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Robert Park, a 28-year-old Korean-American, crossed the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China on Christmas Day to urge Kim to release political prisoners and shut down the "concentration camps" where they are held.
A US financial crime agency's plan to let foreign police and U.S. state and local law enforcement authorities seek information from American banks about their customers is drawing opposition from groups representing US financial institutions.
The Obama administration pledged on Thursday to back beleaguered mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac no matter how big their losses may be in the next three years.
China's most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political freedoms, with the stiff sentence on a subversion charge swiftly condemned by rights groups and Washington.
The latest fiasco is the Great Christmas Ornament Scandal. Breitbart's Big Government blog got its knickers in a twist over one of the Obama White House's Christmas trees decorated with the face of Chinese Communist dictator, Mao Zedong.
The apes' use of tools can be surprisingly sophisticated. "For example, nut-cracking in the Bossou chimpanzee community in Guinea involves the use of a movable hammer and anvil, and sometimes the additional use of stabilizing wedges to make the anvil
Did our Neolithic ancestors turn to agriculture so that they could be sure of a tipple? The expert on identifying traces of alcohol in prehistoric sites reckons the thirst for a brew was enough of an incentive to start growing crops.
CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, anticipating a $21 billion state budget deficit, plans to ask President Barack Obama to ease mandates and minimums on social programs to save as much as $8 billion. The Republican governor plans to seek the relief
ABC News first reported Bernie Madoff had injuries consistent with an assault. Now, the source says Madoff was not attacked in prison, but that he fell off a bed onto his face. There was a lot of facial bleeding and, Madoff came with facial fractures
A Nigerian man who said he was an agent for al-Qaida tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane Friday as it was preparing to land in Detroit, but travelers who smelled smoke and heard what sounded like firecrackers rushed to subdue him, the passeng
China Daily’s Top Ten 2009 Oddest Stories--plus a few “odd” and quite funny 2009 stories from a Chinese blog.
As President Barack Obama vacations in Hawaii, officials say he's keeping up to date on what's described as a terror attempt on board a Northwest Airlines plane that was about to land in Detroit. A Nigerian man was detained on the flight from Am
****pay close attention to what the Army War College and Director of National Intelligence have to say as well as what Zbigniew Brzezinski (Obama's Adviser) has to say about what is coming. Links to other predictions and forecasts by many notables a
Of all the decisions of President Obama’s first year, the one that history may most condemn is his betrayal of freedom-loving Iranians dying in the streets. For a president so in love with his own words, these protesters are the one group for which h
Yesterday, David discussed the CBO's miscalculation regarding the Senate health care bill. Democrats had been insisting that bill somehow cut the deficit and strengthened Medicare, but as it turns out the CBO had to clarify that the savings of the b
The time to prepare in Oregon is NOW! Let’s not wait until something like what is happening in Wisconsin happens to us.
Canadian Newspaper Calls for Malthusian Global Population Reduction Policy Diane Francis, writing for Canada's Financial Post, begins an editorial by declaring a myth - the world is over-populated. "The 'inconvenient truth' overhanging the UN's
NIB to stop handling cash 22/12/2009 - 0827am One of the country's larger banks has told to its customers that it is to stop handling cash in its branches. National Irish Bank says it is moving to a Scandinavian model of "cashless banking"
For his first lie in office, Obama said he'd be A model of transparency. Heres the full carol *copy/paste the url into your browser http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message950971/pg1
Majority Leader Reid drew condemnation for deals he struck to win passage of legislation for the biggest overhaul of the U.S. healthcare. Reid effectively bought senators' votes by packing the measure with provisions for their states
Pakistani police are pursuing terrorism charges against five detained American men, a move that could complicate efforts to bring the men back to the US where they could also land in the courts.
The Afghan Taliban today issued a new video tape of a US soldier captured this summer, which was condemned by the US military as propaganda, and the decision to release it on Christmas day as cruel. Private Bowe Bergdahl appears in the video weari
A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter's Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Christmas Eve Mass, but the 82-year-old pontiff got up unhurt and proceeded as planned with Thursday's service. Witness video obtained by The As
The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit and a political problem that President Barack Obama has promised to address next year.
Several federal agencies share responsibility for the inadvertent publishing by a government office of sensitive U.S. nuclear power information on the Web last May, Congressional investigators said on Wednesday.
Amazon's dominance of the e-book market with a proprietary format has been challenged by a copyright hack that allows its content to be shared. Breaking digital-rights management could force Amazon to follow Apple, Inc.'s lead and offer DRM-free cont
We've been saying for over a year that Obama is no better than Bush. If you thought he was going to do something about torture or civil liberties, think again. It happened earlier this week,
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the right of police to confiscate vehicles from owners who have done nothing wrong. The decision narrowed the applicability of an "innocent owner" defense in cases where a vehicle is jointly owned. The h
