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'NYPD Blue' star evades rape charge
2008-03-08 14:52:00
LOS ANGELES - No criminal charges will be filed against "NYPD Blue " star Esai Morales over allegations that he raped his ex-girlfriend, a prosecutor's office spokeswoman said Friday. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office rejected the case on Feb. 13, citing lack of evidence, spokeswoman Shiara M. Davila said. "I'm happy that my client was vindicated," Morales' attorney, Richard Charnley, said Friday. "He was never questioned by the police, never taken into custody, there were never any charges brought against him." Morales' former girlfriend, Elizabeth Mazzocchi, alleged that he raped her in April 2006. Morales has denied committing any crime, Charnley said. He also noted that Mazzocchi continued to live with Morales for months after the alleged rape. The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted, but Mazzocchi has been very public with her allegations, including the holding of a news ...
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Justin Timberlake's 'Problem' With Women
2008-03-08 14:41:00
NEW YORK - Justin Timberlake - who isn't exactly hurting from lack of attention from women - is producing an NBC pilot about a bachelor who strikes out with the ladies. The Grammy-winning pop star is an executive producer on "My Problem with Women ," which follows thirtysomething Jose as he attempts to understand his romantic failures through therapy sessions, Reveille Studios announced Friday.The show is based on "Mi Problema con las Mujeres," a Peruvian TV comedy.Reveille, the production company headed by Ben Silverman before he became NBC's entertainment chief last year, developed the BBC series "The Office" for NBC and the Spanish-language telenova "Ugly Betty" for ABC.Timberlake, 27, keeps expanding his reach in Hollywood. The former boy-bander has released two ambitious solo albums; appeared in the films "Alpha Dog" and "Black Snake Moan"; and voiced a character in last year's animated blockbuster "Sh...

Rihanna Helped NYC Woman With Cancer
2008-03-08 14:29:00
  NEW YORK - A leukemia patient in dire need of a bone marrow transplant reportedly has found a donor after Grammy-winning singer Rihanna publicized her case. "The English language does not have words that are adequate to thank someone for working to save your life," Lisa Gershowitz Flynn of New York wrote in an e-mail to supporters Thursday. Flynn, a 41-year-old lawyer and mother of two small children, was diagnosed in November 2007 with acute myelogenous leukemia, a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow.  Last month the doctors had told Flynn she needed to find a marrow donor within four to six weeks. Rihanna had done previous work with DKMS, an international donor network based in Tubingen, Germany. "When I heard about Lisa's plight, my heart broke," the 20-year-old singer told the magazine last month. Rihanna's campaign to help Flynn sparked more than 5,000 calls and e-mails to DKMS, and about 2,000 new donors have registered...
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The Strugglin' American Job Market
2008-03-08 14:13:00
WASHINGTON - Dangerous cracks in the nation's job market are deepening. Employers slashed jobs by the largest amount in five years and hundreds of thousands of people dropped out of the labor force - ominous signs that the country is falling toward a recession or has already toppled into one. For the second straight month, nervous employers got rid of jobs nationwide. In February, they sliced payrolls by 63,000, even deeper than the 22,000 cut in January, the Labor Department reported Friday. The grim snapshot of the country's employment climate underscored the heavy toll the housing and credit debacles are taking on companies, jobseekers and the economy as a whole. "It sounds like the recession bell is ringing for the U.S. economy, although it is still faint," said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group. On Wall Street, stocks tumbled. The Dow Jones lost 146.70 points, a little more than 1 percent to close at 11,893.69. The Dow was dow...
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Bill Maher: "Stop Pretending Obama Might Be an Al Qaeda Double-Agent
2008-03-02 06:12:00
On Friday's Real Time show, Bill Maher brought up something I've mentioned many times: how people keep trying to bring down Barack Obama because of his name, much of the time, focusing on his middle name. 
