Thursday, February 05, 2009

USA: Boy born with 24 fingers and toes...

A baby boy has been born in California with 24 perfectly formed fingers and toes - six on each hand and foot. 

Being born with additional digits - or being a "polydactyl" - is not wholly uncommon, but it is unusual to see the condition on every extremity. 

The Bay Area hospital said staff did not notice the extra digits on ultrasound scans - and did not even spot it when Kamani Hubbard was born. More...

See also:

  1. China: baby born with 16 toes!!!
  2. Hee Ah Lee: she has just 4 fingers, no feet, and yet...
  3. A family in India has webbed fingers!!!
  4. Haramb Ashok Kumthekar, the man with 12 fingers and 14 toes!!!
  5. Nick Vujicic, the man with no arms, no legs; and yet...

New York: un mystérieux bienfaiteur distribue de l'argent...

Il se fait appeler «Bill le renfloueur» : pendant deux jours, un homme mystérieux a distribué des billets de 50 et 100 dollars aux passants à Times Square. Mais sa démarche n'est pas tout à fait désintéressée. 

Les Etats-Unis connaissaient déjà Joe le plombier, voici maintenant Bill le renfloueur : en deux jours, «Bailout Bill», comme il se fait appeler, est passé de l'anonymat total à la célébrité. Il faut dire que ce quidam a en quelque sorte lancé son propre plan anticrise, en distribuant des billets de banque aux passants, en pleine rue, à New York, mardi et mercredi. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Douze ans après, le petit voleur rend l'argent...
  2. L'Argent Dette de Paul Grignon ...
  3. Le Grand Secret de l'argent dont personne ne parle...
  4. Au frigo, l’argent se multiplie si vous connaissez...

Chinlone, the Burmese ball game...

Chinlone, le jeu de ballon des birmans…

See also:

  1. Who says women can't handle a ball?
  2. Calling all men who don't like soccer...

Why I'm quitting Facebook...

I was a late convert to Facebook, the social-networking site that turned five years old Wednesday. I joined about a year ago at age 47, swept up in the massive wave of people turning the corner to the back nine of life, and pitifully trying to do what comes so naturally to our sons and daughters. My own 16-year-old, Grace, literally cried from embarrassment when I told her I was signing up, and she begged me through her tears not to do it. When it was clear that I was serious, she made me promise never to "friend" her. Since I didn't know what that meant at the time, I agreed. Last week I redeemed myself in her eyes, because I signed off of Facebook forever--or at least until Tuesday. More...

See also:

  1. Facebook data to be used as marketing tool for businesses...
  2. NZ police hail "first Facebook arrest"
  3. Why you should delete your MySpace account...
  4. Do you have a Facebook?

Inde : à cause de l’amour, un couple vit sous un arbre … depuis 25ans !!!

Pour avoir choisi de se marier malgré les objections de leurs familles, un couple à Jharkhand s’est abrité sous un arbre il y a 25ans, et il est devenu leur nid pour toute la vie.

Mangra Mahali et sa femme Balkhi, tous les deux âgés d’une cinquantaine d’années, habitent sous un arbre prés de la gare de Tatisilve, à environs 30km de Jharkhand. Le couple vivait dans le même village et ils sont tombés amoureux de l’un de l’autre. Mais leurs familles ne voulaient rien savoir de leur mariage et ils ont été éjectés de leurs maisons. 

Les deux amoureux se sont donc rendus au temple du village en espérant y trouver l’abri, mais le prêtre, n’ayant pas le courage d’affronter les parents et les villageois, a refusé de les accueillir. Dépourvu de choix, le couple a passé la nuit sous un arbre que les indigènes appellent dudhiya pakhar, et qui ressemble au banian.

Lorsqu’on s’est levé le lendemain, on ne savait pas où aller. Alors, on a décidé de transformer cet arbre en notre maison. Et nous y sommes restés depuis, Mangra a déclaré à l’agence de presse IANS.

Comme toit, le couple a couvert les branches de l’arbre avec des feuilles de plastique qui les protègent contre le soleil torride et de la pluie. Et comme objets nécessaires pour vivre, ils possèdent quelques ustensiles, des couvertures, des sacs et un four de fortune. Balkhi a même accouché de leur deux fils dans cette « maison » sous l’arbre. L’ainé, qui s’est marié il y a deux ans, a maintenant sa propre maison. Mais le couple, qui vend des bâtons de bambou utilisés par des voyageurs comme brosse à dents à la gare de Tatisilve, a refusé d’habiter avec lui. 

Nous avons vécu pendant 25ans sous cet arbre. Personne ne nous a aidés, mais cet arbre était là. Comment peut-on le quitter maintenant?, demande Mangra. Tous nos souvenirs, les bons comme les mauvais, sont liés à cet arbre.

Les fils, Soriha et Ajay Mahali, salarié tous les deux, sont fiers de leurs parents. Ils ont combattu les jours difficiles avec fortitude en restant ici au lieu d’abandonner l’espoir. Mes parents sont des exemples pour tous les couples amoureux de rester uni même quand tout va mal, a dit Ajay.

