http://www.thepeacecycle.com/ Latest News Report 2009 By Cyclists 2009 TPC09 Day One Saturday 11 October Today the cycling starts! We headed out of Amman in convoy with a police escort, and down a busy main road through the dry and dusty landscape. It was a gentle start, and a good way to get mechanical teething problems […]
http://edgar1981.blogspot.com/ Monday, October 12, 2009 Routine anti-semitism taught in ‘liberal’ United Arab Emirates A friend of mine is a Spurs supporter who subscribes to the Spurs-list forum (which is apparently the largest forum for Spurs supporters). He has sent me a posting (and subsequent comments) from a student called Ninad Singh who lives in the […]
October 13, 2009 http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/10/islam-on-campus-cartoonist-visits-the-ivy-league.php by Paul Belien Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute Islam on Campus: Cartoonist Visits the Ivy League In early October, Mr. Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who drew a picture of the Islamic prophet with a bomb in his turban four years ago, visited Princeton and Yale, two of America’s top universities, to speak […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE 10/13/2009 11:20 AM China, the Unwelcome Guest Controversy as Frankfurt Book Fair Fetes Beijing By Wolfgang Höbel and Andreas Lorenz China, which bans hundreds of books every year, was a controversial choice as the guest of honor at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. But some of the Chinese authors appearing at the fair, […]
– Pajamas Media – http://pajamasmedia.com – Barack Alone Posted By John Rosenthal On October 13, 2009 @ 12:00 am In . Column2 03, . Positioning, Europe, Politics, World News | 1 Comment Back in the day, the mainstream news media used to revel in the political misfortunes of the European leaders that had supported George […]
– Pajamas Media – http://pajamasmedia.com – Two European Nuclear Scientists Arrested as Al-Qaeda Suspects Posted By Annie Jacobsen On October 13, 2009 @ 12:02 am In . Column2 02, Crime, Europe, Media, Science, World News | 2 Comments Last week I was in Las Vegas attending a banquet honoring retired intelligence officers, many of whom […]
Ban supports Abbas on Goldstone report Oct. 13, 2009 Tovah Lazaroff , THE JERUSALEM POST Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received a supportive nod from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who on Sunday praised the Palestinian leader’s engagement with UN member states regarding the Goldstone report on Operation Cast Lead, and told him he was a […]
A Nobel for Practical Economics One winner helped us understand the social benefits of mergers, the other how to take care of common resources. By DAVID R. HENDERSON Yesterday’s award of the Nobel Prize in economics to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson at first struck me as a good choice. Now I think it’s a […]
A Perfect Nobel Pick TOO BAD HE INCLUDES THE THUG ANWAR SADAT, A HITLER ACOLYTE AMONG THOSE DESERVING A PRIZE…. The committee didn’t recognize Truman, after all. Bret Stephens Pop quiz: What do Bertha von Suttner, Henri La Fontaine, Ludwig Quidde, Norman Angell, Arthur Henderson, Eisaku Sato, Alva Myrdal and Joseph Rotblat have in common? […]
Return to the Article October 13, 2009 Obama and the Foreign Policy of the Empty Suit By Abraham H. Miller Having been one of the journalistic minions to have protected Barack Obama from scrutiny, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman has finally figured out what many of us knew. Obama is an empty suit who thinks he can […]
