NPR aired a story this morning about outrageous inequalities within the Chinese Communist Party that make the complaints of the Occupy movement look quaint by comparison. Louisa Lim reported for Morning Edition: [T]he National People’s Congress, or NPC, includes some
(AP) Gasoline price jumps a nickel over the weekendBy CHRIS KAHNAP Energy WriterNEW YORKThe price of gasoline jumped by nearly a nickel over the weekend and is now $3.80 per gallon. That’s the highest ever for this time of year.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Merkel and other European leaders conspire to get Sarkozy reelected Netanyahu and Obama have ‘somber’ and ‘businesslike’ White House meeting Hizbollah provides only lukewarm support for Syria’s al-Assad Private Greek investors’ acceptance of ‘voluntary’
While Americans have been held captivated over Slut-Gate, starring a 30 year-old student playing the part of a 23 year-old co-ed law student and Rush Limbaugh playing himself, in which the fate of the Republic rested on the apology heard
Say you take the car to the transmission shop, and the man says the CV joint needs to be replaced. Then he discovers the timing chain also is about to go. What do you do? It would feel good to
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China’s military buildup continues ‘unabated’ Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez in good condition after surgery France’s Constitutional Council strikes down Armenian genocide law Terror group Jundallah claims credit for attack on Shias in Pakistan Jundallah-linked IMU
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Germany approves Greek bailout amid continuing bad news S&P says that Greece is in ‘selective default’ Merkel chastises German interior minister over Greece leaving eurozone Germany may be replacing America as the new international
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Hillary Clinton calls Russia and China ‘despicable’ over Syria veto Saudis walk out of Syria conference, demanding military response Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez flies to Cuba for urgent surgery Greece launches ‘voluntary’ bond swap deal for
From the Wall Street Journal: FRANKFURT–European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned beleaguered euro-zone countries that there is no escape from tough austerity measures and that the Continent’s traditional social contract is obsolete, as he waded into an increasingly divisive debate
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has a strong weapon in his tough 2012 re-election campaign against a united opposition lead by Henrique Capriles: a multibillion dollar oil-for-credit deal with China. Chávez’s deal lets China secure oil supplies for its fast-growing economy
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. ‘Friends of Syria’ conference to bypass U.N. Security Council 70% of Greeks express anger and revulsion at Germans David Cameron calls Somalia conference a ‘turning point’ S. Koreans rally against China for returning defectors
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Netanyahu and Obama to meet in Washington on March 5 Syria’s regime launches ‘sickening’ assault on Homs Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez makes emergency trip to Cuba for cancer test Tibetan’s Lhakar movement confounds China’s Han
Why do other nations try to claim the successes of Americans of which they had no part? Might it be because they want to lay claim to the greatness that is uniquely American? When Steve Jobs died, word came that his
(AP) Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday afterIran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in an escalation of a dispute over the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear program. By Monday afternoon, benchmark March
From Reuters: China rebuked Iran on Monday for stopping oil sales to British and French companies at the weekend, calling for renewed efforts at dialogue over an escalating stand-off over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program. China has repeatedly called for talks
With last year’s domestic box office returns in the dumps, this is great news for an industry that has no desire to change its ways, and most certainly no desire to make the kinds of films that will appeal to a broader
Chinese customs officers are apparently confiscating iPads in China based on a Chinese company’s claims that it owns the trademark to the term. That company, Proview Shenzen, is also looking for the government to ban importing and exporting Apple’s iPads.
You see, Hollywood isn’t liberal — not in the classic sense. This is not a community that believes in human liberty or freedom. Like Barack Obama and the mainstream media, Hollywood only uses liberalism as a vehicle for the kind of
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China’s Xi Jinping receives reassurance on Taiwan from Barack Obama Tibetans fear bloody repression by China’s security forces Three bomb blasts in Bangkok, Thailand, blow Iranian’s leg off Italy cancels Rome’s bid to host
“Told ya I was coming back … say you missed me … say it like you mean it,” David Lee Roth growls on “A Different Kind of Truth,” Van Halen’s first new album with Roth back in the fold since
In 1914, nobody expected an unknown radical Serb and a Belgian pistol to start a Great War between European powers. But when Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28 in Sarajevo, the course of World
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China’s Xi Jinping visits Washington amid ideological battle back home Arab League calls for U.N. joint peacekeeping force in Syria Violent riots in Athens, Greece, as Parliament debates austerity measures Greece’s Parliament approves austerity
Since U.S. sanctions have dramatically cut the Islamic Republic’s ability to obtain financing via the dollar and euro, Tehran is aiming to use gold to deal in the world market. The republic is seeking to evade sanctions imposed by the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Austerity negotiators in Greece fail to meet another deadline Greece’s jobless rate rises to a fresh record high China faces mass protests by Tibetans Argentine outrage when Falklands newspaper calls president Cristina Kirchner a
