Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Oct 24 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, World News
When my mother was liberated from concentration camp in Indonesia at the end of WWII, she found herself facing another threat: the native Indonesians were rising up against the colonial Dutch. For them, killing the sick, starved Dutch ex-POWs, all still clustered in the camps pending repatriation, was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Relief came [...]
Terry Trippany on Oct 15 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, World News
Quite a turn of events. It seems that the Americans are poised to vote for Barack Obama while Canada will continue its latest tradition and continue to support their ruling conservatives.
Voting has ended in Canada’s third general election in four years, with early results showing victory for the ruling Conservatives.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Aug 15 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, World News
The video, news reports and first hand testimony of what is happening in Georgia should be an eye-opener to the West. Georgia, a friend of the United States, is being demolished by Russian military. They are systematically destroying the Georgian military, installations, equipment, navy, ships, and anything else they that gets in their path.
A ceasefire? [...]
RightGirl at Girl on the Right on May 22 2008 | Filed under: Terrorism, World News
Swedish police arrested two maintenance workers on suspicion of plotting sabotage after they tried to enter a nuclear power plant Wednesday with traces of a powerful explosive like that used in the 2005 London transit bombings, officials said.The plant’s operator, OKG, said no bomb was found and the incident did not pose a threat to [...]
Terry Trippany on Mar 01 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, World News
If this isn’t an issue during the upcoming Presidential debates it should be. Boeing, A U.S. Company based in Chicago, lost its bid to continue a 50 year tradition of supplying refueling tankers to the Air Force to European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) that has partnered with California’s Northrup Gruman to give an [...]
Terry Trippany on Feb 17 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Islam, Linkfest, World News
et in all of their reporting the AP omits the fact that the 90% majority of Ethnic Albanians that make up Kosovo’s population just happens to be Muslim and that the KLA is reported to have had ties with Osama Bin Laden and other radial Islamic groups.
Terry Trippany on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, World News
Somebody has stolen the heart of of 19th century Argentine friar Mamerto Esquiu.
Born in Catamarca in 1826, Esquiu entered the monastery at a young age and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1848. He gave stirring speeches supporting Argentine unity and its 1853 constitution, becoming a famed religious leader and patriot.
Esquiu died in 1883. [...]
Terry Trippany on Jan 13 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, World News
Back in July I wrote about Jane Felix-Browne, the woman struck with Multiple Sclerosis who was in Egypt receiving treatment for her illness when she met and married [tag]Omar Bin Laden, fourth son to Osama Bin Laden. The two had a whirlwind romance that ended up with Jane being Omar’s second or third wife. As [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Dec 31 2007 | Filed under: World News
There’s been a lot of finger pointing in the few days since Bhutto’s assassination. John Edwards blamed George Bush. Mike Huckabee went so far as to blame the entire United States, apologizing on our behalf. Robert Novak thinks the United States is also to blame for the fact that it neither provided [...]
Terry Trippany on Dec 29 2007 | Filed under: Feature Article, World News
Merry Christmas!! An ass from California thought it was in her best interests to put herself on an international American Airlines flight from New Delhi to San Francisco despite being very sick and diagnosed with a highly resistant strain of tuberculosis. Thankfully she was too sick to go shopping on Christmas otherwise the CDC would [...]
