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Farewell 00’s, Welcome 10’s! Top Story of 2009? Bringing Paula Home

Posted on 01 January 2010 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: BlackRiverProject.org, BringPaulaHome.org, Denis Campbell, Paula Persechini-Pettiti, Spalding Hospital Boston

By Denis Campbell
Good riddance to the noughts! It was a decade where snarkiness, fear and division triumphed over almost everything else. I say almost because when one reviews 2009’s top stories, Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the US presidency was inspiring, challenging and filled us with globally healing headlines.
Yet the internal tone and level of anger [...]

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Government’s Pennywise and Pound Foolishness

Posted on 23 November 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Denis Campbell, Leisure Centre, Llantwit Major, Local councils

By Denis Campbell
A periodic rant about UK, Welsh and local government group thinking (as much of an oxy-moron as ‘postal service’ or ‘military intelligence’)
Today’s Topic: The Leisure Centre Construction Project
When overlapping budget requests require funding from different sources, then that leads to cancellation of ½ of the project midstream defeating the broader purpose of promoting [...]

News Media as a Positive Force to Help Beleaguered Customers?

Posted on 11 November 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: BBC Wales, Bridgend Extra, courageous, Denis Campbell, equal time standard, Paul Forde, Rolling Stone, Tesco, Tesco PLC, UK Progressive, X-Ray

By Denis Campbell

Coincidence? You decide.

A little over 3 weeks ago we ran a UK supermarket pricing story and its accompanying photo essay in partnership with BBC Wales’ X-Ray consumer news programme.

Tesco, PLC “cherry-picked” items I discovered from the X-Ray programme and attempted to discredit my findings with a written statement to X-Ray’s producers read, as sent, [...]

Drinking Motivational KoolAid – How it All Works Financially

Posted on 22 October 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: add on seminars, book sales, book store, Denis Campbell, don't drink the koolaid, Drinking Motivational KoolAid, ex-Presidents, George W. Bush, Get Motivated, memoir, Peter and Tamara Lowe, Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show

By Denis Campbell
Many read my article on how the Mind Body Spirit world is established to financially hook one into spending lots of money. Now the industry’s tactics have expanded into luring former US Presidents into pimping, errr fronting for them.
George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States has passed on the Council [...]

Who Knew? Our Helicopter, Cocooned, Blinkered Lives May Need Adjusting

Posted on 24 September 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 15-minutes, Boston, Denis Campbell, killer, Larry King Live, Yale

By Denis Campbell
“He was really a nice guy, a bit eccentric, but how could this have happened? The ________ I (choose one: know, dated, went to school with, sat next to on the schoolbus, played baseball with, lived next door to, etc.) could never have done this sort of thing.”
The brutal murders of a Yale [...]

UK Progressive’s Recession Busting Suggestion Box

Posted on 07 August 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $2 billion dollars, 4/10th of 1%, Cardiff, Cash for Clunkers, consumer credit, Denis Campbell, MP expenses, Open Source Govt. 2.0, Toyota, US car companies, US Senators, used car, Washington, Westminster, yobs

By Denis Campbell
The USA’s ‘Cash for Clunkers’ was just extended a new $2 billion dollar funding lifeline. It is such a simple programme doing so much good on so many levels, we wondered if schemes like it could boost the UK and global economy? Between zombie banks, MP Expenses and the pound getting pounded, we [...]

Did John McCain Lose Arizona? (Reprise)

Posted on 30 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: 14 days after the election, an unbroken custody chain, AUDITAZ, banana republic state, battling election authorities in Pima County, but John McCain’s state and home county need not follow, California turn blue, citizen warrior, colorado, comfortably won his home state by about 9 percentage po, conspicuously red, County Manager is distancing himself from the justifiab, December 2nd, Denis Campbell, Did John McCain Lose Arizona, did not follow election law, do not have all ballots counted in Alaska, elections director, elections security expert with BlackBoxVoting.org, ensure ballot integrity, Georgia run-off election, Helen Purcell, Humboldt County CA|, Jim March, John Brakey is as passionate as they come, Judge Edward O. Burke, Libertarian Party, mandatory recount, Maricopa County (Phoenix), McCain, McCain won Phoenix, Minnesota Senate race, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, obama, problems in Tucson’s Pima County, public-private cooperative effort, razor close Senate race, Republican Presidential candidate represent, ruled against them, since 1996, so many states surrounding Arizona, Tucson, work has uncovered major systemic problems with Diebold, work tirelessly for election transparency and integrity

