The leader of the South African Communist Party has accused poultry manufacturers of racism.
Blade Nzimande said that the poultry industry was selling "rotten" meat to black people.
He said chicken past its best-before date was being recycled - thawed, washed and injected with flavouring - then sold to shops in black townships.
A spokesman for the poultry industry admitted the practice takes place, but said it was both safe and legal. More...
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Each day, 8 children go missing in Delhi...
About eight children go missing every day in the city, according to an RTI reply by Delhi Police. Across the city, over 2161 children had gone missing within a span of 270 days this year. Of them, 603 are yet to be traced.
The chilling story was disclosed by the Alliance for Peoples' Rights, an NGO, after analyzing the consolidated figures of children who went missing between January and September this year. "We had filed an application under the RTI Act on October 8 seeking information on missing children across 12 police districts in Delhi. Only seven districts – North, South, Outer, Northwest, New Delhi, East and Southwest – had replied. A notable exception came from the southeast district which did not give the figures even though Sangam Vihar area under it has traditionally been one of the most vulnerable areas," said Reena Banerjee from NGO Nav Sristi. More...
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The chilling story was disclosed by the Alliance for Peoples' Rights, an NGO, after analyzing the consolidated figures of children who went missing between January and September this year. "We had filed an application under the RTI Act on October 8 seeking information on missing children across 12 police districts in Delhi. Only seven districts – North, South, Outer, Northwest, New Delhi, East and Southwest – had replied. A notable exception came from the southeast district which did not give the figures even though Sangam Vihar area under it has traditionally been one of the most vulnerable areas," said Reena Banerjee from NGO Nav Sristi. More...
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She must donate her kidney to her sister to get out of jail!!!
A Mississippi woman must donate her kidney to her sister as a condition for their early release from jail after serving 16 years for an armed robbery that netted 11 dollars.
Jaime and Gladys Scott became symbols of the heavy-handed sentences handed to African Americans and the influential civil rights group NAACP engaged in a long-standing campaign to secure their release.
The two sisters - who insist they were wrongfully convicted - were handed two life sentences for acting as accomplices and were not eligible for parole until 2014. More...
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Jaime and Gladys Scott became symbols of the heavy-handed sentences handed to African Americans and the influential civil rights group NAACP engaged in a long-standing campaign to secure their release.
The two sisters - who insist they were wrongfully convicted - were handed two life sentences for acting as accomplices and were not eligible for parole until 2014. More...
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Hindu extremists stop dead man’s cremation because he had wanted to become Christian...
Christians in Orissa continue to be discriminated. On Tuesday, a group of Hindu extremists from the Sangh Parivar prevented the cremation of Subarna Digal, an 83-year-old Dalit, in Milsikia (Barkhama), because he was Christian. They also forced his relatives to flee their village. News of the incident has raised concerns among Christians in Kandhamal District, the same who suffered during the 2008 anti-Christian pogrom that left hundreds dead.
“No villager should have been denied the last rites on any account. The dead man had expressed a ‘desire for baptism’ and was willing to accept the Christian faith on his own volition. The adversary group should have been sensitive to this, but unfortunately, they acted in an inhumane way, showing disrespect to the dead,” said Mgr Raphael Cheenath, archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar. More...
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“No villager should have been denied the last rites on any account. The dead man had expressed a ‘desire for baptism’ and was willing to accept the Christian faith on his own volition. The adversary group should have been sensitive to this, but unfortunately, they acted in an inhumane way, showing disrespect to the dead,” said Mgr Raphael Cheenath, archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar. More...
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- Tamil father in Toronto ran down teen daughter in attempted "honour" killing...
- Muslim girl in India killed by father for love affair with Hindu...
- 28 children kidnapped in India for conversion into Christianity...
- Hindu leader wants Christianity weeded out of Indian state...
- More than 4,000 Christians victims of abuses and forced conversions in Orissa...
- Christian convert's funeral in Finland taken over by Imam and Muslim relatives...
Singapore sees a 46.3 per cent increase in Indian tourists...
Indian travellers visiting Singapore increased by 46.3 per cent year-on-year to 73,000 in November, making it the fourth largest tourist generating market for the city state, authorities said on Thursday.
Singapore's November tourist arrivals totalled 963,000, an increase of 16.1 per cent from a year ago, the city state's tourism board said today.
India, along with Indonesia (176,000 visitors), Malaysia (100,000 visitors), China (94,000 visitors) and Australia (64,000 visitors), made up the top five tourist markets for Singapore.
The combined number of visitors from the five countries accounted for 53 per cent of the total tourist arrivals in Singapore in November. Source...
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Singapore's November tourist arrivals totalled 963,000, an increase of 16.1 per cent from a year ago, the city state's tourism board said today.
India, along with Indonesia (176,000 visitors), Malaysia (100,000 visitors), China (94,000 visitors) and Australia (64,000 visitors), made up the top five tourist markets for Singapore.
The combined number of visitors from the five countries accounted for 53 per cent of the total tourist arrivals in Singapore in November. Source...
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Malaysia struggles to stem 'brain drain' as Indians and Chinese pack up and leave...
When computer engineer Wan Jon Yew left Malaysia in 2005 for a job in Singapore, all he wanted was to work in the city state for a few years before going home. Now, he says, he will never return.
With a family, a home and a car, he now plans to settle in Singapore for good -- just one of the many Malaysians stampeding abroad every year in a worrying "brain drain" the government is trying to reverse.
"I wouldn't consider going back to Malaysia, I won't look back. If I were ever going to leave Singapore, I would migrate to Australia," said the 28-year-old, who now has permanent resident status. More...
