This is an excellent video and timeline of the global recession over the last year produced by Reuters Reuters: Times of Crisis
In-depth multimedia charting the year of global upheaval following the collapse of Lehman Brothers. See how lives everywhere have changed as a divergent world embarks on a new era of historic uncertainty.
Tom Coughlin Retires From Family To Spend More Time With Team. The Giants coach said he valued the years he spent with his family but now he wants to focus on more important issues...
A new free game created by MTV Networks, gives you the opportunity to land a plane on the Hudson river just like the recent real life incident. If you land it successfully then the passengers come out and cheer, but if you crash it you just hear gurgling sounds, Read more on Reuters. This could spawn a new wave of news related games.
Amateur Video footage from the actual crash: (CC Flickr - Maiabee)
Two videos have been added to the Video and Photography section: "Visions of the Future" and "The Genius of Photography". These are multi-segment videos (due to YouTube's 10 minute restriction)
On the 30th April 2008 a photo gallery of aging, most wanted Nazis was published by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre. Even though it is more than 60 years since the Nuremberg trials, Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Centre, says that "the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of the perpetrators". Its called "Operation Last Chance" and the top target is 93-year old Aribert Heim, known as "Doctor Death" at Mauthausen concentration camp. His crimes included removing the tattooed flesh of a prisoner and turning it into soft furnishings for his commandant's flat. There's a 245k Euro reward for Heim's arrest. Read more in the Independent
According to the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) a peace lobby group in Washington, the break down for US federal income tax spending for 2007 was as follows:
43% Military Spending 20% Health Care 12% Poverty, housing and income support 11% National Debt interest 7% Government operations police, courts, etc. 3% Education and Jobs 3% Science and the environment 1% Diplomacy
ABC News Primetime recently ran a test to gauge reaction to Muslim racism in the USA. This video on YouTube.com shows quite surprising results: 15% approved racism, 32% challenged racism, but most surprising is that 53% were silent. Obviously this is just one test so it doesn't represent the broad US opinion, however it does raise the difficult question: What is the US national attitude towards Muslims living in America?
Terrorist actions often have more effect than just a terrifying consequence for their victims, they can also polarize a community in the country attacked, which can have long lasting, and often hidden, effects, such as racism.
All the news reports today discuss the fact that the number of US Military personnel killed in Iraq has exceeded 4000. And whereas everyone killed or injured in Iraq is a tragedy it’s notable that a conservative estimate of the number of Iraqis killed so far, is 250,000 i.e. more than 60 times the number of US military deaths, but nobody seems to be accurately counting the Iraqi deaths, and in researching it, I’ve seen anything between 80,000 and 650,000 quoted. So, 250,000 is probably a conservative estimate.
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On the 30th April 2008 a photo gallery of aging, most wanted Nazis was published by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre. Even though it is more than 60 years since the Nuremberg trials, Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Centre, says that "the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of the perpetrators". Its called "Operation Last Chance" and the top target is 93-year old Aribert Heim, known as "Doctor Death" at Mauthausen concentration camp. His crimes included removing the tattooed flesh of a prisoner and turning it into soft furnishings for his commandant's flat. There's a 245k Euro reward for Heim's arrest. Read more in the 
