Marion Lois Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California), is a former American track and field athlete of Belizean descent. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since been stripped of every medal dating back to September 2000 after admitting that she took performance enhancing drugs. In October 2007, Jones... 

High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids don’t start school until age 7. Yet by one international measure, Finnish teenagers are among the smartest in the world.... 

A man, 30, who has lived here for almost a year, has been diagnosed with the disease, the second case this year. It is understood he brought the disease from overseas. The Health Department said there was no reason to be concerned. This news report nearly slipped past me….. Another great benefit thanks to mass immigration from primitive countries… Leprosy is normally found in developing like India... 

Kosovo Poll on Independence Do you agree on Kosovo Independence ? NO, because Kosovo was the land of the Christian Serbs NO, because Muslim Albanians have already killed too many innocent Serbs NO, because the USA and the EU violated international law YES, because I want Europe to be an Islamic continent in the future YES, Because I believe the lies of Madeleine AllBright... 

The ancient and classic Swedish military symbol, a proud male lion, was recently castrated by Feminist forces in European society. Scandinavian soldiers (whose ancestors were Vikings 1000 years ago) are represented abroad (in Afghanistan and elsewhere) by a castrated lion. A castrated lion symbol was given in the Middle Ages to vassals whom the king wanted to humiliate. In the past, any male would... 

Ireland’s Jewish community has been left deeply angered by the Irish Film and Television Awards decision to honour film star Mel Gibson. The Hollywood star is expected in Dublin for the ceremony next Sunday, but a leading Rabbi living in Ireland has launched a scathing attack on the decision to make the award in the light of Gibson’s widely publicised anti-Semitic comments made while he... 

A national poll reveals that some 100,000 children in Israel have been sexually assaulted, but only 2.5 percent of the incidents are reported to the proper authorities. The poll, presented at a National Council for the Child conference in Be’er Sheva on Monday, encompassed 500 polled parents. The poll shows that 5 percent o f the parents reported that their children had been sexually harassed,... 

One of the little-known and least studied effects of diversity and multiculturalism is the way in which the First World is quietly sliding back into the past, a past we once thought we’d pulled our way up out of. Parts of our lives are literally beginning to go back in time. Increasingly, our work conditions are less stable than those of our parents or grandparents. Working conditions in... 

The outspoken culture minister, Kim Howells, last night found himself at the centre of a race row after claiming that the time had come to stand up to the “idiots” of rap culture. Mr Howells, who previously attacked exhibits at the Turner Prize show as “cold, mechanical conceptual bullshit”, launched into an extraordinary attack on Rblack British music hours after the police... 

Russia’s armed forces will not only be stronger in future. They will also be better dressed. A couture collection of new military uniforms has been shown to President Putin by Valentin Yudashkin, the country’s famous clothing designer, at a fashion parade in the Defence Ministry headquarters. Chisel-jawed servicemen and leggy female models stood to attention in chic fur collars, stylish peaked... 

Another ‘hate crime’ hoax ODENTON, Md. — A vandalism incident over the weekend has sparked debate as to whether a suspect in a criminal investigation that is the same race as the victim can be charged with a hate crime. Virginia Trotter, of Odenton, said that the racial slurs that were spray painted on the side of her home over the weekend offended her deeply.”I thought it was awful,” she... 

In a comprehensive genetic study, scientists have found what they say is the strongest evidence yet linking the first European explorers of the New World to the origin of sexually transmitted syphilis. The research, they say, supports the hypothesis that returning explorers introduced organisms leading, in probably modified forms, to the first recorded syphilis epidemic, beginning in Europe in 1493. The... 

Jokes with blondes are made almost everyday by everyone and everywhere. The vast majority of non-blonde people like to tell jokes about how stupid blondes are, but are blondes really stupid? That’s something which will be explained later in this story. First of all, people have to understand that just how any so-called minority ethnic group feels offended when others laugh at them, blondes feel... 

SOFIA, Bulgaria – A bitterly cold winter storm swept parts of Europe on Thursday. At least thee seamen died when a Bulgarian ship sank in rough waters at while approaching the Black Sea, while heavy, drifting snow stranded thousands at airports, on mountain roads and in remote villages. Forecasters said temperatures fell to -20 Celsius, while snow drifts were up to two metres deep. Authorities... 

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Heavy snow blanketed Romania and Bulgaria on Thursday, cutting power to hundreds of towns and villages, blocking roads and forcing Bucharest’s two airports and some Black Sea ports to close. Meteorologists said the snow, which had been falling for two days, was expected to continue throughout Romania until late on Thursday, with temperatures expected to fall as low...