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US Sens question Halliburton Selling Nuclear Technology to Iran
2008-02-27 14:23:00
Halliburton VP, Sherry Williams testifies at a Senate hearing about the company's dealings with Iran -- Halliburton is charged with selling nuclear technology to Iran. Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. The story is particularly juicy because Vice President Dick Cheney, who now claims to want to stop Iran from getting nukes, was president of Halliburton in the mid-1990s, at which time he may have advocated business dealings with Iran, in violation of U.S. law. Source: "Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran's Nuclear Team," Jason Leopold, GlobalResearch.ca, Aug. 5, 2005. {Wasn't VP Dick Cheney head of Halliburton at one time?}
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Hillary supporter stabs and chokes Obama supporter
2008-02-26 08:46:00
  COLLEGEVILLE, Pa.? The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office is investigating a politically motivated stabbing that left one in-law hospitalized and another in prison.Authorities said brother-in-laws Jose Ortiz and Sean Shurelds were involved in a verbal altercation over Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton when the argument escalated into a stabbing inside their family home on Honeylocust Court in Collegeville.Authorities said Ortiz, a registered Republican and Clinton supporter, allegedly stabbed Shurelds, an Obama supporter, in the stomach. Ortiz told police Shurelds began to choke him, so he grabbed a knife and stabbed him."Their verbal argument turned physical, one began choking the other, and then the victim of the choking took a kitchen knife and stabbed his brother-in-law in the stomach," Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman said.According to the criminal complaint, Ortiz told police he initially placed...

Hillary supporter stabs Obama supporter
2008-02-26 08:46:00
  COLLEGEVILLE, Pa.? The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office is investigating a politically motivated stabbing that left one in-law hospitalized and another in prison.Authorities said brother-in-laws Jose Ortiz and Sean Shurelds were involved in a verbal altercation over Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton when the argument escalated into a stabbing inside their family home on Honeylocust Court in Collegeville.Authorities said Ortiz, a registered Republican and Clinton supporter, allegedly stabbed Shurelds, an Obama supporter, in the stomach. Ortiz told police Shurelds began to choke him, so he grabbed a knife and stabbed him."Their verbal argument turned physical, one began choking the other, and then the victim of the choking took a kitchen knife and stabbed his brother-in-law in the stomach," Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman said.According to the criminal complaint, Ortiz told police he initially placed...

5 Die in Apparent LA-Area Murder-Suicide
2008-02-25 02:19:00
  LOS ANGELES — A 14-year-old boy was the lone survivor of an apparent murder-suicide that left five family members, including three children, dead across the street from the Richard Nixon Library. A neighbor dialed 911 late Saturday to report shots fired. Two minutes later, the teen told police that his father had shot him and his brother at their condo complex in Yorba Linda, a bedroom community about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Police found five people, including three children, dead of gunshot wounds. The teen's mother was discovered on the doorstep, said Lt. Jack Conklin of the Brea Police Department, which was investigating. Inside the home, police found the bodies of two girls in a bedroom; they had apparently been asleep in their beds. The body of a boy was discovered in another bedroom, along with the body of a man with a shotgun beneath him. Authorities are still figuring out a motive but believe the father was the gunman. The victims were identified as ...
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Middle School Teacher Gets Six Years in Jail for Sex With Five Teen Boys
2008-02-25 02:08:00
LAURENS, S.C. - A former middle school teacher was sent to prison for six years Tuesday for having sexual encounters with five teenage boys. Authorities said Allenna Ward, 24, met 14- and 15-year-old boys at the school where she taught as well as at a motel, a park and behind a restaurant. "I apologize from the depths of my heart," Ward said in court. Police began investigating last year after school officials found a note believed to have been written by Ward to one of the boys. Some of the victims were students at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, where Ward taught. She was fired about a year ago. Ward pleaded guilty in September to three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and three lewd acts on a minor. Forensic psychiatrist Donna Schwartz-Watts said Ward is not a pedophile, but rather a childlike victim suffering from personality disorders and a repressed childhood. Schwartz-Watts said the minister's daughter lived a sheltered lif...
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Comedian Goes on Anti-Fox News Rant During Live Broadcast
2008-02-25 01:44:00
Camp: What is FOX News —it’s just a parade of propaganda isn’t it? It’s just a festival of ignorance. A million people are dead in Iraq. Come on this is ridiculous….
