Ford, General Motors (GM) and Chrysler have all reported a drop in car sales during 2006 – Ford sales fell 8%, GM dropped 8.7% and Chrysler slid 5%. By contrast both Japanese carmakers Toyota and Honda posted a rise in annual of 12.9% and 3.5% respectively. Rising petrol prices have boosted Asian firms in recent [...]

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As of January 1st it became illegal to puff away in local bars and restaurants. However this new Bylaw may be heading for some rough times. Local newspapers are reporting that a number of establishments are actively defying the ordinance. Based on the information becoming available it appears that these bar owners may indeed have [...]

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The individual thought to have taped Saddam Hussein’s hanging has been arrested in Iraq. The footage, taken on a cellphone (at least one other video was made, according to an Iraqi prosecutor), has been leaked onto the Internet and was aired on Al-Jazzeera amongst other stations. The video differs from the official video of Hussein’s [...]

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2006 has been billed as the end of the conservative movement. This is due largely to the mistaken idea that conservatism is the same as Republicanism. What the voters rejected was corruption and good-ole’ boy politics. The election clearly showed the divide between conservatives and Republicans. However, there is one additional distinction that needs to [...]

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Return of the Evil Dead The evil Templar are back, and this time they’re more pissed! Rising from the grave once again 500 years after being put to death by a mob of Portuguese villagers, the Templar are back for revenge. Being blinded during their execution, the zombies must track their prey by sound. As [...]

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Jurors in Los Angeles say a man convicted of killing six prostitutes and dumping their bodies along Highway 60 going east from Los Angeles should die. The jury deliberated for four days before deciding on the punishment for Ivan Hill, who has been dubbed the “60 Freeway Slayer”. Prosecutors said Hill had a violent past. [...]

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I had the opportunity to interview Mr Trachtman about his new book ‘The Supremes Greatest Hits’. This was a 2 part interview initially through E-mail and then a follow up telephone interview. Simon@BNN: It is a wonderfully crafted book, how did you come up with the idea?   Michael G. Trachtman: The general idea of [...]

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A man convicted of killing a retired New York Times reporter was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison today in District of Columbia Superior Court. Michael Hamlin, 24, will serve 26 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery for his part in the death of 63-year-old David [...]

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Just when you thought all you had to worry about was the next flu bug, along comes MRSA, a superbug that will give you large, boil-like lesions and perhaps hemorrhagic pneumonia or even ”flesh-eating” disease. And now there’s another superbug said to be three times as deadly as MRSA which seems to target the elderly. [...]

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Jurors in Houston wept during testimony in the penalty phase of Tyrone Williams’ human smuggling trial, which authorities are calling the “nation’s deadliest human smuggling attempt.” Williams, 35, faces the death penalty for causing the deaths of more than 70 illegal aliens who were crammed in his “tomb-like” tractor-trailer for four hours during the attempt to go [...]

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The execution of Saddam Hussein has brought those who oppose the death penalty out of the woodwork from coast to coast as well as internationally. Their mantra is, as one would expect, that no one deserves to be put to death, no matter how heinous or extensive the crime. For example, Saddam was tried and [...]

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Editor Bah Honoured         Management Member Sey  Editor M’Bai Sulayman Bah  Associate Editor Jawara   Late Deyda Hydara Manager                                                                         was murdered by Jammeh’s Gov’t Dr.Taal Enemy    Yahya Jammeh  Interior Minister Sonko  of  Freedom           wants Freedom    An Enemy of Freedom Newspaper              staffers murdered The exiled Freedom Newspaper Editor, cum Daily Observer News Editor Omar Bah has for the [...]

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When you live by the sword, you die by it. Those who salute our worldwide aggression won’t be surprised when it is returned. It will be returned shortly, and not by al Qaeda. The world is almost fed up with us, and that includes “enemies” like most of the European Union, Mexico, Canada, Russia, and [...]

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Ford Motor Co., the second-largest U.S. automaker, said its U.S. sales fell 13 percent last month. DaimlerChrysler AG also reported a decline. Ford said in a statement today that it sold 233,621 cars and trucks last month, a drop from 267,881 a year earlier. U.S. sales for DaimlerChrysler fell 1 percent to 218,530 vehicles, including [...]

