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
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Source: Daily Mail (UK)
March 3, 2010
Germans have been able to watch the war that changed their world forever in full colour, thanks to a revolutionary new film.
Previously unseen film footage and photographs restored and colourised using the latest computer technology were shown as part of a major three-part series simply called Der Krieg (The War).
The series was originally a film made by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle and was premiered in France last year under the title of Apocalypse.
Source: Nancy Scola at techPresident
March 2, 2010
Somehow this slipped beneath our radar until now. The deal is that Harvard's Larry Lessig is supplementing his Change Congress/Fix Congress First push with a more fundamental -- yet more provocative -- appeal: let's start a grassroots movement to call for a constitutional convention, as provided for in the Constitution, to rework the basic nature of the agreement between "the People" and Congress. Here, from
Source: BBC
March 2, 2010
So who was Scotland's first female MP?
And the name of this woman who made history but now seems to be completely forgotten?
Katharine (Kitty) Murray, the Duchess of Atholl and the MP for Kinross and West Perthshire from 1923 to 1938.
She maintained a woman's place was in the home, even speaking against votes for women - but ended up in the most prestigious boys' club of them all, becoming our first MP.When she first entere
Source: BBC
March 2, 2010
Women and children came first when the Titanic sunk but not when the Lusitania was torpedoed, a study has claimed.
The difference in behaviour was due to the speed at which the two maritime disasters struck, researchers said.
The Titanic took more than two hours to sink when it hit an iceberg four days into its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, on 14 April, 1912. But in the case of the Titanic, it was a case of "women and
Source: BBC
March 2, 2010
Scientists say they have identified the fossilised remains of a snake that dined on dinosaur eggs.
The 67-million-year-old skeleton was found in a dinosaur nest.
The study, published in the journal Plos One, is said to show the first direct evidence of feeding behaviour in a fossilised primitive snake.
This 3.5m fossil snake is believed to have fed on the hatchlings of sauropods, as it was found wrapped around a baby titanosaur.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 2, 2010
Bosnian Muslims "planted corpses", exaggerated death tolls and shot or shelled their own people as part of a dirty tricks campaign against the Serbs, Radovan Karadzic claimed on Tuesday.
The wartime Bosnian Serb leader used his second day in the dock of a United Nations tribunal to pour scorn on allegations of genocide and war crimes for which he has been indicted on 11 counts.
Karadzic, 64, insisted that the Serbs could not be held accountable for the four-ye
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 2, 2010
The 15th-century alabaster statues - considered treasures of medieval Europe - have never before left the city of Dijon, where they march perpetually around the base of the tomb of John the Fearless and his wife Margaret of Bavaria.
Now they can be seen walking two-by-two down a plain catwalk in the heart of the Met in the exhibition The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy.
Carved over a 25-year-period by Jean de la Huerta and Antoine le Moitu
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 2, 2010
A Polish anti-abortion group has sparked controversy by using pictures of Hitler and a bloody and torn foetus in a billboard campaign designed to ensure Poles adhere to the country's strict abortion laws.
The provocative images, which appeared in the western city of Poznan as a part of a promised nationwide campaign, also carry the slogan "Abortion for Poles: introduced by Hitler, March 9, 1943."
Fundacja Pro, the organisation behind the billboard, said that i
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 2, 2010
Britain is at the centre of a new diplomatic dispute after former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic was arrested at Heathrow at the request of his former rivals in Serbia.
Police detained Ejup Ganic on suspicion of being involved in a 1992 massacre despite the charges having already been dismissed by a UN war tribunal.
It left the British government facing another embarrassing diplomatic dispute just weeks after it was condemned by Israel for failing to guarantee Tzipi Livni
Source: AP
March 2, 2010
Political strategist Karl Rove says President George W. Bush made the right decision to launch the Iraq war in 2003, but the former White House adviser admits the failure to find weapons of mass destruction badly damaged the administration's credibility.
