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Arianna Huffington Receives Aenne Burda Award Arianna Huffington, founder and chief-executive editor of the Internet-newspaper The Huffington Post , was honored with the Aenne Burda Award during the last day (January 24) of the international digital conference DLD in Munich. Dr. Maria Furtwängler-Burda consigned the trophy, a statue of Pallas Athene. The award honors successful and creative female entrepreneurs with visionary ideas from the digital world, this year for the seventh time already. Maria Furtwängler pleaded in her laudatory speech for female empowerment as start-up founders. Arianna Huffington could serve as a role model here: “Arianna Huffington experienced backstrokes and was never deterred by them – her fearlessness is a stimulus for women, to get active themselves.” Arianna Huffington, born as Arianna Stassinopoulos in July 1950 in Greece, counts as one of the leading and most influential women of the modern media generation. Still in May 2005, when “Huffington Post” e...

The Nigerian radical Islamist sect Boko Haam claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on the Louis Edet House, headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja (FCT) on Thursday, June 16, 2011. The following are reports of it from the Huffington Post . Nigeria sect spreads reach with suicide bombing Jun 18, 2011 ... LAGOS, Nigeria — The radical Muslim sect has shot police officials and clerics from atop motorcycles, torched churches and even freed ... www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110618/af-nigeria-vio... - 1 hour ago Nigeria Explosion Hits Police Headquarters In Abuja Jun 16, 2011 ... ABUJA, Nigeria — At least one person has been killed in an explosion outside police headquarters in Nigeria's capital Thursday, an emergency ... www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/16/nigeria-explosion-abuja_n_87796... Blast at police headquarters in Nigeria capital Jun 16, 2011 ... ABUJA, Nigeria — At least one person has been killed in an explosion outside polic...

British Nigerian filmmaker Richard Ayoade 's “Submarine” tops the list of Leonard Maltin’s five must see indie movies and you can see why and how he rated them on the Huffington Post . 1. Submarine 2. Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3. Midnight in Paris 4. Another Year 5. The Clowns Ayoade is an only child of a Norwegian mother, Dagny (née Baassuik), and a Nigerian father, Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. The film is based on a prize-winning novel by Joe Dunthorne. It is a dark indie comedy about a 15-year-old Oliver Tate who has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life. Peter Bradshaw reviewing Submarine in the Guardian of Thursday 17 March 2011 15.00 GMT, said Ayoade clearly has “a big future payday for him in Hollywood, if he wants it, but I can't help hoping he develops in depth and scope here, as a tremendous new voice in British film.” ~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima

In a swift reaction to the crack down on bloggers by the Associated Press , TechCrunch has banned all links to AP news and stories . So here’s our new policy on A.P. stories: they don’t exist. We don’t see them, we don’t quote them, we don’t link to them. They’re banned until they abandon this new strategy, and I encourage others to do the same until they back down from these ridiculous attempts to stop the spread of information around the Internet. ~ Michael Arrington I was one of the first bloggers to react to the decison of the Associated Press on the Huffington Post yesterday. The following is the full text of my comment. Bloggers should ask for permission before using copyrighted news materials or they should register to use syndicated news and features. When I blog what I have read on the Huffington Post, I simply link to the title and address it with my own original content. The terms of service for the Associated Press is published on their website and every reasonable blogge...

There is a big problem with the American news media. Intellectual illiteracy is being displayed in the masquerade of sensationalism. Sensationalism undermines the ethics of professionalism in modern journalism. There is no justification for the clamor over the remarks of Senator Barack Obama on the working class folks of Pennsylvania. The Huffington Post deliberately adds more fuel in the flames for want of sensational news. Can we move on to more relevant and significant issues?

Most readers of the Huffington Post in support of Barack Obama are ignorant of the present realities. Most of the Republicans and Independents who were voting for him are now wiser and they are now returning to the GOP. The polls have shown that John McCain is now the most popular of the three presidential candidates. If Hillary Clinton is not the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, the GOP will retain the presidency. The only way to defeat the GOP is the united front of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton should be the President and Barack Obama, the Vice President. Barack Obama boasting about his lead in pledged delegates, states and popular votes is schoolboy logic. That kind of political rationale cannot win the presidential election. Most of the supporters of Hillary Clinton will vote for John McCain if she is not the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. John McCain knows that he would be favoured by the instability in the Democratic Party, becaus...