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With a family, a home and a car, he now plans to settle in Singapore for good -- just one of the many Malaysians stampeding abroad every year in a worrying "brain drain" the government is trying to reverse.
"I wouldn't consider going back to Malaysia, I won't look back. If I were ever going to leave Singapore, I would migrate to Australia," said the 28-year-old, who now has permanent resident status. More...
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- Malaysia increasingly intolerant of dissent...
- Amnesty condemns caning 'epidemic' in Malaysia...
- Malaysia heavily criticized for human right violations...
- Rajeswari, or how the Malaysian govt. screwed up the life of one of its citizens.
- Police brutality in Malaysia against ethnic Indians condemned after woman's suicide...
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Societies racked by fear...
One snowy Christmas Eve in Porrentruy, the little town in the Jura where I was born, I came across a little girl, aged about five or six, who had let go of her mother’s hand in order to stroke lovingly the tangerine which a Father Christmas had thrust into her hand as he scurried past. She sat down on a low wall and said, full of wonder: “He gave it to me! And, you know what? it’s my favourite fruit!”. That little scene in the street sums up the magic of Christmas.
And yet a different feeling immediately contradicts this unreserved happiness that children still know how to experience, in their unquenchable thirst for joy and simple happiness. The end of year festivities have become, at least for a non-believer, no more than an empty ritual, the showy survival of a kind of togetherness which has lost its substance. You have to give presents, and receive them, and play at being pleased and surprised. Old habits die hard, but they have lost their meaning.
We now have not only an economic crisis, but a crisis of meaning as well. More...
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And yet a different feeling immediately contradicts this unreserved happiness that children still know how to experience, in their unquenchable thirst for joy and simple happiness. The end of year festivities have become, at least for a non-believer, no more than an empty ritual, the showy survival of a kind of togetherness which has lost its substance. You have to give presents, and receive them, and play at being pleased and surprised. Old habits die hard, but they have lost their meaning.
We now have not only an economic crisis, but a crisis of meaning as well. More...
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Wives of leading rabbis tell Israeli Jewish girls not to marry Arab men...
In another anti-Palestinian move, the wives of a group of leading Israeli rabbis have called on Jewish women to avoid marrying or working with Arab men.
The demand, made in a public letter signed by close to 30 rabbis' wives, portrays Arab men (Palestinians) as inferior to Jewish women whom should be regarded as enemies.
"For your sake, for the sake of future generations, and so you don't undergo horrible suffering, we turn to you with a request, a plea, a prayer. Don't date non-Jews, don't work at places that non-Jews frequent, and don't do national service with non-Jews," reads the letter. More...
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The demand, made in a public letter signed by close to 30 rabbis' wives, portrays Arab men (Palestinians) as inferior to Jewish women whom should be regarded as enemies.
"For your sake, for the sake of future generations, and so you don't undergo horrible suffering, we turn to you with a request, a plea, a prayer. Don't date non-Jews, don't work at places that non-Jews frequent, and don't do national service with non-Jews," reads the letter. More...
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- Rabbis in Israel issue edict banning renting or selling houses to non-Jews...
- Segregation of Jews and Arabs in 2010 Israel is almost absolute...
- Leading rabbi tells Israeli soldiers to use Palestinians as human shields...
- Rape by deception??? Only in Israel...
- Israel warns Jews against marrying non-Jews...
China shuts down 60,000 porn sites and arrests 5,000 people...
China has shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year and arrested 5,000 people as it steps up a campaign against obscene material.
Beijing has run a highly publicised drive against lewd online content which it claims is overwhelming the country's internet and mobile phones and threatening the emotional health of children.
Critics have accused the Chinese government of deepening the crackdown, launched last December, and said censorship had blocked many sites with politically sensitive or even user-generated content. More...
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Beijing has run a highly publicised drive against lewd online content which it claims is overwhelming the country's internet and mobile phones and threatening the emotional health of children.
Critics have accused the Chinese government of deepening the crackdown, launched last December, and said censorship had blocked many sites with politically sensitive or even user-generated content. More...
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'I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met'
A Wisconsin man has earned bragging rights as the champion liar of 2010 with this line: "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met."
David Milz (49) said he came up with the one-liner over the summer when he was joking around with colleagues. He thought it might be good enough to win the Burlington Liars Club's annual contest, but the call he received this week was still a surprise.
"I was just shocked when I heard I won," the Bristol man said. "Hey, it's a résumé builder." More...
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David Milz (49) said he came up with the one-liner over the summer when he was joking around with colleagues. He thought it might be good enough to win the Burlington Liars Club's annual contest, but the call he received this week was still a surprise.
"I was just shocked when I heard I won," the Bristol man said. "Hey, it's a résumé builder." More...
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Belgian priest, probable Nobel Peace Prize candidate, admits he's a child-abuser...
A Belgian priest has confessed to a child sex-abuse accusation that came to light during a campaign to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work fighting globalization's impact on developing countries.
The confession was published in a Belgian newspaper Wednesday and confirmed by the organization the priest founded, deepening a sex-abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in the country. After a spate of accusations this year, the church in September published the harrowing accounts of more than 100 victims of clerical sex abuse, some as young as 2 when they were assaulted.
In October, after supporters of 85-year-old Francois Houtart began working to nominate him for the Nobel, a woman contacted the nonprofit organization he founded and said the priest had abused her brother 40 years ago, according to its director, Bernard Duterme. More...
