Courtesy: NY Times By MICHELLE HIGGINS Published: August 3, 2011 IT’S hard not to feel ripped off when you get hit with unexpected roaming charges while traveling abroad — whether they come from making phone calls or checking e-mail. Take it from Jeff Gardner, who received an $11,000 bill from […]
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source:asiatimes on line recently questioned conventional wisdom as to the relationship between the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank, and indeed the very basis of the dollar itself. (See A very secret agent (Asia Times Online, July 27, 2011). Comments poured in, and the subsequent discussion and debate has […]
source/credit:asiatimes on line Somewhere on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you’re done … for the day. Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the United States military is undertaking operations in a majority of the […]
Credit / Source: Newsmax.com Robert Wiedemer’s new book, “Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown,” quickly is becoming the survival guide for the 21st century. And Newsmax’s eye-opening Aftershock Survival Summit video, with exclusive interviews and prophetic predictions, already has affected millions around the world — […]
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) – It’s turning out to be a banner year for nonbelievers. First came the publication of a secular Bible. Then we saw the birth of the first American college major in secularism. This week, it’s the launch of the world’s first academic journal dedicated to […]
Pravda. Russia. Western and Israeli media were quick to announce that the 35-year-old Iranian Dariush Rezai killed on July 23 in Tehran was a prominent nuclear physicist who played an important role in the development of Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian authorities have confirmed the fact of murder. However, according to […]
Pravda. Russia. These are gruesome days: the Single Bullet Doctrinerules. The world is truly adrift and on the brink of a global “something”. Everyone can feel it here in the USA. The US system of government is often described as a layer cake: federal on top, state in the middle, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2011 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today called the verdict in a February mob attack in Indonesia targeting Ahmadiyah Muslims “troubling and disappointing.” An Indonesian court sentenced the leader of the attack in Banten Province to 5 1/2 months […]
source.newsweek A Dogma to Wreck the Country It beggars belief that the GOP is willing to risk national default for the sake of antitax purity. More.
source.newsweek. Madeleine Albright on the time she stuck it to Putin More:
source.newsweek Was Richard Nixon too normal? Abraham Lincoln exceptionally deranged? Why we should look for a little bit of crazy in our leaders. By now, the 2012 Republican presidential contenders have all been tattooed by the opposition, branded as boring, damaged, or even insane. The entire GOP is “barking mad,” […]
source:dawn.com The analysis shows the racial and ethnic impact of the recent economic meltdown, which ravaged housing values and sent unemployment soaring. It also offers the most direct government evidence yet of the stark wealth divide, a disparity between predominantly younger minorities whose main asset is their home and older […]
Source:dawn.com NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Pakistan’s new foreign minister, who held talks on Saturday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said the two countries shared the strategic objective of combating terror groups and Islamabad did not need any cajoling on the issue. Hina Rabbani Khar also told reporters on the […]
source: times of india on line. MONTREAL: BlackBerry’s PlayBook electronic tablet has been approved for use in all US federal government agencies, becoming the first tablet to get certified, developer Research in Motion said. The Waterloo, Canada-based RIM said its PlayBook, which has an 18-centimeter (seven-inch) high definition screen, received […]
Source: uktimeslondon One senior US Official working in counterterrorism department disclosed that there was an agreement between US President Bush and Pakistan Army Ruler Musharraf that if US forces knew where Osama was, they were going to come and get him. The Pakistanis would put up a hue and cry, […]
The September 11 2001 attacks remain controversial throughout the world. A new poll by the Pew Research Center finds the majority of Muslims from Egypt, Turkey, and the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Indonesia and Pakistan do not believe the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Arabs. The highest rate […]
Canada has released the names of 30 suspected war criminals that the government says entered the country without proper migration documents and are staying there illegally. A statement on the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) website, released on Thursday, says that the people come from countries as far ranging as […]
Source: times of india on line. WASHINGTON: It is probably fitting that the scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in Britain is the perfect tabloid story. It appears rich in peculiar twists and phenomenal turns and seemingly offers a freakish parade of powerful people bent on petty if perverse agendas […]
Source:asiatimes on line. The United States military has gathered biometric data, including eye scans, on one of every 14 Iraqis and one of every 20 Afghans. It may not be the same as winning a world war, building giant steel mills, or other American accomplishments of the past, but in […]