The 2012 Confucius Peace Prize was presented to two Russian exchange students Friday on behalf of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The 2011 prize ceremony took place a day before the Nobel peace prize was awarded ito imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in absent1a. Readmjore at HUFF [...]
Archive for December, 2011
December 9th, 2011 - 9:40 am § in America
Is Rove the Republican Rasputin?
Can ANYONE offer a better explanation of the current crop of cabbages?[...]
December 8th, 2011 - 12:58 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Virgina Tech Targetted Again!
2 shot dead on Virginia Tech campus By NBC News and msnbc.com staff BLACKSBURG, Va. — Two people, including a police officer, were shot dead Thursday at Virginia Tech, where 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a university spokesman said.[...]
December 8th, 2011 - 9:40 am § in America
The Perils of Wall Street
WASHINGTON , Dec 8 (Reuters) – Jon Corzine, the former chief executive officer of MF Global, apologized to a U.S. House panel on Thursday for the collapse of the brokerage and said he was “stunned” when he first learned customer funds were missing. “I simply do not know where[...]
December 7th, 2011 - 7:59 pm § in Misc.
URGENT: Chance to meet with and to talk with Senator Cantwell and Elizabeth Warren
This is an exceptional opportunity to influence two of the most outspoken political opponents of America’s unbent excess of corporate power. We all know Dr. Warren. Her rise from meagre circumstances and fight within the Obama administration for corporate reform is already the stuff of legen[...]
December 7th, 2011 - 12:01 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Dec 7
I was 10 years-old that Sunday morning, coming out of church with my elder sister to discover the congregation much chattering about events at Pearl Harbor. We were in a Navy town, and nearly all of us had fathers or husbands directly affected. That was the first time I saw a portable radio, by [...]
China
WITH the U.S. economy in the doldrums and Europe’s ongoing debt crisis continuing its downward spiral, analysts are left to wonder if China might be the savior of the global economy or, rather, whether the country is simply a multitrillion bubble about to burst. China’s great leap forwar[...]
Why is a degree less valuable in Seattle then in Boston?
There is something wrong here. Seattle is #2 in terms of unemployment but #7 in terms of education ? Readmore at WSJ. [...]
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