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The confession was published in a Belgian newspaper Wednesday and confirmed by the organization the priest founded, deepening a sex-abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in the country. After a spate of accusations this year, the church in September published the harrowing accounts of more than 100 victims of clerical sex abuse, some as young as 2 when they were assaulted.
In October, after supporters of 85-year-old Francois Houtart began working to nominate him for the Nobel, a woman contacted the nonprofit organization he founded and said the priest had abused her brother 40 years ago, according to its director, Bernard Duterme. More...
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- Child abuse widespread in Belgian church...
- Head of Belgian church says that paedophile priests should not be punished...
- Pope blames "permissive" society for priest child abuse!!!
- Priest solicited murder of boy accusing him of sex abuse...
- Pedophiles and popes: doing the Vatican shuffle...
- " I was raped by a priest "
- Imam in Bangladesh rapes 10-year-old girl...
Teacher in India not allowed to sit on chair because she is low-caste!!! WTF!
For five years, Seema Kumari has taught Science to children aged 3 to 12 at a government school in Bihar's Gopalgunj district.
She sits on the floor while she's coaching her students. In her classroom, there is no chair for her. "I am from a lower caste. That's why they don't let me sit on a chair. I have gone through a lot of agony because of this discrimination," she says, matter-of-factly. More...
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She sits on the floor while she's coaching her students. In her classroom, there is no chair for her. "I am from a lower caste. That's why they don't let me sit on a chair. I have gone through a lot of agony because of this discrimination," she says, matter-of-factly. More...
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- Dog in India becomes outcast after being touched by Dalit!!! WTF!
- When low-caste Dalits in India are raped and killed by upper-caste thugs...
- "Modern" India where the primitive caste system continues to kill young couples...
- Caste massacre in India. Welcome to 21st.century Indian apartheid.(Graphic)
- In India, if you're of a lower caste, it can be dangerous holding a girl's hands...
- Dalit in Tamil Nadu (India) forced to eat human excreta for daring to wear slippers!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
"Be outraged" political essay by 93-year-old tops Christmas bestseller list in France...
Proving that age is no boundary to publishing success, the French book world has been taken by storm by a surprise Christmas bestseller: a political call to arms by Stéphane Hessel, 93.
The unlikely publishing sensation is a former resistance hero whose 30-page essay, Indignez-vous!, calls on readers to get angry about the state of modern society.
Launched in October by Indigène, a small publisher working out of an attic in Montpellier, southern France, the book had a tiny first print-run, 6,000, and sold for €3, unprecedentedly cheap in a country where book prices are regulated and kept high by the law. More...
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The unlikely publishing sensation is a former resistance hero whose 30-page essay, Indignez-vous!, calls on readers to get angry about the state of modern society.
Launched in October by Indigène, a small publisher working out of an attic in Montpellier, southern France, the book had a tiny first print-run, 6,000, and sold for €3, unprecedentedly cheap in a country where book prices are regulated and kept high by the law. More...
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- The French pension strikes, the Big Picture (Photos)
- French government spying on journalists...
- Arundhati Roy: Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice...
- Anger in Britain over "no choice" swine flu jab...
- Woman arrested for refusing to be groped by TSA...
- Angry Irishman lambasts "wanking, fucking bankers..."
Did Mediator "miracle drug" kill thousands of French men and women?
A 'miracle' slimming pill may have killed thousands of people in France and could become the worst health scandal in the nation's history.
The drug Mediator was prescribed to up five million people, originally to overweight diabetes sufferers, from its launch in 1979 until it was banned last year.
And for 30 years it was also used as an appetite-suppressing drug by thousands of healthy men and women, with its cost even subsidised by the French healthcare system. More...
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The drug Mediator was prescribed to up five million people, originally to overweight diabetes sufferers, from its launch in 1979 until it was banned last year.
And for 30 years it was also used as an appetite-suppressing drug by thousands of healthy men and women, with its cost even subsidised by the French healthcare system. More...
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TSA is coming to a hotel or mall near you...
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TSA officials have a long history of tyranny which has become mainstream in the last few months as DHS has ramped up its security measures to ”counter” the non existent threat of Al Qaeda.
Attractive women have been singled out, prosthetic breasts have been removed, 6 year old children have had their shirts taken off, an activist was handcuffed to a chair, and the list goes on and on.
One year after the underwear bomber was let on the plane by a member of the State Department we are being led to believe that these invasive measures are absolutely crucial to America’s security.Full story...
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TSA officials have a long history of tyranny which has become mainstream in the last few months as DHS has ramped up its security measures to ”counter” the non existent threat of Al Qaeda.
Attractive women have been singled out, prosthetic breasts have been removed, 6 year old children have had their shirts taken off, an activist was handcuffed to a chair, and the list goes on and on.
One year after the underwear bomber was let on the plane by a member of the State Department we are being led to believe that these invasive measures are absolutely crucial to America’s security.Full story...
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Passengers riot at Moscow airport...
A large group of passengers, many stranded for more than 24 hours, stormed the passport control zone, demanding information on their flights.
Despite upbeat statements by the Moscow power grid company and airport officials, "electricity is still largely off, with baggage conveyors and escalators remaining at a standstill," Interfax news agency reported. More...
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Despite upbeat statements by the Moscow power grid company and airport officials, "electricity is still largely off, with baggage conveyors and escalators remaining at a standstill," Interfax news agency reported. More...
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US and Europe concealed organ trafficking by Kosovo Liberation Army...
The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has been implicated in war crimes involving torture and the illicit trade in human organs, including those removed from Serb civilians taken captive and killed during and after NATO’s 1999 war against Yugoslavia.
