Thousands march to push G8 on African poverty – Yahoo! News EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of demonstrators dressed in white marched through Edinburgh on Saturday to demand leaders of rich nations agree measures to tackle global poverty at a summit nearby next week. As part of a day of pressure on the Group…
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Live 8 warms up as McCartney rocks London
Live 8 warms up as McCartney rocks London – Yahoo! News LONDON (Reuters) – Paul McCartney and U2’s Bono fired up a huge London crowd with “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” on Saturday for the anti-poverty crusade, Live 8, the biggest music event ever staged. Starting the show with the familiar lyrics: “It was…
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
This is THE internet resource for everythign to do with movies. Want to know who the Best Boy was for the original Herbie movies? It’s probably here…. Thanks for pointing out this site to me David. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
This might be true…..
I was forwarded this by my friend Jen…. This little girl is at the Phuket Hospital in Thailand. She does not remember her own name or anything! She has lost her parents. She must be of Western origin. She was a victim when she got caught in the tidal wave disaster in Phuket, Thailand and…
Zapatistas on Red Alert
Since Sunday 19 the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has been on general red alert with EZLN troops called into the mountains of Chiapas, and Zapatista communities advised to flee by their Juntas de Buen Gobierno (Governing Councils), amid fears that war in Chiapas is likely to resume. The Zapatista “Caracoles” or “centers of zapatista…
Another Giant Catfish…the End is Near
In this photo released by World Wildlife Fund-National Geographic, two Thai fishermen show a 293-kilogram (646-pound) giant catfish they caught from the Mekong River in Chiang Khong district of Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand Saturday, June 11, 2005. Thai fishermen have caught this giant catfish believed to be the world’s heaviest living freshwater fish but…
Worldwide Week of Action Against Poverty to Launch Friday
The Global Call to Action against Poverty marks its first global White Band Day mobilization on Friday 1st July © www.whiteband.org © www.whiteband.org Some of the world’s most famous landmarks will be adorned with huge white bands on 1st July, as part of a curtain-raiser to a week of global action during which campaigners and…
Bush lying about rise in Aid to Africa
POLITICS-AFRICA: Bush Exaggerates Increase in U.S. Aid Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) – U.S. President George W. Bush has been significantly exaggerating the amount of money his administration has provided in aid to sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new study released here Monday. Instead of a tripling of U.S. aid to Africa between 2000…
Crisp, Complex and Refreshing – New York Times
By ERIC ASIMOV Published: June 29, 2005 ON a hot summer night, a beer need only be cold and wet to satisfy. But consider if the standard were set a little higher. Imagine a beer that offered more than the internal equivalent of holding a cold, glistening bottle against a flushed and sweaty forehead. What…
Rhizome.org: RHIZOME ARTBASE 101
Rhizome.org: RHIZOME ARTBASE 101 Rhizome ArtBase 101 surveys salient themes in Internet art, a practice that has flourished in the last ten years. The exhibition presents forty selections from Rhizome.org’s online archive of new media art, the ArtBase, which was launched in 1999 and currently holds some 1,500 works by artists from around the world….