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Extremism flourished as UK lost Christianity

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Britain, Islam

In fewer than 50 years, Britain has changed from being a society with an acknowledged Christian basis to one which is increasingly described by politicians and the media as “multifaith”.
Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims
One reason for this is the arrival of large numbers of people of other faiths to these shores. Their arrival [...]

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Taiwan Fears China Is Chipping Away at U.S. Support

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in China, Taiwan, U.S.

China is having success in its diplomatic and economic campaign to weaken international support for Taiwan, the self-governing island’s de facto ambassador to Washington said.
Joseph Wu, whose official title is representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), argues that Beijing has used diplomatic and economic thuggery and threats to weaken U.S. resolve [...]

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U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Pakistan

President Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
The debate is a response to intelligence reports that Al Qaeda and the Taliban are intensifying efforts there to destabilize the Pakistani [...]

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Victorian diseases – Two pre-modern ailments are making a comeback

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Britain, Disease

AS BEFITS an industrialised country, Britain’s public-health problems are those of wealth rather than poverty. But beneath headlines about fat, cigarettes and a national epidemic of drunkenness, two diseases that were believed vanquished decades ago are re-emerging. Both are linked to immigration.
On December 28th the Department of Health (DoH) confirmed what doctors have long suspected: [...]

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Pakistan: The world’s most dangerous place

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Pakistan

Nothing else has worked: it is time for Pakistan to try democracy.
THE war against Islamist extremism and the terrorism it spawns is being fought on many fronts. But it may well be in Pakistan that it is won or lost. It is not only that the country’s lawless frontier lands provide a refuge for al-Qaeda [...]

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Working Together to Defuse Russia’s Nuclear Timebomb

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Nuclear, Russia, pollution

On the beaches of the Barents Sea, near the Russian city of Murmansk, ex-Soviet nuclear submarines lie rotting, like ticking ecological time bombs.The Russians have called on German experts to help prevent disaster.
Murmansk — the biggest city to the north of the Arctic Circle — is not exactly a pretty sight. The city, which during [...]

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Invading Taiwan – China Rues The Waves

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in China, Military

China’s big problem with invading Taiwan is not just whether or not they could defeat the defending forces. The big problem is American control of the world’s oceans. It’s been that way for over sixty years, and many people just take it for granted. Chinese military planners see that control, which they can’t break, as [...]

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Europe’s Philosophy of Failure

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Anti-Americanism, Europe

Millions of children are being raised on prejudice and disinformation. Educated in schools that teach a skewed ideology, they are exposed to a dogma that runs counter to core beliefs shared by many other Western countries. They study from textbooks filled with a doctrine of dissent, which they learn to recite as they prepare to [...]

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Oil economics rearrange world’s clout

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Economy, Oil

The surging price of oil, from just over $10 a barrel a decade ago to $100 Wednesday, is altering the wealth and influence of nations and industries around the world.

The long oil-price boom is posing wrenching challenges for the world’s poorest nations, while enriching and emboldening producers in the Middle East, Russia and Venezuela. Their [...]

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China planning Taiwan Strait route for commercial aviation

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in China, Taiwan

China plans to open a new commercial aviation route through the Taiwan Strait in a move that officials in Taipei said was a threat to regional peace and a danger to air safety.
The new route between Hong Kong and Shanghai would track just inside the Chinese side of the unofficial dividing line through the middle [...]

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