Who Will Win: Google Vs. China

March 21, 2011
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Google Vs. China

Beijing, CHINA – When thinking of the term “good friends” the words “Google” and “China” will most likely not come to mind.  However the term “enemy” might, as tensions between the two “super powers,” in their own right, have become more volatile. Yesterday Google lunched an accusation against the government of China saying that it intentionally hacked connections for Google owned email browser Gmail.  This breach of Google’s connections effected only Chinese users using Internet Explorer.  However, according to Google China engineered this attack to look like it was Google’s problem. As bad as this current situation sounds, this is not the first time...
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House Votes To De-Fund NPR

March 17, 2011
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Washington D.C. – Today, The United States House of Representatives passed a piece of legislation that would in turn de-fund National Public Radio (NPR).  The legislation passed the House 228-192 even though not all Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Still, despite the Republicans that voted against the bill, it has been the Republican Party which has wanted to stop taxpayer money from going to NPR for a long time.  However, it was Ronald Schiller’s comments on how NPR did not need federal money that helped restart the dying movement to stop federal money from going to NPR.  Schiller also called the Tea...
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200+ Children Saved From Sex Ring

March 16, 2011
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Amsterdam, HOLLAND -  Over 180 people believed to be connected to a large international pedophile ring have been arrested in a world wide roundup, one of the largest ever.  Along with the total of 184 people arrested so far, a number that is expected to rise, at least 230 sexually abused children from the ring’s grips.  The rescued children were mostly, boys ages 7 to 14 in over 30 countries around the world. According to Europol, European Union’s main police agency, it has identified no less then 670 suspects in the sex ring, which is headed up in Amsterdam via a website served out...
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World Stocks Drop After Earthquake In Japan

March 15, 2011
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Tokyo Stock Excange (Nikkei)

New York City, NY – On Wall St.’s second day of trading since the 8.9 earthquake followed by the 20ft plus high tsunami that struck Japan on March the 11th, stocks around the world plunged.  In Japan there was an 19% decline or a 225 point loss in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Nikkei), the lowest since Japan’s financial crisis in 1987.  Though not as severe, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped just over 200 points or about 2.3% by mid-morning today. Surprisingly, as stocks drop the price of gas (in the U.S.) has stopped its’ steep rise, at over 7.5% on the West Cost...
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Rewrite The No Child Left Behind Law?

March 14, 2011
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No child Left Behind

WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, United State’s President Barack Obama placed a verbal deadline for Congress to rewrite the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.  Pres. Obama wants the law to be rewritten before the 2011 school year recommences in September. Pres. Obama stated,  to the effect, that he wants every child to return to school in the fall knowing that America is making their education a priority.  However, the President might have his priorities wrong. Though the the rewriting of NCLB has been on the bi-partisan agenda for the time being, budget cutting is the main course and rightly so.  What use it is...
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Largest Earthquake In Japanese History Strikes!

March 11, 2011
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Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

Tokyo, JAPAN -  Over 250 people, possibly hundreds more as even an entire passenger train is unaccounted for, in Northern Japan are now believed to be dead.  All in the wake of a tsunami where the death tool was originally believed to be only 60.  However, the extent of the damaged caused by the earthquake, that measured at a magnitude of 8.9 on the Richter Scale, which triggered a 23 foot tsunami became more apparent as the waters receded.  The offshore quake hit at about 3:00pm local Japanese time, approximately six miles under the Pacific Ocean and 240 northeast of Tokyo, the capital of...
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