Pakistan-NATO Relations Strained
Officials report that the Pakistani government blocked oil tankers and trucks carrying NATO supplies into Afghanistan. The Pakistani government claims that the blockage...
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Nigerian Airport Screeners Use Full-body Scanners’ Capabilities
Those full-body scanners the Transportation Security Administration has deployed in airports across the country have raised numerous privacy concerns. They can, after all,...
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Germany Makes Final World War One Debt Payment
In a few days, Germany will pay off the last of its debts arising out of the Treaty of Versailles over 90 years...
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UN Millennium Development Goals Conference Issues Report
There was much made of the speech delivered by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the opening of the latest session of the United...
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China Embraces U.S. Debt and Technology
Item: A senior Chinese general, reported Xinhua, China’s state news agency, on September 1, just met in Beijing “with the head of a...
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Six UK Men Jailed as Racists for Burning Koran
When Australian lawyer (and atheist) Alex Stewart allegedly rolled marijuana “joints” from pages of the Bible and Koran and smoked them on YouTube,...
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Scots Try to Snuff Out Cigarette Smuggling
With tobacco smuggling on the rise because of high taxes on cigarettes in the United Kingdom, Scottish government officials and anti-smoking activists met...
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Mexican Government Proves to be Supreme Hypocrite
Raul Diaz of the Mexican Superintendence of Tax Administration confirmed this week that the Mexican government intends to build a wall along the...
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Whose Money Is It Anyway?
Since the advent of the income tax, it has been obvious that governments believe that their citizens’ earnings actually belong to the government...
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Monstrous Mao
Frank Dikotter, an historian from Hong Kong, has been allowed wide access to Chinese Communist Party archives. Speaking at the Independent Literary Festival,...
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Sweden Considers Cashless Society
The move toward a cashless society is accelerating in Sweden as plastic payments become the norm and various government officials, unions, and high-profile...
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Vancouver Taxpayers Stuck With $1 Billion Bill
Six months after the close of the Winter Olympics, Vancouver taxpayers have been slapped with a bill for $1 billion in unsold Olympic...
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Atheist Smokes Pages from Bible and Koran
In the aftermath of the furor over one Florida church’s plans to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the...
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France In Trouble Over Immigrants
France got into big trouble this week over its deportation of Gypsies early this week, and its move to ban veils that hide...
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Biometric ID Scheme for 1.2 Billion Indians Meets Resistance
A costly plan by the central government of India to create unique biometric identification numbers for every Indian is meeting stiff resistance from...
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