Trilateral Member Hormats nominated to State Department
On July 18, 2009, another Trilateral Commission member has been nominated to a strategic post in the Obama administration, bringing the total number of Obama’s Trilateral appointees to twelve.Robert Hormats, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and Trilateral Commission member.Robert Hormats, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs, has been nominated by President Obama to be an Undersecretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agriculture. His Senate confirmation is expected to proceed without incident...
China web users outnumber US population
The number of Internet users in China is now greater than the entire population of the United States, after rising to 338 million by the end of June, state media reported Sunday.China's online population, the largest in the world, rose by 40 million in the first six months of 2009, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing a report by the China Internet Network Information Center...
City plans to use catacombs for swine flu victims
A city council said Saturday it was considering using underground burial chambers, currently a tourist attraction, to store the corpses of swine flu victims if the pandemic worsens.Exeter City Council said the empty 19th-century catacombs could become an emergency mortuary.A council spokesman said the plan could be put into operation if the cemeteries and the crematorium could not keep up with funeral demands.....
NRA's Opposition to Sotomayor Fails to Persuade Senators
Disabled U.K. Woman Wins Legal Battle in Assisted Suicide Case
A disabled woman won her legal battle Thursday to force British authorities to say whether her husband would be prosecuted if he helped her commit suicide.The House of Lords, Britain's highest court, ordered the government to draw up rules for when it will-and won't-prosecute assisted suicide, which is illegal in the U.K.Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis, said the ruling "gives me my life back." The judgment is a defeat for those who argue that Britain's law on assisted, already rarely enforced, risks being further weakened...
Swine flu screening at UK airports amid fear that NHS could be overwhelmed
NHS intensive care services could be overwhelmed by a huge rise in swine flu cases, researchers have warned, as Britain’s port authorities started screening incoming passengers for the first time.Demand for critical care beds could outstrip the numbers available by 130 per cent, especially in units designed to treat children, according to a study in the journal Anaesthesia....
Bomb Explodes Inside Iraq Mosque,Wounding 2
Iraqi police say a bomb has exploded inside a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad, wounding two people.Saturday's bombing comes a day after a wave of blasts targeting Shiite mosques during prayers in Baghdad that killed at least 29 people.A regional police official says the bomb was hidden inside a toilet in the al-Sahaba mosque in the town of Jurf al-Sakr.
Obamacare called "euthanasia bill":Critic:"Reflects regime worse than China's one-child policy"
The Democrats' proposed national health insurance plan would dictate medications, treatments and mental health services; determine coverages individuals are allowed to have; and operate with real-time access to personal bank accounts, according to a new analysis.
And it's worse, a critic said, than China's mandatory one-child policy...
And it's worse, a critic said, than China's mandatory one-child policy...
Pro-Israel lobby probe linked to anti-Semitism:Ex-informant points to FBI...
A long-running FBI espionage probe of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington appears to have been motivated in part by anti-Semitism, says a former Pentagon official who revealed this week he had cooperated for 10 weeks with federal agents conducting the probe...
PICTURE LEFT:KATIE FALKENBERG/THE WASHINGTON TIMES 'PRACTICING CATHOLIC': Larry Franklin says he "felt dirty sometimes" after hearing remarks by his FBI handlers.
"More than 1,000 Afghan civilians killed this year"
Afghanistan's intensifying conflict killed more than 1,000 civilians in the first six months of 2009, an increase of nearly a quarter over the same period last year, the United Nations said Friday.This year has been the bloodiest in a Taliban-led insurgency that has drawn thousands of international military reinforcements, most of them deploying into areas where a strong militant presence could prevent August 20 elections.
PICTURE LEFT:A young Afghan woman mourns the loss of a relative at a funeral for suicide blast victims in Baghlan, north east of Kabul, in 2007.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)
U.S.Shifts Target of Drones From Al Qaeda to Taliban
UN:"Civilian deaths up 24 percent in Afghanistan"
The United Nations said Friday the number of civilians killed in conflict in Afghanistan has jumped 24 percent so far this year, with bombings by insurgent and airstrikes by international forces the biggest single killers.In a grim assessment of the first half of 2009, the U.N. assistance mission in Afghanistan said the Taliban and other anti-government militants have become more deadly by shifting from ambush attacks to suicide bombings, roadside explosives and targeted assassinations....
