hamilcarr
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Unconditional Love
by hamilcarr ini'm struggling with the concept of 'unconditional love' or friendship.. does it really exist?.
if so, how would you define it?.
thanks..
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Mankind's Great Diaspora
by hamilcarr inthe incredible journey taken by our genesproject maps humanity's voyage out of africa to new continents and domination of the worldrobin mckie, science editor the observer, sunday august 31 2008 .
sixty thousand years ago, a small group of african men and women took to the red sea in tiny boats and crossed the mandab strait to asia.
their journey - of less than 20 miles - marked the moment homo sapiens left its home continent.. the motive for our ancestors' african exodus is not known, though scientists suspect food shortages, triggered by climate change, were involved.
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Georgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world
by hamilcarr ingeorgia is the graveyard of america's unipolar worldrussia's defiance in the caucasus has brought down the curtain on bush senior's new world order - not before timeif there were any doubt that the rules of the international game have changed for good, the events of the past few days should have dispelled it.
on monday, president bush demanded that russia's leaders reject their parliament's appeal to recognise the independence of south ossetia and abkhazia.
within 24 hours, bush had his response: president medvedev announced russia's recognition of the two contested georgian enclaves.
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UK Population Booms
by hamilcarr ineurope of the future: germany shrinks, france grows, but uk population booms britain to be biggest country in eu by 2060 .
population falls predicted in many other countriesian traynor in brussels the guardian, wednesday august 27 2008 article historyeurope from space ... a satellite image shows the population hotspots.
the eu is currently home to 495 million people.
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Effective Counterterrorism
by hamilcarr in#1. counterterrorism is ineffective as long as it's based on emotions and not on facts.. #2. facts show that large-scale military interventions to counter insurgencies (france in indochina, russia & later nato in afghanistan) result in total disaster.. #3. international organisations need to play a larger role in such fields as education, justice and health care because no single country has the capability to solve these complex problems alone.. .
united states lacks the capability to counter insurgency in the muslim world.
recognizing that the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan will not be the last of their kind, a new rand corporation study issued today finds that u.s. capabilities to meet the threat of islamist insurgencies are seriously deficient and out of balance.. the report finds that large-scale u.s. military intervention and occupation in the muslim world is at best inadequate, at worst counter-productive, and, on the whole, infeasible.
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Afghanistan Free Fire Zone?
by hamilcarr inus offensive in afghanistan 'kills 76 civilians'a us-led operation in western afghanistan has killed 76 civilians, including 50 children and 19 women, according to claims from the afghan interior ministry.
last updated: 5:57pm bst 22 aug 2008. u.s led coalition forces patrol the outskirts of kabul, afghanistan earlier this monthphoto: apbut the death toll has been challenged by us forces, who said only 30 people, all of them taliban fighters, lost their lives in today's air strikes.
another afghan government department, the defence ministry, said five civilians and 25 insurgents died in the operation in shindand district in herat province.
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Birthday parties against Islam?
by hamilcarr inmmm, reminds me of another religious movement .... .
birthday parties against islam says top saudi clericthu aug 21, 2008 9:18am bst[-] text [+] riyadh (reuters) - celebrating anniversaries, birthdays or mother's day is against muslim 'righteousness', saudi arabia's top cleric has said, quashing suggestions by a colleague that islam permits personal celebrations.. media savvy cleric salman al-awdah told viewers during a call-in television show last week that celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries was not against islam, sparking a debate in the conservative kingdom and prompting the mufti to weigh in.. grand mufti abdul-aziz al-shaikh said celebrating such events would make muslims like followers of other faiths including jews and christians, al-madina newspaper reported.. shaikh embodies wahhabism, the hardline islamic doctrine that has ruled hand in hand with the saud family since the kingdom was founded some eight decades ago.. women are banned from driving and mixing with unrelated men in saudi arabia, whose clerics issue edicts ordering saudis not to buy red roses on valentine's day on an almost annual basis.. "a muslim should thank almighty allah if his children are healthy and if his married life is stable as the years pass by," the paper quoted shaikh as saying.. two occasions call for celebration in the muslim world, shaikh said: eid al-fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of ramadan, and eid al-adha, which marks the end of the annual haj pilgrimage.. awdah, who follows a relatively softer line, is widely believed to be favoured by circles close to king abdullah.
the monarch has repeatedly said that saudi arabia needs reforms.. (reporting by souhail karam, editing by tim pearce).
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Cunning Elephant Outperforms Human Reporter at Counting Game
by hamilcarr inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2grlczsbea
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Abkhazia & South Ossetia Begin Joint Calls for Independence
by hamilcarr inwhich makes the situation even more complicated for the unprejudiced spectator:.
http://www.rferl.org/content/abkhazia_south_ossetia_begin_joint_calls_for_independence/1192777.html.
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The US missile defence system is the magic pudding that will never run out
by hamilcarr inthe us missile defence system is the magic pudding that will never run outpoland is just the latest fall guy for an american foreign policy dictated by military industrial lobbyists in washingtonall comments (447)george monbiotthe guardian, tuesday august 19 2008 article historyit's a novel way to take your own life.
just as russia demonstrates what happens to former minions that annoy it, poland agrees to host a us missile defence base.
the russians, as poland expected, respond to this proposal by offering to turn the country into a parking lot.