Recently, Egypt ratified its participation in the New Development Bank (NDB) founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) back in 2014. But interestingly, neither the New York Times nor any other mainstream western media outlet covered the news. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s cabinet finally ratified the agreement establishing the NDB and […]
Posts Tagged ‘twists’
The Twists And Turns Of Religion: Shaman, Priest And Promised Messiah
The world of late antiquity was extremely suspicious of novelty, anything, that is, that made claim to serious attention. Every innovation, whether of thought or technique, had to be justified in terms of its fulfilling a promise from the past, which granted authority – the more remote, the greater the authority. Jesus’ claim, for example, […]
Biden Plan to Increase Refugees This Year Twists the Refugee Act of 1980
President Biden’s proposal to increase the FY 2021 refugee resettlement ceiling to 62,500, first reported by CNN on Friday, twists and contorts the Refugee Act of 1980, which authorizes the president to set the annual refugee resettlement ceiling for each fiscal year in a letter sent to Congress the month before the fiscal year begins. […]
US ready to talk to N Korea: ‘It’s a breakthrough, but many twists & turns might be ahead’
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Washington is willing to engage in direct talks with North Korea over the country’s nuclear program. “We’re ready to talk anytime they’d like to talk,” Tillerson said about North Korea on Tuesday afternoon at an Atlantic Council think-tank event in Washington. The statement came two weeks after […]
Strange Twists in the Hariri Mystery
The strange case of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his surprise resignation, delivered in Saudi Arabia, has developed international overtones with rumors about his possible kidnapping by the Saudis and France extending an invitation for him to come to Paris before possibly returning to Lebanon. I spoke again to Beirut-based political activist and environmentalist […]
What is the state of our Presidential candidates’ mental health?
It’s become normal for Americans to demand—and receive-a professional assessment of the physical health of the candidates for president—just as they expect updates on the medical state of the president himself. After all, there have been many infamous cases of presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Jack Kennedy, who secretly endured serious debilitating illnesses. Thus, […]
What is the state of our Presidential candidates’ mental health?
It’s become normal for Americans to demand—and receive-a professional assessment of the physical health of the candidates for president—just as they expect updates on the medical state of the president himself. After all, there have been many infamous cases of presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Jack Kennedy, who secretly endured serious debilitating illnesses. Thus, […]
The Fed Twists, The Market Shouts
Ron Paul Oct 4, 2011 Last week the Federal Reserve began the second incarnation of “Operation Twist”, an attempt to drive down interest rates by purchasing long-term Treasury debt and selling short-term debt. This is just the latest instance of the central bank desperately flailing around doing something merely for the sake of doing something. […]
Government Twists Science of 9/11 – Just As With Iraq, the Gulf Oil Spill and Fukushima
To Promote Its Policy Objectives Washington’s Blog Sept 27, 2011 Governments Sometimes Twists Science to Promote Policy Objectives Anyone who paid any attention to the claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the Gulf oil spill or theFukushima nuclear accident knows that the government often twists science to promote certain policy objectives, such as drumming up […]
Government Twists Science of 9/11 – Just As With Iraq, the Gulf Oil Spill and Fukushima – to Promote Its Policy Objectives
Washington’s Blog Sept 27, 2011 Governments Sometimes Twists Science to Promote Policy Objectives Anyone who paid any attention to the claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the Gulf oil spill or theFukushima nuclear accident knows that the government often twists science to promote certain policy objectives, such as drumming up support for the invasion of Iraq […]