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Don`t Forget the Family Restaurant!

"There are not a lot of good pizza establishments around my way, but tonight my family and I found the best spot!"
- JB Founder of Aldin Entertainment Music Group

(N ATTLEBORO, MA) - In this era of fast-food eateries and chain restaurants, people out looking for a pleasant dinner in comfortable surroundings may find the uniformity a trifle monotonous.

Economic realities are making the old-style family restaurant an endangered species in many areas of the country, but if you take the time to look about, you might find some pleasant surprises in your own neighborhood.

New Threats Against LEAD Lawyers and Mr. Sardar Mushtaq Gill

A chain of events was sparked 9th March, 2013 when more than 180 houses, 18 shops and two small churches in Joseph Colony were attacked, looted and burnt by over 3,000 people in a religious charged mob.

(LAHORE) - Human rights and Christian rights defender and campaigner Mr. Sardar Mushtaq Gill received new death threats as a result of his human rights activities.

Sardar Mushtaq Gill is the National Director of Legal Evangelical Association Development (LEAD) in Punjab, a non-governmental organization which provides legal aid to marginalized people who are either falsely implicated by the police or unable to afford legal assistance themselves and evangelize to non-Christian in Pakistan.

House Passes Gibson Bill to Help Blue Water Navy Vietnam Vets

Congressman Christopher Gibson (R, NY-19)) hopes his legislation, if also approved in the Senate and signed by the President, helps ease the burden somewhat.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The House of Representatives has passed a bill sponsored by Congressman Christopher Gibson (R, NY-19)) that would move the ability of Vietnam veterans who were assigned to ships off the coast and were afflicted with Agent Orange to receive benefits.

Military personnel who served on the ground and contracted the disease have been covered automatically, but those onboard ships off the coast of Vietnam have been required to list detailed specifics of how they contracted it, making it almost impossible to gain benefits.

Tamil Nadu Protest on Sri Lanka CHOGM Targets New Delhi, London

The Queen of England, the permanent president of Commonwealth, has failed to expel Sri Lanka from the CHOGM, the organisors of the protest said.

(LONDON TamilNet) - Do not conduct Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka and suspend Sri Lanka from Commonwealth till a referendum on independence of Eezham Tamils is held under UN supervision, demanded protestors belonging to 12 political parties and movements that participated in a protest in front of the British Deputy High Commission in Chennai and the Shastri Bhavan office of the Central Government of India at Nungambakkam on Friday.

Describing the protest as a siege on Indian and the UK offices in Chennai, May 17 Movement, the organisors of the protest, characterised the Sri Lanka CHOGM as a ‘neo-colonial summit’.

Rohingya Belong to Burma

"Muslims of Arakan certainly belong to one of the indigenous races of Burma....In fact, there is no pure indigenous race in Burma, if they do not belong to indigenous races of Burma, we also cannot be taken as indigenous races of Burma" - Sao Shwe Thaike, the first elected President of the Union of Burma.

(DHAKA) - Like other indigenous races of Burma, the Muslims of North Arakan inhabit a sufficient contiguous territory in sufficient numbers in a defined geographical area having all necessary characteristics of an indigenous race which can never be denied by any right thinking person uninfluenced by feelings of racial and religious hatred.

That different races have different names, but the Muslims specially the orthodox type throughout the world to what ever nationality they may belong keep, on their birth, the Islamic names in Arabic language.

New Video of Sexually Assaulted and Murdered Captive Tamil Reporter is Bad News for Sri Lanka

Isaipriya's body positions recorded in photos and video tell a chilling story of war crimes and cover up.
(Warning: disturbing images)

(SACRAMENTO) - Chilling new video evidence has emerged in the gut wrenching story of a young journalist with the Tamil Tigers named Issei Piriya or simply, Isaipriya, who was sexually abused and murdered as a captive of the Sri Lankan Army during the final weeks of the country's civil war.

Video recorded of her alive, half nude and disoriented, sitting in what appears to be shallow water, proves that she was taken as a captive of the Sri Lankan Army.

The Olive Tree

The still slow life is mine, my days are years.
Tied to the soil, I reach towards the sky,
as men rush by, so driven by their fears,
and with their fears intact pass on and die.
From Plato's Olive Tree

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - This is the olive picking season. Like other harvests, it should be a season of joy. However, the land-grabbing occupiers of Palestine have imbued Israeli youth with the destructive arrogance of conceited, swaggering, self-loving Jews.

“A group of extremist Israeli settlers set ablaze more than 350 Palestinian olive trees” reports the International Middle East Media Centre.

ReThink911`s `New York Times Billboard` Goes Up (PHOTOS)

ReThink911 says stay tuned for their "contact the editor" campaign next week.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Installed on the afternoon of October 31, ReThink911’s 29-foot by 13-foot billboard will stand tall in the shadow of the New York Times Building throughout the month of November, intriguing 100,000 passersby each day and calling upon the Times to cover this vitally important issue.

ReThink911 held an event in New York Saturday, afternoon at Siena Pizza, giving away free pizza and free ReThink911 t-shirts. and an afternoon of fun and action.

Another Blasphemy Case Registered... Christians Are Under Threat

The accused in the blasphemy case is under police custody and World Vision in Progress – WVIP is handling legal matters.

(ISLAMABAD) - On October 29, we celebrated our wedding anniversary. After the celebration, lying in bed on a lazy autumn late evening, something dark and nasty reached out to me, my cell phone ringing.

One of my friends was on the line, they said that there is another blasphemy case in Wazirabad Gujranwala, the situation is tense there. I made a call to the local police officer, Sami Ullah, the Station House Officer (SHO), who told me details and confirmed that there is an incident and administration is on the ground looking into the matter.

BURMA: Military MP Says Army Chief Could Become Candidate for President

The 60-year-old Ming Aung Hlaing took over as commander of Burma’s Armed Forces after long-time military junta leader Than Shwe retired in June 2010.

(RANGOON) - The leader of Burma’s military lawmakers has said the group wants to nominate current Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing for president following the 2015 elections. The plan is possible because the country’s president is elected by Parliament, where military officers hold a quarter of the seats.

Brig-Gen Wai Lin, an officer with the Southern Command and a Lower House MP who leads the military lawmakers, told The Irrawaddy that he expects Sen-Gen Ming Aung Hlaing to be a leading candidate for the presidency.