Miliband: I toned down conference speech to avoid 'Heseltine moment'

More drama from the Labour Party conference in the UK, as Gordon Brown tries to save his job and David Milliband tries to convince the media that he is not gunning for it. Embarassingly, Milliband was overheard...

DNC , The Planned Parenthood Protest

   The pre-coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The same groups arrive every four years to both Conventions. This year The Anarchists, Planned Parent-hood, and pro-life groups collided. ...

Zimbabwe's Coventry defends title in backstroke

Coventry successfuly defended her title at the 2008 Olympics. I managed to catch this on CBC's olympic coverage last night on the only channel i have.  this woman's face was so composed the entire time i was completely impressed. "With the wider world waiting for Michael...

Tilda Swinton Organizes World's Smallest Film Festival

Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton, alongside directors Mark Cousins and Joel Cohen, has founded the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams -- a truly enigmatic, creative, and amazing creation that also happens to be...

After shock resignation, three names in Lib Dem leadership battle

In a shock resignation, the leader of the Liberal Democrat party in Scotland, Nicol Stephen, resigned last night. He said he was doing so to "spend more time with his family." Stephen was just elected leader of the...

Here’s looking forward to a warmer summer

Each morning I check the garden hoping for signs of life in the vegetable patch. For weeks all our seeds in the cold damp soil decided that this spring is nothing more than winter in disguise. It was a struggling...

Gordon Brown blames Margaret Thatcher for poor social mobility

So Brown will blame low social mobilty on Thatcher which is maybe a bad move - true or not - as many will see him trying to shift the blame - true or not - for the drowing gap between poorest to richest on...

On being an author - without doing any writing

Margaret Truman, Eliot Roosevelt, Steve Allen - mystery writers? Didthey really take the time out of their celebrity-hood to craft, write and rewrite those mystery novels you see on the bookshelf?

Margaret Atwood on Anne of Green Gables

Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables, was published a century ago in 1908.  Another Canadian legend, Margaret Atwood wrote about Lucy Maud Montgomery's redhead Anne in a recent Guardian piece below.The...

Senior Clinton Staffer Linked to Mortgage Crisis

Senior Clinton Staffer Linked to Mortgage Crisis As Clinton Talks Housing Crisis, Campaign Manager Serves on Board of Bankrupt Lender" WASHINGTON – While Hillary Clinton campaigns for the Democratic...

Margaret Thatcher told navy to raid Swedish coast

TimesOnLine.co.uk–January 27, 2008 Pelle Neroth MARGARET THATCHER ordered the Royal Navy to land Special Boat Service (SBS) frogmen on the coast of Sweden from British submarines pretending to be Soviet vessels,...

White America is Crazy for Obama

"Freedom Rider: White America is Crazy for Obama by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley "Obama supporters want him to be their man, even when he tells them that he isn't." ObamaShirtsleeveNHjpg Barack Obama drives white people crazy, some because of love and...

Hillary Clinton the woman most admired by Americans: poll

"US Senator Hillary Clinton has narrowly beaten global television celebrity Oprah Winfrey in an annual poll to choose the woman Americans admire most. Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed Thursday in Pakistan, made it onto the list for the first...

Royal Identified in Sex and Drugs Scandal

Viscount David Linley, the oldest child of Queen Elizabeth's sister Princess Margaret (deceased) was named as the Royal who accused blackmailers Strachan and McGuigan were targeting for money in a Sex and Drugs...

Calédosphère » Blog Archive » Ca se passe pas loin de chez nous ! - AIDS ...

The article below (in French with a literal translation to English) describes a horrific story of fear where the desperate poor are burying people living with HIV/AIDS alive as a way of dealing with and fearfully...

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