#1 — BBC | Japan arrests activist who boarded whaling ship
An activist from New Zealand has been arrested by Japan’s coastguard after he boarded a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean last month.
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#2 — BBC | New Chile quake as Pinera sworn in as president
Sebastian Pinera has been sworn in as president of Chile, minutes after it was hit by the largest aftershock since last month’s devastating earthquake.
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#3 — Fox | Dems Abandon Abortion Deal, Ready Health Vote
WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.
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#4 — Fox | 39 Dead, 100 Wounded in Pakistan Bomb Attacks
LAHORE, Pakistan — A pair of homicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm.
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#5 — NY Times | Ground Zero Workers Reach Deal Over Health Claims
A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers at ground zero who sued the city over damage to their health, according to city officials and lawyers for the plaintiffs.
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#6 — DM | Battle of the Minarets
Victory was being celebrated yesterday in the leafy avenues and Victorian villas of Camberley.
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#7 — Times | Courts should not try us, say Expenses four
Three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer insisted yesterday that they should not be tried in the courts when they appeared before a judge on charges of expenses fraud.
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#8 — Times | Mass grave in Dorset contains remains of executed Viking warriors
The captives, all well built young men in their late teens and early 20s, were herded to the place of execution. Fifty-four in total, their heads were hacked off and stacked neatly in a pile. The bodies were tossed into a pit where they remained a tangle of limbs and headless torsos until archaeologists following the route of a new road stumbled across the remains last year.
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#9 — Times | Ayad Allawi accuses Nouri al-Maliki’s group of fraud in bid to retain power
The threat of violent protests loomed over Iraq yesterday as the country’s leading opposition politician said that there was widespread fraud in last week’s elections.
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#10 — Telegraph | MP calls for burkas to be banned in Britain
An MP has called for ministers to ban the wearing of burkas, branding it ”offensive” and ”against the British way of life”.
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Well, I see that Glen Beck is at it again and this time he’s telling his audience that ‘social justice’ the term many Christian churches use to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a ‘code word’ for communism and Nazism.
Beck went onto urge Christians to discuss the term with their priests and to leave their churches if leaders would not consider their emphasis on social justice.
His latest comments have certainly surprised many in U.S. Christian circles. Has he crossed the ‘line’ for the final time? Or is he back on the bottle” Who knows?
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/08/glenn-beck-urges-listeners-to-leave-churches-that-preach-social/