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What do the Rev. Al Sharpton, John Cena and Triple H have in common? They'll all be at Times Union Center in Albany for the latest installment of World Wrestling Entertainment's "Monday Night Raw." Sharpton? That Sharpton? Yes, the one and only minister and politician who has courted controversy over the years will be the guest host for the night's entertainment. Sharpton at the microphone, of course, is nothing new: He spoke at Michael Jackson's memorial service recently and has his own radio show, which can be heard at http://www.sharptontalk.net/. But wrestling?A publicist for WWE, Kevin Hennessy, says Sharpton's current...

Rev. Al Sharpton Issues Statement Explaining Why He Is Hosting WWE Raw Newsday's Alfonso Castillo recently contacted Rev. Al Sharpton, in regards to his guest host spot on Raw. His spokeswoman responded with the following comment… "In order to raise awareness and actually do something about the devastating achievement gap in education between kids of color and their white peers the viewership of WWE events is precisely the group of people who need to be reached and involved. Reverend Sharpton has stated repeatedly that all of us must take extraordinary steps to reverse the current trend in education and that...

The Race Comes To WWE Raw! Monday, April 21, 2008

World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Triple H gives Spc. Lanedela Allensworth a ride on his shoulders during the WWE’s Tribute to the Troops tour at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Tikrit, Iraq, Dec. 7. Photo by Spc. Eric Rutherford, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment. TIKRIT — While the holidays may just be another day in a war zone, this year World Wrestling Entertainment gave a special Christmas gift to the troops by spending three days with them.  Wrestling superstars took their show on the road for the fifth straight year to spend time with Soldiers in remote areas who rarely even get...

Source: American College of Gastroenterology Date: October 15, 2007 Consumption Of Raw Fish Raises Potential Health Concerns For Consumers Science Daily — Two case studies from Japan presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology point to a potential health problem in the United States, as more Americans consume raw fish in the form of sushi and sashimi. Anisakiasis (round worm) is a human parasitic infection caused by the consumption of raw or undercooked seafood containing Anisakis larvae. Consumers should be aware that while larvae for the parasitic worm Anisakis cannot survive in a human host,...

Eating Like Adam and Eve Diet-Conscious Christians Embrace 'Hallelujah Diet' as Way to Stay Healthy While Praising God By CHRIS BURY and ELY BROWN Sept. 28, 2007— The spry, slender 73-year-old man sprints up to the stage, pumps the air with his fist, and shouts out a robust, "Hallelujah!" The Rev. George Malkmus surveys the crowd of nearly 400 packed into a former college auditorium and finds that people have come from all over the country -- and even from Nigeria -- to hear him preach the Gospel. But it's not his approach to scripture that draws this crowd. It's...

Former Indian spymaster charged over revealing book by Pratap Chakravarty Indian police on Friday charged a former top official from the country's external intelligence agency for allegedly disclosing state secrets in a book he wrote after retirement, officials said. Federal detectives from the Central Bureau of Investigation also raided the home of V.K. Singh after slapping him with charges under India's tough Official Secrets Act, which would carry a minimum prison term of seven years. "The searches are still continuing and he has been booked under section five of the act," which prohibits publication of classified information, bureau spokesman G....

India's silent warriors The Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane by B Raman Reviewed by Sreeram Chaulia Secrecy and intelligence agencies are synonymous. Very rarely does the general public get a peek into the shadowy world of spooks and their death-defying deeds shrouded behind the iron curtain of state secrets. In a new offering from India's premier publishing house on strategic affairs, B Raman, the former head of the Counter-Terrorism Division of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), pries open the black box with hard-hitting scrutiny. The Kaoboys of R&AW is at once a nostalgic tribute...

