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St. Andrew's Day

18 hours ago ago from Splunge!

At 8 a.m. that day in 1939, under cover of artillery bombardment, 21 Soviet divisions -- nearly a half-million troops -- crossed the Soviet-Finnish border on the Karelian isthmus. Finland, formerly part of the wider Swedish empire, was captured by Imperial Russia early in the 19th-century to form a buffer zone between the Tsarist capital at St. Petersburg and the presumptive threat to Imperial Russia by its Western European rivals. Over ...

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OCHA: “Palestinians Prevented From Building On 44% Of West Bank Lands”

10 hours ago ago from Window Into Palestine

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA) reported that Israel is preventing the Palestinians from building on 44% of West Bank lands as it allocated these areas to settlements and the military. The OCHA added that... Click on the headlines to read the full story!

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The Berlin Wall And Its Influence On The Rest of The World

16 hours ago ago from Outdoor Lifestyles

Creation commenced on The Berlin Wall early in the morning of Sunday, August 13, 1961. It was a desperate yet effective cause by the GDR (German Democratic Republic) to stop East Berliners evading the Soviet-controlled East German state into the West of the city, which was then occupied by the Americans, British and French. You should go to Berlin yourself to check this out and stay in one of the many Berlin apartments Berlin's rare ...

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A Treasure in Your Pocket?

1 day ago ago from Esportsshoes Blog

Laurent Touma can spot his ideal woman a mile away: Her footprints will bear the mark of Nike ( NKE news people )'s unmistakable waffle-runner sole. If I see a girl with these shoes, it means she is different, smart, he says. If a girl has on a vintage Nike that is a little bit pointy on the toe … I think that is very sexy, very chic. The 35-year-old former banker is a vintage sneaker specialist who founded Arkamix, an online vintage shoe ...

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New Hamas West Bank commanders set to revive anti-Israel terror

18 minutes ago ago from Islamo-Nazism

Hamastan alert. I'm sure Iran gave orders to Hamas after their meeting in Tehran to open up a front against Israel to pin it down and keep it "busy" in order to deflect world attention from the nuke program. From Debka File (December 16, 2009): Since early 2007, Hamas has refrained from orchestrating terrorist activity against Israel from the West Bank, focusing mainly on its missile barrage against southwestern Israel from the Gaza Strip. ...

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Israeli Police Officer Beaten, Seriously Injured By Settlers

13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

JERUSALEM Angry settlers beat and seriously injured a female Israeli police officer Tuesday, police said, as she tried to enforce a government ban on new housing construction in Jewish West Bank settlements. It was the most serious clash between settlers and authorities since the building restrictions were imposed last month. Settlers have vowed to defy the orders and have confronted government inspectors, scuffling with them. Tuesday's ...

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