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...problems will never be solved by looking to the heavens, waiting for angels to save the world for us--the righteous--alone. Global warming, terrorism, hatred, political unrest and economic instability are man's problems, caused by man. With hard work and understanding, they can be solved by man. DECLAN MORAN Los Angeles...
Yang, who was banned from China following his involvement with the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, was detained 10 days after he entered China on a borrowed passport. He reentered China to observe the recent labor unrest that had erupted after millions of workers were laid off in the northeast area of the country...
...country's elections. Rival tribes went on a rampage in the town of Tari in the Southern Highlands stealing as many as 55 ballot boxes containing up to 50,000 votes, according to officials. Troops were flown in but failed to make an impression on the level of unrest in the remote area. The poll has become so chaotic that the country's newspapers called for fresh voting, but the Election Commission has continued with the count. JAPAN War Shrine South Koreans angry over the visit by Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's Prime Minister, to a Tokyo shrine containing the remains...
...hours, he's the webmaster at raptureready.com and the inventor of the Rapture Index, which he calls a "Dow Jones Industrial Average of End Time activity." Instead of stocks, it tracks prophecies: earthquakes, floods, plagues, crime, false prophets and economic measurements like unemployment that add to instability and civil unrest, thereby easing the way for the Antichrist. In other words, how close are we to the end of the world? The index hit an all-time high of 182 on Sept. 24, as the bandwidth nearly melted under the weight of 8 million visitors: any reading over 145, Strandberg says...
...economic nirvana?and of a supreme self-confidence that they knew best how to get there, even if it meant trampling on liberties along the way. As these strongmen saw it, for many Asian states the stakes were simply too high to take a chance on unbridled freedom: potential unrest in China, the specter of communism in Indonesia, the risk of being overshadowed by a neighbor like Singapore, the peril of racial conflagration in Malaysia. Through death, ouster or abdication, the Deng Xiaopings, Suhartos and Lee Kuan Yews have passed from the scene. And now?if he goes ahead with...