PICTURE LEFT:In this Sunday, July 19, 2009 file photo, the body of a civilian, who was killed by a suicide attack, is transferred on a police vehicle in Torkham, Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, file)
IRANIAN REVOLUTION UPDATE
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at critics within his own hard-line camp on Friday, denying any rift with Iran's supreme leader, who he said was like a father.The bitter feud with conservatives has shaken Ahmadinejad's government at a time when he is already trying to fend off a major challenge from the other end of the political spectrum — the pro-reform opposition, which says his victory in June 12 presidential elections was fraudulent and that his government is illegitimate...
--On Tehran's Streets, the Basij's Fearsome Reign
--Iranians Try a Shocking Protest
--What the World Didn't See in Tehran
--Iranians Try a Shocking Protest
--What the World Didn't See in Tehran
A NOTE TO MY READERS:UPDATE
Dear friends and visitors:
I would like to update you all about my loved one in the hospital.
She is still in a coma,but yesterday she had to be rushed to surgery again,to remove another section of what is left of her leg,due to a severe developing infection.
She is not showing signs of improvement after 5 days and,this infection is the first complication that shows up.
We are still praying and believing the Lord is dealing with her even while she is in a coma.
The Word of God declares in John 11:25-26
"Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die..."
These words have brought us solace...
We don't understand why it had to take such an extreme situacion for her,but--believe me when I say that--now--God himself is getting her undivided attention.
One of my best friends,was able to go see her and talk to her and pray for her.
Why talk to somebody in a coma?,you may say....Well...we believe it is not in vain,since there are unnumerable testimonies of people listening even in that state...and we can still minister to her spirit...
We also believe that there is nothing impossible with God and that the prayer of a righteous man availeth much,as it is written,so we keep praying and believing.
We refuse to see her spending eternity in hell.
Thank you to all of you that have let me know your concern.
Thank you for the support,prayers,love,notes and emails.
I'm praying for you
God bless you and thank you for visiting my blog...
As in the days of Noah.....
Poll:Americans Disapprove of Obama's Comments on Race
Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of how President Barack Obama dealt with the racially tinged dispute between a white police officer and a well-known black Harvard University scholar -- with disapproval especially strong among white voters, according to a poll released Thursday...
GALLUP:"OBAMA HITS NEW LOW..."
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 28% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12. That’s the lowest rating yet recorded for President Obama...(see trends).
POLICE STATE WATCH:"Grandpa,Pregnant Mom Tasered at Baptism Party..."
"All of a sudden he got Tasered in the back and then this side, and then officer in the front of him Tasered him from the front. My dad was not under arrest. We never heard anyone say you're under arrest...."
WTTG: Grandpa, Pregnant Mom Tasered at Party
WTTG: Grandpa, Pregnant Mom Tasered at Party
ENVIRO CRAZE WATCH:"Aussie Geologist says global warming is "New Religion of First World Urban Elites"..."
Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic...
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic...
A NOTE TO MY READERS....
Dear friends and visitors:
I thought about letting you know why Im not updatting as much as I wanted since yesterday.
We received news home that a loved one is fighthing for its life after a horrible motorbike accident on saturday night.This loved one has been running away from God for some time now,and this accident comes as no surprise.
Only a miracle could save her.The trauma she sustained is extensive--to say the least.
If she wakes up-I pray it will be to make it right with God...If she lives beyond this...it may take years of rehab and surgeries for her even to attain any level of normalcy.
We are heartbroken.We have been crying out to God for her,for one more chance...
I've been on the phone all weekend with family,friends and colleagues and yesterday was a difficult day.
Medically I can tell you that anything can go worse any time.She's out of the first 48 hs,but there is still internal bleeding,they cannot pin point where it's coming from,and so on...
It's difficult,because she is not my patient,we cannot fly there now,so mostly all we know is through other colleagues friends that work in the same city and a friend that will talk to the doctors tonite.This waiting game is difficult.I've been praying for her,like I don't remember praying for anybody else.Lately she has gone back to withcraft...even advertising her services on facebook and other outlets...
A dear friend of us--an elderly pastor--was sharing with us this week that the Lord has been telling him lately to pray for the "prodigals",because this was the day and the hour,prodigals were coming home...I'm just praying my loved one will come back before it is too late for her.
