"To dzieki wam umieram. Jak Jezus Chrystus. Aby inspirowac pokolenia slabych i bezbronnych ludzi" - Cho Seung-hui ("Manifest Huia").
Zakompleksiony, nieprzystosowany do zycia w Ameryce, nieudaczniak z Koreii. Zawistny, zly i nienawidzacy bogatych amerykanskich studentow, wyslal manifest do stacji NBC. W manifescie zwierzak porownuje siebie do Chrystusa. Rodzice jego dokonali zlego wyboru. Zamiast emigrowac do komunistycznej Koreii polnocnej, tam gdzie on nalezy, wyjechali do Ameryki.
ESSO bierze za litr paliwa $1.00.7. Beaver $1.00.9.
Joint bid from Poland, Ukraine wins right to host 2012 European Championship
OFF THE PITCH
Poland and Ukraine will host soccer's 2012 European Championship after their joint bid beat favourite Italy, where a matchfixing scandal and crowd violence have marred the game over the past year. Countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain have only held a soccer showpiece once, Euro 1976 in Yugoslavia.
Poland and Ukraine, which have never qualified to play in the event, are now guaranteed places among the 16 finalists. Michel Platini, the rcecntly elected president of European soccer's ruling body, the Union of European Football Association, made the announcement yesterday in Cardiff, Wales. "This is a beatiful moment," Polish Finance Minister Zyta Gilowska said at a news conference. "At last Poland will be helping to organize a sporting shodown, not just political ones."
Bloomberg News (NATIONAL POST, Thursday, April 19, 2007).
Nasz pech polegal na tym, ze miejsce polskich tradycyjnych elit zajely tabuny dotychczasowych funkcjonariuszy PZPR oraz tzw. dysydenci, czyli ci, ktorzy juz wczesniej z partii wystapili (lub zostali z niej wyrzuceni przez nielojalnych kompanow) oraz ich dzieci. Te byly czesto juz wczesniej ksztalcone za granica, w tzw. wolnym swiecie, dla nich byly amerykanskie i europejskie stypendia. Istniala miedzy nimi zazylosc, jaka nie miescila sie w glowie ludziom "Solidarnosci" (Romuald Bury, "Zgoda buduje, niezgoda rujnuje", GONIEC, 2-8 marca 2007).
ONLINE CHURCH
A number of religious websites are copying some of the web's most popular sites. Chief among them are GodTube.com (http://www.godtube.com/), a video-sharing site for Christians, and MyChurch.org (http://www.mychurch.org/), a social networking realm. The explosion of niche networking sites has extended into religion ("InBrief", 24HRS.CA, April 19, 2007).
W Izraelu w efekcie podjetych przed 10 laty reform liczba podejmujacych co roku studia na kierunkach technicznych wzrosla kilkukrotnie, do poziomu 6 tys. osob. Do tego nalezy dodac pozytywne skutki imigracji z dawnego Zwiazku Sowieckiego - przyjechalo stamtad blisko milion osob, ponad polowa z nich z tytulami akademickimi. W efekcie w Izraelu ponad 20 proc. mieszkancow moze pochwalic sie akademickim tytulem, to kolejny swiatowy rekord. Wazne przy tym, ze izraelskie uczelnie reprezentuja swiatowy poziom - pod wzgledem jakosci edukacji zajmuja drugie miejsce, po uniwersytetach finskich (Edwin Bendyk, "Krzemowa pustynia. Izrael - jedyny kraj na Bliskim Wschodzie pozbawiony surowcow naturalnych - postanowil zbudowac najnowoczesniejsza gospodarke na swiecie. W badania i rozwoj inwestuje blisko 5 proc. swojego dochodu narodowego. To swiatowy rekord", POLITYKA nr 4 (2589), 27 stycznia 2007).
Bloggers, too, played an important role in the reporting of the massacre. One Virginia Tech blogger, Bryce Carter, hid in his locked dormitory room and posted details about what was going on around him. On his blog, "Bryce's Journal," Carter offered videos of security cars racing around campus and still photos of police sharpshooters...
