Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

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Need to hire a spirit?

Bookmark this website for future reference: Spirits for hire An excerpt: Spirits for Hire is a wizard’s website. Wizards are magicians who use magick in workings associated with spirits. Spirits are sentient intelligent powerful energy/plasma creatures. YES! They do exist and thrive, but generally on other planes of existence than we do. … Spirits for Hire [...]

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Uzbekistan's Andijan massacre, one year on

On May 13, 2005, things turned deadly in the Central Asian Uzbekistan city of Andijan when government troops opened fire on demonstrators, possibly killing hundreds. Here are some BBC stories: How the Andijan killings unfolded Uzbek refugees and residents speak U.S. calls for Uzbek killings probe West urged to punish Uzbekistan  

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GM to stop producing the original Hummer

While the Hummer H1 will roll off GM's assembly line for the last time in June, the Humvee H2s and H3s live. Demand had fallen for the $130,000 US gas-suckers (10 mpg; 22 L/100 km). From the BBC story: “It's really one of those over-the-top vehicles,” car analyst Erich Merkle told the Associated Press news agency. [...]

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The first Snow job

New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow held his first briefing Friday. He described it as “a mess.” An excerpt from the NYT story: Mr. Snow, the new White House press secretary, showed that being a talking head for Fox News, his previous job, was a lot different from being a talking head for the [...]

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