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Bolivian security forces were involved in a shootout with would be assassins. Three men were killed after plotting to assassinate Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia. The men were said to be Hungarian and Irish.Bolivian security forces were involved in a shootout with would be assassins. Three... more
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A saga that began in the violent cauldron of California's 1970s radical counterculture and took a dramatic turn into a quiet middle-class neighborhood in Minnesota is about to come to an end.
Sara Jane Olson, who was a fugitive for a quarter-century after attempting to kill Los Angeles police officers and participating in a deadly bank robbery near Sacramento as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, is scheduled to be released from a California prison next week.
Her bid for freedom after serving seven years is not ending quietly.
Police leagues in Los Angeles and Minnesota are objecting to the terms of her parole, her attorneys are nervous after Olson was mistakenly released and sent back to prison a year ago, and people in her home state have conflicting views about the return of a woman with two identities — a quiet, caring community volunteer and a domestic terrorist.
Olson was freed by California corrections officials a year ago when they miscalculated her parole date. She was re-arrested five days later as she was about to board a flight to Minnesota, the state she adopted as her home during her life on the run.
"After what happened last year, I think she won't feel comfortable until she's back in Minnesota," said David Nickerson, one of her lawyers. "She is just anxious about getting out ... until she's home, until she knows it's real. She wants to be with her family."
Olson, 62, her red hair turned long ago to gray, is scheduled to be released Tuesday from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, about 150 miles southeast of San Francisco.
Where she goes next is a point of contention. Police leagues in Los Angeles and Minnesota object to having her paroled to Minnesota. Both have written to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, urging him to have Olson serve her parole in California, where her crimes were committed.
Former Los Angeles police officer John Hall was a target of one of two 1975 attempted bombings by the Symbionese Liberation Army, the urban guerrilla group most notorious for its kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. The pipe bombs were placed beneath two police cars...
She looks like she is about to make a pie... or a pipe bomb...A saga that began in the violent cauldron of California's 1970s radical counterculture... more
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Baby high heels are so 2008. This year is all about baby hair extensions! For mothers out there who are sick of correcting people that their bald baby is in fact a little lady, a Beverly Hills-based company called Baby Bangs has created hair pieces that will turn your little bundle of joy into a mini-diva a la Jessica Simpson or newly weaved, Katie Holmes.Baby high heels are so 2008. This year is all about baby hair extensions! For... more
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Bernard Madoff is seeking to keep a $7 million Manhattan penthouse and an additional $62 million in assets, saying they are unrelated to the fraud that authorities say cost victims more than $50 billion.
In court papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Madoff and his lawyer claim the apartment, $45 million in municipal bonds and $17 million more in a separate account all belong to Madoff’s wife, Ruth.
The bonds in an account held by Ruth Madoff at COHMAD Securities Corp. and about $17 million held by her in a Wachovia Bank account “are unrelated to the alleged Madoff fraud and only Ruth Madoff has a beneficial interest in these assets,” Bernard Madoff and lawyer Ira Sorkin said, according to the papers.
Sorkin declined to comment Monday.
A court-appointed trustee overseeing the liquidation of Madoff’s assets has said the apartment and other property used to secure bail was off limits for now. But if there’s a conviction, those assets and possibly property of Madoff “insiders” could be seized to help pay claims by alleged victims.
“We are looking at every member of the Madoff family,” David Sheen, an attorney representing the trustee, said recently regarding the personal property.
Madoff will give up rights to his business, along with the company’s artwork and entertainment tickets, according to a court document filed late Monday. He’ll also give up rights to three pieces of business real estate.
The information was contained in an order of consent asking a judge to grant the federal government authority to seek forfeiture of assets involved in any fraud. It was filed in a case brought by the SEC against Madoff.
Trustee Irving H. Picard has said that nearly $950 million in cash and securities has been recovered for investors so far.
The 70-year-old former Nasdaq chairman has been confined to the Manhattan apartment, purchased in 1984, under house arrest since early December.
He was arrested and charged with securities fraud after authorities said in court papers that he confessed to his sons that he had carried out a giant Ponzi scheme for years, using new money from investors to pay off early investors while bogus statements claimed consistent investment gains...
