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End The Farce Of Zimbabwean Election!
2008-06-10 15:23:00 Simba Makoni, who defected from the ruling Zimbabwean Zanu-PF party and ran for president in the March election, urged the run-off that will occur on June 27th be cancelled. “We don’t believe that a run-off can be held on June 27 and be a free and fair election,” he said. “The country is in the ...
Baha?i Threatened In Iran
2008-06-09 09:29:00 Lost in discussions about Iran is any concern about the situation of the Baha’i sect which has many members in that nation. The Baha’i faith is viewed by Iranian officials as a heretical offshoot of the Muslim religion and since its inception during the 19th century its members have been persecuted and imprisoned. After the ...
Is There A Chinese Word For ?Mistake??
2008-06-09 09:01:00 The Chinese government continues its stonewalling policy of denying there are any problems in Tibet rather than admitting mistakes were made and they will be addressed in the future. Such an approach would be welcomed by the world as evidence China is pursuing the path of democracy. Instead, Quan Bo, of the Chinese Mission to ...
Indonesia Cracks Down On Muslim Militants
2008-06-07 09:20:00 Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim nation and it has traditionally had the reputation of being moderate in its approach to religion and it allows other religions to practice their faith in peace. However, like most nations, Indonesia also has radical relgious elements who do not recognize the nation’s historical commitment to diversity. Last week, ...
Morgan Tsvangirai Detained Again
2008-06-07 09:07:00 The situation in Zimbabwe worsens as President Mugabe continues tightening the screws on opposition parties and organizations who dare challenge his rule. Morgan Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change was detained by police for the second time in a week. The police are employing this form of harassment in order to ...
Japan Recognizes Discrimination Against Ainu
2008-06-07 09:05:00 The Japanese parliament finally got around to acknowledging the ongoing discrimination in their country against its original inhabitants– the Ainu. A resolution passed by parliament recognized the Ainu have their own language and language and will now be recognized as being in the category of an indigenous people. The resolution states: “As the Government, we ...
The Silence Of South African President Mibeki Is Loud
2008-06-06 16:47:00 During the fight by South Africans to end apartheid people from throughout the world lent their support in this effort to achieve freedom. But, today, President Mbeki of South Africa refuses to condemn the brutality occurring in neighboring Zimbabwe which is ruled by his buddy, Robert Mugabe. Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga blasted Mugabe as ...
Russian The eXile May Be Exiled!
2008-06-05 18:14:00 Democracy in Putin Russia allows freedom of speech. A newspaper can print any article which praises Putin and his associates. Russian authorities have warned the impudent English language tabloid, The eXile, they are in hot water and may face penalties. Editor Mark Ames believes “it could be one of the many people we’ve pissed off ...
Does A Czech Have Right To Her Sausage?
2008-06-05 15:04:00 It has long been a custom among Czechs to head for the Croation beaches as summer approaches and ordinarily about one out of ten citizens would be headed in that direction. A typical Czech family loads up the family car with ample supplies of sausages, beer, bread and tinned meat and makes a bee line ...
Headscarf War Continues Raging In Turkey
2008-06-05 14:46:00 Turkey’s Constitutional Court will announce in the coming days its decision on a case regarding the right of Muslim women to wear a headscarf while attending a university. The opposition Republican People’s Partty has urged the court to rule against such a right on grounds to do so violates Turkey’s secular concept of government. The ...
Is It Illegal For A Woman Not To Be A Virgin?
2008-06-05 14:25:00 A case in which a bride had her marriage annulled on grounds that she was not a virgin on the night that she and her new husband consumated their coming together has rocked the French nation causing an explosion of anger among women. The new husband went to court to have the marriage annulled when ...
China Arrests Monks In Tibet For Acts Of Violence
2008-06-05 14:04:00 The world has responded with concern and assistance after the Chinese earthquakes which devastated regions of the nation and left thousands dead. There was an ourpouring of love and warmth as anti-Chinese feelings began to vanish. Instead of building on those positive feelings toward China, the government has decided to once again engage in a ...
Are Indonesian Youth Supporters Of Sharia Law?
2008-06-05 09:22:00 A recent study conducted by the Setara Institute for Democracy in Indonesia revealed a confusing picture regarding the attitudes of young Indonesians regarding the meaning and purpose of sharia law. The results of the survey claimed about 56% of young people living in the Jakarta area support the imposition of sharia law, but the overwhelming ...
Bury Lenin-Tell Truth About Stalin!
