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261) Scammers - Don't Be Fooled
Author:
Terrence Aubrey
Category:
News and Society
Scamming is a fact of life for all internet users and erradicating scamming from the internet is simply impossible. Seeking to erradicate scamming can be compared to preventing crime, a laudable idea, but hopelessly unattainable. So it is clearly up to each individual to be smart, to take care and in the field of International Online Dating, it is fair to say even more care should be excercised.It is an undeniable fact that The Ukraine and other FSU countries have gained a bad reputat...
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262) What are Some of the More Serious Problems in the US?
Author:
Lance Winslow
Category:
News and Society
As the coordinator for the Online Think Tank, we often ask new applicants what challenges do they feel are most pressing, what problems do they see as paramount to solve and exactly what concerns do they wish to alleviate? The other day, one of the applicants wrote a short list of nine items the he felt were things that the Online Think Tank should be looking into and that he would want to work on too:1.) Drug and gang problems.2.) Local government and l...
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263) Loud Alarms Of E-Scraps In Delhi
Author:
Santosh Narayan
Category:
News and Society
India is rapidly becoming a developed country in terms of the use of electronic equipments. Computers have become a necessity for each and every office, school and bank. Now companies are targeting homes of Indians and providing PCs at rates as low as Rs 10,000. But shining development has its dark side, too. In other words, India will generate more e-waste (electronic waste) in coming days. According to an estimate, India will import more than 4 million new as well as used computers. Yes, i...
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264) Atrocities That Must Be Dealt With
Author:
Todd Hicks
Category:
News and Society
Are there injustices and other events in the world that annoy you? Do you have issues you can propose a solution for? There are many things that bother me; furthermore, there are issues I have a solution for.Violence against women is one issue that annoys me. Although the act of violence toward anyone is bad, I am more bothered by violence toward women. There is a prevalence of violence toward women.Women are a bigger target for violence than men because they are physically wea...
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265) Ethiopian Media - Radio and Television
Author:
Ubaso Nwaozuzu
Category:
News and Society
The Ethiopian government has maintained control over the radio stations and the television station that are in Ethiopia. There are nine radio stations, and eight of them are broadcast on AM frequencies while one is shortwave based. These are the only radio stations that have been given license to operate. The major radio stations, which are all AM frequencies are: Radio Voice of One Free Ethiopia, Radio Ethiopia, the Voice of the Revolution of Tigray and Radio Torch, which is a pirated stati...
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266) Suicide Farming - Part II
Author:
Chinmay Chakravarty
Category:
News and Society
Dateline New Delhi, February 29, 2008. The Indian Finance Minister Mr. P Chidambaram announced the Union Budget in the Indian parliament. The main highlight of the Budget was the massive package of complete loan waiver to small and marginal farmers with land holdings up to 2 hectares or 5 acres. The package involved a huge cost of six hundred thousand million in Indian rupees or around $ 15 billion. The minister promised later that the package would be implemented by June, 2008 and all the...
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267) Do Believers In Evolution Have More Faith Than Believers In God?
Author:
Hannah Henderson
Category:
News and Society
It must be understood that belief that Earth is billions of years old is crucial to the survival of evolution theory. The tactic is to teach that evolution always takes millions or even billions of years to happen so no one will ever be able to observe it. This sounds like a plan for the perfect lie.Evolutionists claim that man can know the Earth is billions of years old because light from stars billions of light years away can be seen from Earth. Therefore, Earth must be at least as...
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268) Two Articles: US Presidential Candidates: What is left? & President Garcia of Peru's Bent
Author:
Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D.
Category:
News and Society
1) US Presidential Candidates: What is left?
Back to the race for the Democratic ticket, sorry to say, but I must, we got two losers on the Democratic side, Obama, and Hillary: and one smiling Senator (McCain), and someone I never heard of before, trying to dethrone him. If that is the best America can come up with, the world is in trouble; Obama, is a dreamer with Iran, and not practical with Iraq. Hillary is a little more practical with Iraq, and far from the issues with Ir...
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269) Wife chooses murder over debt consolidation loan
Author:
Adam Singleton
Category:
News and Society
Twenty eight year old Staffordshire housewife Kate Knight has been found guilty of attempted murder after a botched attempt to poison her husband Lee left him partially paralysed, deaf and blind.
Cold-hearted Knight administered anti-freeze to her husband's wine on their seventh wedding anniversary. He became unwell shortly after drinking the wine and spent 16 weeks in a coma and hospitalised for a total of six months. He is now registered deaf and blind, has some paralysis and...
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270) Canada's French Connection: Montreal's History of Multiculturalism
Author:
Paul McIndoe
Category:
News and Society
When the French first arrived in North America with designs on creating a 'New France', they observed the native tribes of the Algonquian, Iroquoian and Inuit, and built their first colonies based on the fur-trading tradition of these indigenous peoples. This was the beginning of Canada's own grand tradition of integration, of the acceptance of different cultures; a tradition that - like the language spoken by those colonizers - is still very much alive in Quebec today.
