Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Monkees' Davy Jones dies at 66. RIP



Davy Jones of the Monkees has died of an apparent heart attack at age 66. The singer – who had been on a solo tour this month - complained of chest pains last evening and was admitted to a hospital this morning in Stuart Florida.

Jones was born in Manchester, England and started acting as a child, though he got his big break in 1965 when he joined The Monkees. The group had a hugely successful television series, and a slew of hit songs in the late 1960s. At their peak in 1967 they sold more records than the Beatles.

Jones played tambourine and was the lead vocalist on "Daydream Believer," "I Wanna Be Free" and many other classics. The group split in 1971, though they reunited many times over the past forty years. They toured last summer for the first time in nearly a decade, but it was called short because of what Monkees guitarist Peter Tork called a "glitch." Source...

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Pakistan's Hindu girls forced into Muslim marriages...

"The abduction and kidnapping of Hindu girls is becoming more and more common," Amarnath Motumal, a lawyer and leader of Karachi’s Hindu community, told IRIN. “This trend has been growing over the past four or five years, and it is getting worse day by day. 

Sixteen-year-old Ameena Ahmed*, now living in the town of Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, does not always respond when her mother-in-law calls out to her.

“Even after a year of `marriage’ I am not used to my new name. I was called Radha before,” she told IRIN on a rare occasion when she was allowed to go to the corner shop on her own to buy vegetables.

Ameena, or Radha as she still calls herself, was abducted from Karachi about 13 months ago by a group of young men who offered her ice-cream and a ride in their car. Before she knew what was happening, she was dragged into a larger van, and driven to an area she did not know.

 She was then pressured into signing forms which she later found meant she was married to Ahmed Salim, 25; she was converted to a Muslim after being asked to recite some verses in front of a cleric. She was obliged to wear a veil. Seven months ago, Ameena, who has not seen her parents or three siblings since then and “misses them a lot”, moved with her new family to southern Punjab. Full story...

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We’ll mock Jesus but not Mohammed, says BBC boss...

The head of the BBC, Mark Thompson, has admitted that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed like it mocks Jesus.

He justified the astonishing admission of religious bias by suggesting that mocking Mohammed has the “emotional force” of “grotesque child pornography”.

But Jesus is fair game, he said, because Christianity has broad shoulders and fewer ties to ethnicity.

Mr Thompson says the BBC would never have broadcast Jerry Springer The Opera – a controversial musical that mocked Jesus – if its target had been Mohammed.

He made the remarks in an interview for a research project at the University of Oxford. Full story...

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'CEOs in Sweden earn in a year what workers earn in a lifetime'

CEOs in Sweden earn on average in one year what manufacturing workers stand to earn in their entire lifetimes, according to a report from Sweden's main trade union group.

After a dip following the financial crisis, the salaries of top-level executives in Sweden are now once again growing faster than those of blue collar workers, the head of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO), Wanja Lundby-Wedin, along with two LO economists, wrote in an opinion piece in the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.

On average, members of the "power-elite" have incomes that are 17 times higher than those of manufacturing sector workers, according to a new report by LO charting the salary developments of top-ranking managers in Sweden.

 The study is based on a selection of around 200 "power positions" from different sectors of Swedish society, which LO breaks down into the economic, democratic, and bureaucratic "elite". Full story...

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France raps Google's new privacy policy...

France on Tuesday demanded that Internet giant Google postpone rolling out its new privacy policy two days before it comes into effect as it appears to break European Union data protection rules.

"A preliminary analysis shows that these new rules do not respect the requirements of the European data protection directive," said the National Commission for Computing and Freedom (CNIL), which has been asked to investigate Google's new user terms by its European counterparts.

The CNIL asked Google to "postpone applying the new rules."

Google has sought to reassure users that it will protect their personal data, while web users must accept the new terms to continue using its services, including its popular Gmail webmail and its Google+ social media service. Full story...

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Thai activist jailed for seven and a half years for royal 'insult'

A Thai political activist was sentenced on Tuesday to seven and a half years in prison in the latest in a series of convictions under the kingdom's controversial royal defamation laws.

The Criminal Court in Bangkok found Surachai Danwattananusorn guilty of insulting the Thai monarchy during several public speeches he gave to supporters of his "Red Siam" group in 2008 and 2010.

"This case is political motivated," his lawyer Karom Polpornklang told AFP, adding that he planned to appeal the verdict.

