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Like most people, I vividly remember “where I was” on September 11, 2001. The day’s events plunged me into a near depression that lasted a week or so. I had to consciously force myself to turn away from the horror for the sake of my mental health.
I had flipped on the TV early in the morning, after the first plane had struck the north tower of the World Trade Center. All the TV stations were covering it. But at that point, everyone assumed it was merely a tragic accident.
Next came the images of the second plane, which struck the south tower. The screams of onlookers, watching in horror from the streets below. That perfect, gut-wrenching video of the plane turning on an angle before it sliced into the tower like a hot knife through butter.
There came the profound realization that this was no accident, [...]
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On the surface, it appears that Armenia and Turkey, whose trenchant relations stand out as the most bitter in the Southern Caucasus, are now making gestures of reconciliation toward one another, precisely by holding a soccer match between their teams. However, the prospects of a brighter future for both nations are inescapably viewed – and thus, impeded — by the ghost of an ever-present past, as the issues of the “Armenian genocide” and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remain unresolved.
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Gordon Brown has asked Margaret Thatcher to lunch again; this time at Chequers.
Just what will the newly appointed Scottish Labour MSP leader make of this?
Both Thatcher’s lunch with Brown and the appointment of the Scottish leader will happen on Saturday.
Is Brown deliberately trying to take the wind out the sails of the Scottish Labour MSPs the very day they should be celebrating the appointment of a new leader?
It seems strange timing to me.
The very day that the Scottish Labour MSP group should be promoting their policies and their vision for Scotland, attention will be diverted to another cosy lunch between The Iron Lady and The Clunking Fist.
It speaks volumes for Labour’s agenda that just as the TUC conference is finished with many trade unions unhappy with Labour’s policies, the same weekend Gordon Brown asks Margaret Thatcher to lunch.
It was their previous meeting that urged Jimmy Reid to support [...]
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By MUNIR AHMAD, Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed 12 people in northwestern Pakistan on Friday and fighting at another militant stronghold near the Afghan border killed dozens more, officials said.
A US Army unmanned aerial reconaissance vehicle is seen in this file photo. A missile fired by a suspected US drone Friday killed a dozen people in a Pakistani tribal area where American forces based in Afghanistan have been targeting Al-Qaeda militants.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)
Two intelligence officials told The Associated Press that missiles struck a home near Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region, before dawn. It was not known whether any of those killed were militants linked to al-Qaida or the Taliban.
The officials said the death toll climbed from an initial eight to 12 as agents in the area reported more details of the attack. Another 10 people were injured. The [...]
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The recent crisis between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia has created speculation over possible further eruptions over the “frozen conflict” territories of the former Soviet Union, namely the regions of Transnistria and Nagorno-Karabakh. However, instead of continuing the recent trend in conflict resolution, rather than seeing them as a playground for grander, political pursuits between international powers, the troubled regions of the CIS need a new localized approach in solving their impending crises.
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“A graduate of BS Biology working as bank teller; a BS Chemistry graduate teaching P.E.; a physicist fresh from college selling toothpaste and other products of a multi-level marketing company; a mechanical engineer assembling electric fans in a Laguna factory; an electronics engineer soldering TV circuits for a Japanese TV company; a cum laude chemical engineering graduate titrating (a simple laboratory method of quantitative/chemical analysis often used to determine the unknown concentration of a known reactant) every day in a quality control laboratory for a food manufacturing factory.”
Taken from the Philippine Star; received via the PTA E-groups. I’ll post my comments on this soon. Perhaps you can start.
Do We Really Need Scientists?
by Boo Chanco
Last week, I received a press release from Sen. Ed Angara calling upon students to pursue science and technology (S&T) courses to help boost the country’s technological capacity to innovate and thus enhance our country’s economic growth [...]
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Who Hates Sarah Palin?
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
By Greg Gutfeld
According to many in the media, we truly have discovered someone worse than Hitler — and it’s Sarah Palin.
Head to any left-wing blog or even CNN for that matter and you’ll find the zaniest of conspiracies — froth that even a dude with rabies would find unseemly.
So how can one person create so much bile among folks who claim to be the most tolerant in the universe? I mean, liberals are the good people: They’re open-minded, caring and of course, fair.
But somehow, a Republican lady in her 40s is exempt from this treatment. Perhaps, she truly is the devil in a dress, a ghoul that eats children and pollutes the planet and possibly beats Barack Obama, the patron saint of every customer buying wheat germ in bulk at GNC.
But I know the real reason why every single elitist media type is [...]
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By Vaudine England
BBC
US deputy secretary of state John Negroponte, on a visit to Vietnam, has lauded the “close partnership” between the two countries.
He praised Vietnam’s “economic miracle” and its good will toward its former foe, but also called for more political and legal freedoms.
Mr Negroponte is visiting Vietnam for the first time since he was part of US forces in the Vietnam War in 1973.
His visit comes at a time of rising tensions in the South China Sea.
China and Vietnam each claim territory in the area, believed to hold major oil and gas resources.
“It’s clear his visit will result in closer ties between the US and Vietnam,” Carl Thayer, a Vietnam expert, told the BBC.
“I cannot believe that strategic matters are not being discussed,” said Mr Thayer, who is a visiting fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Warming ties
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With the dust not at all settled in New York City, President George W. Bush visited the site of the World Trade Center attacks. It wasn’t the day after, technically - it was September 14th, 2001. He read what must have been a scripted speech, but the audience of workers prompted him into what seems an improvised interruption. Maybe because of his ad-libbing, so rare in modern politics, this was to become his finest hour. Which is, in retrospect, rather a sad conclusion to an eight year presidency.
Thank you all. I eh, I want you all to know … it can’t go any louder … I want you all to know that America today, America today is on bended knee, in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here, for the families who mourn. This nation stands with the good people of New [...]
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I know I said I’m going quiet.
But this is where we are today - 20 years after the dismissal of our Lord President Tun Salleh Abbas and 2 other Supreme Court judges (Tan Sri Wan Suleiman and Datuk George Seah).
A report was released 2 weeks ago, ‘Review of the 1998 Judicial Crisis in Malaysia (26 July 2008)‘ and 20 years on, Malaysians are still like blinking Magoo, the famously nearsighted character who always admonished himself, “Oh Magoo, you’ve done it again!”. Sound familiar?
Oh Malaysia, you’ve done it again - Raja Petra of Malaysia Today was detained today under ISA (Malaysiakini).
There are many who see the event in 1988 as a political cause celebre - the famous Karpal Singh asking Mahathir to apologise, a blogger believing Mahathir has every right to condemn the report, and Malaysia’s Bar Council members posing for photos and getting authographs on the report.
Is that it? Politicians [...]
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