Mark Alexander
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
With thanks to RustResistance for drawing this video on 18 Doughty Street to my attention.
Mark Alexander
Monday, March 05, 2007
Saudi women, it seems, are not all we might think they are!. Woman to woman relationships at some schools by Hayat Kharbash
600,000 Saudi women smoke
Mark Alexander
The global stock market slump has powered into its second week, pushing the UK's main share index below 6,000 for the first time since October.
By midday the FTSE 100 had recovered slightly but was trading down 97.8 points, or 1.5%, at 6,018.4.
In the past five sessions, about £111bn has been wiped off the index's value.
The drop mirrored heavy losses in Europe and Asia, with investors dumping stocks because of concerns they are overvalued and growth will slow.
"It looks like it's becoming a domino, with one market pulling down the other and I don't know where the domino effect will stop," said Jose Vistan of AB Capital Securities.
"You throw away technical and fundamentals out of the window," he explained. "Emotions are the ones driving share prices right now." World stock drop hits second week
FTSE falls as global sell-off gathers pace
Mark Alexander
THE TIMES: Riots that have resulted in 643 arrests in Copenhagen are expected to continue this week after anarchists travelled from across Europe to protest against the eviction of anticapitalist squatters.
They were answering an appeal to demonstrate against the seizure by antiterror police of Youth House, a centre for far-left activists. Once host to Lenin, it has now been bought by a Christian group.
Barricades were set up in surrounding streets, cars were burnt and officers pelted with petrol bombs after clearing the building on Thursday. Police responded with teargas but the clashes continued despite the arrests that included 140 foreigners. Anarchists move in after international appeal to join rioters
BBC: Bulldozers have begun the demolition of a building at the centre of rioting in the Danish capital Copenhagen, after the eviction of squatters last week.
About 650 people have been arrested following three nights of clashes between protesters and police.
The unrest has been some of the worst seen in the Danish capital for decades. Denmark rioters’ squat demolished
Mark Alexander
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Mark Alexander
”Iran is a rising power bolstered by the removal by the US of its two great enemies - the Taleban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. Iran's Shia allies are now the dominant force in Iraq, while Tehran's influence is spreading more widely into Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. Sunni-ruled states like Jordan and Saudi Arabia are watching Iran's rise with a degree of anxiety.” - Jonathan Marcus, BBC’s Diplomatic Correspondent
The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has left Saudi Arabia after a brief visit for rare talks between the two Middle Eastern powers.
His discussions with King Abdullah in Riyadh focused on regional issues including Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinians, correspondents say.
Mr Ahmadinejad said the two nations wanted to "expand our stable ties".
The meeting comes at a time of tension over regional conflicts and a growing divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
Correspondents say the fact that the meeting is taking place at all is an indicator of Iran's growing influence. Saudi king meets Iranian leader
Watch BBC video: Iranian leader makes Saudi visit
Mark Alexander
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Buy: Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis
Mark Alexander
Friday, March 02, 2007
Although this video clip is a few months old now, it is well worth watching.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached". - the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus
Mark Alexander
It’s worth remembering that a megalomaniac can be a living person or a person who has long expired. The danger comes when the megalomaniac’s ideas, whether current or from the ancient world, take hold in the minds of the people. Lest we forget, the horrors shown in these videos took place little more than sixty years ago!
These videos are not in any way uplifting; indeed, they are anything but. I bring them to you today because the modern world seems to be drifting in the same direction that the world drifted in in the 1930’s. As we all know, that was a period in history characterized by anti-Semitism and the determination of one man, Adolf Hitler, to dominate the world. Don’t you think, ladies and gentlemen, that this has a rather familiar ring to it today?
We should NEVER forget the lessons of history. This is why I bring you these videos today, courtesy, of course, of YOU TUBE. Many of you will have seen similar film clips before in television documentaries. We cannot see such movie clips enough, however, for we must never ever forget the heinous crimes and brutalities which can ensue from a radical, extremely dangerous and ridiculous ideology.
Once we abandon the idea of ’living and letting live’, then humanity finds itself in deep trouble! - Mark
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Mark Alexander
An arch-conservative cardinal chosen by Pope Benedict XVI to deliver this year’s Lenten meditations to the Vatican hierarchy has caused consternation by warning of an Antichrist who is “a pacifist, ecologist and ecumenist.”
Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, 78, who retired as Archbishop of Bologna just over three years ago, quoted Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), the Russian philosopher and mystic, as predicting that the Antichrist “will convoke an ecumenical council and seek the consensus of all the Christian confessions”.
The “masses” would follow the Antichrist, “with the exception of small groups of Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants” who would fight to prevent the watering down and ultimate destruction of the faith.
The Pope traditionally withdraws from public view during the first week of Lent, conducting “Spiritual Exercises” in retreat with close advisers in the Redemptoris Chapel in the Vatican. He cancels all engagements, instead listening to “meditations” by a keynote speaker.
The choice of Cardinal Biffi raised eyebrows in the Vatican, given the cardinal’s forthright and sometimes eccentric views. The cardinal warned of the coming of the Antichrist during his two decades as Archbishop of Bologna, and said an “invasion” of Muslim immigrants was undermining Europe’s Christian values. Cardinal’s ‘Antichrist’ warnings raise eyebrows by Richard Owen
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