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Clinton: Obama Mailings Are Deceptive
2008-02-25 01:34:00
 Clutching two of Obama campaign mailings in her hand for emphasis, the former first lady said, "enough with the speeches and the big rallies and then using tactics that are right out of Karl Rove's playbook." Obama rejected Clinton 's complaints a short while later as a political ploy. "These are accurate," he said of the mailings. He said Clinton supported NAFTA when it passed during her husband's administration and has herself said she may try to attach the wages of Americans who do not purchase health care under her proposal. The long distance clash erupted as the two Democrats campaigned separately across Ohio, one of two big states with primaries on March 4. Obama has won 11 straight primaries and caucuses, and some of Clinton's supporters have said she must win both Ohio and Texas next week to keep her hopes alive of winning the party nomination. Recent polls show Ohio is close, and Texas closer. Clinton's frustration was evident as she critic...

Interracial couple shot at early Friday
2008-02-17 12:59:00
Greenville police officers arrested a white man at Wal-Mart early Friday morning after he shot at a black man in what police say was a racially motivated attack. Police say Donovan Patrick Williams, 23, of 800 River Hills Drive, initiated a confrontation laced with racial slurs after seeing Jovan Hodge, 19, walking with his white girlfriend. Williams reportedly told Hodge it was "unacceptable" for him to date a white girl, police spokesman Cpl. Kip Gaskins reported. Williams was arrested and charged with several gun crimes, Gaskins said, and officers are investigating if his actions constitute a hate crime. "Committing a crime like this against someone just because you don't like what you see is something we can't tolerate. He needs to be incarcerated, the public needs to know and hopefully he'll be there for a long time," Gaskins said. Hodge said he tried to drive away but Williams shot at his Ford Explorer, causing $300 damage, according to police. "I w...
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Six dead, 16 injured in Valentine's Day campus massacre
2008-02-15 07:13:00
A black-clad former student turned a university lecture hall into a Valentine's Day massacre Thursday, killing five people and injuring 16 others before turning a gun on himself, in the fifth US school shooting in a week, authorities said.Armed with a shotgun and two handguns, he calmly stepped out from behind the curtain at the front of an auditorium just minutes before a geology class ended, officials and witnesses said.Screams filled the hall as he sprayed a hail of bullets from the stage of the auditorium filled with dozens of students at Northern Illinois University, in a suburb of Chicago."It started and ended within a matter of seconds," university police chief Donald Grady said at a press conference.Police were in the room within two minutes of getting the call but did not have time to fire a single shot as the gunman was already dead on the stage."We have no apparent motive at this time," Grady added.Witnesses described the shooter as a white male dress...
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Accused paedophile priest HIV positive
2008-02-15 06:59:00
A former US priest accused of sexually abusing children in two states is HIV positive, Catholic officials say.Last week, a leader in the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, heard someone mention that the Reverend Philip A Magaldi has the virus that causes AIDS, diocese spokesman Pat Svacina said.The diocese leader then received verbal confirmation from Magaldi as well as a letter from his doctor who said he had HIV, Svacina said.Church officials said they believe he has been HIV positive since 2003.The diocese then alerted the alleged victims - at least five minors in two states - and the parishes where Magaldi served for nearly four decades, Svacina said.Magaldi, 71, lives in a retirement centre and diocese officials declined to disclose where.He has previously said he was innocent of the sexual abuse allegations, for which he has not been charged.Magaldi was removed as a priest in 1999 amid claims of sexual misconduct in Providence, Rhode Island, where he served from 1960-90, a...
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"We accept Euros"
2008-02-07 17:36:00
  In the latest example that the U.S. dollar just ain't what it used to be, some shops in New York City have begun accepting euros and other foreign currency as payment for merchandise."We had decided that money is money and we'll take it and just do the exchange whenever we can with our bank," Robert Chu, owner of East Village Wines, told Reuters television.The increasingly weak U.S. dollar, once considered the king among currencies, has brought waves of European tourists to New York with money to burn and looking to take advantage of hugely favorable exchange rates."We didn't realize we would take so much in and there were that many people traveling or having euros to bring in. But some days, you'd be surprised at how many euros you get," Chu said."Now we have to get familiar with other currencies and the (British) pound and the Canadian dollars we take," he said.While shops in many U.S. towns on the Canadian border have long accepted Ca...
