Spotlights On Our Global Village As A New Society
FOCUS: OPINION ‘Wall Street leads in phony reform’ By Danny Schechter Obama claims his financial reforms will bring an end to taxpayer bailouts [EPA] Charade noun an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance: talk of unity was nothing more than a charade. The plan was to get the financial reform bill…
STORY HIGHLIGHTS: UPDATE BELOW Sajjad Ashtiani appealed to Iran’s courts to spare his mother In an open letter, Ashtiani points out discrepancies in the case Sakineh Ashtiani, 42, was convicted of adultery in 2006 Her death by stoning could happen any day (CNN) — The son of an Iranian woman who faces execution by stoning…
The First Thing Young Women Do in the Morning: Check Facebook Young women are becoming more and more dependent on social media and checking on their social networks, according to a new study released earlier today by Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research. In fact, as many as one-third of women aged 18-34 check Facebook when…
What happens when all sides of a conflict are mired in hypocrisy? Two millennia ago, the great Chinese military leader and strategist Zhuge Liang admonished his fellow military men that “when hypocrisy sprouts, even if you have the wisdom of ancient warrior kings you could not defeat a peasant, let alone a crowd of them”….
Soldiers stand on a submarine found hidden in the Ecuadorian jungle. Officials say the vessel is the first of its kind capable of transporting drugs on transoceanic journeys. Law enforcement officials have already had to deal with drug traffickers using an increasing number of semi-submersible vessels, which just barely peeked above the surface of the…
3 die as Indian forces fire on Kashmiri protesters Indian forces opened fire on hundreds of rock-throwing protesters in Kashmir killing three people as authorities re-imposed a curfew in the region’s main city amid increasingly violent demonstrations against alleged human rights abuses. Security forces initially used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, a police officer…
by Mike Krumboltz Weird-looking cars are a dime a dozen. Far less common are weird-looking cars that can also fly AND have approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. Indeed, as far as we know, there’s only one of those babies: The Terrafugia Transition. The private aircraft/funky-looking car has been in the news before. But the…
Here’s another fine mess By Roger Ebert on June 16, 2010 3:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (394) What we can’t seem to accept is that the oil is leaking and we can’t stop it. This doesn’t fit the modern narrative in which we can fix anything if we get organized and throw enough money…
By KELLY CROW Sotheby’sContemporary artist Bharti Kher’s work “The Skin Speaks a Language Not Its Own” sold for £993,250. Hindu’s elephant god of wealth, Ganesh, once inspired contemporary-art star Bharti Kher to create a huge, fiberglass elephant lying slumped on the floor, possibly dying or napping. The artwork sends mixed signals, and the same could…