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Egypt. ObamaCare. Assimilation’s Failure, Terrorism’s Rise. Oslo Suspect Wrote of Fear of Islam and Plan for War. Median Guy Earle and Zesty's restaurant owner $22,500 for Lorna Pardy lesbian jokes in Vancouver Canada. Nobody is laughing now.
Canada's British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ordered amateur comedian Guy Earle and restaurant owner Salam Ishmail to pay $22,500 in damages to a woman who claims she suffered lewd lesbian insults during an open mic night. The woman, Lorna Pardy, 32, told the court she was mistreated by Mr Earle, who served as emcee at Zesty’s Restaurant on Commercial Drive in Vancouver on May 22, 2007. Fareed Zakaria: What Does A 'Post-American World' Look Like? The Post-American World: Release 2.0By Fareed ZakariaHardcover, 336 pagesW.W.
Norton & Co.List Price: $26.95 Chapter 1: The Rise of the Rest This is a book not about the decline of America but rather about the rise of everyone else. It is about the great transformation taking place around the world, a transformation that, though often discussed, remains poorly understood. This is natural. Is the Chinese Economy's Debt Problem As Bad As Greece's? - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com. There’s a lot of finger wagging going on in the world about America’s profligate ways.
And a lot of comparisons between the budget troubles of the U.S. and the horrors facing Greece. The West, the story goes, stupidly spent beyond its means while emerging markets wisely saved their pennies for rainy days like these. But the West isn’t the only part of the world grappling with fiscal troubles. NAZI RALLY IN COLOUR 1937 The Butchery of Hitler and Stalin. James Kirchick on Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder.
Timothy Snyder. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. 544 Pages. $29.95. There were moments reading this book when I was forced to shut it closed, an experience utterly alien to me. Like any reasonably historically-aware individual, I considered myself familiar with the carnage that overtook Europe in the earlier half of the 20th century: the gas chambers and the gulags, the mass shootings and show trials, the wanton disregard for human life and the heinous ideas which compelled people to, actively or passively, play a part in the deaths of tens of millions of fellow human beings. Bund Camp Bergwald, Federal Hill, Rare Silent Films 1930s-Weird NJ Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, NYC, 1938 Naked Nazis: Book Reveals Extent of Third Reich Body Worship - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International.
What did Germans read during the Nazi era?
In search of the answer, author Christian Adam surveyed a total of 350 bestsellers from the 12 years of the Third Reich's existence -- making striking discoveries in the process. In addition to well-known propaganda books like Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and Alfred Rosenberg's "The Myth of the Twentieth Century," there were schmaltzy regional novels, science fiction, mysteries, love stories, joke books and cross-media marketed accompaniments to radio programs and films. The rich variety of reading material likely arose because different censorship offices competed to have the last word on what books publishers could print, Christian says.
The paradoxical effect is that some of the books printed seem surprising today. In Focus. Ain't No Party Like the Communist Party - An FP Photo Essay. Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong - By Leon Aron. Every revolution is a surprise.
Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, or politician foresaw the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it one-party dictatorship, the state-owned economy, and the Kremlin's control over its domestic and Eastern European empires. Paul Ryan’s Strategic Vision.
On Thursday evening at the St. Regis Hotel three blocks from the White House. Paul Ryan was the featured speaker at a meeting of the Alexander Hamilton Society . I think it telling that his subject was not the fiscal crisis besetting our country. Moderate Islam: Western Ally or Western Myth?: A Debate. By Daniel Pipes and Wafa Sultan December 1, 2009 Can there be a truly moderate Islam compatible with liberal-democratic notions of human rights and democracy?
Is "radical Islam" a modern phenomenon or is Islam itself inherently radical? Such were the questions addressed in a recent debate between Dr. Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, and Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-born American psychiatrist. How Islamists Turned the World Upside Down. A briefing by Melanie Phillips May 10, 2010 Formerly a writer for the U.K.'s Guardian, Melanie Phillips is a journalist for the Daily Mail, author of the best-selling Londonistan, and a recipient of the Orwell Prize (1996).
On May 10, she addressed the Middle East Forum in New York on the subject of her latest book, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power. How the Mubarak Regime Enables the Persecution of Egypt's Copts. A briefing by Magdi Khalil February 26, 2010 Magdi Khalil is an Egyptian-born human rights activist and prominent figure on Arabic media, such as Al Jazeera and Al Ahram. He is director of the Middle East Freedom Forum, an Egyptian think-tank that campaigns for human rights, secularism, and democracy.
On February 26, Mr. Khalil addressed the Middle East Forum via conference call on the situation of Egypt's Copts. If Islamists failed to terrorize America on Christmas Day, they amply succeeded in terrorizing the Copts, Egypt's indigenous Christian minority, when they shot and murdered six Copts leaving church after Christmas mass. Putin's Puppets - By Julia Ioffe. At around 7 p.m. on Friday night, I called Robert Shlegel, the young techie who sits in Russia's parliament as a representative of the ruling United Russia party.
The week was sandwiched between two three-day weekends (May Day and Victory Day), and many Muscovites never bothered to come back from the first one. The city was empty, and emptying more every minute. Report: North Korea has abducted more than 180,000 people. North Korea's abduction of high-profiles individuals like the U.S.
Army deserter Charles Jenkins or the South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang Ok have received plenty of media attention, but they were just the most prominent examples of a decades-long kidnapping campaign by the regimes of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong il. The campaign began around 1946 when Kim Il Sung proclaimed that “In order to solve the shortage of intellectuals, we have to bring intellectuals from South Korea.” (A fairly innocuous statement unless you take it literally.) Syria's Refugees from Terror - By Hanin Ghaddar.
The northern Lebanese village of Wadi Khaled is so close to Syria that its residents can hear gunfire from across the border as the regime of President Bashar al-Assad attempts to put down a persistent revolt from his long-oppressed citizens. And as violence in nearby Syrian cities of Tal Kalakh and Homs has worsened, it has also been a refuge for fleeing Syrians. According to Sheikh Abdullah, a prominent religious figure in the village, Wadi Khaled has received more than 1,350 refugees from Syria in the past 10 days, most of them women and children. More are expected to arrive in the coming days. Protesters took to the streets by the thousands again on Friday, reportedly flooding the streets of Damascus, Hama, and Homs in defiance of Assad's crackdown.
Trauma Center - By Anna Badkhen. ASFAKHAN, Afghanistan — Two weeks ago, police delivered several bodies loosely wrapped in cloth at the gate of Mazar Civil Hospital. Taliban fighters killed in battle, the officers explained to Abdul Hamid, the hospital gardener who was pulling a night shift as a guard. Take them to the hospital morgue, they said. Then one of the shrouds slipped off. Anglo-Saxon Aloud. File not found! The URL you have loaded has not been found on this server. Please alert the system administrator if you believe you have reached this in error.
Obama Administration Lets More Foreign Students Stay in U.S. for Jobs, Raising Competition Concerns - FoxNews.com. Senate Dems Lose Vote on Repeal of Tax Breaks for Oil Companies Amid Pain at Pump - FoxNews.com. Saudi Arabian student 'spat on WalMart customers because Americans push us around' Police find 513 migrants stuffed into 2 trucks starting 18-hour dash for US border.
Weekend weather: Nanny state warns 'don't jog with your dogs' in heatwave. Model plunges to her death from hotel window after 'play wrestling' with female friend. Pippa Middleton goes global: The very lucrative rise and rise of Her Royal Hotness.
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