The Day That Liberty Was Lost
March 23 is a day that will continue to live on in our tortured memories of a distant freedom once tasted and lost for generations.
It began as a populist call for change. The siren song was one that appealed to those who were without, those who had suffered loss, and [...]
November 4, 2009
Chesney, United Kingdom
It is difficult to be objective about the National Health System (NHS). In one’s hour of need, one is grateful for any action which comes to the rescue. No matter what system a dying patient is rescued by, they cannot speak too highly of the quality of the care and the [...]
October 29, 2009
By: Chesney, United Kingdom
I am a working class man. My education is heavily biased in the sciences and engineering and later in business. Similar my work and life experiences are those of someone who has earned each crust my family ate and who has shouldered responsibility and got his hands dirty. I have [...]
October 2, 2009
Alan Travis, guardian.co.uk
Details have emerged of a private briefing between the United Kingdom’s most senior counter-terrorism official and MPs in which he warned of the dangers of radicalization among Muslim prisoners and admitted that CIA agents were operating in the UK.
Charles Farr, the head of the Home Office’s office of security and counter-terrorism, [...]
A video showing the only live footage of Anne Frank ever recorded was uploaded to YouTube by the Anne Frank House of Amsterdam on Wednesday.
The video, which shows the front of the apartment building where the Frank family lived, was shot on July 22, 1941, about a year before the Frank family went into hiding [...]
September 16, 2009
Why are so many Georgians seeking asylum in Poland? Could it be that Georgians are afraid of possible invasion and occupation by Russia? Does Russia feel emoldened because they faced very little opposition when they previously moved tanks into Georgia? Please see the excerpt below.
<blockquote>More than 3,000 Georgians applied for Polish asylum from [...]
Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, said on September 10 in Moscow that his country was recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Russian news agencies reported. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega followed Russia’s suit and recognized two breakaway regions as independent states in September, 2008.
The fact that Russia “has found” only two other countries – Nicaragua and Venezuela [...]
Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent; guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 August 2009
The pressure on Gordon Brown over the UK’s dealings with Libya has intensified after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son said there was an “obvious” link between their trade talks and efforts to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
The Tory leader, David Cameron, led a chorus of [...]
By: Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 19 August 2009
A US academic billed as David Cameron’s new intellectual guru takes a Darwinian approach to economics and says it is wrong for the rich to pay higher taxes to help the less well-off. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professor of risk engineering at New York University, attacked [...]
By: Nicholas Watt and Larry Elliott
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 18 August 2009
David Cameron today raised the stakes in the pre-election battle over government borrowing when he warned that Gordon Brown’s anti-recessionary spending could lead to Britain defaulting on its debt.
In remarks seized upon by Labour as evidence of political naivety, the opposition leader branded Labour’s plans to [...]
Infamy on March 23 | 
Should the USA adopt a UK styled National Health System? | 
Was my England really so bad? | 
Muslims - direct relationship between criminality and radicalization | 
Only live footage of Anne Frank ever recorded | 
More than 3000 Georgians seek asylum in Poland | 
Chavez recognizes Abkhazia and South Ossetia | 
Lockerbie Bomber Released for Oil? | 
Taleb--Rich should not pay more tax to help the poor | 
Spending Could Lead to Britain Defaulting on Debt | 
