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sirsatire wrote an interesting post today on
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Some records are extremely difficult to break. The world record for many feats, such as the fastest time in the 100 meters, are considered accomplishments that will take years to beat. The record for the most home runs hit in Major League Baseball took 37 years to beat. However, some records have become infinitely easier to break, one of them being the price of oil. Oil is once again approaching record high prices, as the high of $139 set on June 16th is about to be shattered after recent troubles in Nigeria. Oil prices have made a staggering rise this year, and the possibility of even $200 crude oil is likely to occur by the end of this year and most assuredly by the end of next. Prices for oil do not seem likely to abate within the next 5 years.
This is not to be unexpected. By the very nature […]

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citizeninternational wrote an interesting post today on
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Nazly Cassim says… Politicians and journalists are two important groups of people in a country. The former to run the nation and the latter to pen on the trend of their ruling. Politicians, whether literate or illiterate, are elected by the people while journalists are selected by employers only if they are educated and knowledgeable.
Politicians are powerful but the power of the journalist’s pen is unparalleled. Politicians are inconvincible but journalists are corrigible. Most politicians are formidable but journalists are amiable. Politicians have foes and journalists have friends.
The above should be borne in mind when anyone tries or plans to assail or assassinate media men. Often politicians both in the ruling and opposition parties cannot tolerate when articles relating to corruption or their atrocities are published.
The police too have their own follies. Their treatment of some suspects are contrary to law and this is done specially at the behest […]

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unknown wrote an interesting post today on
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JERUSALEM (CNN) — Hamas leaders in Gaza are still committed to a cease-fire agreement with Israel despite numerous rocket and mortar strikes Tuesday, a Hamas spokesman said.

Hamas policemen were all smiles after the six-month truce was declared last week.

The Israeli military has not responded, but a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the attacks could jeopardize the fragile truce, which took effect Thursday.
“It is clear that these rocket attacks present a grave violation of the understandings achieved by Egypt to achieve calm in the south,” Mark Regev said.
Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza said they fired three rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday, violating a truce between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas leadership.
Two Israelis received minor injuries when one of the rockets struck the southern Israeli town of Sderot, a frequent target of such militant strikes, Israeli ambulance services said. Another rocket struck the town, causing damage, and the third […]

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livenewsupdate wrote an interesting post today on
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chart from www.journalism.org
TV war coverage down, data show

From Baltimore Sun
June 23, 2008

Five years into the war in Iraq and nearly seven years into the war in Afghanistan, getting news of the conflicts onto television is harder than ever. According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. CBS Evening News has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s World News and 74 minutes on NBC Nightly News. (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.) CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 U.S. troops are deployed. Coverage of the war in Afghanistan has increased […]

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nunoftheabove wrote an interesting post today on
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Worls News: Architect Dr. David Fisher unveiled the Dynamic Tower, the world’s first building in motion. The rotate more…skyscrapers, which are planned worldwide, have floors which rotate independently to create a building that constantly changes shape.
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marciseo wrote an interesting post today on
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[AWESOME!]
I swear, Highway 87 will be the death of me, especially the part by Taylor/Park/St. James.
THREE TIMES ALREADY, I was almost killed by unsafe lane changes. Please, lady bitch, if you are merging in, take a look over your LEFT SHOULDER, not your right shoulder, to see if there are any cars. And STOP TALKING ON YOUR CELLPHONE! I don’t think your “OMG he totally cheated on me because I am fat and ugly and can’t drive. He also took all $21.37 in my bank account too! I bet it must be my gonorrhea and my VD that scared him away” chat will be as important as my life.
But of course, HWY 87 needs to compete with the neighbor that might rape and kill me and the lung cancer I might develop from the smoke inhalation. Speaking of which, today has been so smoky that I constantly thought I was […]

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Peggy wrote an interesting post today on
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Richard Branson is my idol, This guy just gets it, he is an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, concerned about the environment, an honest man, down to earth, and follows up on what he says he is going to do. He recently offered a multi-million dollar prize to the man that invents an economical process to scrub the air of green house gases. If only we had world leader more like this guy….
GENEVA - Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson told a forum on climate change Tuesday that aviation is a dirty business and that airlines should be willing to pay for the damage they cause to the environment.
The airline industry has been reluctant to support carbon-emission taxes but Branson said at the Global Humanitarian Forum that he was willing to pay carbon-emissions taxes on his aviation business.
“If you run a dirty business — an airline business, a shipping business, … coal […]

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burtonridr2 wrote an interesting post today on
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BREAKING NEWS-Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change has delivered a letter to the election commission confirming its withdrawal from Friday’s presidential run-off. The United Nations Security Council has condemned Zimbabwe’s government for waging a campaign of violence against opponents, making it impossible to hold free and fair elections. Several African countries have also expressed concern. South Africa has backed the UN Security Council resolution, and Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade has called for Friday’s presidential election run-off to be postponed. Opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai has taken refuge in the Dutch embassy in Harare, after soldiers tried to arrest him on the weekend.

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INN News wrote an interesting post today on
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Islamabad, June 24 (PTI) India and Pakistan today shared “fresh information” on terrorist incidents and agreed to continue assisting each other in investigating and preventing such acts.
Both sides “shared fresh information on terrorist incidents” during the third meeting of the Joint Anti- Terrorism Mechanism here.
The two countries “agreed to continue to work to identify counter-terrorism measures, assist in investigations through exchange of specific information and for preventing violence and terrorist acts,” said a brief joint statement issued after the meeting.
Counter-terrorism experts of the two sides also reviewed “follow-up steps taken on the information shared during the earlier meetings of the Joint-Anti Terrorism Mechanism”, it said.
Reports had suggested that Pakistan would seek information on the bombing of the Samjhauta Express trans-border train in February last year that killed nearly 70 people, most of them Pakistanis. It was also expected that the Indian side would take up recent bomb attacks in Jaipur […]

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pbtt wrote an interesting post today on
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Colombo, Sri Lanka (AHN) - The latest fighting in Sri Lanka’s restive north-east region has resulted to the deaths of 21 Tamil Tiger rebels and five security personnel, the defense ministry said Tuesday.
In a statement, the ministry said government security forces engaged the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in fierce fighting in Vavuniya and Mannar districts.
It said the government is trying to push back the rebels from areas they control.
In Monday’s clashes, three police officers were killed by the rebels, reports said.
An estimated 4,397 Tamil rebels were killed by the Sri Lankan military since launching a major offensive this year. Another 412 government troopers were killed since January.
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