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Unlike all other Nobel Prize categories, immense external influence was seen when deciding the Nobel Prize for economics. United States president Obama was the one to nominate a US nationalUnlike all other Nobel Prize categories, immense external influence was seen when... more
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Work and relationship pressures make the mid-30s the start of many British people's unhappiest decade, a survey suggests.
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A dark side to Victorian society existed, in part as a reaction to the emphasis on restraint of pleasure and social propriety. Victorian society saw a rampant, though covert, use and abuse of drugs and alcohol. Developments in medicine and science made drugs such as heroin, chloral, and laudanum available and widely prescribed. Often the result was addiction http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/6055-victorian-england-drugsA dark side to Victorian society existed, in part as a reaction to the emphasis on... more
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Last night Tony Blair was in conversation with Katie Couric at the 92nd St Y in NYC. I happened to be in town for a board meeting so headed over to a sold-out house to see if I could get in. Luck was with me as I got a ticket about 13 rows from his chair on the aisle. Blair has been traveling across the US and UK recently to promote his new memoir, A Journey. Peace activists from both countries have rightly been calling it "A Journey to Crime," and have even been taking it upon themselves to move copies of the book to the Crime section of their local bookstores.
I had handcuffs in my purse and was ready to get to the front of the room in five strides. Very early on, Katie talked about him being forced out of Ireland by a pelting of eggs and shoes. His answer was that these actions are the 'tyranny of protesters.' "Those that shout the loudest don't necessarily deserve to be heard," he said. Undeterred by his attempt to marginalize people who speak out at his book events I waited to hear what he had to say.
Her next line of questions was about the Iraq War. Did he have regrets? No, he said, because he had acted correctly. Saddam wouldn't allow weapons inspectors in, so therefore there must have been WMDs. My blood was boiling. What about the weapons inspectors who were there, who had been given access to everything who said there were no WMDs??? He continued to say he had done right and it was just like Iran. No weapons inspectors means WMDs.
I leapt up with handcuffs held high above my head. "You Liar. I was in Iraq and met with weapons inspectors before we invaded and they said they had found no WMDs. You are a War CRIMINAL! LIAR!" At this moment I was surrounded by NYC cops and British Secret Service and they slammed me up against the wall and dragged me out of the room to cheers. The British guys were brutal, dragging me, yelling at me and begging the NYPD to arrest me. They looked at them like they were off a bit and didn't really react. One of the NYPD went back to get my purse and handed it to the British SS who has literally just thrown me out into the street. He was so furious that he put my purse far away from me. He told me to thank him for not putting me in jail. Just minutes before, he told me that the broadcast had cost a lot of money and that I have ruined it. I told him if he wanted to arrest me, then go ahead, it makes for a better story. He was not happy with me.
I brushed myself off and went to pick my computer bag, which I had left at Gloria Steinem's. There I met up with awesome feminist activist Shelby Knox, who took a photo of me with the handcuffs, which I somehow managed to leave the event with. I'll have to keep them handy with so many war criminals still on the loose.
What was really frightening to me, beyond the fear of being kicked out or arrested, was to be in an audience eating up his every word. I was in Iraq during the time we were discussing. International media and 30 some members of the EU Parliament were there at the same time being taken to all the supposed WMD sites that were just empty spaces in a desert. Medea Benjamin spoke to inspectors in their various languages (since she speaks them all) and they assured us they had found none and had been looking hard.
How do we bring liars like Tony Blair to justice? Continue to disrupt their lies everywhere they go. At noon yesterday, Medea disrupted Karl Rove at his speaking event in Washington DC. As he backed off from the podium, he exclaimed, "It's the CODEPINK women!" They know they are lying and we can't let them continue to re-write history.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01706/tony-Blair_1706284c.jpgLast night Tony Blair was in conversation with Katie Couric at the 92nd St Y in NYC. I... more
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WHACKO-TV is always at the major events. This time our correspondent Cecil Rathbone gives us a first-hand look at the historic clock they call Big Ben. While stateside, Wolf Douglas covers the egg scare and the mosque fear that has become such a source of controversy. This is ADD NEWS - Short concise and to the. . .WHACKO-TV is always at the major events. This time our correspondent Cecil Rathbone... more
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Approximately 250 years back, in the name of TRADE East India Company has company to INDIA. Which eventually took over the country and ruled over 200 years. India has seen over 200 years of colonial rule. Now, 250 years later an INDIAN has taken over the same East India Company. Isn’t it proud moment for all of us? On the eve of Independence day, we bring you the details of the man behind the scenes.
http://hoowstuffworks.blogspot.com/2010/08/indian-takes-over-east-india-co.htmlApproximately 250 years back, in the name of TRADE East India Company has company to... more
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According to latest British MOD UFO X-Files Winston Churchill Had ordered a 50-year Cover-up On UFO X-Files .
According to newly released documents. " after an RAF plane encountered a metallic flying object on the coast of England which "hovered noiselessly" near the craft as the crew snapped photos.