In his new memoir, "Courage and Consequence," Rove blames himself for not pushing back against claims that Bush had taken the country to war under false pretenses, calling it one of the worst mistakes he made during the Bu
Source: AP
March 2, 2010
Winston Spencer Churchill, a former member of Parliament and grandson of Britain's wartime leader, died Tuesday, an associate said. He was 69.
Churchill had been suffering from cancer and died at his London home, said Cmdr. John Muxworthy, president of the United Kingdom National Defense Association.
Churchill was a member of the House of Commons from 1970 to 1997. Earlier he had been a foreign correspondent for The Times of London, The Daily Telegraph and other papers.
Source: CNN
March 2, 2010
panish police have arrested a man wanted for war crimes during the Bosnian conflict from 1992 to 1995, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
The suspect, Veselin Vlahovic, born in Montenegro in 1969, was sought on three international arrest warrants for more than a hundred murders of women and children, as well as rape and torture, the statement said.
Vlahovic was known as "the monster of Grbavica" -- the name of the neighborhood of Sarajevo where
Source: CNN
March 2, 2010
he son of a founder of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, Tuesday told CNN that he was a spy for Israel.
For 10 years, Mosab Yousef said he gathered information about Hamas terrorist plots and fed them to Israel's domestic security service Shin Bet.
Yousef, in an exclusive interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, said he did it because he came to believe that Hamas was practicing "exceptional cruelty" against its members and "killed people for no rea
Source: 60 Minutes
February 28, 2010
The Armenians call it their holocaust - the 1915 forced deportation and massacre of more than a million Armenians by the Turks. But the Turks and our own government have refused to call it genocide.
Source: BBC News
March 1, 2010
Former leader Radovan Karadzic has said the Serb cause in the Bosnian war was "just and holy" as he began his defence at his genocide trial at The Hague.
Mr Karadzic, who led the Bosnian Serbs during the war in the 1990s, said there was a core group of Muslims in Bosnia - then and now - who wanted 100% power.
He said the Serbs acted in self-defence after their peace plans were rejected.
He insists he is innocent of all 11 charges from the 1992-95
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 2, 2010
Who is a Jew? As the recent passport row shows, that question can be murky, with elements of belief, values, descent and nationality mixed in.
It also has dark reminders of a terrible time in history when Jewish blood meant death; and science, or pseudo-science, claimed to be able to sniff it out.
Judaism is inherited down the female line – as are mitochondria. Their DNA shows that today's Jews from the largest group, the eight million Ashkenazim – most of whom once fou
Source: AP
March 1, 2010
The historic district of Washington once known as the "Black Broadway" now has its own neighborhood heritage trail and visitor center.
The group Cultural Tourism D.C. has introduced an audio tour for Washington's U Street area. You can download it for free from the organization's Web site; the link can be found at the bottom of the lefthand side of the organization's home page at http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/....
Source: WaPo
March 2, 2010
Mohamed Ali Samantar, whose name will be brought before the Supreme Court this week as that of a war criminal in his native Somalia, has a hard time getting up from the couch in his tidy split-level home in Fairfax City.
Dressed in a pressed charcoal-colored suit for his first interview in many years, Samantar, 74, stiffly hauls himself halfway up from the threadbare brocade sofa. Some of his 13 sons and daughters rush in to help. He stays them with a single gruff word. Slowly, the
Source: AP
March 2, 2010
undreds of U.S. Marines landed on the remote island of Iwo Jima on Tuesday to prepare for the 65th anniversary of one of World War II's bloodiest and most iconic battles.
The Marines flew in trucks, water and food from Washington to support Wednesday's commemorations of the 1945 battle that was a turning point in the Pacific theater. It claimed 6,821 American and 21,570 Japanese lives in 36 days of intense fighting. A drill team also arrived on the island.
The commemora
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 2, 2010
Australian aborigines and former servicemen are to sue the British Ministry of Defence over diseases and disabilities that they claim were caused by nuclear testing in the Outback more than 50 years ago.
A group of 250 people, including 150 former servicemen, say they have suffered cancer, skin disease and deformities because of the fallout from blasts.
If they win, the British Government could be faced with a bill for compensation which will run to millions of pounds,