Le prêtre au temple a déclaré : nous respectons le couple Mahali. Sous la pression sociale, j’ai refusé de les accueillir au temple. Ils n'ont jamais demandé de l’aide à personne. En travaillant dur, ils ont gagné leur vie eux-mêmes et ils ont élevé leurs enfants. 

Mangra a dit : la vie était dure pour nous après le mariage. Mais nous nous somme soutenus émotionnellement et nous avons lutté pour mener une vie simple. Aujourdhuii, après 25ans de mariage, on a le sentiment de satisfaction. 

Source (en anglais)

Voir aussi:

  1. Inde : une fillette obligée de se marier avec un … chien !!!
  2. Un bordel en Inde; plutôt triste, à peine attirant…
  3. Inde : mecontent de sa dot, un homme a rasé le crane de sa femme !!!
  4. Inde : des prêtres « purifient » un temple après le passage d’un ministre de basse caste !!!
  5. En Inde, la coutume de la dot tue toujours...
  6. Karni Mata, le temple des rats en Inde...
  7. Inde : deux singes tombent des arbres, meurent, et deviennent sacrés !!!

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss...

See also:

  1. Well, Obama is President, is this the change he promised?
  2. Obama has "no comments" on the Gaza massacre...
  3. "Obama is merely a fop for the global elite"
  4. The Elite and their blood-line...
  5. Politics? It's all about nepotism and blood-lines...

India's much-hyped $10 laptop is just a ...

At least, this time, almost the entire world - every news outlet, online and offline - got pranked. We are not alone.

For the better part of three days, tech news sites and bloggers were in a tizzy. The Indian government had announced a $ 10 laptop which would be made available to students in India. It had the potential to change education in India for the poor, providing them with access to the internet, information and lessons.

Well, guess what - the $ 10 laptop (which is not even a laptop, or priced at $ 10) has been unveiled. And it is an embarrassment to anyone who bothered to write an article about it. More...

See also:

  1. Russia: laptop sale, 80% off!
  2. Colombia: 1 laptop per child...
  3. The Question Box, rural India's Oracle...
  4. India: 9-year-old chick becomes youngest Microsoft Certified Professional!!!

Gaza: War crimes accusations rattle Israel...

Three-and-a-half years ago, Israeli reserve Gen. Doron Almog was forced to flee Britain just after landing in London. He had been tipped off about a surprise warrant for his arrest issued by a British magistrates court. The charge: war crimes. 

Now, as the recent Gaza war stirs up more accusations of offenses, the Jewish state and international human rights advocates are gearing up for more potential criminal cases against military officers and political leaders in Europe and possibly elsewhere. 

But instead of international tribunals or the Israeli justice system, the main venue for the cases is expected to be European domestic courts that cite a legal approach known as "universal jurisdiction" that allows for the trial of cases of heinous acts, torture, or war crimes that allegedly occur outside their own borders. More...

See also:

  1. Gaza: the images they are not showing you ...
  2. Finkelstein talks about Israel's massive destruction in Gaza...
  3. Israel accused of executing parents in front of children...
  4. Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza...
  5. This is what's happening in Gaza...
  6. Gaza attacks: Five sisters killed in their sleep...

India: because they loved each other, they have lived under a tree ... for 25 years!!!

Left without a roof over their heads for marrying against their families' wishes, a couple in Jharkhand took shelter under a tree 25 years ago. It was to be their nest for the rest of their life.

Mangra Mahali and his wife Balkhi, both tribals in their early 50s, have been living under a tree near the Tatisilve railway station, about 30 km from here.

The couple lived in the same village and fell in love. But their families opposed their union and they were thrown out of their homes.

The couple then went to the village temple to take shelter. The priest, fearing a backlash from the parents and villagers, refused to provide them shelter. Left with no option, the couple spent the night under the tree, locally known as the dudhiya pakhar which resembles the banyan tree. More...

See also:

  1. India: dowry inadequate, man shaves off wife's head!!!
  2. Malaysian couple weds again 53 years after divorce!!!
  3. Wife in coma for 10 years, husband wakes her by biting her toes!!!
  4. Frenchman to wed dead sweetheart...

Rebel Diaz and Which side are YOU on?

See also:

  1. The Obsolete Man. Welcome to the Twilight Zone, folks...
  2. I'm a human being; my life has value...
  3. That's the way it is. Or is it?

Russia: 2 men who killed and ate a teenage girl...

Two young men — one of them a butcher — have been arrested on suspicion of killing a 16-year-old girl and eating parts of her body, Russian prosecutors said Wednesday.

The girl disappeared after leaving her home in St. Petersburg for school on Jan. 19, city prosecutor's spokesman Sergei Kapitonov said. He said she was killed that night, and that body parts believed to be hers were found in plastic bags scattered around the city. More...

