NSA leaker holed up in Hong Kong hotel, running low on cash
By Jethro Mullen and Matt Smith, CNN updated 5:09 AM EDT, Mon June 10, 2013 Hong Kong (CNN) — The man behind of one of the biggest leaks in the […]
Mandela’s Pal: ‘Time to Let Him Go’
Source: CNN Johannesburg (CNN) — South Africans offered prayers at church services while the rest of the world awaited word Sunday on Nelson Mandela‘s condition, a day after the ailing civil rights icon was rushed to the hospital yet again. The office hasn’t offered a new update since informing the […]
Santa Monica Shootings
Source: CBS News: The man suspected of a shooting rampage that left six people dead and shattered the calm of Santa Monica, Calif., allegedly began his spree of violence by killing his father and brother, and then setting their home on fire, a law enforcement source told ABC News. The […]
Taliban attack on Kabul airport quashed as 7 insurgents killed
Source: CBS News KABUL, Afghanistan Seven heavily armed insurgents launched an hours-long gun battle with security forces near Afghanistan’s main airport Monday, after they apparently tried to attack NATO’s airport headquarters with rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles and at least one large bomb, the army and police said. Kabul police chief […]
Four UK teens arrested after Islamic school fire
Source: TOI LONDON: British Police say four teenagers have been arrested after a suspicious weekend fire at an Islamic boarding school in a London suburb. More:
Obama rocks foreign-policy pundits
Source: TOI How far the cabinet appointments in the United States reflect ideological considerations or how merely subjective and whimsical they could be on the part of the president remains a matter of debate. Perhaps, the president largely chooses the men (or women) he is comfortable with as cabinet colleagues. […]
Russia’s new Middle Eastern role
Source: Asia Times: Russia has thrown a monkey wrench into Western plans for Syria by promising to deliver its top-of-the-line S300 surface-to-air missile system to the Bashar al-Assad government. Exactly when the missiles might arrive remains unclear; the last word from Moscow is that the missiles are not yet in […]
Pakistani State Moves Foward in its Agenda of Ahmadiyya Muslim Persecution: Zafarul Haq Elevated to PMLN Leader of House in Senate
Editors Note: Raja Zafarul Haq, well known for his anti ahmadiyya stance has been elevated to the rank of a federal minister and as the next possible Chair of senate after being nominated as the leader of the house in Senate. This means that he is essantially President in Waiting, […]
Switzerland: Tighter Asylum Law: Minister pushes for more and fair asylum reforms
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch June 9, 2013 – 20:20 Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga says voters’ approval on Sunday of the latest reform paves the way for the introduction of faster […]
What is a Mirage: Why material pleasures will never bring real happiness?
Epigraph: And as to those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water until, when he comes up to […]
Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?
Washington Post: The whistleblower who disclosed classified documents regarding NSA surveillance to The Washington Post and the Guardian has gone public. He is Edward Snowden, 29, an employee of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Edward Snowden (The Guardian) Rather than face charges in the United States, Snowden has fled to Hong Kong. […]
Turkish protesters say they fight PM’s strict Islamic views
(CBS News) ISTANBUL – Turkey’s prime minister said Sunday his country’s financial markets are under attack. Tayyip Erdogan blamed speculators reacting to a tenth day of fierce nationwide protests against […]
San Francisco Airport’s garage now Muslim house of worship
Here’s a sign of the changing times — Muslim cabbies now have their very own place at San Francisco International Airport to wash their hands and feet before they pray. […]
Women Of The Wall Pray At The Western Wall With Few Ultra-Orthodox Protesters
Source: The Huffington Post An Israeli Jewish women of the Woman of the Wall organization prays while wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews […]
Otherizing
Epigraph: “Has the story of Abraham’s honored guests reached thee? When they entered upon him and said, ‘Peace!’ he said, ‘Peace!’ They were all strangers. And he went quietly to his household, […]
Hours after launching, NI21 in polygamy row
by Sam McBride sam.mcbride@newsletter.co.uk Just hours after an enthusiastic launch attended by hundreds of people, Northern Ireland’s newest political party found itself backed into an extraordinary cul-de-sac in a debate […]
How to destroy the future: From the Cuban missile crisis to a fossil fuels frenzy, the US is intent on winning the race to disaster by Noam Chomsky
What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what’s happening here or, for that matter, imagine you’re an historian 100 years from […]
NSA’s Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do
Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data ‘directly from the servers’ of tech firms James Ball guardian.co.uk, Saturday 8 June 201 The slide details different methods of data collection under the FISA Amendment Act. Since Prism was first revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post, there […]
Sweden’s Princess Madeleine marries New York banker in lavish ceremony
Swedish Princess Madeleine wed New York banker Christopher O’Neill in a lavish and emotional wedding ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. see video report here:
Let ailing Nelson Mandela go, friend urges
South Africans were urged to let go of their beloved hero Nelson Mandela after the ailing 94-year-old spent a second night in hospital with a recurrent pneumonia infection. Officials have not released an update on Mandela’s health since announcing that he was back in hospital and was in a “serious […]