There’s so much in the news right now: Iraqi Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is saying that he was the target of the bomb that penetrated the Green Zone, and the incredible concern about whether Iraqi forces are able “to protect the country” when the U.S. military leaves by the end of the year. The U.S. has been protecting Iraq? Did they mean to say “to protect American interests and those who collaborated with them”?
I think I’ve finally learned how to pronounce Emirates as in United Arab Emirates. EM u ruts. That’s where bloggers have been sentenced for insulting the president, vice president and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi as well as “stoking dissent in the country by calling for a boycott of September elections and for antigovernment protests.”
A Pakistani actress posed nude for an Indian magazine with the initials of the intelligence agency ISI on her arm. She said it was just to poke fun at the Indian fear of Pakistani spies.
Protesters representing the 500,00 people exposed to the Union Carbide gas leak in the 1984, “the world’s worst industrial accident," are asking Down Chemical, which bought Union Carbide in 2011, to pay $3.1 billion in compensation. That Bhopal accident killed 15,000 and "maimed" tens of thousands.
The Arab League suspended Syria's membership last month (November) and are now supporting other sanctions. The worst violence in Syria on Sasturday was in a city called Idlib, which can be remembered by Id and Libido.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has promised not to be harsh, the way the Nour Party, who came in second in the election, are likely to be.
There are 22,000 homeless students in San Francisco schools, and that doesn’t count Diamond Dave, our 74-year-old celebrity hippie homeless hero.
Then there’s Natalie Wood and the mystery surrounding her death in 1981. I'm really not a celebrity groupie, but I loved her in an almost personal way, and I don't care what anyone says: I’ve never believed that she was behind the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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