Reuters says that number of Israelis seeking German citizenship is rising.
The report cites Federal Statistics Office data which says that in 2006 4,313 Israelis received German citizenship, a 50% rise compared to 2005.
This shows that the younger generation has different attitude towards Germany and their German heritage than their parents and grand parents who […]
Reuters reports that Human Rights Watch is demanding immediate release of eight student editors and activists arrested in Iran. They say that the students were arrested because, allegedly, they made defamatory comments against Islam in their university student paper.
Meanwhile the spokesman for Iranian Judiciary Alireza Jamshidi has reportedly said that those who were arrested were […]
This week prosecutors decided to drop two charges of felony misdemeanor on a Chicago land student, convicted for writing a stream of consciousness paper in wherein he wished violent acts upon students and faculty, mentioning his teacher by name.
While the prosecutors agree that the defendant had no intention of carrying out these acts, shooting his […]
Last Friday, at least seven oil workers were kidnapped in oil rich Southern Nigeria. The hostages were laying pipelines of the Bayelsa State coast, part of the Niger Delta region, when they were attacked. Kidnappings are common in the Niger Delta; although it produces much of Nigeria’s oil wealth, the Delta population remain the most […]
This week in Kenya has seen a crackdown on the elusive Mungiki sect. Following the beheading of two Kenyan police offices, the Kenyan President began a series of raids against the anti-Western religious group.
Now I’m all for preserving your indigenous culture, but these Mungiki’s aren’t a bunch of tree hugging wimpos practicing outlawed tribal dances […]
After an unexplained four month absence, Moqtada Sadr returned to the Iraqi political scene Friday, in time to host prayers services in a Mosque in Southern Iraq. His sermon, the Sadr equivalent of a press conference, had a nationalistic tone, urging the United States to pull out of Iraq and respect Iraqi sovereignty.
In addition, the […]
Jim Thompson was a suspense novelist with a penchant for the graphic and deranged. Easily dismissed as just another noir serialist, the late author’s novels are neither wide read nor highly regarded in the upper echlons of the America’s literary world. However, Mr. Thompson’s books give remarkable insight into the criminal and American communist mindset […]
A recent study by the University of South Hampton discovered that vegetarians scored five point higher on IQ tests at the age of ten over non-vegetarians. While the study could not determine if vegetarianism was the cause of their above-average IQ, the test scores were still statistically significant, meaning they were highly unlikely to occur […]
Today Spain repatriated 750 African immigrants - 600 from Senegal - who illegally entered the Canary Islands. According to Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, the Spanish Interior minister, this repatriation is “an unmistakable message to the mafias” and was done with the “invaluable help of the government of Senegal”.
The Canary Islands, off the coast of Senegal, is […]
Chavez predicted it and Chomsky confirmed it; the price of corn has risen as the burgeoning ethanol/biodiesel industries have grown, creating a new world where peasant farmers can’t afford the former byproducts of the commodities they once grew. While none of this effects the first world, poorer nations, which cannot afford to import food, suffer […]