http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ The Contagion Spreads: Europe’s Biggest Student Union (in Londonistan) Votes for BDS The 120,000-strong ULU, which represents students at the various colleges that comprise the University of London, voted yesterday by 10: 1 in favour of BDS. The motion called for “thorough research into ULU investments and contracts” with companies guilty of “violating Palestinian […]
http://www.smh.com.au/world/children-coerced-by-taliban-to-attack-20110518-1et7o.html http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ KABUL: The Taliban are recruiting a growing number of children as suicide bombers as NATO steps up its war against the insurgents. In some of the country’s most restive provinces, the Taliban are resorting to threats, inducement and deceit in order to send children to their deaths against US and Afghan targets. A […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/05/18/why-rick-perry-should-run-for-president/?singlepage=true Why Rick Perry should run for president Fresh from delivering a major address to the RNC, Texas Gov. Rick Perry as GOP presidential candidate is going viral even while the candidate himself insists that he is not running. On that, I believe him. I do not think he is running. But I also believe […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/267572 Buffalo Swing A Medicare proxy war and tea-party squabbles shake up a special House election in western New York. For decades, the late congressman Jack Kemp was western New York’s conservative champion. A tough supply-sider and former Buffalo Bills quarterback, Kemp personified the region’s grit. Since Kemp left office, the area’s blue-collar factory towns […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-762861,00.html Autocrats Gain Ground in Middle East By Alexander Smoltczyk and Volkhard Windfuhr Burning churches in Cairo, dead and wounded in Syria, Libya and Yemen, and a deathly silence in Bahrain. The Arab protest movement has come to a standstill, and the kings, emirs and sultans are rallying to launch a counterrevolution. According to the […]
http://badrachel.blogspot.com/ Through A State Department Glass Darkly Perusing this little morsel from the office of the Deputy Secretary of State: “Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg visits Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank May 18-19, 2011. In Israel, Deputy Secretary Steinberg met with Israeli academic and student leaders. In the West Bank, he met with Palestinian […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/165/germany_curbing_intelligence_sharing_with_us_over_drone_attacks There are increasing signs out of Germany that the era of post-9/11 anti-terror cooperation with the United States may be nearing its end. Spiegel, Germany’s flagship political magazine, reported this week that the killing of German citizens by US drones in the Pakistani region of Waziristan had provoked such controversy that the government had […]
http://www.hudson-ny.org/2131/un-vote-palestinian-state The United Nations this September will attempt to create a Palestinian state through political mandate. This, as is par for the UN, is not merely an attempt to justify the political aspirations of Palestinians, but rather to punish Israel. This initiative should be seen against a backdrop of Muslim imperial ambitions. Israel lies directly […]
Obama and His Muslim Outreach by Mark Silverberg http://www.hudson-ny.org/2133/obama-muslim-outreach President Barack Obama appears to be preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in the coming days, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic terrorism in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, and embrace what he believes […]
http://www.hudson-ny.org/2130/islamic-shariah-compliant-banking-europe The European Union is emerging as a major center of Islamic finance, based on Islamic Shariah law, and which critics say amounts to “financial Jihad” by Islamists intent on Islamifying the West. The spectacular growth prospects for the Islamic financial services industry in many European countries is being fuelled by Muslim mass immigration; despite […]
