Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA), was among the speakers at the UN climate change meeting on Monday. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that climate change was "directly and constructively discussed at the highest level for the first time in history." Ban worked to build consensus among 80 of the world's top leaders, leading up to climate treaty negotiations this December in Indonesia. read more »
Blood diamonds aren't nearly as nutritious as blood bananas! The paramilitaries of Columbia are some of the most brutal and vicious criminal gangs in the world today. Chiquita is being fined 25 million bucks by the US Government for paying 1.7 million in protection money to a listed terrorist group. The Self-Defense Committees of Columbia collected the cash between 1997 and 2004.
According to prosecutor Johnathan Malis, "Chiquita was funding the bullets which killed innocent Colombians." The executives who ordered the payments will not be prosecuted as part of a deal struck with the government in March. read more »
Mexican Presidente VIncente Fox, whose term ended in 2006, bares all in an autobiography to be released on October 4th. Despite the appearance of warm man-to-man relations between Fox and President Bush, Fox describes Bush as "the cockiest man I've ever met." read more »
After only three months on the air, Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV station has ended the children's show Tomorrow's Pioneers. Farfour, the high-pitched Mickey Mouse look-alike star of the show, was beaten to death by an Israeli officer in the last episode. read more »
He's a world-famous author. His wife is hot. He's had a fatwah out on his life since 1989. What more could Salman Rushdie ask for? Well one culture's apostate is another's knight in shining armor. Iran and Pakistan are incensed over Queen Elizabeth's decision to confer a knighthood on Rushdie.
Rushdie was born into an Indian Muslim family from Bombay. Death threats started with the publication of the Satanic Verses in 1989 read more »
