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USA: “The Day I Got Deported From the US”
There is a very interesting description of what an UN Aid worker had to experience when he tried to enter the US with his EEC passport.
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The story is at the The Road to the Horizon blog.
USA: FBI puts up reward for lost external hard drive
After recent “reports” that the FBI has lost 160 laptops in the last 44 months it has now put up a USD 25,000 reward to locate and return an IOMEGA external hard drive missing since last month. The hard drive was reported missing on January 23rd from the Birmingham, Alabama Veterans Administration Medical Center where it was used by an employee in medical research to…
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WSJ: Eighth annual survey of U.S. corporations with the best and worst reputations
Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal released its latest survey about corporate reputations. Microsoft for the first time overtook long time leader Johnson & Johnson as company with the best reputation - due to the positive effects of Bill and Melinda Gates philanthropy. As the WSJ describes…
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USA: H. Clinton’s web site traffic peaking
Interest in U.S. Democrats front runner Hillary Clinton seems to be on the rise - at least when you believe in web site statistics. Her web site was this week’s number two of Alexa’s “movers and shakers” with a rise of 40,000% in traffic…
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USA: Homeless Heat Map
Los Angeles based cartographic technology company “Cartifact” is providing an online map of homeless people in downtown L.A. Downtown Los Angeles has the largest homeless population in the United States. The Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Map uses raw data collected bi-weekly by police counts of those sleeping on the streets for the map display…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations
Today throughout the US celebrations will be held to honor Martin Luther King Jr. who was murdered 1968 in Memphis. Many things have changed since the march to Washington and his famous speech in 1963, but with the deterioration of civil rights throughout the world’s leading nations latest since 9/11 it is good to be reminded that there was a time not so long ago when people stood up for their rights and did not indulge in indifference to such changes.
A video of his famous speech is available online in full length (link below)…
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Video: Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark
In this video from an never-before-seen 1984 CBS interview former President Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark. He had requested that this would not be broadcasted before his death…
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What does British Media think about US Middle Eastern politics
While these days its getting more dimmed-down in British media about their own country when it comes to foreign and in particular US politics they still call a spade a spade. So we wanted to point you to one story that seemingly did not get much attention outside of the UK but it includes a [...]
UCLA: Get Tasered for using the Computer Lab
An incident happened last night on the UCLA campus when, as reported, a student was shot down with a taser gun multiple times by University Police officers for not showing them his ID immediately. There is a full report of the incident at the Daily Bruin web site.
Multiple students documented the incident with their video [...]
Rant of the day: 20061107
For today a little puzzle:It’s voting time all around in the US today so let’s look a bit into the future:You’ve got that all-shiny-high-tech new passport the state department just started to hand out. Yes we know you’re still waiting for that RFID - Crypto (clipper 2) chip cover but you like the new look [...]
