New players challenge world order

[New players challenge world order Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called Brics, are predicted to emerge as major world players by 2050. In this,...

Internal Report Found CIA Lied About Plane Shootdown in Peru, Says GOP Congre...

" Posted November 20, 2008 A classified CIA report suggests that the agency lied to Congress and withheld information from the Justice Department concerning a clandestine...

BNP deputy Simon Darby admits: I use the City Hall to do party business

After the mebership list of the far-right British National Party was published online, many of the members were reveleaed to have high-level jobs. It was revealed that the secon-in-command of the group works for the Greater London Authority, and the man has admitted he...

California Colleges want students to bike to school

Universities in Southern California want their students to bike, carpool, and take more public transit to school, so they are implementing programs to encourage this. With fantastic weather almost the whole year, it...

Toronto - Don't let the Bedbugs Bite!

For some time now, many Toronto homes and apartments have had a bedbug problem.  It seems the cockroaches have moved out and the bedbugs have moved in.  Experts say this is because of more international...

More focus on women issues stressed

"The need to intensify the coverage on women issues in the state has been strongly felt during the observance of National Press Day here under the theme ‘Women & Media’ jointly organised by the Kohima Press...

The 7th Shanghai Biennale 2008 Concluded Today

I saw the 7th Shanghai Biennale (2008) just two days before it concluded today after it had opened on September 9 this year. Some of the works by Chinese artists - at the conceptual level and sometimes the scale of...

Prop. 8 protestors boycott businesses

"LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- New developments in the uproar over Proposition 8, the ban on gay marriage passed by voters last week: Some gay marriage advocates are now calling for boycotts of businesses owned by or...

Budget Cuts Threaten To End Amber Alerts, Sex Offender Warnings

"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- With all state agencies being asked to reduce budgets, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said it may have to cut two high-profile programs: Amber Alerts and the sex-offender registry...

Transgender Day of Remembrance

"anderbilt University’s Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Life will sponsor a candlelight vigil honoring the 10th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance Thursday, Nov. 20....

4 students die in bid to escape fire

A horrible tragedy, considering it could have been averted. "FOUR young female college students died yesterday after falling or jumping from their flame-engulfed room on the sixth floor of the Shanghai Business...

Warning: Arsenic in our forests

We have seen it before, one environmental solution leads to another problem. A chemical used in British Columbia to try and end the pine-beetles wrath has been discontinued and now testing for arsenic (a known cancer...

Officials told not to enforce medicare laws

"Internal Health Ministry documents reveal the BC government deliberately and consciously decided not to enforce laws that protect patients from user fees charged by doctors or private for-profit clinics for services covered by public health insurance."See alsoDocuments...

Sarah Palin says Republican Party must return to its Core Values

Sarah Palin, former vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. speaking to the annual meeting of the republican governors association, said her defeated party must return to core values for instance limited government...

Regulators nix credit card debt forgiveness plan

Personal responsibility is still a pillar of Conservatism, believe it or not. So, they forgive the mortgage companies, AIG, all the Big Banks, hedge funds, Ford, GMC, and Chevy, but not the college girl with her...

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