by Denis Campbell
(Reprise of 18 November Article) While Maricopa County (Phoenix) Judge Edward O. Burke agreed with the state’s Libertarian Party that county elections director, Karen Osborne, did not follow election law, ensure ballot integrity and provide an unbroken custody chain, he ruled against them saying, “in a county the size the size of Maricopa, perfect [...]

Dutch Smoking Ban Leaves Cannabis Coffee Shops In Legal Limbo (Reprise)

Posted on 28 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: Amsterdam Coffee House, Ban smoking completely and they have to close their hea, Bill Clinton's example, Blue Mountain, cat and mouse game continues, classic Dutch response to life, closure, coffee shops were caught in no-win legal bind, daily list of available ganga, Denis Campbell, does this ban apply to coffee shops?, Dutch law changed last July, Dutch police long ago decriminalised marijuana possessi, Dutch Smoking Ban Leaves Cannabis Coffee Shops In Legal, flag festooned café-like establishments, follow this story, handed a unique menu, hashish, heavy fines escalating to suspension, HUffington Post World Page, I tried it once but I didn't inhale, instead of Kenyan, Javanese, Kalverstraat, Let guests light up cannabis, marijuana, Mary Jane, no challenges but everyone still walks around on tenter, no one smokes pure marijuana, risk citation, Rob Milo, routinely mixed with tobacco, seizure of assets, senior partner with Holla Poelman in Tilburg, something they could legally do in a coffee shop, The government conducts official inspections four times, The initial reaction from all sides in the debate was y, they say they are coming to see if regulations are in o, total ban on smoking cigarettes in restaurants, very mellow caffeine-free patronage, weed, what goes on in your home is your business, you have 5 grams or less they won't even confiscate it

 
by Denis Campbell
As appears on the Huffington Post World Page
Almost everyone knows coffee drinking is the last reason anyone visits an Amsterdam Coffee House. Stroll into one of the many flag festooned café-like establishments along the Kalverstraat and you are handed a unique menu that instead of Kenyan, Javanese or Blue Mountain beans, contains the [...]

Cardiff and Baltimore, Separated at Birth? (Reprise)

Posted on 23 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: airports, Baltimore, BWI, Camden Yards, Cardiff, Cardiff Bay, Columbia, CWL, Denis Campbell, Harbor Place and The Gallery, James Rouse, M&T Bank Stadium, Maryland, Millenium Stadium, Millennium Centre, stadiums, vadimus post, Wales, Washington DC

How can two cities from two different sides of the ocean be so alike in so many ways? Vadimus Post’s Denis Campbell looks at this psychological “Tale of Two Cities.”

Twitter Suspends UK Progressive and Thousands of Media Accounts

Posted on 06 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: @BostonTweets, @Mathaba_Forum, @UKProgressive, BBC am|pm, Bethan Jenkins, Charley James, Denis Campbell, Denis Campbell Editor-in-Chief UK Progressive, human error, mediagadfly, midnight GMT, Sarah Palin, The Boston Phoenix, Twitter, Twitter SPAM cloud, Twitter Suspends Media Accounts, Twitter suspension, Twitter suspensions, Welsh AM

UPDATED: We’re back and displeased! After living under a suspension suspicion with zero recourse other than e-mail to an unattended box @UK Progressive, @BostonTweets The Boston Phoenix (one of the USA’s oldest alternative newspapers), Mathaba.Net’s tech @Matahaba_Forum,  and hundreds (if not thousands of other bloggers and media outlets if one follows Twitter “chatter”) were all [...]

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