Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal

Canada’s Housing Bubble Springs A Leak

By: Mike Whitney Sagging prices and droopy home sales in Vancouver have set off alarms across Canada. These are the first signs that the country’s overheated real estate market has begun to cool. Homes sales have plunged 33 percent year-over-year, … read more »

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Militias In Libya And Syria Outwit The CIA

By: VOR By Dmitry Babich The New York Times daily came out with interesting revelations about the details of the attack against the US mission in Benghazi, Libya. The American officials whom the newspaper quotes on its pages confirm that … read more »

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Nigeria: Treason, the Pot At the Rainbow’s End

Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, Vanguard opinion IT took the WALL STREET JOURNAL, WSJ, last week, to lift the lid on the murky world of payments which the Nigerian government makes to Niger Delta warlords. The report, appropriately titled, “NIGERIA’S FORMER OIL … read more »

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Africa – The US Battleground To Challenge China

While the US was flexing its muscles in Iraq and Afghanistan (later, in Libya, currently in Syria, and further on other nations), taking a much less outspoken but nonetheless more effective approach of “soft power” penetrated the abandoned regions. The … read more »

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Obama’s Position on Israel

The first (and last) thing anyone needs to understand about Barack Obama is that he is a Machiavellian con man whose loose way with the truth makes Bill Clinton look like a boy scout. This is a born and bred … read more »

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Google to launch free ‘online hard drive’ storage system to take on rivals such as Dropbox

Google is on the brink of launching an online storage service that will store large files online instead of in PC hard drives, according to insider reports. The service will be a rival to services such as Dropbox, a ‘cloud’ … read more »

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Taliban: New and Improved?

  Apparently the Taliban are softening, even allowing girls to get an education. Clearly this heralds an opening to the West, a heady indication that their most repressive days are past them, and that soon they will take their place … read more »

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Universities Abandon Western Civilization

Most students no longer are taught their nation’s triumphs that would equip them to be knowledgeable citizens. Major universities have turned from instruction in the significance of Western Civilization to the “profound” influence of Lady Gaga, (real name: Stephanie Germanotta), … read more »

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Documents show CIA co-operation with Libya

Washington – Files found at a Libyan government building show strong co-operation between the CIA and Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence agencies, including shipping terror suspects to the North African country for interrogation, a report said on Friday. The Central Intelligence Agency, … read more »

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Unwed Black Women and Interracial Marriage

In an article by Ralph Pritchard Banks, the Wall Street Journal weighs in on a long-known fact in the African-American community: the issue of unwed single black women. Nearly 70 percent of black women are unmarried, and Banks contends that … read more »

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Google TV blocked in US

Several major US broadcasters, including ABC, CBS and NBC, are blocking some of their most popular television programmes from being accessible through Google’s new television service. Some US networks have blocked their content from the Google TV service, in what … read more »

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