Saturday, May 18, 2013
Israel’s Absorption of Ethiopian Jews a Failure – Scathing Report
AFRICANGLOBE – Israel’s absorption of Ethiopian Jews is a failure, State Comptroller Joseph Shapira said in a scathing report released today. According to Ynet, in 2001, the Government of Israel announced a special 9-year $660-million absorption program for the approximately 130,000 Ethiopian Jews...
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Friday, May 3, 2013
The Pope and Godless Capitalism
By Pat Buchanan: "This is called slave labor," said Pope Francis. The Holy Father was referring to the $40 a month paid to apparel workers at that eight-story garment factory in Bangladesh that collapsed on top of them, killing more than 400. "Not paying a just wage... focusing exclusively on the...
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Boston and the future of Islam in America
By Reihan Salam One of the central questions surrounding the Boston Marathon bombings is whether they portend a larger wave of terror attacks by homegrown Islamic radicals. The culprits, two brothers of Chechen origin, one of whom was a naturalized U.S. citizen, had both lived in the country for...
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Russia, on Boston suspects, condemns all "terrorists"
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russia condemns all "terrorists" regardless of their nationality, President Vladimir Putin 's spokesman said on Friday after U.S. police shot dead a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing who once lived in Russia. The man who was shot dead and his suspected accomplice were...
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Majority Now Support Marijuana Legalization, Poll Finds
By Chris Good | ABC OTUS News: For years, supporters of marijuana legalization have pointed to polls trending their way, claiming the issue was about to tip as favorable to a majority of Americans. Now, their prediction has finally come true. For the first time, a major U.S. poll shows a majority of...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Hugo Chavez, fiery Venezuelan leader, dies at 58
By FRANK BAJAK | Associated Press: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez was a fighter. The former paratroop commander and fiery populist waged continual battle for his socialist ideals and outsmarted his rivals time and again, defeating a coup attempt, winning re-election three times and...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Back in the USSR? Key Soviet document is missing
By YURAS KARMANAU | Associated Press: MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The powerful Soviet Union may still exist after all — at least on paper. Former Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich says a historic 1991 document that proclaimed the death of the Soviet Union is missing from the archives. Shushkevich...
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Monday, December 3, 2012
Insurance company tells man that he’s ‘dead’
By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News | The Sideshow: George Johannesen is dead to Manitoba Public Insurance. Sure, he's still technically alive. But the insurance company recently sent the 59-year-old Canadian a letter declaring that he had died in October. In a letter addressed to "The Estate of George...
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Why Loneliness Can Be Deadly
By Katherine Gammon | LiveScience.com: Loneliness can send a person down a path toward bad health, and even more intense loneliness, studies have shown. But while some have assumed the culprit was a dearth of others to remind a person to take care of himself or herself, new research suggests there's...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Pot legalization efforts forge ahead in key states
By Alex Dobuzinskis: (Reuters) - Efforts to legalize marijuana for recreational use are gaining momentum in Washington state and Colorado, despite fierce opposition from the federal government and a decades-long cultural battle over America's most commonly used illicit drug. Officials in Washington...
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