This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: CNN
Oct 1, 2009
Count Sen. John McCain among those who are eagerly awaiting Sarah Palin's upcoming tell-all memoir.
During an event Thursday at Washington's Newseum, the Arizona senator was asked by NBC's David Gregory which part of the former Alaska governor's 432-page memoir he is looking forward to reading the most.
"The part I'm looking forward to most is the part where it energized our campaign and her selection put us ahead in the polls," McCain said of his vice preside
Source: Times (UK)
Oct 1, 2009
One of next year’s most eagerly anticipated films, a star-studded thriller featuring a thinly disguised version of Tony Blair, is in jeopardy because of the arrest of Roman Polanski.
The Oscar-winning director had recently finished filming The Ghost, his adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name starring Pierce Brosnan. But the film is without a musical score and needs sound mixing and extra dialogue before a distributor can be found. With Polanski, who is in Switzerland,
Source: BBC
Oct 1, 2009
The team, led by the University of Southampton, say the arena could have held up to 2,000 people and been used for gladiator games or animal baiting.
It was found inside a gigantic imperial-style palace within the well-preserved old harbour of Portus.
Experts said the entire site deserved greater recognition.
The excavation team, which also included archaeologists from Cambridge University, has spent two years at Portus, about 20 miles (32km) from the It
Source: BBC
Oct 1, 2009
The remains of the last two Australian servicemen missing in action from the war in Vietnam have been returned to their homeland.
The remains of Flying Officer Michael Herbert and Pilot Officer Robert Carver were found last month.
They were found at a remote jungle site near the border with Laos where their bomber crashed 39 years ago.
They were honoured with a military ceremony at an airfield on the outskirts of Sydney.
Source: ISRIA
Sep 30, 2009
The Department of Antiquities of the Ministry of Communications and Works announces the completion of the archaeological excavations at the Neolithic site of Choirokoitia. Excavations were carried out in July and August by the National Centre of Scientific Research of France under the direction of Dr A. Le Brun.
Research undertaken in 2005 on the north side of the hill where the site is installed was completed. The aim of this research was to determine the outline of the walls, whic
Source: Daily Yomiuri Online
Sep 30, 2009
MATSUE--Twenty stone tools believed to be the oldest discovered in the nation have been excavated from a mid-Paleolithic period geological layer, dating back 120,000 years, at an archeological site in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, researchers said Tuesday.
According to a team of experts, led by Prof. Kazuto Matsufuji of Doshisha University, that has researched the Sunabara remains, the tools are tens of thousands years older than any previously discovered.
The existence of
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 30, 2009
In Shira Engelhart's 4th grade class in Virginia, students asked why the pilots on the plane didn't just say "no" to the hijackers on 9/11. In his journal, an elementary school student offered a possible explanation that the attacks were perpetrated by German soldiers during the period when there were frequent wars between the U.S. and Germany. When Ms. Engelhart asked her class what happened on 9/11, eight out of 24 of her students knew that something bad occurred but were not sure wh
Source: OpEdNews.com
Sep 30, 2009
New York City -- Court Justice Edward Lehner has begun consideration of NYC CAN's motion to reject Referee's Louis Crespo's recommendation that the NYC CAN 9/11 petition not be submitted to the voters on November 3. The petition would ask whether or not there should be an independent New York City investigation into 9/11.
Responding to a motion brought by NYC CAN attorney Dennis McMahon, a hearing was held Tuesday September 29 at the New York State Supreme Court, and concluded with
Source: Truthout
Sep 30, 2009
Jelawur, Afghanistan - The men of Bravo Company have a bitter description for the irrigated swath of land along the Arghandab River where 10 members of their battalion have been killed and 30 have been wounded since the beginning of August.
"Like Vietnam without the napalm," said Spc. Nicholas Gojekian, 21, of Katy, Texas.
A prime agricultural area of vineyards and pomegranate orchards, the 18-miles of valley that the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regim
Source: Daily News
Sep 30, 2009
In a previous version of this story, the Daily news incorrectly identified the location of Patara. It was corrected on Oct. 1, 2009.
The Turkish government has allocated a budget to restore an ancient lighthouse, believed to be the world's oldest.
Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay said Wednesday that his ministry would grant 800,000 Turkish Liras for the restoration of Nero's Lighthouse, discovered four years ago in the ancient city of Patara, locate
Source: BBC
Sep 30, 2009
Ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been sentenced to six years in jail for corruption by a court in Lima.
