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It would appear that French workers, who have lived the life of Riley for decades, are incapable of comprehending that the goose laying the golden egg is mortal after all. And French politicians do not have the intestinal fortitude to do whats necessary to save the situation.

Studying a wonderful discussion of archaeology and history, James Long's "The Riddle of the Exodus" [1] is a fascinating, remarkably readable way toward understanding Israel's foundational place in world history. The text also indicates ways that Israel's long-established place, a history well-documented by many ancient civilizations is buried not only in silt but by religious, political, media and educational institutions of the modern era. Eric Blair ('George Orwell') recognized that this was the essence of the modern state's burial of truth, its intimidation and disabling of memory so that new "official truths" could be slathered over their subjects' minds like polymer sealant. "The past was erased; the erasure was forgotten; the lie became truth..." (1984, chapter 7).[2] The Iranians are upping the ante
By John Burtis
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
With a view to showcasing their military expertise and to insure that the West, fully realize the futility of military action to halt their nuclear weapons program, the Iranian government has recently unveiled two new offensive systems during a week long series of war games involving 17,000 Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.

By Joseph Klein
Monday, April 3, 2006
Developing countries are once again using their clout at the United Nations to push for a massive wealth transfer program. This time it involves something called the 1992 U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity ("Biodiversity Convention"), one of the dubious legacies of Maurice Strongs 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has been demonized for selling nuclear technology around the world. In the post 9/11 era, the activities of his network raise fears that a terrorist group would manage to acquire and detonate a nuclear bomb in a major city. Although preventing nuclear proliferation is presented as a cornerstone of the US foreign policy, recent revelations indicate that the US government helped Kahn to escape justice. Moreover, the CIA is suspected of trying to cover up this enormous mistake.

by Kristina Davis, "The Maple Leaf", DND-CF Canada

• U.S. Central Command
  Monday, March 6, 2006

"Shukriya" thank you was the first Urdu word she learned. A fitting phrase for Cpl. Micheline Lafontaine, a medical technician, deployed with the Canadian Forces Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Pakistan.

Despite all the well known American successes in Iraq, sectarian religious infighting between Sunnis and Shiites now threatens the ultimate success and future peaceful self-governance of a nation on the edge of civil war. If the march towards peace and self determination as a free country fails, it will not be Americas loss, but rather that of the Iraqi people.

In the 1970s and 1980s there were several indications about Saddam Husseins development of the WMD programs (biological, chemical and nuclear). The Israeli attack on the Iraqi French-made Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 slowed down the progress of the Iraqs nuclear weapons program but the biological and chemical WMDs were highly developed, due to the Soviet assistance, Iraqi scientists and a sophisticated system of procurement, organized by the Iraqi Intelligence in Western Europe and in other parts of the World. The nuclear weapons program was never abandoned by the regime, and before the first Gulf War (1991) Iraq was very close to producing its own nuclear weapons. (There is some evidence that Saddam could have purchased nuclear technology from Pakistan, through Dr. Khans network, and that he has tried to buy nuclear weapons or components from China).

By Anthony Oluwatoyin
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Finally, Michael Brown got one right. The much-maligned, former Director of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has just handed out grades to all the main parties involved in the Katrina/Rita hurricane fiasco.

The growing news that Christians are now being specifically targeted for death and torture as part of the spiraling ring of violence associated with the ongoing Muslim cartoon backlash is somewhat disconcerting.

There is an age old fairness doctrine which operates among the Muslim terror organizations, radical mullahs and a majority of the violent Islamist sects which dictates that after a specified time of unbridled assaults, arson, free-style beheadings, stonings, rock pilings on, looting and outright murder directed against the Danes and the animation industry, or any perceived bugaboo or other stone in the shoe, its time to begin to act out in a similar fashion against the Christians.

By Ron Banerjee
Friday, February 17, 2006

The global reaction to the recent cartoons of Muhammad in Denmark is part of a familiar pattern. In 2004, a Dutch filmmaker named van Gogh was shot dead by Islamic fanatics because he made a film which dared to question the treatment of women in Islam. Similarly, global violence and death threats accompanied the publication of Salman Rushdies book, the Satanic Verses. His Norwegian publisher, William Nygaard, was shot by Islamic fanatics in his own country. Every supposed insult to Islam leads to violence, murder, and threats.

Last week I read about an ancient Arab saying: "A falling camel invites many knives". I dont know any statement that is more applicable to the West today than this. It is becoming more evident each day that the momentum in this so-called clash of cultures is with fundamental Islam and not with the West.

By Anthony Oluwatoyin
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

In my first piece on the topic of the Moslem cartoons, I framed a simple question that is surely at the heart of the mystery in the ongoing saga. Exactly what, I asked, is so ambiguous to Western liberals about unambiguous Moslem violence, violence as a means to settle any and all disagreements?

I have often wondered while watching films such as Schindler's List just how a leader such as Hitler or Mussolini was able to contort the minds of an entire nation into believing that evil was good.

Water: a simple comfort for the citizens of Baghdad
by K.L. Marsala
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Clean refreshing water, dispensed directly from the tap into our waiting glass--free from deadly contaminations--something we enjoy here daily without reflection.

Rage Against the Western Machine

We’re at war. But only one side seems to get that.

"Rage over cartoons” has been the gist of many a headline over the past week describing the violence with which masked gunmen and arsonist mobs in Islamic world have been protesting the publication in Denmark five months ago of political cartoons caricaturing Mohammed.

