Jury to hear 2nd week of testimony in DeLay trial
In this Oct. 26, 2010, file photo, Tom DeLay, right, answers questions from members of the media with his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, left, at the Travis County courthouse in Austin, Texas.
Voters in Myanmar avoid polls
It’s hard to be enthusiastic about voting when you’re life is being threatened and results are ignored. The Independent:Burma’s first election in 20 years was marked by low-turn out and reluctant voters yesterday as many people appeared to have dec…
Overnight Video: LoopLoop
The director explains:Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.
Anti-China Rally Held in Japan after Video Leak of Collision
Following the release of raw footage purportedly showing a Chinese fishing boat crashing into a Japanese Coast Guard vessel, anti-China protests have flared in Japan. From AFP: About 4,000 anti-China protesters rallied in Tokyo on Saturday, with their …
02:19 US steadfast ally to Israel – Biden
Vice president Joe Biden meets Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice President Joe Biden told Jewish groups on Sunday that the US under the Obama administration remains a steadfa…
Norway best place to live, with U.S. falling behind states U.N. report
” Norway is the best place to live on the planet, while the United States lags behind, states the United Nations annual “A-to-Z” report that rates all the world’s nations on such areas as global wealth, poverty, health and education.
Where Will He Be in Six Months
First he was a Republican. Then he was an independent. Then he was all but a Democrat. Now Charlie Crist is considering a posthumous pardon of The Doors’ Jim Morrison for charges of indecent exposure stemming from a notorious concert incident in …
The Cheese Industrial Complex
Here’s an article in the Times that is both disturbing and oddly comic, if darkly so. The US government is now making a major push to combat obesity. But for years Americans have been moving away from full-fat to reduced fat or skim milks. And th…
Obama: Weak economy drove election outcome
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Big election losses suffered by Democrats were “first and foremost” a reflection of the economy’s weakness rather than a wholesale rejection of his policies, President Barack Obama said on Sunday .
Dai Qing: Liu Xia’s Grand List
When Liu Xia, wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo, sent a letter to 140 of her husband’s friends and colleagues asking them to attend the Nobel award ceremony in his stead, writer Dai Qing was one of the recipients. She now …
Housing cuts ‘could push poor out of south’
Report predicts mass migration to north as archbishop warns of ’social zoning’Large swaths of southern England will become off limits to housing benefit recipients in a little more than a decade because of the government’s proposed plans to cut welfare bills – triggering a huge migration of the poor to the north – according to [...]
Diageo and Alliance Boots hope to ride on David Cameron’s coat tails to China
Big-name businesses hoping to secure partnership deals through PM’s delegation to ChinaDrinks group Diageo and Alliance Boots are among a number of big-name businesses hoping to announce important corporate deals on the back of David Cameron’s high-profile business delegation to China.The maker of Johnnie Walker whisky and Guinness, run by one of Cameron’s closest business [...]
FT column: Obama can cut a deal on taxes
To pass legislation during the next two years, Barack Obama and the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives will have to work together. In a similar situation after the midterm elections of 1994, Bill Clinton and the Grand Old Party join…
Republicans plan assault on healthcare law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans said on Sunday they plan a full-scale assault against President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul next year but acknowledged it could take until after the 2012 presidential election to repeal it.
The myths swallowed by George Osborne | George Irvin
George Osborne fails to understand that the value of lost output in Britain is vastly greater than the cost of public debtMPs on the Treasury select committee have criticised George Osborne for “misleading the public” by suggesting that Britain was close to bankruptcy. Britain’s budget deficit is at present equivalent to 12.7% of GDP. The [...]