 Red Siam is a hardcore offshoot of the Red Shirt movement, which is broadly loyal to fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by royalist generals in a 2006 coup. Full story...

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'Dead' Chinese grandmother climbs out of coffin after six days!!!

A 95-year-old Chinese woman terrified her village by climbing out of her coffin after being ‘dead’ for six days.

Li Xiufeng was found motionless and not breathing in bed by her neighbour more than a fortnight after tripping and suffering a head injury at her home in China's Guangxi Province

When he failed to wake her up, Chen Qingwang assumed the frail grandmother had passed away in her sleep, at her home in the village of Liulou, in Beiliu..

Recounting his daily visit to bring the elderly lady breakfast, Mr Qingwang, 60, said: “"She didn't get up, so I came up to wake her up Full story...

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Anyone's a Terrorist: Fear-mongering machine takes over US...

Malaysia bans Erykah Badu show over 'Allah tattoos'

Muslim-majority Malaysia has banned a planned concert by Erykah Badu after a photograph appeared showing the Grammy-winning singer with the Arabic word for Allah written on her body.

The American R&B singer was scheduled to perform today in Kuala Lumpur, but some Muslim groups said Badu was an unsuitable role model for young Malaysians after seeing a publicity photo of her with what appeared to be temporary tattoos of the word Allah on her bare shoulders.

A government committee that includes police and Islamic policy officials decided to forbid Badu's show because the body art was "an insult to Islam and a very serious offence", Information Minister Rais Yatim said in a statement on Tuesday. Full story...

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Hypnotist to help Indian cops give up smoking and drinking alcohol!!!

Police in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh have sought the help of a hypnotist to help their men give up drinking alcohol and smoking.

Senior officers believe that alcoholism has become a problem in the force with reports of drunk policemen on duty coming in from parts of the state.

Last week, a local TV channel showed a policeman passing out after drinking alcohol in the capital, Raipur.

India's policemen are overworked and many suffer from stress.

Recently, the local police hired hypnotist VL Soni for a 30-minute session with some 200 policemen who were "alcoholic, overweight or depressed". Full story...

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Flatworms could hold key to immortality...

Flatworms could hold the key to immortality, scientists claim.

British researchers believe that the worms, which live in ponds and lakes, could live forever after examining their ability to repeatedly regenerate.

Experts from Nottingham University managed to create a colony of more than 20,000 flatworms from one original by chopping it into pieces and observing each section grow into a new complete worm.

 They believe that it could help scientists develop new methods to allow humans to stay younger for longer. Full story...

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Facebook and YouTube used by illegal pharmacies to target children...

Illegal internet pharmacies are targeting young people online through sites such as Facebook and YouTube, a United Nations drugs chief warned today.

Professor Hamid Ghodse, president of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said illegal internet pharmacies were becoming ''very sophisticated'' in approaching young people on social media sites, leaving them ''very vulnerable'' online.

 He warned young people to beware of whom they were talking to and interacting with on the internet.

''Disturbingly, illegal internet pharmacies have started to use social media to publicise their websites, which can put large audiences at risk of dangerous products,'' Prof Ghodse said. Full story...

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Damn your low fat diet! Confessions of a former vegan...

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According to government advice, I was doing everything right — and yet my health had never been worse. My weight had crept up over the years, until in 2008 I was 14½ stone — which is a lot of blubber for someone who is 5ft 10in — and was classified as clinically obese.

I waddled around, sweating and short of breath, battling extremely high cholesterol and suffering from chronic indigestion. I was always tired and needed to take naps every afternoon. I had constant headaches and swallowed paracetamol and sucked Rennies like they were sweets.

Worst of all, I had irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which left me feeling as if I had lead weights in my gut. My belly was bloated and distended after every meal. I was, to use a technical term, knackered.

But that was about to change. In 2010, I decided to give up my supposedly healthy lifestyle and embrace good old-fashioned meat. Full story...

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Weird 'dog-headed pig monster' terrorizes Africa...

Residents in northern Namibia, on the southwest coast of Africa, have reported being terrorized by a bizarre dog-pig hybrid creature. The animal is said to be mostly white and unlike anything the villagers have ever seen, with a doglike head and the broad, round, nearly hairless back and shoulders of a giant pig. The beast was spotted chasing and attacking dogs, goats and other domestic animals in this arid region not far from the Kalahari desert.

