A storm that toppled power lines, closed major highways and buried parts of the southern Plains in heavy ice and snow began moving into the South on Friday, leaving tens of thousands of people in the dark — possibly for several more days. Winter storm warnings were in effect from New Mexico to North Carolina, and Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe declared a state of emergency. The storm threatened to dump... 

Decades of Conservative and Labour immigration policies have turned Britain into the world’s collective rubbish bin as new figures reveal that there are criminals from 160 different countries in UK jails. The total number of foreign inmates, all arrested in Britain after emigrating here and then committing serious crimes, is at least one out of every five prisoners, according to other figures released... 

Rajendra Pachauri The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as further errors were identified in the panel’s assessment of Himalayan glaciers. Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. But he admitted that there... 

Police in France have arrested Sosthene Munyemana, a Rwandan doctor wanted for genocide and war crimes. 45-year-old Dr Munyemana has been employed in a hospital in Bordeaux for the last eight years but he has been arrested on an extradition warrant from Rwanda. France and Rwanda have only recently restored diplomatic links between the two countries. According to AFP, France had earlier on in 2008... 

Future for America Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the capital of the sixth-largest U.S. state by population, should skip a $2.2 million debt service payment due Feb. 1 and consider bankruptcy, City Controller Dan Miller said. Harrisburg faces $68 million in payments this year in connection with a waste-to-energy incinerator and should weigh Chapter 9 protection from creditors or state oversight through... 

The Obama administration notified US Congress Tuesday that it has decided to sell a new package of arms to Taiwan, reported the Associated Press. The sale will include Black Hawk helicopters, Patriot missiles, and some communication materials. But F-16 fighters are unlikely to be included in the arms sale. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu warned in a news conference Tuesday that... 

In previous episodes of The Vice Guide to Travel, we road-tripped through North Korea, shopped for dirty bombs in Bulgaria, and hunted mutant wild boars in Chernobyl. Little did we know that all of our harrowing journeys would leave us only semi-prepared for a recent trip to war-ravaged, godforsaken Liberia. Since 1989, a series of brutal civil wars — primarily fought by drug-addicted, prepubescent... 

Yale student, Aliza Shvarts I guess the point is, it’s better to be a Jewess that engages in degenerate and sick acts, and calls them art, by artificially inseminating herself over and over again, over nine months, and then aborts the fetuses that resulted over and over than to be a White male or a racist. That’s the message I get out of this publicity stunt anyway. It’s interesting... 

This is unbelievable. We don’t recall other presidents when speaking to school children having a podium with a seal much less a teleprompter. Maybe Obama is trying to re-establish himself by presenting himself as God-like to a bunch of little kids. Well, he finally found an audience on his level. The economic news of late forecasts another leg down and, this time it will crush the life out of... 

Dogs in a case are waiting to be slaughtered at Moran Market in Seongnam, east of Seoul. Moran Market is the largest dog meat market in South Korea. (click to enlarge) Abuse of Dogs Still Rampant in S. Korea, China. A shocking case of animal abuse in Seoul’s largest dog meat market, revealed recently, has left many people in South Korea and China horrified and angry. The abuse of hundreds of... 

China, a civilized country? Maybe… but some Asians would still eat just about ANYTHING that moves. Most of the world diseases and viruses came from Asia and Africa but some of you didn’t know why. How’s this for a reason? Where are the animal rights groups now?  Read More »

U.S.-China Military Tensions Grow Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China’s (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for next year compared to Russia spending less than $40 billion last year for the same, China and Russia are portrayed as threats to the U.S. and its allies. China has no troops outside... 

Bishop Richard Williamson He’s back. Holocaust-revisionist British Bishop Richard Williamson is giving interviews again, adding Israel-bashing to his opinion portfolio. He gave a 15 minute interview with a minor French politician known for anti-Zionist views, Pierre Panet, that was, posted in various French media, just in time to compete for headlines with Pope Benedict XVI’s synagogue... 

Total death toll in religious violence is reportedly near 400 Nearly a week after the outbreak of violence between Nigerian Muslims and Christians, aid workers have found up to 150 more bodies stuffed into wells and sewage pits. In the central village of Kuru Karama, many victims had been shot, hacked to death, or burned alive, reports the BBC. “So far we have picked 150 bodies from the wells,”... 

Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies. A feminist movement has accused the Israeli government of adopting a racist policy towards the country’s Ethiopian Jews. Activists believe black women are deliberately being...