Today must be a current events day! I cannot keep up with it all. Today, the Telegraph reported, “Burma claims it will release Aung San Suu Kyi”. It was stated she could be released in order to “organise her party”. What that means exactly, though, is unclear because there are…
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall yesterday, according to “Berlin Wall anniversary: world leaders to celebrate the night that changed the world”. Guests included Gordon Brown, Hillary Clinton and Dimitry Medvedev of Russia. An 8 foot wall of…
Tragedy strikes Ft Hood, one of the largest (if not the largest) Army posts in the US. It is unclear if the gunmen were Army or not. It is one thing to die in battle, but for a soldier to go like this is just senseless. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting;_ylt=Aif4IJyAUzvcAdNepURwRl.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTMzaThsbmg0BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMTA1L3VzX2ZvcnRfaG9vZF9zaG9vdGluZwRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzIEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA2FybXkxMmRpZWluZA–
Did anyone catch the news last July that Chancellor Angela Merkel gave out the first combat medals issued to German soldiers since WWII? The argument given in “New NATO as Germany Returns To World Military Stage” is that Germany has become comfortable real fast with being a global military power. …
We should endeavor to remember that the Holocaust was real. The Holocaust shows the frightening ability for human beings to descend to the level of animals, a direct consequence of believing we were descended from animals instead of being a special creation in God’s eyes. Anita Singh of the Telegraph…
This seems an appropriate article for the day after the Day of Atonement. It appears that the Temple Institute has started building an altar. It will be a modern scaled-down version that can be transported to the temple once there is a temple to put it into. The IsraelNationalNews.com site…
Sometimes, you just come across a story of someone who does something so heroic, so courageous and so, well, good, that you have to make mention of it. I just wish I had gotten the chance to post it sooner. On BulldogBlitz.com, it was reported that “Eulls saves 22 lives…
One of the more disturbing items German Chancellor Angela Merkel has floated is the resurrection of talks about the so-called “Tobin Tax”. Senior European commissioner Joaquin Almunia said the “beautiful” “Global tax idea ‘not viable’”, according to the Bangkok Post. The proposal has backing from Austria and France, but part…
The Pharisees in Jesus’ day were so obsessed with the letter of the Law that they often violated the spiritual intent of it. You would think that the nit-pickiness that prevailed then would not be in existence today, but you would be wrong. While the Pharisees were the religious authority…
Miguel Hayworth was threatened with arrest – for reading from the Bible. The Telegraph reported that “Preacher threatened with arrest for reading out extracts from the Bible in public”. "At 2pm, I was approached on more than one occasion by several police officers who falsely accused me, stating that I…