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Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy promise to keep bombing Libya until Gaddafi is gone
David Cameron, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy upped the stakes in the Libya conflict last night as they vowed to fight on until Colonel Gaddafi is ousted. In a joint article, the British, American and French leaders warned it would be an ‘unconscionable betrayal’ were Nato to stop bombing with the dictator still in power.
America and the Great Disappointment
He’s proud of cutting the budget at expense of poor and at no cost to corporate America. What will Obama say next? I was considering having myself dusted with ash and measured for sackcloth last week, so many are the current predictions of impending apocalypse.
Dubai to remove end of world billboards
HUGE billboards posted by fundamentalist American Christians across Dubai proclaiming that the world will end next month are to be taken down, a local newspaper reported on Monday. ‘A billboard advertisement claiming that May 21, 2011 will be the ‘judgment day’ according to the Bible, and which shocked many and dismayed others, will be removed,’ the Gulf News daily said, quoting a senior official.
NATO allies split over scope of Libya air strikes
NATO foreign ministers meet Thursday amid a growing rift over the pace of air strikes in Libya, as calls mount for allies to intensify the bombing campaign to prevent a stalemate on the ground. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her European, Canadian and Turkish counterparts hold two days of talks in Berlin, two weeks after NATO took over a mission that divided the military alliance from the start.
Mediators to meet Libyan rebels, claim regime accepts peace plan
African mediators have said Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has accepted a plan for peace ahead of talks with rebels. As regime troops continued to pound rebel positions, NATO warplanes destroyed some 25 tanks.
Gaddafi’s future non-negotiable
The Libyan government said on Tuesday it was ready to negotiate reforms, but refused any talk of Muammar Gaddafi stepping down saying he was a unifying figure after ruling the nation for four decades. “What kind of political system is implemented in the country? This is negotiable, we can talk about it,”…
Government says Libya needs Gaddafi in power
The Libyan government has said it is open to “any” political reform but Muammar Gaddafi must stay in power to avoid a new Iraq or Somalia. A spokesman told Reuters that Colonel Gaddafi was a “unifying figure”, and insisted his forces only targeted armed rebels, not civilians.
Gaddafi in diplomatic offensive to end stalemate
There are signs that Moamar Gaddafi’s regime may be looking for a diplomatic way out of the bloody stalemate in Libya. Libyan deputy foreign minister Abdel-ati Obeidi flew to Athens on the weekend carrying a personal message from Mr Gaddafi to prime minister George Papandreou that Libya wanted the fighting to end.
Japan’s fantasy films act as a buffer against the reality of the natural world
Japanese animators had tried to address fears of the force of nature long before last month’s earthquake struck. In September 2008, Hayao Miyazaki, the author of Spirited Away, attended the Venice festival to present his most recent full-length film,Ponyo.
Harlequin Productions ‘Boom’: End of the world played for laughs
Once again, Harlequin Productions brings to the stage an astounding play impeccably produced. “Boom” by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is a sci-fi comedy that almost defies description. It’s weirdly funny and nihilistic, but ultimately hopeful in a strange way. It takes place in a subterranean university lab that also serves as the makeshift home for a young researcher, Jules. It also is a museum dedicated to the study of extinct fish.