The current prime minister of Kosovo and former KLA commander, Hashim Thaci, is identified as the leading figure within a criminal network involved in drug trafficking as well as the trade in human organs. Thaci and other commanders within the “Drenica group” faction of the KLA exercised command control over detention facilities based in neighbouring Albania and determined the fate of those held captive. More...
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The current prime minister of Kosovo and former KLA commander, Hashim Thaci, is identified as the leading figure within a criminal network involved in drug trafficking as well as the trade in human organs. Thaci and other commanders within the “Drenica group” faction of the KLA exercised command control over detention facilities based in neighbouring Albania and determined the fate of those held captive. More...
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Pastor burglarized parishioner on Christmas Eve!!!
Prominent south Dallas pastor Sandra McGriff burglarized the home of her parishioner on Christmas Eve, police said.
McGriff, leads The Church of the Living God and is a member of a politically active family, spent much of Christmas Day in jail.
According to investigators, 51-year-old McGriff broke into Serita Agnew's home and tried to steal more than $10,000 worth of fur coats, designer purses and electronics. More...
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McGriff, leads The Church of the Living God and is a member of a politically active family, spent much of Christmas Day in jail.
According to investigators, 51-year-old McGriff broke into Serita Agnew's home and tried to steal more than $10,000 worth of fur coats, designer purses and electronics. More...
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Female Supreme Court judge in India lists daughters as ‘liabilities’
It is a line that even Bollywood has banished for a while now. But while declaring her assets and liabilities, sitting Supreme Court judge Gyan Sudha Mishra, the only woman judge in the SC at present, has listed the marriage of her two daughters in the "liabilities" column, apparently without considering anything to be much amiss.
The SC's official website in its assets of sitting judges column gives Justice Mishra's declaration where she lists "two daughters to be married" against the liabilities column. While this might be a sentiment still shared by a section of the middle class, it could be regarded as being very politically incorrect, especially on the part of the country's seniormost woman judge.
Other entries in the liabilities column are "guarantor for education loan of my daughter" and residential house to be built post-retirement. The view that daughters are a "liability" (often because of the high cost of their marriage), or a burden of some sort, is a notion that the government is fighting to eradicate through many campaigns.More...
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The SC's official website in its assets of sitting judges column gives Justice Mishra's declaration where she lists "two daughters to be married" against the liabilities column. While this might be a sentiment still shared by a section of the middle class, it could be regarded as being very politically incorrect, especially on the part of the country's seniormost woman judge.
Other entries in the liabilities column are "guarantor for education loan of my daughter" and residential house to be built post-retirement. The view that daughters are a "liability" (often because of the high cost of their marriage), or a burden of some sort, is a notion that the government is fighting to eradicate through many campaigns.More...
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Schools in South Korea get robot English teachers...
Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry.
Engkey, a white, egg-shaped robot developed by the Korea Institute of Science of Technology (KIST), began taking classes Monday at 21 elementary schools in the southeastern city of Daegu.
The 29 robots, about one metre (3.3 feet) high with a TV display panel for a face, wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them and dancing to music by moving their head and arms. More...
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Engkey, a white, egg-shaped robot developed by the Korea Institute of Science of Technology (KIST), began taking classes Monday at 21 elementary schools in the southeastern city of Daegu.
The 29 robots, about one metre (3.3 feet) high with a TV display panel for a face, wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them and dancing to music by moving their head and arms. More...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Lottery winner using payout to feed hungry and homeless...
A dollar left over from buying a gallon of milk has been multiplied and will soon feed 150 people — thanks to some luck and charity.
Blair Noles headed to his neighborhood convenience store to buy milk about three weeks ago. He and his girlfriend, Kimberly Huffstetler, had just gotten back from the Hellfighters Toy Run that gives toys to needy kids. They were planning to settle down with some hot chocolate but didn’t have any milk, so Noles headed to the Garrison Express Mart. More...
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Blair Noles headed to his neighborhood convenience store to buy milk about three weeks ago. He and his girlfriend, Kimberly Huffstetler, had just gotten back from the Hellfighters Toy Run that gives toys to needy kids. They were planning to settle down with some hot chocolate but didn’t have any milk, so Noles headed to the Garrison Express Mart. More...
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How a quiet suburb's police force drove out its Latinos...
Santiago Malave has worked law enforcement jobs in Connecticut for more than four decades, but as a Puerto Rican, he says he cannot drive through his own town without worrying about police harassing him.
Malave, a probation officer who works in New Haven, says the racial abuse is so bad that he only crosses the town line into East Haven to go home. He and his wife are now preparing to sell their house and move, joining an exodus of Hispanics who say police have hassled them with traffic stops, false arrests and even jailhouse beatings.
The Justice Department has started a civil rights investigation, and the FBI recently opened a criminal probe. But that has not changed things on Main Street, where restaurants and stores that cater to Hispanics are going out of business. More...
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Malave, a probation officer who works in New Haven, says the racial abuse is so bad that he only crosses the town line into East Haven to go home. He and his wife are now preparing to sell their house and move, joining an exodus of Hispanics who say police have hassled them with traffic stops, false arrests and even jailhouse beatings.
The Justice Department has started a civil rights investigation, and the FBI recently opened a criminal probe. But that has not changed things on Main Street, where restaurants and stores that cater to Hispanics are going out of business. More...
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17,368 farmer suicides in 2009 in India, a total of 216,500 since 1997...
