Military Families United Memorial Day fundraiser at Irish Times on May 30th in Washington, DC
Friday 30th of July 2010 09:56:51 AM
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| Honor America's Fallen Heroes and their families with a Memorial Weekend Celebration at Kelly's Irish Times on Capitol Hill, hosted by the country's largest military families organization, Families United. Sunday, May 30, 2010 7:00pm - 10:00pm Kelly's Irish Times 14 F Street NW Washington, DC With a suggested $10.00 admission, you are automatically entered for hourly drawings of FREE BAR TAB GIVEAWAYS - up to $200! Not to mention amazing drink specials, music, and awesome raffle prizes - all while helping to support our troops and their families! 100 percent of your $10.00 door fee goes to support military family... |
Woman left sleeping on plane sues airline
Friday 30th of July 2010 09:56:51 AM
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| A Michigan woman who fell asleep on a Philadelphia-bound flight and awoke to find herself trapped in the cabin more than three hours after it landed sued the airline Thursday, alleging false imprisonment. Ginger McGuire, 36, boarded a Trans States shuttle Monday night at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. During the one-hour journey she fell asleep. The aircraft landed about 12:30 a.m. at Philadelphia International Airport, but McGuire said the flight crew hadn't bothered to rouse her. She awoke at 4 a.m., alone on the 50-seat plane with all the doors locked, she said. "Waking up to an empty airplane... |
Global governance is here!
Friday 30th of July 2010 09:56:51 AM
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| Global governance is here! Hooray for Glenn Beck! Right out there in front of God and everybody, he talks about global governance as a real and present danger. But right on cue, progressive bloggers do their best to ridicule the idea with wisdom such as this: Seriously, for a moment. We're going to have to address the paranoia about a global takeover at some point – probably in easy-to-comprehend, Dick-and-Jane language – for the tea party. Could it be that these people really don't know that global governance is already here? As early as 1997, Gustave Speth, former head of... |
Amid United-Continental merger details, operation center hits a nerve
Friday 30th of July 2010 09:56:51 AM
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| As United and Continental executives hammer out plans to meld their airlines into the world's largest carrier, construction speeds ahead on one of the merged company's loftiest emblems: United's cutting-edge operations center in the Willis Tower. Where Bank of America traders once tracked the world's financial markets, United's dispatchers will guide thousands of its airplanes around the globe from the tower's 28th floor. It's the highest of nine floors United will occupy in the tallest skyscraper in the U.S. |
The Elitists and the Radical Transformation of America
Friday 30th of July 2010 09:56:51 AM
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| If we continue to fail to recognize where the battlefield is, there is little hope of winning the war. The Elitists and the Radical Transformation of America By SavantNoir Friday, May 7, 2010 “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”—Barack Obama, October 30, 2008 “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken (1918) “Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they... |
United Nations Global Compact (what is the United Nations Global Compact )
Friday 30th of July 2010 09:56:51 AM
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| United Nations Global Compact Farooq Sobhan The United Nations Global Compact was first proposed by the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in an address to the World Economic Forum on January 31, 1999. The Global Compact's operational phase was launched at the UN headquarters in New York on 26 July 2000. Mr. Annan urged the business leaders to join an international initiative -- the Global Compact -- that would bring companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society to support the ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour standard, environment and anti-corruption. Through the power of... |
United Nations World Health Organization Moving Ahead on Billions in Internet and Other Taxes
Friday 30th of July 2010 09:56:51 AM
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| World Health Organization Moving Ahead on Billions in Internet and Other Taxes By George Russell The World Health Organization is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose billions of dollars in global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own financial house is in disarray. print email share recommend (19) The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations' public health arm, is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity... |
UN fears 'irreversible' damage to natural environment
Friday 30th of July 2010 09:56:51 AM
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| GENEVA (AFP) – The UN warned on Monday that "massive" loss in life-sustaining natural environments was likely to deepen to the point of being irreversible after global targets to cut the decline by this year were missed. As a result of the degradation, the world is moving closer to several "tipping points" beyond which some ecosystems that play a part in natural processes such as climate or the food chain may be permanently damaged, a United Nations report said. The third "Global Biodiversity Outlook" found that deforestation, pollution or overexploitation were damaging the productive capacity of the most vulnerable environments,... |
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