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Somali Pirates Say They Are Subsidiary of Goldman Sachs

26 April 2010 Adotta Un Neurone

Could Make Prosecution Difficult, Experts Say NORFOLK, VIRGINIA (The Borowitz Report) – Eleven indicted Somali pirates dropped a bombshell in a U.S. court today, revealing that their entire piracy operation is a subsidiary of banking giant Goldman Sachs. There was an audible gasp in the courtroom when the leader of the pirates announced, “We are [...]

Maverick No More

9 August 2008 Video

This McCain’s ad is specifically targeted to the new center-left median voter (maybe some disgruntled Hillary voters, why not?) and was available on the web only and not on tv in the South, in order not to irritate the GOP base. The Dems replied almost immediately. The effect is weird, to say the least:

The Power To Be Afraid

21 June 2008 Italy

The Italian carmaker Fiat on Friday apologised to China for a television commercial (see below) starring United States actor Richard Gere that it acknowledged ”could disturb the sensibility of the Chinese people”. The ad shows Gere, a long-time supporter of the Tibetan Independence Movement, drive the group’s new Lancia Delta model from Hollywood to Tibet, [...]

Liberal Multiculturalism: When Integration Means Segregation (A Dhimmi in Canterbury)

8 February 2008 World

Anglican Church leader Rowan Williams sparked open confrontation with the Labour government Thursday by suggesting that the introduction of some aspects of Islamic (sharia) law was “unavoidable” in Britain to promote social cohesion. Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is also the head of the worldwide Anglican Church with more than 70 million members, said [...]

France’s Thatcher? Not Exactly

23 November 2007 World

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday claimed victory in the 10-day labour dispute over a pension reform as the strike called to protest the proposal appeared to be ending. “I promised this reform, and I have kept my promise,” Sarkozy said during a speech at the Elysee Palace. The French Finance Ministry has estimated that [...]

Punitive Psychiatry In China

25 August 2007 World

The Chinese dissident blogger He Weihua has been confined in a psychiatric hospital in a detention his family blames on his criticism of the government, a press freedom group said Friday. “It is unacceptable that the Chinese authorities use such methods to silence citizens who have just expressed their views peacefully online,” Reporters Without Borders [...]

Jews and Latin Mass

20 July 2007 World

Italian Jewish leaders voiced satisfaction after the Vatican Secretary of State said that a Catholic prayer for the conversion of Jews could be eliminated from the recently re-introduced Latin Mass. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, second only to the pope in the Vatican hierarchy, referred to recent polemics over the prayer on Wednesday, saying it could be [...]

The Same Old Europe

23 June 2007 Italy

European Union leaders have reached agreement in Brussels on an outline of new guidelines to govern the 27-member bloc for drafting a new EU treaty to replace the bloc’s aborted constitution. At dawn on Saturday they announced a compromise to delay until 2014 a new voting system that reduces Poland’s influence – the main stumbling [...]

Unfair Competition

8 June 2007 World

Prosecutors have charged environmental activist Wu Lihong with extortion from industrial plants that he accused of polluting Taihu Lake in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, state media said on Wednesday. The prosecutors in Jiangsu’s Yixing city accused Wu, who was once nominated as one of China’s top 10 environmentalists, of extorting 55,000 yuan (6,875 dollars) by [...]

Israel Under Siege. By Demography

20 April 2007 World

In Israel, the number of emigrants exceeded the number of immigrants for the first time in 20 years, the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported Friday. Many emigrants were recent arrivals who wanted to leave Israel again, the report said. In 2007, 14,400 immigrants are expected in Israel while 20,000 people are expected to leave the [...]

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