At least 17,368 Indian farmers killed themselves in 2009, the worst figure for farm suicides in six years, according to data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). This is an increase of 1,172 over the 2008 count of 16,196. It brings the total farm suicides since 1997 to 2,16,500. The share of the Big 5 States, or ‘suicide belt' — Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh — in 2009 remained very high at 10,765, or around 62 per cent of the total, though falling nearly five percentage points from 2008. Maharashtra remained the worst State for farm suicides for the tenth successive year, reporting 2,872. Though that is a fall of 930, it is still 590 more than in Karnataka, second worst, which loggend 2,282 farm suicides. More...
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The Muslim population in Britain has grown from 1.65 million to 2.87 million since 2001...
There is a remarkable statistic in today’s main Daily Telegraph leader:
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life estimates that there are 2,869,000 Muslims in Britain, an increase of 74 per cent on its previous figure of 1,647,000, which was based on the 2001 census. No demographic statistics are reliable in an era of open borders, but such an expansion is unprecedented.
The figure of 2.87 million was first published by Pew in a little-noticed press release last September, announcing a report on Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe. The Pew Centre, based in Washington DC, is one of the most respected demographic research bodies in the world; its methodology is scrupulous and its approach non-partisan. The new total for British Muslims means that, so far as this country as concerned, Pew’s major 2009 report Mapping the Global Muslim Population is already spectacularly out of date. Here’s a map showing the updated distribution of the Muslim population in Europe: More...
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The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life estimates that there are 2,869,000 Muslims in Britain, an increase of 74 per cent on its previous figure of 1,647,000, which was based on the 2001 census. No demographic statistics are reliable in an era of open borders, but such an expansion is unprecedented.
The figure of 2.87 million was first published by Pew in a little-noticed press release last September, announcing a report on Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe. The Pew Centre, based in Washington DC, is one of the most respected demographic research bodies in the world; its methodology is scrupulous and its approach non-partisan. The new total for British Muslims means that, so far as this country as concerned, Pew’s major 2009 report Mapping the Global Muslim Population is already spectacularly out of date. Here’s a map showing the updated distribution of the Muslim population in Europe: More...
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Man faces jail for reading wife's e-mail...
A man from Rochester Hills, Mich., could face up to five years behind bars for reading his wife's e-mails.
Oakland County prosecutors have charged Leon Walker, 33, with an anti-hacking felony normally reserved for identity theft or stealing trade secrets, reports the Detroit Free Press.
Leon Walker, Clara Walker's third husband, broke into his wife's Gmail account on her laptop and discovered she was having an affair with her second husband, the newspaper reports. More...
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Oakland County prosecutors have charged Leon Walker, 33, with an anti-hacking felony normally reserved for identity theft or stealing trade secrets, reports the Detroit Free Press.
Leon Walker, Clara Walker's third husband, broke into his wife's Gmail account on her laptop and discovered she was having an affair with her second husband, the newspaper reports. More...
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Mossad agent 'brought down Egypt's internet'
The purported confessions of Tareq Abdul Razzaq Hassan, a businessman, represent the latest evidence of growing public tensions between Israel and Egypt.
Severe disruptions to Egypt's internet service in December 2008 were blamed at the time on damage to underwater data cables caused by a ship's anchor.
But Hassan told police that the incident was, in fact, the work of Israel's foreign intelligence agency, according to interrogation records leaked to an independent Egyptian newspaper. More...
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Severe disruptions to Egypt's internet service in December 2008 were blamed at the time on damage to underwater data cables caused by a ship's anchor.
But Hassan told police that the incident was, in fact, the work of Israel's foreign intelligence agency, according to interrogation records leaked to an independent Egyptian newspaper. More...
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Teacher in India beaten to death for objecting to eve-teasing...
A teacher in Chhattisgarh paid with his life for objecting to eve-teasing of schoolgirls by a group of youngsters.
Makhan Verma was beaten up by three youths when he tried to stop them from harassing girls outside the high school where he taught, police officials said on Saturday.
The trio came on a motorcycle and passed certain remarks at the girls outside the school at Badulbaazar near in Raipur. When Verma protested, the trio badly thrashed him. He was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead, they said.
The three alleged attackers - Bharat Kure (21), Vimal Patel (20) and Amar Dhruv (21) - have been arrested, the officials added. Source...
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Makhan Verma was beaten up by three youths when he tried to stop them from harassing girls outside the high school where he taught, police officials said on Saturday.
The trio came on a motorcycle and passed certain remarks at the girls outside the school at Badulbaazar near in Raipur. When Verma protested, the trio badly thrashed him. He was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead, they said.
The three alleged attackers - Bharat Kure (21), Vimal Patel (20) and Amar Dhruv (21) - have been arrested, the officials added. Source...
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He quits his job to make a living suing e-mail spammers...
Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them.
Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts.
Enraged, he launched a Web site called Danhatesspam.com, quit a career in marketing to go to law school and is making a decent living suing companies who flood his e-mail inboxes with offers of cheap drugs, free sex and unbelievable vacations.
"I feel like I'm doing a little bit of good cleaning up the Internet," Balsam said. More...
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Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts.
Enraged, he launched a Web site called Danhatesspam.com, quit a career in marketing to go to law school and is making a decent living suing companies who flood his e-mail inboxes with offers of cheap drugs, free sex and unbelievable vacations.
"I feel like I'm doing a little bit of good cleaning up the Internet," Balsam said. More...
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Indonesia anger over lasers used in match against Malaysia...
The Indonesian president has said an official protest will be lodged with the Asean Football Federation about the alleged use of laser beams in an international against Malaysia.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was speaking after fans and players complained about the Suzuki Cup final match.
