Posts Tagged ‘100k’

Dennis Skinner Booted From Parliament For Labelling PM ‘Dodgy Dave’

Labour Member of Parliament Dennis Skinner was thrown out of the House of Commons today for calling Prime Minister David Cameron ‘Dodgy Dave’. The 84-year-old MP for Bolsover used commoners’ language in the house that compelled Speaker John Bercow to banish him from the chamber for the rest of the day. Dennis Skinner did not […]

Library of Congress to stop using ‘illegal’ and ‘alien’ to describe immigrants, group says

From: cnn.com The Library of Congress will no longer use the words “illegal” and “alien” to describe undocumented immigrants after Dartmouth College students petitioned for the change, the group said Wednesday. Instead, the Library of Congress will use the terms “non-citizen” and “unauthorized immigrants” in subject headings to refer to undocumented […]

Russia Outraged By Charlie Hebdo Cartoons Ridiculing A321 Crash

Russia has slammed the French magazine Charlie Hebdo for cartoons depicting the Sinai air crash in which 224 people died. The magazine published two cartoons and a joke about the A321 air crash, which has provoked outrage in Russia. The Kremlin called the images ‘pure blasphemy’. Huffington Post reports: The Russian plane, travelling from Sharm el-Sheikh […]

Pentagon Admits US Army Mailed Out Live Anthrax to 11 States and 2 Countries Over the Last Year

The Pentagon has revised the number of instances in which live anthrax samples have “accidentally” been shipped both across US and abroad, and has announced a comprehensive review into the poor handling of the deadly bacteria. “As of now, 24 laboratories in 11 states and two foreign countries are believed to have received suspect samples,” […]

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