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I want to ask each of you to consider doing the following when you are

talking on

the phone to any US customer service representative that is based in a foreign

country (like India ).  I have done this twice and it works!  Any time

you call an

800 number (for a credit card, banking, charter communications, health

insurance,

insurance, you name it) and you are transferred to a representative

(like in India),

please consider doing the…

• Respect and honour all human beings irrespective of their religion, colour, race, sex, language, status, property, birth, profession/job and so on [Al-Qur’an-17/70]

• Talk straight, to the point, without any ambiguity or deception [Al-Qur’an-33/70]
• Choose best words to speak and say them in the best possible way [Al-Qur’an-17/53, 2/83]
• Always speak the truth. Shun words that are deceitful and ostentatious…

Black residents are increasingly departing large U.S. cities, a shift that could affect African-American political power

Flight Could Dilute and Shift Black Political Power

 according to data from the first results of the U.S. Census Bureau’s population census.

The population of the nation’s capital now exceeds 600,000 residents, 53 percent of whom are African American, and there has…

Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the new chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, has promised to launch a series of

 investigations of Muslim Americans beginning in February. “I’ve made it clear that I’ll focus the committee on counterterrorism and hold hearings on a wide range of issues, including radicalization of the American Muslim community and homegrown terrorism,” he…

Empire of Bases 2.0 The United States has 460 bases overseas! It has 507 permanent bases! What is the U.S doing

War zones aren’t the only secret spots. Take a close look at Middle Eastern nations whose governments, fearing domestic public opinion, prefer that no publicity be given to American military bases on their territory, notes Nick Turse.

with more than 560 foreign bases? Why…

"If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in

Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling.

 repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.” -Chuang Tzu

A recent report issued by scientists detailing their fears over BP’s massive oil spill, including its contamination in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, brought to mind the story of Chuang Tzu…