Sadly,we have a lot of prodigals in our family.May be you--that are reading now--are one of them....
I highly recommend you that IF you are a prodigal,you pause now and think about your spiritual state.You dont know what future brings your way.IF you once knew the Lord Jesus in a personal way and now are so far from Him it seems that you cannot find your way back,I give you the solution for your problem;REPENTANCE....That is the key that will open the door for you to make your way back home.
Do not wait any longer...Something unexpected may happen to you today...and IF you don't EVER wake up here....WHERE WILL YOU WAKE UP IN ETERNITY....?Eternity is a long,long time....
If you feel led,help me pray for my loved one.I'm deeply saddened and heavily burdened for all this.I'll update you,as much as I can,while I'm receiving news.
I'll try to update this blog as much as I'm able to,since there are so many news coming from different fronts that WE have to be aware of...
Thank you for reading this note,and thank you for visiting my blog.
Your encouraging emails and notes are much appreciated.
Praying for you and your family
As in the days of Noah...
Islamist Militant Attack on Police Station Kills Dozens in Nigeria
An attack by Islamist militants on a police station in northern Nigeria Sunday has left dozens of people dead, a police spokesman said."A group of fundamentalists this morning attacked a police station in Bauchi state," Nigerian national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu told The Associated Press."They were armed with guns, bows and arrows and explosives. There were some casualties but I cannot say how many for now..."
Hezbollah Leader Threatens Tel Aviv Strike
Hezbollah's leader was quoted by two Lebanese newspapers Monday as warning that his Iranian-backed militants will strike Israel's largest city of Tel Aviv with missiles from Lebanon — if the Jewish state attacked the guerrillas' south Beirut stronghold in a new war.The papers — As-Safir and Al-Akhbar, both with close ties to Hezbollah — said Sheik Hassan Nasrallah made the threat during a weekend closed meeting with a group of Lebanese expatriates.
US calls for Arab world to normalise Israel ties
US Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell called on Arab states on Monday to fully normalise ties with Israel, after meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on the latest leg of a regional tour.Mitchell told reporters after the talks that Washington was asking countries in the region to set the "context" for comprehensive peace negotiations between Israel and the Arab world...
Clinton:"Israel must be patient on Iran"
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday implicitly urged Israel to give US policy on Iran's nuclear ambitions a chance to work.Speaking to NBC television's "Meet the Press," Clinton said Washington hoped Israel understood that American attempts to talk to Iran was a better approach than launching a military strike....
Iran:"Israel should dismantle its nukes"
Iran on Monday rejected the idea of a US defensive umbrella to protect Washington's regional allies against a nuclear Iran.Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hasan Qashqavi told reporters that "there is no need" for a US defensive umbrella, just for Washington to tell Israel to "dismantle its own 200 nuclear warheads..."
Obama Sends Letters to Arab Nations Asking for Help in Israeli Peace Process
President Obama reportedly has sent letters to at least seven Arab states asking them to start taking steps toward normalizing relations with Israel, as his chief Middle East envoy began a set of meetings with officials in Israel.Among the Arab and Gulf states that received the letters were Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, Foreign Policy magazine reported...
Anti-Obama Rally in Jerusalem
For the first time in years, the nationalist camp will hold a large scale rally against United States policies vis-à-vis Israel.The protest will be held in downtown Jerusalem, on Agron St. on Monday evening, and is being organized by the Residents Committees of Binyamin and Samaria, as well as the nationalist umbrella organization Mateh Maamatz, the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities, and Komemiyut...
"Hizbullah training LAF officers"
Lebanese defense officials believe there is a secret pact between Hizbullah and top officers in the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), the Kuwaiti paper Asiyassa reported on Monday.According to the account, a LAF battalion will operate within the Hizbullah framework and have independence and access to the group's arsenal....
Iran's Mousavi says protests will continue: website
Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said on Monday the pro-reform protests which erupted after the country's disputed June presidential vote will continue, his website reported."The pro-reform path will continue," Mousavi said in a statement."The establishment should respect the constitution and let us to gather to commemorate our killed loved ones on Thursday...."
Iran's Opposition Leaders Put Pressure on Regime to Release Prisoners
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