Какофония корабельных гудков в двух километрах от Манхеттена. Америка отмечает 125-летие своего самого известного монумента. Французы задумывали 46-метровую скульптуру как подарок американцам к 100-летию Декларации независимости в 1876 году, но установили 125-тонную Леди Либерти на небольшом острове в гавани Нью-Йорка только через 10 лет. Потом еще долгие годы статуя встречала корабли с иммигрантами, прибывающими в США. ...
Occupy Wall Street: Arrests in Nashville and San Diego
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In Nashville, a new law was enacted preventing camping overnight near the Tennessee state Capitol. In San Diego, police arrested 51 people at 02:30 (9:30 GMT), removing tents, canopies, tables and other furniture. On the US East Coast, many of those taking part in Occupy protests are ...
A deal has been reached. While many decisions are yet to be made the agreed upon deal looks something like this: A "voluntary" haircut of 50% on Greek debtBank recapitalization set at 106 billion eurosEFSF will use leverage to get to at least 1 trillion EurosLeverage will be ...
Gallup: Self-reported gun ownership rises, especially among women, Dems
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Skeezeballs and perverts beware: Ladies have access to guns these days, and they arent afraid to talk about it. Self-reported gun ownership is at an all-time high among women, according to Gallups annual poll on gun ownership in the United States. According to Gallup, 43 percent of ...
Speaking at the BFI London Film Festival awards in Old Street, London, the actor said that modern language "is being eroded" and blamed "a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter." "Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than ...
Orlando Jones’ Death Threat Against Sarah Palin Shows Double Standard
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Orlando Jones, the actor and comedian, is in hot water over a tweet in which he compared former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Moammar Gadhafi and suggested liberals band together and kill her. Though Jones, under a withering Internet onslaught for the idea, has been pleading he ...
Americans are slowly waking up from their passive state and speaking out against greed, corruption, and predatory wars. The exciting presence and perseverance of protestors on Wall Street (and the spread of the #OccupyWallStreet protests to cities throughout America) is a welcome respite from years of passivity, and ...
Mexican presidential hopeful vows drugs war shift
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MEXICO CITY - A leading presidential candidate of Mexico 's ruling party said on Wednesday he would break with government policy and withdraw the army from the fight against drug gangs if he wins the election in 2012. Santiago Creel, a former interior minister belonging to the conservative ...
Earlier this week, we asked conservative commentator Pat Buchanan how he proposes eliminating DC's economic racial disparities. Buchanan, who firmly believes diversity hurts America, suggested stopping immigration to combat high national black unemployment, and general national unemployment. "We've got to start putting our own people first," he said. The ...
State Dept.
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The State Department has bought more than $ 70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities and stocking "key libraries" around the world with "Dreams From My Father" more than a decade after its release. The US Embassy in Egypt, for instance, spent ...