The officials at the Gambian Mission in the United Kingdom led by Tamsir Jallow should resign if they feel that they cannot serve the Gambian public overseas. Samba Sarr’s complaint against Embassy officials is one out of thousand of cases. For a longtime, Embassy officials in Washington DC and in the UK have been [...]

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By Samba Sarr   Dear Editor,   Many thanks for your great job. This letter is to inform all Gambians about the corruption in the Gambia Embassy in London. On Tuesday January 1st 2007, after making an enquiry whether the Embassy will be open, I  was told by the Secretary that yes it was an [...]

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Majmouth Diop head of the PAI (Parti Africain de L’Independence) says…”Casamance should be treated as the priority of all priorities”. Majmouth Diop head of a vibrant political party a respected Intellectual in Senegal and beyond was reacting to the recent killing (beheading) of Late Oumar Lamine Badji(President du conseil regional de Ziguanchor). Diop in a [...]

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By Our Senior Staff Writer Once again the blood of innocent citizens of Senegal has been spilled on Senegalese soil by Casamance seperatists. The latest victim is Late Oumar Lamine Badji(President du conseil regional de Ziguanchor),a local authority and representative of the ruling party of Senegal PDS. The killing of Badji at the end of the year [...]

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The officials at the Gambian Mission in the United Kingdom led by Tamsir Jallow should resign if they feel that they cannot serve the Gambian public overseas. Samba Sarr’s complaint against Embassy officials is one out of thousand of cases. For a longtime, Embassy officials in Washington DC and in the UK have been accused [...]

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I have to give the AP credit for making this story as straightforward as it is, even if you can see the writer laughing his butt off if you read between the lines. Pat Robertson has predicted a major terrorist attack on the U.S. in late 2007. The best paragraphs come at the end: “Predicting [...]

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Pat Robertson’s real name is Marion Gordon Robertson. Regardless of whatever name he goes by, he needs to not talk as much. In what is becoming a tradition of increasingly more ridiculous and far-fetched “prophecies”, Pat Robertson has done it again. This year, Pat is convinced that God told him that there will be a [...]

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When you live by the sword, you die by it. Those who salute our worldwide aggression won’t be surprised when it is returned. It will be returned shortly, and not by al Qaeda. The world is almost fed up with us, and that includes “enemies” like most of the European Union, Mexico, Canada, Russia, and [...]

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Saddam Hussein was executed on December 29th, 2006. This is not news to anyone. There have been a rash of articles on this site examining this action, the media reaction, and general questions left behind in the wake of his death (articles by Dmitri Marine, Warner Todd Huston, Ed Kent, whymrhymer, prying1, yossarin, zzsimonb, Robert [...]

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The ethanol band-wagon might have a flat tire.  Many people are beginning to realize the  economics of ethanol production and use are more complicated than they’ve been told.  They might even begin to think they wouldn’t solve the fundamental problem: a society shaped by an addiction to the automobile. We’ve been told using ethanol – [...]

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This morning, Voice of America reported 3,000 Americans have died in the Iraqi War The Internet and the print media are abuzz that President Bush’s administration will “surge” 30,000 more troops into the conflict particularly into the cauldron of Baghdad and critics are busily pointing out there are many as yet unresolved questions especially about [...]

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New UN Sec. Gen. Promise vows to end mistrust of world body at take-over In accordance with the established tradition of the UN, the body’s new UN Sec. Gen, in the person of Ban Ki-Moon, officially started his tenure on the 1st of Jan. 2007, 24hours after his predecessor, Kofi Annan stepped down. Since New Years [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —  We are now told that Moninder Singh Pandher, the businessman accused of sexually assaulting and killing at least 17 children in Noida, [...]

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Technology is all around us. This review is being written as I sit in front of my computer with a cell phone in one pocket and an iPod in the other. By the time you read this, it was sent by email to the website, where it was formatted and spell-checked and converted and about [...]

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My dad always used to tell me that “the only person you can control is yourself.” That is also a statement that Greg Boyd would be quick to acknowledge is one of the truths at the core of his newest book. In The Myth Of A Christian Nation, Boyd jumps to the forefront of the [...]