See also:

  1. Cannibals? In this, the 21st. century?
  2. Canada: a strange case of beheading and cannibalism...
  3. WTF! Boy caged, skinned and eaten by family!
  4. We just wanted to see what human meat tasted like...

A Hong Kong, un écolier de 12ans s’offrait comme gigolo !!!

La police de Hong Kong enquêtait lundi sur un écolier de 12ans qui a publié des photos nues de lui-même en s’offrant comme gigolo aux femmes âgées jusqu'à 45ans.

Se donnant le nom de Little Leung dans un forum d’amitié pour adultes, le garçon offrait ses services sexuels aux "femelles" entre 10 à 45ans, d’après le Hong Kong Standard.

Sa pub bizarre, avec une photo de son sexe, le décrivait comme un Chrétien et qu’il offrait de « faire l’amour » aux filles et aux femmes pour 450 dollars Hong Kong ($US58).

Des internautes outragés ont publiés ses coordonnées sur le Net en menaçant de le dénoncer aux autorités de son école secondaire.

L’identité du garçon a été révélée par un processus connu en Chine comme « moteur de recherche humain » qui permet des internautes de partager des ressources et de l’information afin de traquer une personne. 

Une fois démasqué, le garçon a publié un appel on-line demandant le directeur et ses professeurs de ne pas l’expulser de l’école, toujours selon le Standard.

La police a déclaré que l’enquête suit son cours mais personne n’a été inculpé. A Hong Kong, les crimes « immoraux » sont punissables par des condamnations allant jusqu'à six mois de prison pour des malfaiteurs adultes.

Source(en anglais)

Voir aussi:

  1. Tués pour avoir tirer un coup sur la voie d’un chemin de fer…
  2. Kanamara Matsuri, le festival japonais du pénis !!!
  3. L’homme qui a failli perdre son pénis en baisant un banc de parc…
  4. Les prostituées en suisse baissent leurs tarifs...
  5. Suisse: La tentation des ados pour la prostitution...

India: extremist Hindu group threatens Valentine's Day attacks...

Not content with running riot at a Mangalore pub, the Sri Rama Sene has now turned its wrath on Valentine’s Day. Terming it ‘anti-Indian culture’, it has warned people of attack if they celebrate it. At this rate, it’ll take all the fun out of Feb. 14.

It has warned educational institutions, restaurants and other organizations not to celebrate Valentine’s Day. The warning applies to shops, which sell Valentine gifts and greetings. More...

See also:

  1. India: Hindu "talibans" beat up "indecent" girls in Mangalore...
  2. If you're born a girl in India, you wouldn't be worth much...
  3. India: girl forced to marry a ... dog!!!
  4. India:Pakistani girl beaten up for "Praise the Lord" tattoo! WTF!

Sexy Fleggaard marketing in Denmark!!!

Comment on fait du « marketing » au Danemark !!!



See also:
  1. Guinness: share one with a friend ... or two!
  2. The Swiss have a sense of humour!!!

Iraq: using rape as a weapon to recruit suicide bombers...

A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.

Samira Jassam, 51, was arrested by Iraqi police and confessed to recruiting the women and orchestrating dozens of attacks.

In a video confession, she explained how she had mentally prepared the women for martyrdom operations, passed them on to terrorists who provided explosives, and then took the bombers to their targets. More...

See also:

  1. FBI: no evidence to connect Bin Laden with 9/11!What???
  2. Afghanistan: 13-year-old "bomb boy" kills 3 marines...
  3. 6 Brainwashing Techniques They're Using On You Right Now...
  4. CIA chief in Algeria accused of raping at least two women...
  5. Disney cartoons have subliminal sex and satanic messages?

Global warming: 35 inconvenient truths...

 A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine “errors”, he would have made a finding that the Government’s distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English secondary schools had been an unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children. More...

See also:

  1. Global warming, Mr.Gore? What global warming?
  2. Global Cooling is part of Global Warming!!! WTF!
  3. Global warming: are we being manipulated?
  4. Al Gore: do as I say, not as I do...

Lilian Thuram a refusé d'être le ministre de la diversité...


Lilian Thuram a décliné l'offre de Nicolas Sarkozy d'entrer au gouvernement. Dans un entretien accordé au quotidien Le Monde, le Guadeloupéen confie avoir été sollicité par le Président de la République et Claude Guéant, le secrétaire général de l'Elysée: " Ils m'ont proposé de devenir ministre de la diversité. Nous avons eu une longue discussion. Mais pour des raisons évidentes, je ne pouvais que refuser... "

Ces raisons: Lilian Thuram, membre du Haut Conseil à l'intégration (HCI) depuis 2002, a toujours désapprouvé la politique de Nicolas Sarkozy. En 2005, durant la crise des banlieues, l'expression " Nettoyer au Kärcher ", utilisée par le ministre de l'Intérieur, l'avait fait bondir. Enfin, lors de la dernière campagne présidentielle, il avait accusé le candidat UMP de tenir " un discours raciste " et de " banaliser le discours du FN ".

