While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people…

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As NATO formally ended its military campaign in Libya, Al Qaeda flag was proudly flying on Libyan roof tops. It was not flying just on ordinary roof tops – it was seen flying on the roof of Benghazi’s courthouse, the birthplace of the Libyan revolution and where the new rulers have imposed Sharia law since […]

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As the world is playing catch with the events in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and other Arab Spring focal points, Iran is very busy.
Trying to keep people oppressed in light of Arab Spring revolutions surely keeps the regime in Iran occupied. But more than that, viewing once strongman like Mubarak and Gadaffi defeated, jailed humiliated […]

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It’s been 8 months since Arab Spring revolution swept Egypt and led to the end of Mubarak’s regime.
The uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in February has hammered the economy and sparked a wave of sectarian and other violence that the ruling army and its interim cabinet has struggled to control.
Fearing the radical Islamic movement of […]

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It was a cute photo, so I place it on my blog. a great photo of a happy young teenager holding a water sprayer, somewhat wet herself, and smiling happily.
There is enough bad news in the world, so I like to post stuff that reminds us that not all of life is war and […]

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Will the hiring policies of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia result in the loss of jobs for Filipino and Indonesian maids?
Last week, the Indonesian government was upset when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia beheaded a maid working there for murder.
From RaissaRobles‘ webpage:
Saudi authorities had refused to give Indonesian diplomats access to Ruyati Binti Sapubi because […]

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 The man was well until his wife baked him a “healthy recipe” from the NYTimes “Healthy recipe section: Fava bean and artichoke stew.
He soon became pale and jaundiced, and it took awhile for the ER doc to figure out why the man was sick. He had an acute hemolytic crisis, where his red blood cells […]

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It was called “Operation Vengence”.
He had ordered the deaths of thousands of Americans using airplanes, and alerted the average American that a war of civilizations was now endangering them.
Therefore, the president used secret intelligence networks to find where the mastermind was hiding. And after some discussions, the president approved of the mission tasked to kill […]

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Like all Americans, I am happy that the terrorist leader Osama Ben Laden has been killed.
Yes, as a Catholic Christian I pray for his soul, but unlike Time Magazine, I believe in hell, especially since there is no evidence that he repented his murders of the innocent on three continents.
Yet shortly after the announcement, my […]

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By Jefferson Flanders
The reasons for American disagreement over President Barack Obama’s decision to go to war in Libya can be found in historical and fundamental differences over the proper role of the United States in world affairs.
While it’s easy to see any argument over US foreign policy in the traditional terms of internationalists versus isolationists, […]

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I’ve been too busy to watch the US news on our cable network, but the BBC reports are mainly about the fighting in Libya.
But here in the Philippines, the headlines are about our workers. You see, there are at least 25,000 Filipino OFW’s (”overseas foreign workers”) in Libya, and although the government has arranged a […]

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The temporary shutdown in Egypt of Internet and other telecommunication services, as well as similar interruptions in other Middle East countries experiencing large-scale protests and rebellions, has galvanized hackers and human rights activists as well as U.S. foreign policy makers. The consequences may be not be what anyone expected.
The technologies for secure, private, fault tolerant […]

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While the US headlines were full of Charlie Sheen’s rants and news of labor union protests in Wisconsin,  here in the Philippines, the headlines are about our stranded OFW (overseas foreign workers) in Libya.
Every paper has photos of those who escaped arriving at the Manila airport, and the Philippine Inquirer notes that the government arranged […]

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By Shimon Z. Klein,
Bat Hefer
 

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Now the unrest has reached Libya. Muammer Qaddafi, Libya’s unpredictable maverick tyrant, whose sanity is questionable, is in deep trouble. His cruelty and autocracy, unchallenged for over 40 years, is now on the firing line.
Qaddafi, the maverick and unchallenged dictator, had maintained a “divide and rule” policy […]

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FreeMediaOnline.orgTruckee, CA, USA, February 21, 2011 — As reported by PiratesWeek and Kim Andrew Elliott, a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee who publishes his own private international broadcasting website, the BBG-managed Voice of America (VOA) websites were hacked on February 21, 2011, apparently by the “Iranian Cyber Army.” In 2009, VOA websites were […]

