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Families flee river of ice after freak storm hits town
The bizarre fall weather has continued in the UK, with a freak ice storm hitting the British town of Devon."Dozens of people, including a mother in labour, had to be rescued after a freak hailstorm left a Devon town cut off by floodwater.More than a foot of hail fell on...
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Court Ruling May Impede Thousands of Ohio Voters
Ohio could become the Florida of the 2008 presidential vote, with the disagreements over provisional ballots coming to a head."More than 200,000 registered Ohio voters may be blocked from casting regular ballots on Election Day because of a federal appeals court decision on...72 views | 5 comments | 7 recommendations
State Elections officials deny illegally purging voters
"NEW YORK - A newspaper report Thursday said tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states. Election officials lined up to defend their registration procedures and said they had done nothing...Paul McCartney Confirms Concert in Israel
Singer Paul McCartney will perform in Israel at the end of September, almost half a century after his former band The Beatles were blocked from performing there. Israeli media have been debating the reason for the...573 views | 7 comments | 0 recommendations
Woman called Yoda blocked from Facebook
"Hiroko Yoda says she made several attempts to sign up to the popular social networking site but her applications were always met with an error message. The Japanese author suspected that her distinctive...129 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
How to bypass Internet filtering seen at the Georgia, Russia conflict ?
Can I get the Information I want to read bypassing a Filter ? Believe the conspiracy theories: Out of sight and without your knowledge, governments truly are filtering what you see on the Internet"Filtering isn't...175 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Georgia, Between Hope and Fear
"I cannot help being anxious about what's happening to Georgia. My daughter is in Tbilisi with my grandson. Her husband, Sandro Kvitashvili, is the minister of health and social services. I don't know how dangerous his job is each day, whether he is on the streets, possibly...Face (and body) of 'hooker cop'
The Sun unmask the alleged WPC prostitute known as “Kelly”, the woman cop who worked as a £100-an-hour hooker. " THIS is Vikki Thorne, the woman cop nicked for allegedly working as a £100-an-hour hooker. ...781 views | 3 comments | 0 recommendations
Syria has blocked new IAEA visit
Reports from diplomats involved in the matter, say that Syria has blocked a new visit by International Atomic Energy Agency experts. Lack of IAEA access could cropple chances of figuring out whether Syria hid a North...Mass. law lets out-of-state gay couples marry
Massechusetts Gov. Deval patrick signed a bill that repealed out-of-state gay couples from going to Mass. to get married. Personally, I don't have a problem with gay marriage in any shape or form. My view is who...Websites Suddenly Blocked in China? This may be Why -UPDATED
UPDATE: The Great FireWall of China website is no longer offering a test, since the test is no longer reliable.There is another site you can try to see if your site is blocked: Website TestGot a question below about what to do about it, from a webhost provider, the only idea... Comcast Faces FCC Sanctions for Blocking Web Traffic
Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, violated federal guidelines when it blocked and degraded Web traffic, the head of the Federal Communications Commission will announce Friday." The sanctions would be the first time the commission has come down on an internet... Comcast Ordered to Stop BitTorrent Traffic Interference
"ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. In a huge victory for BitTorrent users, the FCC has now announced that it will order Comcast to stop interfering with BitTorrent traffic. ...Sarkozy aims to revive EU pact this year
In an important speech delivered yesterday in Strasbourg, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who assumed the French rotating EU presidency at the begining of the month, outlined the timeframe he envisions for trying...298 views | 4 comments | 5 recommendations
Facebook Blocked in China
This doesn't bode well for 08.08.08 and beyond: just a few weeks after launching its service in China, Facebook has been blocked.As of 4:26pm EST, are any NowPublic members in China able to access it?"Danwei readers...444 views | 3 comments | 9 recommendations
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