Elu membre du conseil fédéral de la FFF en décembre, Lilian Thuram ne sent pas assez aguerri pour se lancer. " La politique est quelque chose de très noble qui ne tolère pas l'à-peu-près, souligne-t-il. Il faut apprendre les choses. C'est ce que je fais en ce moment en rencontrant des gens de différents horizons. Un jour, peut-être... "

Source

Voir aussi:

  1. Gaza: Amende pour Kanouté suite à son soutien aux Palestiniens...
  2. Sarkozy et l'affaire de Saint-Lô...
  3. Les sifflets contre les hymnes nationaux ne datent pas d'hier...
  4. Le PSG paie cher pour une banderole…
  5. «Pédophiles, chômeurs, consanguins: bienvenue chez les Ch'tis»

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Nouveau record pour les ventes d'armes suisses...

La crise ne touche pas l'industrie suisse de l'armement. Avec une hausse de 50%, les exportations ont atteint l'an dernier un nouveau record, notamment grâce au Pakistan, devenu le principal client des fabricants helvétiques.

En 2008, la valeur des exportations de matériel militaire suisse a atteint 722 millions de francs, annonce mardi l'Administration fédérale des douanes. Le précédent record datait de 1987, avec 578,3 millions de francs. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Les dépenses militaires mondiales ont bondi de 45%...
  2. La guerre, ça sert à quoi? Absolument rien…
  3. La guerre c'est l'enfer; dites "NON" à la guerre...
  4. Le 6 aout 1945, les Etats Unis ont lâché une bombe sur Hiroshima…

If you're born a girl in India, you wouldn't be worth much...

In yet another shocking incident that illustrates the deep-rooted prejudice against female children in India's society, police have arrested four people in connection with the attempted sale of a newborn baby boy in the northern Punjab state. 

Balwinder Singh and his wife Sonia of Jalandhar had allegedly struck a deal with an agent to sell their 4th child even before he was born, after an illegal sex-determination test showed the child to be male. The child was sold in December, soon after his birth, to a businessman desperate for a male child. The price was RS100,000 ($2,050)-- although the agent apparently paid only half the promised amount to the parents. More...

See also:

  1. In India it's great to be born a boy! As a girl?
  2. India: a son is a blessing, a daughter a burden...
  3. Genocide: India's missing daughters...
  4. India: no country for young girls...
  5. India: dowry inadequate, man shaves off wife's head!!!

Mr.Bean and the first date...

Mr. Bean et le premier rendezvous avec une fille... (Vostfr.)

See also:

  1. Mr.Bean plays the piano!!! Hilarious!
  2. Mr.Bean plays Shakespeare ... (Vostf)

British Police adopt uniform hijab...

Police have opened the door to female Muslim recruits by incorporating the hijab into the uniform.

The force has become the latest to approve a design for a headscarf suitable for officers on patrol.

Senior officers believe the lack of the option has deterred applications from the considerable number of Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab.

The police hijab is plain black and made of a flame-retardant material.

Officers will be able to wear a standard police hat on top of it. More...

See also:

  1. Are Muslim women really oppressed?
  2. Iran: mixed soccer match creates furore!!!
  3. Two women take on a Muslim cleric on the marriage issue...
  4. Saudi cleric tells women to wear a one-eye veil!!!
  5. "Women Are Being Beheaded for Taking Their Veil Off"

Bernard Kouchner accusé de conflit d'intérêt...

Le ministre des Affaires étrangères Bernard Kouchner a été sommé mardi par des responsables politiques de s'expliquer sur des accusations de conflit d'intérêt entre activités publiques et privées en Afrique, contenues dans un livre à charge à paraître mercredi.

"Le monde selon K." (Editions Fayard), du journaliste Pierre Péan, constitue l'attaque la plus violente jamais portée contre l'ancien "French doctor", personnalité politique la plus populaire en France.

Le livre contient ces accusations, mais aussi une attaque en règle de la politique de Bernard Kouchner, sur fond de désaccord idéologique majeur exprimé par l'écrivain, en particulier sur le génocide rwandais. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Génocide rwandais: le rôle de la France agite le Web.
  2. Génocide rwandais: Kigali accuse la France...
  3. Bernard Kouchner promet d’apaiser la colère du président Bongo
  4. La "love affair" qui embarrasse Dominique Strauss-Kahn...

Why Buddy Holly will never fade away...

On the basis of simply counting heads, rock music surpasses even film as the 20th century's most influential art form. By that reckoning, there is a case for calling Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash 50 years ago next Tuesday, the century's most influential musician. 

Holly and Elvis Presley are the two seminal figures of 1950s rock 'n' roll, the place where modern rock culture began. Virtually everything we hear on CD or see on film or the concert stage can be traced back to those twin towering icons – Elvis with his drape jacket and swivelling hips and Buddy in big black glasses, brooding over the fretboard of his Fender Stratocaster guitar. Suite...

