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Hardly a hundred years ago this same trafficking provided the British Empire with much of its income too.

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Opium trafficking provides the Taleban with much of its income

DEDICATED TO ISRAEL

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clipped from www.poetry-archive.com ACCURS'D BE HE THAT FIRST INVENTED WAR! by: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) CCURS'D be he that first invented war! They knew not, ah, they knew not, simple men, How those were hit by pelting cannon-shot Stand staggering like a quivering aspen-leaf Fearing the force of Boreas' boisterous blasts! In what a lamentable case where I, If nature had not given me wisdom's lore! For kings are clouts that every man shoots at, Our crown the pin that thousands seek to cleave: Therefore in policy I think it good So shall not I be known; or if I be, To hide it close; a goodly stratagem, And far from any man that is a fool: They cannot take away my crown from me. Here will I hide it in this simple hole.

Malaysian Woman Jailed For Worshipping Tea Pot

clipped from www.weirdasianews.com I have heard of some pretty weird cults in my time, but this… well this one might just be my cup of tea. Seriously, although the Malaysia constitution guarantees freedom of religion, a woman was recently arrested for joining a ‘Tea-Pot Worshiping’ cult. The eccentric sect emphasizes unity between all religions and considers the teapot the symbol of purity and love “pouring from heaven.” According to Malaysian Muslim law, born Muslims, such as Mrs. Ali who was arrested, are forbidden from converting to other religions. This lady had been arrested back in 1992 for the same reason and her case is an indication of the growing dissatisfaction of the non-Muslim Malaysians. The community stands behind the woman and has long standing grievances with the policies of the government concerning religious freedom. In the wake of this particular event, Christian churches made a rare political intervention, urging voters for the up and coming election to choose candidates who support freedom of worship.

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI

This man should have stayed an academic, he is not aware of the world around him.
This is the 5th or 6th time he has made a gaffe.
Any leader in any field would have resigned after the second or third gaffe. He has earned without doubt the royal order of the boot with his father christmas garb.
I must also admit we get what we deserve.
"A POPE FOR OUR TIMES"

clipped from www.bbc.co.uk Pope Benedict says "Condoms can increase the problem of Aids" "HIV/Aids is a tragedy that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which can even increase the problem." This was Pope Benedict's message to Africa at the beginning of his papal visit to the continent. 22 million people are infected with the Aids virus in sub-saharan Africa, which accounts for nearly two-thirds of infections worldwide. But Pope Benedict believes condoms can exacerbate the problem by encouraging promiscuity.

LLANITO/YANITO/GIBRALTARIAN/DJEBELTARIQII

SAME THING

clipped from www.facebook.com  Andrew Galea at 17:54 on 11 March WE ARE ALSO KNOWN BY OTHER NAMES USED LOVINGLY BY THE BRITISH ARMY & THE EX-COLONIAL SERVICE:ROCK SCORPIONS,GIBOS, AND NATURALLY WOGS. THESE TERMS ARE NOT NOW P C. NEITHER IS THE ARMY NOR THE COLONIAL SERVICE.

America, you have been governed by criminals.

Were these people criminally insane or just plain criminals?
This is a complex question, yet you see in American movies and TV programmes, issues constantly being resolved by violent means. It begs the question are Americans violent per se or have they been conditioned to act this way by their own traditions such as the Wild West, glamourising the Mafia and the Hollywood machine.
This merits a deep Analysis. I am not sure I would like the result.
Yet we are all in certain ways responsible since we do not condemn these people outright.
We hide behind words like freedom, liberty, democracy and such like,
Let's get rid of the whole stinking lot and put them behind bars.
Everybody is scared of telling the truth.
How deep is this malaise?

clipped from pulsemedia.org After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen. Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us. Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.

llanito/gibraltarian

clipped from es.wikipedia.org Llanito Se denomina llanito (o yanito) a la lengua vernácula utilizada comúnmente por los habitantes de Gibraltar. Consiste principalmente en una mezcla del inglés y el español que se le llega a considerar como spanglish hablado por comunidades inmigrantes en ciertas ciudades estadounidenses, aunque éste término se lo denota para la mezcla entre el inglés estadounidense y el español mexicano o caribeño en lugar del inglés propio del Peñón, que es británico y el español andaluz; siendo el origen completamente diferente además de haber diferencias en el acento o pronunciación. El llanito también tiene más de 500 términos léxicos de genovés, hebreo, árabe, portugués y maltés.[1] [2] El origen del término es desconocido. Hay quienes se inclinan a pensar que viene del nombre propio "John" (cariñosamente "Johnny"), muy común en el idioma inglés, o bien a los muchos "Giovanni" (cariñosamente "Gianni") de la nutrida colonia genovesa que habitaba el territorio.