Dawn.com An Iraqi man walks past a poster of Iraqi parliamentary election candidate Feyruz Hatam on a street in Baghdad. Uncovered women’s faces, in all forms of media from election posters to televised debates, has been one of the surprises of the campaign ahead of Iraq’s second parliamentary elections since Saddam was ousted by a US-led invasion in 2003. –AFP Photo Editorial Protecting women Protecting women BAGHDAD: Feyruz Hatam’s face is itself an indication of the change in Iraqi society’s view of women that has become apparent in the run-up to the country’s election on Sunday: it is not covered. … Continue reading Unveiled women stop traffic in Iraq election campaign

Pictured: The Chinese GIRL toddler who weighs 6.5st at the age of two By Mail Foreign Service She may be just two years old, but Pang Ya is already tipping the scales at 6.5st. The toddler’s size means she now weighs the same as an average female Chinese adult. Although her alarmed parents admit that their daughter has a healthy appetite, they are desperate for help. Larger than life: Pang Ya (left) poses next to a healthy two-year-old Chinese friend Enlarge   Rotund: The toddler’s parents are anxious for assistance in helping Pang Ya lose weight Her father said: ‘Doctors … Continue reading Chinese GIRL toddler weighs 6.5st at the age of two

Mars spacecraft breaks through data download milestone as it beams 12,000 amazing pictures back to Earth By Daily Mail Reporter There crystal clear views of alien rock formations are just a few of the impressive images sent back from Nasa’s Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter. Captured by the onboard HiRise camera, they show dramatic landscapes including inverted craters, deep water-forged gullies and frost covered dunes. To date, scientists have released 11,762 such images to the public. They were sent back to Earth from the spacecraft, which is circling the Red Planet 72million miles away. This image shows dark sand dunes and inverted … Continue reading Amazing pictures of Mars

Relative of British boy held for £100,000 ransom in Pakistan ‘may have taken part in kidnap’ By Daily Mail Reporter A senior diplomat claimed today that the kidnap of a five-year-old British boy being held for a £100,000 ransom in Pakistan could have been an ‘inside job’. Wajid Shamsul Hasan, the Pakistani High Commissioner in the UK, said police were investigating whether a member of Sahil Saeed’s family was involved in his abduction. ‘The initial investigation is also looking at the possibility of a sort of inside job as well,’ he told GMTV this morning. Kidnapped: Sahil Saeed has been … Continue reading Please check the link for Daily Mails readers comments – these racists are pathetic

Galactic Diplomacy deals mainly with questions like “How do we prepare for (open) contact?” and “once contact is made, what do we do next?” As an ever growing number of individuals is experiencing close encounters of the third kind (contactee) and of the fourth kind (abduction), it is useful to make a first distinction between ‘official contact,’ i.e. with government organisations and contact with individuals / citizens: Track One Diplomacy is the official diplomacy as organized by governments. Track Two Diplomacy, also called “Citizen Diplomacy,” is the name given to anything that happens at the non-official level and involves private … Continue reading Galactic Diplomacy – Time for us to interact!

CSETI COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE UFO/ETI PHENOMENON By Steven M. Greer, M.D. A comprehensive analysis of the UFO phenomenon, as well as original research and experiences of members of the CSETI CE-5 Initiative Working Group, has enabled us to make some specific conclusions about UFOs, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and their motives. The summation of this analysis, which follows, is intended to assist both groups and individuals in their efforts to understand this complex subject. We have recorded only those conclusions for which we have a high level of certainty. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS Some UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft (ETS) which are piloted by … Continue reading COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE UFO/ETI PHENOMENON

Humanising the monster —by Dr Mohammad Taqi My life with the Taliban By Abdul Salam Zaeef Translated from Pashto and edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn Hurst/Columbia University Press; Pp 331 In his foreword to Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef’s book, Professor Barnett Rubin of New York University sets the stage for the launch, ostensibly, of a refreshingly authentic work of this inaccurate and revisionist take on contemporary Afghan history. My Life with the Taliban, written by the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, has been praised across the board by the media ‘Afghanologists’ such as Ahmed Rashid and … Continue reading Humanising the monster Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef