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By CEAR staff  Great Lakes Centre for Strategic Studies  Regional Risk Overview  The Great Lakes Region continues its slow but steady progress in all areas of the Pact on Peace, Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region (PSSDGLR). During the last four reporting periods Vol. 1.5 through Vol. 1.8, the […]
Guest Post by David DeGeest “In China many families live in extreme poverty. This is especially true of the mountain villages of the Guilin/Yangshuo area of Guangxi Province where many farm families live a meager existence on a bit of land. They struggle to pay the school fees for their children to go to the […]
China Hands, the expats who have spent several years here, all have one or more stories about questionable medical care in China. One visit to a traditional hospital and a diagnosis of “Palpitation of Hyperactivity of Fire due to Yin Deficiency,” or “Deafness Caused by Exogenous Wind-Evil,”or any other kind of malady for which you […]
In an op-ed piece that he wrote for Wednesday’s New York Times, former U.S. attorney David C. Iglesias believes that emails released by the Justice Department this week, confirm his suspicions that politics played a role in his dismissal.
Senate Democrats have put together a war spending bill that contains a provision that would direct President Bush to start bringing home troops from Iraq with the long term goal being a removal of all U.S. forces in a little over a year.
This oughta be fun… The day after President Bush proposed a way for the Congress to get information about the firings of 8 US Attorneys General and made it clear that he would fight any attempt to compel his staff to testify under oath, a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee voted to do just […]
PANORAMA with ‘Bulfaaleh’-Haruna Jammeh’s wife died out of shock! President Jammeh’s mother embarassed again! PresidentJammeh’s evil will stay with him during his life time and live after he dies. This morning I had to rush to Bwiam to collect information from a person who says she is so desperate and helpless. She is helpless because […]
PANORAMA with ‘Bulfaaleh’-Elton Oil Co,Amadou Samba,President Jammeh-Crude oil exposed again! Elton Oil Co deep secrets revealing President Jammeh’s dirty hands again! E D Jobe the manager of Elton oil company,Amadou Samba and Dr Tamsier Mbowe are related on the matrilineal side. Their mothers are from the same roots. ED Jobe and Amadou Samba plus President […]
PANORAMA with ‘Bulfaaleh’-E D Jobe Elton Oil,Dr Mbowe,Amadou Samba-deep secrets Jammeh exposed again! Who is Dr Mbowe The Gambia’s SOS For Health? Exactly as we promised Gambians home and abroad,we will never leave any stone unturned when it comes to detecting and exposing President Jammeh’s deceptive moves. President Jammeh is indeed not alone in these […]
High Commissioner Jalloh in Tel Aviv Presenting Credentials-Iran is President Jammeh’s close ally? By Hammadi Maasina,Security and Political Affairs Correspondent. As we are piecing this together HE High Commissioner Tamsier Jallow The Gambian envoy in the United Kingdom is presenting his letters of credentials in Tel Aviv Israel. Jallow’s image was captured on a Television network […]
War before and after lawlessness-Yahya Jammeh will face his fate sooner than we expect! Hammadi Maasina. Positive and negative are realities of life. Pessimism and optimism are off shoots of our mental exercise as people. The dangerous path is where the latter are excessive.Sometimes excessive pessimism breeds excessive negative thinking,whereas excessive optimism may also breed minds […]
Actor Woody Harrelson’s father died last week in his cell at the Supermax federal prison in Colorado. Prison officials said Charles Harrelson, 68, died from in his sleep on March 15. He was found unresponsive in his cell. An autopsy showed that Harrelson had severe coronary artery disease. Harrelson was serving two life sentences for a U.S. District […]
With copies of tax documents being made in massive numbers as the deadline grows nearer, we have something new to worry about. My daughter a.k.a (Quembel) passed this one on to me from the AP (courtesy of CNN): Consumers are bombarded with warnings about identity theft. Publicized threats range from mailbox thieves and lost laptops […]
From The Gathering Storm Blog Here are the facts as presented at the Americans Against Hate site. Hat tip to Michael. This is the case of Rosine Ghawji, a woman who unknowingly married and had two children with a man who, through his family and acquaintances, was involved in international terrorism. Originally from Syria, Maher […]
Posted by Charles S on March 21st, 2007 Founded on July 16, 1790 as a Federal District, Washington D.C. was formed for the sole purpose of becoming our Nation’s Capital. Previously Congress met in Philadelphia, however our founding father’s, untrusting of Pennsylvania’s Government to control potential urban mobs decided to create a new capital apart […]
From The Gathering Storm Blog Two Azerbaijani journalists accused of inciting religious hatred with an article that criticized Islam went on trial Monday, both accusing authorities of waging a politically motivated prosecution. The case against reporter Rafiq Tagi and editor Samir Huseinov has touched a nerve in Azerbaijan, a mostly Muslim, ex-Soviet republic with a […]
In my hotel room watching the cable news morning shows (FNC’s “Fox & Friends” and CNN’s “American Morning”), I noticed that both were covering many of the same stories. The war in Iraq, specifically the new insurgent tactic of reducing suspicion by having kids in cars intended to be a car bomb. The issues surrounding […]
Why is it that sitcoms always go for the cheapest gags? And why is it that those gags are always shibboleths of leftist ideas? Does Hollywood imagine that the left never does anything that can be made fun of? Apparently Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter of the new sitcom “Andy Barker, P.I.” don’t think so, […]
— 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. — Stepping up attack on the Left over the Nandigram issue, Congress today made an oblique demand for the resignation of West Bengal […]
One of the penances of living in the Philippines is that we no longer get CNN or Fox. We now get “CNN INTERNATIONAL” and BBC. And unlike CNN, CNNI is full of people with british accents who sneer at anything that makes the US look bad. About the only US slanted news seems to be […]
That the German military is looked down upon in this country is one thing (the weapons industry is still okay, though). But when high-ranking officers won’t openly adhere to pacifistic views (preferably of the hysterical kind) like they are supposed to do, why, that is simply intolerable. Take ex-NATO General Klaus Naumann, for instance. He […]
Want to see if your friends in China can read your blog. Well, the Great Firewall of China website will test the URL and see if it gets past the Great Firewall of China. They must have a block on Blogger, because neither my website about human rights in Zimbabwe nor my joke/recipe blog could […]
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