Rage, yes. But let’s please get over the idea that this latest violence has anything much to do with the cartoons.

By Anthony Oluwatoyin
Wednesday, February 8, 2006

You know there's a failure to communicate when notorious Vancouver Sheik Younus Kathrada, who reportedly called Jews "brothers of the monkeys and the swine," becomes a central figure in left-lib media reports calling for calm in the ongoing Moslem cartoon controversy.

As last week unfolded, one country after another found themselves embroiled in violent protests over the now infamous Mohammed cartoons that were published in several European countries, with a Danish newspaper being the first to print them. There have been embassy sackings, editorial firings, flag burnings, and at least two deaths now reported all in the name of Islamic fundamentalism.

By Ali Sina, Faith Freedom
Friday, February 3, 2006

It is ironic that we want to build democracies half a word away on sand dunes while the foundation of our own democracy is chiseled away at home.

Last Sunday in London, the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the election results of the Palestinian Authority surprised just about everyone.

By Ali Sina
Thursday, February 2, 2006

The victory of the Hamas, a group listed as terrorists by the US, EU, Israel, and pretty much everyone, except of course other rouge regimes such as the Iranian mullahs, has shocked the world.

This week, CNN's Larry King Live featured a group of people discussing and defending their cause, and their fallen colleagues in Iraq.

Throughout American history, our primary peace initiative has been our export of western democracy and freedom around the globe. Believing that all people desire and deserve freedom and liberty, and that the world would be safer, more peaceful and more prosperous, America has liberated some 70 countries and literally hundreds of millions of oppressed and brutally tyrannized people over the years. For the most part, the world is a better place as a result.

Last week over 40 leaders of countries belonging to the African Union (AU) gathered in Sudan for the sixth annual conference of AU member states. Sometimes known as "The Dictators" Club", the AU leadership is famous for treating itself to lavish meals and accommodations, while the majority of their citizens are forced to live in appalling poverty and under overtly repressive governments not squeamish about torturing and/or killing dissenters.

More than two thousand Americans have died in Iraq, since Saddam was dethroned. Anti-war types have had a field day complaining. The death and destruction displayed on the nightly news, however, could well be little more than a schoolyard brawl compared to the conflicts brewing in the thunderheads on the eastern horizon.

By Ali Sina
Monday, January 30, 2006

Over four years ago, the world was flabbergasted to watch ululating Palestinians rejoice and cheer for the death of thousands of Americans in 9/11. Despite that the Americans did not hold grudges against them and kept pouring into their coffers one billion dollars a year. The Palestinians rely on two external sources of income: Israeli-collected taxes on Palestinian goods and aid that comes primarily from the USA and Europe . They depend on these handouts, without which they won't be able to survive.

Yesterday I wrote about the impotence that the world is showing through the UN in the face of Iran developing an Islamic nuclear weapon. There is a powerful historical parallel between the 1930s and today.

So now that Iran has crossed the so-called "red line" and resumed nuclear research, what can we expect to happen? My guess is, not much. National self-interest and access to cheap oil are the trump cards that Iranians have pulled out of their nuclear deck and as such their program to enhance their nuclear capability (both civilian and military) will likely continue.

In the bad old days of the Cold War, when the US and the Soviet Union stood toe to toe brandishing nuclear weapons at each other, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD) crept into our lexicon as the basis of the doctrine of nuclear deterrence.

Yep, the "Dear Leader" of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, feeling a little bit of heat, what with the US economic sanctions for his activities in counterfeiting hundred dollar bills and his money laundering through that doggone Macau bank, has hopped aboard his secretive armored train and hustled off to see his one ally, at least the only that thatll listen to his rant, China.

In 2008 the citizens of the United States will once again show their infinite wisdom and elect a new president. At this time there are several factors and crises that may influence for whom they cast that important ballot. One potential candidate from the heartland of the republic feels that he has a winning issue. This issue is one he feels could be more important than the Iowa and New Hampshire caucuses. The gentleman in question is Senator Sam Brownback and he feels that ending suffering in Africa is a winning issue.

A military confrontation with Iran is inevitable. Israel will need to destroy as much of Irans nuclear weapons capability as possible. If it does not, Irans ayatollahs will launch nuclear-armed ballistic missiles at Israel.

She had no lawyer. She tried to defend herself. In the end the government took her to the noose. She was hung. The 16-year-old body was accused of committing "acts incompatible with chastity."

By all accounts, Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, who was replaced by Winston Churchill as the fortunes of war took a tumble following the debacle in France, was a reticent man, and many felt he was ill at ease at 10 Downing Street. Chamberlain was also a snappy dresser in the tweeds, bowler and bat wing collar couture. Despite these sartorial assets, he was decidedly out of his depth in dealing with the dapper Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938.

"I tell people: Do not retaliate; only God can do that, said Rev. Stephen Dayoh, taking a break from pitching a large tent outside his church for Christmas services. If we do, it means we are the same as them."

Muslim machetes cut off the heads of three Christian teenage girls. A fourth girl fled, according to AP.

"I see this is clearly something that I do not want to be part of," the business dealer said.

That is, the man stated that after it became known publicly what he had been doing. He was a part of selling human body parts to patients desperately in need of those parts.

The enterprise is known as "Transplants International."

It was a mid-December night in Africa. Id been in Bénin for a couple weeks already, and now that I was beginning to know my way around the neighbourhood, I had decided to test myself, ungluing myself from the friend with whom I was currently staying to find my way home alone while she chatted with a cousin wed come across in the street.

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