Foreign leaders visiting KingSalman of Saudi Arabia have noticed that there is a large flower display just in front of the 80-year-old monarch ... Of course, King Salman is not the only world leader past or present whose inability to cope has been artfully concealed by aides and courtiers ... ....
Star who sold 100m records during rich and unpredictable career found collapsed at Paisley Parkhome outside Minneapolis. A postmortem examination will take place on Friday on the body of Prince, who died at his Paisley Park home aged 57, leaving behind him a gaping hole in musical genres as diverse as R&B, rock, funk and pop ... “Yes, it’s Prince” when asked if he was with the person ... Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video ... ....
Havana, Cuba (CNN)The Cuban government said it would scrap a long-standing ban on letting people born in Cuba come to the island by cruise ship, the Communist Party newspaper Granma reported Friday. The change in policy appears to remove barriers to the first visit by a U.S. cruise ship to the island scheduled for next month. The CarnivalCruise Corp ...Obama calls for change and freedom in Cuba. JUST WATCHED ... Replay ... ....
because the Saudis didn’t want the Americans to interrogate him.“The money was from the government … what the Saudis were doing, so I’ve been told, by reasonable people (I haven’t written this) is that they were also passing along tankers of oil for the Pakistanis to resell ... They were very unhappy about the attention paid to that because they went in and it was just a hit,” Hersh said ... That was the plan,” Hersh said....
Narrated by acclaimed actor and Irish native Liam Neeson, '1916-The Irish Rebellion' commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Uprising, an event that led to the establishment of an independent Irish State and, indirectly, to the breakup of the BritishEmpire. During the rebellion, a small group of Irish rebels-including poets, teachers, actors, and workers-took on the might of the British Empire....
LONDON...President Barack Obama may have an "ancestral dislike of the BritishEmpire" because of his Kenyan roots ... Johnson wrote that some said removing the bust "was a symbol of the part-Kenyan president's ancestral dislike of the British Empire, of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender.".Obama's late father was from Kenya, a former British colony that gained independence in the 1960s ... in the room ... "I love the guy." ... he said ... ....
Towards the conclusion of 1916. Ireland’s RevolutionaryTradition, Kieran Allen speculates on the future of “Connolly’s way” a century after the tumult of Easter 1916... Connolly’s class-based analysis was perfectly clear ... The former “lived and breathed revolutionary socialism and Marxist politics”; the cultural nationalist Pearse did not, yet for all his ambiguities he was fervently anti-imperialist and determined to break the empire....
Money, Money, Money. In our latest cover story, Neal Gabler takes a look at the cash-strapped middle class, offering the startling statistic that 47 percent of Americans would struggle to come up with $400 for an emergency. It’s something Gabler knows all too well—he’s one of them. Leading scholars weighed in on Gabler’s piece, while readers offered their own stories of financial struggle ...EmpireState of Mind ... ....
Is the universe real, an archetype or just a figment of our imagination?. According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, he wouldn’t at all be shocked if we suddenly learned the universe is a computer simulation — something created for the sheer joy of some being or “smarter” life form ...Tyson says that the lack of empirical evidence to the contrary suggests that a simulated experience is not out of the question....
CRITICISM of US president over his call for UK to remain in EU is bordering on racist and has no place in serious referendum debate ... Citing a nine-year old story about the removal of a Winston Churchill bust from the Oval office, a story which has been described as “100 per cent false” by American officials, Mr Johnston says the removal was attributed by some to “the part-Kenyan president's ancestral dislike of the BritishEmpire” ... ....
The SuburbanNews recently published a letter from disgraced former mayor ConnieCastaneda which was a personal attack on former VillageTrusteeCarol Hannan. Carol replied by sending a letter to the editor of the SN, but the SN didn’t publish it. So here it is ... In fact, 88% of the people who carried dissolution petitions are village landlords ... We’re talking lucrative, multi-million dollar rental empires ... Sherman, Ph ... It’s a lie....