Indonesia lost 3-0 in the first leg in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
Football rivalry represents one of the many spats between Indonesia and Malaysia. More...
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was speaking after fans and players complained about the Suzuki Cup final match.
Indonesia lost 3-0 in the first leg in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
Football rivalry represents one of the many spats between Indonesia and Malaysia. More...
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When Indian expats abandon their wives and run off with the dowry. WTF!
A VELVET-BOUND album of wedding photographs and two unused train tickets for her honeymoon are the only remnants of Amanjyot Kaur's marriage.
One week after the grand wedding ceremony in a small village in the Indian state of Punjab, Kaur's husband, who lives in Montreal, Canada, returned home, promising to send his new wife documents she needed for a visa.
But the papers never arrived and when Kaur finally managed to get in touch with her husband he refused to recognise her. More...
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One week after the grand wedding ceremony in a small village in the Indian state of Punjab, Kaur's husband, who lives in Montreal, Canada, returned home, promising to send his new wife documents she needed for a visa.
But the papers never arrived and when Kaur finally managed to get in touch with her husband he refused to recognise her. More...
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- 4 wives in Bangladesh beat their husband to death...
- Man in India married 60 women and then sold them off as prostitutes...
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- India's corrupt civil servants courted as potential grooms!!!
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India's corrupt civil servants courted as potential grooms!!!
Government offices in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, have reported a surge in visits from families looking for potential grooms for their daughters among new recruits to the civil service.
Although most civil servants earn tiny salaries, they can still take home vast sums from corrupt dealings, depending on which department they serve.
The Indian government is currently paralysed over allegations of corruption in Commonwealth Games projects and the allocation of mobile phone operator licenses. The governing party in Bihar, which stood on an anti-corruption platform, was returned to power in a landslide victory. More...
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Although most civil servants earn tiny salaries, they can still take home vast sums from corrupt dealings, depending on which department they serve.
The Indian government is currently paralysed over allegations of corruption in Commonwealth Games projects and the allocation of mobile phone operator licenses. The governing party in Bihar, which stood on an anti-corruption platform, was returned to power in a landslide victory. More...
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- Angry Indians take anti-corruption fight online...
- Corruption has cost India $462 billion...
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- Thanks to corrupt officials, 65 children have died in three months...
- Corrupt politicians in India siphoned out $125 billion illegally...
- 6-year-old girl in China aspires to be a "corrupt official!!!"
Don't let the food "experts" and food nazis scare you...
The Asian Food Information Council debunks the scary stories about the food we eat.
EGGS are good for you, we read one day. The next day, another “scientific report” will tell you that eggs are high in cholesterol, hence bad.
The same can be said for coffee, with various “experts” readily weighing in on the good and bad with such regularity that one is left wondering whether the mental stress from reading all these reports can ever be alleviated by caffeine. More...
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EGGS are good for you, we read one day. The next day, another “scientific report” will tell you that eggs are high in cholesterol, hence bad.
The same can be said for coffee, with various “experts” readily weighing in on the good and bad with such regularity that one is left wondering whether the mental stress from reading all these reports can ever be alleviated by caffeine. More...
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- Don't become a victim of the "healthy" food nazis...
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- Organic vegetables ‘no better for health’ than conventionally grown ones...
- Curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, say researchers...
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Young man in Saudi Arabia arrested for touching girl's hand!!!
Saudi police arrested a young national after holding the hand of a local girl sat in her car in a public place in the Gulf Kingdom, Alsaudi daily said Wednesday.
The unnamed boy ran away after the girl’s sister screamed when she saw him stretching his hand towards her sister in the car that was parked near a shopping mall in the eastern port of Dammam, the paper said.
“The girls got that man’s car number and gave it to the police…after a while, they got the young man and detained him for investigation.” Source...
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The unnamed boy ran away after the girl’s sister screamed when she saw him stretching his hand towards her sister in the car that was parked near a shopping mall in the eastern port of Dammam, the paper said.
“The girls got that man’s car number and gave it to the police…after a while, they got the young man and detained him for investigation.” Source...
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Italian mafia spreading tentacles in Switzerland...
Switzerland has always been a key destination for Italy's mafia bosses to launder their assets or hide their cash, but recent probes show that Italian organised crime is broadening its activities there.
Some groups, in particular the 'Ndrangheta from southern Italy's Calabria region, are also investing in property and businesses here, as well as trafficking arms and drugs through Switzerland, sparking alarm among Swiss law enforcers.
Keen to stop the mafia from spreading its reach in the Swiss economy, federal police this year made the fight against Italian organised crime a priority. More...
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Some groups, in particular the 'Ndrangheta from southern Italy's Calabria region, are also investing in property and businesses here, as well as trafficking arms and drugs through Switzerland, sparking alarm among Swiss law enforcers.
Keen to stop the mafia from spreading its reach in the Swiss economy, federal police this year made the fight against Italian organised crime a priority. More...
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Sexual abuse in the US army 'staggering'
Every year, rape increases at an alarming rate within American military institutions – and even males are victims of the cycle.
In fact, due to raw demographics, one can roughly surmise that most victims of sexual abuse in the military are male.
Regardless of gender, reports of victims of military sexual assault have been increasing. In 2007, there were 2,200 reports of rape in the military, whilst in 2009 saw an increase up to 3,230 reports of sexual assault.
Many of the victims suffer from Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and are shamed into silence, with numerous cases not even reported.
A disturbing trend, however, is how military officials seem to be sweeping this damaging issue under the rug and deflecting blame. More...
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In fact, due to raw demographics, one can roughly surmise that most victims of sexual abuse in the military are male.