As often happens when rumors of monsters spread in rural areas around the world, some locals have taken extra safety precautions, such as traveling in groups and arming themselves with weapons. In 1995 and 1996, some Puerto Ricans armed themselves against the vampire beast el chupacabra; last year, Malaysian residents patrolled the streets searching for the mysterious orang minyak, or "oily man" creature that had recently terrorized them.

What could this monster be? One Namibian official, regional councilor Andreas Mundjindi, was quoted in Informante newspaper as saying, "This is an alien animal that the people have not seen before. We don't have a forest here, only bushes. So, this must be black magic at play." Full story...

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In India, one bride is burned every 90 minutes because of dowry...

The number of Indian brides burned to death for not bringing adequate dowry payments is on the rise.

In 2010, 8391 dowry death cases were reported across India, meaning a bride was burned every 90 minutes, according to statistics recently released by the National Crime Records Bureau.

A decade earlier this number was 6995, but climbed to 8093 dowry deaths in 2007.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Lionel Messi never dives...

Olympic outrage at Saudi ban on women athletes...

Saudi Arabia has been accused of breaching the spirit of the Olympic movement by discriminating against women in sport and failing to bring a female team to the 2012 London Games.

Tessa Jowell, the former culture secretary and Olympics minister – who is now a member of the Olympic Board – said the Saudis were "clearly breaking the spirit of the Olympic Charter's pledge to equality" with their attitude to women in sport and the Games.

The Saudi government, which closed private gyms for women in 2009 and 2010 and severely limits their ability to undertake physical activity, is under mounting international pressure to adopt a more liberal approach.

Jowell spoke out after a report by Human Rights Watch highlighted the way in which Saudi Arabian women and girls are denied the right to sport. Full story...

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Bishop in Ghana owns FOUR private jets!!!

NOT MANY businessmen at age 60 can boast of owning a private jet but 57-year-old Bishop David Oyedepo, Chief Executive of Living Faith Church World Wide, also known as Winners Chapel, is the proud owner of four state-of-the-art private jets.

His latest addition was a Gulfstream V which he personally announced the purchase to his church members and added that his new jet would need to be housed in a $30 million private hanger.

Reports say the new hanger can be compared to the most expensive hangers in Europe and United States and it is currently being built for his jets, near the international wing of Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria.

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The Greek tragedy: the IMF is the racketeer of the world...

While the Western media point the finger at Syria, Russia and China, a financial government has taken over the power in Greece and in Europe. Composer and resistance icon Míkis Theodorákis lambastes the joint strategy devised by Greek politicians and financial institutions with the objective of pillaging the country. He explains how Greece was gradually put under IMF tutelage by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and former Prime Minister Papandreou.

There is an international conspiracy whose target is the complete destruction of my country. They began in 1975 aiming at Modern Greek civilization, continued with the distortion of our modern history and our national identity and they are now trying to eliminate us biologically as well through unemployment, hunger and impoverishment. If Greek people don’t rise as one in order to prevent them, the danger of Greece becoming extinct is evident. I place it within the next ten years. There will be nothing left of us but the memory of our civilization and our battles for freedom.

Until 2009, there was no serious economic problem. The major wounds of our economy were the enormous expenses related to the purchase of war material and the corruption of a part of the political and economic-journalistic sector. For both of these wounds, foreigners are jointly responsible. Germans, for instance, as well as French, English and Americans, earned billions of Euros from annual sales of war material, to the detriment of our national wealth. That continuous hemorrhage brought us to our knees and did not permit us to move forward, while at the same time it made foreign nations prosperous. The same was true of the problem of corruption. The German company Siemens, for instance, maintained a special department for buying off Greek stakeholders in order to place its products in the Greek market. Hence, the Greek people have been victims of that predatory duo of Greeks and Germans, growing richer at their expense. Full story...

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Muse and MK Ultra...



The wavelength gently grows
Coercive notions re-evolve
A universe is trapped inside a tear
It resonates the core
Creates unnatural laws
Replaces love and happiness with fear

How much deception can you take
How many lies will you create
How much longer until you break
You mind's about to fall

And they are breaking through
they are breaking through
they are breaking through
they are breaking through
Now we're falling
We are losing control.

Invisible to all
The mind becomes a wall
All of history deleted with one stroke


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Iran is no enemy of black Britain...

Demonising and dehumanising Iran and the Iranian people...

