Once the Promised Land for Pluralistic Democracy, Lebanon Has Turned Into a Playground for Foreign Powers The Lebanese Parliament failed on Monday in its sixth attempt to elect a new president since President Michel Suleiman’s term ended two weeks ago. The deadlock reflects the spillover fro[...]
Archive for June, 2014
June 9th, 2014 - 9:15 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Oldest Man, Survives Nazis, Dies
Yesterday, Alexander Imich died at the age of 111 in New York. There are 66 women who are older than he was. Imich was born a Jew in Czestochowa, Poland. He said he was not allowed to join the Polish Navy due to anti-Semitism. He and his wife fled to a Soviet labor camp after […][...]
June 8th, 2014 - 4:00 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
When Will The Seattle Get Great Southern Food?
Seattle has never had much southern food. The great Hills Brothers barbecue closed decades ago to be survived by the good but not great Willies and Jones’ brothers. Until it closed a few months ago, Les Bon Ton was pretty good at imitating a N’awlins road house. Of course there is [...]
CHINA: New Speak as Foreign Policy
Freedom of navigation more important to China than to US or Japan Xinhua Weibo Facebook Twitter Reddit Diigo Delicious Digg Linkedin MySpace Sina Weibo Kaixin Renren Q-zone Tencent Weibo Sohu Weibo NetEase Weibo PEACE IS WAR English.news.cn | 2014-05-31 22:48:46 | Editor: Mu Xuequan SINGAPORE, Ma[...]
June 8th, 2014 - 4:50 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Pope Furius at LIfestye of Vatican Cardinal
The Guardian reports that Pope Francis is furious over luxury retirement flat of top Vatican official Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone’s apartment will be at least five times bigger than the Pope’s residence. He will share the flat with three nuns who will take care of his household needs. The [...]
CHINA: Smashing Art
Police smash Tiananmen replica as artist Guo Jian faces expulsion Guo Jian painstakingly cleaned the installation when the pork began to rot – only for it to be reduced to rubble after he was detained by Beijing police on June 1. “How ironic. They completed the Tiananmen art work perfectly,” s[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Pope Francis to host joint Israel-Palestinian peace prayer
Pope Francis has invited Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas to pray at the Vatican. The sense of irony here is overwhelming. When Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President , Mahmoud Abbas come together with Pontifex Maximus Francis, how many of the men there will be believers in …[...]