"...it is evident that the main focus of U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization interceptor missile deployments will be in the Black Sea region. The announcement that Romania will host American missiles was made on February 4; the news that Bulgaria would follow suit was disclosed on February 12."

"While no human loss is small, it is difficult to overlook western hypocrisy that tries to smear the record of the Turkish people and its government while hiding its more horrific crimes under the rug. Lest we forget it was not too long ago that the same US Congress voted against the Goldstone Report on Gaza simply because the objective, fact-finding investigations led by the Jewish South African Judge accused Israel of committing war crimes in its 2008-2009 campaign in Gaza. It is worth noting that the same report, which was rejected by the US Government, was endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council. What we see in such congressional actions is pure and simple: it is called hypocrisy a.k.a. double-standards. Through such a hypocritical stand, the US Congressional foreign affairs committee has shown that it does a great disservice to American people by behaving as Israel’s Amen Corner, hiding Israeli crimes of the last year, while getting all agog with a century-old controversial subject!"

"Holy places serve now as justification for the robbing expedition called settlement. Pieces of land are stolen all over the occupied territories because of their sanctity. The most extreme leaders of the settlers, all of them “rabbis”, fight for the liberation of holy graves. One of them is leading a crusade (or, rather, star-of-davidade) in order to take possession of the “tomb of Joseph” in the center of Nablus, which would turn the city into a second Hebron. The Israeli army chauffeurs the settlers there in armored vehicles, so they can “pray” there.)"

"Perhaps, just perhaps, some of that “redirected” 90% and recovered $150 bonus-billions might be used to bail-out failing Main Street businesses, restructure foreclosed mortgages, hire workers to repair and renew the disintegrating physical and human infrastructure – the roads, bridges, railbeds, utilities, public schools and universities, and courts – without which no industrial economy can function. Without which, in other words, those allegedly indispensible “producers” could never have accumulated their wealth."

"The genocidal campaign by the Buddhist king led to a mass scale forced eviction and exodus of hundreds of thousands of people of Arakan to the nearby territories of British India, esp. to Chittagong and CHT districts of today's Bangladesh. Nearly a hundred thousand people, mostly Muslims, were killed by the Burmese extermination campaign. The Mahamuni statue of Buddha itself was stolen away from the Arakan. Many Muslims were taken as slaves and forced to live elsewhere, e.g., in places like the Karen State of Burma."

"...natural disasters are very attractive to robbers of all kinds – the local thugs that prey on the vulnerable people, the big brothers that want to white-wash their past crimes by robbing long-term memory of the suffering people with their petty donations and hypocritical gestures, and not to be forgotten in this context the charlatans that want to deflect our attention away from their killing fields – the Gaza, and the soul-snatching robbers – the missionaries. Lucky are those who can save themselves from such robbers in times of natural disasters!"

Americans need a good laugh. After eight years of Dubya, and one year of President Barack Obama, who prefers to be loved and not feared, a political spoof has arrived to save the day. It’s Ted Venetoulis’ fun-filled novel, “Hail to the Cheat.” President Lance Billingsley gets caught by the First Lady, Jessica Berringer, “doing” her dear friend, Sondra Heatherstone, on the carpet and in the buff in the Oval Office! Fireworks quickly erupt!

"We are now into the Obama era but little has changed. When a country embarks on a course of such blatant abuse of law and makes its own rules as it goes along, it is bound to come up against complex situations that are both easy and extremely difficult to resolve. Easy because the US can do the right thing and admit that it is guilty of egregious wrongs against innocent people and let them go, but difficult if it clings to the notion that the US can do no wrong. The farce of the war on terror must end if Obama wants to improve the US’s tarnished image globally. Deeds, not words, will change global perceptions."