See also:

  1. Don McLean's American Pie and what it means.
  2. Tribute to Buddy Holly, who died today 50 years ago...
  3. The Great Elvis and Suspicious Minds...

Tribute to Buddy Holly, who died today 50 years ago...

A Buddy Holly, qui est mort aujourd’hui il y a 50 ans…

See also:

  1. Happy Birthday, Buddy Holly! Here's "Peggy Sue"
  2. Don McLean's American Pie and what it means.

Hong Kong schoolboy, 12, offers himself as gigolo!!!

 Police in Hong Kong Monday were investigating a 12-year-old schoolboy who posted naked pictures of himself online and offered himself as a gigolo for women as old as 45.The boy gave himself the nickname Little Leung and offered sexual services to “females between the ages of 10 and 45″ on an adult friendship forum, the Hong Kong Standard reported.

His bizarre advertisement, which included a photograph of his private parts, described him as a Christian and offered to “make love” to girls and women for 450 Hong Kong dollars ($58).

Outraged internet users published the boy’s personal details online and threatened to report him to the secondary school where he is a first-year pupil.

The schoolboy’s identity was revealed by a process known in China as “human search engine” in which internet users pool resources and information to track a person down.

After he was unmasked, the boy Saturday posted an online appeal to his principal and teachers not to expel him from school, the Standard said.

Police said they were investigating the case but said no arrests or charges had been made. Soliciting for an immoral purpose carries a maximum six-month jail sentence in Hong Kong for adult offenders.

Source

  1. Student auctions off virginity for offers of more than $3.7m!!!
  2. Australia: pregnant woman selling herself as a "pregnancy fetish."
  3. Aussie students sell their bodies to pay ...
  4. Switzerland: teenage prostituition on the rise...
  5. Underage girls and the modelling/porn industry...

Nojoud, 10 ans, divorcée: "J'ai honte qu'elle soit devenue un objet marketing"

Sur Le Post, Delphine Minoui, auteur du livre qui retrace l'histoire de cette petite Yéménite, dénonce la surexposition médiatique de Nojoud mise en place par l'éditeur, Michel Lafon.

Elle a été élue "Femme de l'année" par le magazine américain Glamour. Pourtant, Nojoud est loin d'être une femme, elle n'est encore qu'une enfant, aujourd'hui âgée de 10 ans. Pourquoi ce prix? Parce que cette petite Yéménite est devenue '"une figure du combat contre le mariage forcé" pour le Bondy Blog. En effet, Nojoud, a été mariée de force à l'âge de 9 ans par son père à un homme d'une trentaine d'années. Elle a été battue, violée et séquestrée. Et elle a réussi à divorcer. Un exploit dans un pays où les droits de l'homme et de la femme sont quasiment inexistants. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Moi Nojoud, 10 ans, divorcée...
  2. Yémen : Nojoud Ali, 10 ans, mariée et divorcée, est « femme de l'année ».
  3. Sarkozy, une aubaine pour les magazines français...

Geneva ready to accept Guantanamo inmates...

Geneva has announced it is prepared to accept released prisoners from Guantánamo, the first Swiss canton to do so.

The cantonal authorities said they wanted to reinforce Geneva's reputation as a humanitarian city, but said any former inmate of the military prison at the US airbase on Cuba would have to be innocent and have had no contacts with terrorism. More...

See also:

  1. The world's most notorious prisons...
  2. The Road to Guantanamo...
  3. Welcome to Taliban Towers at Guantanamo Bay...
  4. Mr.H and Guantanamo..

Monday, February 02, 2009

It's Super Bowl "live"! Oops! They forgot to take off the porn!!!

Au Super Bowl "live", ils ont oublié d'enlever le film porno!!!

See also:

  1. OMG! I have always wanted to watch a female-dominating-a-male porn movie...
  2. Hamas TV makes a mistake and airs sexy erotic show!!!
  3. Fort Boyard, french game show teaches you how to admire boobs!!!

Already 14 journalists killed this year...

During the month of January, 14 journalists were killed in seven countries, a Geneva-based watchdog group announced Monday, calling for better protection of reporters, dpa reported. 

The Press Emblem Campaign said four journalists were killed in the Gaza Strip, along with two in Russia and another two in Venezuela. In Pakistan, three were killed, including two incidentally during a suicide attack. The third reporter was assassinated. 

The first death of the year came on New Year's day in Somalia. 

Last year, the organization registered the killing of 91 journalists, a slight decrease from 2007. 

The campaign also called for better access for journalists in certain areas of Sri Lanka, where a prominent editor was killed last month, and criticized the ban on entry for reporters to the Gaza Strip during the recent Israeli offensive.

Source

See also:

  1. Sri Lankan editor's astonishing article about his murder...
  2. 62 journalists killed in 2008...
  3. More online journalists than print journalists behind bars...
  4. Sri Lanka slams and warns diplomats and foreign journalists...
  5. Vietnam cracks down on bloggers, journalists...

