As long as people have engaged in private conversations, eavesdroppers have tried to listen in. When important matters were discussed in parlors, people slipped in under the eaves-literally within the “eaves­drop”-to hear what was being said. When conversations moved to telephones, the wires were tapped. And now that so much human activity takes place in […]

A couple of months ago, the fascist British National Party held a rally in a field in Derbyshire. Anti-racist groups (and the Socialist Workers’ Party) converged on the site of the so-called “Red White and Blue Festival” to voice their opposition.
By contrast, this year’s Global Peace and Unity Event, organised by the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Islam […]

Cinco de Mayo is very similar to St. Patrick’s Day, except with goofier hats.
There are other similarities, too. On St. Patrick’s Day, we drink thick, bitter Irish beer and pretend that we like it. On Cinco de Mayo, we drink excellent Mexican beer and thank God that we aren’t drinking thick, bitter Irish beer.
I wanted […]

Following a review of security at the UK Visa Application Centres (VACs),
the British High Commission is pleased to announce that Gerry’s
International are re-opening the Karachi VAC on 8 October 08. Gerry’s
International are also aiming to re-open their Lahore VAC on 13 October 08.
With immediate effect, anyone wishing to apply for a UK visa […]

I can remember growing up the devil was mostly a conceptual idea more than an actual being. He also, on some level was something of a scapegoat. Kind of a “the Devil made me do it” attitude, although not quite so foreword with the wording. At the very least, I would think that it wasn’t […]

97 Reasons Democrats Are Weak On Defense And Can’t Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 9/29/2006
Today’s Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another.
Jimmy Carter, elected during the Cold War with […]

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ “Situation Reports” (No. 30, 01 Aug 2008):
More than 150 children have been killed or injured through indiscriminate shelling, bombings and crossfire in the past year. In a press statement issued on 31 July, Christian Balslev-Olesen, UNICEF Representative to Somalia, said, ‘the current environment of […]

Brad Jayakody modeling his Transformers T-Shirt
LONDON: An airline passenger was threatened with arrest for wearing a T-shirt showing a cartoon robot brandishing a futuristic gun.
IT consultant Brad Jayakody was stopped at security checks at Heathrow’s infamous Terminal 5 and ordered to remove his ‘offensive’ Transformers T-shirt.
The 30-year-old Londoner was set to fly to Dusseldorf in […]

Besides the terrible killings inflicted by the fanatics on those who refuse to pledge allegiance to them, Al-Qa’eda has lost credibility for enforcing a series of rules imposing their way of thought on the most mundane aspects of everyday life.
They include a ban on women buying suggestively-shaped vegetables, according to one tribal leader in the […]