Posted on January 19, 2009 by sanooaung
A price for everything,
and anything for a price
For Afghans
KABUL, Jan 2 — When it comes to governing this violent, fractious land, everything, it seems, has its price.
Want to be a provincial police chief? It will cost you US$100,000 (RM360,000).
Want to drive a convoy of trucks loaded with fuel across the country? Be prepared to [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by sanooaung
The ugly Zionism
At a time when Palestinian men, women and children, corralled in the ghetto of Gaza since 1948, are daily, hourly, relentlessly, being bombed from the air, land and sea, it is instructive to turn to some of the founding fathers of Zionism, and ask what they might have thought about this obscene consequence of [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by sanooaung
Modern day Cleopatra VII Mubarak married
Mr Israel to continue ruling Egypt as the Pharaoh
The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act
JAN 2 — There was a day when we worried about the “Arab masses” — the millions of “ordinary” Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Beirut — and their reaction to the [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by tunaung
from:TIME
John Lewis
Congressman from Georgia
I don’t know whether I will be able to control myself [at the Inauguration]. I will be on the platform, and I’m going to try to keep my balance and not have what I call an out-of-body experience. I want to be able to see down the Mall and past the Washington [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by sanooaung
“Victory” for A heroic Muslim Hamas @ David stand against over whelming military might of Goliath @ Israel
“Victory” may look rather different a few months from now. – The Guardian
JAN 19 – On Saturday evening, Israel announced not a ceasefire – in the sense of an agreement between the parties to end a conflict – but a decision that its forces [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by sanooaung
To read and see videos from the blogger in a hospital in Gaza and other volunteers in gaza go here:
http://palsolidarity.org/
http://talestotell.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/jan-18-at-the-samouni-house/
http://palsolidarity.org/2009/01/4418
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Face of Gaza tragedy cries for peace
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by tunaung
Agencies
Jakarta: Indonesian photographer Ilham Anas has shot to fame working as a double for US President-elect Barack Obama.
Anas rose to fame in Jakarta after Obama won the election in November. Obama lived in Jakarta for four years after his American mother married an Indonesian.
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by sanooaung
South Africa accuses Israel Navy of killing hundreds of Palestinian boat people from Gaza
WARNING: Readers must read the lower part of this news/article to understand the truth. Those reading the upper part only and failed to continue could be mislead or miss the real message.
Cape town, South Africa(AFP) — South Africa said Sunday that hundreds of people were missing at sea, believed to be [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by tunaung
PORT BLAIR, India (AFP) — India said Sunday that hundreds of people were missing at sea, believed to be part of a wave of boat people allegedly dragged out to the middle of the ocean by Thailand and left to die.
Thailand has denied the accusations, but accounts of survivors and the latest reports from the [...]
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