A surreptitious foreign communication has slipped through the national defenses of Pakistan. It reached targets across the country through an unlikely channel, the education ministry.
The message was concealed in the rhyming couplets of an acrostic published in government-approved English language textbooks. Now they’ve got trouble, right there in Islamabad. Trouble that starts with P and ends with H. . . . read on >>
A massive global conflict is being prepared and launched. If you live in an English-speaking part of the world, you are being targeted. Expect the first major assaults this year.
They are coming from Russia, France, Qatar and others. Massive satellites systems are about to deliver barrages unlike anything the planet has experienced before.
There were hints that this was coming.
If you had searched the airwaves during the dark days of the cold war–like thousands of others including me–you would have heard the forerunner attempts . . . read on >>
In a world with 5,000 spoken languages, it’s a rare tongue that sticks out. But consider what’s the primary lingo in Guyana, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, and Dominica. Or the official language in Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Rwanda, the Federated States of Micronesia and Papua New Guinea.
Now it may not rank as the most spoken first language on the planet. That honor probably goes to Mandarin Chinese with well over a billion speakers. And it’s also outranked by Hindi in the number of native speakers. But the most widely learned second language in the world has got to be . . . read on >>
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