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Lao school's magic man | Northern Rivers News | Local News in Northern Rivers | Northern Rivers Echo
Peter Laurence and children from Khok Ek Primary School in Laos. Nimbin businessman Peter Laurence is able to combine business with the pleasure of giving. Peter travels regularly to Asia to buy clothesand jewellery for his shop Tribal Magic, and in the last couple of years he has been supplying essential equipment such as blackboards, textbooks, stationary, sports equipment and uniforms to the Khok Ek Primary School in Laos. He is off again in February with his friend, retired school teacher Michael Skinner, and they hope to spend about 10 days visiting Khok Ek and another school in the village of Ban Bow. Mr Laurence said he hopes he will be able to support 350 kids at the two schools.
The writer is author of The Gun Tree: One Woman’s War (Oxford University Press, 2001) and lives in Bhurban The dirty, yellowish-brown haze, hanging ominously over the snow-clad peaks of the Pir Panjal Mountain Range — where Azad Jammu Kashmir merges with Indian Kashmir — is a frightening part of the view eastwards from Murree and the Galiyat, as has become ‘normal’ at this time of year. Its invidious presence is ignored by those who have no understanding of what it is and causes worry for those who do. Yet both, knowingly and unknowingly, contribute to its menacing, now annual, appearance.
Looking out on the Pir Panjal – The Express Tribune
Uncle Jang emerges as real power in North Korea - Asia - World - The Independent
That is the view of South Korean analysts as Kim Jong-il lies in a glass coffin in Pyongyang and weeping mourners file by for a last glimpse of the man who ruled North Korea for 17 years before dying last Saturday. Behind the scenes of mourning, a backstage plan to ensure a smooth transition of power has thrust Jang Song-thaek into the spotlight. The brother-in-law of the former leader is thought to wield the most power in the new North Korean administration and is joined by his wife Kim Kyong-hui, and the highest ranking military commander, General Ri Young-ho in the country's most powerful decision-making group.
If you’re wondering who’s funding the network of left-wing, non-government organizations in Israel, which aim to topple Netanyahu’s government and turn Israel into an Arab majority state, it turns out to be the same man who’s funding the Occupy Wall Street mobs: George Soros. Tel Aviv has had to contend with the same left-wing protests, tents and all, obviously all coordinated by one central global puppeteer. That is why the Israeli Knesset passed the NGO Funding Transparency Bill by 40 to 34 in February. It was a hard-fought battle. But despite its neutered state, the bill survived and was enacted. It is a declaration of war by the conservative Likud Party against the shadow NGO empire being used by George Soros to shape the future of Israel.
The George Soros Plot To Destroy Israel | Before It's News
Although the Senate and the House are facing off over legislation that would extend the payroll tax cut, it now seems certain that any compromise will contain a provision -- one staunchly insisted upon by Republicans in both chambers -- that President Obama make a decision on the long-disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline within 60 days. The nominal reason offered by supporters of the provision is that the project would create jobs -- roughly 20,000 of them, according to the number most often used these days. But that number, like so much else attending the Keystone XL project, has been a matter of intense debate, and it's difficult to imagine that the real motive behind the 60-day provision is anything but partisan gamesmanship. It is at least as pure as the Obama administration's own decision early last month to postpone any ruling on the proposed pipeline until early 2013 -- which just so happened to be after next year's presidential contest.
Tom Zeller Jr.: Keystone XL: The Persistent Illusion Of Jobs, Jobs And More Jobs
Financial Armageddon To Begin In London | Before It's News
ZeroHedge: Psssst France: Here Is Why You May Want To Cool It With The Britain Bashing - The UK's 950% Debt To GDP : While certainly humorous, entertaining and very, very childish, the recent war of words between France and Britain has the potential to become the worst thing to ever happen to Europe. Actually, make that the world and modern civilization. Why? Because while we sympathize with England, and are stunned by the immature petulant response from France and its head banker Christian Noyer to the threat of an imminent S&P downgrade of its overblown AAA rating , the truth is that France is actually 100% correct in telling the world to shift its attention from France and to Britain. So why is this bad.Live ammo inflame violence in Britain'
British campaigners are warning that the idea of police officers shooting at anti-government's protesters during future civil unrest only risks inflaming violence. The warning came after an official review into police tactics during August unrests across England recommended that officers could shoot arsonists as a last resort if they endanger life by attacking businesses attached to people's homes. A government watchdog said police should be prepared to adopt “extraordinary measures,” including shooting people dead and firing rubber bullets at children in their attempts to control the situation similar to what happened in England in August this year, British media reported.
