Obama calls for Assad to resign
Ria Novosti U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign “for the sake of the Syrian people.” “The time has come for President Assad to step aside,” he said in a written statement. “His calls for dialogue and reform have rung hollow while he is imprisoning, torturing, and slaughtering his [...]
Read More →Washington tried to snatch $1.5 billion to pay it’s CNT employees
By Thierry Meyssan The United States tried to seize on Monday 1 500 000 000 dollars owned by the Libyan state, but at the last minute South Africa got in its way. The documents emanating from this episode reveal that the members of the CNT and their staff are the direct employees of a US entity. [...]
Read More →IBM develops first ‘brain chips’ capable of mimicking the process of human thought
Daily Mail The U.S. technology firm has built two prototype chips that it says process data more like how humans digest information than the chips that currently power PCs and supercomputers. The chips represent a significant milestone in a six-year-long project that has involved 100 researchers and some $41million (£25million) in funding from the U.S. [...]
Read More →Four years in prison for Facebook message
Russia Today As of late Internet freedom has been challenged by governments worldwide including the US. Social media has given a voice to protestors everywhere. In England two men were sentenced to jail for sharing information on Facebook about the recent riots. Now the US State Department is giving $2 million in grants for the [...]
Read More →Oil Rising from Macondo Well
The Stuart Smith blog No, this isn’t a post from last year. Oil from the Macondo Well site is fouling the Gulf anew – and BP is scrambling to contain both the crude and the PR nightmare that waits in the wings. Reliable sources tell us that BP has hired 40 boats from Venice to [...]
Read More →Ireland and Spain downgraded by rating agency
PS Europe Canadian credit rating agency DBRS has downgraded the Republic of Ireland’s currency debt to A or “low”, despite evidence that the country had started to restore its competitive edge and move towards a current account surplus. Deeming the outlook for Ireland to be “negative”, due partly to the continuing debt problems across the [...]
Read More →400,000 Somali children may starve to death
HNK World British International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has urged extensive aid from the international community to famine-stricken Somalia, warning that up to 400,000 children could starve to death. In Somalia, where conflict between the transitional government and Muslim extremists continues, the lives of 3.7 million people — about half the country’s population — are [...]
Read More →Moon may be millions of years younger than thought
Kate Taylor TG Daily A new analysis of a piece of lunar rock indicates that the moon is much younger than previously thought – or else scientists have been dramatically wrong about the way in which it was formed. The accepted theory is that the moon was created through a giant impact between the Earth [...]
Read More →Understanding US Politics In Four Easy Bullet Points
Forbes On Tuesday, Starbucks Corporation CEO Howard Schultz called on business leaders to stop funding political campaigns until Congress stops the partisan bickering. A CNBC poll on political donations in light of the debt debate fiasco last month showed that 89% of respondents agreed with Schultz. Shortly after, CNBC showed a comment by political commentator [...]
Read More →Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
RollingStone A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation’s worst financial criminals. Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean [...]
Read More →Assad claims end to clampdown on pro-democracy protesters
RIA Novosti Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that his soldiers and police have halted all operations against anti-government protesters, the United Nations said. In a phone call with the Syrian leader on Wednesday, Ban “expressed alarm at the latest reports of continued widespread violations of human rights and excessive use [...]
Read More →Near Record High Food Prices Keep Poorest People on the Edge
Info Zine Global food prices are at high levels and when combined with continued volatility, put the poorest people in the developing world at continued risk, according to the World Bank Group’s Food Price Watch. While the emergency in the Horn of Africa was triggered by prolonged droughts, especially in areas struggling with conflict and [...]
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