By Leo Byrne, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Residents around the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio have had their usually picturesque surroundings spoiled this week as low oxygen levels in the water, caused thousands of fish to suffocate and float to the surface. The usually scenic surroundings at Lagoa were ruined this week by […]
What sequester? Department of Education posts six figure job.
20 March 2013 by
Federal budget cuts are sending a chill through the Native American school districts in Minnesota. (AP) The Department of Education’s sequester cuts are taking a brutal toll on federally-funded schools on Native American reservations, but the federal agency still found money to create a new six-figure job promoting “Educational Excellence for African-Americans.”School officials on reservations […]
A southern boom. Latin America ignites.
18 March 2013 by
In the annals of geopolitical insults, few have been more sweeping than Richard Nixon’s admonition to a young Donald Rumsfeld as he pondered his future career. “Latin America doesn’t matter,” he offered. “People don’t give a damn about Latin America”. He said it in 1971. Would anyone in Washington dare say it again? If the […]
Poisoned by dark forces…
17 March 2013 by
Venezuela’s interim leader has opened an investigation into the death of Hugo Chavez, amid speculation the late president’s cancer was the result of an elaborate poisoning plot by foreign enemies. The acting President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’s chosen successor, told the Telesur TV network, “We have the intuition that our commander Chavez was poisoned by dark […]
Guilty of rape – too impaired to consent.
17 March 2013 by
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS (AP) Defense attorney Walter Madison, right, holds his client, 16-year-old Ma’lik Richmond, second from… Full Image STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) – Two members of Steubenville’s celebrated high school football team were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl, and Ohio’s attorney general warned the case isn’t over, saying he is investigating […]
Oil, Obama and Israel. Strange bedfellows.
17 March 2013 by
Even as it plans to illegally drill for oil in the occupied Golan Heights, “Israel appears to have its eye on the occupied West Bank oil”, according to a classified Foreign Office correspondence [Reuters] The schedule for President Barack Obama’s first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week has just been released and […]