Don't even try to separate Chris Schlicht from her raw, unpasteurized milk. "You bet I've got raw milk!" Schlicht wrote in a recent e-mail message. "I can say that raw milk and home-raised meat saved my life." Before she moved to Gig Harbor, Wash., Schlicht says she was "sick, underweight and having an impossible time trying to get pregnant." Then she began drinking raw milk, planted a garden and started raising her own livestock for meat. "I gained weight and got pregnant in less than six months," she notes. "I've been drinking raw milk ever since." So do her husband...

Tainted spinach traced to California By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 43 minutes ago WASHINGTON - A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Supermarkets across the country pulled spinach from shelves, and consumers tossed out the leafy green. Food and Drug Administration officials said that they had received reports of illness in 19 states. Twenty-nine people have been hospitalized, 14 of them with kidney failure. The outbreak was traced to Natural Selection Foods, a holding company based in San Juan Bautista,...

On a mild and clear night in September, their bodies covered only in blankets, Judith Howard and April Sellers climbed out of their upstairs window onto the roof of their home in St. Paul's Merriam Park. About 40 people watched from the backyard lawn, nearly all of them fellow artists — dancers, actors, singers and poets. There was a lot of laughter, a lot of wine, a lot of flirty energy. Many had been here before, for one or both of the women's previous performance parties, and some were still talking about what they did with strawberries. So nobody flinched...

Don't eat raw eggs By Charles Clover Environment Editor (Filed: 28/02/2006) Raw eggs should not be eaten by themselves or used in dishes, even though avian flu is not present in Britain, the chairman of the Food Standards Agency has said. Speaking at the National Farmers' Union annual conference, Dame Deirdre Hutton expressed a similar view to that of Prof Sir David King, the Government's chief scientific adviser - that avian flu did not pose a risk to consumers of poultry. Eggs should be cooked until the whites are solid - not the yolks But she warned that experts recommended...

Any psuedo "sport-hunting", posing poser, tree-standing, duckblinding, inadequate, floundering, hunterering bozo who wants to kill any defenseless beautiful animal like any one of these needs to check and re-check their thinking. God is watching.

Folks, Zenit.Org is featuring an interview with Massimo Introvigne, director of the Turin-based Center for Studies in New Religions, regarding the existence of the so-called "Illuminati," and their links to the Freemasons, the Knights Templar, etc., as well as the resurgence of their myth in Dan Brown's "historical" novels, Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code. This is my favorite quote:Those who want to persuade us that a secret Illuminati cabal did lead the world from the Renaissance to the 19th century, and continues to do so today, have a very difficult burden of proof, and never even came close...

(Robert Anton Wilson is the author of "Illuminatus Trilogy" and many other books) -------------------------------------------------- Position Paper #1 After refusing many pleas to run for governor, I have reconsidered and now enter the race as an unofficial write-in candidate. After all, why shd I remain the ONLY nut in California who ain't running? My party, the Guns and Dope Party, invites extremists of both right and left to unite behind the shared goals of 1) Get those pointy-headed Washinton bureaucrats off our backs and off our fronts too! 2) guns for everybody who wants them; no guns for those who don't...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs. The so-called blogosphere, with its personal journals published on the Web, has become best known as a forum for bruising political discussion and media criticism. But the technology proved a ready medium for instant news of the tsunami disaster and for collaboration over ways to help. There was the simple photo of a startlingly blue boat smashed against a beachside palm in Jaffna. "Every house and fishing boat has been smashed, the entire length of the east coast," wrote Fred Robart, who posted...

I'm trapped on the coast of Kah-lee-for-nee-ah and am looking for a site that will show the accumulating raw vote totals nationally and state by state so I don't have to wait for all the gun shy anchormen to regurgitate results at their leisure. Fellow freepers know of some good ones?

I have seen some posters who attempted to derive the daily raw data from the Rasmussen tracking poll. The numbers that I saw last would seem to be off the mark if Rasmussen's statement about the 1000 likely voters polled last night (post-debate) had President Bush ahead by just under 3 points (2.9%?). Does anyone really know or have a guess what these numbers must be since Rasmussen gave us 1/3 of the equation to start? I have been playing with algebra and really getting myself frustrated :) Yeah, I know that I shouldn't be doing this, but it would...

