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Protest Staged Against No Quota Reserved For Minorities In PM`s Youth Loan Scheme

No quota reserved for the minorities in the Prime Minister’s Youth Loan Scheme censured by Human rights and religious sectors.

(LAHORE ) - A Pakistani Christian news agency- Pakistan Christian Post argues that quota system for minorities in various schemes run by federal and provincial governments has been ignored.

They further claim that these quota systems were aimed to bring side-lined religious communities of the Pakistani society into mainstream.

Sajeeb Wazed Joy Has Millions in a Swiss Bank Account

William Gomes says most of the media became the PR agency of the ruling party and the listed few who were vocal against the fascist regime have been successfully silenced by the ruling government.

(ISLAMABAD) - Journalist William Gomes has claimed in a Tweet and email to Sajeeb Wazed Joy,Bangladesh Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son that Joy has an account in swiss bank worth 30 bln USD.

Journalist William Gomes has claimed in a Tweet and email to Sajeeb Wazed Joy,Bangladesh Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son that Joy has an account in swiss bank worth 30 bln USD.

Palestine`s Quislings

A Hand in the Till Not on the Tiller.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - A picture is indeed sometimes worth a thousand words. A photo of Secretary of State John Kerry disembarking from his plane in Tel Aviv showed chief US negotiator Martin Indyk walking along at his side with a grin on his face as if he had just heard a new Palestinian joke in the plane on the way over.

It looked like Israel’s American legal team had arrived and just couldn’t wait for the first photo op with a glowering Benjamin Netanyahu.

Defending Good and Evil

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. --George Orwell

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Typically, people argue to defend what they do (or believe), attacking opposing views where they can, and ignoring arguments they haven't considered.

The more that kind of activity serves as American foreign policy--whether it’s in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria or Iraq, the more the USA can expect revenge from understandably vengeful victims of American terrorism.

Angry Sabboth Goy

Once again, the angry man who saturates his rant with racial references to black vs. white decided to join forces with the Zionist Jewish Lobby in its campaign against freedom of speech. This time the Angry Arab chases a Black comedian.

(LONDON) - Angry Sabboth Goy AKA Angry Arab stated today that Dieudonne is an anti-Semite and should be rejected from the pro-Palestinian community.

"The French branch of the Palestine solidarity committee was right in categorically rejecting Dieudonne and his antics. He does not belong to our camps. All anti-Semitic haters and racists should be excluded from the pro-Palestine struggle. The Palestinian cause is too precious and noble."

Israel`s Ariel Sharon Dead at 85

Former Israeli prime minister dies eight years after going into a coma following a stroke.

(TEL AVIV al Jazeera) - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died, Israeli Army Radio and medical sources have announced. He was 85 years old and had been in a coma since 2006, when a stroke incapacitated him at the height of his political power.

"Ariel Sharon has passed away," said Shlomo Noy, a spokesman for Sheba medical center in Tel Aviv, where Sharon was being treated for most of the past eight years, on Saturday. Officials at the hospital announced a week ago that Sharon's health had deteriorated sharply and that he was in "grave condition" with his family at his bedside.

BURMA: Wirathu to Discuss Interfaith Marriage Restrictions at Monks` Conference

Last year, U Wirathu’s proposal sparked widespread criticism from different corners of Burmese society, with some raising questions about the monks’ interference in politics and lawmaking.

(RANGOON) - Nationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu said he will hold another large conference for thousands of monks from across Burma next week.

He said the monks would gather in Mandalay and discuss his controversial proposal to restrict marriages between Buddhist women and Muslim men.

Reviewing NAFTA and the Environment

To put the budgetary numbers in perspective, the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in California alone registered $34.5 billion in cross-border trade in 2012, according to the local chamber of commerce.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - As possible, new trade agreements stir debate on the world stage, a North American citizen advisory panel is urging that a new emphasis be placed on the ecological costs of increased trade and money flows.

In a statement, the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC), a trinational group consisting of representatives from the three member nations of NAFTA, called on the leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico to demonstrate a “revival of political will” and undertake a “new mission” with enhanced public involvement in trade and environmental matters.

For Scott M. Fishman, MD, It`s Just Too Late to be Sorry

Doctor whose book pushed dangerous Opioids AKA 'Painkillers' can't erase his past

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - Scott M. Fishman, MD tries to close the barn door, but will officials buy into it since the rate of deaths and addictions has reached epidemic proportion because of his down playing the risks of opioids for almost a decade?

Scott M. Fishman, MD, Chief of Division of Pain Medicine at University of California, Davis wrote a book in 2007 entitled "Responsible Opioid Prescribing - A Physician's Guide" sponsored by the Federation of State Medical Boards.

Marijuana: Legal Sales Explosion in Colorado and Ignorance Explosion in the New York Times

It was comforting to see that hundreds, if not thousands of media outlets jumped into the fray about Brooks' obvious arrogant ignorance over the subject he foolishly purports to know about.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The week of January 1, to January 8, 2014, brought forward two of the most remarkable advances (?) about marijuana use and its detractors. Colorado's marijuana business is exploding far beyond their marijuana commissioners' feeble minds, to a million dollars worth a day.

It just proves that they didn't know anything about marijuana and its use as medicine.