Mr. Marc Cooper, Your article "Hillary's Ignominious Finale" is an irrational character analysis of Senator Hillary Clinton and a public exhibition of your political ignorance and intellectual naivety. If you think the Clinton Era is over, you are ignorant of the facts. You are ignorant of the long term goals of Senator Hillary Clinton, because the end of the current presidential campaign is not the end of her political career. Did Senator John McCain succeed in his previous presidential campaign before 2008? But today, John McCain is the frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination and now leads Barack Obama in the national poll for president. How old is he? Are you ignorant of the political history of America? The fact is, the prevailing political realities in Americaa do not favour Senator Hillary Clinton and the latest Bloomberg/Times poll shows that the majority of American voters are not ready to elect a female president, but 80 percent of them are ready...

Ms. Arianna Huffington , I read your "Who Is Maggie Williams?" posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 | 05:49 PM (EST) on your Huffington Post Blog . It was a bad example of Witch Hunt Journalism. Maggie Williams has a questionable past? How about you? 1997 is gone and gone forever. It is all in the past. How would you feel if I dig up what you did in the UK and why you were not married to the man you lived with for years before leaving for the US and got married to Mr. Huffington and other things? Are you not a better person now than your were in the 1980s? Would it be fair to use your past to judge you now? Like using Barack Obama's years of smoking pot and sniffing coke to denounce him now? Hypocrisy comes in different colors and contours. Do you have a conscience? I wonder why you American intellectuals in the news media like taking advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of most of your less informed readers? What will you gain from such political witch-hunting?

Re: Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters Andrew Sullivan's analysis of the personality and presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Hussein Obama in "Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters" needs to be revised in view of the latest developments in the presidential campaign of Barack Obama and the issues raised in Hilary Rosen's "I Am Not for Hillary Because She is a Woman - it's Because I Am" posted on the Huffington Post . The political metamorphosis of Barack Obama has been defined by the foreign policy crisis of America. But should the opposition to the war in Iraq be the only justification for Barack Obama's presidential ambition? Is the war in Iraq the only reason to accept or reject a presidential candidate or the proven ability for the global leadership of the United States of America in the 21st century? The romantic argument for the election of Barack Obama is idealistic, but not realistic. The case for Barack Obama has no sustainable lo...

If any article on the American Presidential Campaign in 2008, deserves the Pulitzer Prize, it would be Hilary Rosen's "I Am Not for Hillary Because She is a Woman - it's Because I Am" . This is a must read for anyone who is thirsty for more knowledge on womanhood and the progress of democracy in the advancement of modern civilization in America and the rest of the world.

Arianna Huffington How To Overthrow The Government What is a hero without love for mankind. ~ Doris Lessing Amazon.com "Our government is no longer serving us," declares Arianna Huffington in How to Overthrow the Government. "[It] is slow, unfair, corrupt, and peopled by politicians living on graft and sinecure." While the political class gloats about unprecedented prosperity, Americans are more turned off by their rulers than ever before: the public holds deeply cynical views about Washington, voter turnout continues to drop, and "modern campaigns ... are so thoroughly dominated by pollsters and consultants that there's no oxygen left for ideas that might challenge the status quo." Politicians have turned a blind eye to America's real problems. "Glad-handing lobbyists" (there are roughly 38 per member of Congress, says Huffington) and "the seductive allure of incumbency" have made lawmakers resistant to necessary reforms. ...

I have doubts about the political education of those attacking Hillary Clinton in replies to serious issues. It would be better if readers take time to read and study the political biography of Hillary Clinton, who has been active in the democratic development of America since the 1960s and that was long before she met Bill Clinton. When Oprah Winfrey was name dropping Martin Luther King, Jr., in South Carolina, I laughed at her ignorance of the life history of Hillary Clinton, because Hillary Clinton is more qualified to speak on the Civil Rights Movement than both Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama. It would be really foolish to nominate Barack Obama as the presidential candidate of the Democrats, because he would be a walk over for the Republicans. Look at Obama's record as a senator and compare his performance so far to that of Hillary Clinton. Look at the political facts and not indulging in petty personalities. Barack Obama has a shallow knowledge of foreign policy and making noi...