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Why? We know that Jewish refugees from Arab lands lost their homes and businesses as discussed in this UK parliamentary debate on 19th June 2019: Jewish Refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. The debate affirms that as many as 850,000 fled are we forced to flee in the years following...

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How do you respond to someone saying "I'm praying for you."? 2 days after I came home from TAM, my husband developed a raging , fast travelling infection. They finally determined it was a freaky form of strep and yesterday, hubby turned the corner and began to improve. (YAY for modern...

I started talking about this topic in R&P a year ago, well here I am again. Last Halloween I didn’t spend time handing out candy or indulging in cheesy horror films. I had a real reason to be terrified. I’d reference the original thread, but a search shows me it’s long gone. An article from the...

NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) -- Imagine a world without drinking water. It's a scary thought, but scientists say the 40 percent of humanity living in South Asia and China could well be living with little drinking water within 50 years as global warming melts Himalayan glaciers, the region's main...

...so lets get down to brass tacks. How could New Orleans be rebuilt safer? Just rebuild and reinforce the levees? Turn it into a Venice-type thing? Obviously abandoning the city and rebuilding the marshes can't happen, so what then?

Background: Controversial statement: Can anyone provide evidence to support or criticize that statement? Source: "A DISCOURSE OF DELEGITIMISATION: THE BRITISH LEFT AND THE JEWS" by Ben Cohen

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Water crisis fear as glaciers melt March 14, 2005 GLOBAL warming is causing Himalayan glaciers to rapidly retreat, threatening to cause water shortages for hundreds of millions of people who rely on glacier-dependent rivers in China, India and Nepal, the World Wide Fund For Nature WWF warned...

I tend to listen to the radio all day as I drive around in my squad car, mostly NPR. As a result, I get a lot of input on current affairs….Thus this rant: While the president gallivants around the country pushing whatever Social Security agenda he’ll eventually decide on (by all accounts...

Local scientists have developed an advanced new water desalination system that they believe is the answer to Cape Town's water crisis. Their company has already erected desalination plants across the Middle East, Far East and Caspian Sea areas, and at a few sites in Europe, and they claim they...

Come mid November, as soon as Bush is reelected for his final term, watch for the next inspections regime/war to unfold. Iran. Bush has already publicly vowed that Iran "will not be allowed" to produce nuclear weapons. Say what will you will about Bush, but he usually follows through on his...

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996114 4.8 million people

Oil price surges, Bush refuses to release reserves Uhhh... How? Considering, I don't think that releasing the oil reserves is going to bring the prices down- I agree with Ali Rodriguez when he says it's due to speculation, I'm just trying to figure out - as usual - what the f*** Bush is on...

To say that there is a lot of doom-saying on the internet would be a dramatic understatement. The most convincing "doomsay" I have found is related to the current energy crisis. Many people, including a number of respected geologists, believe that 5 billion people will die after oil production...

Today, there's this headline in a Brazilian newspaper: Crisis improves the "faith industry". It goes on to explain how the sales of religious artifacts and self-help books have increased following a year of economic crisis. Brazilians have lost 16% of their purchasing power in the last 12...

Isn't this what watchdog agengies are paid to do? http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/drugs/2003-04-16-drug-settlement_x.htm "Soaring drug prices and strapped state budgets are leading U.S. attorneys and states to crack down on abuse of Medicaid, the U.S. health plan for the poor...