Le Monde Runs out of Cash

Le Monde has Two Weeks of Cash, Faces Takeover After 66 years as a French-language media fixture, Le Monde is running out of cash. By June 28, the staff of Le Monde will have decided what to do about it.  Le...

Japan Today.

Japan Today. Is a round up of Japan's top 10 or so news events. Via, Uwe Paschen.   Well as the World is still in a recession going towards a depression the Asian Market did follow Wall-Streed and tubled....

South/East Asia Today.

South/East Asia Today. Is a weekly + round up of the 10 or so most important News events. Via, Uwe Paschen.   US Secretary of State H. Clinton still touring Asia Asking for money to bail out the US. As the US...

First French Female Astronaut in Hospital after suicide attempt.

By, Uwe Paschen. Claudie Haignere first French Astronaut and former Minister has been hospitalised.  Haignere is somewhat a hero of sorts to the French at large and to the Woman in particular, not only was she...

Le Monde to Strike over Layoffs

Le Monde, that venerable French news institution, is getting rocked by layoffs, prompting a 24-hour strike that will begin on April 14th (Monday). Such deep cuts to the newsroom will likely hamstring their ability...

Where is Cardinal Sepe?

I don't read Italian at all well, and working my way through a post at Settimo Cielo, e.g., can easily take a half hour: I can take the superficial sense of a simple declarative sentence fairly well but beyond that, alas....  This horrible state of affairs in...

Australians on verge of allowing human cloning

The Australian Senate seems to be prepared to pass a bill that would permit somatic nuclear cell transfer i.e. cloning, unfortunately.  The Australian indicates that "if the bill passes through the Senate, it is certain to win approval in the House of...

Stern measures against the 'liberal' West

An essay at Spiked by Daniel Ben-Ami, who argues that the mad rush to ameliorate the malign effects of climate change is in reality an attack on the market economy "informed by a neurotic small-mindedness"."More dishonest is [the British government-commissioned Stern]...

Despots of the world, unite!

Claudia Rosett reports, with her accustomed acerbic disbelief, on the 6th Conference on New and Restored Democracies, sponsored under the auspices of the United Nations Orgainisation in Doha, Qatar."For starters, the host country, Qatar, which has now taken over the...

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