NEW DELHI: Two recently "declassified" documents of America's premier espionage organisation - National Security Agency (NSA) - clearly show how the US intelligence community has for long been keeping a close watch on India's nuclear and space establishments Recently, over a dozen NSA documents were declassified, though in an edited form. Two of them deal with the intelligence collected before 1982 on India's nuclear programme through the interception of telephone conversations. Both were earlier classified as "Top Secret Umbra" - highest security rating. Despite all this, the US was taken by surprise by the Pokhran-I (1974) and Pokhran-II (1998) nuclear...

VVAW film clips: Still trying to figure out what proof of US atrocities this shows. Entertaining nonetheless. o Operation RAW: Let's Simulate Some Atrocities (1:12, 1.3MB) This guy is priceless. o Winter Soldier Investigation: My Advanced Genocide Training (1:15, 1.35MB) The more things change, the more they stay the same. o Winter Soldier Investigation: Kerry Elicits Riveting Testimony (1:52, 2.0MB) Can you find the 2004 Presidential Candidate in this video? o Dewey Canyon III: Olympic Medal Toss Event (2:21, 5.8MB) ----------

Saturday night at Bonzai in Pioneer Square, a nearly naked woman is laid out on a table. A chef slices sushi behind her, to be arrayed on her torso, bare except for a sheath of plastic wrap and some decorative flower petals. Chopsticks at the ready, patrons line up. Hours earlier, across town on the campus of the University of Washington, eight activists, mostly Asian-American women, express outrage at what they call the prostitution of sushi and the exploitation of women. They plot their strategy. Welcome to a clash of values — Seattle style. While the promoter and the...

The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) suffered its first terror casualty when its top man in the twin border districts of Rajouri-Poonch was killed in a powerful explosion here today. RAW’s Assistant Commissioner Avinash Chander Dutta, from Mendhar in adjoining Poonch district, was killed along with two passers-by when an improvised explosive device (IED), packed in a video cassette recorder and abandoned near a shop in Moti Bazar, was detonated shortly after noon. At least 27 people were injured in the blast. The IED was detonated after people gathered to examine the abandoned VCR. The two who died with Dutta...

The face of power, the raw, real power of Bush's America By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 09 November 2002 In the space of a few minutes yesterday, two starkly contrasting faces of power were on view: diplomatic power, clothed in the formulaic rites of the United Nations Security Council, and raw, real power as brandished by President George Bush in the Rose Garden of the White House. For a moment, surveying the placid scene at the Security Council, or reading the nuanced legalistic language of Resolution 1441, you could believe the vote was the unqualified opinion of 15 like-minded nations,...

Janes information group, the world's foremost source on intelligence information, reported in July 2001 that "The Indian spy agency RAW and the Israeli spy agency Mossad have created four new agencies to infiltrate Pakistan to target important religious and military personalities, journalists, judges, lawyers and bureaucrats. In addition, bombs would be exploded in trains, railway stations, bridges, bus stations, cinemas, hotels and mosques of rival Islamic sects to incite sectarianism." Pakistani intelligence agencies also said that RAW had constituted a plan to lure Pakistani men between 20 and 30 years of age to visit India so that they could be...

n a fascinating plot, full of intrigue and betrayal, Mossad, RAW and Israeli-Russian-Ukrainian drug mafia seem to have joined hands to catch the ultimate prize: The Entire World. The whole story may never be available but we have put together enough pieces to give you a fair idea of what may be in store for all of us. There are many ways to tell this story but let us begin at the most convenient point: Recent recruitment drive of Mossad. "If you are sensitive, creative and charming, Mossad wants you," says a Mossad recruitment poster published in The Jerusalem Post...

Does any one know when or if Bill Goldberg is going to return to Pro Wrestling. Yeah I know It's fake but my son got me hooked 3 years ago. We used to watch WCW, but are forced to watch WWF.