DO YOU consider the Iranian state apparatus to be a hot bed of Islamic terrorism and essentially evil? Do you believe that Iran is developing nuclear weapons? Do you believe that Iran has declared a wish to wipe any country off the face of the earth?

Are you worried that Iran may launch a missile aimed straight at the heart of London sometime soon? Do you believe that Iran is the principle meddler in other countries’ affairs within the Middle East? Do you consider Iran to be the chief state sponsor of terror in the world?

If you get your news solely from the major news outlets, you could be forgiven for believing all of these things. Even though they have either been proven to be false or likely to be manufactured truths (i.e. ‘true’ as a result of being repeated countless times and hardly ever probed for fact).

It is clear that the three-decade long ‘cold war’ between Iran and the West is heating up. As with any war the first casualty has been the truth. The second casualty has been the integrity of the Western media. Full story...

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Brutal Bahraini state terror...

For over a year, Saudi and Al-Khalifa monarchy security forces terrorized nonviolent protesters. Thousands braved tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets, live fire, arrests, torture and disappearances.

Washington’s very much involved. Bahrain’s the home of America’s Fifth Fleet. Millions of dollars in aid’s provided. So are weapons, including armored vehicles, bunker buster missiles, wire-guided ones, and more. A Pentagon statement said:

They’ll “improve Bahrain’s capability to meet current and future armored threats. Bahrain will use the enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defense.”

In fact, Bahrain faces no external threats. Except for Western/Israeli-targeted Syria, Iran, and Lebanon, neither do other Middle East states. Yet Washington’s selling fighters, missiles, and other advanced weapons to regional allies. Full story...

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Pakistani director wins Oscar for film on acid attack victims...

Pakistani filmmaker and first-time Oscar nominee Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won an Academy Award on Monday for her documentary about acid attack victims, a first for a Pakistani director.

Her victory shines a spotlight on a subject which affects thousands of women in Pakistan and elsewhere, but is seldom discussed at home.

Speaking exclusively to Reuters via telephone from backstage, Chinoy dedicated the award to the women of Pakistan.

The women's "bravery and resilience in the face of adversity inspires me every single day," she said. "They are the true heroes of Pakistan."

'Saving Face' chronicles the work of British Pakistani plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad, who performed reconstructive surgery on survivors of acid attacks in Pakistan. Full story...

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

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Facebook spies on phone users’ text messages, report says...

Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging tο smartphone users whο downloaded thе social-networking app аnԁ ѕаіԁ thаt іt wаѕ accessing thе data аѕ раrt οf a trial tο launch іtѕ οwn messaging service, Thе (London) Sunday Times reported.

Othеr wеƖƖ-knοwn companies accessing smartphone users’ personal data — such аѕ text messages — include photo-sharing site Flickr, dating site Badoo аnԁ Yahoo Messenger, thе paper ѕаіԁ.

It claimed thаt ѕοmе apps even allow companies tο сυt οff phone calls — whіƖе others, such аѕ YouTube, аrе competent οf remotely accessing аnԁ operating users’ smartphone cameras tο take photographs οr videos аt аnу time. Full story...

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Leaked email reveals BBC's suppression of anti-monarchy views...

Producers of the BBC’s Gary Barlow jubilee documentary have made it clear that the corporation is seeking one-sided celebratory coverage of the royal jubilee. The evidence emerged in an email leaked to the pro-democracy campaign group Republic.

The BBC only this week has denied accusations from Republic that it is seeking to promote and celebrate the monarchy, rather than provide balanced coverage. Yet the leaked email makes clear that no dissenting voices against the monarchy will be allowed in the programme.

The email says the producers are “hoping to speak with people … who have a respect for the Queen” and that “we are not interested in hearing a personal bad word against the Queen". The email exchange goes on to say that the documentary is “to celebrate her reign” and makes it quite clear that the project is entirely pro-monarchy.

The producers even make the extraordinary stipulation that they would speak to a republican but only if they are “willing to talk about the Queen herself positively”. Full story...

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Algerian artist paints his generation's despair...

The way young Algerian artist Aghiles Issiakhem sees it, the future for many of his 20-something generation is as bleak as his charcoal portraits of them.

"For a young person here, there's nothing -- you can escape abroad or flee into drugs and alcohol," says the 22-year-old.

