Community Comment: National Night Out? No thanks!

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:16:55 PDT
Good morning, Netizens, Yesterday, the first Tuesday of August, National Night Out was observed here in Spokane, and was duly noted in the Spokesman-Review and various other periodicals across the entire country. It is an extremely popular national event which attempts, among other things, to bring members of neighborhoods and law enforcement together for the purpose(s) of crime awareness and prevention. Read the SR's take on National Night Out here: National Night Out Here in Spokane, Polic

The Unflattering Way We Dress

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:00:49 PDT
Columnist and editor Charles Moore analyzes the world wide trend of people voluntarily making themselves look less appealing.What does this trend say about us?Moore offers insightful observations.

$550,000 Luxury Watches - The Hysek Colosso

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:34:45 PDT
The Hysek Colosso limited edition watch is aptly named - it is a colossal watch both in size and in price tag ($550,000). Hysek, the watch company says it is the most complex watch ever. The case is transparent just to make sure you don’t miss all its bells and whistles and there’s plenty of those - dials, gauges and even a rotating 12mm 3-D globe which turns once every 24 hours and can be set either to local or GMT. Watchismo described it as a “crystal pustule filled with a dimensional eart…

Wanted: Political Candidates, Must Hate Software Patents

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:45:16 PDT
If you live in the U.S., it's hard to escape news about the presidential elections, but that isn't the only thing happening on the political front. There's a movement afoot to locate congressional candidates in the U.S. House and Senate who support copyright reform and other technology issues, and mobilize the open source community to elect them!

Analyse search volume and search trends with Google Insight

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:01:53 PDT
“Google Insights for Search” provides Online Marketing Experts a new high quality tool with very nice graphic diagram to analyse Google search volumes and search trends worldwide or in regional areas. You can analyse over a period of time and also compare specific keywords.

US News Expands The Ranking Service

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:14:05 PDT
US News&World Report, an authoritative source for US university rankings has launched an auto ranking website in what seems to be an expansion move towards a general online ranking service.

Developments in German Pork Production

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:58:55 PDT
We look at the equipment on a typical German sow unit and some of the news stories from Germany relating to its pork scene.

All Headline News Announces Free RSS News Reader

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:01 PDT
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- The All Headline News has launched an RSS news feed reader to allow users of its website to be automatically informed of the latest news. In order to...

News Corp 4Q profit jumps 27 percent (AP via Yahoo! News)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:35:26 PDT
News Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent on profit from asset sales and higher operating earnings in most businesses, but the company faces slower growth in the current year.


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Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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