Salon.com: How the “Ground Zero Mosque” Fear mongering Began Justin Elliot has a good piece on Salon.com, but he would have benefited from out pieces, Pamela Geller: The Looniest Blogger Ever and SIOA is an anti-Muslim Hate Group. How the “ground zero mosque” fear mongering began by Justin Elliot A group of progressive Muslim-Americans plans to build an Islamic community center two and a half blocks from ground zero in lower Manhattan. They have had a mosque in the same neighborhood for many years. There’s another mosque two blocks away from the site. City officials support the project. Muslims have … Continue reading How the “Ground Zero Mosque” Fear mongering Began

• Japanese economy grew by just 0.1% in second quarter • Figures seen as ‘symbolic’ shift in world power David Teather guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 August 2010 18.06 BST Article history A production line worker at a Shanghai factory. Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/APChina overtook Japan as the world’s second-largest economy during the second quarter of this year, marking another milestone in the country’s transformation from impoverished communist state to economic superpower. With its red-hot economy growing at around 9% a year, some experts now expect China to outstrip the United States as soon as 2030, its financial strength carrying broad political implications. … Continue reading China overtakes Japan as world’s second-largest economy

How To Have Lucid Dreams: The Big Picture of Dream Control Did you know you can learn how to have lucid dreams in days or weeks? That’s no exaggeration. Many people are able to pick up this life-changing skill between three days and three weeks. All it takes is a little persistence. Dream control is all about learning how to recognize the dream state. Most lucid dreaming methods focus on planting an idea in the subconscious mind, so that you spontaneously become lucid while dreaming normally. Other popular techniques include regular theta meditation, performing waking reality checks, and keeping a … Continue reading Lucid Dreams

Travel the world, write a novel, even seduce a star… How  manipulating your dreams is not just fantasy By Michael Hewitt and Lydia Slater How would you like to be there when Daniel Craig emerges, as James Bond, from the sea in the Caribbean? Or win the National Lottery? Or appear on the couch with Oprah? In your dreams, you might say. Well, yes, actually … The powerful interplay between our dreams and our thoughts and emotions is an idea picked up by the summer blockbuster film Inception. In it, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a thief who first enters people’s dreams … Continue reading Travel the world, write a novel, even seduce a star

Policeman jailed for plotting raid at upmarket jewellers… using uniforms he had stolen By Daily Mail Reporter Corrupt policeman Dustin Hunter was unaware that his ‘accomplices’ were undercover police from his own unit A policeman was  jailed today for plotting an audacious raid at an upmarket jewellers – in which the robbers would wear police uniforms that he had stolen. Pc Dustin Hunter provided uniforms and a Royal Mail outfit for the raid, unaware that his ‘accomplices’ were undercover officers from his own force. Hunter was also sentenced for having nearly a kilo of cannabis, which he was caught with … Continue reading Bent Copper jailed for plotting raid

Clampers target nurse’s car and demand hundreds of pounds as she tends to sick elderly woman By Daily Mail Reporter A nurse’s car was clamped and held for five hours as she tended to an unwell elderly woman in her home. Despite Hannah Bannock being in full uniform and an NHS permit being on display in her vehicle, the workers demanded hundreds of pounds to release her car. Mrs Bannock had been in the patient’s parking spot in Clacton, Essex, for just 15 minutes when the clampers struck. Stand-off: Clampers threatened to tow Hannah Bannock’s car after she parked in … Continue reading Car Clampers will be executed come the Khilafah!

by Sarah Alam Malik dawn.com As a former cricket fanatic (I lost interest when it seemed there was more politics in cricket than the game itself), when I was required to write a short project on a physics effect of my choice in my undergraduate degree, I decided to research the physics behind the swing of a cricket ball. This was back when Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar used to dominate the Pakistan fast bowling scene with Azhar Mehmood and Abdul Razzaq being the first change medium pacers. It was an exhilarating watch. Wasim, Waqar and Shoaib would … Continue reading Physics behind swing

In this image released by the UN August 15, 2010 shows children living in the Sultan Colony, an Internally Displaced Persons camp, in the Province of Punjab, near the city of Multan, in Pakistan, August 15, 2010. – AFP NOWSHEHRA: Six million children are suffering from Pakistan’s devastating floods: lost, orphaned or stricken with diarrhoea, they are the most vulnerable victims of the nation’s worst-ever natural disaster. At relief camps in government schools and colleges and in tent villages on the edge of towns and by roadways, children are prostate from the heat, sick from poor drinking water, or simply … Continue reading Misery for the ‘doomed orphans’ of the floods

dawn.com This file photo taken on April 2, 2009 shows a model diplaying gold bridalwear and jewellery during a promotional event of an upcoming wedding carnival in Mumbai. With weddings traditionally the central focus of Indian life, the new wave of money in Indian society has created ever-higher demands for lavish, unique marriage celebrations. – AFP NEW DELHI: R.K. Chudawala, a diamond merchant in New Delhi, added sparkle to his wedding last year by hiring top Bollywood stars to attend the celebrations – but he comes over all coy when asked for details. “The idea was to stun the guests, … Continue reading Bollywood stars: the latest novelty at Indian weddings

Dawn Editorial President Barack Obama hosts an iftar dinner, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Obama emphasized the American tenet of religious freedom just as New York City is immersed in a deeply sensitive debate about whether a mosque should be built near the site of the World Trade Center that was destroyed during the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. – Photo by AP. World Mosque near ground zero becoming political football Mosque near ground zero becoming political football For a brief few hours, US President Barack Obama stood on the … Continue reading Mosque furore