Facts All US Citizens Need to Know About Israel and Palestine
One will be hard put to find something like democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus���blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not... IF you want to get down to it, its a human thing. Dont you watch the news? Are you that brain dead or just willfully ignorant. Whos killing their own people? Arabs. WHos killing children all over the world, Muslim children? Muslim��.
US House Judiciary Republicans Post Ditzy Girl GIFs on Official Committee.
By way of reminder, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, now led by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), is the esteemed body where such things as impeachment of U.S. Presidents and federal judges, etc., are carried out. So embarrassing. And, frankly, so very .
US to 1865: Andrew Jackson and the Indian. - Daily Kos
Both houses of congress were deluged by hundreds of petitions and memorials, solicited by religious groups and benevolent societies who were opposed to Indian removal. The attack on the bill observed that the Jackson��.
Arundhati Roy: Is India on a Totalitarian Path? - Truthout
Arundhati Roys trenchant analysis of the destructive impact of global neoliberalism on India is availble directly from Truthout by clicking here.. About 815 million Indians are eligible to vote over the next five weeks.. After the bloodshed, the U.S. State Department revoked Modis visa, saying it could not grant a visa to any foreign government official who, quote, was responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom.
First Carbon Capture Projects Mask a Lack of Progress | MIT.
The most significant recent advance was the opening of a 110-megawatt coal power and CCS plant in Saskatchewan, called Boundary Dam, built by the provincial utility SaskPower (see ���In a First, Commercial Coal Plant Buries Its CO2���). Michael Monea, president of SaskPowers carbon capture and storage initiatives, spoke with almost religious fervor at the conference about the project, which will capture 90 percent of its carbon dioxide. ���Build more of them, build��.
Is inter-faith work between Jews and Muslims possible?
I dont mean to analyze this particular incident in too much depth.. There are Rabbis and Imams who are joining the call for nonviolent struggle too, he added; pointing to groups, both in the U.S. and in Palestine who have espoused a message of.
Smooth Criminals How Subway Dancing Became A New York City Art Form.
Although an inopportune slip-up cost him a chance to advance, Vargas, who performs under the name Kid the Wiz, won glowing praise from three of the four judges, including Heidi Klum, who gushed over his ���charm��� and ���charisma,��� and Howard Stern, who.
Religious right to target Starbucks in Middle East over gay.
First, heres an excerpt from the Colorado Independent, then my analysis:. And this is where Starbucks wants to expand, as well as India.. Of course, whats even funnier is that NOM, and the American religious right, thinks theyre going to be the messenger of truth to the Muslim word when the conventional wisdom in the religious right is that all Arabs are terrorists, that. From Michelle Goldberg at the Daily Beast, who went to the big religious conference of the year:.
As Regulators Focus on Culture, Wall Street Struggles to Define It
The issue is taking on added urgency as U.S. banks await feedback expected around March from the Feds annual ���stress tests��� to ensure large banks can handle a deep slump like the 2008 financial crisis and continue lending without needing a government .
The FDAs Ill-Conceived Proposal to Ban Trans Fats.
But a recent meta analysis, Effect of Animal and Industrial Trans Fatty Acids on HDL and LDL Cholesterol Levels in Humans���A Quantitative Review, published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE in 2010, concludes. Thanks to the fact many food producers have responded to consumer demand and removed trans fats from their foods in recent years, the FDAs press release noted that ���trans fat intake among American consumers has declined from��.
George Monbiot: This is a dazzling debunking of climate.
In 1988, for example, the worlds most celebrated climatologist, James Hansen of Nasa, told the US Congress that temperature would rise 0.3C by the end of the century (it rose 0.1C), and that sea level would rise several feet (no, one inch).. The Earth is not a black body. It reflects some of the radiation it receives back into space. Schmidt points out that Monckton also forgets, in making his calculations, that climate sensitivity is an equilibrium concept: in other��.
Why Richard Dawkins is Wrong About Religion - Skeptics.
In this weeks eSkeptic, David Sloan Wilson shares with us his analysis of Dawkins theory of religion, which he feels is wide of the mark based on the evidence.
The Great Global Warming Swindle!!! | SOLO - Sense of Life.
���The polar bears obviously survived that period, they are with us today, they are very adaptable and these warm periods in the past posed no problem for them.��� Says Professor John Clark ��� Dept of Earth Sciences ��� University��.
The One-State Reality
Last month, he told an academic conference in Jerusalem, ���It is time to honestly admit that Israel is sick, and it is our duty to treat this illness.��� Around Rosh Hashanah. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas.
2014: May - August Political Notes - Richard Stallman
Nowadays, it has achieved such superiority over democracy that there is nothing to restrain its power. In the US, the. Anyone can make a mistake, but there should be zero tolerance for insisting on mistreating someone based on a mistake that has been recognized. All the people. This is a ridiculous exaggeration ��� what they could directly do was too small to eliminate the US, and the only way they could do great harm was if the US reacted self-destructively (which it did). Since this��.
