Prostitute posed as an undercover police officer to deceive men
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A British prostitute who posed as an undercover police officer to deceive vulnerable men has been sent to jail for three years.
Read more
London Mayor Rides to Woman’s Rescue
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When filmmaker Franny Armstrong found herself surrounded by a group of teenage girls, one of them armed with an iron bar, she knew she needed help. And she got it, from a very unexpected source.
Read more
Named: The five British soldiers executed in cold blood by Taliban ‘police’ assassin
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Tonight the five dead servicemen were named as Warrant Officer Darren Chant, Sergeant Matthew Telford, Guardsman James Major, Acting Corporal Steven Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith.
Read more
World's Worst Earthquakes
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and […]
World's Worst Earthquakes
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and […]
WTIF?!?
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Credit to the Reader’s Whet Moser for the suggestion of WTIF?!? as shorthand for “What’s a TIF?!?” Which, itself is shorthand for “What’s a Tax Increment Financing district?”
And that’s the question I want to ask of readers today.
Do you know how TIFs work?
Moser’s post and coverage at Progress Illinois and elsewhere suggest that TIFs are […]
Iran Cops ‘Beat And Kick Mousavi Protesters’
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
2:12pm UK, Wednesday November 04, 2009
Huw Borland,
Sky News Online
Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons on the fringes of a state-sanctioned rally against America, reports have said.
Basij militia burn a US flag outside the former US embassy in Tehran
Large crowds had gathered in Tehran to mark the 30th anniversary of militants storming a US […]
‘Witch’ maker jealous of ‘Paranormal Activity’
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
MOST-READ NEWS ARTICLES
HOT FORUM THREADS NOW
Lewis banned from shop over skin colour
Cowell ‘tried to stop Lloyd in sing-off’
John & Edward accused of lewd acts
‘X Factor’ chiefs ‘helped John & Edward’
Kym Marsh “annoyed” over ‘X Factor’ twins
Minogue ‘upset’ over ‘X Factor’ shake-up
Report: Rachel topped ‘X Factor’ vote
‘X Factor’ house facing closure?
Zoë Lucker exits ‘Strictly Come Dancing’
Burke […]
Clinton: US wants Israel settlement halt ‘forever’
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesday, saying Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the West Bank enclaves and wants to see their construction halted “forever.” Still, she said an Israeli offer to restrain—but not halt—construction represents “positive movement forward” toward […]
Bam’s ‘abuser’ dad
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
GUANGZHOU, China — President Obama’s half-brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semiautobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
Read more
Maine’s anti-same sex marriage architect: The other side “ran a better field operation” — but we still won.
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Jeff Flint, the Sacramento consultant who is one of the architects of the repeal of Maine’s same sex marriage law Wednesday, just told me something very interesting in the wake of his side’s apparent…
Read more
Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private […]
Poll: Obama one year on
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
President Obama was elected President on November 4, 2008. Twelve months later, has he achieved more or less than you expected?
Online Surveys & Market Research
Read more
Czech leader signs Lisbon Treaty, clearing way for stronger E.U.
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
PRAGUE — A charter meant to transform Europe into a more unified and powerful global player passed its last major hurdle Tuesday and appears set to become law within weeks.
Read more
World Digest: U.S. reopens engagement with Burma
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
BURMA
Marking new gambit, U.S. reengages
The United States reopened high-level engagement with Burma on Tuesday after a 14-year hiatus, giving the clearest expression yet of President Obama’s vow to reengage with states his predecessor treated as pariahs.
Kurt M. Campbell, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, arrived in the Burmese capital, […]
Venezuela’s Chávez Takes a Mighty Swing at Golf
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist […]
Mexican drug cartels increasingly recruit the young
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — The number of minors swept up in Mexico’s drug wars — as killers and victims — is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic culture of fast money, drug abuse and murder is creating a “lost generation.”
Read more
U.S. hope dims for high-level Israeli-Palestinian talks over state
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
CAIRO — The Obama administration has concluded that a resumption of high-level negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians over a Palestinian state is unlikely in the near future — an acknowledgment that it has fallen short, for now, on one of its major initial foreign policy goals.
Read more
North Korea military asserts command over nation’s economy
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
SEOUL — North Korea’s military, whose nuclear program vexes the Obama administration, has grabbed nearly complete command of the nation’s state-run economy and staked out a lucrative new trade in mineral sales to China to make money for its supreme commander, Kim Jong Il.
Read more
Afghan’s Karzai vows inclusive government
admin @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
KABUL (Reuters) - Re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed on Tuesday to form an inclusive government after stern warnings from Western supporters he would have to work harder to root out corruption.
Read more