Our greatest fears continue to climb as the death toll from the Victoria and New South Wales bush fires increases to 131 people dead. It is predicted that the number will reach 230, as 31 fires remain active in the areas. Towns remaining on bush fire alert include Beechworth, Yackandandah and Toolangai, in northeast Victoria. […]
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Super Bowl News Conference
Commissioner Goodell — Super Bowl XLIII News Conference 01/30/2009 NFL COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL Super Bowl XLIII News Conference Tampa, Florida — January 30, 2009 Opening Statement: ”Good morning. Let’s get started, if people want to sit down. First, let me welcome all of you. We’re glad to have you here and we hope you’ve had […]
The “Bush Effect” – Hopefully for a Third and LAST Time
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Uproar in Australia over Plan to Block Web Sites
SYDNEY, Australia — A proposed Internet filter dubbed the "Great Aussie Firewall" is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries. Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet filter that would block at least 1,300 Web sites prohibited […]
Australia Appoints First National Security Adviser
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appointed Australia’s first U.S.-style national security adviser on Thursday as part of a major revamp of counterterrorism and national safety strategies. But Rudd dropped previously announced plans to create a department of homeland security, saying that dragging several existing branches of government into one larger one would just add to red […]
BOMBAY—–CITY UNDER THREAT
FATAL PLANNINGS OF BLOWING UP THE MUMBAI’S ATMOSHPHERE Today terrorism is the main factor on which the whole world is facing many problems. Recently the big heart stopping controversy took place in mumbai. The […]