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NYT to Obama v. Romney, `let`s you and him fight`

All each president can do it cope with the task at hand, a task that always includes having to deal with politicians ready to deal with anyone who will help them win a political fight.

(CHICAGO) - Scott Shane’s New York Times story Friday, linked President Obama to President Jimmy Carter. Shane maintains that Obama, like Carter before him, could also be a one-term president.

The New York Times must have gone into a panic mode for its editors to set Shane loose on such a comparison. There is a good reason for that panic.

PAKISTAN: News Propaganda Against Hina Rabbani Khar

"Mr. Gomes must be appreciated on taking a principled stand , exposing Such mischief makers. Hats off to you Mr.Gomes" - S.M.K Durrani

(SALEM) - The recent series of news articles about a s-called love affair between Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar and co-chairman of Pakistan People's Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is perfect example of propaganda covertly packaged as credible news without sufficient transparency concerning the news item's source.

The motivation behind its release is very defamatory.

Chief Justice Islamabad High Court Ordered to Stop the Proceeding in Rimsha case

Earlier, Pakistani authorities arrested a cleric after accusing him of falsifying evidence against the girl.

(ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) - Rimsha, a 14-year-old Christian girl in Islamabad Pakistan accused of blasphemy, may be spared the death penalty as her lawyer Abdul Majeed Rana has submitted a quiashment application in the Islamabad High Court today.

According to Abdul Majeed Rana, (Rimsha’s lawyer) Chief Justice Islamabad High court adjourned the case till 17th October and ordered the lower court to stop the proceeding until then.

There Are No Half-Hearted Dictators

The dictatorship that predominates in the guise of the Executive Presidency is characterized by a singular inability to tolerate even the barest squeak of collective protest.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sunday Times) - Dictators do not believe in half hearted measures. This is an essential lesson that Sri Lanka is now learning at a painful cost.

We were immeasurably too ignorant, too consumed by self interest or too stubborn to realize this until it was too late.

5 Buddhist Temples Attacked in Ukhia

Police and a Rapid Action Battalion were dispatched to temples to 'control the situation'

(UKHIA, Bangladesh BDNews24) - After the overnight charge on a pro-dominantly Buddhist village in Ramu, five more Buddhist temples in Cox's Bazar district's Ukhia Upazila were also attacked on Sunday.

Unidentified miscreants set a temple of the Paschimratna Sudarshon Buddhist Vihara, situated in the upazila's Court Bazar area, on fire around 7pm.

Mr Sarkozy and the CIA. Based on Thierry Meyssan`s `Operation Sarkozy`

By Robert Thompson, Axis of Logic. Thierry Meyssan (TautSaufSarkozy.com) Axis of Logic (Translation). (Original in French) Friday, Jul 18, 2008

(PARIS) - A most interesting study dated 14th July 2008 by Thierry Meyssan, entitled Operation Sarkozy, has been brought to my attention on how the CIA managed to place one of its agents, namely Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, as president of the French Republic.

To make his point, Mr Meyssan does not content himself with vague conjecture, but puts together checkable facts relating to the relationship between our President and the CIA...

Rising from the Ashes

Why is the myth of the Phoenix important as a symbol of rebirth today? Increasingly large numbers of people have experienced what the Phoenix symbolizes.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - If I ask what is the meaning of the word Phoenix, how would you respond?

Is it the city in Arizona? The media/communications group in Boston? The thunderbird of American Indians?

Anti-Islam film: the Coptic Brotherhood

“I like to call this new generation of Egypt’s Christians ‘the Coptic Brotherhood’ … for they adopt the same policy & tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - There is a worldwide consensus that the now-notorious video clips of the anti-Islam film “innocence of Muslims” are extremely offensive, provocative and clumsily amateurish.

But at the same time there is almost a similar consensus that doesn’t consider the violent and demagogic Muslim reaction any less offensive and provocative.

Hindus Upset with TV Host Colbert for Depicting Them as Primitive Furred Creatures

"The Colbert Report" is an Emmy Award-winning series hosted by Stephen Tyrone Colbert on Comedy Central television channel, owned by Viacom.

(RENO, NV) - Hindus are highly upset with American political satirist & TV host Stephen Colbert for depicting them as a tribe of some stocky primitive furred creatures jumping in the woods.

Talking about diversity at the recent Democratic National Convention in "The Colbert Report", Colbert said: Everywhere you looked, there were black people, Asian people, Latinos, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus…and simultaneously showed the picture of an African-American, an Asian, a Latino, a Jew and a Sikh.

Apartheid Leader Lectures the UN

Netanyahu's war mongering and idiotic speech merely confirmed the obvious conclusion about this rogue state: it is run by lunatics.

(BETHLEHEM) - The Prime Minister of Apartheid Israel just lectured the United Nations General Assembly! He spent most of his time nagging those present as if they were school children about Iran.

He even insulted their intelligence by showing them a diagram of a "bomb" and drawing a red line on it (yes literally with an actual red marker).