CAIRNS, Australia, Sept 21, 2014 (AFP) - US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Sunday called on the eurozone to do more to strengthen demand and make the structural changes needed to kick-start a moribund economy that is hampering world growth.
National Defense Authorization Act will allow US Army personnel to legally engage in both sodomy and bestiality. These are some rather strange provisions.
I could understand that the new act gives authorities right to hold you in detention and torture you indefinitely, but I really do not understand the need for NDAA to allow sodomy and bestiality.
EPA asks for up to $6.8 million in penalties from motor fuel companies because they failed to do the impossible. The companies failed to mix non-existent type of bio-fuel into their gas and diesel. So now, they have to pay the fines for failing to produce a miracle.
GOTV (Get Out the Vote) robocalls are a valuable campaign tool for candidates who are looking for a targeted and inexpensive method to remind voters about election information. Candidates or their spokespeople can send out pre-recorded messages via phone to thousands of voters simultaneously for a fraction of what it would cost to send campaign literature through the mail. Fact is, people do really forget to vote and the United States has one of the lowest voting rates in the free world hovering around 50% at a time when many European countries average well over 80% turnouts.
Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi has said that no matter how synchronized Iran and the West can get on the country's nuclear program, they won't be able to do so on human rights.
TEHRAN, YJC. Weeks go by as Iranian hostage soldiers are kept in custody by Jaish ul-Adl. Here is who one of the soldiers' parents are and what they do.
Tehran, YJC. Foreign Minister says the US has to do something about unrealistic people in its government because they are likely to damage the nuclear negotiations.
BRISBANE, Australia, Nov 12, 2014 (AFP) - Pope Francis has called on G20 leaders not to forget the poor, saying to do so would be "regrettable" as the heads of the world's most powerful economies prepare to meet in Australia.
The president's man in Tehran was feeling the pressure and needed reassurance. On 12 January 1979, General Robert "Dutch" Huyser wrote to Harold Brown, US secretary of defense, and General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to make sure he knew what they wanted him to do.