Moi Nojoud, 10 ans, divorcée...


Vous avez probablement déjà entendu parler de l'extraordinaire histoire de Nojoud Ali. À neuf ans, cette jeune yéménite est mariée de force par ses parents à un homme âgé de 30 ans : les mariages de très jeunes filles sont fréquents au Yémen, mais la coutume interdit d'avoir des relations sexuelles avec la jeune épousée tant qu'elle n'est pas « prête » ; de plus, les parents de Nojoud étaient très pauvres et avaient seize enfants, et ce mariage représentait une bouche de moins à nourrir.

Emmenée chez son mari le lendemain de la cérémonie de mariage, Nojoud est violée par son époux et battue par sa belle-famille. Deux mois plus tard, lors d'une visite à ses parents, elle en profite pour s'enfuir et, sur les conseils de la deuxième épouse de son père, elle se rend, seule, au tribunal. Après une demi-journée d'attente, le juge Mohammed al-Ghadhi la reçoit et prend la décision de l'héberger, de mettre en détention provisoire son père et son mari, et de lui faire rencontrer Shada Nasser, une avocate spécialiste des droits de l'homme. Avec son aide, Nojoud Ali obtient le divorce. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Yémen: elle n’a que 10ans, mais elle a déjà été mariée, battue, violée et divorcée…
  2. Yémen : Nojoud Ali, 10 ans, mariée et divorcée, est « femme de l'année ».
  3. En Nigeria il y a un homme de 84ans qui a 86 épouses !!!
  4. Inde: Sampat Pal ou la justice en sari rose...
  5. "60 millions de femmes manquent en Inde"
  6. Arabie Saoudite: à 8 ans, on lui refuse le divorce...

Yemen's 10-year-old divorcée Nojoud Ali has written a book...

A schoolgirl who was married by the age of eight today launched a new book about her extraordinary ordeal.  

Nojoud Ali, now aged 10, is in Paris promoting an autobiography which is set to be a worldwide bestseller.  

British publishers are already queuing up for the rights to a story which has been taken up by women’s rights groups worldwide.  

Last year a court in Yemen annulled Nojoud’s arranged marriage to a 29-year-old man. More...

See also:

  1. Yemen: 10-year-old Nujood, married, raped and divorced, is Woman of the Year!!!
  2. Britain: young Asian girls and forced marriages...
  3. Yemen: poor country with poor people, but big,expensive mosque for the president...
  4. Yemen: child brides fight the system...
  5. She's only 10, but she's already been married, raped, beaten and divorced!!

The woman who gave birth to octuplets: dream or nightmare?

Her amazing story was seized on as a ray of sunshine by a nation in the grip of economic meltdown.

Following fertility treatment, Nadya Suleman, 33, had given birth to eight babies, all of whom survived.

It was only the second time in American history that such a large multiple birth had succeeded.  

And for a few days the story shared the news headlines with the first week of the Barack Obama presidency.

This weekend, however, the apparently heart-warming tale has begun to unravel. More...

See also:

  1. The Duggar Family, 17 kids and the 18th. on the way...
  2. World's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born 30 years ago...
  3. Baby P, child abuse and the State...
  4. Putting an end to the abuses in the welfare society...
  5. WTF! Nigerian dude has 86 wives!!!

Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand!

See also:

  1. Ayn Rand in Wikipedia...
  2. Did Ayn Rand know that her Atlas would shrug?
  3. Howard Roark: the world is being destroyed in an orgy of self-sacrifice...
  4. Who is afraid of Ayn Rand?
  5. Whitman: To a pupil...

Beatles rooftop "concert" building up for sale...

The Apple building where The Beatles performed for the last time has been put up for sale, with its owners expecting to sell it for £25 million.

The five-storey building at 3 Savile Row, London, is the former headquarters of the Beatles' Apple Corps in the late 1960s after the band bought it for £500,000. 

And on January 30, 1969, the Fab Four of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr played on the rooftop for the last time. 

They had been recording Let It Be, their final album, in the basement studio, before staging their first live performance for nearly three years. More...

See also:

  1. Beatles play Get Back on the rooftop...
  2. Beatles become alive again in new video game...
  3. The Beatles in Liverpool: a photo story...

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Nicolas Sarkozy ne souhaite pas une bonne année aux chinois!!!

Nicolas Sarkozy semble avoir oublié de présenter ses voeux aux chinois à l'occasion de la Fête du printemps (Nouvel an Chinois) qui est tombé cette année le 26 janvier.

Le Nouvel an chinois est la principale fête chinoise et il est de tradition que les politiques du monde entier fassent leurs voeux à cette occasion aux communautés chinoises. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. La France boudée par la Chine…
  2. L’Iran se fâche avec Sarkozy…
  3. Sarkozy et les Arabes "difficiles à gérer..."
  4. La Chine, le Dalai Lama, le boycott, c'est du déjà vu, non?

The gun markets of Pakistan...

Speak up to save Sri Lanka's people...

