It’s Gonna Be a Long Four Years

Good to know the blatant media bias is still alive and well. The news that Obama had no idea about Mr. Blagojevich’s corruption, has been translated to “Obama’s integrity as a Senator unwittingly leads to exposure of the corrupt! Yay! Go Obama!”

Well gee golly folks, economic news flash of the century

For everyone that has been living in a cave for the last 6 months or simply failed to notice the daily play by play stockmarket updates: it is OFFICIAL.
We are now in a recession.
If the NY Times says it, it must be true. Apparently we’ve been in recession for a year now.
Of course it does [...]

Ever Read the Atlas Shrugged ala Auto Bailout?

I admit, from the beginning I have been opposed to the bail out–Americans living beyond their means, not my problem = their stupidity and the greed of wall street.
Auto Industry Failure–Yes it would suck that a gajillion people lose their jobs, but it’s ridiculous that I as a taxpayer should have to pay money to [...]

2011 Iraq Pullout

Things of note (Al-Jazeera) :
1. 9 of 37 members of the cabinet did not appear for the vote
2. “There was a positive position taken on the part of the larger blocs and all the most important blocs,” Dabbagh said.
“They all expressed a positive position because they consider it the best [agreement] possible, because it will [...]

Link Gathering of CE

 People clog roads in Perubecause they can’t agree who gets da money from some mines in the ground
America’s economy still sucks
Nobody died voting in Zambia in the election between reigning president Rupiah Banda and Michael Sata. Mostly because the army made everyone behave. Banda = businessman and Sata is the leader of the patriotic front.
A lot [...]

Examining Media Biases

In attempt to make this blog useful, versus just a compilation of what’s going on, I will begin addressing a combination of sources for different issues, including news outlets, more in depth analysis and opinion columns in order to give the most rounded view point possible, which is always a goal. I’ll also try to [...]

Blog goals

Because writing goals makes me more accountable:
1. One news overview post a day-for the next 4 weeks
2. One weekly in depth country or issue profile this is important
3. and for me (these won’t be published but if you’re interested I can share), 3-5 translated articles from farsi and/or arabic)
4. Also I want to start underlying [...]

Asia

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/

Asian markets rise on expectation of bank rate cuts
More tainted eggs found originating from China
South Korea will pull out troops by Dec 20 from Iraq (they now still have less than 600 troops in Arbil)–SK divided over deployment of its troops
NK warns  SK to end its smear campaign, they have been sending anti NK pamphlets [...]

the chinese are fucking insane

Crazies.
They wanted the opening ceremony to be so perfect they picked one cute little girl to appear to sing, and dubbed another’s better voice in. Also, they didn’t even tell the little girl’s father  until 15 min before the ceremony.
In other news they also got offended when a couple of bikers wore masks in the [...]

South Korea

From the Economist
President Lee Myung-bak ended the ban on American beef. Whether this was a good idea or not remains to be seen–he is currently entering into a legal battle with broadcasters and trade unions.
Israel
Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has agreed to finally step down, he will resign once his party elects a new leader [...]