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• White House: Asia trip nowhere near $200 million a day

  Fri Nov 5, 2010
  • 2000 in the official entourage? Costing $200 million a day? A simple calculation shows the 10 day visit will burn away $2 billion American taxpayers’ money. Imagine if this money were to be distributed to 100 million poor Indians, each will get $20, and that will make them very happy.

• 7 kids, 2 adults hacked to death in China school

  Tue May 11, 2010
  • Such heinous crime against helpless children seems to be getting out of control. The authority must spare no effort to put a halt to the carnage. At least send a security guard for each kindergarten or primary school throughout the nation as an immediate measure first. Is Beijing listening?

• Gulf wildlife 'dead zone' keeps growing

  Fri May 7, 2010
  • The oil spill aggravates the already worrying dead zone in the Gulf. No amount of money or compensation can be traded for animal extinction. Nothing but a man-made tragedy beyond words. (btt1943)

• Senate votes to restore lapsed jobless aid

  Thu Apr 15, 2010
  • Keep extending, the jobless certainly need help. Report has it that the number of jobless has jumped unexpectedly. Not really, it was correctly predicted by a good number of people.

• Ex-U.N. envoy: Karzai may have drug problem

  Tue Apr 6, 2010
  • Now, this is an extremely serious matter if true. Little wonder the unsettling leader appears to be so inconsistent and markedly incoherent lately. Is he fit to lead? Is he trustworthy? (vzc43)

• Karzai to lawmakers: ‘I might join the Taliban’

  Mon Apr 5, 2010
  • Did he actually say that, and mean what he said? Does the West still want to support such idiosyncratic and frivolous leader of dubious "democracy"? What obnoxious brinkmanship! (btt1943)

• Iranians seize Iraqi oil well on border, Iraq says

  Fri Dec 18, 2009
  • If this is true, would it not be an excellent excuse for the hawks in Washington to march their soldiers into Iran under the pretext of protecting the covetous oil fields?

• 2 explosions rock Pakistan's city of Lahore

  Mon Dec 7, 2009
  • One after another, big cities in northern Pakistan lately receive the horrible intermittent onslaughts of deadly bombings, instilling intense fear into the mind of the helpless would-be victims. The militants seem to be everywhere, and no place in the region is safe.

• Families protest deadly China mine disaster

  Mon Nov 23, 2009
  • With the soaring demand of energy, China has worked its coal mines as well as the miners to the extremes. But the number of deaths caused by mine accidents keeps increasing, making Beijing administration look real ugly.

• Stocks droop on worries about the economy

  Wed Jul 29, 2009
  • As expected months ago, the US unemployment rate shoots over 10%. The national debt has been above 10 trillion dollars. The deficit exceeds the 10 hundred thousand million mark. Also the Dow index crosses 10 thousand points.