It seems a repeat of the most recent history: a civilian population trapped and terrified as a modern army equipped with hi-tech weaponry pummels a group of resistance fighters. Sri Lanka's government appears to believe that force can be used without restraint and the world will do nothing.

Once again, civilians are being told they are not the targets, but as the assault is pressed with increasing ferocity this becomes hard to swallow. And once again, the public takes to the streets to make desperate protest; as many as 50,000 British Tamils marched through London on Saturday to demand a ceasefire. I was among them.

(...)

For, despite all the moves against them, Sri Lanka is not just a tragedy for the Tamil minority. Night is falling on the whole island. Over the years, Sri Lanka's golden beaches and ancient temples have become familiar to thousands of British tourists. Less familiar is the extraordinary transformation overtaking it now. Full story...

See also:

  1. Sri Lanka slams and warns diplomats and foreign journalists...
  2. Sri Lanka and the Tamil genocide...
  3. As in Gaza, children are also the main victims in Sri Lanka...
  4. Sri Lanka: it all started, 25 years ago...

Facebook data to be used as marketing tool for businesses...

Facebook intends to capitalise on the wealth of information it has about its users by offering its 150 million-strong customer base to corporations as a market research tool. The appearance, later this year, of corporate polls targeted at certain parts of the Facebook audience because of the information they have posted on their pages, is likely to infuriate privacy campaigners.

Last week Mark Zuckerberg, the company's 24-year-old founder and chief executive, showed the audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos how the social networking site could be used to poll specific groups of users. More...

See also:

  1. President of Guyana not amused by fake Facebook profile!!!
  2. Facebook protesters: our breasts are not porn...
  3. Why you should delete your MySpace account...
  4. Facebook; once you're in, you're in for good ...

Le Sri Lanka menace l'ambassadeur suisse d'expulsion...

Le Sri Lanka menace d'expulser certains ambassadeurs en poste à Colombo, en particulier ceux de Suisse et d'Allemagne. Il reproche à ces diplomates d'agir de manière irresponsable en donnant une seconde chance aux tigres tamouls.

Le ministre sri-lankais de la défense Gotabaya Rajapaksa, frère du président Mahinda Rajapaksa, a mis en garde des ambassadeurs, des médias étrangers et des organisations non-gouvernementale (ONG) dans une interview publiée dimanche par le journal sri-lankais The Island. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Génocide Tamoul au Sri Lanka...
  2. Un indien s’immole pour protester contre la guerre au Sri Lanka...
  3. Un risque de massacres au Sri Lanka...

Silence, on vaccine...

À la suite de l’apparition d’effets secondaires chez certaines personnes, tels l’autisme ou la sclérose en plaques, doit-on remettre en question les politiques actuelles de vaccination à grande échelle? Alors que de nombreux spécialistes reconnus sonnent l’alarme, les autorités de santé publique et les compagnies pharmaceutiques continuent de faire la sourde oreille.

Cliquez ici pour la suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Une jeune française va à la chasse des pesticides…
  2. Nos enfants nous accuseront...
  3. Inde: 49 bébés morts pendant des essais de médicaments...

Sri Lanka slams and warns diplomats and foreign journalists...

Sri Lanka has warned foreign journalists and diplomats they will be forced out of the country if they appear to show bias towards militants engaged in a life or death fight against government forces. 

Singling out the ambassadors of Germany and Switzerland along with the BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera, Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said they would be expelled, if they were found to have favoured the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE. More...

See also:

  1. Sri Lanka and the Tamil genocide...
  2. Swiss activist warns of Sri Lanka massacres...
  3. Germany calls for humanitarian aid in Sri Lanka...
  4. Sri Lankan anger at German comments about murdered editor...
  5. Sri Lankan editor's astonishing article about his murder...

European workers are discovering what it means to be part of the European Union...

The peoples of Europe have finally discovered what they signed up to. I do mean "peoples" (plural) because however much political elites may deceive themselves, the populations of the member states of the EU are culturally, historically and economically separate and distinct. And a significant proportion of them are getting very, very angry. 

What the strikers at the Lindsey oil refinery (and their brother supporters in Nottinghamshire and Kent) have discovered is the real meaning of the fine print in those treaties, and the significance of those European court judgments whose interpretation they left to EU obsessives: it is now illegal – illegal – for the government of an EU country to put the needs and concerns of its own population first. It would, for example, be against European law to do what Frank Field has sensibly suggested and reintroduce a system of "work permits" for EU nationals who wished to apply for jobs here. More...

See also:

  1. No roquefort in U.S? Let them eat junk, French say!!!
  2. EU spends £2.3bn a year on Pro-Brussels propaganda...
  3. 100,000 Chinese migrated to the European Union in 2006...
  4. Ireland: know your place, you ungrateful wretch!
  5. Secret plot to let in 50 million African workers into Europe???
  6. Italian cities to ban ethnic foods??? WTF!

En Chine, toutes les 30 secondes, un bébé naît avec une malformation...

