The Region: Stay away from Syria
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | Post a comment
Why is the West so eager to appease the current state sponsor of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida?
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The new anti-Semitism
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | Post a comment
Hating Jews, on racial as well as religious grounds, is as old as the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Later in Europe, pogroms and the Holocaust were the natural devolution of that elemental venom.
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Posted by John under: Anti-Semitism
Saudis plan fence along Iraq border
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | Post a comment
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with plans to build a fence to block terrorists from crossing its 560-mile border with Iraq — another sign of growing alarm that Sunni-Shiite strife could spill over and drag Iraq’s neighbors into its civil conflict.
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Posted by John under: Distress of Nations
Cold Virus Lingers On 35% Of Surfaces Touched
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | Post a comment
We live in a world where the cold virus (rhinovirus) lingers on 35% of surfaces touched by unwashed hands – and that is many surfaces, say scientists from the University of Virginia Health System, USA. Even 18 hours after being touched by dirty hands, scientists detected traces of the rhinovirus. The rhinovirus is responsible for about half of all common colds in children and adults.
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Posted by John under: Knowledge Increased
India’s Police Say Pakistan Helped Plot Attack
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | Post a comment
MUMBAI, India, Sept. 30 — In a declaration likely to increase tensions on this subcontinent, the Indian police on Saturday accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of being behind the July 11 train bombings that killed more than 180 people in Mumbai.
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Posted by John under: Distress of Nations,Perilous Times
Tensions rise between Russia and Georgia
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 | Post a comment
The US has objected to a proposed Russian statement expressing grave concern at Georgia’s recent provocative actions, including the arrest of four Russian officers for alleged spying and deploying troops in part of the breakaway province of Abkhazia.
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Posted by John under: Distress of Nations
‘Settlements can’t be evacuated’
Friday, September 29th, 2006 | Post a comment
Vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Thursday that “the government cannot evacuate more settlements in Judea and Samaria,” given that Israel has continued to suffer rocket attacks since last summer’s withdrawal from Gaza.
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Posted by John under: Israel in the Last Days
Syria defies U.S. threat, still backs Hamas, Hizbollah
Friday, September 29th, 2006 | Post a comment
Syria will keep supporting Hamas and Hizbollah despite U.S. threats to impose more sanctions on it, a government newspaper said on Thursday. Continue reading »
Posted by John under: Syria and Damascus
Russia starts pulling officials out of Georgia
Friday, September 29th, 2006 | Post a comment
TBILISI, Russia began pulling out some of its officials from Georgia on Friday as the crisis mounted between the two former Soviet states over spying charges.
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Posted by John under: Distress of Nations
Gunman had list of female students
Friday, September 29th, 2006 | Post a comment
BAILEY – The Park County Sheriff said Thursday afternoon the man who killed a 16-year-old student at Platte Canyon High School apparently had a list of female students.
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