What is new - what is truly a revolution - is the degree to which average citizens now participate in the reporting of events. While few of them have the training of professional journalists, they more than make up for it in their geographic proximity to events - as well as their ability to report faster, and with no pretence of objectivity (Warren Kinsella, "A day for citizen journalist" - www.warrenkinsella.com, NATIONAL POST, Wednesday, April 18, 2007).
Malo kto wie, na przyklad, ze w Iranie swego czasu modna byla teoria gloszaca, ze Hitler byl muzulmaninem. Planowal ujawnienie tego faktu po wojnie i wymordowaniu swoich wrogow, czyli Zydow. Nie zdazyl tego zrobic. Oczywiscie nie wszyscy Iranczycy wierzyli w te teze, ale znalezli sie tacy, ktorzy byli swiecie przkonani o jej prawdziwosci (zwlaszcza po zalozeniu panstwa Izrael) ("Oni" sa wszedzie" - czyli co Cie czeka za rogiem", WIADOMOSCI, numer 96, 29 III 2007).
Medical marijuana pricey
Dying war vet who can't pay bills is being cut off
* Marijuana is the only drug that alleviates his pain, said Shawn Jackson. He fears morphine would be addictive.
By KENNETH JACKSON
For Metro Toronto
A dying war veteran says the federal government is hounding him like a common drug dealer to pay an outstanding medical marijuana bill, something he can't afford to do.
In a week when it was revealed the government adds a 1,500 per cent markup to the cost of medical marijuana, Shawn Jackson - a onetime Kosovo peacekeeper - said Health Canada's on the verge of sending his $5,600 debt to a collection agency and has cut off his supply.
"How am I supposed to pay that bill? I can't afford it and now they are threatening me," said Jackson, 45, an Ottawa man who needs marijuana to ease the pain of terminal colon cancer. Jackson has gone without marijuana since January, after receiving a letter three days before Christmas advising him his account was in arrears and that Health Canada would cease shipments.
The government charges patients 15 times more than its costs for marijuana and Jackson said that makes it too expensive for many of the same people the feds license to use it. He is angry that the government makes such profits on what it acknowledges is a medicine.
"I accept responsibility for the bill, beczause I used their product," he said. "But I disagree with the amount they charge."
But a Health Canada spokesman said yesterday that licensed users are aware of the costs upon being approved for the drug, and that the agency cannot continue supplying users who don't pay.
"Should the account become in arrears than Health Canada will not send further shipment," spokesman Jason Bouzanis confirmed. Across Canada, 149 patients are in arrears for government-certified marijuana, almost a third of the country's 514 federally licensed patients.
Jackson received 150 grams a month at a cost of $795 beginning last July until he was cut off.
He lives on a $1,200 monthly disability pension and supports his elderly mother. He has never made a payment on his account and Health Canada continues to charge interest on the arrears (METRO, Thursday, April 19, 2007).
Dzieki Underground Railroad ucieklo do Kanady ok. 30.000 niewolnikow. Trafiali do obecnego poludniowego Ontario, zakladajac tam swoje spolecznosci. Kanada byla dla nich bezpiecznym schronieniem.
Juz w 1793 roku, w Gornej Kanadzie pod panowaniem gubernatora Johna Gravesa Simcoe, uchwalono Act Against Slavery, obalajacy stopniowo niewolnictwo. Niewolnicy mieszkajacy na terenie Gornej Kanady mieli pozostac niewolnikami do smierci, a dzieci niewolnic mialy uzyskac wolnosc w wieku 25 lat. Wprowadzono zakaz przywozenia do Gornej Kanady nowych niewolnikow. W 1803 roku glowny sedzia William Osgoode orzekl, ze niewolnictwo nie jest zgodne z prawem brytyjskim. Wreszcie w 1833 roku ustawa brytyjskiego parlamentu Slavery Abolition Act calkowicie zniosla niewolnictwo w calym Imperium Brytyjskim.
W USA niewolnictwo zniesiono aktem o nazwie Emancipation Proclamation, wydanym przez prezydenta Abrahama Lincolna w 1863 roku. Ale tak naprawde ostatni niewolnicy zostali wyzwoleni w 1865 roku, na mocy tzw. Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Malgorzata P. Bonikowska, "Lekcja z Harlemu", GAZETA 34, 16 - 18 lutego 2007).
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