(NYC) Museum Devoted to Islam Planned at Ground Zero.
The developer whose proposal to build a Muslim community center and mosque near the World Trade Center failed amid a national controversy three years ago said Tuesday that he now plans to construct a museum devoted to Islam in the same location. Sharif El-Gamal, the developer, said through a spokesman that instead of a $100 […]
Rand Paul: Cut aid to Palestinians unless they recognize Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said he will introduce legislation that would cut U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority unless its government recognized Israel as a Jewish state. Paul (R-Ky.), a likely contender for the Republican presidential nod in 2016, said the law was needed because of the interim governance agreement last week […]
EU firms help power China’s military rise
Beijing (AFP) – As China boosts its military spending, rattling neighbours over territorial disputes at sea, an AFP investigation shows that European countries have approved billions in transfers of weapons and military-ready technology to the Asian giant. China’s air force relies on French-designed helicopters, while submarines and frigates involved in Beijing’s physical assertion of its […]
Nearly Half of New Yorkers Are Struggling to Get By, Study Finds
New York City’s share of poor people appears to have plateaued since the recession, at 21.4 percent, with more people working in 2012 than the year before, but at lower wages, according to a new city study. Contributing to the city’s economic problems were increases in the number of Asian-Americans, immigrants and residents of Queens […]
US citizens completely detached from reality, living ‘behind CNN curtain’
Americans are completely detached from reality living “behind the CNN curtain,” said Max Keiser, the host of the ‘Keiser Report.’ While 95 percent of the world’s population is happily moving on, building new post-America future, Americans and their leaders appear comically out of the loop. Referring to a 2003 German tragicomedy film ‘Good Bye, Lenin!’ […]
Chinese Economy Overtakes America’s
Photo: Zhou Ke/Newscom With much faster growth rates between 2011 and 2014, China is now being forecast to eclipse the United States as the world’s largest economy sometime this year. The U.S. has been the world’s largest economy since the 1870s when it overtook Great Britain. Before the current revisions were released this week, it […]
China poised to pass US as world’s leading economic power this year
The US under the leadership of Obama is on the brink of losing its status as the world’s largest economy, and is likely to slip behind China as early as this year, much sooner than anticipated, according to the world’s leading statistical agencies. The US has been the global leader since overtaking the UK in 1872. Most economists […]
Obamanomics: U.S. economy slows drastically
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy slowed drastically in the first three months of the year as a harsh winter exacted a toll on business activity. The slowdown, while worse than expected, is likely to be temporary as growth rebounds with warmer weather. Growth slowed to a barely discernible 0.1 percent annual rate in the […]
POLL: 60% of Americans Don’t Believe Obamacare Enrollment Numbers
The Kaiser Health Tracking Poll released on Tuesday paints a dismal portrait of the nation’s attitudes about Obamacare, including nearly six in ten who said the government fell short of enrollment levels. Despite the Obama administration’s claim that it enrolled eight million Americans in Obamacare–a figure one million higher than its original seven million target–just […]
Geneva agreement do not prohibit Russian army to act on its territory
Russia’s drills on the border with Ukraine do not contradict the Geneva agreements, the Russian delegation said in a statement on Monday during talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, Interfax reports. “The Geneva agreements do not stipulate restrictions on activities of the Russian armed forces within its national boundaries,” the document said. […]
U.S. Regulatory Costs Are World’s No. 10 Economy
After years of rapid growth during the Obama administration, the cost of federal regulations is now bigger than the entire economies of all but nine countries in the world. That’s according to the latest annual report on the regulatory state issued by the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, titled “Ten Thousand Commandments.” Compiling reports of compliance […]