He should be living in a box in hell's kitchen...Bernard Madoff is seeking to keep a $7 million Manhattan penthouse and an additional... more
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$18,000 under scrutiny; Palin also charged $21,012 to taxpayers for children's travel
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Actor Gary Collins got stopped by the California Highway Patrol late Saturday night just south of Montecito, California on suspicion of DUI. He refused a field sobriety test but was given a blood alcohol test.Actor Gary Collins got stopped by the California Highway Patrol late Saturday night... more
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Hours after being impeached by an overwhelming vote in the Illinois House of Representatives, a defiant Gov. Rod Blagojevich proclaimed Friday that he was not guilty of impeachable offenses and would fight “every step of the way.”
The embattled governor said lawmakers’ actions were politically driven.
“The House action today was not a surprise. It was a foregone conclusion,” Blagojevich said at a news conference in Chicago. “From the very moment of my re-election, I’ve been engaged in a struggle with the House to try to get things done for people.Hours after being impeached by an overwhelming vote in the Illinois House of... more
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George Bernard Shaw once said that "the function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people -- indeed, to make the audience feel and learn things about themselves of which they might not have been aware, yet know to be true." In the past half century, no actor has fulfilled that noble function as effectively and as gloriously as the great Dick Van Patten.
From the 1930s, when he appeared in over a dozen Broadway plays, to recent appearances in shows such as Arrested Development and The Sarah Silverman Show, Mr. Van Patten's career has read like a true American history of the past 70 years, varied and personal, triumphant and dramatic, humble and victorious. The list of credits reads like a who's who of our lives of entertainment: Mama, Mike Hammer, Rawhide, I Dream of Jeannie, Sanford and Son, the Love Boat, Wonder Woman, The Streets of San Francisco, Happy Days, Charo and the Sergeant... the list is seemingly inexhaustible.
Sheer quantity is one thing, but what sets the truly great actor apart from the rest is his ability, like a Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan, to make the rest of the cast better. It is no accident that the finest moments of the careers of Willie Aames and Adam Rich came in their roles as Tommy and Nicholas Bradford of Eight is Enough. And would there have been a Karate Kid if Ralph Macchio hadn't spent time learning at the foot of the master in season five? It's doubtful.
Whether as fiery columnist patriarch Tom Bradford of Eight is Enough, as dastardly King Roland in Spaceballs, as a carnival barker in the psychedelic Western Zachariah, or as the devious pink-tanktop-clad hustler in the side-splittingly hilarious Dick Van Patten's Dirty Tennis, Mr. Van Patten has always been a real person facing real trials and tribulations, bringing us real tears and real belly laughter, creating real memories to be cherished in the years to come.
In honor of these decades of service we name our December CMS release for the legendary Dick Van Patten – may our new syndication feature be as successful as the syndicated run of Eight is Enough, and may all our users have a festive holiday season, as the Bradfords of Sacramento are surely enjoying as I type.George Bernard Shaw once said that "the function of the actor is to make the audience... more
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Every couple of decades or so, a band comes along that changes everything. Existing musical genres are shattered as new terrain is charted, to be explored in the years to come by those who dare follow. Styles change in reaction – clothing, hairdos, street lingo – as the young and not-so-young strive to be a part of the new movement, the new social consciousness spawned by this mystical alchemy of vital, youthful genius.
In the 40s it was Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and the Bebop movement of 52nd Street and Minton's in Harlem. In the 60s it was the Beatles and the British Invasion. In 1990 it was the stupefyingly astonishing concoction of bittersweet vocal harmony, the singing, jangling, screaming guitarwork, and the majestic MTV video wizardry conjured by the flaxen-haired twins known as Nelson.