The self-taught artist shows off a series of his portraits of friends, members of a disaffected generation who walk the streets of Algiers without training, degrees, jobs or much hope for the future.

The artist -- the great-nephew of one of the fathers of modern Algerian painting, the late Mohammed Issiakhem -- recalls the protests and food riots of a year ago, when the Arab Spring kicked off across the region. Full story...

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South African company offers naked maid services!!!


Maids who buff in the buff and plumbers who strip off more than just the grime in your pipes -- these are the services on offer at a new South African company.

Natural Cleaning Co., which bills itself as "the world's only all-naked service company," was founded a month ago by Jean-Paul Reid after he struggled to find work as an accountant in a country with a 23.9 percent unemployment rate.

The company offers housekeeping, accounting, legal, computing and other services, with a twist -- staff show up either topless or fully nude, depending on the client's request.

"Cleaning is the popular one, and then handyman services for the ladies," Reid, 29, told AFP. Full story...

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When a country cracks down on contraception: grim lessons from the Philippines...

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Those who cast contraception as a private, personal matter ought to consider the case of the Philippines.

Over the past few decades, as most of the world has embraced family planning, the majority-Catholic nation has waged war on reproductive rights. There, abortion is strictly prohibited and crackdowns on contraception are common. Church officials promote what they call “natural” family planning: women are advised to track their cycle and abstain from sex on all but their least fertile days. They cast “artificial” contraception as an affront to God’s will, a gateway to abortion and a threat to public health. In their minds, condoms are “abortifacients” and family-planning campaigners are, as Archbishop Paciano Aniceto told me in 2008, “propagandists of a culture death.”

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And it’s not just Manila. The church’s decades-old campaign against modern contraception has led to an epidemic of unsafe abortions in the Philippines. The country’s high unmet need for contraception means that almost half of pregnancies are unwanted and about 500,000 per year result in abortion. All too often, these procedures are unsafe. Every year, an estimated 60,000 Filipinas are injured trying to terminate a pregnancy. About 1,000 die from abortion-related complications. Full story...

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Ghana soccer coach accuses players of witchcraft...

Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic claims some of his players turned on each other using withcraft at the Africa Cup of Nations, according to a report published by the BBC on Friday.

Stevanovic's astonishing accusation of deep divisions in the Black Stars' ranks emerged from a leaked review of the team's performance in Gabon where Ghana were knocked out by eventual winners Zambia in the semi-finals.

"We all need to help in changing some players' mentality about using 'black power' to destroy themselves, and also make sure we instil discipline and respect for each other," the coach said, according to the BBC.

In a report delivered to the Ghana Football Association's (GFA) executive committee, Stevanovic added: "After losing to Zambia, there arose so many accusations amongst the players. Full story...

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

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Breast-feeding mum evicted from church, compared to strip-teaser! WTF!

Nirvana Jennette, a mom of four from Camden County, Georgia says she was forced out of church for breastfeeding her baby. Church leaders asked her to breastfeed in the bathroom and implied they could have arrested her for “lewd behavior.” The most egregious statement? She told news station WSAV that her pastor compared her breastfeeding to a stripper performing.

According to Fox 30 WAWS, although Georgia state law allows a mother to nurse her child anywhere, Jennette could face public indecency charges. She wants her message to be heard loud and clear -- breastfeeding is natural and moms who want to feed their children in public should be protected. To that end, she's decided to stage a nurse-in and is seeking to establish legislative change for the State of Georgia.

On March 5th, Jennette will stage the "Georgia Statewide Nurse-In" at the Woodbine Courthouse and is calling for moms and supporters to join her via Facebook. Nurse-in protests are becoming much more common -- recently, moms breastfed in front of Facebook's headquarters after nursing photos were wrongfully removed from the social network. And after mom, Michelle Hickman, was shamed for breastfeeding at a Target store, she organized a nationwide nurse-in that took place in several retail locations. More + video...

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Mardi Gras soul, in action, turns girl's parade nightmare into a dream come true!

Forget what the calendar might have said. On Friday, at least in one part of New Orleans, it was Emily Gras.

Emily Mueller, an 11-year-old north shore girl with autism, was the object of one drunken young man’s abuse during the Krewe of Muses parade on Feb. 16. She was reduced to tears before she could see any of her favorite parade.

