Believing what governments say can be hazardous to your health. It's even truer from corporate-sponsored studies on the benefits of their products. Thus, be very leery about the new CSL Ltd. one on the effectiveness of taking one Swine Flu dose. More to the point, any Swine Flu shot as, in single or multiple doses, they're all extremely toxic, dangerous, and must be avoided to protect human health from the pathogenic onslaught vaccines are designed to unleash.
Empathy is a term that connotes the touchy-feely notion of getting in touch with someone else’s feelings or perspective. That’s what psychotherapists and social workers do. It obviously has no place in the hard-knocks world of foreign affairs and national security. Or does it?
Given the surge in interest in libertarianism during the past few years, it is amazing to me that one must still lecture the New York Times on the subject but, alas, such is the case. In an article on the Roman Polanski child-rape case entitled “The Polanski Case: A Gallic Shrug” by the paper’s columnist Michael Kimmelman, the paper pointed out that initially the reaction to the case was that “the arrest painted the usual picture of moralistic America versus libertarian France.”
Israel has deployed large numbers of police officers around the Old City of Jerusalem after sporadic clashes with Palestinian worshippers around the al-Aqsa mosque compound.
A leading Yemeni religious leader has accused Iran of inciting violence in the north of the country, where a predominantly Shia Muslim group is waging a war against the government.
Hundreds of people in the West Bank city of Ramallah have protested against the Palestinian Authority's support to delay the endorsement of a UN report on possible war crimes committed during Israel's offensive on Gaza.
Israel's vice-prime minister has cancelled a planned trip to London over fears that he could be arrested for alleged war crimes, his spokesman has said.
A British charity has said that just $40 billion - less than half the amount spent of bottled water every year - would be needed to stop millions of children dying needlessly.
Syria has postponed a visit by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in the latest fallout arising from his failure to endorse a UN report criticising Israel's conduct in its war on Gaza.
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will examine Iran's newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant on October 25, the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog has said.
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Syria has postponed a visit by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in the latest fallout arising from his failure to endorse a UN report criticising Israel's conduct in its war on Gaza.
