Autism Sunday falls on Sunday 13th February this year. Cathedrals, churches, organisations, community groups will be marking Autism Sunday with church services and autism awareness raising events around the world.
Autism Sunday was launched in 2002 by British parents and carers, Ivan and Charika Corea. What was a small acorn of an idea hatched in their […]

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Peace on Earth, Goodwill to men…except in the headlines.
You see headlines about NATO troops killed in Afghanistan. Yes, that nasty war is still going on. But the headlines don’t put it into perspective: the Taliban wants to stop education of girls, and any western type education for anyone. But the headlines don’t talk about positive […]

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China has already used it’s economic clout to intimidate many countries to boycott the Nobel Prize cermony that honors their poet Liu Xiaobo.
This boycott has gotten them criticism from some human rights groups, including those in our Philippines.
The ability and willingness of China to use it’s economic clout for political purposes is a very important […]

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As an Asian, I am aghast that Thomas Friedman is picking up the propaganda line coming out of China and disseminating it on the New York Times editorial page.
From today’s editorial:
What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could see what its embassy in Washington was reporting about America?
Reality check:
China would jail anyone who even […]

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by Ted Lipien
Opinia.US Truckee, CA, November 29, 2010 — Leaked secret State Department cables may help to resolve the mystery as to why President Obama chose September 17, 2009 to make his announcement on canceling President Bush’s missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. The announcement pleased the Kremlin, which had been pushing […]

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TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, November 13, 2010 — Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute in Seattle has asked all the right questions about a recent Russian media report suggesting that Russian killers have been dispatched to the United States to execute a former Russian spy. He had supposedly betrayed the ring of Russian “illegals” recently […]

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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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I love how Tom Friedman in the NYTimes lectures his US readers on “how the Chinese see us” by relating a skit on China’s government owned TV station where children were taught to ridicule the US:
China’s CCTV aired a skit showing four children… getting ready to run a race. Before they take off, the […]

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I abhor the anti Muslim bigotry that lies behind the entire kerfuffle about some bigoted “pastor” getting his ten minutes of worldwide fame threatening to burn a Koran.
We Catholics put up with this type of ignorance for the last 250 years in the US. In the past, they picketed May processions/fiestas, telling us we are […]

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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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The so called “Ground Zero Mosque” (the real name of the project is Park 51) is proposed as a 15-story Islamic Community Center containing a mosque, a swimming pool, and a 500-seat auditorium. Detractors first called the project the “WTC Mosque” but then someone came up with the name “Ground Zero Mosque” because that name […]

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Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, a former president of Chicago Theological Seminary and current senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, writes in the Washington Post today that fighting against the mosque in “Lower Manhattan” translates into an attempt to deny American Moslems the basic religious freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution.
“It is crucial that Americans […]

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Follow the money. Yes, that’s right, follow the money.
You really didn’t think that the “Wikileaks” scheme was about being anti war, did you?
From ZDNET, a computer related website:
…Wikileaks founder Julian Assange…(is) now blackmailing Amnesty International and other human rights groups for $700,000 to remove names of Afghan civilians who might get killed by […]

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(London, UK) The UK Autism Foundation is backing a new Autism Consultation launched by Care Services Minister Paul Burstow and Her Majesty’s Government. The Department of Health Consultation titled - ‘Implementing Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives’ is aimed at improving are services and healthcare outcomes for adults with autism in England.
The UK Autism Foundation is fully […]

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(London,UK) British autism campaigners have formed a new autism partnership urging the UK Government to act on autism.
The campaigners have launched a new website urging people in the United Kingdom to support the petition on autism - for further information on how UK citizens can support the ACT NOW Petition, please access the ACT […]

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Reporters are busy reporting the story of the day, but often they miss the big picture, preferring to report stories as a race horse betting game.
Example: Michael Steele said that Afghanistan is the President’s war. What will Rush say? Will that make Obama’s popularity poll go up or down?
Time out, fellahs. Because a lot of […]

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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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General Mc Chrystal has committed a major breech in protocol when he openly criticized the President and the President’s plans for Afghanistan in an interview in the Rolling Stone.
For the sake of our democracy, such behavior cannot be tolerated.
He needs to be relieved from duty.
Why do I say this?
No, I am not a pacifist, and […]

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(London, UK) Parliamentarians in the House of Commons have come out supporting autism campaigners who are calling on Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron to ‘keep the promise,’ that he will protect the vulnerable. MPs of all parties are currently backing early day motion 153 in Westminster, calling on the new Coalition Government to provide help […]

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The Middle East figures Obama is a patsy and is vieing for who can hate Israel the most (the reborn Ottoman Empire, or the reborn Persian Empire?).
At the same time, Obama’s oil spill policy gets ripped in the Rolling Stone of all places.
There go the baby boomers.
Time for a distraction, folks.
Certain bloggers […]

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(London, UK) Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron has been asked to keep his promise to protect the vulnerable from the cuts to public services. The UK Autism Foundation has launched a ‘Keep The Promise Autism Awareness Campaign’ urging the Coalition Government to help and support parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
David […]

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“A short visit to the U S is enough to convince one that wealth, competition, and free institutions provide no safeguards against the prevalence of appalling standards not only of environment in city and suburb but also in journalism and broadcasting entertainment. The opportunities for increasing social welfare through raising standards of taste and appreciation […]

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As we begin to edge closer to the midterm elections this fall, an obvious pattern is beginning to develop. Anti-incumbent sentiment is at an all-time high, and rightfully so. Unfortunately, it seems that when the people of our nation are dissatisfied with the party holding power, they tend to go to extremes in the other […]

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Moore made some money making the movie "Sicko", which extolled the virtues of the Cuban health care system, such as it is.  Margaret Chan might be trying to do the same for the North Korean one.
GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea’s health system would be the envy of many developing countries because of the abundance of […]

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by William ChurchEditor West Bank VoicesThe newspaper headlines are full of talk of President Obama putting pressure on Israel’s Netanyahu to halt the settlements in East Jerusalem and restart the peace negotiations.   In reality, Israeli internal politics leaves very little room for a solution regardless of actions by the United States.Last month Israel shook the potential […]

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ITV will televise the first British Leaders’ election debate fom the Granada Television Studio in Manchester. The Granada Television Headquarters is rich in British television history and is the home of the soap ‘Coronation Street.’ The prime ministerial debate will pit the three leaders Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg against each other - […]

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The three political leaders - Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg recently spoke out on Autism.
Gordon Brown recently said:“Too often people with autism don’t reach their full potential because those around them do not understand the condition. On United Nations World Autism Awareness Day, everyone should challenge their perceptions. I don’t find it […]

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(London, UK) Autism campaigners in the United Kingdom have urged the three party political leaders - Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg to take decisive action on Autism on World Autism Awareness Day.
The UK Autism Foundation has asked Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to share their Autism Plans in the run up […]

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“Just saw a commrcl 4 EarthHour Mar 27…going 2leave my lights on that whole hour” -Join us! Let’s show Al Gore and all the other Global Warming nuts that they can take their theory and …well, shove it!

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