Her mother, Amy Mueller, wrote about the experience online on Thursday, detailing the man’s cruel words and thoughtless actions. She wrote that the man came close to setting Emily’s hair on fire with a cigarette and spilling beer on her before calling her a “retard” to his friends and, later, to her face. Emily asked her mother to take her home, saying she never wanted to participate in Mardi Gras again.

On Friday morning, Amy said, she awoke to learn that she and her daughter had become the objects of an online love fest. Full story...

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Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran for refusing to renounce his faith could be hanged 'at any time without warning'

A Christian pastor who converted from Islam is to be put to death for leaving Islam following the ruling of an Iranian court, it was reported today.

Youcef Nadarkhani, 34, was arrested more than two years ago on charges of apostasy, and has now been sentenced to death by an Iranian court for refusing to renounce his Christianity, according to the pastor's legal team.

The father-of-two had defied a request by the Gilan provincial court, in Rasht, Iran, to repent, and now faces death by hanging.

Mr Nadarkhani may be executed at any time without warning, as death sentences in Iran can be carried out immediately or dragged out for years.

If the execution goes ahead he would be the first Christian to be officially executed in Iran for religious reasons in 20 years. Full story...

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Dalit in India violently attacked for drinking water from pot belonging to upper caste...

In a macabre act of caste violence, a Dalit youth in Saniyana village was attacked with a sharp-edged weapon and had his arm nearly chopped off for drinking water from an earthen pot belonging to an upper caste family.

 While doctors have stitched up his arm, the police arrested one Rajender of Daulatpur village and booked him under SC/ST Act.

Police sources said that Pappu first inquired about the caste of the victim, Rajesh Kumar, before attacking him.

 The attack comes within two years of a violent caste clash in Mirchpur in Hisar district in which two Dalits - a physically challenged girl and her septuagenarian father -were burnt to death and 18 Dalit homes were set on fire by a mob belonging to the Jat community. Full story...

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Friday, February 24, 2012

Bradley Manning trial a warning for whistleblowers?

"The Americans occupy Wall Street, the Chinese occupy toilets..."

A Chinese student is hoping to become a heroine for women around the world by launching an occupy movement of her own -- in the men's toilets.

Fed up with long queues for ladies', Li Tingting made headlines when she and 20 women marched into a men's public toilet in the southern city of Guangzhou carrying colourful placards calling for equal waiting times for both sexes.

Now, she plans to take her protest to the capital Beijing, where China's leaders will gather next month for the annual meeting of the country's rubber-stamp parliament. Full story...

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Bosses baffled by "text speak" of youngsters who can't write...

SCHOOL leavers are being sent back to the classroom by their employers to “de-text” their language.

Bosses say increasing numbers of young recruits are unable to communicate with customers in formal English.

Instead they use “text speak” and litter emails with abbreviations and obscure acronyms.

 Now senior business figures are urging the Government to take action. They believe social networking has created an underclass of prospective employees who lack the basic skills needed to secure employment. Full story...

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Qur'an burning protests rage as death toll reaches 23 in Afghanistan...

Twelve people were killed on Friday in the bloodiest day yet in protests that have raged across Afghanistan over the desecration of copies of the Muslim holy book at a Nato military base with riot police and soldiers on high alert braced for more violence.

The burning of the Qur'ans at the Bagram compound earlier this week has deepened public mistrust of Nato forces struggling to stabilise Afghanistan before foreign combat troops withdraw in 2014.

Hundreds of Afghans marched towards the palace of Afghan president Hamid Karzai in Kabul, while on the other side of the capital protesters hoisted the white flag of the Taliban.

Chanting "Death to America!" and "Long live Islam!", protesters also threw rocks at police in Kabul, while Afghan army helicopters circled above. Full story...

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Ad for "hot" nurse in Sweden titillates controversy...


The Swedish hospital that advertised for “hot” nurses has been forced to apologize after an international media frenzy and an official discrimination complaint from a 64-year-old man who claimed he was rejected because he was “too wrinkly” and has a "slight limp".

The original advert called for “TV-series hot” nurses and “Söder hipsters” to fill in the summer vacancies for nurses at the Stockholm South General hospital (Södersjukhuset) in Stockholm.

These “pre-requisites”, which head nurse Jörgen Andersson told The Local were only written to “catch people’s attention”, ended up making headlines in the international press and titillated the imagination of readers from around the world.

 Now, a 64-year-old male nurse has reported the hospital to the Ombudsman for Justice (JO) after claiming the advert was discriminatory. Full story...

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