http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2011/01/11/fidel-castro-giffords-shot-to-hurt-illegal-immigrants-tea-party-will-take-america-into-the-abyss/ In a signed editorial in Cuba’s state-owned Granma, Castro writes: “As is known, the state of Arizona, a territory that was snatched from Mexico by the United States together with many other expanses of land, has been the scene of painful events for the hundreds of Latin Americans who die trying to immigrate to […]
Cutting Defense: Save Money, Cost Lives Posted by Jack L. Treese, CWO US Army, Retired http://bigpeace.com/jtreese/2011/01/12/cutting-defense-save-money-cost-lives/ Cut “pork” before military spending. In a recent article in the “Stars and Stripes” Defense Secretary Robert Gates is planning to reduce the strength of Soldiers and Marines by up to 70,000 by 2015 due to “this country’s dire […]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/11/pope-middle-east-christians-egypt Pope Benedict was tonight at the centre of a new diplomatic storm after Egypt recalled its ambassador to the Vatican in protest at the pontiff’s call for Middle Eastern governments to do more to protect their Christian minorities. Cairo’s dramatic reaction came amid reports of a further attack in Egypt in which a Christian […]
— Posted By al-Mutarajjam to “http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com”>Translating Jihad< Saudi Sheikh, ‘Abd-al-Rahman bin Nasir al-Barrak explains that there is no equality in Islam, or at least not in the way the West and the Human Rights Charter defines it. (See original Arabic here.) Fatwa title: What is the ruling on the saying uttered by some people: “Islam […]
http://mobile.thehill.com//blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/137335-citing-tucson-shooting-sen-sanders-solicits-campaign-donations- Citing Ariz. shootings, Sen. Sanders solicits campaign donations by Sean J. Miller Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) issued a fundraising plea Tuesday in which he cited the Arizona shooting and accused right-wing reactionaries of contributing to a threatening political climate. Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new […]
The boycott bluff: trading to good neighbourly relations DAVID FRANKFURTER http://dfrankfurter.livejournal.com/123187.html The Middle East is full of contradictions. It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s bluff. If you call the wrong bluff, you can end up blown to pieces. And if you miss a real opportunity, you can end up a real sucker. “Peace activists” attack with knives […]
http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/2011/01/islamonlinenet-offensive-jihad-is.html IslamOnline.net: “Offensive Jihad Is Permissible to Secure Islam’s Borders, to Extend God’s Religion, and…to Remove Every Religion but Islam from the Arabian Peninsula” IslamOnline.net is listed as the 6th most popular Islamic website in the world. And yet, Western apologists of Islam assure us that the overwhelming majority of Muslims are peaceful, and that […]
http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/2011/01/removing-christians-from-east-is.html “Removing the Christians from the East Is a Zionist Project” Naturally this columnist does not offer any plausible explanations for how the all-powerful Zionists are coercing innocent Muslims into bombing churches in Iraq and now Egypt. Unfortunately, given that his target audience is Arab Muslims, he really doesn’t have to. Their society is so […]
http://shmuelkatz.com/wordpress/?p=536&Source=email By David Isaac“We have frankly said, and always will say: If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won’t agree to the presence of one Israeli in it,” Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, remarked on December 25th. Of course, even as Abbas demands that all Jews […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Putting a Bullseye on the Constitution There is hardly a better way to degrade the entire idea of political speech than by classing everyone who is in any way critical of the government as “anti-government”. Such a label creates two camps, the camp of government and the camp of everyone unhappy with government, and […]
