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Abilene Reporter-News wrote an interesting post today on
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News broke this month that yet another a Catholic priest has been accused of sexually abusing two boys albeit 20 years ago. This priest who has been said to have the inside track within the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Arch Diocese has been suspended pending an investigation. It seems that every couple of months a story casting a Catholic priest under the spotlight rises to the fore. Did we mention that Wallace Harris has a Barbados connection? Of course we didn’t!
In fairness to many of these priests who are accused decades later of sex crimes, it often happens way too long after the fact. How can the officials conclusively prove the innocence of the accuse in the circumstances?
This story reminded us that we had bookmarked a story last week regarding the strength of the gay lobby. As the story goes a biology […]

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unknown wrote an interesting post today on
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   White marathon runners have an increased risk
 
of skin cancer because of too much sun exposure.
 
The research team treated 8 ultramarathon
 
runners with malignant skin cancer.
 
         They recruited 210 marathon runners
 
for their study and matched them for age
 
and sex with 210 other people they signed up
 
at 5 recreation centers in Austria. All 420 of the
 
people were screened by a dermatologist.
 
                The Marathon runners showed
 
abnormal moles and lesions. 24 of them
 
were referred for surgical treatment.
 
While 14 treatment referrals were among
 
non marathoners.
 
                 The highest rate of referral for
 
treatment was 19% and they trained the most.
 
THis is oveer 43.5 miles per week. It is a fact
 
being a black person makes one less likely to
have skin cancer because we have all our melanin.
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/20/AR2006112000709.html

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charismaallover wrote an interesting post today on
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The deadliest form of skin cancer among
 
white women has went up since 1980.
 
This data was collected from Caucasians
 
between 15 and 39 in Atlanta, Georgia,
 
Connecticut, Detroit, MIchigan, Hawaii,
 
Iowa, New Mexico, San Francisco,
 
Oakland California, Seattle and Washington,
 
Utah as well.
           
            IN white women, the melanoma cases
 
increased by 50% from 9.4 cases per
 
100,000 women to 13.9 cases per 100,000
 
women.
 
             THe increase of incidents in white
 
women getting skin cancer in the USA
 
parallel the increase in tanning salons.
 
            http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19405/1066/

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michael wrote an interesting post today on
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Self-Inflicted Wounds
Outlook India
KPS Gill
Once again, in one more Indian province, the extreme fragility of order has been demonstrated. A matter of almost trifling significance has been allowed to swell – indeed, has been engineered – into a national crisis. For the past seven years, India has been flaunting data on declining fatalities in the conflict with Pakistan-backed terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) as evidence of our successes in the state.

But the abrupt meltdown in J&K following upon the approval and subsequent revocation of the land transfer to the Amarnath Shrine Board sharply underlines the question of the credibility and competence of the state, and of the legitimacy of the national and regional leadership among an ever-widening segment of the population.

There is clear evidence of an extraordinary loss of faith, and the deficit of trust has rapidly augmented into endemic mistrust. Conspiracy theories abound, and certain, obviously […]

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globeonline wrote an interesting post today on
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There have been a lot of workers in INdiana that have lost their jobs. THe
unemployment rate went from 5.3 to 5.8 percent. That’s 17,900 jobs
gone down the drain. Somebody is Messing up really bad.
 
         Slowdowns in manufacturing and construction sites
 
contributed much to the jump in unemployment. The Indiana
 
Department of Workforce Development States the employment
 
rate in these areas lessened by 7%.
 
                 Domestic production of automobiles and RVS
have been hit so hard by high gas prices. General
motors has said that 400 of its 4,300 workers in
INdiana took buyouts at its Indianapolis and
Bedford plants.
 
          Delaware County has the highest unemployment rate
compared with the rest of the state with 6.9 %
 
http://media.www.bsudailynews.com/media/storage/paper849/news/2008/07/24/News/Indiana.Unemployment.Spikes-3394112.shtml

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unknown wrote an interesting post today on
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The Office of Strategic Services was the vast American espionage organisation created by President Franklin Roosevelt in the Second World War and directly modelled on Britain’s intelligence services.
The OSS, which evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after the war, was created virtually from scratch in 1942, and swiftly evolved into a wide intelligence-gathering network, employing soldiers, lawyers, actors, sportsmen, academics and many others.
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pbtt wrote an interesting post today on
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A GLOUCESTERSHIRE based civil liberties supporter claims the Americans have built a secret listening post deep in the heart of the Forest of Dean.
Roger Horsfield, 74, who previously served with the Royal Signals, says he knows there is an underground bunker “within a 10 mile radius” of Speech House near Coleford.
Mr Horsfield, a former Forest of Dean District councillor, claims the Pentagon - headquarters of the US Department of Defence - has built a number of the secret listening posts in countries across Europe to gather intelligence including listening out for potential terror threats.
One, he says, is in the Forest of Dean.
“One theory is that it has been built to spy on GCHQ (the Cheltenham based Government listening post), because they don’t trust the allies, but I think that is unlikely,” said Mr Horsfield.
He claims the listening posts were installed after the poor quality of intelligence in the run up […]

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pbtt wrote an interesting post today on
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The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit has cracked the Shadow botnet — thought to contain 100,000 PCs — in a joint operation with the FBI.
articlesTwo men have been arrested in connection with the botnet: a 19-year-old Dutch man who sold the software; and his Brazilian buyer.
Antivirus company Kaspersky Lab has been aiding the Dutch unit in taking down the botnet by helping affected PC owners remove the malware from their machines.
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pbtt wrote an interesting post today on
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin’s short and victorious campaign in Georgia shows that Russia’s military has improved from its dilapidated state in the 1990s, but analysts said the aging equipment and tactics also underscored how much more work Moscow faces in its quest to turn its army into a world-class fighting force.
Modernizing Russia’s military has been a major priority for the Kremlin, which has boosted annual military spending from about $7 billion in the late 1990s to about $35 billion today, with further increases planned. Last year, then-President Vladimir Putin installed a new defense minister who vowed to accelerate efforts …
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1801-04 – Most parts of present-day Georgia becomes part of the Russian Empire.
1918 – Georgia declares independent state.
1922 - Georgia, as part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Republic, becomes a founder member of the Soviet Union.
1972 - Eduard Shevardnadze is appointed head of the Georgian Communist Party.
1989 – 19 pro independent demonstrators are killed in Tbilisi by Soviet troops.
1989 - Demands for more autonomy in the South Ossetia region lead to violent clashes between Georgians and Ossetians. Russia dispatches a peacekeeping force.
1990 - Nationalist coalition wins multi-party parliamentary elections and former dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia is appointed chairman of parliament.
1990 - 1991 - Growing South Ossetian independence aspirations bring further violence between separatist and Georgian forces. Hundreds die and tens of thousands are forced to flee.
1991 - Georgian parliament declares secession from the Soviet Union after its referendum. Gamsakhurdia is elected President.
1992 January - Gamsakhurdia is deposed […]

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