Archive for September, 2008

It’s been seven years since that horrific day in the US, which eventually paved the way for a great deal of horrific days outside the US. So I thought this recent poll by World Public Opinion to be quite telling of public perceptions on 9/11… Publics in the Middle East are especially likely to name [...]

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Three decades after it was conceived, the world’s most powerful physics experiment has begun. Engineers are attempting to circulate a beam of particles around the 27km-long underground tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The £5bn machine on the Swiss-French border is designed to smash particles together with cataclysmic force, revealing signs of new [...]

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So it’s that time of the year again folks and hopefully we can rally together to make a difference in the lives of a few citizens. The Action Committee has started its food drive for Ramadan and your help is needed! The Ramadan food package is going to cost 20JDs and will contain: 3 kg [...]

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In what I imagine can only be dubbed inevitable news, the Matrix Company for Financial Investments has been charged with attempting to defraud its investors after it recently announced voluntary liquidation, which inspired thousands of their clients to pretty much invade the Matrix offices around Jordan to reclaim their investments. Some of the offices were [...]

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I admit to having second thoughts about posting this, but it’s been a much-talked about issue and I feel it needs more of a public discussion. If anyone’s been paying attention recently, Dr. Basem Awadallah, head of the Royal Court and arguably one of the most powerful political figures in power today, has become the [...]

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Did you ever notice, whenever there seems to be a great deal of traffic in a specific spot, there is always a traffic cop around, and that it also feels like the traffic actually increases due to his/her presence?

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…glorious…so, so glorious… “We should not even be talking about Sarah Palin because it’s sexist.” Jon Stewart takes on Republicans like Karl Rove for playing the gender card whenever it suits them. [source]

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11:03pm Arriving. Granted. Life can have its incredibly uninspiring moments. Some times, they last a whole week. A month. A year. Work drains you. Education drains you. The news drains you. Life drains you. Thursday night is an attempt of venturing out in to the darkness of Amman… In search of something… Inspiring. And it’s [...]

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