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Protesters fed up with political repression, corruption and poverty have toppled the government of Tunisia. They threaten to do the same in other countries throughout the Middle East as pundits hail the “Twitter and Facebook revolution”. But repressive governments have as much compunction about shutting down communication services as they do about torturing dissidents. Egypt […]

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What is going on in Egypt may have little to do Islamic fundamentalism or democracy per se.
It is probably the result of many factors, and many of us will probably compare the demonstrations to the uprising in Iran against the Shah.
Egypt’s government is corrupt, and the US has been propping up that regime for […]

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By William ChurchDirectorPalestine Israel Media Analysis Group (PIMAG)A stealth, seismic shift occurred October 22 in Jerusalem at the Conference on the Future of the Jewish People.  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the conference and suggested that there will be no troop withdrawal in the West Bank even after a peace deal.  He also re-enforced […]

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A lot of nonsense being written about Afghanistan: Some see it as a hopeless war, but the dirty little secret is that Afghanistan is about protecting India and the Silk Road (the central Asian countries with their oil and gas resources) for India and China.
But what to do about Afghanistan? It’s not true that it […]

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Tomorrow is the ninth anniversary of an event which none can argue, changed our nation. Furthermore, it changed the lives of many families around our nation forever, as they slowly realized that their loved one(s) were not coming home. As we went from shock, to disbelief, to fear, and then to anger, we were forced […]

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If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words:

“Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people.

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Written By: John Sullivan
The Palestinian terror organization Hamas, in their refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist, is determined to railroad any peace treaty that may be attained from talks that started this Thursday. Dismissing Hamas is not an easy adventure, this week they executed back to back attacks on Israelis in the West Bank. […]

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With all the hyperbolic political rhetoric in the blogosphere, one wonders if the American people are indeed “having a temper tantrum”.
Or maybe the patience of the American people with political correctness is now finished.
Example one: After years of the American public watching news reports of suicide bombings,  or lashing raped women, destroying Hindu temples and […]

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The Taliban did it again. Killed a medical team whose only crime was to travel into isolated areas to treat eye disease.
Their “crime”? They were supposedly being “spies”, even though only a few of the medical team were Americans. Oh yes: And they were (gasp) Christians. Can’t have that, can we. Kill the infidel. Never […]

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There is a minor kerfuffle in the right wing blogs about Michael Bellesiles being caught publishing fiction as truth.
The right wing has it in for Bellesiles, since he once faked data on gun ownership in early America, trying to prove no one owned guns then (and ergo the second amendment was meant to refer to […]

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A couple weeks ago, I ran across a strange story about Zimbabwe: a couple of known terrorists were caught crossing the border from Zimbabwe into South Africa at Beitbridge.
33 year-old Imran Muhammad…was arrested last Sunday while trying to get through Beitbridge border post to South Africa on what officials believe was a fake Kenyan […]

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I can see the outrage by animals lovers everywhere after they read the  AP headline:
Baghdad kills 58,000 stray dogs in 3-month span
It’s all about rabies.
One reason that Islam says that dogs are “unclean” was because stray dogs carry rabies and other diseases. (These edicts did not go against hunting or watch dogs, by the […]

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Since I started blogging back in 2004, one the topics I’ve covered pretty extensively is the abuse and neglect of children.  I’ve covered topics where I thought children were exploited in our consumer culture, children were abused or neglected by their parents or stories in which parenting is supplanted […]

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I was bemused when a minor lambast against “pacifists” trying to start a war against Israel led to this comment:
“…the Israelis steadfastly refuse to publish a list of allowed goods and appear to change their minds daily on what is allowed. Eg. Hair conditioner is banned at the moment…”
Oh my, no wonder the people in […]

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William Churchwestbankvoices@gmail.comOn 13 April 2010, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Order 1650 (Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration) went into effect.  Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups have predicted mass deportation of Palestinians.  The Israeli government’s public relations machine has gone into high gear spinning the order as a beneficial human rights move and they claim only […]

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