gulfnews : Taking the vision forward
gulfnews : Taking the vision forward.
The UAE’s strength today lies in the decentralisation and diversification of economic activities. Abu Dhabi’s oil-based economy has enabled it to keep the union together, support other emirates’ development plans and launch its own ambitious vision to shift into non-oil economic activities.
gulfnews : Taking the vision forward
gulfnews : Taking the vision forward.
The UAE’s strength today lies in the decentralisation and diversification of economic activities. Abu Dhabi’s oil-based economy has enabled it to keep the union together, support other emirates’ development plans and launch its own ambitious vision to shift into non-oil economic activities.
Get out and play in streets again, children urged – Education – Scotsman.com
Get out and play in streets again, children urged – Education – Scotsman.com.
Tragic history lurks in Sochi’s ski slopes < News Focus | Expatica Moscow
At the end of the Caucasus war Russians deported millions of Circassia natives, an area that has seen recent investment from ski resort businesses eager to profit from the upcoming Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.
Esto-Sadok — When Valter German’s ancestors came to the mountains above Sochi from impoverished Estonia, they found a bucolic valley with few traces of the indigenous people chased out by the Tsarist army.
But the history of Russia’s brutal deportation of the native tribes from the area some 150 years ago has stirred up international controversy and threatens to taint the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.
Russia is trying to promote the area as a skiing destination, with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin regularly photographed sitting on ski lifts and chatting in cafes overlooking the slopes.
via Tragic history lurks in Sochi’s ski slopes < News Focus | Expatica Moscow.
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Rubin Reports » What I Have Learned In My Long Visit to America
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand….
–Yeats, “The Second Coming”
What’s most scary in America today may be the deficit and it may be government policies, but for me the scariest thing is the way that traditional American pragmatism, an open-minded search for truth, the reliability of the media and of academia, has virtually disappeared in many cases.
I’m talking here about the media, academia, and the highly publicized public debate, not what all of the people are thinking. Clearly, a lot of people aren’t buying the conventional wisdom. But the important point is that it is the conventional wisdom, the main ideas held by the elite and government, what young people are being taught, and probably pretty much everything half of the population is hearing. I was in California, Iowa, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, Florida, Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and other places.
While this certainly doesn’t apply to all schools, the indoctrination that I’ve seen in one elementary school shocked me. If you really hear what eleven-year-olds are saying to each other you’d be amazed: accusing each other of being racists at the drop of a hat; thinking man-made global warming is a threat to their personal survival into adulthood; viewing America as evil.
via Rubin Reports » What I Have Learned In My Long Visit to America.
Passover Laws and Customs – Jewish World – Israel News – Israel National News
Passover (Pesach) will take place this year between sunset on Monday, 18 April, and sunset on Monday, 25 April. The first and seventh days are marked as Sabbath-like holy days (Yom Tov) in which work is forbidden.
via Passover Laws and Customs – Jewish World – Israel News – Israel National News.
Planned Parenthood’s Assault on the Public Health | LifeNews.com
In the Congressional battle to defund Planned Parenthood, the predictable narrative of abortion, Roe v. Wade, women’s rights, and the separation of church and state has given way to a new web of lies. According to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards:
“In attacking Planned Parenthood, the House Republican leadership has launched an outrageous assault on the millions of Americans who rely on Planned Parenthood for primary and preventive health care, including lifesaving breast and cervical cancer screenings, annual exams, family planning visits, birth control, HIV testing, and more.”
In truth, Planned Parenthood’s disastrous targeting of children leads to the very diseases for which they test.
To begin, all of Planned Parenthood’s sex literature for youth, young adults, and young people is aimed at children beginning at age ten. This is from their own publication “Stand and Deliver: Sex, Health and Young People in the 21st Century”:
“The World Health Organization defines young people as those from 10 to 24 years of age, including adolescents (10–19 years) and youth (15–24 years). IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) uses the terms young people, youth and adolescents interchangeably to refer to people who are between 10 and 24 years.”
via Planned Parenthood’s Assault on the Public Health | LifeNews.com.
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