ALABAMA THE BACKWARDS TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO BACKWARDS ALABAMA, APARENTLY THE COUNTRIES MOST UNEXPOSED DIRTY LITTLE SECRET. WHY YOU ASK WOULD ONE WRITE SUCH INSULTING AND TELLING WORDS ABOUT GOOD OLD ALABAMA THE...
In some news that the airline industry could do without, the FAA has proposed a massive $7.1 million fine against American Airlines, saying that "American Airlines knowlingly flew planes that needed saftey repairs"....
A man from China's Xinjiang provence set himself on fire during a protest on behalf of ethnic Uighurs. The protestor was extinguished by several others, and was taken to hospital."Other demonstrators jumped on the man and quickly extinguished the flames with a blanket, said...
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Sounds like it is a good thing that the police were able to figure this one out. This could have turned out a lot worse than it did. Age is no longer a factor in the damage that a person can do."Police found a map of...
South African Navanethem Pillay, has been nominated as the next UN high commissioner for human rights."Ms Pillay has a background defending anti-apartheid activists in South Africa and is currently a judge at the International Criminal Court. The UN General Assembly still has...
Do black people have to look in the past?! This surely left a deep trauma for black people. Let gone be by gone!! Let the true color live in harmony." The 39-year-old former Marine said he's never had any trouble...
The case was closed.. you are safe the General! "Makassar, (ANTARA News) - General Chairman of the People`s Conscience Party (Hanura) Gen (ret) Wiranto assumed that the case of the Timor Leste riot had been settled....
Don't make the new wound... "He said what had happened in Timor Leste in September 1999 must be accepted with responsibility where both governments must expressed regret to their peoples. Juwono added that besides the principles, the CTF finding must also be responded...
With all the investigation going on over tv televangelist’s now Florida-based televangelist Bill Keller says he’s being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service for getting involved in politics. But now the...
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There's a great discussion going on this morning about intellectual property and reporting, and this throws an interesting spin on it: What happens when the original article is itself an unattrbuted quote?"Well-known...
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Wow, a serious fight is underway between the AP and the blogosphere. Jeff Jarvis posted this on his blog yesterday:"I talked to a reporter this week about the embattled Associated Press and said three times...
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"The U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, the oldest existing U.S. military base outside U.S. territory, sits on a 45-square-mile area (117.6 square kilometers) about the size of Manhattan Island."
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"The complaints come from individuals or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in all parts of the country and vary widely in substance with most of the cases related to conflicts over natural resources and agrarian matters, Syafruddin Ngulma, a Komnas-HAM member for...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWell Europe have their Soccer Hooligans, Montreal has their Hab (Montreal Canadiens) Hockey Hooligans.Watching the news last night, it looked more like a War Zone than a...