives of Georgian United Trade Union is being held at Igoeti village, where the first checkpoint of Russian occupation armies is located. ‘You cannot make Georgia to bring to its knees with bombing’; ‘There is no place for...
Reports today in British papers are claiming that a secret deal between the al-Mahdi militia in Basra prevented British forces from entering Basrea for nearly a week while US forces were bogged down there. At the time, there was great confusion and speculation about why the...
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It's a product that has been banned for sale in Quebec for over 20 years. Stores have faced stiff fines, and a few years ago there was even a raid on a Wal-Mart who was selling the stuff. But now, at long last, Quebecers will be able to enjoy...Yellow Margarine.Yes, it's...
" Companies here will be prevented from engaging in "ambush marketing" ahead of and during the Beijing Olympics, in a bid to protect the rights of official sponsors, a spokesman for the Games' organizing committee said yesterday.Chen Feng, deputy director of the marketing...
Australia is the latest country to pull out of the the so-called "coalition of the willing" in Iraq. Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has pulled out the country's 550 combat soldiers, saying that the previous...
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"A national hot line that urges students to call in tips about weapons and school violence has gotten 198 calls about possible dangers in North Jersey since starting five years ago.In January, a caller told the...
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"Night of the Living Fed
Paul Krugman is writing about The Face-Slap Theory."The scariest thing I’ve read recently is a speech given last week by Tim Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Geithner came as close as a Fed official can to...
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This is amazing news. Ovarian cancer is one of the most untreatable cancers and one that most women fear. "The pill" has been blamed for many negative health effects over the years, from headaches to blood clots. But here is very good evidence that...
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"DEATH PENALTY-IRAN: Top Campaigner Harassed, Hangings Increase
By Kimia Sanati
Credit:ILNA /Sajad Safari
Emaddedin Baghi
TEHRAN, Jan 14 (IPS) - Emaddedin Baghi, Iran’s leading anti-death penalty campaigner, is back behind bars in the country’s notorious Evin prison after...
Any updates or additional information would be appreciated."Several suspected cases of Norwalk virus have forced the closure of a daycare in Burnaby.
The daycare, attached to Burnaby South Secondary School, closed...
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Oh well. ONe (or two, as the case may be) can default to the old
standby: airplane toilets."The
A380 may have the world’s first airborne double bed, but it won’t be
put to the obvious use if Singapore Airlines...
created by insaniac | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 678 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
"MySpace Censors Anti-War Websites
Prison Planet blocked as the model for government regulated Internet 2 gets a dry run
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Rupert Murdoch's MySpace has...
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