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Telegraph | News | China rips up our deal on Hong Kong, but where’s the outrage? “The best reason for threatening Taiwan is the relative absence of fuss in the West about what’s happened to Hong Kong. If anyone, back in 1997, had realised that the agreement to allow Hong Kong to follow its own […]

Koppel: ‘Americans Need to Be Reminded of the War’ — 04/30/2004 “In an interview ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday, Koppel said he expected the show to be controversial – “but not this controversial.” He denied complaints that the show is “anti-war.” “It is a way of saying…let me explain it this way, Charlie [Gibson]. I […]

Are we really talking about Norway? Home of the Vikings? Hard drinking, burly, vicious Vikings? Yahoo! News – Hoarding Beer as Cheap Brew Banned “Norwegians drink relatively small amounts of beer, about 50 liters per person per year. Beer is sold in supermarkets but stronger drink, like wine and liquor, are sold from state outlets […]

Yahoo! News – Bush Seeks More High-Speed Internet Access, Tax Ban “Bush complained that the United States was ranked 10th in the deployment of broadband, or high-speed access. To help boost that rank, he signed an order for the government to make it easier for broadband facilities to be built on federal land. ” It’s […]

Yahoo! News – China Rules No Direct Elections in HK in 07 and 08 What the hell were the British thinking handing the premier bastion of unfettered capitalism in the world over to the last major Marxist power anyway? It’s not like there were no other options. 1 – They could have encouraged Hong Kong […]