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Too Grimm? Mother Goose cartoonist sued by Colombian coffee growers

12 October, 2020

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Sunday, January 11, 2009 While it was just a joke, the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia doesn’t find a recent “Mother Goose and Grimm” comic terribly funny. In what the coffee growers association calls “an attack on national dignity and the reputation of Colombian coffee,” the characters in a comic strip by Pulitzer Prize-winning […]

How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach

12 October, 2020

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Friday, September 9, 2005 New Orleans, Louisiana —After Category 4 storm Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, on the night before August 29, 2005, several flood control constructions failed. Much of the city flooded through the openings. One of these was the flood wall forming one side of the 17th Street Canal, near Lake Pontchartrain. […]

Wikinews Shorts: March 28, 2007

12 October, 2020

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A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Contents 1 US to seek less than 20 years for Hicks 2 Global stock markets are lower 3 Gunmen kill 50 overnight in Sunni district in Iraq 4 UK releases GPS data in dispute with Iran 5 First black airmen in US Airforce to be […]

Sydney Opera House listed on World Heritage List

12 October, 2020

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Thursday, June 28, 2007 The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has today announced in Christchurch, New Zealand that the Sydney Opera House has been added to the World Heritage List of culturally significant sites. It is the third time that a bid has been made to include the […]

Yahoo! to purge personal data after 3 months

12 October, 2020

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Thursday, December 18, 2008 Internet giant Yahoo! announced on Wednesday that by January 2009 it will begin purging personal data collected when users access its search page at the 3 month mark, a far shorter time period than any of its search engine rivals such as Google, which retains personal data for 9 months, down […]

China’s consumer prices rise to a three-year high in June as food prices soar 14.4 percent

12 October, 2020

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Monday, July 11, 2011 China’s National Bureau of Statistics released data Saturday showing that the consumer price index (CPI) for June climbed 6.4% from a year ago. That compares with a 5.5% rise in May, which was the largest since a 6.3% increase in July 2008. The major factor contributing to this figure was the […]

Satanism: An interview with Church of Satan High Priest Peter Gilmore

12 October, 2020

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Monday, November 5, 2007 In the 1980’s and the 1990’s there were multiple allegations of sexual abuse of children or non-consenting adults in the context of Satanic rituals that has come to be known as The Satanic Panic. In the United States, the Kern County child abuse cases, McMartin preschool trial and the West Memphis […]

George H. W. Bush to attend Sydney CEO conference

12 October, 2020

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Correction — August 29, 2005 See Bush attendance at Australia CEO conference a hoax. Thursday, August 25, 2005 It was revealed today that George H. W. Bush will be attending the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Sydney next week. Mr. Bush is a wealthy businessman and member of Skull and Bones. He has also been President […]

Undercover investigation into protests planned for July’s G8 summit/Brief

12 October, 2020

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Saturn moon Enceladus may have salty ocean

12 October, 2020

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Thursday, June 23, 2011 NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft’s direct analysis of salt-rich ice grains close to the jets ejected from the moon. The study has been published in this week’s edition of the journal […]