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Breaking News from Western Journalism
Jul 03, 2012 02:33 pm | Kris Zane
It
was reported on Sunday that Obama was so broken up after touring the
devastation caused by the Colorado wildfires that he promptly hopped
aboard Air Force One and made an 18-minute conference call to his big
donors asking for… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 02:26 pm | Doug Book
Chief
Justice John Roberts rewrote the specific language of Congress by
claiming in his ObamaCare ruling that the penalty that the lawmakers had
clearly attached to the individual mandate was actually a tax. It was
the only way in which… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 02:17 pm | Daniel Noe
Jul 03, 2012 02:16 pm | Cagle Cartoons
Jul 03, 2012 02:06 pm | Tim Powers
The
following is just a brief list of what America has endured over the
past four years. I’m sure there is much more that can be added, but we
must not forget these things come November. That is, if Obama… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 01:57 pm | Daniel Noe
Jul 03, 2012 01:50 pm | Kevin "Coach" Collins
Isn’t
it fun watching the Panderer–in–Chief, Aflac Obama, run around his
sinking row boat like the duck in the TV commercial stepping on a hole
here and fill a hole there with his wings? As the pages fall off the… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 01:45 pm | Michael J Nellett
Obamacare’s
“mandate has been ruled constitutional because it is a “TAX”. There
are, however, several problems with that declaration by the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. First, Obama and his
administration zombies publically denied that… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 01:36 pm | Kris Zane
Jul 03, 2012 01:33 pm | Jeff Bipes
Chief
Justice John Roberts, the last person on Earth whom conservatives
thought would rule AGAINST the Constitution, did just that this past
Thursday. The court’s decision on ObamaCare, or the PPACA, requires a
complete suspension of what sane people call… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 01:28 pm | Michael J Nellett
It
seems that Obama’s Department of Justice is refusing Congress’s orders
to start legal proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr.
Holder has been found guilty of both criminal and civil contempt of
Congress charges by a vote of the… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 01:20 pm | Daniel Noe
Jul 03, 2012 01:11 pm | Matt Barber
It’s often said, “Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it.”
Democrats got it all right.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts – once counted among the constitutional originalists on the high court – has… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 01:04 pm | Breaking News
WASHINGTON
(OfficialWire) — Attorney General Eric Holder is charging that he’s
become a “proxy” for Republican attacks against President Barack Obama
in an election year.
Holder tells The Washington Post that Republican congressional figures
have used a failed gun-tracking operation… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 12:54 pm | Breaking News
At
least 15 governors have indicated they will not participate in the
expansion of Medicaid under the healthcare law, striking a blow to
President Obama’s promise of broader insurance coverage.
Before Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling, states had the option of… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 12:52 pm | Daniel Noe
Jul 03, 2012 12:43 pm | Breaking News
Rep.
Allen West says Mitt Romney may need some new advisers if his campaign
continues to refer to the mandate in Obamacare as a penalty rather than a
tax.
The Florida Republican told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Monday the… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 12:34 pm | Breaking News
(CNSNews.com)
– A record of 8,733,461 workers took federal disability insurance
payments in June 2012, according to the Social Security Administration.
That was up from 8,707,185 in May.
It also exceeds the entire population of New York City, which according…
Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 12:18 pm | Breaking News
WASHINGTON
(OfficialWire) — A top adviser says Republican presidential candidate
Mitt Romney doesn’t see the health care mandate as a tax but as a
penalty or a fee or even a fine.
That’s a different view from Republicans who are… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 12:09 pm | Breaking News
With
all the gloomy economic news coming out of late, one bright spot flew
under the radar last week: the United States is poised to be the
proverbial center of the energy universe.
A recent study by Harvard Research Fellow… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 11:29 am | Cagle Cartoons
Jul 03, 2012 11:28 am | Breaking News
NEW YORK – CNN’s Anderson Cooper came out in a letter online, saying “the fact is, I’m gay.”
Cooper said Monday in a note to the Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan that he had kept his sexual orientation private for personal… Continue to Post
Jul 03, 2012 11:19 am | Breaking News
U.S.
Secret Service officers shut down a student-led protest calling for
President Obama to fire Attorney General Eric Holder this morning,
according to a report from in front of the White House.
After discovering a “suspicious package,” the Secret Service… Continue to Post
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More eerie 'ghost cities' popping up
Shocking photographs reveal towns completely devoid of people
by Chelsea Schilling
Why is China constructing large, well-designed “ghost cities” that are completely devoid of people?
