Rotten Eggs
The Question Time for the Prime Minister of Ukraine was never like this before but this week saw angry MPs throwing eggs, throwing punches, and even letting off smoke bombs. I’m sure Gordon Brown is happy to not be the PM for Ukraine right now – as large fights are going on inside parliament there. [...]
Thousands of anti-government protesters have once again brought Thailand’s capital to a standstill, as they seek to unseat a leadership — led by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva — they say is illegitimate and undemocratic. They support Thaksin Shinawatra, who was prime minister from 2001 to 2006. But Shinawatra was ousted in a bloodless coup in [...]
Yikes. Here are a few of his other recent achievements: quitting his job as Prime Minister 3 times forgetting his country’s national anthem insulting most of the population by calling them lazy or stupid Yesterday Prime Minister Yves Leterme threw in the towel for a third time, plunging Belgium into a another existential crisis. Things [...]
According to a recent pole by a UK think tank the UK needs a radical reassessment in world politics – according to stats, some 88% of people agreed with this statement. The people polled were from the security and defence community and the numbers were around 2000 people. The poll was done by the Royal [...]
Life insurance health classification is calculated by underwriters who assess your application to determine what kind of premium you will pay. Life insurance is not a mandatory insurance. It is considered risk insurance. So underwriters must create a risk profile to determine if an applicant will be a high risk or a low risk for [...]
Gordon Brown hasn’t really talked about what he might be doing after his time as Prime Minister. But recently he mentioned he planned on doing charity and voluntary work in the future – this after polls are showing Brown behind David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Brown corrected himself saying that, of course, he had an [...]
THAI army troops fired live rounds at anti-government Red Shirt protesters in the heart of Thailand’s capital yesterday, injuring more than 70 in a dramatic escalation of the month-long stand-off between demonstrators and security forces. That quote is from the Sydney Morning Herald. Apparently 93 people (22 of which were soldiers) had to be transported [...]
Thailand is being watched by media around the globe again because of turmoil in the country. This weekend saw continued violence in the country after a month long standoff between the Thai government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the many Red Shirt protesters. In fact there are hundreds of thousands of them. Most of [...]
On the afternoon of April 12, US President Roosevelt died. He said, “I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.” And then he slumped forward in his chair, unconscious, and was carried into his bedroom. The president’s attending doctor, Dr. Howard Bruenn, diagnosed a massive stroke. At 3:35 p.m. that day, Roosevelt [...]
Johann Georg Elser, born on January 4 1903, was a German opponent of the Nazis. He will be forever remembered for the unsuccessful attempt to kill Hitler in 1939. He died on this day in 1945. He was killed by gunshot at the Dachau concentration camp only a couple of weeks before the end of [...]
On April 8, 1950 Pakistan and India signed the Liaquat–Nehru Pact. It was signed between Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan in New Delhi. At the time of independence, many communal riots broke out in different areas of Pakistan and India. These riots had a great impact on the [...]
On this day in 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson urges the US Congress to declare on Germany during World War I. Gentlemen of the Congress: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally [...]
These aren’t made. If you want silly April Fools news head to be one of the other sites. These are all political events that happend on the 1st of April though: In 1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scotland from England. In 1789 the United States House of Representatives elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as [...]
On March 27, 1854, The UK declares war on the Russia Empire. The British Empire was joined by the kingdom of Sardinia, the Duchy of Nassau, the French Empire, and the Ottoman Empire among others to taken on the Russians. As the Ottoman Empire began to decline the major powers of Britain and Russia wanted [...]
On March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization starts their air bombardment campaign on Yugoslavia, making it the first time in history that NATO has attacked a sovereign country. Yugoslav forces and Albanian militants continue to battle as a large portion of the population of Kosovo is displaced. It’s said that close to 1 [...]
On March 19, 2003, in Washington DC, George W. Bush announced that US war against Iraq. His address went on to talk about the following points: -the campaign will be “broad and concerted” and will also use “decisive force” against the enemies -everything will be done to spare the lives of innocent Iraqis -the freedom [...]
