With channel's launch, French join the global TV battle
bjtindle
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TV News Is Not Dead...Yet

The nightly, national, televised newscast and the live-time, cable television broadcast are not dead yet. Despite a huge growth in online news consumption habits in the United States, a solid 46% of Americans still...
  • Jarrett Martineau
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highlighted by Jarrett Martineau | 2 days ago | updated 2 days ago
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Depressing Reading
willposh
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Chicago Tribune Lays Off 40

Bang bang Chicago's silver hammer came down upon their heads....ba-dum-dum-dum..."The Chicago Tribune shed more than 40 newsroom employees today, which, coupled with last week's voluntary exit of more than 30...
  • Jarrett Martineau
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highlighted by Jarrett Martineau | 5 days ago | updated 5 days ago
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Victims of violence
moonwolf
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Ossetians Say West Is Behind Conflict

In an attempt to balance the flood of anti-Russian rhetoric pouring out of the western press, here's a very interesting article from Moscow Times online.  A view of how those in South Ossetia see NATO and...
highlighted by moonwolf | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Le Pen sells party HQ to Chinese

This is hilarious. Poetic justice anyone?"France's anti-immigrant party, the National Front, is selling its headquarters to a Chinese university, according to the party leader. Jean-Marie Le Pen has confirmed that the party base has been purchased by a Shanghai university. Mr...
  • Dave Keating
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highlighted by Dave Keating | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
91 views | 3 comments
Electron Microscope Coloured DNA Strand on Black
the_tjb
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Man Freed By DNA Review After 18 Years

This article is about a man that was released from prison after 18 years because he was cleared by DNA evidence. This brings up a topic about the wrongful convinctions of innocent men to prison and even death. It has...
highlighted by Gh0s7 | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
230 views | 5 comments
Eleven Cabinet Resignations In A Month As Four More Quit in the Maldives
BadrNaseem
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Eleven Cabinet Resignations In A Month As Four More Quit in the Maldives

"A further four cabinet ministers and seven deputy ministers on Saturday left government under a clause in the constitution banning dual parliament and cabinet roles, meaning eleven ministers have now quit cabinet in...
  • BadrNaseem
highlighted by BadrNaseem | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Lawyer: Morgan Freeman, wife getting divorced

I'd be willing to bet that Meyer is Morgan's girlfriend and when the wife found out......"ACKSON, Mississippi (AP) -- Morgan Freeman's lawyer says the actor and his wife of 24 years are getting a divorce. ...
highlighted by master_jim2008 | 1 wk ago
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From JFK to George Bush and Barack Obama: Did the Knave of Hearts Really Steal those Tarts?
agora
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From JFK to George Bush and Barack Obama: Did the Knave of Hearts Really Stea...

Was it really Jack, the Knave of Hearts, who purloined the pastry? There were other knaves -- in fact a whole gang of knaves called the ‘Knives’ -- who might have nicked the tarts. Or was it the Queen of Spades...
  • agora
created by agora | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Wise message for the world from the late comedian George Carlin
agora
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Wise message for the world from the late comedian George Carlin

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and...
  • agora
created by agora | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
142 views | 5 comments
Greyhound Bus Beheader "was Anti-Social": Is Vince Li a Psychopath?
Christina 123
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Greyhound Bus Beheader "was Anti-Social": Is Vince Li a Psychopath?

Greyhound Bus maniac vince Li has been described by work colleagues and neighbours as well-dressed, brooding and exhibited anti-social behaviour.  Psychopathy or "sociopathy" is now defined as "Anti-Social...
highlighted by Christina 123 | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Decapitation and alleged cannibalism on Greyhound Bus in western Canada: Exopolitics insights
agora
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Decapitation and alleged cannibalism on Greyhound Bus in western Canada: Exop...

It is now well publicized that on Wednesday 30 July 2008, Vince Li, a resident of Edmonton on a Greyhound Bus travelling through a desolate part of the Tans-Canada Highway, perpetrated a savage and apparently totally...
  • agora
created by agora | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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China apologises for roughing up journalists a day before the Olympic Games
politisite
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China apologises for Roughing up Journalists days before the Olympic Games

The apology came after border police "clashed" with the Japanese journalists who had arrived in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region after an alleged terrorist attack Monday left 16 police dead, Xinhua news agency...
highlighted by politisite | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
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McCain VEEP Rumors to pull attention off Obama Mid-East Trip
politisite
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Prognosis Dire, political columnist Robert Novak Retires

Prognosis Dire,  political columnist  Robert Novak RetiresThe Chicago Tribune is reporting that Robert Novak has stated that his condition is dire and he is permanently retiring from jounalism.  " ...
highlighted by politisite | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
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UFO crashes in California
zichi
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UFO crashes in California

Three witnesses looked up at the sky on July 1, 2008, and watched an abnormally large oval or round shaped flying object at about... internet site reference:...
  • agora
created by agora | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
543 views | 9 comments
The Sun Newspaper.
Amy Muir
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Britain's 'Sun' drops its price to 30p

Starting Monday, Britain's famous 'Sun' newspaper will drop its price by 5p to 30p.This may not seem like a lot, but the price drop will affect around 2.5 million copies of the tabloid."The "credit crunch defying...
  • amyjudd
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highlighted by amyjudd | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago
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