Rebel officials offered a million dollar reward for the capture of Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi.
Rebels are also offering amnesty to any government supporter who kill or capture him.
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What Economic Recovery? Congressional office says economy will suck for years to come
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office projects slow growth and high unemployment for years to come.
GDP will remain stagnant for several years. The CBO predicts 2.3% for 2011, 2.7% for 2012. Official unemployment numbers will remain above 8% until 2014!
Pakistan orders 250 U.S. officials out of the country
Pakistan has given the U.S. embassy 40 days to remove 250 U.S. officials.
Pakistan says the U.S. officials are involved in high-level espionage and anti-state activities.
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, cut short his vacation to deal with the situation. The situation has gotten worse in Pakistan, because the United States has greatly increased the number of drone attacks. Pakistani officials, and independent observers, say the majority of people killed in the U.S. drone attacks are civilians. In some cases the target of the attack is totally missed, and dozens of bystanders are killed. U.S. officials have dismissed independent investigations that show that several hundreds of children have been killed.
Confirmed, U.S. & EU push to unfreeze Libyan assets is because Rebels are broke, African countries opposed
The United States, Europe and other countries are pushing for the United Nations to unfreeze billions in Libyan assets. This is on top of what the U.S. is unfreezing.
A Libyan rebel official admitted in a press conference they needed the money “…for supplies…to pay salaries.”
From the beginning the African Union has been oppossed to the NATO action in Libya. Libya is a member of the African Union, and the AU wasn’t even consulted by the the United States and Europe, before the United Nations was tricked into approving military action against Libya.
South Africa, one of the most powerful members of the AU says it will vote no on unfreezing Libyan assets.
Bab al-Azizia a trap for Rebels, being hit from all sides
Reports that the Bab al-Azizia military compound in Tripoli, is under intense attack by government forces.
The fighting has been going on for hours. Initially rebels found hidden tunnels under the compound. Government forces were hiding inside and began attacking the rebels.
Then in the early hours of the next morning government forces appeared on the streets of Tripoli, heading towards Bab al-Azizia. Witnesses say government forces surrounded the compound, the rebels having to fight government forces from inside, and outside the compound.
Reporters held in Rixos Hotel freed after Libyan official in London issued order
Libyan government forces let at least 35 reporters go free. They were hold up in the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli.
It happened after Mahmud Nacua, the Libyan charge d’affairs at the Libyan embassy in London, urged the government forces to let the journalists go free.
CNN’s Mathew Chance said the government gunmen “…literally cast away their weapons and said they were sorry to us.”
South Korea says Libyan Rebels attacked and looted their Embassy, Russia says if Rebels win Russia will officially recognize them
South Korean news agency Yonhap, says their ambassador’s residence in Tripoli, was attacked by about 30 people. They stole “television sets and other gadgets”, but no-one was hurt during.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, is urging peace talks between rebel and government forces. Medvedev says Russia will consider establishing formal relations with the rebels if they can unite the country.
Doraemon has his own museum
“I personally believe that the very fact that children from all over the world read and enjoy Doraemon is a testament to the fact that children are children no matter where they are.”–Masako Fujimoto
Fujiko F. Fujio, creator of the cartoon character Doraemon, died in 1996, but his creation lives on.
On September 3, a museum on the outskirts of Tokyo will open. It will have 50,000 Doraemon items, only 150 will be on permanent display.
Doraemon has been translated into more than 30 languages, and still enjoys popularity in many countries.
Global Economic War: Japan creates fund to help Japanese corporations to take over foreign companies, blames crashing U.S. dollar
Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced that a U.S.$100 billion fund is being created, to help Japanese companies to use yen to buy foreign money, and take over foreign companies.
Noda says the fund is a response to the crashing U.S. dollar, which is forcing up the value of the Japanese yen. The more the yen is worth, the more expensive it makes Japanese exports. Already Japan has seen the effect, reduced sales to other countries.
The fund will loan money to Japanese companies, and investors, who will then use it to buy foreign money, and foreign companies. It’s hoped that action will bring down the value of the yen.
The Japanese government will counter speculators from abusing the fund, by requiring daily reports of financial transactions.
Global Economic War: China will now use the Yuan in all international deals, blames crashing U.S. dollar
The Chinese government has expanded the use of the yuan in international trade deals.
Originally China restricted the use of the yuan to just five cities, for trade with Southeast Asian nations. Later it was expanded so 20 provinces could use the yuan in all their international payments. Now, the People’s Bank of China gave permission to all businesses in China, to use the yuan for international trade payments.
Chinese officials say the decision was influenced by the crashing U.S. dollar.