Here’s an interesting headline from the New York Times: “U.S. Tries Candor to Assure China on Cyberattacks.” Yes, that’s right: The American government has been telling the Chinese government about its cyber-hacking efforts against China, in hopes that the Chinese will
British schoolchildren are being brainwashed by a deep green environmental curriculum which fills their heads with “confusion, ignorance and fear”, says a new study by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The report, by science writer Andrew Montford and statistician John
Despite having America’s highest proven reserves at over 15 billion barrels of oil, Californians now pay $.72 per gallon more per gallon of gasoline than Texans. Consequently, each driver in California pays a penalty of $326 per year more for
China will show off its new aircraft carrier to US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday, allowing the Pentagon chief a first-hand look at a symbol of the country’s growing military prowess. Hagel will kick off a three-day tour of
A new study on the economic power of the world’s nations has named China as the “most powerful nation” on its “world market power” index. The report was issued by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) as part of its Emerging
“Maybe we can start again, in the new rich land–in California, where the fruit grows. We’ll start over.” – John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath America is the greatest nation on Earth–and California, by virtue of its population, wealth and natural
The Australian government has confirmed the identification of two “acoustic events” that match the frequency signals of airplane black boxes and flight recorders, but stressed that such an identification does not definitively mean they have found missing Malaysia Airlines Flight
British buyers are increasingly being priced out of the UK property market by foreign investors, particularly the Chinese. The latest example, as reported in the Daily Mail, is the seven acre RAM Brewery development in Central London, which will be
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Three separate but fleeting sounds from deep in the Indian Ocean offered new hope Sunday in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, as officials rushed to determine whether they were signals from the plane’s
A Chinese ship searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has detected ‘pings’ of the standard frequency of an airplane black box and flight recorder, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua. The news agency’s reporter on board search vessel Haixun 01
Operations to find missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have turned up few leads, and impatience with search operations continues to surface. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who has been embroiled in the missing plane saga, accused the government of not being
The economy created 192,000 jobs in March, down from 197,000 in February and still well below the pace needed to lower underemployment to respectable levels. Those mediocre results are consistent with a broadly underperforming economy. Manufacturing employment lost 1,000 jobs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China should not doubt the U.S. commitment to defend its Asian allies and the prospect of economic retaliation should also discourage Beijing from using force to pursue territorial claims in Asia in the way Russia has in
Scott Eyman Releases ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend’ Director and film writer Peter Bogdonovich reviews Scott Eyman’s latest biography, ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend’ in The New York Times. I never tire of reading Bogdonovich’s insights into Wayne,
People like to pretend that Nigel Farage is just ‘some bloke’ who simply shoots from the hip. It’s not true. He’s actually a very credible politician, with some very well rehearsed lines, on issues he knows an awful lot about.
“It’s very rare that I have the opportunity to traveloutside of the United States, and it’s even more rare to have the opportunityto travel with three generations – with my daughters, and with my mother… Andit is no accident that
A major new poll of public perceptions of freedom across various countries shows that people in the West can often feel less free than those under tyrannical regimes. The research, conducted by GlobeScan for the BBC, shows that people in
The United States criticized China as provocative Monday after its coast guard tried to block a Philippine vessel that was rotating troops in the tense South China Sea. The attempted Chinese blockade, which led to a two-hour standoff with the
The black-box recorders aboard the missing Malaysian Airline System Bhd. Flight 370 are going to run out of battery soon, and aircraft and boats from nations as politically opposed as China and the United States are frantically searching for the
Interpol harshly rebuked the Malaysian government this week after officials claimed they did not check flyer’s passports against Interpol’s database because their servers were too slow. The feuding follows an announcement from China that they have seen evidence of debris
A report released this week by Amnesty International finds that China is overwhelmingly the global leader in capital punishment, executing more of its citizens than the other nations in the top five combined. Amnesty International, which advocates for the abolition
PERTH, Australia (AP) — A Chinese military plane scanning part of a search zone the size of Poland for signs of debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 spotted several objects floating in the sea on Saturday, including two bearing colors
Michelle Obama, after spending a week in a nation with less than 5 percent obesity, landed back in her homeland where more than a third of the inhabitants are obese. Let’s move, indeed. The First Lady left the press–and
Malaysia may lose upwards of $1 billion in tourism revenue as Chinese travel websites begin to boycott Malaysia Airlines over missing Flight 370. The renewed hostility has triggered a backlash by Malaysians who are frustrated with China’s antagonism towards their
Numerous reports from Malaysian and Australian authorities show that the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been narrowed down and shifted to several hundred miles closer to the city of Perth, Australia. New evidence suggests the plane was
