COMMENT: Such a long journey —Dr Mohammad Taqi Do we have the answers to why we are in such a sorry state? Can we at least ask the relevant questions, and in a timely manner? I must meekly submit that not all of us do “I wiss you health, I wiss you wealth, I wiss you gold in store; I wiss you heaven on earth, What can I wiss you more?” The above was the toast proposed at a little girl’s birthday by Mr Dinshawji, a character in Rohinton Mistry’s novel, Such a Long Journey, that was later adapted into … Continue reading Such a long journey

PENSIEVE: Death of an optimist —Farrukh Khan Pitafi The argument that the scope of devastation could not be foreseen is absurd. So is the lame excuse that when great powers cannot fight natural disasters, how can we. It is our country and we should have done enough to set our home in order Temporal anomalies, eddies of time, never cease to amuse me in terms of literary speculation. If we were to ever develop temporal technologies I am sure my country could benefit from it by altering important existential issues created at its very birth. For instance, the Quaid could … Continue reading Death of an optimist

bbc.co.uk John Holmes: “This disaster is one of the most challenging that any country has faced in recent years” The UN has launched an appeal for $459m (£290m) to help victims of Pakistan’s flood disaster, which has affected at least 14 million people. UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said the money would be for immediate relief over the next three months. The disaster was “one of the most challenging that any country has faced in recent years”, he said in New York. Continue reading the main story Pakistan’s Monsoon Floods ‘Hardline’ groups fill aid vacuum Zardari criticism’s political game In … Continue reading UN launches $459m Pakistan flood appeal

From SweetPoison.com and Youtube.com Aspartame Side Effects There are over 92 different health side effects associated with aspartame consumption. It seems surreal, but true. How can one chemical create such chaos? Aspartame dissolves into solution and can therefore travel throughout the body and deposit within any tissue. The body digests aspartame unlike saccharin, which does not break down within humans. The multitude of aspartame side effects are indicative to your genetic individuality and physical weaknesses. It is important to put two and two together, nonetheless, and identify which side effects aspartame is creating within you. Aspartame Side Effects The components … Continue reading Are you being slowly poisoned by Aspartame?

Organisations providing relief efforts for the victims by Dawn.com (1) Faith Foundation Flood Relief Camp Contact Information: 021-99250265, 0315-2095953, 0300-8246829 Donation/Collection point: Ideas @ Schon Circle. Goods collected will be dispatched personally to Sukkur for distribution by Faith Foundation this Friday, August 13. Requirements: Clothes, food (dry and packed), blankets, tents and medicine. We also accept cash but what’s required immediately are the items mentioned. We also need to rent transport, you can arrange for the Shehzore pickups that have covered cabins at the back. (2) Food Drive for the FLOOD! Drop-off Locations: DHA: 74 Main Khyban-e-Ittehad, opp. Bobby Mart. … Continue reading Pakistani Organisations providing relief efforts for the victims of flood

Speeding Swede clocks up world’s biggest motoring fine after 180mph chase By Daily Mail Reporter A speeding Swedish driver is facing the world‘s biggest ever motoring fine of 650,000 euros – around £538,000 – after being clocked at 180mph while driving through Switzerland. The 37-year-old man‘s £140,000 Mercedes SLS AMG was impounded along with his driving licence after soaring along at two and-a-half times the speed limit on a Swiss motorway. ‘We have no record of anyone being caught travelling faster in the country,’ said a police spokesman. Finally at a halt: The driver’s Mercedes has been impounded by police … Continue reading £538,000 speeding fine!

Still going strong, Britain’s oldest fridge keeping food fresh after 56 years By Daily Mail Reporter Britain’s oldest working fridge is still faultlessly keeping food fresh 56 years after it was purchased. Edmund Garrod has used the General Electric Company DE.30 fridge every day since it was delivered to his home when he was a child on June 26 1954. The waist-high cream-coloured unit cost £69, equivalent to around £1,415 today, and was purchased by his parents with inheritance money because their milk kept going sour. Old friend: Edmund Garrod with his General Electric fridge which is 56-years-old and still … Continue reading Britain’s oldest fridge keeping food fresh after 56 years

Topic of Cancer One fine June day, the author is launching his best-selling memoir, Hitch-22. The next, he’s throwing up backstage at The Daily Show, in a brief bout of denial, before entering the unfamiliar country—with its egalitarian spirit, martial metaphors, and hard bargains of people who have cancer. By Christopher Hitchens• Photograph by John Huba September 2010 JOINING THE RESISTANCE? The author at home in Washington, D.C., July 18, 2010. I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. But nothing prepared me for the early morning last June when I came to consciousness feeling … Continue reading Bitch has Cancer!

New York buses to carry graphic ad featuring picture of Twin Towers attack in opposition to planned mosque near Ground Zero By Mail Foreign Service New York City’s transit agency has approved a bus advertisement that depicts a plane flying toward the World Trade Center’s towers as they burn along with a rendering of a proposed mosque near ground zero. The ad was paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an organisation that opposes radical Islamic influence in the United States. The group’s executive director says she doesn’t find the ad offensive. The group sued the Metropolitan Transportation … Continue reading New York buses to carry Islamophobic ads

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know: Laurence Kotlikoff By Laurence Kotlikoff Bloomberg Opinion Play Video Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) — Laurence Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University, talks about the state of the U.S. economy. Kotlikoff speaks with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television’s InsideTrack.” (Source: Bloomberg) Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. But this is the good news. It means they … Continue reading U.S. Is Bankrupt !