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While the rest of Europe is going for cultural suicide by relativating themselves out of existence, no such thing it likely to happen soon to the Greeks. Last week, Hellenic Television reported that the Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyiannis had sent a “stark message to Skopje” with regard to the new name of Skopje Airport, [...]

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In yet the latest of German electronics giant Siemens’ never-ending string of corruption scandals, state prosecutors in Nuremberg are now investigating the company on suspicion of having less than honorable intentions in its connection with the failed U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq. Prosecutors are investigating claims that Siemens paid “a six-figure sum” as a bribe [...]

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Coming to San Diego, June 29–December 31, 2007! While the scrolls have been exhibited in the U.S. before, Dead Sea Scrolls will be the most comprehensive exhibition of the scrolls ever assembled, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Dead Sea Scrolls was created by the San Diego Natural History Museum for the Museum specifically, and will not travel [...]

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The bag of non-violent tactics used by the jihadists is deep indeed. Over the last few decades they have perfected a series of effective Jihads against the non-Muslim world while it slumbered in its political correct dream world. There are many Jihads the Islamists use and they all support their ultimate goal – an Islamic [...]

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One does not need to look much farther than the Newspapers in the USA to understand why we may lose this war against Islamist fascism and terrorism. At the very least, the Kansas City Star’s Mary Sanchez displays her desire to condemn everything American and to make excuses for Muslim terrorists. Using the “six imams [...]

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Whale conservationists are trying to disrupt  ”criminal” Japanese whaling operations in the Southern Ocean. The Sea Shepherd Society’s Paul Watson rejects calls for both sides to show restraint, saying “You don’t use restraint against criminals.” The Japanese whalers will kill more than 1,000 minke whales illegally in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary.  The whalers also [...]

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Same-sex couples may very well lose their ability to be married legally in Massachusetts, currently the only state in America which allows that right at this time. State legislators in Massachusetts voted to advance a constitutional amendment which would define marriage as between “one man and one woman” and also ban gay marriage. This narrowly-passed [...]

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One of the pleasures of the internet is that one makes new friends at long distance (to replace at my age) the dear friends that one has been startled to learn have left this world.  The other side of this coin, however, is that one can be targeted by angry ones whom one has offended. [...]

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Very cool news from Toyota: The company is developing a car that could detect drunk driving and shut down. From the AP story: “Cars fitted with the detection system will not start if sweat sensors in the driving wheel detect high levels of alcohol in the driver’s bloodstream, according to a report carried by the [...]

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As I reported on Newsbusters the Associated Press is refusing to back down from, nor give satisfactory evidence for, its November report that 6 Iraqi Sunnis were burned alive in sectarian violence, a claim heavily disputed seemingly by everyone but the AP. The AP based their reports of this grisly violence on the word of [...]

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News Item: A UFO at O’Hare? A group of United Airlines employees in Chicago may be starting to believe that Mulder and Scully of the defunct X-files TV series may have been onto something.  Ground crews at O’Hare reported a saucer shaped craft hovering over the airport, and some pilots backed up their claim, saying [...]

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In yet the latest of German electronics giant Siemens’ never-ending string of corruption scandals, state prosecutors in Nuremberg are now investigating the company on suspicion of having less than honorable intentions in its connection with the failed U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq. Prosecutors are investigating claims that Siemens paid “a six-figure sum” as a bribe [...]

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I’ve seen a lot written about Medical Identity Theft. BusinessWeek online did a pretty extensive article about it. Apparently, individual fraudsters aren’t the only ones involved in this growing problem. Organized criminals seem to be getting involved in the activity, probably because it’s a “very profitable” enterprise with little danger of getting caught. And whenever [...]

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New UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, began his new tenure cautiously on Tuesday. When asked for comment, the Secretary General did not criticize Iraq’s death by hanging of Saddam Hussein. “The issue of capital punishment is for each and every member state to decide,” said Ban, inviting speculation on the UN’s position on the death [...]

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The small readership of most blogs would strongly suggest that no blogs other that the top three or four could possibly have much influence on anything. That however overlooks something: Google and other search engines. Because they are heavily interlinked (well over 1,000 other blogs link to my main one) blogs tend to have a [...]

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It is quieter in Guangzhou these days because of the ban on motorcycles and Scooters. I feel a bit better now knowing that some “清兵“ Qing Bing Rider–this is the Cantonese equivalent of a Kami Kaze meaning “Qing Warrior” as they were the ones who were first to rush into battle and die–is not going [...]

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