2008-06-05 09:09:00 Gorbachev, former leader of the now defunct Soviet Union. urged his nation to erect a memorial to honor those who were victims of the reign of terror that was so common under the dicatorship of Joseph Stalin. “Forgetfullness must be overcome, democracy and freedom must be strengthened” in the new Russia. Gorbachev’s idea of creating ...
Capcom: Multicultural RE5 Trailer Not The Result Of Racist Outcries
2008-06-05 06:01:00 Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi denied claims that the most recent RE5 trailer (which depicts both black and white enemy zombies) is the result of public outcry, suggesting the first trailer may have been racist (which showed a white protagonist killing exclusively black Africans)."We did feel there was a misunderstanding in the initial trailer," Takeuchi told Kotaku through a translator on Tuesday. Consequently, the new trailer shown above features both black and Caucasian African zombies being killed by protagonist Chris Redfield.The first trailer, released last year, showed only black Zombies being killed -- something that caused a stir among some, despite the game taking place in the predominately black continent of Africa."In terms of the [controversial] reaction, we're in the business of entertainment," Takeuchi said. "We didn't set out to make a racist game or a political statement."When asked if the obvious change was a conscious decision, Takeuchi responded by sayin...
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Canada Agrees Yanks Do Speak English
2008-06-04 14:53:00 The Canadian government has agreed to drop its three hour test on English for new immigrants in light of the reaction it elicited from Americans. The language test was designed by British language experts and included a British interpretation as to what is proper or improper English. For example, immigrants were asked to explain what ...
Are Belgian Youth Exceptionally Materialistic?
2008-06-04 09:58:00 A recent survey of about 1,762 Belgian youth between the ages of 12-24 revealed the type of information all such surveys generally report in modern times– youth are pampered and materialistic. The poll did highlight contemporary youth spend a great deal of time on the Internet, and, in the case of Belgian young people that ...
Russia To Restrict Foreign Investments
2008-06-04 09:00:00 The Russian government is introducing new legislation which is aimed at reducing the power and influence that foreign corporations could impact Russian society. Prime Minister Putin is pushing for these new laws despite the more liberal economically minded Finance Minister Alexi Kudrin. Kudrin is raising issues as to whether such restrictions will damper the desire ...
A Singapore Story Of A Maid
2008-06-04 08:23:00 There are approximately 200 million migrants working in nations throughout the world. Their individual stories are not that significant in themselves but they frequently highlight the abuse and degradation an immigrant must endure in their struggle for survival in a strange land. Ms. Ida Lestari Ninsih, left her native Indonesia and went to Singapore in ...
Bolivian Vote Reflects Nation?s Divisions
2008-06-03 16:05:00 The presidency of Evo Morales in Bolivia received another shock when voters in the sparsely populated areas of Beni and Pando gave a resounding vote of over 80% who desire greater local autonomy and less control from the central government. Morales was the first president in Bolivian history who came from the indigenous population of ...
Threats And Warnings From Israel And Iran
2008-06-03 15:30:00 Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned that although no final decision has been taken by her nation’s leaders about the threat from iran, their eventually will be a final resolution of how to deal with that country. “Iran needs to understand that the threat of military action exists and has not been taken off the ...
Suicide Knows No Gender Claim Muslim Women
2008-06-02 09:20:00 Muslim extremist women are challenging al-Qaida’s refusal to include or at least acknowledge women have played in the suicide bombing program. In a response to a female questioner, Ayman Al-Zawahri said in April the only role for women is caring for homes and children of al-Qaida fighters. There is some confusion about his comment ...
Czech Republic Rejects Anti-Dscrimination Law
2008-06-02 09:05:00 A few years ago, Petr Cina assumed the role of fighting for the rights of Roma citizens in the Czech Republic by walking into a ar and asking for service. After being ordered from the premises, he went on the offense by entering similar establishments in order to document discrimination against Romas. Although a ...
Terroist Plot Or Summer Fantasies In Canada?
2008-05-31 14:38:00 According to Canadian prosecutors a group known as the Toronto 18 were part of a terrorist gang that was prepared to institute bombng activity and were in posssession of bomb makig material. The prosecutor spoke on the first day of testimony in which a boy, three other young men and 14 adults are being charged ...
Children Are Unteachable Says British Educator!
2008-05-31 14:00:00 Chris Parry, chief executive of h Independent Schools Council of Great Britain told the Guardain newspaper that schools are being burdened with trying to educate unteachable children whose ignorant parents together with teachers who would rather be elsewhere make impossible attaining any success in the field of education. The former rear admiral, who most probably ...
