Monday, February 11, 2008

Un nutrito calendario di eventi per Milano Moda

Al via dal 16 al 23 febbraio Milano Moda Donna con più di 90 marchi che sfileranno anche in doppie passerelle, una per la stampa e una per i compratori per finire con un defilè collettivo, quello dei New Upcoming Designers e la novità del White Club che porta in passerella 5 talenti internazionali emergenti...

Oil platform woman to face court

A woman on the accommodation platform Safe Scandinavia has been arrested and is due in court on Monday, over a bomb hoax on the platform.

Anonymous's perseption in the media

Anonymous

Prostituzione. L'Hotel del sesso aperto dal Comune.

Singolare iniziativa del Comune di Villorba, da anni ormai alle prese con il problema della prostituzione lungo la strada Pontebbana, importante arteria viaria che collega Treviso a Conegliano Veneto. E così l'amministrazione comunale si è messa a lavorare per verificare la possibilità di aprire un hotel riservato alle prostitute, ai...

Masked protest over Scientology

Masked demonstrators gathered outside London's Church of Scientology in protest against the organisation.

OSLO — We're Rich, You're Not. End of Story.

Wisdom about economic life in the Nordic countries is easily summed up: people here are incomparably affluent, with all their needs met by an efficient welfare state. They believe it themselves. Yet the reality - as this Oslo-dwelling American can attest, and as some recent studies confirm - is not quite what it appears.

Erin Brockovich takes on Australian mining giant

Erin Brockovich, the American environmental activist who helped Californians win a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a big power company, is supporting residents of an Australian town in what she believes may be a similar case.

Yahoo -- Top Searches Of 2006

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Death Penalty To Be Sought For 9/11 Defendants

Military prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty for six Guantánamo detainees who are to be charged with central roles in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, government officials who have been briefed on the charges said Sunday.

L.A. takes part in Scientology protests - Los Angeles Times

Lawfuel has published material on the nonsense church business and the loopey Cruise video. Now a group of Internet activists who organized a global day of demonstrations gathered at locations on Sunset and Hollywood boulevards.

Misunderstanding of religion kills 8 in Algeria

Algeria Jihad Update. "Algeria rebels ambush and kill 8 soldiers," from Reuters: ALGIERS (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist rebels killed eight paramilitary gendarmes when they ambushed their convoy in eastern Algeria, a security source said on Friday. The ambush on Thursday...

Noi investiţii externe în imobiliarele din România

New Europe Property Investments PLC intenţionează să investească cca. 46,3 milioane euro în România prin cumpărarea a două agenţii imobiliare româneşti.

Ramos-Horta on life support

East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is on life support after being shot by rebels in his home country early today, in a failed coup and assassination attack.

FA Premier League 2007/2008Foreign Money Vs Domestic Manager

Good commentary on whats really happening inside the business side of the most famous sport in the World

Judge bans carnival Holocaust float

A Brazilian judge has banned a samba group from featuring a Holocaust-themed float with a dancer dressed as Adolf Hitler during the Rio carnival after complaints from Jewish groups.

History Channel Admits U.S. Banks Funded The Third Reich

During a documentary about the Third Reich, the History Channel becomes the first mainstream television station to admit that U.S. Banks funded Hitlers rise to power.

History Channel Admits U.S. Banks Funded The Third Reich

During a documentary about the Third Reich, the History Channel becomes the first mainstream television station to admit that U.S. Banks funded Hitlers rise to power.

Make-believe media version of Gaza

Tim McGirk's piece in Time Magazine (2/4/08), "World Spotlight: The Gaza Siege Breaks," is only slightly more disconnected from reality than the usual mainstream Mideast news story. Per McGirk, Gaza has no Qassams, is surrounded by Israel and a concrete wall, and the U.S. and Israel urge the beating of women protesters — all reported as news.

No need to pay red light camera tickets

Police and courts in Orange County, Calif. rarely follow up on unpaid red light camera tickets. Since 2004, as many as 25,000 red light runners have walked away without penalty.

6 Car Collision Caused By Women Smoking Crack

Drugs may have been the cause of an accident in Miami that involved six cars and 13 people on Sunday night. Fire rescue officials said 2 women in a Jeep ran a light on 79th Street and Miami Avenue had just smoked crack before hitting a Nissan Pathfinder, that was carrying a mother and her two children, ages 5 and 3.

CIA Official Exposes Bush Administration Fraud

A former CIA official explains why the White House wouldn't let him publish his account on the illegalities within the administration.

Letter from Scientologists SUPPORTING anonymous!

"This is for anonymous and those working with them. What you have started is nothing short of monumental I can assure you. It has caused and continues to cause utter chaos within the church."

He’s "a healer, not a dealer’

A Maccan-area man who insists he has found the cure for cancer says he is leaving Canada for an unnamed country where he can live without fear of persecution or prosecution for taking and producing medicinal marijuana.

More Than 50 Killed in Iraq Today

BAGHDAD - Car bombs and gunmen struck new U.S. allies, police and civilians Sunday in northern Iraq, killing as many as 53 people.

Chavez Threatens US with War

CARACAS%2C Venezuela %28AP%29 - President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an effort to wage %22economic war%22 with the United States if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.

IHateScientology.com - Amazing anti-Scientology website.

Brand new anti-Scientology website that claims they will not take down any content if the $cientology lawyers attack.

Testimony of an Ex-Navy Flight Crew Member - Waterboarding

Pulling out my fingernails or even cutting off a finger would have been preferable. At least if someone had attacked my hands, I would have had to simply tolerate pain. But drowning is another matter. [...]

Masked protest over Scientology

anonymous on bbc

New in Mexico City: Women-only buses

Among the 22 million passengers who use the bus and subway system daily, women say, are lecherous men taking advantage of the cheek-to-jowl conditions to leer and grope and then quietly disappear. "There are good men in Mexico, but they're not the ones on public transport."

Busy Baghdad streets bring ray of hope | The Australian

baghdad news

5 Star (!) Rating for Scientology "Bible" on Amazon

5 Star rating for "L. Ron Hubbart: Dianetics" (Scientology) on Amazon - I think this garbage book needs some more accurate ratings/reviews.