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Looking for Democracy
2008-02-07 17:08:00
Democracy is said to be rule of the people, by the people and for the people. I'm not sure if there is any country in the world at any given time, past or present that lives up to this definition. The United States, for all its hallowed claims to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, is not a pure democracy. If it were, then we would have a truly independent media, one that is capable of taking a firm stand and voicing clear opinions, instead of mostly parroting back official rhetoric, as scripted by the powers that be. It is sometimes shocking for me to know that in a country allegedly so liberal and democratic, the mainstream press is pretty reluctant to criticize the administration and even the so called progressive barons, like NPR and The New York Times don't offer much in the way of alternative models. Being neutral is of course a way of staking sides and silence does speak volumes. Think I’m exaggerating? OK people, now listen up good.When is the last time you e...
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Does Office Sex Increase Productivity?
2008-02-07 16:41:00
Italian Sexologist Serenella Salomoni Says, Oh Yes! Have you ever had a tryst with a co-worker? If so, your boss may want to send you both a thank-you note. According to this report, an Italian survey says "the thrill of an interoffice fling raised energy levels and led to better professional capacity." Conducting this groundbreaking research was Italian sexologist Serenella Salomoni, who talked to volunteers about their workplace affairs. One in five admitted to having an affair, with about a third claiming they had "a relationship with a superior to enhance their career." Women outnumbered men 2-to-1 in admitting to trysts. The real shocker, though, was Salomoni's discovery "that people who had an office romance said they were happier, more energetic and more productive." These findings would appear to run contrary to not only the dour posters adorning the walls of HR departments everywhere, but also longstanding cautionary tales of w...
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Clinton loans herself $5 million
2008-02-07 16:27:00
 Democrat Hillary Clinton loaned her presidential campaign $5 million in January, the New York senator said Wednesday."I loaned the campaign $5 million dollars from my money," she said at a press conference at her Arlington, Virginia headquarters. "I loaned it because I believe in this campaign and I think the results last night proved the wisdom of my investment." Earlier Wednesday, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson confirmed reports Clinton had lent her campaign money in January, and said "The loan illustrates Sen. Clinton's commitment to this effort and to ensuring that our campaign has the resources it needs to compete and win across this nation." The news comes days after Barack Obama's campaign announced it had raised $32 million in January alone. Clinton campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe later said the Clinton campaign raised less than half that in the same period — about $13.5 million. The $5 million Clinton loaned to herself was in ...
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The Klu Klux Klan's Love and Hate Relationship of Obama
2008-02-06 08:43:00
KENTUCKY - USA - Imperial Wizard, Ronald Edwards has stated that, "anything is better than Hillary Clinton."White Christian Supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan has endorsed Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States of America.Speaking from his Kentucky office in Dawson Springs, the Imperial Wizard exclaimed that anything or anyone is better than having that "crazy ass bitch" as President.This is the first time in Klan history that any member of the KKK has ever publicly supported an African American candidate for the presidency.KKK lodges all over America have been gathering and holding rallies supporting the black presidential candidate.KKK members in Tennessee rally against Hillary Clinton and support Barack ObamaGrand Turk Cletus Monroe has also been very vocal about the election and has donated thousands of dollars to Obama's election fund."The boy's gonna do it. My Klan group has donated up to $250,000 to the Obama fund. Anything is be...