Regardless of gender, reports of victims of military sexual assault have been increasing. In 2007, there were 2,200 reports of rape in the military, whilst in 2009 saw an increase up to 3,230 reports of sexual assault.
Many of the victims suffer from Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and are shamed into silence, with numerous cases not even reported.
A disturbing trend, however, is how military officials seem to be sweeping this damaging issue under the rug and deflecting blame. More...
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Marred by laser beam incidents, Malaysia beat Indonesia 3-0 in AFF soccer final...
Indonesia lost 0-3 to host Malaysia in the Asean Football Federation (AFF) Cup finals first leg, which was marred by laser beam incidents shot by Malaysian supporters to Indonesian players.
Indonesian players decided to walk out from the pitch in the 54th minute, complaining about low visibility after being shot by a number of laser beams from Malaysian supporters.
After a negotiation, all the players got back to the pitch, but just few minutes after the restart, Indonesia conceded three goals.
Vietnam, which lost 0-2 in the first leg of AFF Cup semifinals in Kuala Lumpur, earlier complained about the use of the laser by Malaysian supporters.
Indonesia will host the second leg of the AFF Cup final on Wednesday. Source...
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Indonesian players decided to walk out from the pitch in the 54th minute, complaining about low visibility after being shot by a number of laser beams from Malaysian supporters.
After a negotiation, all the players got back to the pitch, but just few minutes after the restart, Indonesia conceded three goals.
Vietnam, which lost 0-2 in the first leg of AFF Cup semifinals in Kuala Lumpur, earlier complained about the use of the laser by Malaysian supporters.
Indonesia will host the second leg of the AFF Cup final on Wednesday. Source...
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Anti-Polish hate crime sweeps Scotland...
In early December Rafal Gorski returned to his home country, Poland, planning never to return to Scotland. The racist insults and harassments, the taunts of “F***ing Polish – go back to Poland”, threats of violence and attacks on his family home were so bad he couldn’t deal with the stress of life here anymore.
He feared that he’d suffer the same fate as a friend – killed in a stabbing in Glasgow by a man who afterwards boasted that he’d taken the life of a "daft Pole".
The real name and identity of the Gorskis has been changed as a neighbour, who allegedly took part in the abuse of the Polish family, has just been charged with racially aggravated offences and is now on bail, forbidden from contacting the Gorskis or entering the street where they live. Gorski’s wife, Ilona, remains in Scotland, scared to go out on her own, but committed to staying as she wants her teenage son, Jakub, to complete his education in Scotland. More...
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He feared that he’d suffer the same fate as a friend – killed in a stabbing in Glasgow by a man who afterwards boasted that he’d taken the life of a "daft Pole".
The real name and identity of the Gorskis has been changed as a neighbour, who allegedly took part in the abuse of the Polish family, has just been charged with racially aggravated offences and is now on bail, forbidden from contacting the Gorskis or entering the street where they live. Gorski’s wife, Ilona, remains in Scotland, scared to go out on her own, but committed to staying as she wants her teenage son, Jakub, to complete his education in Scotland. More...
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
"Student concubines" in China seek sugar daddies...
FACED with high fees and poor job prospects, Chinese students are, like their Western counterparts, taking to the streets - but not in quite the same way.
A growing number of "student concubines" are marketing themselves to older, richer men willing to support their studies and pay for a desirable lifestyle.
Millions of female students can be found on the website Jiayuan, the biggest dating site in China, which was created by 24-year-old Shanghai student Gong Xiaoyuan. More...
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A growing number of "student concubines" are marketing themselves to older, richer men willing to support their studies and pay for a desirable lifestyle.
Millions of female students can be found on the website Jiayuan, the biggest dating site in China, which was created by 24-year-old Shanghai student Gong Xiaoyuan. More...
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- The sex ring in China where girls had "training course" and had "hooker test..."
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- Teenage girl sells her virginity to British bidder for £200,000!!!
- Student auctions off virginity for offers of more than $3.7m!!!
- Aussie students sell their bodies to pay ...
Iraqi kills daughter who wanted to be suicide bomber...
An Iraqi man killed and buried his teenaged daughter after learning she had intended to become a suicide bomber for al Qaeda, a security official said on Friday.
Iraqi security forces raided the man's house in Mandili, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, to search for Shahla Najim al-Anbaky after receiving information that she had ties to the Sunni Islamist militant group.
They arrested her father, Najim Abd al-Anbaky, on Thursday when he confessed he had killed his daughter and buried her body near his house, said Major Ghalib al-Jubouri, a police spokesman in Diyala province. More...
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Iraqi security forces raided the man's house in Mandili, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, to search for Shahla Najim al-Anbaky after receiving information that she had ties to the Sunni Islamist militant group.
They arrested her father, Najim Abd al-Anbaky, on Thursday when he confessed he had killed his daughter and buried her body near his house, said Major Ghalib al-Jubouri, a police spokesman in Diyala province. More...
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Friday, December 24, 2010
Online petition in Malaysia against releasing GM mosquitoes...
Concerned citizens who are against the proposed release of genetically modified (GM) male mosquitoes in certain parts of the country have started an online petition campaign to get their message across the nation.
The online petition, titled “No to the release of GM mosquitoes in Bentong and Alor Gajah”, was initiated by Cheah Hooi Giam from Penang and has so far garnered 290 signatories.
Calling on the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to reconsider its planned release, Cheah said that no independent scientific data or evidence had been produced to prove that GM mosquitoes would effectively combat the dengue menace. More...
