Sir Tom Hunter Makes Record £1bn Donation
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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| Sir Tom Hunter makes record £1bn donation By Chris Hope, Whitehall Editor Last Updated: 2:13am BST 18/07/2007 Sir Tom Hunter is set to become Britain's most prolific philanthropist after committing himself to giving £1 billion of his company's money to charity. Sir Tom Hunter was awarded his knighthood in 2005 The 46-year-old billionaire businessman is part of an increasing trend among Britain's richest people to hark back to their Victorian forebears and give much of their fortunes away before they die. The Scot, who, when aged 37, made £260 million after selling his Sports Division chain of shops, said the... |
Climbers' Attitude Is 'Horrifying', Says Sir Edmund
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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| Climbers' attitude is 'horrifying', says Sir Edmund (Filed: 24/05/2006) Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first mountaineers ever to scale Mount Everest, has expressed outrage at reports that a young Englishman was left to die on the side of the world's tallest peak. Sir Edmund: 'People just want to get to the top' David Sharp, from Guisborough, apparently died of oxygen deficiency while descending from Everest's summit last week. Several parties reported seeing Mr Sharp, who was 34, in various states of health on the day of his death. One party included the New Zealander Mark Inglis, who became the... |
Jagger denies song is jibe at Bush
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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| Mick Jagger has insisted that a song on the new Rolling Stones album called Sweet Neo Con is not about US President George Bush. The rocker admitted the song is critical of some of the Bush administration's policies, but pointed out that it does not mention the President directly. But the military contractor Halliburton, which used to be run by Vice President Dick Cheney and has been awarded key Iraq contracts, does come in for criticism. "It's not really aimed at anyone," Jagger told US television show Extra. "It's not aimed, personally aimed, at President Bush. It wouldn't be called... |
A Tale of Two Churchills: Professor 'Debates' Prime Minister
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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| Professor Ward Churchill should not be confused with Sir Winston Churchill for any reason, despite their accidental sharing of a surname. Both men, nevertheless, possess a certain star quality, the former personifying a fleeting, spectacular, so-called "shooting star"; the latter, a virtually permanent heavenly fixture, like the fiery orb that anchors our very solar system. The University of Colorado's Churchill in recent days has blazed across the American sky as the result of his incendiary words comparing the stockbrokers, lawyers and government employees who died in al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, plane-bombings of New York and Washington with Nazi Germany's... |
Exiled Prince of Vietnam Offers Political Ideology
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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| Last Saturday night brought His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Dynasty and President of the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League, to Cornell. The Prince, a member of the Vietnamese imperial family gave a lecture, entitled "Revival of Vietnamese Culture: The Nguyen Dynasty," before a crowd of about 50 people. Maria Nguyen '05, vice president of the Cornell Vietnamese Association sang the American national anthem and then played the national anthem of South Vietnam. Aided by PowerPoint slides, Prince Buu Chanh then began his lecture speaking from a podium draped with the American flag... |
A Royal Solution for a Nationalist Vietnam
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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| The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam is politically pressuring the government of Vietnam to protect the liberty, religious rights of the Vietnamese people as well as the culture, traditions, languages of the Montagnards and Khmer Krom in Vietnam. (PRWEB) October 23, 2004 -- Today, Vietnam is experiencing a minor period of outward growth. Even the most dedicated Communists are abandoning old communist economic policies, which have proven to be ineffective and sometimes harmful. Capitalism is being introduced, with the Communist Party maintained only as a vehicle to exercise absolute control of the elite Party leaders over the common people. The... |
Our man in Rome brands Bush 'al-Qaeda recruiting sergeant'
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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| THE government was drawn into a diplomatic row with the United States and Italy last night, after a senior British ambassador described President George Bush as "the best recruiting sergeant for al-Qaeda". Sir Ivor Roberts, the British ambassador in Rome, made the extraordinary comment during a weekend meeting of politicians and journalists. His remarks were designed to be off-the-record but they proved so explosive that Italy's leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera, decided to breach the rule and publish them. Corriere reported Sir Ivor as saying: "George W Bush is the best recruiting sergeant for al-Qaeda. If there is anyone ready... |
Government of Vietnam Must Bring Closure to the MIA/POW Before Being Admitted to WTO
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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| Aurora,IL (PRWEB) September 8, 2004 -- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS - From the Office of the Leadership of the The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam & Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League: His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Nguyen Dynasty and President of The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League denounces the Communist Government on the return of United States Servicemen MIA or possible POWs’ and Human Rights Record. It has been stated by American Marines and Army Soldiers who are in Vietnam searching for MIA's, that there is corruption within the government of Vietnam. They stated that... |
Gen. Wesley Clark Resigns From Stephens
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the Little Rock native and former NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, has resigned as managing director of merchant banking for the Stephens Group Inc. of Little Rock effective Friday, a company spokesman confirmed. "He told several of us that his first assignment would be to Kuwait City for CNN," Stephens spokesman Frank Thomas said. "It was a very amicable parting, very comfortable." Clark couldn't be reached for comment Friday morning. He joined Stephens in July 2000, the same month he retired from the Army. He serves on the boards of directors of Acxiom...
I'm outta here. Good bye Free Republic.
Saturday 26th of May 2012 12:14:23 PM
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| I've been on here since 1999. In the old days, there was a united effort against the Klinton Administration. Now it has turned into nothing more than govt worshipping sheeple. Bush can do no wrong. There has been wide spread censorship here now as well for any that dare oppose the great one... Sir, yes sir!! In the old days, we questioned authority. In the old days, there were debates among different parties. In the old days, we even had reporters like Jack Thompson here. We fought the New World Order. We also had SERIOUS discussions. What the hell happened... |
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