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• Senator Duffy sinks to new low

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  Paul MacNeill, publisher Eastern Graphic Second Opinion by Paul MacNeill, publisher Eastern Graphic Eastern Graphic It was a hard week for Mike Duffy. First he was singled out in a report outlining the massive costs associated with appointing 27 senators by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Then Duffy spewed ...
  21 hours ago

• Buddhist Geeks - Episode 146: Investing in the Future of American Buddhism

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 440
  The second part of last weeks conversation with Shambhala acharya, Judith Simmer-Brown. Buddhist Geeks - Episode 146: Investing in the Future of American Buddhism We continue our discussion with Shambhala acharya, Judith Simmer-Brown, about how ...
  1 day ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 days ago

• Canada’s “Action Plan” Spending

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 477
  The Chronicle Herald , the Ottawa Citizen and journalism students from Ottawa’s Algonquin College have crunched the numbers of the government’s economic “Action Plan” and unsurprisingly find that Conservative ridings received more than half of the $8.5 billion announced under the Building Canada ...
  3 days ago

• Mike Britt file: Bad-acting Penry manager casts shadow on campaign

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  Josh Penry’s gubernatorial campaign manager Mike Britt has been playing on the edges of the law again in the world of email . This time he reportedly paid someone $500 to download the names and email addresses of Colorado Republicans from a list owned by the Republican National Committee. According to the ...
  4 days ago

• "Zimbabwe Dollar Back By Year-end" - Mugabe

  
  Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog — Authority: 139
  Robert Mugabe and Gideon Gono inspecting farming equipment that was being distributed by the Reserve Bank to farmers all over Zimbabwe last year. Mugabe has now come out in support of the reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar and says it will be back by the end of the year. He was speaking after accepting 60 tonnes of ...
  6 days ago

• AMU demands CBI probe into student’s murder

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Aligarh, Nov 2 (IANS) Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the murder of a final year B.Sc student and the alleged role of politicians in the case, an official said Monday.“We have today (Monday) faxed a letter to the central government, seeking a CBI probe ...
  1 week ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  1 week ago

• UAE to organise lecture on ‘Dialogue of Civilisations’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Abu Dhabi, Nov 1 (IANS) A lecture titled “Dialogue of Civilisations between yesterday and today” will be organised here Monday under the patronage of Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president’s representative and chairman of the cultural and media centre.The Counsellor for cooperation and cultural affairs at ...
  1 week ago

• Streets and Sanitation absenteeism is an old (and political) story

  
  Chicago Muckrakers — Authority: 121
  Tom Byrne, commissioner of Chicagos Department of Streets and Sanitation, put his foot down this week on chronic absenteeism within his department . I guess that means things are gonna get real dicey when it comes time to vote (and work the polls) during some pivotal elections in 2010 and 2011. Its a ...
  1 week ago

• "Air Zimbabwe To Be Privatised, Blah Blah Bllah..." Says Government

  
  Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog — Authority: 139
  Harare, Zimbabwe, 26 October 2009 The highly inefficient and struggling Zimbabwean National Airline, Air Zimbabwe, is set to be privatised, according to the Zimbabwe Inclusive Government (which is still operational, by the way, because the MDC "disengaged" from ZANU PF and NOT Government). Last week, I told ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nepotism has always been in vogue

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  A black and white case of Micael Mayne needs his wife nearby Michael Mayne hires his wife. Why not? Nepotism has always been the best way to get a job on PEI. MLAs wives, children, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. We’re not voting in MLAs – we vote in their families. Nepotism is “patronage bestowed or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  2 weeks ago

• Joseph ‘Erap’ Ejercito Estrada Announces his Presidential Bid in the Philippine Electoral Circus

  
  Pedestrian Observer GB — Authority: 418
  You know the circus is in town when you see throngs of the great unwashed flocking to a political rally of a disgraced convicted plunderer chanting “Babalik si Jueteng este Erap!” (Erap is coming back!). Their patron and idol is back challenging the mentally challenge ooops the administration of Gloria Macapagal ...
  2 weeks ago

• New talented photographers awarded at UAE IMAGE 2009

  
  Dubai for Visitors — Authority: 153
  Three talented photographers were awarded at the annual Photography competition UAE IMAGES 2009 organized under the patronage of Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH). UAE national Ahlam Mohammed Al Ahmed received the first prize Go here to read the rest:  New talented photographers awarded at UAE ...
  2 weeks ago

• Let Them Debate, But You Decide: Low Carb or Low Calorie?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  There is a continuous debate over whether people with type 2 diabetes benefit from low carb diets. Naturally, the friends of the drug makers say no, but the low carb diet makers say yes. If you have diabetes or are predisposed to developing this disease then you had better decide now.But how?This is easy. There [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
  2 weeks ago

• raging against the little guy

  
  passive-aggressive notes dot com — Authority: 509
  kellye from huntsville, alabama spotted these notes posted on boarded-up diner during last month’s G20 summit in pittsburgh. explains kellye: “the broken windows were caused by a few rowdy anarchists/drunk college kids from oakland who apparently missed the mark in their defiance of the man. since the vandals ...
  3 weeks ago

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