Muslim Brotherhood الإخوان المسلمون Al-Ikhwān Al-Muslimūn COGwriter The Muslim Brotherhood seems to have greatly increased its influence in Egypt’s elections as VOA reports: 7 December 2011 Muslim Brotherhood Claims Another Victory in Egyptian Elections Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood says its political party has won almost two-thirds of the parliamentary seats reserved for individual candidates in the […]
Month: December 2011
UK’s Cameron’s EU Demands and EU’s Rompuy’s Solution
David Cameron COGwriter UK Prime Minister David Cameron is trying to prevent the European Union from increasing its power at Britain’s expense: Eurozone crisis: PM vows to fight for national interest BBC News – 7 December 2011 David Cameron has said he will fight to protect the UK national interest in discussions over a new EU […]
China Upset with Australia and USA
Chinese Soldiers COGwriter There is more direct military cooperation going on between China and Pakistan: China military denounces U.S.-Australia defense upgrade BEIJING(SANA) China’s military denounced the United States and Australia on Wednesday for upgrading military ties, warning that such moves could erode trust and fan Cold War-era antagonism. Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng made […]
Germans Celebrate Nicholas Today
COGwriter In Germany, there is a celebration of Nicholas each year on this date (other European countries tend to use other dates): Though they have similar outfits, Nikolaus is not to be confused with Santa Claus, who Germans call the Weihnachtsmann, or Father Christmas… Each year on December 6, Germans remember the death of Nicholas […]
Argentina, the Falkland Islands, Iran, and Middle East War Preparations
(Illustration by Camilo Sanchez) COGwriter Argentina is indicating that it has some international weight: Argentina launches naval campaign to isolate Falkland Islands Argentina has launched a naval campaign to isolate the Falkland Islands that has seen it detain Spanish fishing vessels on suspicion of breaking the country’s “blockade” of the seas around the British territories. […]
USA Vulnerable to Solar Flares
Depiction of solar particles interacting with Earth’s magnetosphere COGwriter A German insurance group is realizing that solar flares may have major economic ramifications: An upcoming cycle of stormy solar activity risks causing damage to electrical transformers and threatening vulnerable energy infrastructure around the globe, a report by an insurance group says.The sun follows a predictable […]
UK Increasingly Considered to be an Obstacle to European Integration
Palace of Westminster in London COGwriter Another report suggests that many consider that the UK is an obstacle for significant European integration: 5 December 2011 UK Infuriating Partners by Obstructing EU Foreign Policy… The British government is trying to obstruct the establishment of a common EU foreign and security policy. The formation of an […]
Syria’s Assad to Attack Israel?
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (Source: Agência Brasil, Wikipedia) بشار الأسد COGwriter Today’s news has the following: ‘Embattled Assad may start conflict with Israel’ Mofaz says real possibility that Assad will try to engage Israel militarily in order to deflect attention from massacre. http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=248149 As I have been writing for some time, I suspect that the […]
Dutch Debt
World Currencies COGwriter The people of the Netherlands apparently have their own potentially-serious debt problem according to page A13 of today’s Wall Street Journal: Mortgage Burden Looms Over Dutch BY MATTHEW DALTON ALMERE, The Netherlands—The most debt-burdened households in the euro zone aren’t in Portugal, Ireland or Greece. Spanish households…The title of most indebted goes […]
Ark of the Covenant to be Revealed in Ethiopia?
Depiction of Levites Carrying the Ark of the Covenant COGwriter It has been reported that an Ethiopian relic that many there claim is the Biblical Ark of the Covenant may be publicly shown: A very British problem of a leaky church roof could be about to give the world the chance to glimpse the legendary […]