September 23 (24 Palestine time), it’s the middle of the night and Palestinians in the West Bank are going nuts over PLO President Mahmud Abbas UN speech. They are yelling that they will march on al Quds (Jerusalem) and take it back from the Israelis.
Palestinians say that U.S. President Obama’s speech the other day […] Continue Reading…
September 23, resurrected Palestinian Liberation Organization (formerly Palestinian Authority) President Mahmud Abbas gave a long explanation of compromises and sacrifices by Palestinians, going back decades, and example after example of Israeli broken promises.
He then stated that the decades of traditional peace negotiation process has failed Palestinians. It is time for a different approach!
Abbas stated […] Continue Reading…
September 23, Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas has officially submitted a request for Palestine’s recognition by the United Nations. It’s the middle of the night in West Bank, but still, tens of thousands of Palestinians are crowding the streets in anticipation.
Israel has deployed 22,000 troops in al Quds (Jerusalem). Already this week Israel has […] Continue Reading…
“I could see his hands were empty, I could see he didn’t have a weapon.”-PFC Andrew Holmes, U.S. Army
September 22, Private First Class Andrew Holmes, from Boise, Idaho, pled guilty to killing an unarmed teenager in Afghanistan.
“I knew I should have taken cover, but instead I pulled the trigger.”-Andrew Holmes
When Holmes says he “should […] Continue Reading…
“Legislation that would increase tariffs on imports from China is unlikely to create any incentive for China to move expeditiously to modify its exchange policies. Rather, it would likely have the opposite effect and result in retaliation against U.S. exports into China.”-USCBC statement
The latest numbers show that not only does China […] Continue Reading…
“I had been doing the same job for 20 years and have another 15 years to go. I said to myself, ‘It’s too boring. Let’s do something else for a few years and then come back’.”-Roy Weinberg, Spring Airlines
Weinberg, quit his job with US Airways and moved his family of four to […] Continue Reading…
“As you know, Israel attacked three ships, one of which carried over 400 people from 33 countries, in international waters from sea and air. Such an attack in international waters is against international law.”-Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister
In an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose, Erdogan was asked if he saw […] Continue Reading…
September 23, I have to admit that most of the pics coming out of Wall Street show what look like young hippie wannabes (there are pics of old women wearing yellow ponchos that read “Granny Peace Brigade”) but what else are they gonna do?
When a society has such a high unemployment rate for young […] Continue Reading…
September 23, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of legal immigrants moving to the United States dropped off after the year 2000.
According to the American Community Survey (ACS) the percentage of “Foreign Born: Entered before 2000” immigrants who responded to the survey (includes those who became U.S. citizens and those who still […] Continue Reading…
September 23, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of young adults (16-29 years of age) who’re unemployed is 44.7%, the highest since the end of World War 2.
Also, the number of households living in poverty, where the parents are younger than 25, hit 37%!