(AP) – 1 day ago KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian state is allowing people to use gold and silver coins at stores and restaurants to revive a practice from early Islamic societies, an official said Friday.
The gold dinar and silver dirham coins provide an alternative to Malaysia's
currency, the ringgit, in northeastern Kelantan state, which is governed by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, a conservative opposition group that promotes religious policies… Continue
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President Obama and his two best buddies — Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — have spun two new
political fantasies this week. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP File)
It cannot be said often enough that Washington is a city of endless fairy tales. Politicians in both parties can be found spinning these fantasies, but the yarns have been coming especially fast and furious since President Obama and his two best buddies -- Senate Majority… Continue
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Three former U.S. soldiers involved in the infamous "Collateral Murder"
helicopter gunship attack on Baghdad civilians in July 2007, say that attack was nothing out of the ordinary. The massacre---that killed more than a dozen Iraqis, two of them employed by Reuters News Service---ignited a wave of international revulsion against the U.S. military when a video of the massacre was released by WikiLeaks last April.
"What the world did not see is the months of training that… Continue
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The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited.
The animation is a meditation on the social and economic costs of marijuana… Continue
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As the debate over ObamaCare raged, President Obama strenuously denounced the charge that the mandate (requiring Americans to buy health insurance or
pay a fine) was a tax during an interview with George Stephanopoulos.
Now that several states, including Virginia and Missouri, are… Continue
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Senator Joe Lieberman’s draconian Internet takeover legislation, the 197-page Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, is being promoted as a vital tool to protect vulnerable infrastructure hubs from terrorist attacks, but as a recent Wall Street Journal report makes
clear, large industrial power and water plants are not even connected to
the public Internet.
Lieberman has been busy over the last several months pushing the…
If you look beyond the barebacked illegal alien scaling a barbed wire fence, you’ll discover a trail of dead that leads all the way back to Mexico City. There you’ll find President Felipe Calderon—chillin’ like a villain—with a motley wrecking crew of CIA operatives, Latin American drug lords and an assortment of corporate henchmen from such infamous organizations as Halliburton, DynCorp and SYColeman.
Look beyond them, and you’ll discover a trail of cash that leads all the way back… Continue
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Sen. Jim DeMint (R- S.C.) said that if President Barack Obama gets his way and the Senate ratifies the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the precedent would be set to place parental rights under the jurisdiction of the international community.
“We believe we need to take clear action here in Congress to protect the rights of parents to raise their…
"...the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." - Dwight Eisenhower- Ike on Ike, Newsweek,… Continue
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Our foreign policy was in the spotlight last week, which is
exactly where it should be. Almost two years ago many voters elected
someone they thought would lead us to a more peaceful, rational
co-existence with other countries. However, while attention has been
focused on the administration's disastrous economic policies, its
equally disastrous foreign policies have exacerbated our problems
overseas. Especially in times of economic crisis, we cannot afford… Continue
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The battle to get Americans to accept the science behind climate change
has been “lost,” an expert at the Aspen Environment Forum declared
Wednesday, but there's still a way to win the war to reduce carbon
emissions.
Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the
Environment at the University of Minnesota, said leaders on climate
change need to concentrate on changing behavior in ways that appeal to
people — and also happen to reduce carbon… Continue
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WASHINGTON — The Postal Service is ready to deliver lifesaving drugs to about a quarter of the residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the only metropolitan area in the nation where letter carriers have been trained to dispense medication after a large-scale terrorist attack involving biological weapons.
Six years after the government began exploring the idea of using… Continue
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Aleksandr Dugin is the most famous political philosopher in Russia. His ideas are considered so dangerous the Ukrainian government murdered his daughter and ...
Australian media are ignoring a landmark fight to reclaim sex based rights and protectionsfor all women and girls. This constitutional law case is not only r...
President Obama and his two best buddies — Senate Majority
by Henry Makow, Ph.D.
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