Monday, September 29th, 2008 | 5 comments
Iranian protesters attend an anti-Israel rally to commemorate the day of “al-Quds”, the Arabic name for Jerusalem, in Teheran, Friday.
Photo: AP
With the Dome of the Rock Mosque seen in the background, thousands of Palestinian Muslim worshippers pray during the last Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The entire land of Palestine is holy and belongs solely to the Arabs, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech delivered on Friday in honor of Al-Quds Day.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Germany’s foreign minister on Friday blasted the Iranian president’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly as “blatant anti-Semitism” and urged the 192 U.N. member states to join in condemning it.
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Monday, September 29th, 2008 | One comment
Citigroup will buy Wachovia’s banking operations; FDIC says Wachovia didn’t fail
ITD Editor Note: The way of secular humanism is for the strong to devour the weak—the law of the jungle, the survival of the fittest rules.
However, the way of the cross is found in Romans 15:1: “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”
Just the opposite of the secularly humanistic world that we live in.
Let’s remember who we serve.
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Monday, September 29th, 2008 | 6 comments
CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 28 — Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for Sen. Barack Obama would be evidence of “severe moral schizophrenia.”
ITD Editor Note: Seven singers of the Declaration of Independence were pastors.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | 2 comments
Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street’s five biggest firms paid more than $3 billion in the last five years to their top executives, while they presided over the packaging and sale of loans that helped bring down the investment-banking system.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | Post a comment
The US Senate Saturday approved 25 billion dollars in loan guarantees for the financially strapped US auto industry, intended to spark a wave of automotive innovation.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | One comment
Los Angeles, CA (AHN) – Mathematicians at the University of California Los Angeles claim that they have found a 13-million-digit prime number long sought by computer users. The new UCLA prime P is 43,112,609.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | 2 comments
WASHINGTON (AP) – Congressional leaders and the Bush administration reached a tentative deal early Sunday on a landmark bailout of imperiled financial markets whose collapse could plunge the nation into a deep recession.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008 | Post a comment
The U.S. Mint is temporarily halting sales of its popular American Buffalo 24-karat gold coins because it can’t keep up with soaring demand.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Mint is temporarily halting sales of its popular American Buffalo 24-karat gold coins because it can’t keep up with soaring demand as investors seek the safety of gold amid economic turbulence.
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Friday, September 26th, 2008 | Post a comment
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was to meet Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Friday after Russia risked Washington’s wrath by offering the fierce US foe help developing nuclear energy.
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