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Sun Nov 4, 2007 7:50 PM EST
On Saturday 3 November, in Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency, suspending the Constitution, blacking out all independent television news reports and filling the streets of the capital with police officers and soldiers.
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Global Oil Price will increase
Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:39 AM EDT
On Sunday, Tehran Times featured the story "Iran says ME tensions will propel oil price to $120" (link).
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French parliament adopts DNA bill
Seeded on Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:57 AM EDT (BBC News)
A new immigration bill introducing possible DNA tests for foreigners who want to join relatives in France has been adopted by parliament. The controversial bill was passed in both the country's National Assembly and in the Senate.
Key Global Issue: Mexico
Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:41 PM EDT
Bloomberg featured a story how 'Weak Mexican Peso Shows Oil Threatens Growth, Surplus' (link). Our oil reserves have been consistently falling" and the decline is "severely threatening" government finances. -- Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico, in a nationwide television add …
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Racist football fans get kicks from abusing Muslim players
Seeded on Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:41 PM EDT (FT.com)
British football's annual "action week" against discrimination starts on Thursday, and this year it should consider taking a new tack. All the conferences I have attended on racism in football have focused on abuse of black players or Jews, and quite right too.
'We Must Tell the Muslims We Are a Christian Nation'
Seeded on Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:09 AM EDT (SPIEGEL ONLINE)
Your opponents criticize the SVP's posters as xenophobic. One poster shows three white sheep standing on a Swiss cross and kicking a fourth, black sheep away -- "for more security," as the caption states.
Bringing Rancor to a Swiss Election
Seeded on Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:05 AM EDT (SPIEGEL ONLINE)
The populist Christoph Blocher has dominated the Swiss government for four years while also managing the odd trick of seeming to lead the opposition.
Secret Service: Islamists Now Pretending to be Moderate
Seeded on Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:15 AM EDT (NIS News)
Since mid-2005, a third phase has emerged in the Netherlands, led by Muslims of the second generation in the West.
A Dutch Retreat on Speech?
Seeded on Mon Oct 8, 2007 5:34 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Holland find her too loud, too public in her condemnation of radical Islam. She doesn't sound conciliatory, in the modern continental fashion.
The Price of Freedom
Seeded on Mon Oct 8, 2007 5:14 PM EDT (Slate)
If any country has enjoyed a long reputation for peaceful and democratic consensus combined with civic fortitude, that country is the Netherlands.
Salafism's simple message appeals to Muslim youth
Seeded on Sat Oct 6, 2007 6:33 AM EDT (Radio Netherlands)
The fundamentalist Islamic movement Salafism is spreading rapidly around the world via Internet. With its simple message, it exerts a strong attraction on identity seeking Muslim youths both in the Islamic world and in the west.
France: UN expert slams racism towards 'visible minorities'
Seeded on Wed Oct 3, 2007 9:54 AM EDT (AKI)
Visible" minority immigrants are targets of racism and the French goovernment needs to enact policies to address "widespread, entrenched and institutionalized discrimination." -- Gay J. McDougall, United Nations independent expert on minority issues
Ayaan Hirsi Ali back in Netherlands
Seeded on Mon Oct 1, 2007 2:29 PM EDT (Expatica)
Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali returned to the Netherlands as united States' authorities had refused to finance the expenses of her personal security measures.
US House sanctions Irans energy sector and elite guard
Seeded on Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:19 PM EDT (KUNA)
US House of Representatives overwhelming voted on Tuesday to label the Revolutionary Guard in Iran as a terrorist organization and mounted pressure on Tehrans energy sector.
Chinese buy into conspiracy theory
Seeded on Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:17 PM EDT (FT.com)
In a new Chinese best-seller, Currency Wars , disparate events like the Battle of Waterloo, the deaths of six US presidents, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the deflation of the Japanese bubble economy, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and even environmental destruction in the develo …
What Defines a Killing as Sectarian?
Seeded on Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:57 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
A specialized team of soldiers spend their nights at computer terminals, sifting through data on the day's civilian victims for clues to the motivations of killers.
Government Advisors: Dutch Should Adapt to Muslims
Seeded on Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:55 AM EDT (NIS News)
The Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) says the Dutch must adapt themselves more to Islam.
The new British empire? UK plans to annex south Atlantic
Seeded on Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:06 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor around the Falklands, Ascension Island and Rockall in the hope of annexing potentially lucrative gas, mineral and oil fields.
Al-Jazeera man 'close to death' at Guantanamo Bay
Seeded on Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:23 PM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
Sami al-Haj, an al-Jazeera journalist captured in Afghanistan six years ago and sent to Guantanamo Bay is close to becoming the fifth detainee at the US naval base to take his own life, according to a medical report written by a team of British and American psychiatrists.
Google Wants to Track Your Medical History -- And Your Genome
Seeded on Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:05 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Google and Microsoft, are each taking the first steps toward the burgeoning, and lucrative, industry of electronic health-records management. So what's the problem?
The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein on the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Seeded on Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:15 AM EDT (Democracy Now!)
"Some of the most infamous human rights violations of the past thirty-five years, which have tended to be viewed as sadistic acts carried out by anti-democratic regimes, were in fact either committed with the deliberate intent of terrorizing the public or actively harnessed to pr …
Commentary: Is 'terrorist threat' to America another Bush-Cheney fabrication?
Seeded on Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:13 PM EDT (Middle East Times)
In the most massive racial profiling since Japanese-Americans were herded into detention camps in World War II, the Bush administration after 9/11 required 80,000 Arab and Muslim foreign nationals living here to be photographed, fingerprinted and subjected to "special registratio …
600 Iranian missiles said to be pointed at targets in Israel
Seeded on Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:53 PM EDT (JPost.com)
Six hundred Iranian Shihab-3 missiles are pointed at targets throughout Israel, and will be launched if either Iran or Syria are attacked. Dozens of locations throughout Iraq, which are being used by the US Army, have also been targeted. -- Iranian website Assar Iran, affiliate …
Islamaphobia on rise, especially in Europe - U.N. envoy
Seeded on Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:43 AM EDT (Star Online)
Doudou Diene, U.N. special rapporteur on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance,condemned a rising trend of Islamaphobia, especially in Europe, where he said it was being exploited by some right-wing political parties.
IDEA - Al-Qaeda obtains a so-called dirty bomb
Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:02 PM EDT
The big worry for the United States goverment is that Al-Qaeda obtains a so-called dirty bomb. And this worry sets the context for some of the stories of today. First Iran
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Pakistan's Emergency - United States in need of a Plan B
On Saturday 3 November, in Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency, suspending the Constitution, blacking out all independent television news reports and filling the streets of the capital with police officers and soldiers.
Condition Red! Taserism is on the risE
The Tasering of American Citizens is out of control. We are being manhandled illegally-legally.
Global Oil Price will increase
On Sunday, Tehran Times featured the story "Iran says ME tensions will propel oil price to $120" (link).
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An Islamic Nuclear Race? UAE, Jordon, Morocco want to start their own nuclear programs Over the past year or so, several Middle Eastern Islamic states have declared their interest in securing a nuclear energy program. Why the sudden rush?
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Pakistan's Emergency - United States in need of a Plan B
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Key Global Issue: Mexico
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Salafism's simple message appeals to Muslim youth
France: UN expert slams racism towards 'visible minorities'