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Predicted, India Links Mumbai Attacks With Pakistan As we predicted would happen in our early report yesterday, Indian
government authorities are now blaming Pakistan for being behind the
ongoing attacks in Mumbai, providing a perfect pretext for expanded
U.S. military aggression against a country that is also a target for
President elect Barack Obama.
Saying
Cheese For More Effective Border Security
Facial recognition systems perform some very challenging tasks such
as checking an individual’s photo against a database of known
or suspected criminals.
Superman
and Freedom
If man is really free, how can we account for his inability to fly,
to travel through time, to leap across the ocean, for not being omniscient
or omnipotent? In short, wouldn’t man have to be more like Superman
to actually be free? Man is constrained in some ways, isn’t he?
Is man really free then?
Mumbai
Attacks To Be Linked To Obama Target Pakistan? Coordinated attacks across Mumbai, India’s financial capital,
which have killed up to a hundred people and injured hundreds more,
are likely to be blamed on a terrorist organization linked to the Pakistani
ISI, providing further justification for controversial U.S. bombings
inside Pakistani territory and heightened rhetoric against Pakistan
on behalf of President elect Barack Obama.
Iraqi
Lawmakers Extend Agreement With U.S. Military for 3 Years
The Iraqi Parliament on Thursday approved a security pact that charts
the way for the U.S. military to end its presence in Iraq eight
years after the invasion by a U.S.-led coalition led to the fall
of Saddam Hussein.
Merkel
criticises US over crisis
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, turned the tables on her international
critics on Wednesday by accusing the US and other governments of
making “cheap money” a central tool of their economic
management, thus planting the seeds of a similar crisis in five
years.
How
Will Bernanke Fit Into Obama’s Economic Plans?
As President-elect Barack Obama continues to name members of his
economic team, it raises the question of where Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke fits into the plan.
Russia
building ‘Berlin Wall’ in Georgia: FM Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili
said Wednesday that Russian forces were erecting a “Berlin
Wall” as part of a campaign to cut off rebel regions from
the rest of the country.
U.S.
will not balance budget by 2012: White House The U.S. government will not reach
its goal of balancing the federal budget by 2012 because of the
response to the global financial crisis, the White House said on
Wednesday.
