Category: Current Affairs
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During our vacation a week ago, my daughter and I stopped by at the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice. The organization is an advocacy group for workers involved in the reconstruction of New Orleans after the devastation of Katrina. The vast rebuilding effort led the US government to permit recruitment of foreign laborers…
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Once upon a time, there was a ladybug who was competing with another ladybug for aphids on a leaf. The ladybug didn’t want to share and said to the other "Hey, wanna fight?" On getting no response, the ladybug got angry and went off in a huff to another larger insect and said "Hey, wanna…
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Dear Tony aka ‘RC’ #007 You have always stood side by side with me and I will never forget it. We will always be brothers. I always love you back All the best George Tenet (handwritten note by author addressed to Roland Carnaby or "Tony aka "RC #007" on the fly leaf of George Tenet’s…
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In recent days we have repeatedly heard news reports of the rising cost of food and food shortage. The effects have been mild to moderate in wealthy, developed nations like the US, more worrisome in Asia and severe in some poorer parts of the world. Namibia and Haiti have already seen food riots. The cause…
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Cross-posted from Fluff-n-Stuff —————————————————————————————————————— So Hillary Clinton announced in a meeting that as a little girl she had learned to shoot and gone hunting ducks with her dad. "As I told you, my dad taught me how to shoot behind our cottage,” she said. “I have gone hunting. I am not a hunter. But I…
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With the Summer Olympics just a few months away, China is running into problems, already visible in the inaugural ceremony of the Olympic torch relay. The relay, dubbed the "The Journey of Harmony" by the Chinese government has been anything but harmonious. Several attempts have been made to extinguish the torch which is scheduled to…
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A recent study published in pLOS suggests that the so-called efficacy of antidepressants may be in large part due to a placebo effect, which would imply that the same level of effective treatment could be achieved by offering placebos to the mild to moderately depressed patients who currently form a huge chunk of the lucrative…
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A recall of 143 million pounds of beef, one of the largest in U.S. history was made recently, affecting thousands of school districts supplied by a California plant under the National School Lunch program. This stemmed from an undercover investigation of practices at the plant, complete with a disturbing video shot of animals being forced…
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Coming to a restaurant near you sooner than you might think, if it already hasn’t made its way to your dinner table as the offspring of clones. From the 01/15/08 Yahoo news report on the FDA granting approval to cloned meat entering the human food chain: The US Food and Drug Administration has ruled food…
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign is currently in the sliming mode even though her mother, daughter and other well wishers continue to appear at campaign events with stories of the soft and compassionate side of her nature. Ever since Barack Obama overtook her in the polls in Iowa and closed the gap in New Hampshire, the Clintonites…
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I know, I know. It’s been seven long years already. I should be over it. But I am not. This picture twisted the knife wedged in my heart since January 2001. It is sweet irony nevertheless to see Al Gore, now a man of stature and serenity, in the White House standing next to Bush…
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