Month: July 2007
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Wall Street Braces for $2 Trillion Collapse
NYPost Wall Street is bracing for a nearly $2 trillion washout over the collapse of hollow and shaky mortgage bonds, triggering fears of a recession worse than the dot-com bubble bursting.
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Hollywood Executives Call for End to Residual Payments
The unions will love this: In an unusually blunt session here today, several of Hollywood’s highest-ranking executives called for the end of the entertainment industry’s decades-old system of paying what are called residuals to writers, actors and directors for the re-use of movie and television programs after their initial showings.
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Michael Moore Blasts CNN, Wolf Blitzer and Sanjay Gupta
Goddamn. [youtube]7RfBq9P3TeM[/youtube]
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Panties and a Baseball Bat: Indian Woman Protests Dowry Tradition
Taking it to the streets: Clad only in her lingerie and armed with a baseball bat, Chauhan finds this the best way to get the police’s attention to solve her post-marital life issues. Chauhan apparently has registered complaints against her in-laws — husband Pratapsinh, brother-in-law Ranchhod, in-laws Bhavdeep and Mangooben, who have been harassing her […]
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Dems Nearly Double Fundraising of GOPs
And you know what that means: time to trot out the ‘f_ggots and immigrants’ context. Watch for it.
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Dr. Laura's Son Could Face Court-Martial
Crime News | Updates: Radio advice queen Dr. Laura Schlessinger – a take-no-prisoners champion of strong family values – has a problem-plagued son who’s under investigation by the military. Deryk – a 21-year-old soldier – could face a possible court-martial as the alleged creator of a sadistic Web page, festering with images of murder, rape, […]
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India Discards Widows to Die
Shunned from society, widows flock to city to die Ostracized by society, thousands of India’s widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They are found on side streets, hunched over with walking canes, their heads shaved and their pain etched by hundreds of deep wrinkles in their faces. A widow makes […]
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China Censors World Bank Report
Development Crossing: China removing a third of World Bank report: Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke “social unrest”. The report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government ministries over several years, found about 750,000 people […]