Fractivism: one more symptom of peak oil | Ian McPherson
Peak oil activists can hold their heads high. Big Oil and Gas is heading straight down the track outlined in Robert Hirsch’s landmark 2005 report to the US Department of Energy: Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management (PDF). On Page 43, discussing peak oil mitigation, Hirsch proposed the production of liquid fuels from US domestic resources; specifically coal, shale and biomass. The U.S. is endowed with a vast resource of oil shale, located primarily in the western part of the Lower 48 states with lesser quantities in the mid Atlantic region. Processes for mining shale and retorting it at high temperatures were developed intensively in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, when oil prices decreased in the mid 1980s, all large-scale oil shale R&D was terminated.
Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Wednesday | worldwide hippies
N.Korea military, uncle to share power with Kim heir BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week’s death of Kim Jong-il , although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said. The source added that the military, which is trying to develop a nuclear arsenal, has pledged allegiance to the untested Kim Jong-un , who takes over the family dynasty that has ruled North Korea since it was founded after World War Two . The source declined to be identified but has correctly predicted events in the past, telling Reuters about the North’s first nuclear test in 2006 before it took place.
Sardari trained as a lawyer in Switzerland before becoming a diplomat Thousands of Iranian Jews and their descendants owe their lives to a Muslim diplomat in wartime Paris, according to a new book. In The Lion's Shadow tells how Abdol-Hossein Sardari risked everything to help fellow Iranians escape the Nazis.
BBC News - The 'Iranian Schindler' who saved Jews from the Nazis
Newt’s Campaign Comes Down To Earth As Iowan Calls Him ‘F—king A—hole’ To His Face | TPM2012
When a man in a camouflage coat grabs your hand in an Iowa grocery store and calls you ‘a fucking asshole’ to your face, it might be time to take stock of your position in the state. For Newt Gingrich, who was on the receiving end of the unorthodox greeting Tuesday, it was a sign that his campaign is returning to earth after having rocketed since Herman Cain’s collapse. Back in May, Gingrich — who was then persona non grata in the GOP after he dinged Paul Ryan’s plan to eliminate Medicare as we know it — was similarly accosted by a regular Iowan when he took a trip through the state. At a campaign stop in Dubuque, a man stopped Gingrich, shook his hand and said “you’re an embarrassment to our party.”Spiritual awakenings often occur in the midst of crises, whether a personal crisis followed by a personal awakening, or a national crisis followed by a national awakening. Trials and tribulations have a way of revealing what is truly inside of us. There is no pretending when the crisis strips everything away and all you are left with is your broken humanity. Crises also have a way of revealing the true leaders. It’s not that they were not leaders before the crisis; it’s just that the crisis creates the conditions in which others are willing to be led. Most of us don’t like change.
Fear, 9/11 and spiritual awakening - The Washington Post
Ted Nugent Calls For Punishing The Poor, Claims They Make Poor Decisions To End Up In Poverty | Addicting Info
Ted Nugent is part of the cockroach crowd of conservatives. You know, those heartless morons who are obsessed with punishing people for something that isn’t their fault? Yeah, those conservatives. The extreme right wing, dumber than dirt rednecks who think they know everything and want to kill everyone. That’s Ted Nugent alright. Well, Ted Nugent wrote (Nugent knows how to write?)Protesters 'Deserve to Be Thrown Into Hitler's Ovens,' Egyptian Military Adviser Says - NYTimes.com
Video posted online by Egyptian activists appeared to offer clear evidence that flaming Molotov cocktails were hurled at protesters from the top of a building controlled by soldiers on Saturday. As my colleague David Kirkpatrick reports , a general from Egypt’s ruling military council insisted on Monday that soldiers had not used force against peaceful protesters after a weekend of such attacks that were “witnessed by journalists, captured on video and broadcast across the Internet and on satellite television.” But a still more baffling statement was made by a retired general who now serves as an adviser to the military government’s public relations department. In comments published by the Egyptian newspaper Al Shorouk on Monday, the adviser, Gen.health
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