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Cocaine 101: "Stepping Over The White Line".
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorScarFace, Miami Vice, Cocaine Cowboys all show the Fast Life, Fast Money, Fast Cars, Fast Babes and even the Faster Downside when Coke Dealers "Step over that imaginary...
Using the kids.
‘Hiring an obedient 8-year old, fresh from India’s rural heartland, is a simple matter’.www.Indianchild.com. ‘Few places in India are as colourful, charismatic or spiritual as the bathing ghats lining the...
Kuwait elects it's Parliament in a calm democrati...
KUWAIT May 17, 2008 6:40 GMT – Today, Kuwait will elect its new parliament, succeeding the previously dissolved one.
One million four hundred thousand registered voters will elect fifty new members out of 275...
Gas to go down? What do you think?
Most American newspapers faulted President Bush for his apparent inability to convince Saudi Arabia to supply the U.S. with more oil at a lower price yesterday. But the oil situation and price are not just U.S....
Former Afghan Hijacker Found Working on Airplanes...
A man who was part of a group that hijacked a passenger aircraft from Afghanistan was found to have access to airplanes at London's Heathrow Airport. Nazamuddin Mohammidy not only was allowed to stay in England, but...
Ted Kennedy Taken To Hospital After Seizures (Upd...
"Sen. Ted Kennedy has been taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, FOX 4 in Florida (WFTX)confirms. The Massachusett's senator's medical condition is unknown, but he was experiencing stroke-like symptoms,...
In a Cartel Funeral, It's Who Doesn't Show Up Tha...
BorderReporter.com“It’s the funerals,” my guy says. “Always watch the funerals. Whoever shows up to the funerals, that’s how we’re going to know what happens next.”He’s cocky but knowledgeable, this Justice Department agent who’s watched this border since...
Assassination Plot Against Zimbabwe Opposition Le...
Robert Mugabe seems intent on remaining in power by any means necessary, including assassination.Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday postponed his expected return home to contest an election...
Senate votes to close loophole in FCC media owner...
The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market. The unusual "resolution of disapproval," sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and 26 other...
Quake rescue resumes after panic over flood fears
UPDATE: 12:44AM EST"Rescue
efforts are resuming in Beichuan in China, after the entire city was
evacuated amid fears that it could be engulfed by a river bursting its
banks.
The city was reduced to ruins by Monday's...
Carnival ride collapses in California; 24 injured
A spinning carnival ride collapsed and injured 24 people earlier today, and state investigators are now trying to determine what caused the accident."The carnival ride, called the Yo-Yo, collapsed shortly after 6...
War for Oil? Who really supplies all Oil to the ...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly strange why Bush would be asking Saudi Arabia to increase Oil production, when it is a Fact that Canada can, will, does provide the majority of Oil to the tune of...
Obama Says Bush and McCain Are ‘Fear Peddling’
Senator Barack Obama linked President Bush and Senator John McCain together yesterday as partners in 'the failed policies' of the last seven years, and said they were fear peddling and fear mongering in their stance...
prensioners strip to protest = mayhem
Stained y-fronts....yelch"Posted on May 17th, 2008 by admin Pensioners in Melbourne Australia, stripped in public yesterday in protest at the low level of the base pension. The antic caused traffic mayhem as drivers craned their necks to...
Painful and astonishing photos of earthquakes in ...
Painful and astonishing photos of earthquakes in Sichuan, China. http://www.tuhigh.com/forum/revertForum/1339/51
