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  • Update from Ukraine | This Small town is the key to Bakhmut | Wanger Group is doomed

    02/01/2023 7:49:43 PM PST · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 38 replies
    youtube.com ^ | 2-1-2023 | Denys Davydov
    Update from Ukraine | This Small town is the key to Bakhmut | Wanger Group is doomed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD81deXXUdo Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-342-summary/ https://militaryland.net/maps/deployment-map
  • Book says many U.S. universities are waste of money

    07/30/2010 7:25:01 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 35 replies · 6+ views
    Reuters ^ | July 29, 2010 | Mark Egan
    Spending as much as $250,000 on a bachelors degree from world-renowned U.S. universities such as Harvard University and Yale is a waste of money, a new book asserts. "Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money And Failing Our Kids - And What We Can Do About It," urges parents and students to consider colleges that spend on teaching instead of sports and which encourage faculty to interact with students instead of doing research, taking sabbaticals and sitting on campus committees. "Undergraduates are being neglected," author Andrew Hacker, who co-wrote the book with Claudia Dreifus, told Reuters in an interview....
  • Hi there you McCain Haters! [You shouldn't grab your peepole in a thunderstorm]

    03/17/2009 5:54:32 AM PDT · by loqutisofborggg · 240 replies · 6,061+ views
    You hate McCain. You hate reason. Pick on Meghan all you want. All you peepole on here hate anybody who disagrees with you. Go ahead, make fun of me. You half no lives , dont YOU!. Keep up with your nasty and hateful comments. Hateful and ignorant peepole you are. I am ashamed to be an American. Youre greed is so evident and, well, screw you hateful peepole!
  • California Court Rules Homeschooling Illegal

    03/06/2008 7:32:18 AM PST · by edcoil · 205 replies · 1,007+ views
    LifeSiteNews.com ^ | 3-4-08 | edcoil
    LOS ANGELES, March 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) Thousands of homeschoolers in California are left in legal limbo by an appeals court ruling that homeschooling is not a legal option in the state and that a family who has homeschooled all their children for years must enrol their two youngest in state or private schools. Justice H. Walter Croskey in a written opinion said, "California courts have held that under provisions in the Education Code, parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children." The sweeping February 29th ruling says that California law requires "persons between the ages of six...
  • Unique Roman Amphitheatre Slumbers Beneath Sofia Downtown

    02/20/2008 2:36:35 PM PST · by blam · 6 replies · 64+ views
    Unique Roman Amphitheatre Slumbers Beneath Sofia Downtown Updated on: 20.02.2008, 14:29 Published on: 19.02.2008, 12:13 Serdica - an ancient names of Sofia, was a military, economic and culture centre in the Roman Empire. And while local culture tourism is redirected to Perperikon and other spots dispersed all over this country, a mystic town slumbers beneath Sofia downtown, told from Standart. The excavations under the medieval St. Sofia church started in the 1940s. There is a huge Roman necropolis under the church with dozens of tombs stretching under the building of the National Assembly. Archaeologists and historians reckon the remnants from...
  • Herat, Afghanistan - U.S. State Department employee killed by car bomb

    05/17/2006 11:47:11 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 9 replies · 313+ views
    AFP via Babelfish translation | May 18, 2006
    ALARM - an American killed in an attack commits suicide in Afghanistan KABUL - an American, employed by the State Department, was killed Thursday in a attack-suicide with the booby-trapped car with Herat, the large city of the west of Afghanistan, declared a spokesman of the American embassy in Kabul.
  • Japan further preparing for China with the US

    12/31/2005 5:27:06 AM PST · by MARKUSPRIME · 61 replies · 1,095+ views
    TOKYO — In efforts to strengthen defenses against potential Chinese intrusion into Okinawa Prefecture's outlying islands, the Self-Defense Forces are taking such steps as conducting joint exercises with the U.S. Marine Corps and developing a short-range torpedo tailored for this purpose, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Saturday. The Defense Agency and the SDF envision a scenario in which China — faced with domestic discontent stemming from such factors as economic disparities within the country — intrudes into Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea to relieve internal pressure, the report said.
  • I am an American, of Chinese ancestry, who moved here 3 years ago...

    11/03/2005 1:02:24 PM PST · by Iratus discipulus · 272 replies · 2,198+ views
    November 3, 2005 | A FED UP college student
    I am the odd loner in my community who enjoys hearing tales of our American founding fathers, our heroes and was always completely fascinated by the letter of Sullivan Ballou by the civil war, the human struggle for an ideal they, themselves perhaps know little of... I would not go into detail what promted me to write this, perhaps I needed a channel to spout out my intense discomfort after having to constantly listen to and deal with professors in my college and their utter hypocrisy. I Love this country, I love it personally. I love the people; I love...
  • INDICTMENT BLEAKING NOOSE-ROVE, LIBBY OFF, PODESTA FROGMARCH, FITZ FREEPS! (vanity, like MSM 'news')

    10/26/2005 9:10:32 AM PDT · by The Spirit Of Allegiance · 108 replies · 3,938+ views
    little birdie | 10/26/3005 | self
    NOT NECESSARILY THE (BREAKING) NEWS ... Please feel free to join in prayer for the protection of those serving our Country in the White House, in Iraq and elsewhere. And if you have any schadenfreude comments, well, you DO have the First Amendment. But the totalitarians are working on this problem. Meanwhile, John Podesta had no comment. Had to borrow that image, TiredofLaundry ;^)
  • 27 Suspects including leaders of terrorism in Latifiya captured

    03/19/2005 5:28:59 AM PST · by Wiz · 2 replies · 271+ views
    Al Sabaah ^ | 2005 Mar 19 | Unknown
    Security forces have arrested 27 suspects including terrorist Jassim al- Janabi responsible of several acts of terror in Latifiya. It was announced about killing Iraqi army Major in Balad, in front of Baghdad mosque by gunmen. Agence France Presses said that Iraqi army forces arrested Jassim Na'eem al- Janabi, the terrorist leader in Latifiya with his two assistants. Col. Hussein al- Imari clarified that capturing three terrorists were in cooperation with Latifiya population who inform about him and them ambushed during their drive of motorcycles.
  • please discover the reality (zot!!! distroy the troll, steel his oil)

    01/04/2005 6:04:13 AM PST · by wideman · 957 replies · 11,971+ views
    hello all of you ,why you don't accept the fact that usa is an occupation power in irak,what are we doing there:killing innocent people,steeling their oil,distroying their country,burning their houses,they don't tell us to come,usa invade irak without the support of un,neither the support of international community,american soldiers in irak are terrorising children ,men and women killing babies ,throwing heavy bombs on their heads,it is a murder ,it is a genocide ,it is a crime it is not a liberation,it is a colonisation,a destruction of a soverein country,that's why the bush administration is a threat to our word they are...
  • All is Not Lost.... in Translation

    03/23/2004 5:55:35 PM PST · by Kavi · 7 replies · 144+ views
    http://www.alwayson-network.com ^ | March 20, 2004 | Ajay Hooda
    + HOME » + The New Networked World Order un-rated. All is Not Lost.... in Translation Ajay Hooda [Arthniti Capital] | POSTED: 03.20.04 @22:09 EEE US's balanced statement on outsourcing doesn't come as a surprise as technologists and educators don't generally have the strong compulsions of politicians and unionists. A factor could be remaining intellectually honest by force of habit of . What is needed is a cool headed dialogue at international forums like Dravos, and not the provocative and emotional monologue that is being witnessed from both sides . At times the dialogue of the deaf goes some think...