Via Scoop.it – Read this stuff?
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters of firing on two army checkpoints in the northwest and killing 25 soldiers, then retaliated by closing a key border crossing used by the coalition to supply its troops in…
Via www.huffingtonpost.com
Category: Uncategorized
Drugs giant challenges Facebook
Via Scoop.it – Read this stuff?
The social network is embroiled in a legal row after a German drugmaker claimed its page on the social network was given to a US rival.
Via www.bbc.co.uk
Iraqi Widows’ Numbers Have Grown, but Aid Lags
Via Scoop.it – Read this stuff?
Iraq faces a gender imbalance, with decades of conflict leaving an estimated one million widows. Many hope, against the odds, to marry again.
Via www.nytimes.com
The magic of diasporas
Is this really the end?
Via Scoop.it – Read this stuff?
the threat of a disaster does not always stop it from happening. The chances of the euro zone being smashed apart have risen alarmingly, thanks to financial panic, a rapidly weakening economic outlook and pigheaded brinkmanship. The odds of a safe landing are dwindling fast.
Via www.economist.com
Terrible swift sword
Via Scoop.it – Read this stuff?
Great nations decline in different ways: by losing wars, overreaching, collapsing internally. But it would be extraordinary if America sacrificed its position as the world’s leading military power as the result of a legislative accident.
Via www.economist.com
S&P downgrades Belgium credit rating – Yahoo!7 Finance
Via Scoop.it – Read this stuff?
S&P downgrades Belgium credit rating…
Via au.finance.yahoo.com
Children of Heaven
Via Scoop.it – Read this stuff?
Fridays are family movie night. We watched Children of Heaven (1997) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118849/ Highly recommend family viewing. Poignant, in that it was also a Iranian made award winning movie. The common man (& woman & child) suffer. Same goes for people everywhere. The war hawks want war – in the name of security(?) – to fill their own pockets. Happiness is – a tattered pair of shared shoes.
on Value
Via Scoop.it – Read this stuff?
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. -Bradley Miller, activist (b. 1956)
3 Absurd Reasons for Banning Drugs
Via Scoop.it – Read this stuff?
Dr. Stephen Davies discusses what he feels are the three most strange and bizarre reasons for banning drugs. The first of these reasons for prohibiting drugs…
Via www.youtube.com
