Monday, August 8, 2011

In News Reports, 'Doom and Gloom' Abound - Business - The Atlantic Wire

In News Reports, 'Doom and Gloom' Abound - Business - The Atlantic Wire: "Excuse us while we interrupt your regularly scheduled doom and gloom,' Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal wrote yesterday. He was cheekily reporting some positive trends in the construction industry, contrasting them with the overwhelmingly poor news in stock markets. But forget stock markets, he could have just as easily been referring to the regularly scheduled instances readers will encounter that phrase--'doom and gloom'--in the news this week"

Monday, August 1, 2011

Jihadis Threaten Belgium Over Burqa Ban -

Jihadis Threaten Belgium Over Burqa Ban -: "A terrorism-monitoring organization said Friday that jihadists are threatening Belgium with terrorism for having imposed a burqa ban.

In an email to subscribers, the United States-based SITE Monitoring Service quoted posts on jihadist internet sites as urging the bombing, torture and killing of Belgians. In its introduction to the posts, SITE made no assessment of the severity of the threat."