Posts Tagged ‘2000’

Putin Rejects Meeting With Erdogan At Paris Climate Conference

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a meeting with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Paris climate conference, as the dispute rages over Ankara’s downing of a Russian warplane. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists: “No meeting with Erdogan is planned. There is no discussion of such a meeting” Putin’s snub comes as the […]

Reporter for CNN suspended for criticizing US decision to ban refugees from Syria and Iraq

     A CNN correspondent has been suspended for two weeks after publicly criticizing the US House of Representatives’ decision to suspend a program allowing Syrian and Iraqi refugees to enter the United States. Elise Labott, a CNN global affairs correspondent tweeted: “House passes bill that could limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in […]

Researchers take two big steps toward quantum computing

A green beacon laser is sent from the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on La Palma to Tenerife. Credit: University of Vienna. (Phys.org)—”Spooky action at a distance,” Einstein’s famous, dismissive characterization of quantum entanglement, has long been established as a physical phenomenon, and researchers are keen to develop practical applications for entanglement including communication, encryption, and computing. […]

BBC’s Director of Television, Danny Cohen breaches BBC rules on impartiality

The BBC’s Director of Television, Danny Cohen, has called for Israel to be protected from cultural boycotts.   Cohen joined senior figures from the Parliamentary lobby groups, Conservative Friends of Israel and Labour Friends of Israel, in signing a letter published in the Guardian in October which claims that Israel is being singled out as […]

NASA Unveils Evidence Of Ancient Alien Structure In Kazakhstan

NASA have released satellite pictures taken high in the skies of Kazakhstan, of what appears to be a mysterious “ancient alien” type of technology on the ground believed to be over 8,000 years old.  The pictures reveal a colossal earthworks consisting of geometric figures of squares, crosses, lines and rings the size of football fields. Nytimes.com […]

Critics hammer ‘NYT’s Rudoren for daring to convey Palestinian experience

On Saturday, the New York Times changed its path. It published a superb account of the Palestinian experience in occupied East Jerusalem written by Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren. Go read the story for yourself, but it sought to capture the Palestinian view of occupation, beginning with a 44-year-old lecturer at Hebrew University who “shares […]

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