The Rape Of Women-War?s Tragedy
2008-05-31 09:46:00 A recent study by the UN agency, UNICEF, revels that sexual violence is spreading like a disease in many parts of Africa where there is violence. Women are increasingly becoming the first casualties of war and are compelled to spend a live in shame because enemy soldiers physically abused them. n Darfu, janjaweed militia kidnapped ...
Who Really Were The Native Americans?
2008-05-31 09:33:00 Recent discoveries of a fluff of white hair in Greenland indicate the original inhabitants of the area were not Inuits or Indians, but people who migrated from the Aleutian islands. Due to modern technoloy it is now possible to trace back the hair and make the linkage to inhabitants of the Aleutian islands. The use ...
Bishop Tutu Urges Palestinian-Israel Peace
2008-05-31 09:17:00 Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu spent several days in Gaza exploring conditions and seeking to find a way that would bring together Palestinians and Israelis. The South African cleric, heading a team of UN human rights observers, gathered stories from Gazans about Israel attacks that had killed civilians, including many children. Tutu said the ...
What Went Wrong Asks South Africa?
2008-05-29 14:55:00 The recent xenophobic violence which swept through South Africa resulting in the death of dozens of people and the destruction of homes and businesses of immigrants is causing South Africans to wonder if their nation has been too complacent about serious structural and economic issues. A special task force probing the violence concludes there ...
Hamas Makes Threats As Israel-Syria Talk
2008-05-24 14:28:00 Israeli and Syrian leaders are discussing possible peace, but the leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, made clear his organization’s refusal to compromise on certain key points and the need to end the Gaza blockade. “If the international community and the concerned parties don’t take the initiative and break the siege, we will break it ourselves. ...
Must A Man Shake A Woman?s Hand?
2008-05-23 16:57:00 The Swedish Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination is suing the Swedish Employment Agency for $27,000 in damages to a Muslim man who lost his benefits after refusing to shake a wman’s hand during an interview. In May, 2006, the man applied for a trainee position as a welder at a company in Aimhult in southern Sweden. ...
Is Clint Eastwood A Bigot?
2008-05-22 15:58:00 Film maker Spike Lee lashed out in a blasting attack on Clint Eastwood because his two films about the battle for Iwo Jima, “Flags of Our Fathers” and ‘Leters from Iwo Jima” did not depict the presence of any Negro troops in the battle. “He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back and ...
Witches Of Kenya: Mob Rule Runs Amok
2008-05-22 09:49:00 A fear of witches as the cause of local problems led a rampaging mob in west Kenya ona house by house search of women suspected of being witches. the mob of about 100 entred houses where they accused a woman of being a witch, tied her up, and then set them ablaze. Mwangi Nguny, head ...
Judges Back Danish Headscarf Ban
2008-05-22 09:27:00 Two interna;tional judges associations have declared their support for the Danish ban against female judges wearing headscarves. They believe judges wearing such attire might produce feelings of prejudice on the part of defendants. The International Association of Judges(IAJ) and the European Association of Judges(EAJ) made clear their support for the ban. Maja Tratnik, of the ...
Japanese Court Rules Nanjing Massacre Happened!
2008-05-22 09:24:00 In contrast to Germany which has confronted its World War II past in all its horror and human debasement, Japan has been a reluctant visitor in the halls of truth. A Tokyo High Court ruled that a Japanese author and the publisher of his book on the Nanjing Massacre must pay $38,800 in compensation to ...
Turkish Judge Hints At Anti-Government Ruling
2008-05-21 14:12:00 Hasim Kilic, chief justice of the eleven member Constitutional Court of Turkey said the outcome of the court’s ruling on whether the Justice and Development Party(AKP) has acted legally will not impact the future of Turkish democracy. He told a newspaper: “Whatever the ruling is, you will see that our democracy, secularism, and rule of ...
Anti-Foreign Anger Continues Raging In South Africa
2008-05-21 09:30:00 Thousands of refugees in and around Johannesburg faced another night of terror as mobs continued their attacks upon foreigners in their homeland. In Kagiso, west of Johannsburg, many foreigners, mostly women and children began arriving at police stations seeking safety from xenophobic mobs. Residents told the Mail & Guardian, that trouble started when residents held ...
Toronto Schools Confront Multicultural Issues!