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Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
2008-02-02 04:45:00
 A $10 billion dollar a year Hip-Hop industry that claims to reflect black life and culture; but 80% of it is consumed by whites. Over 90% of radio stations, record labels, magazines, TV stations, and retailers that disseminate hip-hop and associated products including music, clothes, movies, and games -- are white-owned. African-American teens ages 12-17 listen to more than 18 hours of radio per week on average, compared to 13.5 hours for all teens (Radio Advertising Bureau, 2002) . Thirty percent of African-American teens are among the most frequent TV viewers (the top TV-viewing quintile) versus 21.1% of non-African-American teens (Simmons Market Research Bureau Adult Fall 2002 and Teen 2002 National Consumer Surveys).Data from the ``Black Youth Project'' indicated that while 58 percent of blacks between ages 15 and 25 listen to hip-hop daily, most are dissatisfied with it. They find the subject matter is too violent, and women too often portrayed in offensive ways. Such f...
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Truth About Hip Hop
2008-02-02 04:45:00
  A $10 billion dollar a year Hip-Hop industry that claims to reflect black life and culture; but 80% of it is consumed by whites. Over 90% of radio stations, record labels, magazines, TV stations, and retailers that disseminate hip-hop and associated products including music, clothes, movies, and games -- are white-owned. African-American teens ages 12-17 listen to more than 18 hours of radio per week on average, compared to 13.5 hours for all teens (Radio Advertising Bureau, 2002) . Thirty percent of African-American teens are among the most frequent TV viewers (the top TV-viewing quintile) versus 21.1% of non-African-American teens (Simmons Market Research Bureau Adult Fall 2002 and Teen 2002 National Consumer Surveys). Data from the ``Black Youth Project'' indicated that while 58 percent of blacks between ages 15 and 25 listen to hip-hop daily, most are dissatisfied with it. They fin...
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Kindergarten Temper Tantrum Leads to Handcuffing
2008-01-29 08:13:00
 The child, Dennis Rivera, a kindergartener at Public School 81 in Ridgewood, was put in a chair and handcuffed behind his back by a school safety agent after acting up. His mother, Jasmina Vazquez, said "I think it was excessive force. It was unnecessary what they did to my son."She also indicated that her son suffers from asthma, has speech problems, and may have ADD.Not only that, they eventually transported Rivera to Elmhurst Hospital by EMS for psychiatric evaluation. For a tantrum?The incident allegedly occurred on Jan. 17th and Rivera has since been moved to a private school.The police disagree with Vazquez, in a report saying the child was "punching his teacher and swinging wildly at school aides, that he smacked the assistant principal in the face, ran into a corner, and began to throw things on the floor."Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said "The situation with school discipline is out of control,&qu...
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Curious Cat Uncovers Child Porn Stash
2008-01-29 08:07:00
You know what they say about curiosity and cats don't you? In this case, the cat is just fine, but after it found a stash of child pornography, 24-year-old Luis Jimenez is in jail. When Amy Spencer says she had just moved into her South Texas apartment and she noticed her cat, Sophie, clawing at something on top of a cabinet.What they found was a stack of DVDs, which contained video of girls aged 5 to 11 performing sexual acts with adult men. "It was horrible," Spencer said. "At first I thought it was just like a home video because there was nothing on it, and then it became apparent within the first seven seconds, actually, that we watched that what it was. I've never seen anything like that in my whole life."Apartment management gave the police the names of prior occupants, and they used that info to track down Jimenez. He faces a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years behind bars and a fine of up to $10,000.
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Cheney backs immunity for phone company crimes
2008-01-25 22:15:00
 Dick Cheney claims that making permanent a key intelligence-gathering law before it expires is vital to preserve national security. "We can always revisit a law that's on the books. That's part of the job of the elected branches of government," Cheney said. "But there is no sound reason to pass critical legislation ... and slap an expiration date on it." WASHINGTON  -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday making permanent a key intelligence-gathering law before it expires is vital to preserve national security. Congress last year passed the Protect America Act, which updated the 30-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. President George Bush signed the measure, set to expire Feb. 1, ensuring "we could quickly close the intelligence gap," Cheney said in remarks to the Heritage Foundation, a Washington conservative think tank. "(As) a result, the intelligence community has been able to do a much better job safegu...
