Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is more eloquent than words.Thomas Carlyle

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man was ever wise by chance.Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.Albert Einstein

Iran

Iran must be held accountable

Irwin Cotler and Alan Dershowitz, National Post

Irwin Cotler, special counsel on human rights and international justice to the Liberal party, and co-author of this piece, is introducing a private member's bill in Parliament today called the Iran Accountability Act (IAA). While it expressly holds Iran to account -- for its genocidal threats, nuclear ambitions and domestic repressions --it also functions to hold Canada to account.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

George Orwell

''how easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries''. George Orwell

Genital Mutilation

Girl receives damages for genital mutilation
Published: 26 May 09 09:36 CETOnline: http://www.thelocal.se/19668/20090526/

A 19-year-old girl in Gothenburg has been awarded compensation after having been subjected to genital mutilation in Somalia as an 11-year-old.

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Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. - Douglas Adams

Iran

US investigator exposes Iran's nuclear weapons 'shopping list'
A senior US financial investigator has revealed Iran's detailed 'shopping list' for nuclear and missile parts after uncovering a vast procurement network for materials related to weapons of mass destruction.

By Philip Sherwell in New York Last Updated: 5:04PM BST 24 May 2009
Robert Morgenthau, the New York district attorney who is heading a long-term investigation into the Islamic regime's complex web of illicit overseas financial operations, told US senators there was little time left to halt Tehran's atomic weapons programme.

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Burnt Schools

Taliban torched over 200 schools in Swat in 2 years: Report

LONDON: Taliban militants have burnt down more than 200 schools in Pakistan's restive Swat valley in the last two years and made all out efforts to
prevent girls from receiving education, a media report here said on Sunday.

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Pakistan

Blame army for Pakistan's woes
By SALIM MANSUR

Pakistan is the "most dangerous place on earth" and an "incubator of fanaticism," Peter MacKay, Canada's minister of defence, observed recently.
This assessment is correct, since Pakistan is simultaneously a "rogue" and a "failed" state.
For the West and, most importantly India, this means the need to prevent Pakistan's failure from spilling over international boundaries and spreading instability. It also means containing the rogue state from exporting terror, given the real threat of nuclear blackmail by the same people responsible for keeping secure the country's nuclear arsenal.

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Al-Qaeda

May 17, 2009
'I was groomed for jihad in Britain'

A Muslim teenager in London gives the first inside account of how extremists are luring recruits

Kevin Dowling

A TEENAGER has revealed how he was recruited by Al-Qaeda-inspired extremists and groomed to carry out suicide attacks in Britain.

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Epictetus

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus