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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
Dead at 59 but this Chinese school principal will likely be remembered for decades.
Early morning at Guangxi province, Du'an Yao autonomous county seat, on March 15, 2015. Thousands appeared, wiping away tears, to say farewell to the former Du'an Yao autonomous county high school principal, Mo Zhengao.
On March 9, 2015, ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
In Osaka, Japan, more than 100,000 senior citizens are less than thrilled at the government's offer to monitor their pension spending habits.
There are certain privileges that come along with adulthood - like how to spend your hard-earned money. When someone starts earning a legitimate paycheck, they are generally considered to ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2014
"For the people out there who have no interest in checking us out, look at it this way... the blood, sweat and tears of some Irish guys are in your junk mail." - Bono
Apple and U2 tried to make history two weeks ago by spamming everyone with an ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2014
By Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, and Swee Ang. This letter originally appeared in Lancet.
We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect health and lives. We are also informed people; we teach the ethics of our professions, together with the ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2014
CAN YOU 'BEAR' TO HEAR THE MUSIC?
Can you hear the music? Oh, yeah
Can you hear the music ringin' in my ear?
Can you hear the music, can you hear the music?
- Can You Hear The Music by The Rolling Stones on Goat's Head Soup, 1973.
Perhaps the last straw was Mick Jagger ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
People power in downtown Kuala Lumpur. Whoa! Nice one Malaysians.
To celebrate May Day 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, an estimated 50,000 people gathered around the streets of Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) in the Malaysian capital to rally against the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Malaysiakini reported. The Malay Mail listed the ...
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Saturday, December 28th, 2013
WITH BOB ON WHOSE SIDE?
BigO ran a No B.S. Contest No. 26 (Jan 17, 2013) and asked what readers thought about record labels that release very limited quantities of rare recordings just to avoid losing their copyright control over the recordings. Read it here.
Well, the same label, Sony Music, has ...
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Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
Everywhere in the western world and their allied "democracies", people are waking to "Third World vote-rigging" practices. Now actor Russell Brand has called a spade, a spade. Don't vote. What's the point of "a new boss, the same as the old boss?" By Michael of coinaxis.com.
Dear Russell:
I just finished watching ...
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Thursday, September 19th, 2013
Russell "Skip" Gildersleeve has passed away on September 17, 2013. He was 57. [There's no online obituary posted yet but Skip's passing has been confirmed on a few websites.] It was through the internet on September 18 that we learnt of his passing. It was also through the internet that ...
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Thursday, August 15th, 2013
With the US denouncing actions left, right, and center, it is tough to know what they stand for (or against) as the coup-less coup appears to have turned into a bloody civil war.
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Death Toll
(As of August 16, 2013, wikipedia)
August 14-16: 811
August 14 - 638
August 16 - 173
Wounded - 3,994
July 2013:
July ...
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