Archive for June, 2006
AP Breaking News – Asia
Philippine President Arroyo leaves hospital after recovering from intestinal ailmentMANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo left the hospital Saturday after a day’s rest following her recovery from an intestinal ailment that forced her to reschedule her planned trip to Europe, officials said…. U.S., Japan expand cooperation on missile-defense plan amid concerns about North [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A King in Our Household
Colbert King 6/17/2006 For Father’s Day, King describes the positive impact his father had on his life and why. Isaiah King refuted the notion that wealth, academic degrees, or social status have anything to do with being a good father. His lasting achievement was to show, through example, that the most vital and irreplaceable condition [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Joyce Lee Malcolm 6/17/2006 Great Britain is the world’s most violent developed country, and the British government has instructed police to let off with a caution burglars and those who admit responsibility for 60 other listed crimes to lessen the impact on the criminal justice system there. Successive governments there have banned many weapons and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lessons of the bus bomb
Last week’s terrorist attack on a bus packed with simple rural folk at Kebetigollewa was the most horrendous in recent memory. It snuffed out the lives of 64 people including women, at least 15 children and two Buddhist monks, grabbing headlines all over the world and pushing Sri Lanka closer to a full-fledged war from [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )They took my father away (Have you funded this terrorism?)
Photo: MOD Sri Lanka I didn’t get a chance to say goodbyeTo you, to tell you that I loved you, to sayWhat now my one long unbroken cryThey took my Father and didn’t think of me.Source: Sri Lanka Politics
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Terrorism, NATO and us
The Tigers have come under an avalanche of international opprobrium following its barbaric terror attack on civilians on Thursday. All their efforts to pull the wool over the eyes of the world community have failed yet another time. The LTTE cyber arm, TamilNet carried a Tiger press release, denying the responsibility for the attack and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Seeds for a Geo-Green Party
Thomas L. Friedman 6/16/2006 Friedman writes that the new Internet-based third party launched recently on the Internet should adopt a green energy platform. This would include a phased-in $1 gasoline tax that would raise the price of gas to a level making environmentally friendly alternatives economically competitive. Unless the Democrats adopt this agenda, it will [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Shame on you, Prabhakaran!
Prabhakaran’s death squads yesterday blasted a busload of civilians at Kebilithigollewa, killing over 60 of them including 15 children and two Buddhist monks. Besides the LTTE’s desperate efforts to provoke a backlash in the South to regain sympathy overseas, the dastardly blast was its reaction to the EU ban. Remember it vowed to unleash hell [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Government Dines on Katrina Leftovers
Emily Chamlee-Wright and Daniel Rothschild 6/15/2006 The latest insult in the Hurricane Katrina debacle is that property owners now face local government officials who want to demolish buildings and possibly strip title from them, thanks to the public health code, eminent domain power, and dubious legal techniques. The authors say outside investment should be chilled [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Iraq’s Atomization
George F. Will 6/15/2006 The late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have been the most effective terrorist in history. Zarqawi set out to prove false a premise central to the US invasion of Iraq: the belief that Iraqis are foremost nationalists and only secondarily sectarians. The February bombing of the Askariya shrine, one of Zarqawi’s last [...]
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