Obama’s Half-Brother on CNN’s ‘Situation Room’

It appears CNN reporter David McKenzie must be a reader of this blog.  McKenzie’s video report about Barack Obama’s half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, aired on Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room...

John "Seven Houses" McCain.

Wait, I thought Barack Obama was supposed to be the elitist(APP)WASHINGTON - John McCain may have created his own housing crisis. Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn't know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own,...

Saddleback Civil Forum Observations Offered

Pastor Rick Warren hosted presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain tonight during a two-hour Saddleback Civil Forum held at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.  Pastor Warren asked Obama...

UNICEF: Children 'left out' of Asia's boom (Updated)

A recent UNICEF report states that.".. more than 40 per cent of the world's children who died before their fifth birthday in 2006, were from the Asia Pacific region". Such conclusion has led it...

Rich Begin feeling the pain down Economy

Well, it looks like the economy is going downhill all the more. Now, it seems, the rich are feeling the pain of the crashing enconomy- now that's saying something. It appers that they can noi longer buy all the...

Blanton Traded to The Phillies

"The A’s shipped Joe Blanton to the Philadelphia Phillies for three minor leaguers Thursday, a trade that was not as surprising as the one Beane made nine days earlier. That was when he traded Rich Harden to the...

US and EU urged to cut biofuels

G8 summit in Japan has started with the calls for enhancing food security and reducing trade barriers on farming products. Leaders have urged to tackle the food crisis on a priority basis. UN secretary general...

Revealed: What Caused The Credit Crunch

This tabloid take on the credit crunch has more than a ring of truth to it. That a whole country's - well the the whole world's - economy might be controlled not by governments but drug snorting city slickers is...

Murder Suspects Describe Two Killings in $2 Robbery

" The men arrested in the slayings of an aspiring Christian singer and his colleague at a Texas recording studio said in a chilling jailhouse interview the victims were killed at random in a robbery that netted...

'The Dying Song': A tale of intriguing sexual relationship through music

"A tale of evoking music and intriguing sexual relationship celebrates a lost tradition of Indian music in the form of a play 'The Dying Song,' to be staged at London's prestigious Queen Elizabeth Hall, South...

Ultra wealthy families welcome to join the DIFC « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

" The DIFC Family Office was created to promote DIFC as an ideal domicile for family offices and is a further extension of the DIFC value proposition across businesses within the centre. The DIFC has now established an environment that combines a robust legal and regulatory...

Wife Mortgaged to Loan shark

We have heard of  excesses of loan recovery agents. But in a shocking incident in India's eastern state of West Bengal a man was forced to keep his newly married wife as mortgage after failing to repay loan. "You could call it Bengal’s heart of darkness. Unable to...

Fed interest rate cuts will feed food inflation and Gulf real estate « Peter...

First came the US dot-com stock market bubble; then the US and global house price bubble; now food, energy and real estate in the Gulf States.

The Concept of Wealth in Traditional Africa

"Most lineages in traditional Africa have a "family pot," a general welfare fund managed by the head of the extended family. Income-earning members are obligated to make contributions to this fund. Obligations...

The gap between the richest and poorest families

" The gap between the richest and poorest families, and between the richest and middle-income families, grew significantly in most states over the past two decades, according to a new study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute.In...
 

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