I just upgraded the website to Wordpress 2.5, and it’s wreaking havoc. The backend of the website broke down.
The HTML editor tinyMCE stopped working. Then I couldn’t post successfully.
It turns out all of my problems were related to the plugins that I was using. I had to uninstall them then test each one individually to [...]

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As the demographic, geopolitical and ideological challenge of global Jihad to the shrinking remnant of Christendom looms ever larger, the West appears hell-bent on cordoning off, fragmenting, and eventually destroying the only Eastern Christian power that could and therefore should be its partner in the joint struggle. In the name of lofty ideals, but in [...]

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has demanded that Russia be allowed ‘permanent’ access to planned US missile shield defense facilities in Eastern Europe. His wish seems unlikely to be granted. more…

The World from Berlin: Lame Duck Bush with Lame Duck Putin on the Black Sea
Trans-Atlantic Identity Crisis: NATO Summit Fails to Heal Deep Divisions
Spiegel 360: [...]

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China has burned its fingers on the Olympic flame as the international spotlight is shone on its human rights record in Tibet. Still, German politicians should refrain from overwrought gestures such as an Olympic boycott and instead continue to engage both Beijing and the Dalai Lama in dialogue. By Erich Follath more…

Olympics in Chains: China [...]

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Similarly, neither U.S. policymakers nor the American public realize the vulnerability of giant aircraft carriers to torpedo attacks from modern fast submarines was demonstrated in 1968 when a fast Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarine matched the USS Enterprise at top speed in the Pacific Ocean. That moment, vividly and thoroughly discussed in Patrick Tyler’s “Running Critical,” [...]

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An Israeli study says that Hamas, the militant group that now controls Gaza, is engaged in the broadest and most significant military buildup in its history with help from Syria and Iran, restructuring itself more hierarchically and using more and more powerful weapons, especially longer-range rockets against Israel’s southern communities.
The study, by an independent research [...]

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In his most provocative anti-US speech to date, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raised doubts about whether al Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001 attack on New York actually took place. He was addressing Iran’s Nuclear Technology day, April 8, DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report. He went on to ask why the US had never released the names of [...]

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Israel’s intelligence community has concluded that the next war would involve missiles and Hizbullah, last at least a month and include Syria.
The intelligence community has drafted a series of scenarios for Israel’s emergency services to prepare for future war. The scenarios envisioned the next war as including massive missile and rocket salvos, some of them [...]

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One of the most significant effects of the emergence of radical Islam in the West is that liberals will not only defend (Islamic) religious extremists, but are increasingly abandoning their own supposed values to conservatives, who now seem to be the main defenders of democracy, freedom of speech, and even human rights for women and [...]

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Russia next month will stage its first Red Square parade of missiles, tanks and soldiers since the Soviet times, but the country’s military faces massive crises in manpower, equipment, training and strategy despite the energy revenue windfall of recent years.
A panel of U.S. and Russian defense experts yesterday painted a deeply pessimistic portrait of the [...]

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Furthermore, Russia’s military experts appear to favor a doctrine of preemptive strikes. In March, General Leonid Ivashov, head of the Moscow-based Geopolicy Academy, suggested that Russia should be prepared to use nuclear weapons to protect its allies. He also warned that Russia may face effectively loosing its nuclear deterrent because of the growing capabilities of [...]

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The United States said Tuesday a Central Asian bloc dominated by Russia and China was unlikely to turn into a military alliance, but expressed concern over Iran’s potential membership.
The six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which comprises Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and China, seemed to have returned to its original goals of mostly improving border [...]

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A new partnership between the UN refugee agency and Google allows users of the powerful Google Earth search tool to track refugees in global conflict regions. By Patrick McGroarty more…

Baghdad’s Refugees: Trapped in the Green Zone
UN Representative in Somalia: ‘They Are Dying in Our Arms’
Exploiting Thailand’s Burmese Refugees: The Children of the Mae Sot Dump

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Mexico today is filled with foreboding that very bad things could happen in pursuit of something very good - progress.
Our neighbor to the south began this century casting off the manacles of single-party rule. A new plural democracy elected Vicente Fox as president and hoped he would steer the country to a more prosperous future.
It [...]

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Modern-day scientific Magellans and Columbus’s, exploring the uncharted seas at the fringes of the Periodic Table of the Elements, have landed on one long-sought island - the fabled Island of Stability, home of a new genre of superheavy chemical elements sought for more than three decades.
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Fitna the Movie directed and uploaded on the Internet by Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders at the end of March has caused a predictable reaction around the world – more affective in Islamic countries and reserved yet disapproving in Europe. Russia has not been left untouched by the film either, which is reflected in utterances [...]

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Tibetans have a strong case against Beijing. But mixing it in with the Olympics and Darfur is a red rag to a wounded young bull.
Nationalism is more often aroused by setbacks than success, so the Tibet problems and the possible threats to a triumphal Olympics are stirring it in China.
On the horizon is the possibility [...]

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America’s reliance on the kindness of foreign nations to supply our basic needs has starved our industry. Next will be our military, then the nation.
It’s not that America wasn’t warned.
Back in 1985, the secretary of the United States Army testified before Congress that America was more than 50 percent dependent on foreign sources [...]

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