OneWorld.net - The Bush administration’s foreign policy may be costing U.S. corporations business overseas–according to a new survey of 8,000 international consumers released this week by the Seattle-based Global Market Insite (GMI) Inc.
Brands closely identified with the U.S., such as Marlboro cigarettes, America Online (AOL), McDonald’s, American Airlines, and Exxon-Mobil are particularly at risk. [...]
With the bulk of western media coverage focusing on tourists’ tragedies less has been said of the residents who have not only lost significant others but have also lost their homes and villages. In the Guardian Jeremy Seabrook gives voice to the sentiment:
…This time there was something different. The tsunami struck resorts where westerners [...]
The Tsunami death toll now exceeds 125,000.
Public donations are overwhelming aid organisations’ ability to process them:
Reuters - Britain’s Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said it had collected the equivalent of $39 million, less than a day after launching an appeal on behalf of 12 top British charities.
The American Red Cross said that as of noon Wednesday [...]
The death toll has now surpassed 60,000.
Sumatra’s death toll has reached 27,000
The NYT (courtesy of Weezil) has an excellent, very informative flash graphic of the disaster area (If you are anything like me its probably a good idea to have a box of tissues handy, there are some heart-breaking images).
In Sri Lanka:
Tidal waves that hammered [...]
The Guardian - Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
Sontag had described herself as a “zealot of seriousness”, championing the avant-garde as well as dissecting contemporary ideas and mores.
Her writings covered a wide range of subjects [...]
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Courtesy of Norwegianity. Did Rumsfeld misspeak or did he accidentally tell the truth? WorldNet Daily wonder if flight 93 was shot down by the US military, but that doesn’t really make sense of Rumsfeld’s statement, which appears in a list of things “they” did. From WorldNet Daily (emph is mine):
WASHINGTON – Ever since [...]
Good news and yet bad news for Cuba. What are the odds of Cuba being able to protect their newly discovered oil reserves from their oil hungry neighbour? They have about as much chance as East Timor has of recovering its oil reserves from Australia. No wonder Cuba have been conducting military exercises. [...]
If I didn”t dislike the season of greed and sentimentality enough already, devastating earthquakes two Christmases running give me a whole new reason.
Last year’s Christmas earthquake flattened Bam in Iran and killed 31,000 people, most of whom were asleep in their beds when the quake struck and had no chance to save themselves.
This [...]
Apologies to anyone who may have looked for 12thharmonic and been unable to find us during the last 24 hours. We are having to do some unexpected emergency site maintenence, and should be firing on all cylinders again within the next day or so. Rest assured that we have no intention of [...]
There are allegations in the French media that the US are conducting drug experiments on Guantanamo inmates. The following is from Cuban paper Granma:
In the latest edition of the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur [original here, translation here], lawyer Jacques Debray reported that Sassi and Benchellali, who were also forced to take [...]
