Remember bartering with chickens for health care? Well it seems like a bank has taken that advice to a whole new level when it comes to debt collection: VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters Life!) – This little piggy went to market — to pay off a Russian woman’s overdue debt to a bank. Court officers in far […]
Well we all saw this one coming: Several hundred Afghans chanting “Death to America” rallied outside a mosque in the Afghan capital on Monday to protest against an American church’s plan to burn a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The protesters, mostly students from religious schools, gathered outside […]
This one from Reuters really got my blood pressure boiling: US will “push” out BP if spill response falls short The U.S. government will move aside BP (BP.L) from the operation to try to halt the Gulf of Mexico oil spill if it decides the company is not performing as required in its response to […]
Reuters is reporting that 5 soldiers and 2 Iraqi police officers were killed in a suicide bombing in Mosul today. You sure wouldn’t know about it watching the news. Instead they are on the 100% coverage of a high speed chase in California.
(photo credit: Reuters) Finally Americans get to bear witness to some of the costs of war: The arrival of remains of Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Myers, a 30-year-old supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, at Dover Air Force Base at 11 p.m. today marked the first time that the transfer of any of the nearly 5,000 U.S. […]
A new Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll, which was released today, has some very good news in it: With less than two weeks before the November 4 election, Obama leads McCain 52 percent to 40 percent among likely voters in the latest three-day tracking poll, which had a margin of error of 2.9 points. The biggest part of […]
Reuters nails it on the head: Somebody forgot to tell Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential race is over and Barack Obama won. It’s good to see the media no longer buying the “they pick on me” meme Hillary was trying to put out there. If Hillary wants to come out of this looking good, then […]
First to the turnouts. In Wisconsin, Obama won 58%-41%. That’s not the only big news though. Look at these turnout numbers: Democratic: 1,099,004 Republican: 403,300 The Democrats had almost 3 times the turn out as the Republicans did yesterday. That is in Wisconsin – a state the Kerry and Gore won by only 1%. That […]
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Obama 49% Clinton 36% Survey USA Clinton 52% Obama 42% So who will win? No one knows. Remember it’s not about states, but delegates. As we saw in Nevada, it is possible for someone to win the popular vote, but loose in the delegate count. Today will be very interesting. I’ll have the tracker […]
A lot of questions into the actual effectiveness of these sanctions. The economic impact of U.S. sanctions against Iran is unclear and Iran has signed about $20 billion in energy contracts with foreign firms since 2003, said a U.S. audit report. “U.S. officials and experts report that U.S. sanctions have specific impacts on Iran; however, […]