‘Nitaqat’ may wipe out 40% of private firms By ARAB NEWS Published: May 18, 2011 00:42 Updated: May 18, 2011 00:42 RIYADH: Labor Minister Adel Fakieh expects that about 40 percent of private firms will fail to employ Saudi nationals and cease to exist with the implementation of the new Saudizati[...]
Archive for June, 2011
June 5th, 2011 - 12:22 pm § in Uncategorized
New Biography of Kim Il Sung published.
Will Amazon Carry it? Pyongyang, May 6 (KCNA) — The Workers’ Party of Korea Publishing House brought out the book “Revolutionary History of Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung” (enlarged edition) compiled by the Party History Institute of the Central Committee of the WorkersR[...]
June 5th, 2011 - 10:55 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Arabs (finally) discover Gandhi
Syrian TV: 14 killed, 225 hurt in Naksa Day border protests By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV LAPPIN 06/05/2011 18:28 IDF does not confirm casualty count, says soldiers firing at infiltrators lower bodies when warnings not heeded; armed men seen on Syrian side of border; protesters set off 4 land mines [...]
June 5th, 2011 - 10:13 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Imam Khomeini Legacy Honored by US Muslims
The ceremony was held at Iran’s interests section in Washington to commemorate the 22nd demise anniversary of Imam Khomeini. Among the issues discussed at the gathering was the impact that Imam Khomeini had on world affairs and the global shift in power politics in favor of Muslims, press tv r[...]
June 5th, 2011 - 9:41 am § in Misc.
Palestinian security personnel at the crossing formed human shield to prevent Palestinians from storming the crossing.
Crowds of hundreds of Palestinians seeking to cross into Egypt ambushed the border gate at the Rafah crossing point after Egyptian authorities had surprisingly closed the crossing late Friday. Angry Palestinians who delved deep into the crossing chanted for Egypt to reopen it. Contradicting reports [...]
June 5th, 2011 - 8:05 am § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations:Restrictions on Free Speech on Hill in Jerusalem
Let us pray on Temple Mount Op-ed: Time has come to end the discrimination, allow Jews to pray at Jerusalem holy site Ed. The day the Jerusalem was conquered the ecstatic Israeli paratroopers ran to the Western Wall (Kotel) instead of celebrating on Temple Mount,. The Army that “Temple Mount is [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Kuncinich the choice of Washington’s alien vioters!
Seattle Salmon: Congressman who saw UFO in Washington is moving back to run for congress Lynnwood-There has been much discussion over why Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is suddenly visiting the burbs north of Seattle so much. By all accounts, he is not exploring the artful nuances of Alderwood M[...]
JUNE 4: SS St. Louis
1939 The S.S. St. Louis, carrying 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, is turned away from the Florida coast. The ship is also denied permission to dock in Cuba and returns to Europe, where many refugees die in Nazi concentration camps.[...]
June 4th, 2011 - 9:50 am § in Misc.
يوم النكسة March on Israel’s borders to mark the anniversary.
Today is Naksa Day (Yawm an-Naksa, meaning “day of the setback”) , the annual day of commemoration for the Palestinian people of the displacement that accompanied Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. As a result of the war, Israel took control of the Palestinian-populated West[...]
June 4th, 2011 - 8:16 am § in Misc.
Robert Reich On The Double Dip
Back toward double dip Robert Reich, professor of public policy | 6/3/11 | from The Berkeley Blog The May jobs report is a disaster — the weakest reading since September. Non-farm payrolls grew only 54,000 last month, according to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Private empl[...]