“They were the spiritual and emotional backbone, and when you have a situation where people are trying to find meaning, where something is bigger than them, when you have a crisis of this level, they often look to the clergy.”-Fernando Cabrera, New York City council
The Wall Street Journal reporting that New […] Continue Reading…
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.
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 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 […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…
“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, […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…