It it with this in mind that we, the PDG, in 2008, dedicate our November release to the inspiring body of work bestowed upon us by brothers Gunnar and Matthew Nelson – who in so many ways were like the Broadcast and Online version types of the MTV era. This is truly a (pre and post) watershed moment in CMS history, much like the first airing of "(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection." on VH1. May this release touch everyone's heart as Matthew and Gunnar did and continue to do, and dare we say, be known as the "After the Rain" of CMS releases for decades to come...Every couple of decades or so, a band comes along that changes everything. Existing... more
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According to a book serialised in The Daily Mail, Thatcher, Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks and Princess Diana are among the culprits. Here's the top 20.According to a book serialised in The Daily Mail, Thatcher, Howard Schultz, the... more
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What a revelation - Genealogists say the Alaska governor is related to FDR and Princess Di.Concerns about whether Sarah Palin is fit to be president, should the need arise, can now be laid to rest: according to the crack geneaologists at Ancestry.com.What a revelation - Genealogists say the Alaska governor is related to FDR and... more
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Is this some kind of threat against freedom of the press, or just a completely incoherent ramble? I honestly don't know. Either she's sinister or just way too dumb to be president:
As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we've really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege. We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/do-over-palin-a.html
Is this some kind of threat against freedom of the press, or just a completely... more
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Forrest Hylton: Latin America is leading world in multipolar forms of regional diplomacy.
Visiting the UN this week Bolivian President Evo Morales stated that mediation by UNASUR, The Union of South American Nations, is having a positive effect in a political crisis between his central government and eastern provinces demanding greater autonomy. Journalist and author Forrest Hylton believes that "Latin America is leading the world in multipolar forms of regional diplomacy."
Forrest Hylton is the the author of Evil Hour in Colombia (Verso, 2006), and with Sinclair Thomson, co-author of Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics (Verso, 2007). He is a regular contributor to New Left Review and NACLA Report on the Americas.Forrest Hylton: Latin America is leading world in multipolar forms of regional... more
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VP hopeful Sarah Palin is to meet her first ever foreign leader, in the shape of Afghan PM Hamid Karzai at the United Nations on Tuesday.VP hopeful Sarah Palin is to meet her first ever foreign leader, in the shape of... more
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GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin takes the stage.
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I don't care about all the clucking about this woman or her children, we know girls have been known to have babies, and sometimes without benefit of matrimony, so what? And I don't care if Ms Palin wears a beehive and lives in a marble mobile home, or whether she even knows where Russia is. She's a Republican, how much do you expect? But being Republican doesn't exempt her from the law (unless they get the power again.).I don't care about all the clucking about this woman or her children, we know girls... more
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A California woman has paid scientists $50,000 (£25,000) to create five identical copies of her beloved pit bull terrier.
South Korean geneticists today unveiled five identical copies of Booger, the pit bull terrier, created for his American owner. The five clones cost Bernann McKinney, a Californian-based farmer, £25,000 ($50,000) and according to her, they were well worth it.
"Booger was my partner and my friend," McKinney said, as she collected the five puppies, named Booger Bernann, Booger Ra, Booger Lee, Booger Hong and Booger Park.
When Booger got cancer, McKinney had skin cells taken from the dog and preserved in the hope that science would come to her aid. Scientists at Seoul National University then created a number of embryos from those cells, which where then implanted into two surrogate mother dogs. The puppies were born on July 28.
The company has stated that they are now open for future bookings.
Would you ever consider cloning a dog or any other pet or do you think this is just insane? A California woman has paid scientists $50,000 (£25,000) to create five identical... more
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"A congresswoman said Thursday that her "jaw dropped" when military doctors told her that four in 10 women at a veterans hospital reported being sexually assaulted while in the military. Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach said she was raped by a fellow Marine. A Marine has been charged in her death. A government report indicates that the numbers could be even higher.
Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, spoke before a House panel investigating the way the military handles reports of sexual assault. She said she recently visited a Veterans Affairs hospital in the Los Angeles area, where women told her horror stories of being raped in the military."
Sad and shameful! "A congresswoman said Thursday that her "jaw dropped" when military doctors told her... more
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Nbc news announced thursday that Luke Russert will serve as a correspondent-at-large for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
"I am extremely humbled and grateful that NBC News is giving me this opportunity," Russert said. "I believe youth issues will continue to play a significant role during this election and I want to do my part to report them honestly and objectively."Nbc news announced thursday that Luke Russert will serve as a correspondent-at-large... more
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