Sep 18, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
New York Post: No vacancy! The New York Helmsley Hotel last night abruptly canceled a long-planned banquet for next week after finding out that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was scheduled to attend and speak, The Post has learned. Helmsley representatives told Ahmadinejad to beat it after being informed by the security group United Against Nuclear Iran that the ...
Continue ReadingSep 17, 2009 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Financial Times: Barack Obama’s decision to scrap Bush-era plans for a missile defence shield on Thursday triggered dismay in central Europe and among Republicans on Capitol Hill, amid claims that it amounted to a major security concession to Russia. Unveiling one of the biggest reversals on national security since coming to office, the US president said that ...
Continue ReadingSep 15, 2009 21 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Wall Street Journal: Events are fast pushing Israel toward a pre-emptive military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, probably by next spring. That strike could well fail. Or it could succeed at the price of oil at $300 a barrel, a Middle East war, and American servicemen caught in between. So why is the Obama administration doing ...
Continue ReadingSep 14, 2009 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNN: AMMAN, Jordan -- A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said Monday. Fawziya Ammodi struggled for three days in labor, before dying of severe bleeding at a hospital on Friday, said the Seyaj Organization for the Protection of Children. "Although the ...
Continue ReadingSep 14, 2009 36 Comments ›› Erik Wong
If you don't want to view the process of them setting it up, skip ahead about two minutes. Hilarity ensues.
Continue ReadingSep 13, 2009 24 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON - In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan. SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm that translated the address, said bin Laden, whose al-Qaida organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, blamed the war on the "pro-Israel ...
Continue ReadingSep 13, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Financial Times: A full-blown trade row erupted on Sunday night between the US and China after Beijing accused Washington of “rampant protectionism†for imposing heavy duties on imported Chinese tires and threatened action against imports of US poultry and vehicles. Trade relations between two of the world’s biggest economies deteriorated after Barack Obama, US president, signed an ...
Continue ReadingSep 13, 2009 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has begun putting into place a new program under which hundreds of prisoners being held by the military in Afghanistan will be given the right to challenge their detentions, a defense official said Sunday. Prisoners at Bagram military base are all to be given a U.S. military official to serve as their ...
Continue ReadingSep 12, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Pay attention to the obvious bias present in this article. The original title was UK "Troubled" By Rallies. They aren't troubled by rallies, they are troubled by Islam. Furthermore, they picture any anti-Islam movement as "Far-right," which may or may not be true, but paints a specific and slightly distasteful picture in the minds of ...
Continue ReadingSep 10, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Forwarded by Escaped Commie NY Today is 9-11 - eight years later. 8:45 AM - first plane crashed into the Twin Tower 9:03 Am - second plane crashed into the Twin Tower 9:45 Am - third plane crashed into the Pentagon l0:10 AM - fourth plane crashed in the field in Pennsylvania... We remember - we honor those killed ...
Continue ReadingSep 10, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Well, thank goodness (s)he isn't a stoner, like Michael Phelps. >_> The Sun: THE controversy over gender row champion runner Caster Semenya deepened today — after reports claimed sex swap tests have shown she is a HERMAPHRODITE. South African gold-medallist Semenya, 18, has both male and female organs, it was claimed. And sources close to the International Association of ...
Continue ReadingSep 10, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Miami Herald: A Cuban police dog sniffs a murder weapon and is then set to sniff six bottles holding the scents of suspects, just some of the thousands of odor swabs warehoused in a Havana police building. ``Down with Raúl'' appears on a wall, and police put a dog on the writer's scent. Cuba indeed puts police ...
Continue ReadingSep 10, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
PARIS, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people, telling a French newspaper that the bombing of Gaza late last year was an unprovoked attack. "The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They're doing it openly," Chavez said in an interview with ...
Continue ReadingSep 10, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider. Internet speed and connectivity in Africa's largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive. Local ...
Continue ReadingSep 9, 2009 18 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Guardian: Military officials tonight defended the decision to launch a dramatic raid to rescue a British journalist from the Taliban, in which his Afghan assistant and a soldier were killed, against angry criticism in Afghanistan that the operation had been ordered while talks for his release had already begun. Gordon Brown hailed the helicopter assault, carried ...
Continue ReadingSep 9, 2009 25 Comments ›› Erik Wong
AtlasShrugs: GANJGAL, Afghanistan — We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountainsides and in a fortress-like village where women and children were replenishing their ammunition. "We will do to you what we did to the Russians," the insurgent's leader boasted over the radio, referring ...
Continue ReadingSep 9, 2009 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
This is gruesome, heartless, and Godless. I pray for this woman, and everyone like her who had to suffer through such a cold medical atrocity. The real abominations a National Heath Care system brings about are relevant to all of us at this point in Politics. This can. Not. Happen in America. To even consider ...
Continue ReadingSep 9, 2009 14 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Telegraph: The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations has said, proposing the biggest overhaul of the world's monetary system since the Second World War. In a radical report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world economy ...
Continue ReadingSep 9, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Financial Times: Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council.
Continue ReadingSep 7, 2009 18 Comments ›› Erik Wong
KOMONews: By Charlie Harger Audo Listen Click The Listen Icon at the top left in article Tami Michaels shared her horror with the entire KOMO News audience as the terror attacks on New York City were happening live on September 11, 2001. KOMO's Tami Michaels, and her husband, Guy Rosbrook, were in their room on the 35th ...
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