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Entries Tagged as 'Global News'

Nobel Panel Hopes Peace Prize Boosts Obama Self-Esteem

by Scott Ott · 41 Comments

(2009-10-09) — An unnamed member of the Nobel committee this morning explained the shocking decision to give the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, who had served only 11 days as president when nominated, by noting that the gold medal would go a long way toward boosting Mr. Obama’s self-esteem.
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U.N. Decries Obama’s Preemptive Nobel Peace Prize

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(2009-10-09) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today rejected in the strongest possible terms the deployment of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, which he said was “reminiscent of George W. Bush’s disastrous doctrine of preemption.”
“The Nobel committee, perhaps persuaded by faulty intelligence and a hyped sense of urgency, made an historic [...]

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Obama Threats Force Iran to Destroy Missiles

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(2009-09-27) — President Barack Obama’s tough talk against Iran this week, threatening ’sanctions with bite’ if the regime didn’t ‘come clean’ about its nuclear program, has already produced positive results, the White House said today, forcing the Islamic Republic to begin destroying its short- and long-range missiles.
“When faced with President Obama’s steel-spined rhetoric, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]

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Iran Claims U.S. Operates Underground Scolding Facility

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(2009-09-26) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was ‘put on notice’ Friday by U.S. President Barack Obama after revealing that Iran has a second underground uranium enrichment plant, fired back with an allegation that the United States operates an clandestine rebuke-manufacturing facility.
President Obama said Iran must “come clean” about it nuclear program, or face a [...]

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Kim May Take More Hostages, in Bid to Meet Paula Abdul

by Scott Ott · 40 Comments

(2009-08-05) — Just hours after former U.S. President Bill Clinton left North Korea, successful in securing pardons for two American journalists, the official news agency of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced that President Kim Jong-Il has offered “a large reward” to any citizen who captures an American so he can trade the [...]

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Iran Reformers Admit to Making Mullahs Look Like Despots

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(2009-07-04) — The official Iranian news agency reports that “uncoerced confessions” from leaders in the reform movement have revealed a subversive plot to make the Mullahs in the Guardian Council “look like evil despots who crush dissent, shoot and bludgeon unarmed civilians, and do whatever it takes to maintain their tenuous totalitarian grip on the [...]

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Iran’s Guardian Council Declares Neda Soltan Alive

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(2009-06-28) — Iran’s Guardian Council, the 12-member body of Islamic Mullahs that exercises de facto rule over the nation, today announced that Neda Soltan, a young woman who apparently bled to death on video before the eyes of the world after being gunned down by a government sniper, is actually alive and well.
“There was no [...]

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