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President Bush Seeks Broader Wiretapping Authority
2008-01-25 22:06:00
 President Bush says the government's ability to listen-in on telephone calls is critical to fighting terror."One of the most important tools is to be able to figure out the intentions of an enemy that still wants to do us harm," he said.  "If they are making calls into America, we need to know why they are calling, what they are thinking, and what they are planning." U.S. intelligence agents currently monitor international phone calls between people in the United States and suspected terrorists under a law known as the Protect America Act. That law expires next Friday, but President Bush says the threat to America will not. He wants legislation that permanently extends that authority, grants broader powers to wiretap without court approval and gives legal immunity to telephone companies that have helped the government monitor communications. "It will maintain the vital flow of intelligence on terrorist threats," he added.  "It will...
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Teenager arrested in suicide hijacking plot
2008-01-25 21:54:00
 Authorities have charged a teenage boy who said he planned to hijack a commercial jetliner in an attempt to commit suicide, an FBI spokesman told the media late Thursday.The 16-year-old was taken into custody by airport police without incident on Tuesday evening after flying from Los Angeles, California, to Nashville, Tennessee, on Southwest Airlines Flight 284. "His stated intent was to hijack the airplane and commit suicide," said George Bolds, an FBI spokesman in Memphis, Tennessee. "He did indicate he intended to die in Louisiana. It appears he had a ticket to Louisiana." Bolds said the boy indicated he had lived in Louisiana. The teen wanted to crash the plane into a Hannah Montana concert in Lafayette, Louisiana, two CNN television affiliates in Nashville, WSMV and WTVF, reported, citing unnamed sources. The concert is scheduled for Friday night at the Lafayette Cajundome. Bolds said he had no information on whether the concert may have been targete...
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Pope urges 'more ethical' media
2008-01-24 19:24:00
  Pope Benedict XVI has called on the media to underpin its work with ethical considerations and do more to promote the "dignity of the human being". The pontiff said there was a need for what he called "info-ethics" - as much as bio-ethics in the fields of medicine and biological research. He said the media was often used to promote vulgarity and violence and to legitimise "distorted models of life". But he also said the media helped to spread democracy and promote dialogue. Correspondents say the Vatican has frequently accused the media of promoting consumerism and lifestyles that it considers unethical, such as pre-marital sex and homosexuality. 'Overstepping the mark' In his three-page message, the pontiff said: "When communication loses its ethical underpinning and eludes society's control, it ends up no longer taking into account the centrality and inviolable dignity of the human being." He continued: "While claimi...
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Does Outsourcing hurt America?
2008-01-22 21:07:00
Everything seems to be made in China these days. Cars, magnets, machinery, food--you name it, and the land of red and yellow probably has something to do with it. In an era where illegal and legal immigration has been brought to the forefront of domestic conversation, America ns have turned a blind eye to the other major source of job loss and frustration. While the American media has done more than enough to make everyone paranoid of their Mexican neighbors, it's neglected to spotlight the millions of jobs lost each year to off-shoring and outsourcing. Heaps of prominent citizens are constantly left in the dark due to a trend that has overtaken American trade practices. This isn't from other people coming in and taking their jobs, but is due instead to corporations exposing their greed by giving away jobs to cheap labor overseas. From a business perspective, it's understandable why companies may sacrifice domestic labor. Struggling companies often resort to off-...
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Hillary Clinton and hubby a bit more aggressive
2008-01-11 03:00:00
 New York Sen. Hillary Clinton , who’s in a fight for her political life against her Illinois colleague, Sen. Barack Obama, has gotten a bit more aggressive in her attacks on her young rival. "Today Senator Obama used President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to criticize me," she said, according to an ABC News report. "Basically he compared himself to two of our greatest heroes saying, 'Well, they gave great speeches.' President Kennedy was in the Congress for 14 years. He was a war hero. He was a man of great accomplishments and readiness to be president. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. led a movement. He was gassed; he was beaten; he was jailed. And he gave a speech that was one of the most beautiful, profoundly important ever delivered in America . …And then he worked with President Johnson to get the civil rights laws passed because the dream couldn't be realize until finally it was legally permissible for people from all c...
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