Recently named Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos is said to be working around the clock to avert Greek default on their sovereign debt obligations. Like recently minted Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, Lucas Papademos is a technocrat, heading Greece’s first coalition government in recent memory. Necessary austerity legislation is still wildly unpopular with the Greek […]
Read MoreThe Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is reportedly working out uncontrolled reentry scenarios for their ambitious probe the Phobos Grunt. The Phobos Grunt was intended to land on the Martian moon of Phobos, collect samples, and return to Earth all within a span of fifteen months; however, now the Roscosmos team responsible for the project is […]
Read MoreItalian President Giorgio Napolitano has called upon popular technocrat and Senator for life Mario Monti to form a government to tackle Italy’s growing sovereign debt crisis. Berlusconi’s party, the People of Liberty, promised to only cooperate for as long as it takes to pass through the necessary measures to reduce Italy’s $2.6 trillion public debt. […]
Read MoreSpoilers ahead. [Season 1, Episode 1 – ‘Winter is Coming’ Review and Synopsis] This episode was written by D.B. Weiss and David Van Patten. We join Daenerys on the road with her new husband Khal Drogo and his tribe, the peripatetic Dothraki. Ser Jorah Mormont accompanies Daenerys as her bodyguard/ link to […]
Read MoreVladmir Putin will transfer from the Prime Minister’s seat to the President’s in 2012 after current Russian President Medvedev’s term is over. Putin has often been quoted expressing his admiration and nostalgia for Russia’s past, and this has found expression in foreign policy overtures to form both bilateral unions, such as that proposed between Russia […]
Read MoreInternational attention is often focused on nuclear weapons development. Whether it is Iran or North Korea, the common concern typically centers around this very specific type of weapon of mass destruction, even when considering the threats posed to domestic security by terrorism. Chemical based weapons (CBW) and biological weapons (BW) pose as much as a […]
Read MoreSilvio Berlusconi’s resignation was accepted by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and it is likely that Mario Monti will succeed him. Berlusconi follows former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou as the latest casualty of the euro zone financial crisis. Berlusconi was unable to pass key financial austerity measures earlier this week, signaling a loss of a […]
Read MoreA professor at George Washington University medical school in Washington, D.C. has resigned following student complaints that the professor never showed up to class and that all the students enrolled received an A for essentially signing up for the course. The assertion that the professor did not show up for class should be taken in […]
Read MoreIn China an elderly female government official, nicknamed the ‘Land Granny’ by the press and convicted of corruption in a land development scandal, has been executed following the revelation of evidence of some $23 million made illicitly, mostly from bribes. Luo Yaping, an official at a land sub-bureau in the district of Fushun, used her […]
Read More