Further rain has continued to fall across southern China after the country was devastated by floods earlier this week. 176 people have been confirmed to have died as a result of the flooding, and around 50 more are officially missing. Xinhua, the state news agency in China, has reported that the flooding in the...
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Imperial Tobacco, a United Kingdom-based tobacco company, has announced that it will cut 2,440 jobs as part of a restructuring plan. This move comes after the Imperial’s takeover of Spain-based Altadis. The job cuts were made as part of the process of moving the production of tobacco products to Northern Spain. In the United...
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On June 18, 2008 the Parliament of Sweden approved a bill that permits the interception and recording of data traveling through and within Sweden’s borders beginning on the first day of 2009. The proposition was passed in a 143 to 138 vote, with one abstention. It was passed with an addendum to be reviewed...
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Workers in a Nepalese local government office have gone on strike in protest against actions made Matrika Yadav, the minister for Forest and Soil Conservation. Yadav caused controversy after locking up Dandu Raj Ghimire, a local development officer in a toilet. Protesters said that this action was an “inhumane and objectionable act.” Ghimire had...
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Shortly after an extended question and answer session, Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist and nominative challenger to the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in California’s California’s 8th congressional district, easily secured an endorsement from the San Francisco Green Party last night. Sheehan answered a wide variety of questions helping to overcome a wide perception...
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United States President George W. Bush delivered a speech Wednesday in which he urged the United States Congress to end a ban on oil exploration off of US shores. Currently there is both an executive order and a Congressional moratorium against such exploration. The Congress issued its moratorium in 1981. In 1989, President George...
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Cafeteria of Endless Options Barack Obama’s misandrist “Fathers’ Day Speech of 2008″, in which he transparently pandered to female voters by solely blaming men for the epidemic of fatherless homes, was a watershed moment in US history: he officially released girls and women from all reproductive responsibility. The Roe v. Wade ruling of 1973...
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The following article was previously published in the Charlestown Gazette on June 8, 2008 and the Washington Times on June 13, 2008 This year marks the 100th anniversary of the modern celebration of Father’s Day. It may sound as a truism that fathers should be respected in their role as providers, laborers, soldiers and...
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Democrat Senator Joe Biden described Barack Obama last year: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” Biden received justifiable grief for his artless observation. Nevertheless, the view that Obama is a smart, eloquent communicator enjoys widespread...
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Whether one attributes the success of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama to savvy maneuvering on the part of the Democratic National Committee and the Obama campaign, Republican ineptitude, a biased press or the influence of shadow governments, in the end the November election’s outcome is going to come down to Americans’ capacity – or...
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