Fujimori, who is already serving prison sentences for crimes including ordering killings by security forces, was in court for a fourth and final trial.
The charges relate to a scandal which brought down his government in 2000.
During the trial, Fujimori, 71, admitted that he had illegally tapped the phones of journalists, businessmen and opposit
Source: Yahoo News
Sep 30, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY – The FBI says it did not edit videotapes of the aftermath of the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building before turning them over to an attorney who is conducting an unofficial inquiry into the bombing.
The FBI turned over more than two dozen tapes taken from security cameras on buildings and other locations around the federal building to Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who obtained them through the federal Freedom of Information Act. Trentadue sai
Source: NYT
Sep 30, 2009
BEIJING — As nearly 190,000 dancers, politicians, soldiers and fighter pilots prepared for the highly synchronized extravaganza marking the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on Thursday, perhaps no one was feeling more performance anxiety than Guo Hu, Beijing’s chief weatherman.
While meteorologists in much of the world are simply charged with forecasting rain or shine, Mr. Guo and his colleagues at the Beijing Municipal Meteorological Station were also responsible
Source: NYT
Sep 30, 2009
BEIJING — Xie Jun, 23, is a modern Chinese patriot. On Thursday, when thousands of soldiers and rows of tanks and caissons move in perfect order past Tiananmen Square to commemorate 60 years of Communist Party rule, his heart will skip a beat and a lump will rise in his throat.
“I’ve learned from textbooks the history of China — how we were invaded in the past by foreigners,” he said this week as he sold bananas and persimmons from a fruit cart in a leafy downtown neighborhood. “How
Source: Google News
Sep 30, 2009
NEW YORK — Critics of China's communist government are protesting plans to light the top of New York's Empire State Building red and yellow to honor that nation's 60th anniversary.
Several supporters of Tibet protested Wednesday outside the iconic building, where a lighting ceremony is planned. The building often changes its lighting colors to mark holidays and big events.
Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner (WEE'-nur) of New York says the lights should not be used to
Source: NYT
Sep 30, 2009
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — On the day Ray R. Moreno came home from Vietnam, the day antiwar protestors called him a baby killer, he decided to pack away his Army uniform for good. Memories and nightmares still intruded, but he rarely discussed them. Battle buddies were forgotten.
Until, that is, he started attending reunions of his troop a few years ago. Suddenly, a door reopened. “They were there; they understand,” Mr. Moreno, 58, said. “If we want to cry, we do. If we don’t, we don’t.”
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Sep 30, 2009
The number of “supercentenarians” – people aged over 110 – will soar in coming years, according to official forecasts.
England and Wales will be home to around 100 people in the age group by 2034, a 14-fold increase, it was claimed.
The Office for National Statistics put the rise down to projected improvements in life expectancy combined with a dramatic “baby boom” after the First World War. The rise comes despite concerns that the ben
Source: Yahoo News
Sep 30, 2009
What do Sarah Palin and Bill Clinton have in common? Both are book authors but neither wrote their memoirs completely on their own.
Ghostwriter, collaborator, co-author. These sidekick writers go by many names, but they all serve the same purpose: to get the book finished. A true ghostwriter gets no public credit for the work but in reality there are varying degrees of involvement by these pinch writers.
With the announcement that Palin's memoir "Going Rogue: An Am
Source: WTEN.com
Sep 30, 2009
Federal transportation officials are getting involved after construction workers uncovered old caskets while digging along Mona Terrace--just off Delaware Avenue--in Albany on Tuesday.
Federal officials are involved because federal funds went toward the construction project.
For those living along and just off of Delaware Avenue, they say this isn't the first time they've heard of people buried in their neighborhood.
"Over here somewhere used to be an
Source: Business and Media Inst. of MRC (conservative media watchdog)
Sep 30, 2009
Unemployment under President Barack Obama is at a 26-year-high. The last time the economy had 9.7 percent or higher unemployment was under President Ronald Reagan. But despite similar periods of rising unemployment, Obama and Reagan received almost exactly opposite treatment from the network news media.
Under Obama reporters have gone to great lengths to spin rising unemployment by finding “positive trends” in the job losses, even focusing on as few as 25 jobs being “saved” by the e
