Posted on 25 February 2010
This photo released by Guinness World Records shows Giant George, a Great Dane from Tucson, with his owner David Nasser. The Arizona Great Dane stands 43 inches from paw to shoulder. [ READ MORE ]
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Tags: Arizona Great Dane, David Nasser, Giant George, Guinness Book of World Records, Guinness Crowns George World's Tallest Dog, World's Tallest Dog - Giant George
Posted on 18 February 2010
By: Naomi Klein [ Enlarge ]If we are to believe the G-7 finance ministers, Haiti is on its way to getting something it has deserved for a very long time: full “forgiveness” of its foreign debt. In Port-au-Prince, Haitian economist Camille Chalmers has been watching these developments with cautious optimism.
Debt cancellation is a good [...]
Tags: Climate Change, Crippling Sanctions on Haiti, Debt Cancellation For Haiti, Fault Lines - Haiti: The Politics of Rebuilding, Haiti, Haitian Earthquake, Haitian economist Camille Chalmers, Haitians, IMF, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Kleptocratic Duvalier Regime, Naomi Klein on Haiti - Al Jazeera English, Port-au-Prince, Slavery in Haiti, The Dictatorship Debt, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, The Slavery Debt, World Bank
Posted on 14 February 2010
Recorded on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier (Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&M Recording Studios) “We Are The World 25 For Haiti“, in which Jones and Richie serve as executive producers and producers, was created in collaboration with executive producers Wyclef Jean, Randy Phillips and Peter Tortorici; producers [...]
Tags: Crash, Haiti Disaster, Haiti Earthquake, Hati, Humberto Gattica, Lionel Richie, Million Dollar Baby, Paul Haggis, Peter Tortorici, Quincy Jones, Randy Phillips, RedOne, We Are The World 25 For Haiti, Wyclef Jean
Posted on 03 February 2010
The earthquake offers Haiti an opportunity to get rid of slums no politicians could touch because it would lose them votes; and to build something almost no Third World has been able to do — a new sewer system. This is no comfort to the Haitians who are suffering today, but their grandchildren might inherit [...]
Tags: 700 Club, Bebe Doc - Haiti, Charles Onyango Obbo, Colonial Slavery, Earthquake, French Colonization of Haiti, Haiti, Haiti Quake, Haitian revolution, Napoléon Bonaparte, President Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Rev. Pat Robertson, Right-wing American Preachers, Tonton Macoutes, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Voodoo
Posted on 26 January 2010
By: Richard Dawkins [ENLARGE]We know what caused the catastrophe in Haiti. It was the bumping and grinding of the Caribbean Plate rubbing up against the North American Plate: a force of nature, sin-free and indifferent to sin, un-premeditated, unmotivated, supremely unconcerned with human affairs or human misery.
The religious mind, however, restlessly seeks human meaning [...]
Tags: Blind Happenings of Nature, Christian theology, hurricane katrina, Indonesian Tsunami, New Orleans, religion, Rev. Pat Robertson, Richard Dawkins