To the candidates - further proof that being all Talk and No action is going to result in remarkable climactic changes. To those in the McCain Camp, please read the article about what Palin is supporting -...
"WHILE denying that Catholic schools convert or “proselytize members for the Church,” Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal asked that they be unashamed in proclaiming Jesus’ truth. He said the words while celebrating mass during the Sacred Heart School-Jesuit (SHS-J)...
Political Jerusalem, more and more ruled by the religious ultra orthodox (Haredi) fraction, caused the 'Taliban Scandal', an incident taken from the 'Theater of the Absurd.' "An embarrassing incident occurred during...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAnyone in business who has tried to carry a conversation with someone who speaks in a heavy foreign accent certainly knows the frustration trying to understand them. ...
"Director Oliver Stone, who has made movies about Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, is developing a project about the current occupant of the White House, but promises it will not be a hatchet job,
Daily...
"BERLIN (AFP) - German rabbi Leo Trepp has seen his share of the horrors and glories of modern history in his 94 years. But he reserves the word "miracle" for the reopening of Germany's biggest synagogue Friday.The...
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Opposition to the outcome of last month’s general elections got a shot
in the arm Tuesday as a coalition of civil society groups led by
Nigerians United for Democracy (NUD) swore that there would be no
inauguration of those elected in what they called the “sham”...
Hopes of Nigerian officials and the intense lobby
to have the President-elect, Umar Musa Yar’Adua to meet President
George Bush before the May 29 inauguration has been dashed. "The
White House does not have a tradition of granting formal state audience
to president-elects...
"Warning signs for the Democrats
There's a black cloud in the majority party's silver lining.
March 30, 2007
An exhaustive national survey of American attitudes released last week sent the same message as the Democratic sweep in the 2006 midterm elections: a shift among...
"Aramco in $5bn China Deal
Arab News
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi, third from left, and Saudi Aramco President and CEO Abdallah S. Jum’ah, second from left, with ExxonMobil and Sinopec officials at the inauguration ceremony in Beijing on...
"Support for Regime Change Falls to 15% in U.S.
March 15, 2007
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Few Americans believe their federal government should become engaged in "regime change" operations, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. Only 15 per cent of...
"A diplomatic gaffe marred Saturday's inauguration of a Chinese-financed stadium in Grenada when a band performed the national anthem of Chinese rival Taiwan.
Chinese Ambassador Qian Hongshan and scores of...
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After following the inauguration of Texas Governor Rick Perry, which was held in-doors due to the ice storm in Austin, I was surprised at the rhetoric coming from the Republicans camp. And then I found this...
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Texas has been hit by severe weather; including freezing rain, and ice storms (two stories at the bottom), closing highways, grounding flights, stranding commuters, and causing power outages across Central & West...
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"The Nation (Nairobi)
January 10, 2007
Posted to the web January 9, 2007
Nation Correspondent
Nairobi
Machines worth more than Sh30 million for the ambitious Mathira Farmer's Coffee milling project in Nyeri district arrived at the weekend.
Yesterday, engineers were busy...