En Chine, toutes les 30 secondes, un bébé naît avec une malformation en partie explicable par la pollution qui frappe notamment les zones charbonnières du pays, a indiqué dimanche le journal China Daily, citant des hauts responsables du planning familial. 

Selon l'édition du week-end de China Daily, au total 1,1 million de bébés nés chaque année en Chine présentent une anomalie physique, soit environ 7% des naissances dans le pays le plus peuplé au monde. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Un bébé est né en Chine avec 16 orteils !!!
  2. Une Chinoise de 107 ans recherche son premier mari...
  3. Pruthviraj Patil, l’enfant-loup indien qui cherche remède désespérément…
  4. Chine : Attention ! Embrasser peut vous rendre sourd !!!

Génocide Tamoul au Sri Lanka...

See also:

  1. Sri Lanka and the Tamil genocide(en anglais)
  2. A Chennai, un indien s’immole pour protester contre la guerre au Sri Lanka...
  3. Un risque de massacres au Sri Lanka...

Alex Ferguson, Mad Hatters and White Rabbits...

One of my favourite passages in English literature comes in Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. 

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' remarked Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat, 'we're all mad here. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.' 

For Wonderland, read the Premier League. And in particular, its managers, who seem to be going collectively stark-raving bonkers. More...

See also:

  1. After Benitez, Wenger takes a kick at Ferguson...
  2. Manchester United win Club World Cup...
  3. Manchester United: the greatest team ever?

Gaza: une synagogue attaquée au Venezuela…

Un groupe d'une quinzaine de personnes a fait irruption dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi dans la principale synagogue de Caracas où ils ont détruit des objets de culte et inscrits des slogans antisémites, ont déclaré à l'AFP des porte-parole de la communauté juive. 

"Ils sont restés dans la synagogue environ cinq heures, ont ligoté et bâillonné les gardiens, détruit les bureaux et profané le lieu où sont conservés les rouleaux de la Torah", le livre saint juif, a déclaré Elias Farache, président de l'Association israélite du Venezuela.  Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Gaza: Le clash Peres - Erdogan (Vost...)
  2. Gaza: les images qu'on ne vous montre pas...
  3. Gaza: L’ambassade du Venezuela à Paris victime d’un attentat....
  4. Des juifs Britanniques agressés pour leur solidarité avec Gaza...
  5. La Bolivie a rompu ses relations diplomatiques avec Israël...
  6. Gaza: le Venezuela expulse l'ambassadeur d'Israël...

Hamster accused of murder and kidnap!!!

See also:

  1. Cat walks into live weather forecast!!!
  2. Can you watch this without laughing?

Gaza: Synagogue desecrated in Venezuela...

An armed gang has ransacked the oldest Jewish synagogue in the Venezuelan capital Caracas after occupying the building for several hours. 

About 15 unidentified men broke into the building before daubing graffiti on the walls and desecrating scriptures. 

They also called for Jewish people to be expelled from the country. 

Jewish leaders say tensions have risen since Venezuela broke diplomatic relations with Israel this month over its recent military offensive in Gaza. More...

See also:

  1. Gaza: Turkish PM given hero's welcome in Istanbul...
  2. Finkelstein talks about Israel's massive destruction in Gaza...
  3. Gaza: Venezuelan embassy in Paris attacked...
  4. Bolivia cuts diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza...
  5. Gaza: Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador ...

Sarkozy, monarch from another age...

President Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of ruling France like a 'monarch from another age'.

The criticism followed his alleged role in the removal of the top state representative and a police chief from a region after protesters slightly disrupted a visit by Mr Sarkozy.

Mr Sarkozy was reportedly outraged that Jean Charbonniaud, the prefect in the northern La Manche region and Philippe Bourgade, its police chief, had not deployed enough officers to keep 3,000 protesters at bay when he visited the town of Saint Lô earlier this month. More...

See also:

  1. France: Sarkozy versus The Street...
  2. Fury in France as Sarkozy bans adverts from state TV...
  3. France: outrage at police treatment of a journalist...
  4. Nicolas Sarkozy and the CIA...

Pique-nique sauvage dans un supermarché de la banlieue parisienne...

Des militants du collectif l'Appel et la Pioche, proche du Nouveau parti anticapitaliste d'Olivier Besancenot, ont organisé samedi midi un "pique-nique" sauvage dans un supermarché à Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis) dans le but d'attirer l'attention sur le pouvoir d'achat.

Une dizaine de militants ont dressé une table de fortune dans les allées du supermarché Leclerc et proposé aux clients de goûter différents produits pris dans les rayons du magasin, a constaté un journaliste de l'AFP. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Paris : ils « réquisitionnent » des chariots chez Monoprix!!!
  2. Suisse: faire les poubelles pour manger...
  3. "Grignotage" dans un supermarché!!!
  4. Supermarché? Non, merci! (Avec Christian Jacquiau)
  5. Sicile : Une chapelle dans un supermarché!!!