Give us a home-grown head of state, not a ring-in
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- Give us a home-grown head of state, not a ring-in
- CBC News: the fifth estate – Among the Believes: Cracking Toronto’…
- Culture & Lifestyle | 19.01.2006 Berlinale Film Lineup Includes…
- STARVATION IN AFRICA Kenya’s Deadly Dependency on Food Aid
- Who will be the first Aussies home in VOR?
- 5 Charged in Deal for Montgomery Home
Give us a home-grown head of state, not a ring-in
The Age – Jan 19, 2006
None able to beAustralia’s head of state. Perhaps some of these individuals may not have been suitablenational leaders and representatives. The point is that they werenever given the chance. Instead — and still — Australia’s system ofconstitutional monarchy means that our head of state will always bethe citizen of another country, an individual appointed not onmerit, but on birthright.
CBC News: the fifth estate – Among the Believes: Cracking Toronto’…
cbc.ca – Jan 19, 2006
They’re watching the videotapes. They’re
reading the calls by bin Laden and Zawahiri, calling on those to do
whatever they can, whenever they can, wherever they can against the Jews
and the crusaders, read Israel and the United States, and those are the
people that as we break down al-Qaeda as an organization and break down
their franchises as an organization, are starting to fill that void with
attacks that may be smaller in scale but emotionally equally as damaging. So, it’s hard to underestimate the potential for home grown terrorism. Because what a lot of people don’t understand about terrorism is it is
low-tech, it is inexpensive. The sophistication of the group, the amount
of money they have access to, does not necessarily comport to their capability
to reek havoc or cost lives. Atlanta-Toronto network
Ira Silverman: IN THE ATLANTA CASE AND TORONTO CASE THOSE
TWO GROUPS FINDING EACH OTHER AND MEETING IN TORONTO, HOW SERIOUS DO YOU
TAKE THAT?
John Miller: What it shows us is that beyond the individual
plot that may unfold here or may unfold there and without even making
reference to that particular case, there develops these networks. It’s
about globalization and it’s about communications as Tom Friedman said,
the world is flat.
Culture & Lifestyle | 19.01.2006 Berlinale Film Lineup Includes…
Deutsche Welle – Jan 19, 2006
Love triangle, obsession, exorcism
Germany is entering the competition with four films this year: Oskar Röhler’s “Elementary Particles,” an on-screen adaptation of French literary bad boy Michel Houellebecq’s tale of a sexual obsessive; Matthias Glasner’s “Free Will” a story of a compulsive rapist starring Jürgen Vogel; Valeska Grisebach’s “Sehnsucht,” (Longing,) a picture about a love triangle starring amateurs and set in the former communist east; and a film about exorcism in 1970s West Germany by Hans-Christian Schmid, called “Requiem. ”
More German movies
As early as 2002, when he began leading the festival, director Dieter Kosslick bumped the number of German films in competition up to four. Previously, Germany had shown fewer home grown entries.
STARVATION IN AFRICA Kenya’s Deadly Dependency on Food Aid
Spiegel Online – Jan 19, 2006
More than 40 people have apparently starved to death in Kenya in recent weeks. To attract international attention to the crisis, Kenya’s otherwise phlegmatic President Mwai Kibaki has declared a state of emergency and requested food aid. But the country’s problems are home-grown, and the current woes have been foreseeable for some time coming. When Deschler took over the Oasis Club in 1980, 500 people lived in Loiyangalani. The current population is over 15,000. Only very few here have jobs. The German, with his staff of 25 at his resort by the lake, is one of the area’s biggest employers.
Who will be the first Aussies home in VOR?
Sail World – Jan 19, 2006
While ABN AMRO ONE lead the charge, it is the young guns aboard sister yacht, ABN AMRO TWO, Nick Bice and Luke Molloy, who are dreaming of being the first Australians to arrive in Melbourne. With just 50 nautical miles separating the first two yachts, and no Australian aboard ABN AMRO ONE, Bice and Molloy are likely to be the first home-grown heroes to step ashore at Waterfront City, Docklands, this Saturday. Indeed, they are still in with a major chance of upsetting their more experienced rivals and winning the leg outright. ‘I can’t explain what it feels like to be faced with the prospect of being the first Australians to finish the leg,’ Molloy said. ‘Being the ‘kids’ boat and the underdog from day one, it always seemed a distant dream to be the first Aussie to touch home soil. ‘With my more experienced peers and mates on-board the highly fancied movistar and Pirates of the Caribbean firmly tucked away behind us, this dream could almost become a reality.
5 Charged in Deal for Montgomery Home
Washington Post – Jan 19, 2006
The would-be occupants of the $440,000 Chevy Chase residence charged in the indictment were Hoang’s brother, Thinh Q. Vu, 47, a State Department official based in Beijing, and his wife, Hong Ngoc Nguyen, 45. They weren’t first-time Maryland home buyers and they didn’t intend to occupy the house permanently, making them ineligible for the tax breaks they sought, prosecutors allege. Hoang’s sister, Van T. Vu, 51, a Bethesda notary public, was also indicted. Hoang declined to comment about the case or her real estate deals. "I very much want to talk to you, but I have a big mouth and I am the mother of five children, and I don’t want to jeopardize my freedom," said Hoang, 54, who is a native of Vietnam… Hoang is scheduled to be tried next month in a separate case filed by Montgomery prosecutors in District Court. She faces two misdemeanor counts of providing real estate brokerage services without a license. Consumer advocates in Washington and other areas where property values have skyrocketed in recent years have grown concerned about the proliferation of what they call questionable foreclosure transactions. Because foreclosed homes can frequently be sold for far more than the homeowner owes the lender — and many homeowners don’t understand their legal rights and options — experts say the transactions are often egregiously unfavorable for property owners. Hoang has purchased hundreds of foreclosed properties, many in Montgomery, which she later sells to retail buyers. The practice, known as "flipping," is not illegal. Court documents and interviews with lawyers who have sued Hoang allege that she has broken rules and cut corners to expedite the typically complex and time-consuming transactions.