news and politics

To say that the blogosphere is consumed with news and politics would be an understatement. As the world has become more socially, culturally and economically interconnected - by way of the very technology that allows you to read this tag description - we all have an interest in what's going on, here and everywhere.

Technology has also contributed to the democratization of news sources (both traditional and emergent) as well as rethinking of what is considered newsworthy in the first place. While this has largely contributed to a more informed electorate and greater political engagement, it has also lead to more tears in the social fabric. Even as the challenges that the world faces become more grave, we are less able to view them without our ideological blinders.  

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “news and politics”

• The Dark Side of Slavery in Dubai

  
  The BN Village — Authority: 146
  This is an excerpt. The story is very long but intriguing through and through. It was posted at a forum without a link and I found the original source for the story. Quote: If you take the Big Bus Tour of Dubai – the passport to a pre-processed experience of every major city on earth – you are fed ...
  14 hours ago

• How to kill boring websites: start charging people to be bored

  
  The Spicy Cauldron — Authority: 129
  I can’t somehow imagine the Worksop Guardian, the Ripley & Heanor News, the Whitby Gazette and the Northumberland Gazette getting much site traffic now they’ve started charging for access to content. The Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read the full ...
  20 hours ago

• Caribbean Court of Justice, anthor step to True Independence‏

  
  The BN Village — Authority: 146
  It would appear, from yesterdays lead story in our sister title, that the country is on the cusp of replacing the Judicial Committee of the London-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). According to National Security Minister Dwight Nelson, Cabinet will make a decision to accept or reject the ...
  1 day ago

• The GTL™ Sunday Guest Column — “More Is Usually SAID Than Is Ever DONE” By Christopher L. Doster

  
  The Gun Toting Liberal — Authority: 125
  GTL™ Sunday Guest Columnist: Author And “Moderately-Right-Of-Center” Political Pundit, Christopher L. Doster, Employs His Wit, Sarcasm And Conservative Sense Of Humor To Promote The Conservative Values Espoused By Such Legends As Lee Iacocca And Famous College Football Coach Lou... This is only a comment ...
  1 day ago

• Black Writer WRITES BNP opera

  
  The BN Village — Authority: 146
  Black playwright Bonnie Greer writes BNP: The Opera Bonnie Greer described sitting next to Nick Griffin on Question Time as "probably the weirdest and most creepy experience of my life". Mandrake can disclose that it has, however, proved inspirational for the American-born playwright, who is planning to stage an ...
  1 day ago

• Work Less, Earn more : be happy and content: becme entrepreneur

  
  fighting dreamer — Authority: 123
  start business,work less , earn enough, be happy http://ping.fm/O5STX
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• First Video from Sheldan Nidle Montgomery, AL Workshop

  
  Thought for Food — Authority: 110
  Agarthans, Humanity’s Mentors I have had Sheldan Nidle as a guest on Talk For Food on several occasions. The first time was in April 2008, as one of the stops on my first seven-day “road trip” to Northern California. At the time hadn’t realized that I had actually read one of his early books, You ...
  2 days ago

• CANADA’S CIVIL AND PUBLIC SERVANTS ARE NEVER KNOWN FOR THEIR COST EFFECTIVENESS

  
  The non conformer's Canadian Weblog — Authority: 129
  Public Works  comparisons with private-sector real estate: report. Most construction firms jack up their prices when dealing with the federal government, says a new report.” Private sector companies, who build our projects, are intimidated by our processes and controls and account for their perceived extra efforts ...
  2 days ago

• Alternatives to using credit cards for this holiday shopping time

  
  Half Byte — Authority: 125
  Back in 2002, I, along with my family, went on a Disney vacation that consisted of a Disney cruise and several days at Disney World in Orlando.  While in Orlando, we dined and shopped at several Orlando area establishments. One of them, we never quite figured out which, employed someone who decided that they would ...
  2 days ago

• No Way Trough… – Just Imagine: Checkpoints in London !!

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 516
  Click here to view the embedded video. There is really nothing to say more. What else could be added… ?? – This is simply reality… It has happened, and can happen anytime in the Occupied West Bank – or (no more these days, though…) at Erez Checkpoint to Gaza. But I think that nowadays private cars ...
  2 days ago

• The Real Fraud In The CRU E-Mail Leaks Exposing The Scam

  
  Tarpon's Swamp — Authority: 428
  It’s in the software — Read the programmer’s notes, they tell all . The e-mails , they just point out the criminality of the high priests of AGW global warming, they are hiding, deleting, and fixing up the facts about the crime so as to try and escape prosecution of the FOI violations. Now you know why CRU ...
  2 days ago

• White tiger mauls man, caught on video, says Detik.com

  
  Unspun — Authority: 130
  Reader Hendra has just informed Unspun that detik.com has run a story saying that someone’s captured on video a white tiger mauling a man. He says:  “I haven’t seen the video myself, but Detik.com description about the video’s content left little doubt that this is indeed really happening. The park’s ...
  2 days ago

• Rappers jailed over warning song

  
  The BN Village — Authority: 146
  Two rappers have been jailed for using an internet song to try to scare off witnesses to the murder of a 24-year-old man in Ealing, west London. The video warned people who talked to police about the murder of Jason Johnson could be shot. Ishmael McLean, 22, from Greenford, and Rowan Simon, 18, from Ealing, west ...
  3 days ago

• Police making arrests just to gather DNA samples

  
  The BN Village — Authority: 146
  Police officers in England and Wales have made arrests just to get people on to the DNA database, a retired police superintendent has claimed. He told the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) this was the "norm". It wants new guidance for police to regulate when it is appropriate to take a sample of DNA. Police chiefs ...
  3 days ago

• "who are you calling a ******?" C4 docu

  
  The BN Village — Authority: 146
  Did any one see this docu on channel 4? If yes, comments please! It really made me think... Here is the link: Channel 4 - Black and Asian History Map
  3 days ago

• One online bookshop to rule them all

  
  The Spicy Cauldron — Authority: 129
  Image via Wikipedia Like Sauron’s Ring, the notion of a single red-eyed Amazon sweeping all competing bookstores aside has long filled with me horror at the decades of darkness such domination could usher in for publishers and authors around the world, and, eventually, inevitably, readers as well. Don’t ...
  3 days ago

• 2009 first year of global governance

  
  Brian Bonner — Authority: 115
  Now, my Uncooperative Readers out there, I want you to read this article and find the missing dots, no wait, the News Behind the News. Let me give you a hint. The Lame Stream Media states that “us” conservatives are “fear mongers” and constantly trying to create a “sphere of fear”, when it comes to [...]
  4 days ago

• Obama Buys Ticket On Titanic, After Hitting Iceberg

  
  Bob's Bites — Authority: 123
  You just can’t make this stuff up. Just days after global warming gets exposed for the fraud it is, The Messiah decides he will go to Copehagen to push for the Cap & Tax C02 scam. Let’s hope it works as well as his Chicago Olympics bid.h/t Mike C. for the title. more about “Obams [...]
  4 days ago

• Michelle Obama racist monkey image sparks Google apology

  
  The BN Village — Authority: 146
  BBC News - Michelle Obama racist image sparks Google apology
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• Yet ANOTHER flat fire in South London

  
  The BN Village — Authority: 146
  More than 300 people flee their homes in Peckham fire About 310 people have been forced to leave their homes after a fire broke out in south London. More than 180 firefighters are tackling the fire, which engulfed the whole of a construction site in Carisbrooke Gardens in Peckham at about 0430 GMT. It has since ...
  4 days ago

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