Today's headlines
- Wednesday, September 06 2006 @ 09:47 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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A selection of headlines from Yahoo News, with commentary added for flavor:
Lebanon says to break blockade in 48 hours
Lebanon threatens to break the Israeli blockade of arms shipments to Hezbollah
if Israel doesn't meet a deadline set by U.N. Secretary-general Kofi Annan.
Productivity slows, wages post increase
Let no good news go unshaded by bad spin: wages go up-hurray! But, productivity continues to go up, too. That should also be a Hurray! but that's not how the headline writer wanted you to react, is it?
US envoy says NKorea talks in bad way
No, the North Koreans aren't potty-mouths. Well, maybe so. But that's not what this AFP headline is trying to say. The talks with North Korea over their nuclear weapons program are stalled. What a surprise.
EU-Iran nuclear talks postponed
Another shocker. Iran postpones talks. Again. It's almost as if they're stalling for time or something. The U.N. should do something!
Germany says iran can't be allowed to harm U.N.
Actually, the U.N. does a pretty good job of harming itself without Iran's generous help to discredit the corrupt international organization.
Speaker warns Iraq has months to avert collapse
Buried in this story is the not insignificant event that command of the Iraqi armed forces would be transferred to the control of the elected Iraqi Prime Minister tomorrow. Of course, this couldn't be the headline. It's insufficiently dire.
Lebanon says to break blockade in 48 hours
Lebanon threatens to break the Israeli blockade of arms shipments to Hezbollah
if Israel doesn't meet a deadline set by U.N. Secretary-general Kofi Annan.
Productivity slows, wages post increase
Let no good news go unshaded by bad spin: wages go up-hurray! But, productivity continues to go up, too. That should also be a Hurray! but that's not how the headline writer wanted you to react, is it?
US envoy says NKorea talks in bad way
No, the North Koreans aren't potty-mouths. Well, maybe so. But that's not what this AFP headline is trying to say. The talks with North Korea over their nuclear weapons program are stalled. What a surprise.
EU-Iran nuclear talks postponed
Another shocker. Iran postpones talks. Again. It's almost as if they're stalling for time or something. The U.N. should do something!
Germany says iran can't be allowed to harm U.N.
Actually, the U.N. does a pretty good job of harming itself without Iran's generous help to discredit the corrupt international organization.
Speaker warns Iraq has months to avert collapse
Buried in this story is the not insignificant event that command of the Iraqi armed forces would be transferred to the control of the elected Iraqi Prime Minister tomorrow. Of course, this couldn't be the headline. It's insufficiently dire.