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Items of notes and interest from the web.

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Investigators to Release Reports on Obama’s Communist Connections:

Washington, DC- Two veterans of investigations into Communist influence on the U.S. political process will hold a briefing on Capitol Hill to release two new explosive reports on Barack Obama's ties with extreme anti-American elements, including agents of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA. The reports will shed important new light on Barack Obama's mysterious past.
- Thursday, May 22, 2008


Cause and Consequence: Deathblow in the Netherlands

Last week, the Dutch police raided the home of Gregorius Nekschot (a pseudonym meaning “Gregory Deathblow”). Mr. Nekschot makes rude and often sexually explicit cartoons that poke fun at the multicultural society and at religious people, especially Muslims. The police confiscated his computer and a number of drawings. The cartoonist was also arrested and jailed for 36 hours but has meanwhile been released until his court case is due.
- Thursday, May 22, 2008

Review of “Persistence of Poverty”

An excellent book has recently come out, which should be read by anyone with an interest in poverty, its causes, and its eradication. Especially, anyone advocating elimination of poverty through a demogrant, a grant to everyone in society sufficient to meet all basic needs.
- Thursday, May 22, 2008

Bosnia: Al-Qaeda smuggling weapons into Croatia, paper claims

Banjaluka, 21 May (AKI) – Al-Qaeda and the Muslim fundamentalist Wahabi movement's operatives have been smuggling weapons and explosives into neighbouring Croatia, Bosnian daily Nezavisne novine reported on Wednesday.
- Thursday, May 22, 2008

Court overturns al-Dura libel judgment

Haviv Rettig , THE JERUSALEM POST May. 21, 2008 The French Court of Appeals on Wednesday found in favor of Jewish activist Philippe Karsenty, overturning a lower court decision that he had libeled France 2 and its Jerusalem correspondent Charles Enderlin when he accused them of knowingly misleading the watching world about the death of the Palestinian child Mohammed al-Dura in the Gaza Strip in 2000.
- Thursday, May 22, 2008




Prosthetic Legs Given the Official OK

South African Oscar PistoriusAn international court ruled on Friday that South African Oscar Pistorius can once again return to the track. A sprinter, hoping to even make the Beijing Olympics, Pistorius has had to fight through more than your average athlete though. Miles and miles of red tape, bad scientific reporting, and, oh yeah, he’s an amputee. The 21-year-old is known as “the fastest man on no legs” and “Blade Runner”, referring to the prosthetic limbs that look like a pair of blades, known as “Cheetah Flex-Foot”. The carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs were what put him in trouble though, when the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAFF) banned him from competing. The IAFF’s theory was that his prosthetic limbs gave him an added advantage over other athletes, and he has had to subsequently spend the past 6 months in court, fighting this decision, rather than training.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Science and Art Meet at Last

The combination of fields has always been a part of science and academia: combining medicine with nanotechnology; physics with astronomy; archaeology with history. However, just occasionally, science will be paired with something unquantifiable and, too many scientists, just as mysterious as the cosmos.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Google Earth to Showcase Climate Change

Together with Britain’s environment ministry and the country’s Meteorological Office, Google has created a new animated map that layers over its Google Earth program to illustrate the potential impact of global climate change over the next century.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop it

Last week I mentioned in my article on Google’s Android that Professor Jonathan Zittrain had announced to the world in his new book that gadgets such as iPhones and Xbox’s would threaten the future of the internet. The book, entitled “The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop it”, has stirred up a lot of discussion across the internet.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Why We Should Negotiate With Iran

National elections are actually debates over an American vision of itself and the rest of the world. We select presidents on the basis of whether we think they have a good or bad vision of the future, but we rarely ask ourselves what other nation’s expect of us.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Has CAIR Violated Its Non-Profit Tax Status?

By Joe Kaufman, FrontPageMagazine.com Full Article CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded, in June of 1994, as part of a Hamas-related quad of groups known as the Palestine Committee. Since then, CAIR has lost a number of its representatives due to terrorist activity, and it has been named by the U.S. government as a co-conspirator for a Hamas financing trial.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Afghan Journalist Charged With Insulting Islam Appeals Death Sentence

"Prosecutor Ahmad Khan Ayar told the appeals court that the primary court sentence [of death] was "the right decision" according to Islamic law and the Afghan Constitution." Yes, Afghanistan, where the constitution stipulates that "no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam" (Chapter 1, Article 3). How many U.S. policymakers didn't even see this one coming?
- Monday, May 19, 2008

EU Kosovo mission to face delay

By Elitsa Vucheva The EU's mission to Kosovo is unlikely to be fully operational by 15 June, as first planned, due to opposition by Serbia and Russia which are blocking the transfer of power from the UN to the EU and local authorities.
- Monday, May 19, 2008

He who plants the wind shall reap the storm


By: Colonel Charbel Barakat "It was a forlorn day when the Lebanese agreed, albeit under duress, to the 'Taef Accord". It necessitated dismantling and disarming the militias in 1990. Syria, which at the time was occupying Lebanon, kept and retained Hezbollah, the one terrorizing Lebanon today, as the sole armed militia under the slogan of "fighting Israel".
- Monday, May 19, 2008

The Green Cult or Soviet Experiment

The application of the UN's "Agenda 21" for "Sustainable Development" is in full swing here in Niagara. What is Agenda 21? Google "Agenda 21" and "Sustainable Development" and the very real and scary truth will be there on your computer screen.
- Monday, May 19, 2008

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