Jul 15, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Striking French employees of struggling Canadian telecommunications firm Nortel have set up a dozen cannisters of natural gas at their work site, and several have suggested they may blow up the premises if their demands for compensation are not met. Nortel's French subsidiary has declared bankruptcy and is laying off most of its 683 workers. ...
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Agencie France Presse: Even if Russia's call for a global currency failed to gain much traction at a G8 summit, President Dmitry Medvedev took home a coin meant to symbolize that the dream may one day come true. The Russian leader proudly displayed the coin, which bears the English words "United Future World Currency", to journalists after ...
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World Affairs Journal: In a widely noted speech at the National Archives in May, President Barack Obama said of George W. Bush’s national security policies: “We are cleaning up something that is quite simply a mess.†The president is wrong. Far from a mess, when it comes to national security, President Obama actually inherited a very ...
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RealClearPolitics: ROME -- What did President Obama achieve for himself and for America during last week's summit of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations in L'Aquila, Italy? Not much. Despite what presumably was his best effort at using the charm, personality and teleprompter that catapulted him into office, he was unsuccessful in persuading either wealthy or ...
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Tell Mideast reporter Aaron Klein that Cohen's homosexual film conspiracy against their jihad group. JERUSALEM, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the terrorist group depicted in the film "Bruno," is "very upset" their group's namesake and former member was featured in a film about a homosexual character that includes graphic depictions of homosexual ...
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i⋅ro⋅ny  [ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-] –noun, plural -nies. 1. A member of the KKK hiding out in the Jewish Holy Land. The Jerusalem Post: A high-ranking white supremacist on the run from US federal authorities was arrested on Monday night in a south Tel Aviv hideout. 33-year-old Micky Louis Mayon, one of America's 100 Most Wanted criminals, and a ...
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Watch them call him a "right wing extremist." The Jerusalem Post: Anton Winkler, a spokesman for the Munich Prosecutor, confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Monday that John Demjanjuk has been formally charged with being an accessory to murder of 27,900 Jews in the Sobibor Nazi extermination camp during World War Two. The zigzagging legal process surrounding ...
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The Wall Street Journal: Thousands of people began returning to Pakistan's Swat Valley after nearly three months of fighting that drove the Taliban from the region and created the country's worst refugee crisis in six decades. Pakistan earned praise at home and abroad for its offensive in Swat, which began in late April after the collapse of ...
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SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday, citing information gathered from Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources. The report fueled speculation about Kim's health while raising questions about the future of Asia's only communist dynasty and who will make decisions about its nuclear programs. It also ...
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Telegraph: In a shock result in Alligator (population 220), Tommie “Tomaso†Brown, 38, defeated Robert Fava, the mayor since 1979, owner of the general store and once his opponent’s boss, by 37 votes to 27. Mr Brown’s surprise victory was a milestone for Alligator, which is named after the curving lake nearby rather than the alligators that ...
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Asian News International: London: In a bid to stop Muslim extremists from becoming more militant, the UK Government is set to issue a guideline for police, directing them not to charge them in many hate crime cases, a move that has created outrage amongst critics. Guidelines will tell forces to press for conviction only in cases of ...
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The Hill: Michigan's unemployment rate could hit as high as 20 percent with the Obama administration to blame, one Michigan congressman warned Friday. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) said that Michigan's unemployment — already the highest in the country at 14.1 percent — could go even higher as General Motors and Chrysler continue to shed jobs after their ...
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is preparing a new package of "political, security and international" issues to put to the West, its foreign minister said on Saturday. "The package can be a good basis for talks with the West. The package will contain Iran's stances on political, security and international issues," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a ...
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Climate Depot: Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.†“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times. “Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives ...
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's military is behind a series of cyber attacks against South Korean and U.S. Government websites, a South Korean news report said on Saturday. The U.S. State Department said 438 cases of personal computers have been reported destroyed by malicious software used in the attacks. The attacks saturated target websites with ...
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