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While I was watching and listening to the funeral of former President Gerald Ford, I was following the funeral service in the Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer. Gerald Ford was an Episcopalian and the service was held in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC – an Episcopalian church. Since I was raised as an Episcopalian, [...]

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The ultimate justice. That is what we are lead to believe is being handed to the ‘bad guys’, specifically Saddam Hussein. Hussein was brought to stand trial for just one of the many cases against him, and was given swift deliverance. Hussein was hanged on December 30th 2006, given what some termed “the ultimate justice.” [...]

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In the past I’ve been critical of sites like MySpace for allowing 14-year-olds to join, posting personal information for all to see. Well, the New York Times reports the problem is getting worse in some ways: “Popular Web sites like YouTube and MySpace have hired the equivalent of school hallway monitors to police what visitors [...]

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Planet of the Vampires On a scientific mission to the planet Aura, the twin ships Argos and Galliot prepare to descend to the planets surface. As the descent turns problematic, communications with the Galliot are cut off and the automatic controls of the Argos go berserk raising the internal gravity on board to 40g’s. As [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog “Tablighi Jamaat missionaries may be encouraging African American recruits to break the law. Harkat ul-Mujahideen has boasted of training dozens of African American jihadists in its military camps. There is evidence that African American jihadists have died in both Afghanistan and Kashmir.” A little known religious group is training American [...]

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Although economists and market forces don’t seem to have figured it out yet, water is the world’s most valuable resource.  It’s essential for life, yet only 1 percent of all water is fresh and possibly available for consumption; another 2 percent is fresh, but it’s frozen in glaciers and the polar ice caps.  The rest [...]

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Those of us who live in NYC shudder at the thought of Giuliani as a U.S. president.  We saw this guy — notoriously incompetent as a Federal prosecutor — his cases were frequently thrown out of court — play the hate game between our diverse communities.  His father had been a low level enforcer for [...]

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The 12-country (or however many it is today) euro zone can expect some “substantial impulses” from the booming Germany economy, says Germany’s Bundesbank president Axel Weber. Germany’s annual growth rate for the whole of 2006 is expected to officially stand at around two-and-three-quarter percent, well above what was originally expected, and could possibly even finally [...]

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I don’t know how it escaped my attention for the past 30 years but every year since new year’s day in 1976, Lake Superior State University, Michigan’s smallest public university, has published a list of banished words — words that have been deemed misused, over-used or just plain useless. Without further ado, here is the [...]

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[The following report that just came in from the BBC indicates not only a way to get around drug patents to make medicines available at a affordable costs, but also urges university researchers NOT to sell their findings to drug companies. I wonder what Columbia's record is on this? Some medical researchers manifestly see their [...]

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[An email friend who cares greatly for Israel, but who has observed abuses there first hand of Palestinians, brought the following to my attention. She says that Boxer has attacked one of our most respected Arab Americans by this move against Basim Elkarra, an official of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations): http://www.cair-net.org/ What are we [...]

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This one isn’t. It still hasn’t stopped in Berlin, “poor but sexy” as it is. And in a way, the party hasn’t really stopped here since the World Cup euphoria got the Berliners and everybody else in the country walking upright again this summer. That’s why this year’s New Year’s Eve motto „Welcome 2007 – [...]

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  Implications of a British survey I have written at some length here about why the Jews have been hated for so long by so many but there is no doubt that, particularly among Leftists, that hatred goes back to the fact that Jews are both distinctive and successful — in a word: envy. Hatred [...]

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March 2006 I’d begun my year-end roundup back in early December. I was working on March’s nominees when my Mom passed away on December 6th. Though the roundup didn’t get finished before the end of the year, I’ll see if I can’t speed through the rest of it and get it done this week. All [...]

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We report when they get it wrong, and now we can report when they get it right… And it’s about time some American news source describes how well most of Iraq is doing since the US led overthrow of Saddam’s regime. It is a fact that escapes too many in the western media who’s only [...]

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AIDS is a growing epidemic in the world. There was a time when it was considered a “gay-only disease” but those days are gone. International agencies and world governments are working to solve this problem before a demographic nightmare takes place. However, the ACLU is on the case to push their usual agenda. The ACLU [...]

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