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Should the government fund libel suits against its citizens?
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 1:47 PM EST (National Post)
At around dinner time on Feb. 6, 2008, a knock at the door at the Rawdon, Que., home of Steve Solo set the dogs barking.
'Think higher and feel deeper,' Holocaust survivor says
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 1:21 PM EST (Vancouver Sun)
Elie Wiesel says he is grateful. So much so that he constantly thanks everyone around him. The waiter for their service. The taxi driver for the ride.
Soft drinks linked to pancreatic cancer
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 1:18 PM EST (Vancouver Sun)
Drinking two or more soft drinks a week may nearly double a person's risk of developing pancreatic cancer, researchers are warning.
Kurdistan: A successful state for the Kurds
Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 2:16 PM EST (UNPO)
Success stories of state-building in the Middle East have been few. The United Arab Emirates has certainly been one. Qatar, and to an extent Bahrain and Jordan, are now featuring high on good governance indexes. Yet the most impressive of all has been Iraqi Kurdistan.
Sarajevo Embittered by Courts' Silence Over Market Massacre
Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 2:12 PM EST (Balkan Insight)
Only one person has ever faced justice for the horrific bombardment of the Markale market place 16 years ago – and many people want to know why.
The Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back
Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 1:58 PM EST (The New American)
Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them. While Muslims can be peaceful, Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword.
In 37 years as a cancer doctor, I've never had a patient who asked for euthanasia
Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 3:47 AM EST (the Mail online)
The first time I helped someone to die is an occasion I will never forget. He was a 14-year-old boy who was suffering from leukaemia. I was a young cancer registrar at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London.
Traditionally they've been painted as a noble mission. Now, two new books tell the gruesome reality of the Very Unholy Crusades
Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 3:31 AM EST (the Mail online)
Despite centuries of conflict and countless Crusades, the Christian armies ultimately failed in their bid to reconquer the Holy Land and that ideal - in practice, so far from ideal - finally died. But it continues to haunt us, and the Islamic world.
Pig lungs could soon be transplanted into humans after astonishing medical breakthrough
Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 3:10 AM EST (the Mail online)
Pig lungs could be transplanted into humans to overcome a shortage of donor organs after a medical breakthrough. Australian scientists have paved the way for animal-human transplants in as little as five years, after keeping pig lungs alive and functioning with human blood.
Patient in a vegetative state 'talks' to scientists
Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 3:01 AM EST (the Mail online)
British scientists are hailing a world-first ' conversation' with a man diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state. They say the breakthrough has enormous implications for the care and treatment of vegetative patients.
Are aliens out there? Heavens, I hope so!
Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 2:37 AM EST (the Mail online)
As a science writer, I often wonder what could be the biggest story to break in my line of work, something which would put up a fight with the Second Coming for precedence on the front page.
20 Reasons to Worry
Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 2:37 PM EST (MarketWatch.com)
From MarketWatch, which is fairly mainstream, this is pretty good doom and gloom. Check it out then sound off if you have an opinion.
Muslim fundamentalists should 'drink wine to learn tolerance'
Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 12:55 PM EST (Telegraph)
Roger Scruton, 65, urged "lunatic fundamentalists who have set their heart on giving Islam a bad name" to imbibe, although it is considered against their religion, claiming it would help them to a more moderate view.
Abstinence-only programs reduces sexual activity: Study
Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 12:39 PM EST (Vancouver Sun)
Instead of portraying sex in a negative light or forgoing the discussion of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases altogether — which has lead to some criticisms about abstinence education in the U.S.
Not native? Then leave reserve, Mohawks say
Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 12:35 PM EST (Vancouver Sun)
The Kahnawake reserve on Montreal's South Shore has issued eviction notices to 25 residents, saying they are not native enough to remain there.
China's global hunt for food security
Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 12:33 PM EST (Vancouver Sun)
The Kazakhstanis, whose close cousins are the heavily suppressed Uighurs of China's neighbouring Xinjiang province, are already nervous about Beijing's growing control of their oil industry.
Bosnia Muslim Ex-Commander Arrested For War Crimes
Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 1:57 AM EST (Radio Free Europe)
Bosnian police have arrested a Muslim wartime commander on suspicion of killing more than 20 Croat civilians and prisoners of war during the Muslim-Croat war in 1993, the state prosecutor's office said.
Bosnian police raid radical Muslim stronghold
Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 1:49 AM EST (Reuters)
Bosnian police launched on Tuesday a major raid on a village which is home to followers of the radical Wahabbi branch of Islam, targeting people whom authorities suspect of destabilising the country.
Attacks on Google 'wake-up call:' U.S. intelligence chief
Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 1:06 AM EST (Financial Post)
Recent cyber attacks on Google Inc. are a "wake-up call" and neither the U.S. government nor the private sector can fully protect the U.S. cyber infrastructure, the director of U.S. national intelligence said on Tuesday.
Uncovering Secrets of the Sphinx
Seeded on Tue Feb 2, 2010 1:42 PM EST (Smithsonian)
When Mark Lehner was a teenager in the late 1960s, his parents introduced him to the writings of the famed clairvoyant Edgar Cayce.
Pictures: "Mythical" Temple Found in Peru
Seeded on Tue Feb 2, 2010 1:37 PM EST (National Geographic)
A thousand-year-old temple complex (including a tomb with human sacrifice victims, shown in a digital illustration) has been found under the windswept dunes of northwestern Peru, archaeologists say.
Dozens of Americans, Canadians sought asylum in UK
Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:37 PM EST
British government figures show that dozens of Americans and Canadians have applied for asylum in the U.K. in the past few years on the grounds that they were persecuted in their own countries.
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A Forgivable Genocide (Part 4 - Quandary)
Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:49 PM EST
The three preceding articles: Historical Background Jordan Black September ... were strictly historical. I have been as coldly factual as possible, not wanting any ulterior debate about historical fact. This article, though, is pure opinion.
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A Forgivable Genocide (Part 3 - Black September)
Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:36 AM EST
In the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Transjordan occupied and then annexed the "West Bank", changing its name to "Jordan".
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A Forgivable Genocide (Part Two - Jordan)
Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:03 AM EST
After the creation of the Emirate of Transjordan in the early 1920s as a British satellite alongside the "Palestine Mandate", things were fairly quiet all the way to the Second World War.
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You have...and always will be....my friend.
just wanted to say thanks for honestly sharing and defending your views. i learn through debate and thoughtful comment without it, how do we get any smarter? I have not always agreed with you on everything, and still don't. But you have pulled me to your side on a number of issues. That's how the hell this is suppose to work..imo.
— maddad
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I appreciate your insightful articles and seeds. You are a wonderful woman and don't ever let anyone ever tell you otherwise! You rock!— Lilith41
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good stuff......the truth is breaking out of jail, alot of us here will be in the getaway car...
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