U.S. Treasury's Decision on Bailout Funds Flawed...

U.S. Treasury's June '09 decision on early paybacks is a major, major mistake.

Why allow this policy? Besides an entourage of lobbyists' pressuring congressional representatives on Capital Hill, pure corporate greed are the banks' incentives in repaying their TARP funds early in a can't wait enviroment to give its executives the elaborate bonuses that principally helped facilitate the global economic downturn of the past two years.

Shareholders will bear the brunt of this fool hearted decision.

European Union accuses Israel of seeking to annex east Jerusalem...

The European Union is accusing Israel of pursuing the annexation of Arab east Jerusalem which obviously inferiates Palestinians as both claim Jerusalem as the capitol of their homeland. The Palestinans want to make it the capital of their promised state and Israel occupied and annexed east Jerusalem in 1967 (six day war) and considers it its "eternal indivisible capital".

Since both sides seem to never and WILL NEVER agree on a resolution, there's only one impending and ultimate solution. Unfortunately, it will have to be war.

Corporate Bonuses: The culprit for the global economic downturn...

Who's to blame for the global economic downturn?

Principally, corporate bonuses which not only provided the enviroment for excessive risk-taking, it encouraged it.

Institutions, when bonuses are threatended, management retaliates and advises those receiving bonuses to threaten to resign publically.

I say go ahead, RESIGN.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad meets with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...

Iran's President Ahmadinejad meets with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to discuss bilateral relations.

How will Fox News blame President Barack Obama for this?

Will they say it's because of his relentless focus on healthcare reform?
Will they say it's because of his focus on the dual wars left by the Bush Administration?
Will they say it's because of his focus on trying to reduce the 10.2% U.S. unemployment rate?

Ex US Military Generals and execs paid $340 an hour by Pentagon as consultants...

Ex US Military execs paid $340 an hour by Pentagon as consultants. But, why does the world blasts Somalia, Nigeria and Afghanistan as most corrupt?

Will there be change that we can believe in?

Somali's attempts hijacking on the Maersk Alabama, AGAIN...

Somali attempted hijacking on the Maersk Alabama, AGAIN, reinforces the real problem, starved teens of a destabilized country is akin to U.S. illegal immigrant issue.

(See 4/16/09 blog)

Obama urges U.S. installed Afghan president to wipe out corruption

Pres. Barack Obama urges U.S. installed Afghan president Hamid Karzai to wipe out corruption. C'mon, are you kidding?

IT WON'T HAPPEN!!!

French Prosecutors seeking a mere 6 year sentence for two top accused businessmen in $790 mil. dollar 'Angolagate’ like trial....

French Prosecutors seeking a mere 6 year sentence for two top accused businessmen in the so-called $790 mil. dollar 'Angolagate’ trial.

CRIME DOESN'T PAY, IT REALLY PAYS.

UN's Millennium Development Goals go unmet...

UN's Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty unmet. Halving world poverty is unachievable. How bout' trying something seemingly alot simpler, clean drinking water. One third of the World's population lack safe drinking water. Shamefully, six thousand children die daily from waterborne diseases such as typhoid, diarrhea, hepatitis and cholera.

Something's got to give...

Presidential runoff election no real solution for Afghanistan...

Ex-foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah will definately defeat Hamid Karzai in a presidential runoff election in Afghanistan'. Results: TOTAL CHAOS.

President Nicolas Sarkozy appoints 23-year-old son chairman

President Nicolas Sarkozy appoints his 23-year-old son, Jean Sarkozy, chairman of France's largest business district.

BAD, BAD MOVE NICK...

Gabon's former interior minister, Mba Obame, on a hunger strike...

Gabon's former interior minister, Mba Obame, on a hunger strike in protest of Ali Bongo's disputed presidential election.

Mr. Obame, MOVE ON!

President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize?

Why not?

Israel, once again, (albeit briefly) detains another leader it disagrees with, Islamist leader Sheikh Raed Salah...

You can't lock up or kill everyone you disagree with. This only incites the opposition and its followers. Hasn't there been anything learned on the war on terror?

Former intelligence chief Idelphonse Nizeyimana, arrested in Uganda...

Nizeyimana, one of the most-wanted suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested in Uganda.

Question. Why did it take so long?

Costa Rican ex-president Calderon sentenced to 5 years for corruption...

What if other countries sentenced their former presidents for same? There probably wouldn't be very many ex-presidents.

Libya and Venezuela believed to be seeking alliance between Africa and South America to counter the West

It's not likely to happen...

Lawyers expected to sue French Pres. Sarkozy over guilty claims of ex French PM Dominique de Villepin

Bad idea...

Mugabe says West is dividing Zimbabwe

I think not...

Message to Obama Administration: Executive Pay Oversight Not Needed

(Article to Publish 9/25/09)

North Korea sentences US journalists to 12 years, NOT A BIG DEAL

(ARTICLE TO PUBLISH BY JUNE 14, 2009)

Teen Somali Pirates has same issue as U.S. illegal immigrants

Although the U.S. military had two armed ships in the third largest body of water on earth, the U.S. military should not have rescued the vessel, Maersk Alabama. Similar to an ill advised invasion of Iraq by the George W. Bush Administration, an administration that did more harm that will ultimately adversely affect humanity worldwide for decades to come than any administration in modern world history, you invite other wannabe tyrants, sometimes, more tyrannical than the first. As of yesterday, electronic media had already reported threats of more childlike pirate attacks.

The message that the forward leaning Obama Administration should send is, if you have commercial interests in the Indian Ocean, not only should you provide for your own security, moreover, if you choose not to provide financial incentives, not ransoms, to the starved and unemployed teenagers of a destabilized country such as Somalia, at least show empathy toward 10, 12 or 14 year old teenagers that are simply looking to earn income for there families, albeit against an ill advised by any means necessary approach.

More disturbingly, major print and electronic media failed to focus on these so called pirates' ages. Could it be that this would be a major distraction from the real issue of not only Somalia, but all of subsuharian Africa, the head of households in these unstable countries are teenagers for one basic reason, an exceptional high mortality rate due to preventable and infectious diseases such as malaria. What the Obama Administration, European Union, the African Union and the G20 should do, is to assist in stabilizing subsuharian Africa economically. According to the World Bank, in 2006, the gross national product of the world's ten poorest countries were all in Africa.

Consider this, some argue that the estimated 20 million illegal immigrants come across California, Arizona and Texas' 2,200 mile southern border to simply earn a living. Can the thought provoking argue that Somali's hijack the less than one percent of commercial ships are likewise doing it, to simply, earn a living?