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The online petition, titled “No to the release of GM mosquitoes in Bentong and Alor Gajah”, was initiated by Cheah Hooi Giam from Penang and has so far garnered 290 signatories.
Calling on the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to reconsider its planned release, Cheah said that no independent scientific data or evidence had been produced to prove that GM mosquitoes would effectively combat the dengue menace. More...
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Asia's baby shortage sets demographic timebomb ticking...
East Asia's b ooming economies have for years been the envy of the world, but a shortfall in one crucial area -- babies -- threatens to render yesterday's tigers toothless.
Some of the world's lowest birth rates look set to slash labour forces in Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, where fewer workers will support more retirees and their ballooning health care and pension costs.
Shuffling along in the vanguard of ageing Asia is Japan, whose population started slowly shrinking three years ago, and where almost a quarter of people are over 65 while children make up just 13 percent. More...
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Some of the world's lowest birth rates look set to slash labour forces in Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, where fewer workers will support more retirees and their ballooning health care and pension costs.
Shuffling along in the vanguard of ageing Asia is Japan, whose population started slowly shrinking three years ago, and where almost a quarter of people are over 65 while children make up just 13 percent. More...
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WikiLeaks to publish 'sensitive' Israel cables?
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said his whistleblowing website plans to publish hundreds of "sensitive" US diplomatic cables on Israel, Al-Jazeera television reported on Thursday.
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"Sensitive and classified documents" on Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon and January's assassination in Dubai of Hamas militant Mahmud al-Mabhuh would be released, Assange told Al-Jazeera in an interview.
Assange said WikiLeaks had 3,700 US documents on Israel, including 2,700 originating from the Jewish state, but denied the website had any agreement in place to spare the country of leaks. More..
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"Sensitive and classified documents" on Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon and January's assassination in Dubai of Hamas militant Mahmud al-Mabhuh would be released, Assange told Al-Jazeera in an interview.
Assange said WikiLeaks had 3,700 US documents on Israel, including 2,700 originating from the Jewish state, but denied the website had any agreement in place to spare the country of leaks. More..
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Saudi Arabia girls' schools investigated over 'illegal' sports day!!!
The Dec 8 event involving 200 females from six Jeddah private high schools broke ministry rules against girls' sports in schools, a ministry official said.
"We don't have any regulations that say that it's OK for girls' schools to hold sports classes or training," said Ahmed Al-Zahrani, director of girls' education in Jeddah.
"This tournament was held by these schools, something that has now led us to know about their illegal activities," he said. More...
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"We don't have any regulations that say that it's OK for girls' schools to hold sports classes or training," said Ahmed Al-Zahrani, director of girls' education in Jeddah.
"This tournament was held by these schools, something that has now led us to know about their illegal activities," he said. More...
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Flouride in water linked to lower IQ in children...
Exposure to fluoride may lower children's intelligence says a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (online December 17, 2010).
Fluoride is added to 70% of U.S. public drinking water supplies.
According to Paul Connett, Ph.D., director of the Fluoride Action Network, "This is the 24th study that has found this association, but this study is stronger than the rest because the authors have controlled for key confounding variables and in addition to correlating lowered IQ with levels of fluoride in the water, the authors found a correlation between lowered IQ and fluoride levels in children's blood. This brings us closer to a cause and effect relationship between fluoride exposure and brain damage in children."
"What is also striking is that the levels of the fluoride in the community where the lowered IQs were recorded were lower than the EPA's so-called 'safe' drinking water standard for fluoride of 4 ppm and far too close for comfort to the levels used in artificial fluoridation programs (0.7 – 1.2 ppm)," says Connett. More...
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Fluoride is added to 70% of U.S. public drinking water supplies.
According to Paul Connett, Ph.D., director of the Fluoride Action Network, "This is the 24th study that has found this association, but this study is stronger than the rest because the authors have controlled for key confounding variables and in addition to correlating lowered IQ with levels of fluoride in the water, the authors found a correlation between lowered IQ and fluoride levels in children's blood. This brings us closer to a cause and effect relationship between fluoride exposure and brain damage in children."
"What is also striking is that the levels of the fluoride in the community where the lowered IQs were recorded were lower than the EPA's so-called 'safe' drinking water standard for fluoride of 4 ppm and far too close for comfort to the levels used in artificial fluoridation programs (0.7 – 1.2 ppm)," says Connett. More...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Pilot punished by TSA for highlighting security flaws at airports...
An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.
The 50-year-old pilot, who lives outside Sacramento, asked that neither he nor his airline be identified. He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit.
He is also a helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve and flew missions for the United Nations in Macedonia. More...
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The 50-year-old pilot, who lives outside Sacramento, asked that neither he nor his airline be identified. He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit.
He is also a helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve and flew missions for the United Nations in Macedonia. More...
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Pope blames "permissive" society for priest child abuse!!! No kidding...
The worldwide “humiliation” that the church has experienced as a result of the scandal must serve as a spur to reform, Benedict XVnI told his cardinals gathered in Rome.
However, the pontiff argued that the abuse crisis must be seen in its social “context”, suggesting that part of the blame lay with permissive attitudes in western society dating from the 1970s.
Survivors of clerical sex abuse condemned the Pope’s statement as another attempt by Church authorities to evade responsibility for the scandal. More...
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However, the pontiff argued that the abuse crisis must be seen in its social “context”, suggesting that part of the blame lay with permissive attitudes in western society dating from the 1970s.
Survivors of clerical sex abuse condemned the Pope’s statement as another attempt by Church authorities to evade responsibility for the scandal. More...
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- The Pope's entire career has the stench of evil about it.
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