2008-05-20 16:32:00 The Toronto School Board is voting on whether to introduce an Afrocentric alternative school among a host of other issues related to multiculturalism and school violence. According to urban planner Mohammad Qadeer of Queens University, the reality is the existence of culturally diverse schools due to population factors in Toronto. However, he notes, despite large ...
Who Is Behind South Africa Anti-Foreign Violence?
2008-05-20 15:29:00 The police of South Africa have “concrete evidence” of a suspected third-force involvement in the xenophobic attacks on immigrants over the past week. Barbara Creecy of the Gauteng legislature says there were elements who orchestrated the attacks and the number of people arrested has now reached 297. The police said it was their call whether ...
Gordon Brown Snubs Dalai Lama
2008-05-20 14:06:00 Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Great Britain is experiencing the lowest record of support from the people of his nation, and he decided to show lack of support for the Dalai Lama by refusing to meet wth him. Two months ago, Brown agreed to meet with the Dalai Lama at Downing Street, but, this ...
Taiwan Walks Tightrope With China
2008-05-20 09:16:00 Newly elelcted president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, whose confrontational pro-independence polcies have angered China has made clear he wants to find a way in which the rights of Taiwan can be protected without angering China. His Nationalist Party has never renounced a desire for an eventual unification with China, but that goal is hardly one ...
Don?t Light Up In Turkey Today
2008-05-19 13:58:00 The Turkish government has instituted a new policy which bans smoking in any enclosed area of the country, much to the anger of business establishments such as restaurants and coffee houses. Most smokers believe the new law will be difficult to enforce despite the fines accompanying violations of its requirements. Smoking will be prohibited on ...
Johannesburg Devastated By Riots
2008-05-19 09:05:00 Downtown Johannesburg resembles a war zone after angry mobs of anti-foreign demonstrators ripped through it with their anger and hatred. Many downtown areas look like a wasteland as one sees makeshift barricades of rusty barbed wire, tires and chunks of concrete and shops stand open after being looted despite being protected by iron shutters which ...
Is Indonesia In Danger Of Ending Religious Tolerance?
2008-05-19 09:03:00 Recent events in Indonesia which have witnessed attempts to declare illegal, the Ahmdiyah sect, have raised fears the nation which long has been noted for its religious tolerance may be entering a new phase in which fundamentalists exert more power. The Ahmadiyah sect, a messianic movement founded in India, entered Indonesia in the early years ...
Anti-Foreign Mobs Rampage In South Africa
2008-05-18 09:44:00 Angry mobs swept through the streets in Gauteng in South Africa to protest the presence of foreigners in their land. Scores of Tentisa residents went on a rampage in the early hours of Saturday morning and destroyd property belonging to foreign nationals. Captain Manyadza Ralidhivha, deployed reinforcements of police officers in an attempt to ...
Danish Politicians Argue Over Who Is Anti-Muslim
2008-05-17 09:31:00 Kristian Dahl of the Danish People’s Party sent out a press release saying he regetted his coment the previous day that the party was “anti-Muslim.” He noted, “if I had to do it over I would have chosen a different ways of saying it.” He was commenting after Birthe Ronn Hombech, of the Liberal Party, ...
India Jolted By Chinese Nuclear Bases
2008-05-17 09:18:00 The Indian Defense establshment was shocked by satellite pictures which reveal the existence of a large area in central China which contains 58 launch pads for nuclear-capable missiles which appartently target north India and south Russia. This news comes shortly after the discovery of the incredible extent of China’s underground nuclear submarine base at ...
Catch Them Before Action Assuming They Have Plan
2008-05-17 09:07:00 Australian pollice raided two homes in Sydney allegedly containing two men who were planning or maybe planning or the police assumed were planning some terrorist action. The men were believed to have extreme “Islamic views” which undoubtedly made them targets of a police search for terrorists. The police have been monitoring the two men for ...
Mugabe Rearranges Zimbabwe Law
2008-05-15 17:00:00 The nation of Zimbabwe continues to suffer from a president who makes up laws as he goes along his merry way to maintain power are any cost to the people of his country. First, presidential election results were delayed several weeks in order to provide opportunities for his cronies to arrange the vote so that ...
Muslim GI Claims Army Bigotry
2008-05-15 16:46:00 A Muslim soldier and his wife in North Carolina are upset their infant son’s body was subject an autopsy after his sudden death which is in contradiction to Muslim religious practice. Doctors suspected sudden infant death symdrome and wanted an autopsy to confirm their diagnosis. Pfc. Eli Agee has contactd the Miiltary Religious Freedom Foundatin ... |
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