What Pakistani leaders can learn from the worlds poorest president
Today, another generation of very rich rule millions of impoverished souls, who have no hope of ever having any control over their destinies. The Jinnah House (South Court) in the Malabar Hills neighbourhood of South Mumbai is in a dilapidated state today.
Obama Calls for Restoration of Voting Rights Act at 50th Anniv. of Bloody.
When the trumpet call sounded for more to join, the people came ��� black and white, young and old, Christian and Jew, waving the American flag and singing the same anthems full of faith and hope. A white newsman, Bill Plante, who covered the marches .
Indians seek decent housing by their beloved river
The river is a constant reminder of Graces fishing-centered childhood and Native American heritage; the dam is the root cause of all that her people lost when the backwaters swallowed houses, fishing platforms, and burial grounds... Three years ago.
ROBERT GUSENTINE: Chinas water grab
Marxists a century or so ago believed that what they called ���Oriental despotism��� arose in Asia because of the need in China and elsewhere to control the water supply. In 1957, Karl Wittfogels work on the subject, ���Oriental Despotism,��� was published.
Jihadist Ritual Murder and Mutilation at the Mall
The Westgate Mall massacre is comparable to the mass murder of 166 people by members of the Islamist Jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, in ten coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India on November 26 -29,. On June 20, 2006 in al-Yusufiyah outside of Baghdad, Iraq, the bodies of American soldiers Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, members of the 101st Airborne division, were found mutilated beyond recognition.
Bill Cosby, Himself - The New Civil Rights Movement
Many of us deal with physical or emotional violence, the loss of family, often because of religious intolerance. We may even face death. There are those who would argue that things are different now, that there is more��.
Charlie Hebdo aftermath: we French must find how to keep this spirit of unity
Our history and our republican tradition have always warned us against dividing the French into categories, or ���communities���. I am not saying that we. The sanctity of life is at the heart of these religions. This is not about religion. This is about.
Jon Stewart and Me
OK, here goes. Is it any of the governments business whom you marry or what you put into your body or to whom you speak on the phone? Of course not. Good. Should the U.S. be traveling the globe looking for monsters to slay? No; never. Excellent.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501
Next time you find yourself fuming over a three-hour ground hold at the airport, and the consequent snowball of flight delays and cancellations, get over it: you should be grateful for the fact that this is part of an aviation safety regime that works.
Can Saudi Arabias New King Manage a Restive Middle East?
As he would repeat again and again, he found the events that followed the 2011 Arab Spring astonishing, alarming, and unforgivable ��� none more so than the tragedy of Syria, where he agonized over civilian deaths and lamented Washingtons lukewarm .
Deconstructing Modi Part 2 | Random Thoughts of a.
Finds insults to their religion on a piece of toast and in that, reflects perfectly the intolerance of the Islamists.. If the hard Hindu right really formed the majority of Indias urban Indian population (as the left-liberals would like us to believe), we would be having civil war and the Togadias and the Singhals would have been household names.. I will call it the ���Congress model��� in honor of its creator, but, to be fair, it has been adopted by almost all parties in India. Cause it��.
After spate of attacks, women in India question safety - World
But their perception is wildly at odds with the grim picture portrayed in the pages of Indias national papers and on its television screens on almost a daily basis. Last Tuesday, a 30-year-old American tourist says she was gang��.
Overnight News Digest: Guachi Guaro Edition - Daily Kos
While it still accounts for less than 5 percent of the United States total electricity mix, wind is by far the biggest source of renewable energy other than hydroelectric dams, and it accounted for 23 percent of new power production capacity built last. In a statement sent to Al Jazeera, Amnesty International demanded that the conviction be overturned immediately, adding that the case is a chilling indication of the growing climate of religious intolerance in the country..
Critical Vulnerability Found in Australian Internet Voting System in.
The plans to use the system were scrapped at the last minute after it was hacked and completely taken over by white hat hackers (University of Michigan computer students and their professor), who had gained such total command of the system in mere.
Kids Need to See Women on Currency, Heres Why and What You Can Do
It is a diverse list, primarily criticized on the organizations Facebook page for the lack of Native American women and the inclusion of Margaret Sanger, whose transformative social justice movement has long been marred by eugenics controversy.
Netanyahus speech and the American Jewish condition
The scandal over the Netanyahu speech to Congress is in the end a story about the Jewish condition in the United States.. is aware of our incredible advance into the establishment and is embarrassed about it or will tell you that it doesnt matter or that America is all about the rich anyway and there are tons of other rich people, religion has nothing to do with it... The great news about the Netanyahu speech is that it brings the classic era of the lobby to an end.
Reflections on my interview with the Turkish prime minister
I remember well a press conference in 1993 at which I was acting as a spokesperson for an international delegation from Europe that had visited the country to understand better the Kurdish struggle to achieve minority rights.. interpreters. Any.