- Can't make this stuff up.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Iran threatens to boycott 2012 Olympics after it claims that logo spells out 'Zion'
Madoff to NY magazine: Government a Ponzi scheme
He's right about that:
Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff said in a magazine interview published Sunday that new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crisis is laughable and that the federal government is a Ponzi scheme.
"The whole new regulatory reform is a joke," Madoff said during a telephone interview with New York magazine in which he discussed his disdain for the financial industry and for its regulators.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
City To Fire ALL Of Its Teachers?
Monday, February 7, 2011
AOL to Buy The Huffington Post
NYT: AOL to Buy The Huffington Post
- More media concentration. And there goes another independent voice.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Warning Against Hasty Exit for Mubarak
- In other words they want the military to stay in charge. The U.S. government doesn't give a damn about democracy.
John Kerry questions Obama’s Afghanistan strategy
- What strategy? You mean--the get-me-reelected strategy?
Deputies: Florida man stabbed because he was Muslim
ST PETERSBURG — Authorities say a Florida man is accused of stabbing another man in the neck after learning he was Muslim during a discussion about religion.
According to an arrest affidavit, the man who was stabbed told 52-year-old Bradley Kent Strott that he was Muslim while the two talked on Saturday. Investigators say Strott then grabbed the man by his shirt and stabbed him with a pocket knife.
The man who was stabbed was treated for his wound, though details about his condition were not available.
Strott was charged with aggravated battery. He was released Saturday evening on $15,000 bond.
A message left at a telephone listing for Strott was not immediately returned.
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Hitler aide Bormann ‘escaped to Latin America’
Top Nazi Martin Bormann, who German authorities say died in 1945, escaped Berlin and lived in Latin America disguised as a priest, a former Belgian collaborator said in an interview published Saturday.Paul van Aerschodt, 88, who was sentenced to death in Belgium in 1946 but broke out of prison before his execution and now lives in Spain, told the Derniere Heure newspaper he had met Bormann four times in La Paz, Bolivia, around 1960.
Karzai to announce Afghan handover start March 21
The president of Afghanistan said on Sunday he would announce the start of a process to transfer responsibility for security to Afghan forces from international forces on March 21.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
GOP Hypocrisy on Health Care
Republicans opposed health care reform but benefit from their government subsidized benefits.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Al-Jazeera office attacked in Egypt protests
- The Cairo office of al-Jazeera was ransacked by pro-government "thugs" today, as the Arabic language news channel also said its news website had come under attack by hackers.
Al-Jazeera said its office had been stormed by a "gang of thugs" who burned equipment, on a day of reports of escalating violence against journalists covering the Egyptian uprising.