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The Imperial Presidency With Cavity Fighting Fluoride Protection!
Maryland State Police labeled members of a Montgomery County environmental group as terrorists and extremists days after they held a nonviolent protest at an appearance by then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. at a Bethesda high school. Police files released to the activists reveal that the governor's security detail alerted the state police's Homeland Security and Intelligence Division to what troopers guarding Ehrlich described as "aggressive protesting" by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network in 2
19 Nov 2008, 9:47 am | click here for more
GTD Islamically: Today’s Work, Tomorrow’s Work
GTD Islamically: Today’s Work, Tomorrow’s Work November 19, 2008 by Faraz Rabbani Shaykh Yusuf Sacha related to me, during a visit to Amman, Jordan, from one of his teachers that he used to respond to each day’s correspondence the very same day, saying, “If I don’t do today’s work today, then when will I do tomorrow’s work?” Filed below: Islam Tagged: GTD, Islam, productivity, Scholars
19 Nov 2008, 4:48 pm | click here for more
You actually like your job… because I do
As an art director working in advertising, we’re hypocrites most of the time when it comes to liking our jobs, we actually like our job. No matter how much I bitch and moan about my job, my boss, my co-workers, my client and the long hours I work… I actually really like my job. I like what I do and will never actually leave the advertising business, because the thought of having a “real” office job filled with spreadsheets, meetings and whatever else people do in real jobs, makes me want to cr
19 Nov 2008, 1:29 am | click here for more
UN calls for more funds for Palestinian refugees
AMMAN, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) — The UNRWA Hosts and Donors Meeting kicked off Tuesday in Jordan’s capital of Amman, with the cash-strapped UN aid agency calling for more funds for millions of Palestinian refugees. The UNRWA, known as United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the close East, expects its budget deficit for this year and the first quarter of 2009 to reach around 160 million U.S. dollars, Karen Koning AbuZayd, UNRWA commissioner general, told reporters. “We a
19 Nov 2008, 12:16 am | click here for more
Bye bye TRL, I’m old…
Beyonce opens and closed the last TRL, TRL was the flagship television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV’s prime outlet for music videos as the network continues to concentrate on reality-based programming. In addition to music videos, TRL featured daily guests. The show was a popular promotion tool used by musicians, actors, and other celebrities to promote their newest works to the show’s target teen demographic. I used to skip school for the top 10 @ TRL, now i
19 Nov 2008, 10:31 am | click here for more
More than 800 Palestinian refugees are stuck waiting for your help
More than 800 Palestinian refugees are stuck on the Iraqi-Syrian borders since 2006, they are in need for serious help, to donate visit the Trade Union Complex in Shmesani (Naqabat) Amman, or call +962 6 5 666 161 for more details.
18 Nov 2008, 9:40 am | click here for more
DrumBeat: November 18, 2008
Credit crisis dims the lights for power industry GREAT FALLS, Montana: As workers scramble to build an $800 million coal-fired power plant on a patch of farmland here, a crisis that began on faraway Wall road threatens to stretch America's power supplies to the brink — driving up prices and laying the stage for future shortages. The power industry is below extraordinary financial pressure just five years after North America suffered its worst blackout ever, when rolling outages turned out
18 Nov 2008, 8:23 am | click here for more
Iraq - More corrupt and more corrupter
On October 18, 2008, unbossed reviewed congressional testimony on corruption in Iraq that reaches well into the al-Maliki government and has meant that billions of US dollars has been lost. Yesterday the New York Times report in Premier of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors reported on events related to the testimony at that hearing. The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to battle corruption in Iraqi
18 Nov 2008, 6:46 am | click here for more
Hizb ut-Tahrir America May Be Ready for Its Public Debut, private Investigator Bill Warner first exposed Hizb ut-Tahrir in America (HTA) in Oct 2005
