President Barack Obama took a break from NATO meetings in Portugal to promote electric cars. Obama checked out an Opel Ampera. The electric vehicle is made by General Motors at a plant in Detroit and will start going on sale in Europe next year. (Nov. 20)
Continue reading …Israeli decision to withdraw from northern border village won’t end Hezbollah’s armed struggle against Jewish state, senior group member says; ‘Resistance and its weapons still a national need,’ Hussein Khalil says
Continue reading …President Barack Obama says Republicans opposing a nuclear arms pact with Russia are abandoning a principle set by Ronald Reagan. Obama says the treaty to cut the number of long-range nuclear warheads is fundamental to national security.” (Nov. 20)
Continue reading …During NATO summit in Lisbon French president says Islamic Republic poses main threat anti-missile defense shield is designed to foil
Continue reading …In the New York Daily News on Wednesday, S.E. Cupp theorized “The reason Palin has become such a lightening [sic] rod, a kingmaker and a punching bag, a celebrity and a power player, is simple. It's because she's so gosh darn happy.For her fans, like the ones I had the pleasure of meeting in Chicago, she's refreshingly upbeat and resilient, the bubbly friend from childhood who was always great at cheering you up and cheerleading you on. But for her detractors, nothing raises the ire of cynical liberals more than a happy-go-lucky, totally unburdened, freethinking and self-assured conservative woman who has everything she wants and then some. And without anyone's help.” Naturally, this drew protests from the lefties at the Daily Kos, who imagine themselves as the Guardians of Truth against those conservative “rubes” who can barely read (and their New York Daily News supporters). On Friday afternoon, the blogger with the handle “Zagrobelny” trashed Cupp (and her “Wonder Woman” publicity photos) for “boundless stupidity” in championing Palin: “my expectations were not disappointed, my faith in literacy and intelligence were.” Palin is apparently the enemy of all attempts at literacy and intelligence: What really raises the ire of this cynical liberal is not that Sarah Palin is happy-go-lucky, but that she happily and cynically goes around trashing people and issues held deal by liberals.
Continue reading …Nato said today it would hand over security in Afghanistan to Afghan forces by the end of 2014 but the head of the alliance said it would not abandon the country in its fight against the Taliban. Opening the second day of a summit attended by the 48 countries fighting in Afghanistan and Afghan president Hamid Karzai, Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance would start handing over authority to Afghan forces next year and hoped to complete the process by the end of 2014. “Today marks the beginning of a new phase in our mission in Afghanistan. We will launch the process by which the Afghan government will take leadership for security…
Continue reading …Summer Rayne Oakes explores how much a silk worm silks. Photo: Source4Style Online sustainable sourcing platform Source4Style has launched a video series of sustainable design news called The Cutting Edge. Hosted by Source4Style co-founder and world-renowned Eco Model Summer Rayne Oakes , the short, 60-second films will explore innovations in sustainability and technology, according to the press release. For their first video, Oakes explores the aforementioned question: how much does silk do… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The Pope has formally elevated 24 new cardinals amid cheers in St. Peter’s Basilica. Two of the new Cardinals are from the US There are now 203 cardinals in the elite group, 121 of whom are under age 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave.(Nov. 20)
Continue reading …NEW DELHI (AFP) – India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised that anyone found guilty in a 40-billion-dollar telecommunications scandal that has shaken the country will be punished. “There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that if any wrong thing has been done by anybody, he or she will be brought to book,” Singh said in a speech to a…
Continue reading …A veteran federal judge who was arrested on charges that he bought and used drugs with a stripper pleaded guilty Friday to two-drug related charges and has resigned his position. (Nov. 19)
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