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• Teaching Hatred of Christians and Jews in Muslim Schools in the U.K.

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 562
  A BBC report on how and what Muslims are teaching in private Islamic schools in the U.K. is very surprising and disheartening for natives of the United Kingdom, who have been living there for centuries before the migration of Muslims. The report can be found on Youtube . Dr. Sumaya Alyusaf, director of the ...
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• Flight 253 jihadist is latest embarrassment for student visa system in U.K.

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 562
  "We now issue 370,000 student visas a year - almost the entire population of Bristol or Manchester - yet hardly any of the applicants ever see hide nor hair of an Immigration Officer." An update on this story . "Terror plot raises questions over student visas," by Martin Evans for the Telegraph , December 27: ...
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• Security crackdown causes big delays at airports in Canada and Europe

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 529
  Passengers headed to the U.S. from Canada, Europe and other foreign airports faced hours of delay today because of tightened security imposed after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to bomb a Northwest Airlines flight headed from Amsterdam to Detroit.The new security measures varied, but at many airports,  travelers ...
  14 hours ago

• Seeing British Politics

  
  (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography — Authority: 475
  We are on a holiday visit to Manchester. There is no date as of yet, but the Brits are gearing up for elections. Here is a sampling of posters from The Independent . First are the Tories running against Gordon Brown. Then there is Labour mocking David Cameron and other Tory blue bloods. . . ...
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• Civil servants being paid danger money for working at the MoD more likely to be injured tripping than in the line of fire

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 586
  Civil servants paid ‘danger money’ for working at the Ministry of Defence are more likely to be injured typing or tripping on a paving stone than in the line of fire, new figures reveal. The department, which has been criticised for failing to provide frontline troops with adequate equipment, is also spending ...
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• British Police Searching Central London Locations for Evidence on Northwest Attempted Terror Attack - Video 12/26/09

  
  Freedom's Lighthouse — Authority: 599
  Here is a CNN video report on the news that Scotland Yard is looking for evidence in London pertaining to the attempted Terror Attack on Northwest Flight 253. The attacker had apparently gone to school in London in the past, and police are searching several locations in Central London.
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• Scotland Yard Conducting "Raids in Central London" in Connection with Attempted Terrorist Attack - Video 12/26/09

  
  Freedom's Lighthouse — Authority: 599
  Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Here is a video report from NBC News saying Scotland Yard is carrying out "raids in central London" this morning in connection with the attempted terrorist attack aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253. The attacker reportedly went to ...
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• Britain’s Jews in crisis over national loyalty, identity and Israel

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 586
  Britain’s leading Jewish institutions are facing their worst crisis in living memory as their loyalty to the United Kingdom and support for basic universal principles of human rights and common decency come under growing scrutiny. WRH permalink
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• Review: Magnate’s Make Believe Mistress by Bronwyn Jameson

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 481
  When Cristo Verón, owner of a vastly successful private plane company, heard that his soon to be brother-in-law might have gotten some maid pregnant in Australia, he hops on the soonest flight out to check the woman and her claim out. He expects to find a pretty face and not much else, instead he finds that Isabelle ...
  2 days ago

• Queen Elizabeth II Delivers Christmas Message Praising British Troops - Complete Video 12/25/09

  
  Freedom's Lighthouse — Authority: 599
  Here is video of Great Britains Queen Elizabeth II delivering her Christmas Message today. She praised British forces serving in Afghanistan, and wished the British people a "Merry Christmas."
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• NYT > World: Appeals to China Intensify in Effort to Spare Briton

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 472
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Prime Minister Gordon Brown again asked that Akmal Shaikh, a British man, be granted clemency, five days before the man is to be executed in China for heroin smuggling.
  3 days ago

• Great Britain: NBL Adds Three New Teams

  
  baseballdeworld.com — Authority: 482
  GREAT BRITIAN – The National Baseball League (NBL) will have three new teams in 2010. Essex Arrows, Mildenhall Bulldogs and Southampton Mustangs will all be joining the top flight of British Baseball next year. The announcement comes just a few weeks after the British Baseball Federation (BBF) published details of ...
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• Birmingham: Opposition to Saudi imams

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 562
  If Saudi clerics are sincerely opposed to al-Qaeda, is this enough to make them role models? An instructive row has broken out between the Quilliam Foundation, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, humanists, and progressive rabbis on the one hand, and the Green Lanes Mosque in Birmingham, over a couple of ...
  3 days ago

• NYT > World: Britain Renews Appeal for China to Spare Inmate’s Life

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 472
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Prime Minister Gordon Brown again asked that Akmal Shaikh, a British man, be granted clemency, five days before the man is to be executed in China for heroin smuggling.
  3 days ago

• Britain Renews Appeal for China to Spare Inmate’s Life

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Prime Minister Gordon Brown again asked that Akmal Shaikh, a British man, be granted clemency, five days before the man is to be executed in China for heroin smuggling.
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• Addicted Lawyers & Recovery

  
  Recovery Is Sexy.com — Authority: 439
  Addicted lawyers can overcome barriers to recovery Robert started drinking at age 18 and was an alcoholic by the time he entered law school. “I managed to get my degree and go to work for a Wall Street firm. After that I changed jobs every two years or less. I just couldn’t hang on to one. Nobody ever mentioned ...
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• Where Great Britain used to be,*

  
  Irons in the Fire — Authority: 524
  theres now all this . And, as she points out, New York Effing City- with Nanny Bloomberg in the lead- working to follow (fG)Britain down the drain.
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• Vatican Lays Claim to Staffordshire Hoard?!?

  
  Page in History — Authority: 121
  Well, apparently the Vatican has been reading the Hawass playbook because they are making a claim to the Staffordshire Hoard.The BirminghamMailNews writes:[T]he awe-inspiring Staffordshire Hoard, one of the most important discoveries of Anglo-Saxon treasure in British history, may be whisked away by the Vatican. That ...
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• 2010 NBL expansion and European Championship schedule announced

  
  BaseballGB — Authority: 124
  Just before we take a break for Christmas, there’s time to pass on some interesting news about both Britain’s domestic league and the senior men’s international team. An expanded National Baseball League for 2010 We reported two weeks ago that a number of new teams could be added to the British Baseball ...
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• One of the Biggest Risks is Being Too Cautious…

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 533
  One of the biggest risks, says Professor Risk David Spiegelhalter, is being too cautious. This is one of the insights in this short 6-minute video released as part of Cambridge Universitys Cambridge Ideas series. This video introduces the idea of the "micromort" - a one in a million chance of dying. On a bike, ...
  4 days ago

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