What Fuels America’s Love of Guns?
Why does the topic of guns arouse so much animosity and controversy in America?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp4N1Gwx_nA
President Obama’s Victory Speech and U.S. Election Results
MITT ROMNEY’s CONCESSION SPEECH
INTERACTIVE MAP OF ELECTION RESULTS:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/11/us-election-2012-0
Netanyahu: World Should Draw “Red Line” on Iran Nuclear Weapons
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19746994
The master orator, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Iran and Islam. Bibi was his usual dramatic self, speaking while holding up an image of a bomb with a fuse, and drawing a red line under the bomb’s fuse to indicate the red line – representing the last chance to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon (the middle of 2013).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhaUVmYBXD0
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/27/world/new-york-unga/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/27/netanyahu-abbas-un-general-assembly-live
US State Department Report on Murtala Muhammed
http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve06/d208
A very unflattering report on Nigeria’s former leader General Murtala Muhammed written by the the American State Department shortly after Murtala came to power in 1975.
This is a memorandum sent to the US Secretary of State. The memo described Murtala Muhammed as “an erratic, vainglorious, impetuous, corrupt, vindictive, intelligent, articulate, daring Hausa”. Ouch. Not very flattering.
America Welcomes Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa of Nigeria, July 1961: 25-28
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/USG-1H.aspx
Motion picture covering the official state visit of Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa of Nigeria to the United States, including welcoming remarks by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Prime Minister’s response, events with President John F. Kennedy, an address by the Prime Minister at the Capitol, stops at other sites in Washington, D.C., and stops in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Illinois, Knoxville, Tennessee, and New York City.
Former Liberian Leader Samuel Doe – America’s “Step Child”
Great documentary series on how America supported former Liberian President Samuel Doe. It chronicles the 1980 coup in which soldiers overthrew, killed and disembowelled the former President William Tolbert. Master Sergeant Samuel Doe (as he then was) succeeded Tolbert as Liberia’s Head of State.
American Soldier Shoots Dead 16 Civilians in Afghanistan
An American soldier in Afghanistan went on a killing spree, going from house to house and killing 16 Afghan civilians who were sleeping in their beds. He apparently then calmly returned to his base and turned himself in.
US Army to Train Nigerian Army
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/08/nigerian-taliban-us-boko-haram?newsfeed=true
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/u-s-troops-nigeria/
The U.S. army is to provide counter-insurgency training to the Nigerian army. This is probably linked to the increasingly deadly attacks by Boko Haram.
President Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate
Surprise, surprise – the President of the USA is actually….American! His birth certificate is below:
