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Heavy spending to battle the financial crisis is unlikely to abate soon. Analysts say next year’s deficit could top $1 trillion. for more click here

ZAKA reports Chabad Rabbi and Kashrus inspector Teitelbaum were found dead with holy books next to them. Rabbi had covered wife with prayer shawl. for more click here

Over the past 15 years, there has been scant public concern over the disposition of Canada’s human rights commissions to silence white racists, anti-Semites and obscure Christians. Only now are most Canadians finally beginning to grasp the danger that the freedom-stifling powers of these commissions could be turned on them. for more click here

A leading advocate for religious rights says an Islam-sponsored religious anti-”defamation” resolution pushed in the United Nations appears to be losing support but still remains a rattlesnake to Christianity around the world.

“U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based organization that monitors the U.N.’s Human Rights Council, acknowledged what we have stated all along that the resolution is ‘aimed at the Western world to intimidate anyone from criticizing radical Islam,’” said Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law & Justice. for more click here

ALEX SALMOND was told last night to take his hands off the Saltire and stop treating it as the SNP’s “exclusive property”.

Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Tory leader, accused the first minister of attempting to monopolise the national flag for his party and over-using it during the Glasgow East and Glenrothes by-elections. for more click here

ALISTAIR Darling has delivered a St Andrew’s Day warning to the SNP, claiming an independent Scotland would suffer a £4.5bn slump in revenue next year because of the fall in oil prices across the world. for more click here

George Bush effectively announced an escalation of the undeclared war on Pakistan which has seen an increase in US attacks on Pakistan’s territory in recent weeks.for more click here

I am heartbroken as I watch the magnificent Taj Hotel in Mumbai burning, smoke billowing from its windows. I hear an Indian reporter for the Times of India, his voice choking with incredulity describe the scene. “Terrorists strike India again!”

I am chilled to my marrow about the brazenness of the attacks, the intelligence failure, the rampage of the assassins, the gunbattle they waged on the streets and the helplessness of the Indian police. There have been many such attacks in India recently. They are not even covered in American newspapers. for more click here

Pakistan has expressed concern about rising tensions with India following allegations that gunmen who attacked Mumbai this week had Pakistani links. for more click here

(BosNewsLife)– At least some 400 people have been killed and thousands forced to flee their homes in the central Nigerian city of Jos where Christians and Muslims clashed in the worst sectarian violence in Africa’s most populous nation in years.
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