Tag: news
member name: Shava Nerad
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August 23, 2006 04:44 PM EDT --
As Reuters reports, there's a phenomenal "radio silence" surrounding the kidnapping of a Fox correspondent and a free lance cameraman in Gaza.
The kidnappers, claiming to be with . . .
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February 22, 2007 07:46 PM EST --
This week, natural and specialty foods retailer Whole Foods acquired smaller chain Wild Oats for a questionably wise offer of over half a billion dollars. Whole Foods, which started as a hipster/hippie . . .
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April 20, 2007 01:19 PM EDT --
Liviu Librescu was only a kid when his family was deported from his native Romania to a labor camp in Transnistria, so he was only 78 years old -- young for a holocaust survivor -- when he died at Virginia . . .
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August 18, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
Time published an article this week by John Cloud entitled Are We Failing Our Geniuses.
In the article he follows a young woman with high intelligence from her held-back life in Texas to a pioneering . . .
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May 01, 2006 05:52 PM EDT --
Wait no longer, you folks fond of hairy men! Der Spiegel brings us the top ten winners of the German Beard World Championship.
Truly not to be missed.
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August 11, 2006 05:42 PM EDT --
I just heard on NPR that, after the Israelis sanctioned a 100 vehicle civilian evacuation convoy from southern Lebanon, an Israeli drone aircraft fired rockets on the civilian convoy, killing a half dozen . . .
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June 17, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
Liberal sources have been circulating a google video of Bush at the G8 apparently drinking a beer. Bush, a recovering alcoholic who is a teetotaler, says he has not taken a drink since he was 40. . . .
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July 30, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
As we read that Amnesty International and the Catholic Church are feuding over the issue of supporting abortions for women subject to rape and incest, a friend of mine in Oregon sent out this quote and . . .
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June 29, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
I am at the Media Giraffe conference in Amherst MA this week, and having an interesting time among all these bloggers and traditional journalist types.
I even got to meet Helen Thomas, one of my . . .
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January 30, 2007 04:13 PM EST --
Tony Blair gave Catholic adoption agencies all over the UK a twenty month grace period to provide fully nondiscriminatory adoptions to same sex couples, the Guardian reported today. Catholic . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
As reports of hurricane relief fraud surface this week, the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana are likely to use this to further starve legitimate reconstruction in New Orleans.
When the . . .
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May 24, 2007 01:04 PM EDT --
The Progressive notes that on May 9th, George Bush declared absolute emergency powers for the president:
With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for . . .
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August 09, 2006 03:09 PM EDT --
Ned Lamont defeated Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primaries last night, forcing the former VP candidate to run for his own seat as an independent.
It's amusing to see the blogosphere credited . . .
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September 15, 2008 09:13 PM EDT --
When Enron melted down, many attributed it to dishonesty, but I and many others saw it as the inevitable consequence of a financial and accounting system that was still rooted in the tangibles of an industrial . . .
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March 05, 2008 01:44 PM EST --
DailyKOS published an article that's getting a little play today, alleging that the Clinton campaign published an attack ad that intentionally colorized Obama's skin to darker, reminiscent . . .
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October 01, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
This is a response to the comment stream on Boing-Boing to my " Chickens Come Home to Roost " post last published on Iconoclasm.
@#19 My point is that Enron was able to be a wolf in sheep's . . .
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April 30, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
This week, the Turkish election crisis went to streets as at least 700,000 Turks supported their secular principles of Turkish rule for about a century.
In a turn around from western assumptions, the . . .
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March 06, 2007 12:28 PM EST --
Sometimes it's worth revisiting our analyses of the past. Today, Scooter Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice surrounding the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, wife of former ambassador . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The Bush administration proved today that it is firm in the assertion of the privileges of the Imperial presidency. While signing statements have castrated the institution of legislation in this . . .
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September 04, 2007 05:43 PM EDT --
For me, the drain started with two boilerplate email invites I got from CC Chapman, a co-conspirator in social media. CC often has his finger on cool new things online, so I immediately clicked . . .
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