This Weekend sees Manchester United take on Bolton Wanderers in a great Lancashire Derby. Both teams have had fantastic starts to their premiership campaigns and both teams will be keen to snatch victory to maintain momentum.Ordinarily this would be a fixture that Manchester United would be expected to win. This season it is not the …
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North Korea claims first nuclear test
North Korea said today it had performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test, a move that prompted swift international condemnation, with the prime minister, Tony Blair, describing it as a “completely irresponsible act”. The underground explosion at 2.36am BST, which followed a warning by Pyongyang last week that it was planning such as test, was a …
Iran, Syria, North Korea – Lessons in Diplomacy
Diplomacy has always been our first line of defense, the civilized way to resolve disputes between dissimilar ideologies. Not talking with diplomats of sovereign nations is not diplomacy. Withdrawing diplomats from sovereign nations is not diplomacy. It is arrogance.This Administration does not recognize the value of cultural understanding and art-of-the-deal diplomacy. Practiced effectively, which preferably …
AFS – South Africa, Surf and Safari and Our Marriage Too!
South Africa is more than a place you merely see, it’s a country to experience with all five senses. It’s an emotional encounter that makes one want to return and so I have now on my 5th visit to this land of beauty and freedom. It is a land of contrasts where traditional African ways …
North Korea’s Threats and China’s Lukewarm Response
When the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1718 on October 14, it agreed to impose economic sanctions against North Korea for testing a nuclear device earlier in the month. The resolution condemned the atomic test, demanded that the DPRK conduct no further tests or ballistic missile launches, and called upon all United Nations member …
Would Chelsea Become a New Real Madrid?
Lately in the press in increasing frequency we can hear about the great Chelsea’s tansfers. Topstars Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko had already joined the team, but there’re constant rumors surrounding Chelsea about the other big purchases like Philipp Lahm and Sergio Ramos.The purpose of Jose Mourinho is quite clear. He wants to make the …
North Korea – Yes, You Have Our Attention
North Korea has tested a low yield nuclear device with 4% of the destructive power of the bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. Some believe that the device was much larger but may have failed for technical reasons. We don’t know the truth, because the …
Ignoring North Korea and Iranian Nuclear Weapons Programs is a Mistake
As the worldwide North Korea test its first underground nuclear weapon one has to ask if it is a mistake to ignore North Korean and Iranian nuclear weapons programs? The proliferation of nuclear weapons by rogue nations and or nation states, which sponsor international terrorism, could be a humanitarian disaster in the future.It is estimated …
What North Korea Really Wants
Conventional geopolitical thinking has long assumed that North Korea has pursued an unrelenting campaign of provocations, its illicit nuclear program, and even a nuclear weapons test with the objective of assuring the survival of its current regime. Toward that end, an exasperated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently told CNN, “there is no intention to …
Premiership Title Race – Liverpool Fall at First Hurdle
At the start of the 2006/2007 Premiership season many pundits predicted that the Premiership title race would be between four teams: Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal.Now the league is at the quarter mark has one of the contenders already fallen at the first hurdle?During the summer Liverpool assembled one of their strongest squads in …