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POPSWhen We Fail to Learn Our Lesson A good history read about what's been going on while we have all been focusing on American Idol, Brittany Spears, Football, political sex scandals, etc.... People who ARE paying attention are wondering why it has taken so long to connect the dots? Especially when our current President called the recent hijacker an “an isolated extremist,”. Extremist, yes; Isolated, no.
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POPSMumbai suspect is US double agent, India claims Indian officials are desperate to question Headley but have been frustrated by American refusals to grant them access. A team of Indian investigators travelled to Washington shortly after Headley was arrested in October but soon returned after their American counterparts told them they would not be able to meet him. They want to question him about the Mumbai attacks involved Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency in any way and the role of Indian extremists in providing logistical support. American officials say that under US law they cannot force any person in their custody to give evidence to foreign agencies. But Indian intelligence officers have questioned why Washington is not doing more to help their own inquiry
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POPSSome Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again 
“It seemed perfect,” he said recently of the job opportunity. It wasn’t. As Mr. Ayyadurai sees it now, his Western business education met India’s notoriously inefficient, opaque government, and things went downhill from there. Within weeks, he and his boss were at loggerheads. Last month, his job offer was withdrawn. Mr. Ayyadurai has moved back to Boston. In recent years, Mother India has welcomed back tens of thousands of former emigrants and their offspring. When he visited the United States this week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh personally extended an invitation “to all Indian-Americans and nonresident Indians who wish to return home.” But, like Mr. Ayyadurai, many Indians who spent most of their lives in North America and Europe are finding they can’t go home again. About 100,000 “returnees” will move from the United States to India in the next five years, estimates Vivek Wadhwa, a research associate at Harvard University who has studied the topic. These repats, as t
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POPS‘Chicago Man’ Charged In Mumbai Attacks a Pakistani-based militant group. New charges also were unsealed today against a retired major in the Pakistani military, Abdur Rehman, accusing him of conspiracy in planning an attack on a Danish newspaper and some of its employees. Headley and another Chicago man, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, were initially arrested in the Denmark case, charged with plotting an attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten out of revenge for a dozen cartoons printed in 2005 depicting the prophet Muhammad. Rana has denied involvement in a terror plot. Authorities said Headley has been cooperating with investigators since FBI agents arrested him at O’Hare in October. A somewhat misleading headline. But it is even more troubling that we allowed someone like this in our country. http://bit.ly/8eUQuP Sweetness N Light blog Related Articles: * How Pakistan’s ISI Supports The Taliban * Laugh Riot: Muslims Worry About Image * Report: Mumbai Hostages
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POPSA cloud still hangs over Bhopal
More: What’s missing in the whole sad story is any sense of a human connection between the faceless people who run the corporation and the victims. In 1995, a Bhopali woman named Sajida Bano sent a handwritten letter to Union Carbide. The factory had killed her husband in 1981 in an accident, and then, on the night of the disaster, her 4-year-old son. “You put your hand on your heart and think,” she wrote, “if you are a human being: if this happened to you, how would your wife and children feel?” She never received a response. The survivors of Bhopal want only to be treated as human beings — not victims, not greedy money-grabbers, just human beings who’ve gone through hell and are entitled to a measure of dignity. That includes concrete things like cleaning up the mess and providing health care for the sick, and also something more abstract but equally important — an acknowledgment that a wrong was done to them, and an apology, which Bhopalis have yet to receive.
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POPS...the religion of peace becomes questionable Unfortunately at this moment in history, it is fanatics who set the tone in Islamic countries. Their impact on ordinary citizens manifests openly with the mass celebrations in Islamic countries when "infidels" are killed, or Muslim terrorists are released from prison. It is fanatics from the Muslim world who slaughter children and non-Muslim tribal groups daily in Darfur, and are progressively taking over segments of Africa, be it Nigeria or Somalia. Islamic fanatics bomb, behead, murder, and carry out "honor" killings. They also stone rape victims and homosexuals. Muslim fanatics teach in the schools the virtues of becoming suicide bombers and acquiring the coveted status of a shahid (martyr).
