Iran Was Bluffing - It Cannot Reach Israel

UPDATE: I was looking around trying to figure out why Iran would lie about this. I don't think it has anything to do with Iran's Shahab-3 missile being based off of North Korea's No-dong (no kidding) missile....

UN to investigate Bhutto killing

"Pakistan and the United Nations have agreed in principle to set up a UN panel to investigate the killing of Pakistani ex-PM Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan's foreign minister said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...

A Chinese YouTube Disappears, Along With Millions Of Western Dollars. Next?

There is speculation that the Chinese government is starting to crack down on what they see as unofficial media.  We'll have to see how this develops as the Olympics starts up.   My guess is that...

Bomb attack on Indian embassy in Afghanistan, 40 People Killed

Update- Death toll has increased to 40 and sources in Indian government have confirmed the death of defence attache and another senior diplomat."A defence attaché in the rank of Brigadier and an IFS officer were...

What's to love about LinkedIn?

I prefer face to face meetings, rather than internet meeting. But then that's me. What about you?" What's to love about LinkedIn? Melanie Lindner, Forbes Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 In the Internet age,...

Twitter Secures Venture Capital, Aims to Become a Utility

The elite meet so we may continue to tweet. Twitter, that darling of the microblog world, has closed its venture capital round, apparently to the tune of fifteen million bucks, valuing the company at $100...

$2 Million in Project Working Mom Full-Ride College Scholarships Back by Over...

"eLearners.com, a web resource of EducationDynamics, today announced the launch of “Project Working Mom 2”, an advocacy campaign that provides working mothers the opportunity to receive a full-ride scholarship...

Canada: Accused Egyptian Terrorist Harkat Lawyers Seek Extra Public Defence F...

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor For Now Public Readers, I have some knowledge of this case.  This person has many strikes against him, fraud using a forged passport, soon marrying a lovelorn French Canadian woman, some say was duped in order for him to stay...

Village threatened by warming gets funding

Certainly distressing when an entire town must be evacuated before it is swallowed up forever.  It is also reported that the State of Iowa is under 2/3 of water.  Where do you relocate a state?...

More secret files found on a London train

More confidential government files have been found on a train in London earlier this week.What is going on? Who is taking these on a train and then just casually leaving them behind? It's not like an umbrella you...

President Declares Major Disaster For Mississippi

"WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Mississippi to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms...

Twitter Gets $15M, Comes Clean on Tech Problems

Good for Twitter. It's one of the few web 2.0 success stories that, despite its ongoing downtime and wide-ranging technical glitches, outages, and problems, is still insatiably in demand by its fast-growing user...

US Senate Approves $165bn Additional War Funding

Just saw this on the Twitter wire..."BREAKING NEWS -- US SENATE APPROVES $165 BILLION ADDITIONAL WAR FUNDING FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. DETAILS SOON."

U.S. House stalls war Funding Bill - Pentagon theatens layoffs

On Thursday in the U.S. House in unlikely coalition between Democrats (via a sit out of vote)  and Republicans voted against continued funding of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The defeat of the funding measure came on a 149-141 tally. (132 Republicans sat out the...

Obama Answers Call to Weigh in on CBC, Cherokee Nation Controversy

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) was asked to reconcile his membership in the Congressional Black Caucus with his support for the sovereignty of tribal nations.   Fellow Congressional Black Caucus members are asking congress to approve provisions...

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