CLICK IMAGES TO PLAY BBC NEWS VIDEO FROM THE HIZB ut-TAHRIR AMERICA BIRTHPLACE AT THE MASJID AL-FATIMA IN QUEENS NY ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 9TH 2005 Hizb ut-Tahrir America May Be Ready for Its Public Debut Tuesday, 18 November 2008, Counterterrorism Blog, By Madeleine Gruen; Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) may perceive itself as ready to emerge from the shadows in the USA, (finally admitting it's existance after it was exposed back in October 2005 in Queens NY). A leaflet credited to HTA was posted to
18 Nov 2008, 6:08 pm | click here for more
Opening of the 4th Annual Conference on Technology Commercialization
Opening of the 4th Annual Conference on Technology Commercialization below the patronage of HRH, the president of the Royal Scientific Society (RSS), Princess Sumaya Bint El Hassan, the 4th Conference on Technology Commercialization entitled: “Technology Transfer (R&D and IP Commercialization, Policies, and Investments” was inaugurated in Le Meridien Hotel Amman, Jordan. on Wednesday the 12th of November. 2008. Read the relax of this entry »
18 Nov 2008, 6:04 am | click here for more
dagsluiting | Quietly Distorted Night
18 Nov 2008, 5:59 pm | click here for more
Best of the Rest: From Amman to Darfur, With Love
Although Best of the relax is still a young category , Kinzi is already leaping ahead in the compelling posts stakes. Today’s post challenges conceptions about Sudan: faith, conflict, and the miracle of human tenacity. This is definitely one for the file.
18 Nov 2008, 4:19 am | click here for more
Iraq Status Of Forces Agreement: It's Not Time To Break Out The Party Hats
Shock and Awe . . . Toppled statue . . . Mission Accomplished . . . Coalition of the Willing . . . Not enough troops . . .I sometimes wonder what Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Perle feel when they look a photograph like this one. Silly of me, I guess, but it's my possess way of trying to imagine whether they have the faintest understanding of the bad that their little adventure in Iraq unleashed.I suspect that they do understand in an abstract-ish sort of way. Even though their heads
18 Nov 2008, 2:53 am | click here for more
Queen Rania responds
An American exchange student visits Jordan and talks about his experiences. Visit Queen Rania’s official YouTube Channel Dedicated to breaking down stereotypes about the Arab and Muslim worlds and to bridging the East-West divide, this is Queen Rania’s official YouTube Channel. Queen Rania has played a significant role in reaching out to the global community to foster values of tolerance and acceptance, and increase cross-cultural dialogue. Regionally and internationally, Queen Rania has
18 Nov 2008, 2:03 am | click here for more
General Defies Military Culture Of Silence About Mental Health Issues
As those who’ve been to war before them, our Troops who are fighting in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, sometimes arrive home with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The military culture has long been that to admit that they were having trouble dealing with the traumatic things they had to do or that they saw on the battle field, was a sign of weakness. In the past, those who spoke up about problems they were having were told to “Suck it up and Soldier on.” The military is working difficult to erase th
18 Nov 2008, 2:00 am | click here for more
First meeting with Bnei Menashe
DIMAPUR - Our group has now flown from Israel to Amman, from Amman to Delhi, from Delhi to Calcutta, and from Calcutta to Dimapur, the commercial capital of Nagaland in the North East. I have to say that for a group of twenty middle aged and older religious folks I’m amazed at the energy and spirit of this group. Everyone is helping everyone else. Friendships have been formed and the atmosphere is really upbeat, despite the long haul out here and the delays. How we made it on time, and as
18 Nov 2008, 12:08 am | click here for more
Some thoughts from Jordan
Due to a maddening airport worker’s strike, we were delayed at Ben Gurion Airport for three hours before our flight to Amman, Jordan. Some observations about Jordan: For me it was the first time flying out of Amman, and seeing where else Royal Jordanian can take you in the Middle East was a tantalizing, yet ultimately disappointing thought. Like many Israelis I know, the thought of traveling to places like Oman, Muscat, Damascus and so many other places is an ingrained wish; maybe one day.
18 Nov 2008, 12:02 am | click here for more