Three years ago on this day, in London and within 50 seconds of each other, there were bombings at three subway stations and an hour later, at 9:47am, there was a fourth one on a bus in Tavistock Square. Fifty two innocent people died that day while 700 were injured. Has Britain learned any lessons?

Last year there was a failed terrorist plot by Muslim doctors, also in Britain, has their government learned any lessons? Rather than putting restrictions on the preachings of extremist Imams, rather than kick them out of the country, they are allowed to freely continue preaching their hatred… all in the spirit of free speech and… multiculturalism. Freedom of Speech is one of the cardinal principles of a free society, it is in fact what keeps that society free. However, another - and at least - as important a principle also says that the right to move one’s fist stops where the other’s cheek starts. What does that mean? It means that when freedom of speech is abused by preaching violence against any other segment of society it must proscribed!

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U.S. terror report cites Venezuela, Iran

Venezuela’s associations with terror states, Iran’s meddling in Iraq and the resurgence of al Qaeda in Afghanistan top the concerns in a new State Department report on terrorism threats in countries around the world.enezuelan President Hugo Chavez is not cooperating with U.S. anti-terror efforts and has “deepened Venezuelan relationships with state sponsors of terrorism Iran and Cuba,” the annual report says.

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This is Jimmie’s first post for PoliGazette. Welcome Jimmie!

Good God, how is this happening in our own back yard?

It was lunchtime in one of Haiti’s worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country’s central plateau. (more…)

Thanks to reader Alan for sending me this photo (and two others) of the famous Cicadas.

Reader Alan e-mailed the above photo. He explained: “Lake-On-The-Campus at Southern Illinois University. This may come as a surprise to Europeans used to urban universities, but in the US universities, especially land-grant university, often include huge tracts of land. In this case the university has a 40-acre lake, a farm of roughly equal size, and a dairy center. ff to the far left you can see the small campus beach in the distance.”

If you’ve got photos of your town, neighborhood, city, etc. and want to share it with the readers of this blog, please e-mail me.