expired embargoes
Woodward on Ford, Bush, Iraq and more
Norway wants US to see warming Arctic
The Sydney Morning Herald: Norway will invite US politicians to visit a group of fast-thawing Arctic islands in 2007, hoping to win converts for tougher action against global warming, its foreign minister says.
“Climate change may be one of the most serious threats mankind has ever faced,” Jonas Gahr Stoere told Reuters in an end-year interview. “The Arctic is a clarion call, perhaps more than anywhere else, that things are changing.”
today in history – 1831
Charles Darwin launched his voyage on The Beagle, in what, according to creationists and “intelligent designers” was one really really really big waste of time.
German Christmas Cookies Pose Health Danger
NPR: One of Germany’s most popular Christmas cookies — Cinnamon Stars — are loaded with coumarin, a chemical that naturally occurs in cinnamon but which at high levels can damage the liver.
Hydropolis Underwater Hotel
where else but Dubai?
Russia links YUKOS boss to Litvinenko murder
Yahoo! News: The head of holding company GML, YUKOS’s main shareholder, said the accusations against Nevzlin were an attempt by Russian officials to divert attention.
“This is a typical, predictable Russian government ploy,” Tim Osborne told Reuters by telephone.
“They are trying to blame Nevzlin but everyone else believes that either the Russian government or the FSB were behind the murder of Litvinenko. This is just a conjecture to throw the heat off them,” he said.
Imad Moustapha: ‘Syria is ready and willing to engage’
USATODAY: Imad Moustapha, Ph.D., Ambassador of the Syrian, Arab Republic to the USA – Washington
It is always refreshing to hear moderate, wise voices from the United States calling for what diplomacy is really about: dialogue and engagement (“A two-way street with Syria,” The Forum, Dec. 20).
Syria has repeatedly called upon this administration to abandon its policies toward Syria and work together toward a more constructive policy in the Middle East. Former secretaries of State Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and James Baker — who, unlike Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, had a direct working relationship with Syria — consider their engagement with Syria as one that served U.S. national interests.
Syria is ready and willing to engage, but this needs courage and vision from the other side.
NYT: Our Founding Illegals
Amen: William Hogeland is the author of “The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty.”
Edwards joins Presidential race
bah…big whoop. he’s never really ‘done it’ for me. Not sure why.
amazing
Yves Rossy: Swiss “Jet Man”
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