Now, the BBC reports a giant new Chinese-built city has been spotted in Africa in the outskirts of Angola’s capital Luanda.
The city, Nova Cidade de Kilamba, was designed to hold up to a half million people and features 750 eight-story apartment buildings, 12 schools and more than 100 retail units, according to the report.
State-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation reportedly took less than three years to build the city at a cost of $3.5 billion. It covers 12,355 acres.
BBC former Angola correspondent Louise Redvers reported that the discovered that the city’s buildings are completely empty.
The empty cities aren’t only in Africa.
WND and Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reported just last year that Google Earth photographs of China depict city after city of vast complexes consisting of office skyscrapers, government buildings, apartment buildings, residential towers and homes, all connected by networks of empty roads – with some of the cities located in China’s truly most inhospitable locations.
Images of these “ghost cities” – after countless billions of dollars
have been spent on the towns’ design and construction – reveal nobody
lives in them.
Block after block of empty houses and apartment buildings, glamorous public buildings, magnificent public parks and sports complexes, even art museums, remain entirely empty.
“The photographs look like giant movie sets prepared to film apocalyptic motion pictures in which some sort of a neutron war or bizarre natural disaster has eliminated people from the face of the earth while leaving the skyscrapers, sports stadiums, parks and roads perfectly intact,” Corsi noted. “One of China’s ghost cities is actually built in the middle of a desert in Inner Mongolia.”
Business Insider ran a series of photos of these Chinese ghost cities. One showed no cars in the city except for approximately 100 parked in largely empty lots clustered around a government building, and another showed a beautiful wetland park with people added using Photoshop.
At the time, China had an estimated inventory of 64 million vacant homes and was building up to 20 new ghost cities a year on the country’s “vast swathes of free land.”
Business Insider speculated that the Chinese need to put their money
somewhere, so developers have decided to build, as a place to store the
wealth, even if the Chinese building these cities do not intend to live
in them and there is no prospect they can find renters.
ScallyWagAndVagabond.com quoted Patrick Chovanec, a business teacher at Tsinghua University in Beijing, who explained, “Who wants to be the mayor who reports that he didn’t get 8 percent GDP growth this year? Nobody wants to come forward with that. So the incentives in the system are to build. And if that’s the easiest way to achieve growth, then you build.”
The following are some photos posted on Facebook of the Chinese “ghost city,” Nova Cidade de Kilamba, in Africa:
by Chelsea Schilling
Now, the BBC reports a giant new Chinese-built city has been spotted in Africa in the outskirts of Angola’s capital Luanda.
The city, Nova Cidade de Kilamba, was designed to hold up to a half million people and features 750 eight-story apartment buildings, 12 schools and more than 100 retail units, according to the report.
State-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation reportedly took less than three years to build the city at a cost of $3.5 billion. It covers 12,355 acres.
BBC former Angola correspondent Louise Redvers reported that the discovered that the city’s buildings are completely empty.
The empty cities aren’t only in Africa.
WND and Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reported just last year that Google Earth photographs of China depict city after city of vast complexes consisting of office skyscrapers, government buildings, apartment buildings, residential towers and homes, all connected by networks of empty roads – with some of the cities located in China’s truly most inhospitable locations.
Google image of China's empty roads
Block after block of empty houses and apartment buildings, glamorous public buildings, magnificent public parks and sports complexes, even art museums, remain entirely empty.
“The photographs look like giant movie sets prepared to film apocalyptic motion pictures in which some sort of a neutron war or bizarre natural disaster has eliminated people from the face of the earth while leaving the skyscrapers, sports stadiums, parks and roads perfectly intact,” Corsi noted. “One of China’s ghost cities is actually built in the middle of a desert in Inner Mongolia.”
Business Insider ran a series of photos of these Chinese ghost cities. One showed no cars in the city except for approximately 100 parked in largely empty lots clustered around a government building, and another showed a beautiful wetland park with people added using Photoshop.
At the time, China had an estimated inventory of 64 million vacant homes and was building up to 20 new ghost cities a year on the country’s “vast swathes of free land.”
Empty roads in Zhengzhou, China
ScallyWagAndVagabond.com quoted Patrick Chovanec, a business teacher at Tsinghua University in Beijing, who explained, “Who wants to be the mayor who reports that he didn’t get 8 percent GDP growth this year? Nobody wants to come forward with that. So the incentives in the system are to build. And if that’s the easiest way to achieve growth, then you build.”
The following are some photos posted on Facebook of the Chinese “ghost city,” Nova Cidade de Kilamba, in Africa:
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