Guest Column

Amnesty urges release of Saudi facing flogging

RIYADH, May 11 (Reuters) - Amnesty International has urged Saudi authorities to release a Saudi university professor who is facing flogging and imprisonment for meeting a woman to whom he is not related for coffee in the conservative Islamic kingdom.

Taliban ban TV in Afghan province

Taliban insurgents have ordered residents of a province near the capital Kabul to stop watching television, saying the networks were showing un-Islamic programmes, officials and local media said on Tuesday.

Lebanon’s “300″

While the West is busy living its daily life, a beast is busy killing the freedom of a small community on the East Mediterranean: Lebanon. Indeed, as of last week, the mighty Hezbollah, armed to the teeth with 30,000 rockets and missiles and aligning thousands of self described "Divine soldiers" has been marching across the capital, terrorizing its population, shutting down media, taking its politicians and the Prime Minister as hostages, and looting at will. The hordes of Lebanon's "Khomeinist Janjaweeds" have conquered already half of the Middle East's cultural capital, Beirut. As I have reported before, Hezbollah has occupied West Beirut and has since sent its storm troops in multiple directions to resume the blitz.

Drang nach Osten. In the name of Allah!

Had any one of the European monarchs, grandees or pontifices of the XVth century ever heard of the word "Prussia"? Unlikely. Stuck in the Baltic bogs between Russia and Poland, Prussia, the miserable successor to the Teutonic Order, the obedient vassal of proud Poland (Rech Pospolita), hopelessly vegetated on the boondocks of Europe.

Sahara’s Green Slowly Transformed to Dust

The world’s largest hot desert (seeing as technically Antarctica is the largest desert, though cold), the Sahara measures in at over 9 million square kilometers, and covers the majority of northern Africa. With an intermittent history that some believe may go back as far as 3 million years, the Sahara is a land of harsh realities and mysteries the same.

DARPA’s Fight on the Internet Begins

One of a number of groups or people attributed with the creation of the internet are now intent on finding ways to protect from cyber attacks. DARPA – the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – have announced their desire to create what they are labeling a National Cyber Range.

Stop Believing Obama

By Philip Klein David Axelrod laughed.

Even the Leaders Think the Homosexual Activist Movement in Canada is Going Too Far

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, May 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere) Canada, the homosexual activist group that has consistently worked to silence opposition to homosexual activity, has sent a letter to the president and CEO of Canada Post, asking them to censor the mail.

China regularly disrespects Canada’s laws

Patrick Donnelly, Calgary Herald Ever since China's remarkable economic transformation, its 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization and its successful capture of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, China has become a country desperate for international respect as a world power. Over the past several years, in particular, Beijing has prepared extensively for its place on the international stage.

Irena Sendler, who saved 2,500 Jews from Holocaust, dies at 98

From Haartz.com Irena Sendler - a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities - has died. She was 98.

Britons are living in a crazy place

BRITONS are racing through life and will suffer meltdown if they do not change their habits, says a new report, and psychologists are warning life in the fast lane could have serious detrimental effects unless people slow down.

Worst Job in the World Finally Found

When you hear the term “worst job in the world” you are going to conjure up a multitude of images. Those dealing with sewage, explosives, Britney Spears; the list goes on. So what would you say if I believed the worst job in the world belonged to one person working at NASA?

Man’s Mission to… 2000 SG344?

Those who keep track of such things will know that there is a lot of discussion as to where man will head next, in mankind’s continuing journey into space. George W. Bush wants us to head back to the Moon in 2020, and set up a lunar outpost. Experts want us to forget the Moon and head straight to Mars.

Open Letter to Canadian Supermarket CEOs

As Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Canadian-owned and Canadian-based supermarkets, providing consumer goods to Canadian citizens, it is time you began a more conscious and concerted effort to support our Canadian farmers.

Do your part to fight Bill C-51

Bill C-51 removes our right to buy, sell and use natural health products freely to protect our own health.

Left with no market, growers destroy trees

Monte Sonnenberg SIMCOE REFORMER FORESTVILLE - Agriculture in Norfolk suffered another setback this week with the destruction of thousands of peach trees. Growers in Forestville and Waterford have been busy in recent days uprooting orchards which were planted several years ago and had yet to reach full production.

“Without Adherence to Principle, There is Chaos!”

Human newborns, no matter what culture or geographical location, are very much like computers with empty hard drives. You can fill the hard drive with truths, (say a well-written program that can be an excellent tool) or you can dump garbage into it and have it produce gibberish.

Obama & Ahmadinejad: Trust But Don’t Verify

Should Barack Obama be elected President of the United States this November then we can expect him to climb aboard Air Force One and fly to Tehran to initiate a conversation with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Global warming hysteria: how the pendulum has swung

It has become commonplace knowledge, and is unchallenged, that global average temperature has not increased since 1998. This corresponds to a 9-year period during which the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, in contrast, did increase, and that by almost 5%. The greenhouse hypothesis - which asserts that carbon dioxide increases of human origin will cause dangerous global warming - is clearly invalidated by these data.

American unions and their about face on immigration

The lengthy testimony of Vernon M. Briggs Jr. of Cornell University to the Subcommittee on Immigration of the U.S. House of Representatives, delivered a year ago on May 24, 2007, makes for compelling reading.