Zimbabwe inflation poses threat to all, including the Government

Jan 01, 2009 - Zimbabwe inflation poses threat to all, including the Government Monday, 29th December 2008. 8:43am By: Obert Matahwa. Harare: As millions of young and energetic Zimbabweans run away and cross the border illegally into neighbouring countries, especially South Africa, Botswana Mozambique and Zambia, the aged are mostly hard hit, especially pensioners who savings have been eroded by the world’s highest inflation said to be over 300 million per cent and predicted to have breached the one billion percentage barrier by the private sector and the International Monetary Fund or the IMF. - 1 Comment

Obama: Running away from strong stands he took abroad as candidate. Berlin rhetoric vs. DC reality

Oct 26, 2009 - O's embarrassment Berlin rhetoric vs. DC reality By MICHAEL BARONE PRESIDENT Obama, who found time to go on a 24-hour jaunt to Copenha gen on Oct. 2 to seek the 2016 Olympic Games for Chicago, apparently can't find the time for a 24-hour trip to Berlin on Nov. - 10 Comments

Indian Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban

Jul 02, 2009 - NEW DELHI —In a landmark ruling Thursday that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gay men and lesbians in India, New Delhi’s highest court decriminalized homosexuality. “The inclusiveness that Indian society traditionally displayed, literally in every aspect of life, is manifest in recognizing a role in society for everyone,” judges of the Delhi High Court wrote in a 105-page decision, India’s first to directly address rights for gay men and lesbians. “Those perceived by the majority as ‘deviants’ or ‘different’ are not on that score excluded or ostracized,” the decision said. - 10 Comments

A Moment of Silence (Not what Obama promised in Berlin. )

Jun 25, 2009 - A Moment of Silence Not what Obama promised in Berlin. by Stephen F. Hayes We are told that President Barack Obama has said relatively little over the past 10 days because he does not want to feed perceptions that America is "meddling." - 0 Comments

American capitalism gone with a whimper (Pravda on line)

May 30, 2009 - American capitalism gone with a whimper http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/ It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. - 32 Comments

How Bad Was Bush for the World, Really? (Part 2)

Feb 15, 2009 - Bush leaves Obama a far more hopeful Africa and Middle East than he inherited from his predecessor. February 3, 2009 - by Nicholas Guariglia (Pajamas Media) Nicholas Guariglia is a polemic and essayist who writes on Islam and Middle Eastern geopolitics. He is a graduate of the John C. - 5 Comments

Hail the tea bag, weapon of terror

Apr 17, 2009 - Hail the tea bag, weapon of terror By Wesley Pruden These are not your granny's tea parties. One tea party even panicked Secret Service bodyguards when a foolish tea-sipper threw a harmless tea bag over the White House fence. "Tea-bag parties" erupted — and "erupted" is the correct verb — across the country on April 15, celebrated by joyous "progressive" taxpayers and loathed by everybody else as the day to report the intimate details of your life, along with cash, to the Internal Revenue Bureau (which the bureau insists that we call not a bureau but a "service"). - 4 Comments

What do Obama and Susan Rice propose to do about this?

Jan 15, 2009 - Iran Wields The Gavel At The UNDP Claudia Rosett, 01.15.09, 12:01 AM EST What do Obama and Susan Rice propose to do about this? Truly, I had plans to write this week about something other than the United Nations. But over at Turtle Bay, here they go again. - 6 Comments

US Loses Power to Appoint World Bank President ((Public))

Oct 13, 2008 - Published on Monday, October 13, 2008 by the Guardian/UK WASHINGTON - The US is to lose its power to appoint the president of the World Bank after the UK's development secretary, Douglas Alexander, brokered a deal to throw open the post to candidates from any country. World Bank President Robert Zoellick attends the opening plenary of the annual International Monetary Fund-World Bank meeting in Washington October 13, 2008. The US is to lose its power to appoint the president of the World Bank after the UK's development secretary, Douglas Alexander, brokered a deal to throw open the post to candidates from any country) Backed by European governments and developing countries, Alexander overcame resistance from the US and Japan to secure a reform he described last night as "a significant step forward". - 1 Comment