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• He Had

  By Ecantados on January 5, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  chosen a bloodwood box, ornately carved bright red velvet, carefully lined, to hold the finest tear drops of aquamarine, blue delicate necklace, of filigree of gold, lays waiting, silent in the enclosed velvet case to be moved again, shelf to… Read More ›

• Where

  By Ecantados on January 5, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  you, once, stood in the shadows, hidden by the building’s corner away from the warming sunlight that broke from, darkling  clouds drifting away, after a fierce, nay, ferocious storm, that tore anew the tree’s last leaves, harbinger of winter’s deepening,… Read More ›

• US Senator Rand Paul- Repatriation of Corporate Offshore Funds or More Corporate Welfare

  By Ecantados on January 5, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Senator Rand Paul is seemingly obsessed with giving corporations another ‘tax holiday’ even though the last one proved a dud. Paul has introduced S. 911, which would reduce the repatriation rate to 5 percent. Paul argues lowering that tax on… Read More ›

• ‘ISIL is losing’: Iraqis optimistic for 2015

  By bluebirdsister on January 4, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Circumstances of battle have changed in favour of Iraqi troops since June, local security officials say. Baghdad – Iraqi security forces backed by Shia militias, Kurdish forces and Sunni Muslim tribesmen will drive the Islamic State of Iraq and the… Read More ›

• Photographers and Their Photographs in Black and White

  By Ecantados on January 4, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

    Beth Moon – Trees   Ansel Adams – Landscapes   Dorothea Lange – People   Yousuf Karsh – Portraits Richard Avedon – People in Motion  Henri Cartier-Bresson – People and Places Robert Capa – People and Places Alfred Stieglitz – People  Margaret… Read More ›

• Metal detector enthusiasts in Buckinghamshire have uncovered what is thought to be one of biggest hoards of ancient coins ever found in Britain.

  By enormousgherkin on January 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Paul Coleman from the Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club discovered more than 5,000 coins buried inside a lead bucket two feet under a field near Aylesbury. The hoard contains specimens dating back to the 11th Century – the late Anglo Saxon,… Read More ›

• Israel freezes Palestine tax funds over ICC bid

  By enormousgherkin on January 3, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Israel has halted the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinians following their bid to join the International Criminal Court, Israeli officials say. They said $127m (£82m; €106m) collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority last month would be held… Read More ›

• Eyeless in the West Bank

  By enormousgherkin on January 3, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Salah Suleiman is an 11-year-old fifth-grader from Isawiyah, a Palestinian village within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries. He lost one eye after a bullet was fired at him by the Israeli police, and is now in danger of losing the sight in… Read More ›

• WNF: World Predictions

  By Ecantados on January 2, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  This is a stab at seeing how good or maybe not,… 🙂 , we here at the WNF can predict anything about the world in the coming decades. In your comment, list your top five predictions of overall interest in… Read More ›

• Settlers throw stones at U.S. consulate convoy in West Bank after destroying 5000 Olive Trees

  By enormousgherkin on January 2, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  Settlers from the Adei Ad illegal outpost in the West Bank threw stones on Friday at an American consulate convoy, which arrived at the area to examine complaints that settlers destroyed Palestinian-owned olive groves the day before. One of the… Read More ›

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