"14 February, 2008 - MICHAEL MOORE’S PROGRESSIVE PATRIOTISM - Andy Newman @ 11:08 am – “On Monday our Socialist Film Club in Swindon showed Michael Moore’s “Sicko”, there were about 15 people there ...
"TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a government official said Tuesday. ...
"The Olympics hadn't even started when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin quietly confirmed to President Bush the sketchy reports of Russian troops involved in an outbreak of fighting in Georgia's breakaway...
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I just heard about this from MIchael Alstad, and am so outraged. There are really only two travel funds for artists in Canada, and this is one of them, and it has just been pulled by the Tory government for...
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade on July 17 said that Europe wants Algerian and Libyan oil-and-gas reserves and accused the EU of deliberately choosing to isolate Africa through the new union. Libyan strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi denounced the project as leader of the AU...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission wants the entertainment industry to take steps to have TV and movie characters tie in with more nutritional food choices. Kids are the target of more than $1.6 billion spent on...
"With so many websites - including this one - out to capitalize on the spike of global interest surrounding the Olympic Games an interesting divide has developed in the way publishers are approaching the RSS feed. Do RSS feeds promote a site across the web, or do they provide...
"The bookshop trestle table clearly ain't big enough for the both of them. Novelist Salman Rushdie yesterday claimed to have broken wine writer Malcolm Gluck's record for book signings after adding his full name to 1,000 books on a tour to promote his latest novel. "His...
Activitists in Australia have won the right to distribute condoms at the world youth day in Sydney marking the pope's visit, blocking an order that had attempted to stop them from doing so by barring people from "annoying" the pilgrims."Young Catholics attending World Youth...
An Olympic match is already taking place before the Beijing Games actually start.This time, it's between ambush marketers and actual Olympic sponsors. Hooligans, the dreaded villains at sporting events, are quickly...
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Vietnam airlines will be the official sponsoring airline for the 60th Miss World contest, which will take place in Vietnam in 2010."The local carrier announced that under a freshly-signed Memorandum of Understanding...
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Equality minister Harriet Harman has set out a plan to allow British firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minority job applicants. The new plan would not require firms to do so, but would allow them...
""At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the...
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It appears that the leadership in Russia wants to maintain its unique Russian culture. Much like the French in wanting to maintain their language as a "global" language, The Russian President, Medvedev, feels...
Kerstin Fritzl, from the Austria cellar, has reunited with her family. It was reported yesterday on NowPublic that she woke up from the coma she was in. That coverage can be seen here. "...