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New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services unjustly shuts down respectable alcohol/drug treatment agency and leaves over 1500 patients in the dust.

Why does Israel flourish while Arabs in Arab nations live mostly in squalor?

Some Christans today are rejoicing at the bloodshed in the Middle East, believing that it's a sign of the Second Coming. This illustrates some people?s desire to find simple answers to complex issues coupled with an erroneous conception of the Bible. Complex issues usually require complex solutions. However, when the Bible gets involved or invoked, the issue gets a little thornier.

DHS just published the guidelines to be used for submitting information to the Top Screen Module of CSAT. Toxic chemical on the DHS list will require specific information on the amount of chemicals present and their potential effect in the event of a successful terrorist attack.

The United States is a democracy. But what do Americans mean when they use that word?

The hustle and bustle of everyday work life deprives 97% of society from living their true destiny.

The Chinese government said Thursday that there was no threat of terrorist attacks on hotels in Hong Kong and China despite a Pakistani newspaper report that the Chinese Consulate General in Pakistan had received such a threat last month.

Iran is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to their economic and political survival. Iran is under considerable pressure to give up its nuclear energy program by the implementation of U.N. security resolutions. Yet the situations isn?t as easy for the Iranians as they will have to choose between a powerful energy resource that will spark its growing economy or serious economic consequences that may hinder future growth.

Somwhere America turned a corner. It transitioned from an abundant, just, constitutional republic into a global empire. As we enter the high-tech security state, are we paying the price for empire? Are we willing to continue paying that price?

Even during the second and fifth centuries as the western Roman Empire lost military strength and political cohesion, numerous Germanic tribes migrating en masse in far and diverse directions, taking them to England and as far south through present day Continental Europe to the Mediterranean and northern Africa passed on the beneficial Germanic genetic elements to other tribes. The Germanic tribes intruded into other tribal territories, and the ensuing wars for land escalated and then the wandering tribes began staking out permanent homes as a means of protection. Much of this resulted in fixed settlements from which many, under a powerful leader. A defeat meant either scattering or merging with the dominant tribe. In Denmark the Jutes merged with the Danes; in Sweden the Geats merged with the Swedes; in England, the Angles merged with the Saxons to form the Anglo-Saxons. Outside of Scandinavia, present-day countries speaking a Germanic language have mixed ethnic roots not restricted to the earliest Germanic peoples. Germanic peoples were often quick to assimilate foreign cultures.