Archive: July 2010
(AP) – Jul 9, 2010 BRISTOL, Conn. — Jeremy Green, an analyst for ESPN and son of former NFL coach Dennis Green, has been arrested on a child pornography charge in Connecticut. Bristol police say Green was picked up on Thursday around 5 p.m. in a Southington hotel and charged with possession of child pornography, possession of narcotics and possession
The Billionaire’s Party David Koch is New York’s second-richest man, a celebrated patron of the arts, and the tea party’s wallet. By Andrew Goldman New York Magazine | Jul 25, 2010 Billionaire philanthropist David Koch is in his Madison Avenue office showing me one of his more unusual possessions, a mechanical-looking doodad on the coffee table next to the
” … Bullock made her decision after an article appeared on the website DeSmogBlog stating that the oil companies were behind the video, and the goal was to get U.S. taxpayers to pay for the clean-up, rather than front the cost themselves. … “ By Daily Mail Reporter | 31st July 2010 She’s navigated her way through plenty of drama this
It’s Still Welfare By GLENN GARVIN Miami Herald | July 27, 2010 A most peculiar thing happened last week: The Washington Post ripped a federal welfare boondoggle to shreds, exposing tens of billions of dollars of waste, duplication and bureaucratic excess . . . and conservatives didn’t erupt in astonishment and praise. In fact, they didn’t raise
An Italian artist has sparked reactions from fury to bemusement by including Spiderman and Hitler among his subjects the bizarre creation Telegraph | July 28, 2010 ‘The Virgin of the Third Reich’ (Photo: CATERS NEWS/ MILESTONE MEDIA) Giuseppe Veneziano’s show entitled ‘The Zeitgeist’ opened this month in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy, featuring among others a work featuring Hitler as a
By Charlie Eisenhood Think Progress | Jul 30th, 2010 Over the past two months, many Republican pundits and members of Congress have been calling for the end of unemployment benefit extensions for the millions of Americans who can’t find work. Meanwhile, GOP Senators held the unemployment insurance (UI) extension bill hostage for weeks as 2.5 million Americans were left without
ROBERT GERWARTH Irish Times | July 31, 2010 ‘ … In their new book, The Kaiser’s Holocaust, David Olusoga and Casper Erichsen offer a passionately narrated account of the gruesome events that occurred in German South-West Africa between 1904 and 1907. More controversially, perhaps, the authors argue that Trotha’s vengeful destruction of the Herero and Nama peoples was a
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Emma Woollacott TG Daily | 6th Jul 2010 US climate scientists say they’re experiencing a barrage of hate mail and death threats, and that law enforcement agencies are failing to act. The Guardian has published a series of emails received since the recent controversy over climate research at the University of East Anglia. The emails – uncensored – contain racist
By Rick Rozoff International | July 29, 2010 The 15th biennial African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda ended on July 27 with mixed results regarding support for U.S. and Western European plans to escalate foreign military intervention in nearby Somalia. The 35 heads of state present at the three-day meeting were reported to have authorized the deployment of 2,000 more
By Tom Kington in Rome The Guardian | 30 July 2010 • Italian premier puts brave face on defection • Parliamentary majority ebbs away in new crisis Silvio Berlusconi’s third term as Italian prime minister is in jeopardy after the loss of his parliamentary majority. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images Silvio Berlusconi‘s third term as Italian prime minister was in crisis
Williamson Daily News ROCK CREEK — Massey Energy has filed a politically motivated civil suit, also known as a Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation (SLAPP) suit, against 14 activists arrested last year in relation to a protest on a mountaintop removal mining site. “The suit seems to be part of a larger strategy on the part of the mining company
” … The general pardon would have affected more than 60 people currently serving prison sentences for human rights violations during General Pinochet’s 17-year military government, most of whom are in a modern, comfortable prison built especially for them in 1995. More than 780 civilians and members of the military have been indicted, 210 of whom have been convicted …
By Michael Stone | Portland Examiner | July 23, 2010 fWhile Texas Governor Rick Perry continues to deny the fact that Texas executed an innocent man, Texas Forensic Science Commission Chairman John Bradley is trying to end an investigation into the testimony of arson investigators that helped lead to Cameron Todd Willingham’s execution. The capital punishment evidence used against Willingham
1988: Al Taqwa Bank Founded; Tied to Nazi Supporters Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood found the Al Taqwa Bank. This bank will later be accused of being the largest financial supporter of al-Qaeda, Hamas, the GIA in Algeria, and other organizations officially designated by the US as groups that sponsor terrorism. For instance, the Treasury Department will later claim that