What...
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271) Bengali Marriages are arranged in Baynikah.com
Author:
Philipshaw
Category:
News and Society
As a Bengali, you would be happy to know that Baynikah.com has recently started providing matrimonial services to Bengali singles. Therefore, your confusion about selecting life partner for yourself is over! Is not it? Baynikah.com is a young matrimonial site started initially to help Muslim singles belonging to bay area of California in finding out their soul mate. However, its new service has created ripples of new excitement and thrill among Bengali community.
Whether it is it is Muslim...
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272) Arab dating and Arab marriage has become more exciting at Baynikah.com
Author:
Philipshaw
Category:
News and Society
Arab dating and Arab marriage was never so exciting, but with the bay.nikah.com Arab singles have got a unique , trustful, safe and secure platform where they can enjoy dating with the significant other before marriage. Baynikah.com is a young matrimonial site developed initially to help Muslim singles in the Bay area of California to find their soul mate. However, recently it has extended its matrimonial services for people of other communities like Bengali, Arabic, Indian and Iranian communit...
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273) Reptilian Humanoids: Our Hidden History?
Author:
Brian A Vaughan
Category:
News and Society
Secret underground bases,aliens and Reptilians all sound like something from a horror movie or an episode of the T.V series "V", but not according to some top military people and workers who claim that these very things do indeed exist and have done for thousands of years. Ancient Biblical art and sculptures also depict Reptilian beings and it's believed that the original word for "Serpent" in the Bible book of Genesis was the word Reptilian which was gradually changed over the years thus possi...
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274) Culture Of Romanians Can Be Amazing
Author:
Peter Finch
Category:
News and Society
Culture of Romanians has its specific story, told by the geographic and historic context of its evolution. Romania is the only Latin country inhabited by orthodox Christians, keeping in the same time their Roman origins.Romanian culture has been influenced therefore by European and Oriental cultures. Furthermore, rural communities conferred an unusual vitality to popular culture. On the other hand, educated culture developed around religious, moral and juridical concepts at ruler's co...
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275) A Film Festival For Global Peace
Author:
Chinmay Chakravarty
Category:
News and Society
This is an international film festival sans glamour. A film festival sans the star parade, rocking parties and the hype. This is a film festival with a passion-a commitment to make our planet earth a better place to live.The 7 Islands International Film Festival (7iiff) for Non-Violent Resistance, Global Disarmament and Peace was born in 2006 thanks to the dedicated efforts of a few global citizens residing in Mumbai. Maybe for the first time a film festival was not just restricted to...
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276) The Nature Of Our Slavery - Martin Luther King Jr Day
Author:
Matthew Spears
Category:
News and Society
In the United States it was recently Martin Luther King day. This man, through the work of millions of other people, has come to symbolize human rights and a desire to end slavery's legacy in all forms. He understood, as do others, that slavery still exists in different forms even now. It exists as institutions, it exists in economic forms, and exists in the minds of people. This last part is rarely mentioned.So what is slavery?To expand the idea of what slavery is to include b...
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277) Gossip Gluttons - How We Fell in Love With Celebrities
Author:
Paul McIndoe
Category:
News and Society
David Beckham's latest hair cut; Russell Brand's latest conquest; Paris Hilton's most recent bout of bad behaviour - it's impossible to turn on the TV or open a newspaper without being bombarded by rumours, hearsay and the occasional fact about celebrities. But why do we have such a fascination with fame, to the point where we're more interested in the lives of others than our own friends and family?Stories that would otherwise be of no interest to us seem to take on massive importan...
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278) Police snare Miss Puerto Rico final saboteurs
Author:
Paul McIndoe
Category:
News and Society
Miss Puerto Rico, Ingrid Marie Rivera, is at last feeling vindicated following the recent arrest of two beauty pageant employees, who police say pepper-sprayed her clothes prior to her crowning appearance last November.
The police have identified the joint culprits as the pageant's security director and a catwalk co-ordinator in a case that has suffered more plot twists than your average Agatha Christie murder mystery thriller.
During the pageant Rivera said she suff...
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279) Social Class in the United States
Author:
Elaheh Jarrahi
Category:
News and Society
Social scientists believe that it is indeed very difficult to categorize the social class within the United States in the cliché terms of the rich, the middle class and the poor. The fact is that American society is much more economically and culturally diverse. There are a lot of differences in people's wealth, income, education and occupation that one can claim there are dozens of social classes. Some sociologists such as Dennis Gilbert, William Thompson, Joseph Hickey and James Henslin ha...
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280) Philippines Outsourcing Gets Nod From Int'l Biz Leaders
Author:
Roberto Bacasong
Category:
News and Society
THE country's BPO (business process outsourcing) and call center industry is getting positive response to the international business leaders, so said by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the ongoing World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Mrs. Arroyo told the participants from different nations that she is seriously pushing for the country as the best investment destination in Asia. The President, in her statement, noted that she will seriously promote the BPO, especi...
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