For nine years, the elephant in Iraq has been where the money is. The war was sold to us as paying for itself through oil revenues, which would have amounted to our country seizing the natural resource of a sovereign nation. Instead, it has eaten up nearly eight-hundred billion American taxpayers’ dollars. So, maybe a [...]
An estimated 2,000 Syrian regime troops with tanks assaulted the dissident enclaves in the Damascus suburbs of Erbeen, Saqba, Hammouriya and Kfar Batna on Sunday. Though casualty rates for the civilian population are unclear, the nature of the attack is not. Someone placed the remnants of government armament on a rooftop in the suburb of [...]
Heard of motor-voter-registration? Well, Russia was subjected to motor-voter-protests this weekend. Thousands of Russian, with their cars trailing white ribbons or festooned with white balloons, took to the streets to protest the regime of Vladimir Putin, most following a 10-mile circuit around the city. This was preliminary to the planned protests of February 4 [...]
There are some stories which, though very serious, lead to uncontrollable bouts of the giggles. This is such a story….. When the recession hit Europe, the effects were devastating. Too many countries were operating on combinations of high government spending and low taxation. Germany was the exception. Though incomes had stagnated, Chancellor Merkel was aggressive [...]
The Arab League on Saturday suspended its monitoring operations in Syria because it is too dangerous to continue. There has been a “critical deterioration of the situation” with armed clashes between rebel and security forces in the suburbs of Damascus. The al-Assad regime has always considered Damascus and Aleppo their secure territory. Arab League Secretary [...]
South Africa’s human rights agency is investigating whether or not King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu made comments that risk increasing anti-homosexual sentiment in the nation. According to the Johannesburg newspaper The Times, King Zwelithini called gays ‘rotten’ durring a speech. Commission spokesman Vincent Moaga said that the newspaper stands by the story, but King [...]
On Saturday, a Saudi woman who was defying the driving ban was killed and her passenger severely injured when her four-wheel drive vehicle inexplicably overturned in the desert region of northern Hael province. It has now been reported that this is not the first case of female drivers dying in “accidents” when they were behind [...]
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