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Thursday, November 18, 2004

No AIDS-Infected Children In Africa

It's a miracle equalled only by those in the bible. The Christian Science Monitor reported from Togo that recent attempts to ascertain the extent of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with regards to children of one or both parents who had died of HIV/AIDS returned with there not being one infected child. How on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Aid Worker Likely Beheaded

Al-Jazeera, the Islamic broadcasting station, announced today that they received a videotape of a blind-folded woman being beheaded by masked gunmen. It is believed that the woman in the video is Margaret Hassan, the CARE worker who was kidnapped last month. There is no low to which these extremists... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 15, 2004

Atlantis Found!!

Robert Samast, a Los Angeles architect with a penchant for Plato and anything Atlantean, has claimed the discovery of the lost island of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus. After 2 1/2 years of exploration and sonar scans, the expedition has hit paydirt according to its leader, citing as his evidence... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 14, 2004

Temporary Freeze

Iran has agreed to the United Nations' demands that it freeze its nuclear enrichment programs. But they stressed that the freeze would only be temporary, because they had a few bombs to build. Sorry, couldn't help myself. Iran said that the freeze was temporary because it looked as if those damned... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 11, 2004

What Arafat Leaves Behind

Yasser Arafat's death before dawn this Thursday has sent the Palestinian world reeling. Not appointing a successor, many fear the transition period will be very chaotic. Some see this as a time when Palestinians and Israelis need to reach out and find some common ground. Some are finding it another... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 8, 2004

How About Those French Warriors?

France, in retaliation for the airstrike against the rebellious north by the Ivory Coast government that killed nine French peacekeepers and an American aid worker, destroyed the Ivory Coast's fledgling air force (two warplanes and three helicopters) and surrounded the capitol building. Loyalists... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 7, 2004

That'll Roast A Cow Or Two

India test-fired a missile capable of carrying either a conventional or nuclear warhead from a submarine in the Bay of Bengal today. They informed neighboring Pakistan, occasional enemy, as is routinely done in such circumstances. Now, here's a country with millions dying of starvation every day, a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 6, 2004

Coming Back To Haunt Them

With Yaser Arafat in a coma from which he may never return, his successor unnamed, the Palestinians are girding themselves for another engagement with their favorite enemy, Israel -- Arafat's final resting place. Arafat has stated publicly that he wishe to be buried in East Jerusalem, on the Temple... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 5, 2004

Still No End Of Violence In Darfur

The Sudanese government refused to sign an agreement with the Darfur rebels, an attempt by U.N. mediators to begin an end to the civil war in that region, stating that the accord was too one-sided. I wonder which side was getting all the perks? Consider that the Sudanese government has been on a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 1, 2004

Enough Goldbricking In Iraq; On To Iran!!!

It looks more and more as if the next showdown between a nation of Islam and the West is going to be with Iran. That benighted nation unanimously passed a bill in their parliament yesterday that would allow the continuation of the uranium enrichment programs, United Nations and many Western nations... Sign in to see full entry.

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