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Source: "The Hindu"
“RSS-BJP combine using the land row to whip up communal passions”
UPA government urged to initiate dialogue
with Sangharsh Samiti
NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday accused the RSS-BJP combine of utilising the Amarnath land row in Jammu and Kashmir to “whip up communal passions” in a bid to consolidate its ‘Hindu vote bank.’
“Communal passions are being sharply aroused with rumours spreading like wildfire about (…)

Source: "The Dawn"
By Our Correspondent
WANA, Aug 13: At least 12 militants, most of them non-locals, were killed in a series of explosions in Bagher area of South Waziristan on late Tuesday night. The local Taliban suspected the blasts were caused by a missile attack.
Local people reported having heard four loud explosions late in the night. The place targeted was the residence of local tribesman Abdur Rehman Wazir in Bagher, about 30 kilometres west of Wana.
Rehman Wazir, who is (…)

SRINAGAR, Aug 13: Angry Muslims mourning at least 20 protesters killed by police torched security bunkers and rioted in occupied Kashmir’s main city on Wednesday, as a land row with Hindus revived calls for independence.
Police fired teargas shells to disperse thousands of Muslim protesters who defied a curfew at several places across the occupied valley, police said. They said over two dozen people were injured in clashes between stone-throwing protesters and police.
A curfew remained (…)

By David Glenn Cox
Ah, the time grows short from May to November, but still there is time for one more Bush war. The Russian incursion into Georgia has been heavy-handed and overbearing, but not really all that surprising.
Russia is a nation on the far edge of Europe, and prior to the 20th century all political communications were sent by dispatch. Before the Czars could hear about an issue, in many cases it was already over. Ruling over a huge empire with weak and almost non-existent (…)

Jammu/Srinagar (Press Trust of India): Shoot-at-sight orders were on Wednesday issued in Kishtwar town, rocked by communal clashes over the Amarnath issue, even as fresh violence erupted in Srinagar with protesters pelting stones at security personnel in several areas in the city.
The toll in two days of violent protests in Kashmir Valley over the "economic blockade" rose to 21 with three persons wounded in police firing succumbing to their injuries early on Wednesday, official sources (…)

By Jawed Naqvi
Source: "The Dawn"
NEW DELHI, Aug 12: Twelve Kashmiri protesters were shot to death in different parts of the Valley on Tuesday, at least four of them at a funeral for the slain Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz. He was killed on Monday in an army assault on a rally that was headed for the LoC on its way to Muzaffarabad.
Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said there was no news of the whereabouts of Shabbir Shah, another senior resistance leader who was (…)

"I condemn Russia’s aggressive actions," said Obama
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, condemned the Georgian leader last night, saying: "A man who issued orders to commit war crimes which resulted in thousands of deaths of peaceful civilians cannot be viewed by Russia as a partner."
Russian Cameraman: CNN Aired Misleading Footage http://www.prisonplanet.com/russian-cameraman-cnn-aired-misleading-footage.html
Hey! But George Norry supports murdering helpless women and (…)

By Jawed Naqvi
Source: The Dawn
NEW DELHI, Aug 11: Indian security forces shot to death five Kashmiri protesters headed for the LoC (lign of control) on Monday, including senior Hurriyat Conference leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz, his comrades said. Many were injured in the firing.
APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, himself under house-arrest since Sunday, said from Srinagar that there was no news of the whereabouts, nor about the condition, of resistance leader Shabbir Shah who was among the (…)

The monk Tenzin Gyatso is visiting France; It`s an opportunity for french peoples to know something more about the religion and personality of dalai-lama...
The indepth story and truth about tibetan philosophy
http://www.trimondi.de:80/EN/interv03.html
An Interview with Victor and Victoria Trimondi (Germany)
By James C. Stephens
September 11, 2003
Stephens: This September 11 on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on America, the keynote speaker at the National (…)

With the trouble that around 75% of Americans are in bad credit, maybe its time to encourage local legislation to deal with this. In Philadelphia, when the forclosure process begins they require both partys to come to a settlement that the debtor can afford. Simply rewrite the laws at the local level and ban forclosures. the local municipalities will keep on getting the local taxes this way
If this were enacted it would at least keep us from having neighbouthood values decrease even (…)