An American TV crew, correspondent Kevin Sites of NBC television has filmed a US Marine shooting dead an unarmed Iraqi as he was lying on the floor of a Fallujah mosque.
A reporter at the scene said the marine shot ibn the head the Iraqi – apparently wounded – after saying he was
Apparently a lot of Americans frustrated with Bush’s re-election are starting to think that the grass is greener north of the border, Canada.
The Canadian immigration Web site had 115,000 hits the day after the election — from the U.S. alone. Usually, they only get 20,000 hits.
There was so much interest that a Vancouver-based Internet company, Communicopia, set up a new Web site this month — www.canadianalternative.com — to suggest Canada as a viable option for its American clients, including anyone concerned about constitutional bans on gay marriage passed in 11 U.S. states this month.
Another Web site urges Canadians: “Open your heart, and your home. Marry an American. Legions of Canadians have already pledged to sacrifice their singlehood to save our southern neighbours from four more years of cowboy conservatism.”
Well, time has flown by as it usually does and Ramadan with all it’s holiness and glory has come to an end.
The Eid in Tunisia was on Sunday, so we also got Monday off from work.
I didn’t get a chance to blog in the weekend, so although this is a bit late I wish all of you had a great Eid.
Eid Mubarak 🙂
Upon popular request, here are the lyrics for Sami Yusuf’s song “Al Mu’allim” (The Teacher).
Al-Mu’allim
We once had a Teacher
The Teacher of teachers,
He changed the world for the better
And made us better creatures,
Oh Allah we
Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes.
Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections
[Details: Rense]
Now, doesn’t that remind you of a certain regime a certain Mr. Bush is leading?
After Google opened up their AdSense program to bloggers, MSN seems to be following in it’s footsteps.
Susan Mernit blogs that MSN Network GM told Mark Glaser how Microsoft might work with bloggers in the future…
“If you’re a blogger, MSN might come to you and say, ‘We want to distribute you. We’ll send you traffic and we want you to run these ads on your site, and you’ll get a share of revenues on that. That’s probably an offer that many bloggers are going to be interested in because they don’t want to have to invest in creating that kind of infrastructure, and they would value the traffic.”
This is very interesting news.
Anyway I’d like to know how MSN are planning on sending traffic to bloggers?
Will they be playing around with their search engine so that bloggers who are in their program get listed high in the search results?
[Via: Mental Mayhem, Micro Persuasion]
Over the next several weeks, Google will be introducing POP access to GMail users.
This means that GMail users will be able to download their emails from Gmail’s servers onto their own computers so they can access them anytime with a program like Microsoft Outlook Express or Netscape Mail, even when they aren
Mikhail Gorbachev presented Yusuf Islam with the “Man for Peace” award at the opening of a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
The former Soviet leader kissed the singer on the cheeks and praised him for standing by his convictions despite personal hardships.
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The British musician was expelled from the United States in September after authorities diverted his London-to-Washington flight to Maine to remove him, saying he was suspected of ties to terrorism.
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The musician is the founder of Small Kindness, a charity to raise money for children and families suffering from poverty and war in the Balkans and Middle East.
He has also donated money to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and to the fight against AIDS in South Africa.
Source: CNN
How extremely ironic.
The thought that this man of peace was not allowed to enter the US because of suspicions that he has ties to terrorism is just so ridiculously stupid.
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Authority President and leader who fought for his people’s cause for decades has died in a French hospital after a lingering illness. He was 75.
Secretary-general of the Palestinian presidency, Tayib Abd al-Rahim, confirmed the death.
His body will be flown to Cairo for a ceremony on Friday and then to the West Bank city of Ramallah for burial the same day.
The speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Rawhi Fattuh, will be sworn in as Palestinian Authority president on an interim basis until elections are held after 60 days.
Yasser Arafat was a great leader, a symbol for resistance and will power, a man of principle, a man who lived and died for a great cause and a man of peace.
It’s so sad to see such a good man pass away.
Today, like everyday, we are all Palestinians, and we all mourn this man we have grown to respect and look up to throughout the years.
May you rest in peace Yasser Arafat.
These past couple of days i’ve been listening to Lara Fabian’s second english album A Wonderful Life, and WOW, it’s simply breathtaking.
Lara’s voice is one of the best female voices out there, and she’s been belting out the most amazing ballads and songs in both English and French.
I became a fan ever since the first song I heard by her, which was “Je T’Aime”.
She has perfect control over her powerful voice and a beautiful taste in music.
This album is another masterpiece in her collection of great works, a true musical delight for the ear.
My favourites songs on this album are: Unbreakable, Conquered, I Guess I loved You, I Am.
I totally recommend this album to everyone who is into this type of music.
