A state department investigation claims that North Korea runs a MASSIVE criminal enterprise which is at the heart of the North Korean economy. North Korea has become a gangster nation, pocketing $700 million to $1 billion a year from counterfeiting of U.S. greenbacks, trafficking in illicit narcotics, smuggling contraband smokes and even peddling knockoff Viagra,…
Category: Antichrist 2020
Beyond the Headlines: Top ten list of under-reported stories in 2005
The stories that MSF identifies accounted for EIGHT out of 14,529 minutes coverage on the top three networks’ nightly newscasts for 2005! The immense human toll caused by conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Haiti, Chechnya, and northeast India are among the “Top Ten” Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2005, according to the…
Fire razes Hemingway island haunt
This is a super bummer. I’ve spent some of the happiest afternoons and evenings of my life sitting under the couryard tree at the Compleat Angler or playing the ring game at the bar for free drinks or dancing to steel drum music before stumbling back to my cousin’s boat……. I LOVED this place. My…
Kim Jong Elvis…..
With everyone spotting Kim Jong Il in so many different locations, he’s becoming a little more like the King every day….Russia, Shanghai, S. Korea, Mongolia…Has he left the building? Shake that thang Kim Jong Elvis! so anyway…I had to do a little graphic for ya…cd
Toxic waste creates hermaphrodite Arctic polar bears
We’re talking one in fifty polar bears!! From the article – “The arctic is now a chemical sink.” Scary how chemicals get concentrated as you go up the food chain. I’ve given up my addiction to having a spicy ahi donburi (yummy raw tuna over sushi rice) almost every day for lunch, out of concern…
Cash award for 50-year jail error
By far the saddest line in this story is, “Even his family had forgotten about him.” An Indian man who spent more than 50 years in jail without trial has been awarded 300,000 rupees ($6,800; £3,800) compensation by the Supreme Court. The court also awarded 77-year-old Machang Lalung 1,000 rupees a month. Mr Lalung was…
Report: Angelina Jolie Expecting Baby
Hmmm….and here I thought they were just friends…cd LOS ANGELES – Angelina Jolie is expecting a baby this summer with Brad Pitt, according to a report on the People magazine Web site. “Yes, I’m pregnant,” the magazine quoted Jolie as telling charity aid worker Monday in the Dominican Republic, where she is filming “The Good…
Where is N.Korea's Kim? Is he in China? Or in Russia? Did he fly?
The plot thickens further…is Kim Jong Il anywhere? Where’s Waldo? cd Where is N.Korea’s Kim? Officials hunt for clues – Yahoo! News UK SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea’s Kim Jong-il entered China for a rare overseas trip, but a day after the media reports first emerged mystery remained over the secretive communist leader’s agenda and…
M3 becomes a liability for the Fed
I don’t claim to understand this but Chuck at accesstrading.com sent it to me, so I’m sure that the implications are profound…could you explain a bit Chuck? cd M3 becomes a liability for the Fed M3 becomes a liability for the Fed
Sundance Films Institute Moves to Brooklyn
Still doesn’t seem real to me that I’ve never been to New York City…or Istanbul…or Madrid…or Islamabad…. but here is one more reason why New York is cool…. cd Robert Redford returns to Brooklyn, and this time he’s bringing his well-known film institute, Sundance, with him. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report on the…