Plainsdrifter

Saudi Arabia didn't officially ban slavery until the early 1960s. I remember it in the news when JFK was president.

But unofficially, slavery is very much practiced in Saudi Arabia.

Problem is most of the laws followed there are oral so a spokesman can solemnly announce at the UN that a law has outlawed slavery.

I don't believe an economic migrant would spend the amounts paid to a trafficker and secondly undertake the, clearly life - threatening trip in a rubber boat to get to the EU. Only a desperate refugee would take such risks to escape a clearly dangerous situation.

Definitely the tip of the iceberg. The 14 indicted are middle level officials in FIFA. The one they are aiming for is the head, so they hope to turn some of the 14 to testify against Blatter.

Don't think BM will get it.

The lower the interest rate equals less investment into the country leading to a weaker baht.

It's inevitable that solar, wind or other similar energy will be developed. I guess people in the middle east will return to time honored occupations like robbing and kidnapping religious pilgrims on their way to haj.

Every person should have the option to choose. The absence of the right to choose is what is terribly wrong with this religion.

April Fool?

In the US, when someone in the cockpit needs to use the bathroom, a flight attendant must take his place in the cockpit untenable he returns from the bathroom. A pilot is never left alone in the cockpit.

Louis Jourdan, French actor, died at 93 in Beverly Hills, Ca.

50 years after the event, the facts are bound to be revealed as the people involved begin to die off.

Very hard to encourage women's rights in a culture that is lacking elementary rule of law. In most western countries nobody is above the rule of the law, wereas in tribal Muslim lands only the very poor and unconnected are subject to it. Only the Muslim religion as opposed to encouraging many beliefs to exist isn't healthy either. In western countries religion evolved over the centuries but it is blasphemous to question or change Islam.

So true. A nation of cheats.

Joe Franklin, tv and radio talk show pioneer,dead at 88 in NYC.

Over the past 30 years China is the only country where I consistently get sick in from food consumed there.

From what I have read about the massacres, most, if not all media avoid reporting on them and on boko haram because of fears of getting harmed themselves. That's why the number of actual deaths vary from 200-2000.

Wonder if they refund the fee if bag is lost. I know from experience they exclude damage to zippers and wheels when they bang them up.

Flying business class may have something to do with it.

At least he didn't leap from the balcony.

El Al is Israel's national airline so they seem to respect ultra-orthodox passengers' demands. El Al doesn't fly on the Jewish Sabbath and only serves kosher food onboard.

Many other airlines fly to the Jewish state, but I don't believe they tolerate this type of behavior. I bet if this stunt was tried on United, the passengers would have found themselves off the plane or placed under arrest.

Civilization is nothing more than a very thin veneer covering the actual primitive state of things, as we see in West Africa.

Eastern Ukraine is the site of many giant factories that produce many of the jet engines used by Russian aircraft, helicopters plus countless munitions.

Do you suppose Putin would allow Eastern Ukraine to leave Russia ' s orbit?

In this case Japan enjoys the best of both. They get to get their way of not allowing Muslims in their country and they get to enjoy and use energy supplied by Muslim countries.

What is really a pain in the ass is on long haul flights are children sitting behind you that can't seem be able to stop kicking the seat in front of them, with you sitting there. I have to confess that I accidently dropped the contents of a cold drink over their once. Since the flight was full, they unfortunately couldn't move from their soaked seat to a dry one. I apologized of course, but the kicking stopped and the child and parents both jumped to wary attention whenever I had to get up and pass their seats.

Because they don't believe the crap they preach to their idiot followers.....