Churchill had ordered immediately classified this UFO sighting event since it would create mass panic and destroy one's belief in the church.According to latest British MOD UFO X-Files Winston Churchill Had ordered a 50-year... more
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A media blackout has kept the world in the dark about how bad things are going on in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists fear an enormous rise in pressure on the seabed in light of the BP Oil Spill may release a catastrophic amount of methane, enough to poison the entire neighboring ocean and release a toxic bubble of methane 20 miles in diameter that would displace a trillion cubic feet of water and create a towering supersonic tsunami that would annihilate every coast of the Gulf of mexico and continue well inland. The rest would die to toxic methane in an extinction event not unlike the Permian extinction 251 Million years ago.
Find out the truth that BP is desperately trying to keep withheld from the public.
http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-eventA media blackout has kept the world in the dark about how bad things are going on in... more
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The Real reason Obama Loathes The British…Grandfather Tortured In Kenyan Prison
By Zoe Brennan
and Paul Orengoh
Uk Daily Mail
June 19, 2010
The Kenyan bowed his head as his captors opened the prison cell door to deliver another brutal whipping – a punishment meted out after he was accused of taking part in the independence movement against the British colonial authorities.
The man had been working as a cook for a British Army officer. And his name? Hussein Onyango Obama – President Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather.
Click to Watch ...(VIDEO) The Reason Pres. Obama Hates White People and BP…Grandfather Was Tortured By British…http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/video-the-reason-pres-obama-hates-white-people-and-bp-grandfather-was-tortured-by-british/The Real reason Obama Loathes The British…Grandfather Tortured In Kenyan Prison... more
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...This all-star British comedy is a lighthearted, slightly morbid, family-friendly film packed with hilarious moments. The story is about the funeral of Daniel’s father, who, as it is discovered at the funeral, harbored a shocking life-long secret. In their attempt to keep the secret under wraps until the end of the funeral for the sake of their mum, Daniel and his brother, Robert, are forced to deal with their issues of sibling rivalry between them. Although a bit slow moving at times, Death at a Funeral is worth watching if you’re looking for a good chuckle....
http://www.thereviewchimp.com/?p=88...This all-star British comedy is a lighthearted, slightly morbid, family-friendly... more
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Two white supremacists have been jailed after being convicted of posting violent and vicious racist messages on the internet.
Michael Heaton, 42, and Trevor Hannington, 58, described Jews as "scum" and called for them to be "destroyed".
The "proud neo-Nazis" were unanimously cleared of soliciting murder at Liverpool Crown Court but Heaton was jailed on Friday for 30 months after being convicted of four counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words likely to stir up racial hatred.
Hannington previously admitted two counts of stirring up racial hatred, two further counts of possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism and disseminating a terrorist publication. He was jailed for two years.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Irwin told Heaton, of Leigh in Wigan, Greater Manchester, his internet posts were "vicious and repulsive".
He added: "You saw yourself as the leader of a potentially significant and active National Socialist group. Your sustained racist rants were intended to bolster that group.
"You wanted to start a race war. You are clearly filled with racial hatred and also with violent and angry beliefs."
The judge told Heaton his words were of the most "insulting and extreme nature" marked by "violent racism", and said only a significant jail term was acceptable.
Hannington, from Hirwaun, Cardiff, was described as a loner by the judge, who told him: "You are a long standing racist who has never hidden your views, which are violent and vicious in the extreme.
"You are a lonely man with little in your life. You habitually told lies about a non-existent army career and your knowledge of survival techniques in an attempt to gain status. You are, to some degree, pitiable in this, however repugnant what you said."Two white supremacists have been jailed after being convicted of posting violent and... more
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On the 25th June 2010, the city of Bradford welcomed home British armed forces from Afghanistan. The controversial group known as the English Defence League showed up to welcome the troops home and to protect them from an extreme islamic group which has been disrupting recent home coming marches.
Tensions where high in Bradford as the EDL have confirmed a demonstration there for the 28th August. 2001 saw wide spread disorder fall upon Bradford as race riots erupted as a result of a far right group attempting to march through the city.On the 25th June 2010, the city of Bradford welcomed home British armed forces from... more
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The BP oil spill is exposing cross-Atlantic differences on the best public face to present amid crisis. Britons – tens of thousands of whom are BP shareholders – appreciate stoicism, but Americans want emotion and contrition.
Surely, who but a small club of wealthy investors could shed a tear for BP, which has seen a quarter of its share value wiped out since the beginning of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill?
Clue: remember what those initials stand for.
If you thought that fat-cat shareholders were the only losers from the oil giant’s pounding on the international markets, then spare a thought for tens of thousands of ordinary Britons whose futures are heavily linked to the firm’s fortunes.
Shareholder dividends paid out by BP last year accounted for as much as £1 in every £7 paid by the biggest 100 firms into Britain’s pension funds and saving plans.
So when BP's shares plunge as a result of President Obama's initiation of a criminal investigation into the Macondo oil well disaster, British pensions take a hammering as well.
READ MORE AT LINKThe BP oil spill is exposing cross-Atlantic differences on the best public face to... more
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