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Breaking News:NIA detains Journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh! Former GPU President Demba Jawo reacts! By A Staff Writer Agents of Gambia’s feared National Intelligence Agency, who acted on a Presidential order to arrest journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh have been busy grilling what our informants called the “perceived political dissident.” who arrived in this country about a […]
I really do not know where to start with this CD. It is an absolutely must have for anyone that loves the songs June Carter Cash penned and sung over her long career. The cast of performers is as compendious as the list of musicians that have played at the Grand Ole Opry. And the […]
Banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) top leader Shaikh Abdur Rahman was hanged by Bangladesh prison authorities in Comilla Prison, according to Channel I reports. Shaikh Abdur Rahman and Siddiqul Islam were arrested in March 2006 for killing of two judges in November 2005, when a bomb was thrown at their car while it was going to […]
Leader of banned Islamist militancy group Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai was hanged to death on midnight Thursday, according reports on Channel I television. Militant Siddiqul Islam and Abdul Awal were hanged to death in Mymensingh prison. Another convicted militant - Khalid Saifullah was hanged in Pabna prison around the same time, according to Channel I […]
Jesse Jackson has endorsed Barrack Obama as his choice for the 2008 presidential election.
By Ted Lipien The Bush Administration supports freedom of democracy around the world. Right? Wasn’t this one of the reasons America went to war in Iraq? U.S. overseas broadcasts, managed by the bipartisan Board of Broadcasting Governors (BBG), have been for more than half a century one of the most effective tools in promoting freedom […]
— 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. —  The Supreme Court today stayed the operation of the controversial 27 per cent quota for “other backward classes†(OBCs) in publicly-funded higher […]
Despite the looming certainty of a presidential veto, Senate Democrats, along with the help of Republicans Chuck Hegel and Gordon Smith, passed a $123 billion emergency war spending bill, with the added catch that the bill requires President Bush to start withdrawing troops in 120 days, and sets a non binding target date of March 31, 2008 for the withdrawal of all troops from Iraq.
From our POW Code of Conduct “….I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist. If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape […]
Posted by Charles S on March 29th, 2007 Â As a rule, I tend to avoid liberal editorials. It has been my experience these editorials offer no positive insights, only rants about Conservatives ruining the country. On occassion I will waste a few minutes of my morning reading these opinion pieces only to find myself […]
 World’s Tallest Man begins honeymoon The Dolphin’s rescuer’s wife is just two third of his height Amin George Forji According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the 54-year-old Chinese herdsman Bao Xishun who measures 2.36m (7ft 8.95 in) is the world’s tallest living person. His extraordinary height has caused him both fame and trouble […]
From The Gathering Storm Blog I love to see Muslim scholars go through intellectual contortions trying to make Islam compatible with democracy. Try and follow the logic from Dr Pervaiz Nazir, a senior research fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge, during a lecture on ‘The Rise of Political Religion and its […]
[I happen to have done a dissertation on property theory, so as a philosopher I am all too well aware of what accountants and lawyers know — that property is not things — it is a complex of rights, duties, powers and liabilities that are readily manipulated within national and international legal schemes. What we […]
It is always interesting to me how a story can be published as if it is serious work, a story that almost seems plausible until you step back from it to realize that not a shred of proof to support the supposition was ever offered. After you’re done reading it you realize that all you […]
You know the expressions “watching the paint dry” or “watching the grass grow”? Well, now you can watch cheese get ripe. The BBC reports that the cheesemakers of Somerset have placed a 24 hour webcam on a 20 kg block of cheddar cheese, partly as a joke, and partly to illustrate their web page. But […]
[Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN, and now King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the nation once Bush’s closest ally apart from Israel in the Middle East, have declared the U.S. led invasion and occupation of Iraq to be illegal. This is no light matter. To quote the new Secretary General as reported in […]
News Item: Brits dispute troops were in Iranian territory The British sailors being held hostage in Iran, were by all plausible evidence, well within Iraqi waters when captured. The Brits offered GPS coordinates showing where the incident took place. Iran countered with their own set of coordinates. When it was pointed out that this second […]
What better combination could there possibly be than the fabulous, belly-dancing Shakira and Bollywood Town, Mumbai?Rediff.com reported that 5000 people went to go see the singer perform at her first concert in India. According to a BBC world news report I saw on TV this morning, foreign music artists are having a difficult time breaking […]
Some condenscending lady once said sweetly to me: “Oh, you must be grateful to the feminists that enabled you to go to medical school”. And I answered back not so sweetly: “No, I graduated before feminism, I became a doctor because of my own hard work”. The Feminists of the boomer years seem to be […]
By Honey Gillard CELEBRITIES continue their global battle against the inhumane poverty, this time choosing to fight with a German “Your Voice Against Poverty†commercial. The commercial was shown in the course of the G8* Summit in Germany. (The Group of Eight (G8) is an international forum for the governments of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, […]
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