Archive for November, 2012

UN Legitimizes Palestinian Terror Regimes in Judea/Samaria/Gaza

Palestinian Authority President Abbas at the United Nations. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to make ‘Palestine’ a ‘non-member state’ of the UN. This has done no less than legitimize the two Palestinian regimes that promote terrorism, murdering Jews and Israel’s destruction. How can the world claim to be fighting terrorism when it […]

Opinion: Rice’s Failure in Rwanda Precludes her from Becoming Secretary of State

U.S. Ambassador to UN, Susan Rice. Photo: wiki commons That Susan Rice either willfully misled the American people on the Benghazi attacks, or lazily absorbed intelligence briefings without the least bit of personal involvement, is obvious. That she was covering for the Obama Administration in denying a terror attack just weeks before the election is […]

Algemeiner November 30th, 2012

Opinion. Tradition . LEFT AND RIGHT IN ISRAEL. A2. FEAR OR DISTRESS A9. KREMLIN BACKED TV ATTACKS THE ALGEMEINER A11 THE algemeiner JOURNAL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012 16 KISLEV 5773 VOL. XXXVIII NO. 2085 1.00 PRINTED IN NEW YORK Palestinian Authority Submits Resolution for Upgraded Status at UN Hungarian Jewish Community Files […]

FDA advisory panel backs J&J tuberculosis drug

Reuters – An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday voted that an experimental Johnson & Johnson drug for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis appears to be safe and effective, but highlighted potential heart and liver-safety issues. The medicine, called bedaquiline, targets adenosine triphosphate synthase, an enzyme the tuberculosis bacterium needs to generate […]

Warehouse Workers Move To Name Walmart In Wage-Theft Lawsuit

LOS ANGELES — Warehouse workers in Southern California have filed a petition in court to name Walmart as a defendant in a federal wage-theft lawsuit, marking a significant turn in low-wage supply chain workers’ fight with the world’s largest retailer. Although workers in Walmart’s contracted warehouses in California and Illinois have alleged labor violations in […]

Obama Fiscal Cliff Offer Reflects Lesson From 2009

WASHINGTON — With the tax-hiking proposal President Barack Obama sent to Congress on Thursday, it seems the president is finally heeding a lesson he learned in the first month of his first term. At a press conference in February 2009, shortly before Congress passed his landmark stimulus bill with very few Republican votes, a reporter […]

‘Rock Center’ Timeslot Changed To Friday 10 P.M.

Tuesday, Nov. 8: Filming Locations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, NYC, Wilmington & more including One Tree Hill, Blue Bloods, Ringer, & The Marriage Counselor Mariah Carey, Cee Lo Green Light Up Rock Center Tree-Lighting Bash. Plus, Kris Humphries’ Court Brawl and Other Must-Read News POPSTAR! » Ariana Grande Goes Skating at Rock Center! Source Article […]

Chris Brown Escapes Charges In Florida Phone Case

MIAMI — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown will not face criminal charges for snatching a woman’s cellphone when she tried to snap a photo of him outside a Miami Beach club, prosecutors said Friday. A memo released Friday by Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle concludes there is no evidence that Brown intended to steal […]

Gangnam Style Restaurant Won’t Be Sued By Psy: Report

The owners of a Gangnam Style restaurant in Koreatown must be breathing a “Psy” of relief today. The South Korean superstar whose song inspired the restaurant’s name change has told TMZ that he has no plans to sue the small business for copy-catting his song lyrics. “Where he comes from, imitation is a form of […]

EU Food Safety Agency: Please Stop Performing GMO Research

After it came out that Monsanto’s genetically modified maize crop was linked to tumors and organ damage in rats, the EU food safety agency immediately went up in arms in an attempt to find a chink in the armor of the scientific research – as expected. After all, WikiLeaks has revealed that […]

Stacy Mitchell: We Can’t Shop Our Way to a Better Economy

“Over the space of just 20 years a handful of big companies have taken over large swaths of our economy. Our banking system, diversified as recently as the 1990s, is now controlled a handful of big banks…. One-third of everything we buy online now comes […]

Total Prison Population Down Despite Growth in Private Detention Industry

Every November the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)—one of several research agencies governed by the U.S. Department of Justice—publishes its “Corrections Populations” report. For the criminal justice community this highly anticipated annual publication is more or less tantamount to the presidential State of the […]

Our Climate Future and the Doha Summit

The annual United Nations climate summit has convened, this year in Doha, the capital of the oil-rich emirate of Qatar, on the Arabian Peninsula. Dubbed “COP 18,” an army of bureaucrats, business people and environmentalists are gathered ostensibly to limit global greenhouse-gas emissions to […]

The Dangers of a Data-Driven World

If the recent political era has taught us anything, it has reiterated the enduring truth of George Santayana’s aphorism about memory and duplication. Whether once again watching tax cuts fail to deliver a promised economic boost or witnessing more wars fail to deliver stability, […]

Opening Positions on the Cliff Deal: Deja Vu All Over Again

So the bidding has begun. According to the Wall Street Journal (which got the information from GOP leaders), the President’s opening bid to Republicans is: — $1.6 trillion in additional tax revenues over the next decade, from limiting tax deductions on the wealthy and […]

France set to enact sweeping changes to sexual equality laws

And starting next year, children will be given lessons in sexual equality while at primary school from the age of six to 11. The aim, said Miss Vallaud-Belkacem, was to “deconstruct stereotypes” deeply ingrained in French society. France trumpets being the guardian of human rights, translated in French as “droits de l’homme” (men’s rights). But […]

British doctor ‘detained in Syria’

Meanwhile, more than 1,000 people remain trapped inside a besieged district of the city of Homs, surviving on only the most basic supplies, aid agencies and activists have reported. For more than six months, blockades including government tanks have cut off the Old City area, leaving everyone inside with little food or medical supplies. “We […]

US ‘approaching tipping point when military conflict with al-Qaeda should end’

Mr Johnson was appointed by President Barack Obama and is tipped as a potential successor to US Attorney General Eric Holder. An “open end” to the conflict has been a defining feature of what then-president George W. Bush called the “War on Terror” that began after the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, which killed 3,000 […]

Egypt: Mohammed Morsi criticised by UN

The constitution was finally approved at 6.30 on Friday morning after the assembly’s 85 members spent all night voting through its 234 clauses one by one. The assembly was dominated by Islamists: all the Christians and most liberal and secular representatives boycotted it. There were just four women, all from Islamist parties. The resulting document […]

Britain stops Rwanda aid for first time in decades

“It’s a really important decision in terms of UK policy towards Rwanda because, up until now, the UK government has tended to downplay the gravity of human rights abuses inside Rwanda as well as its support for abusive groups in Congo,” she said. “With this decision, we hope the secretary of state is entering a […]

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