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Liar, Liar, Libya on Fire
03-19-2011 by L. S. Carbonell Someone once observed that the problem with being a habitual liar is keeping your lies straight. Col Qaddafi must have a stenographer taking notes. Friday morning, he sent Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa to the Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists are being confined to tell them that an immediate cease fire [...]
Wind Farms Survive Disaster, May Provide Power For Last Ditch Effort To Stave Off Nuclear Disaster
03/18/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Almost 7,000 have been confirmed killed in the tsunami and earthquake that devastated Japan a week ago now. Another 10,700 are missing, and most of them are feared dead. Around 390,000 people are homeless. Much of the area struck by the tsunami will not be habitable for a year or more, [...]
Cease-Fire A Lie, France and Britain to Act
03-18-2011 by L. S. Carbonell No one really believed Col. Moammar Qaddafi, so it is not surprise that the cease-fire simply hasn’t happened. Misrata and Ajdabiya are still being shelled. No troops have been withdrawn, no efforts to restore water to Misrata, not one inch of territory has been given up. Well, duh. France and [...]
Presidential Run-Off Scheduled for Sunday in Haiti
03-18-2011 by L. S. Carbonell The final two candidates in Haiti’s presidential election are set for their run-off on Sunday. Neither popular musician Michel “Sweet Mickey” Martelly or former first lady Mirlande Manigat broke the 50% threshold during the first round of elections, the first being held since the disastrous earthquake that leveled the capitol [...]
Florist Violates Law, Good Manners By Refusing Gay Couple’s Wedding Flowers
03/18/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire It would be one thing is florist Kim Evans were to refuse to provide flowers for a wedding at the offset. Certainly, that would have been less of a problem than waiting a long time before telling the couple that she had agreed to provide flowers for that she would not [...]
Cease-Fire in Libya
03-18-2011 by L. S. Carbonell The streets of Benghazi erupted into celebration as the United Nations Security Council passed the intervention resolution last night, as the besieged city of Misrata endured a brief incursion by Qaddafi’s tanks shelling homes, hospitals and mosques. Six were reported killed in Misrata before the tanks withdrew. Qaddafi’s Foreign Minister [...]
Anger Over Nuclear Problems In Japan Growing
03/17/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Japan’s nuclear crisis is at a point where it is more or less a matter of waiting until something catastrophic happens or the situation is no longer out of control, something that could take weeks. Meanwhile, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders) has announced that, if the threat from [...]
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Uganda: Parliamentary Committee Debate on Gay Hate to be Heard Next Week
Melanie Nathan – March 19, 2011 Next week a Ugandan Parliamentary Committee will be debating murder – legal killing by their government – the law will give power to Uganda to commit genocide of a minority via legislation. Despite rumors that the opposition Parties in Uganda had succeeded in preventing a vote on the controversial [...]