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POPSA Year After Mumbai Attacks: Kia Scherr Starts Organization to Spread Peace 
Alan and Naomi were killed on November 26, 2008 while on a spiritual retreat in Mumbai, India. They were eating in the Oberoi Hotel restaurant when terrorists fired shots and killed them. Kia Scherr and her family lived at the Synchronicity Foundation in Nelson County and was in Virginia when the attack happened. In response to the Mumbai terrorist attacks, she and Synchronicity leader, Master Charles Cannon, have started an organization called One Life Alliance. They hope to teach people, both in the United States and internationally, about the sacredness of life. They also want people to know that we are all connected. "We found in the Mumbai attacks there was no value of life there," said Scherr. "We see a tragedy like that, our experience is to increase our own value for life as a result of that loss." Scherr and Master Charles will officially launch their organization with a webcast on Thanksgiving Day. From then on they hope to send their message of peace to the world.
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POPSMumbai Under Attack: November 28, 2008 35 photos-boston.com...Late Wednesday night, Mumbai, India found itself the target of a ferocious terrorist attack, and the situation remains unresolved even now, three days later. According to reports, upwards of 60 young men entered Mumbai in small inflatable boats on Wednesday night, carrying bags filled with weapons and ammunition, and spread out to nine locations to begin their attacks. Lobbing grenades and firing their weapons, they entered hotels, a railway station and several other buildings, killing scores and wounding even more. As of this moment, the identity of the attackers has yet to be definitively determined, though there are reports indicating some of the gunmen were Pakistani - at least nine of them have been killed, nine more arrested. As of this writing, there were a reported 151 people killed from 11 different countries - though nearly 100 were Indian. More than 300 injuries have also been reported - those numbers may yet rise as several hostage situations
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POPSChicago Mayor Daley Blames Fort Hood On America’s Love Of Guns! Taking Mayor Daley at face value for a moment, is he seriously arguing for increased gun control on a military base? If there had been more guns around, this ticking Jihad bomb could have been put down a lot faster than he was. With no pogrom backlash after 9/11, no pogrom backlash after Bali, no pogrom backlash after Madrid, no pogrom backlash after London, no pogrom backlash after Mumbai, no backlash after countless other Jihad attacks, why would there be any reason to believe the reaction would be any different in this case?
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POPSSlumdog Millionaire Surprisingly this movie gets 10 nominations in Oscar. A really worth watching movie.If It gets oscar in a category it will be a gift to India and Indians. Thanks and wishes to Danny Boyle,A R Rahman and The Slumdog Millionaire Team.
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POPSFBI Says Boston Cops Need M-16s to Prevent City from Becoming Next Mumbai "The FBI is merely playing its assigned role. From the Pentagon to the Department of Homeland Security to the FBI, the government is on the fast track to turn the country into a police state from sea to shining sea. A major part of that effort is the militarization of the police, a process already well along. Let’s hand it to Boston Mayor Tom Menino — he didn’t buy into the FBI’s malarkey about a terrorist event that will probably never happen." Click the Associated Press Link for the original article.
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POPSFrench Work the Least in the World In Cairo (and Seoul) people work the most. The perception in Egypt is that Egyptians don't work that much, don't work hard and take too many holidays. A recent cartoon depicted an exhausted man being helped by his friends and one of them yelling for an ambulance. The caption was something like: man works more than 30 hours. Perhaps it's time to rethink that image. Everyone I know from poor to rich, are always working at something. They are always making deals. Vie la France! and the French people for their joie de vivre . The French economy expanded by 0.3% in the 2nd quarter of 2009. Oh, those lazy French. :lol:
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POPSFBI Says Boston Cops Need M-16s to Prevent City from Becoming Next Mumbai Menino, after all, has to face the wrath of citizens who will naturally resent the cops walking around as if Boston is Baghdad. The FBI is merely playing its assigned role. From the Pentagon to the Department of Homeland Security to the FBI, the government is on the fast track to turn the country into a police state from sea to shining sea. A major part of that effort is the militarization of the police, a process already well along. Let’s hand it to Boston Mayor Tom Menino — he didn’t buy into the FBI’s malarkey about a terrorist event that will probably never happen.
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