The Germans have suddenly discovered a very modern use for their history: “Germany intends to introduce a Europe-wide law banning the display of Nazi symbols and making denial of the Holocaust a crime to fulfil its “historical obligation” 62 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Brigitte Zypries, the Justice Minister, will today outline plans to [...]

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Editorial  By William Church     It has been about a year since I first sat in the living room of Paul Rusesabagina’s house outside of Brussels. Prior to that meeting, I had interviewed Terry George, the director of Hotel Rwanda, Linda Melvern, the well-known genocide researcher, Rwandans who had been at Hotel Milles des [...]

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Gambia’s leading, fearless and most outspoken politician Lamin Waa Juwara has accuses the UDP/NRP led Alliance of trying to “kill NADD as a legitimate and credible” political party in the Gambia by sponsoring National Assembly candidate in Serre-Kunda Central Halifa Sallah’s main base and elsewhere across the impoverished West African country.”They are just spoilers. They [...]

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Horomsi:Private company owners in the Gambia have accused President Yahya Jammeh of “forcing them to extend financial help to his government.” during his so called victory celebrations. The concerned business executives said they were made to contribute several thousands of Dalasis or risk being termed as anti-government establishments. Most of the monies collected went into [...]

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A Review of Ebrima Ceesay’s Book By Dr. Abdoulaye Saine Ebrima Ceesay, The Military and Democratization in The Gambia: 1994-2003, USA, Canada, UK and Ireland: Trafford Publishing, 2006, $34. 70, (pp.345). The academic literature on The Gambia has once more been greatly enriched by the recent publication of Ebrima CeesayÂ’s book, The Military and Democratization [...]

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Waa’s Campaign for APRC Candidate: My Analysis; Not a Judgment By Yankuba Jambang,Associate Editor The news of Lamin Waa Juwara’s campaign for the ruling APRC candidate, Essa Saidykhan came as a surprise to many people. Well, politics is full of surprises; politics is also not only confined to participating parties but can includes individual politicians of different [...]

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Iraqi President Talabani is continuing to show a pro-active stance in Iraqi foreign policy. Following the official return of diplomatic ties with Syria in November, the President is now meeting with his Syrian counterpart in Damascus. Syria is a vital player in the region and, over the years, has had important relations with Iran: the [...]

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Poll results are part of commemoration of CAF’s 50th anniversary By Amin George Forji    The Confederation of African Football (CAF) as part of festivities to mark its 50th anniversary on Feb. 8th has published the names of what it calls the 30 best African players in the last 50 years in the continent from [...]

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Scientists in the UK have genetically modified chickens to that can lay eggs capable of producing proteins used in cancer drugs. The birds were created by the Roslin Institute, which also created the lamb Dolly ten years ago.It is not the first time scientists attempted to use animals, or animal products, as “drug factories”. In [...]

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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. —     There isnt, and should not be so. As absurd as that question sounds, equally absurd questions are being raised by the Social [...]

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“You have to get permission from the government to do almost anything. If that is the definition of a police state, that you can’t do anything unless the government gives you permission, then we’re well on our way.” This is the complete text of a very brief video clip; the speaker is Republican Congressman Ron [...]

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By A Staff Writer Ebrima Dibba, a former Security officer attached to Gambia’s firebrand politician Lamin Waa has accused his former political mentor and colleague Mbarodi of being a “political prostitute who is at this hour trying to sell himself to the Ruling Party.” Dibba who is based in Washington Seattle, also a strong supporter [...]

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As all of us involved in Scientology know, our church opened up a wonderfully spacious new center in Berlin yesterday. About 1,000 guests were present at the dedication ceremony held inside the huge, six-story building in Charlottenburg, among them Hollywood actress and fellow scientologist Anne Archer as well as numerous spies and informants working for [...]

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Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer of California was her usual bitter self last Thursday during the debate over Iraq, attacking Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for being a childless woman. Boxer implied that Rice, because she had no children, could not understand the sacrifices made by families of U.S. troops in Iraq and that Rice didn’t [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog It seems not even New Zealand is being spared from creeping Sharia law. Muslim women there are seeking their own swimming pools. There are calls for special pool facilities to be set up for Muslim women so they can swim without compromising their religious beliefs. Naaz Shah of Christchurch said [...]

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   By A Staff Writer Senegalese are morning the death of their national who tried to stowaway in a Delta Airline plane bound for Atlanta, Georgia, the Freedom Newspaper can authoritatively reveal. The deceased whose identity is yet to be released by the US Aviation Authorities was found lying dead in the wheel of a  [...]

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“To oppose everything while proposing nothing is irresponsible” The thing I find the most disheartening about the current political situation is lack of what I would call responsible dissent. We have plenty of dissent, yet most of it is not “responsible”. Dissent is a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to an idea (e.g. [...]

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In a move that throws all claims of being fair and balanced out the window, CNN has hired a polling company owned by a long time activist for the Clintons as their newest polling organization to track the 2008 election cycle. Any guesses who THIS polling company will say is “winning”? CNN has announced that [...]

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[Today's NY Times editorial (below) spells out the disasters that we Americans have created in the Middle East -- two levels of civil wars -- one within Iraq, the other developing between regional Shiites and Sunnis -- both directed against the U.S. as the stimulus of this chaos and as on-going tormentor of the hundreds [...]

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Has anyone heard what Bill Gates thinks of this? No Vista, No Windows XP not even Office 2007 with a market of millions of potential customers learning about life on the computer sans Microsoft and never mind Steve Jobs. America’s prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT as it’s most commonly known, is teaming up with [...]

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