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Ferry owner blames God for disaster
2008-06-25 22:54:00 What do you tell a board of Inquiry when your company has suffered not one but four ferry disasters over the last twenty years? You tell them it’s God’s fault. From the Inquirer: ?I am taking the initiative of filing this marine protest to report the unfortunate tragedy that befell MV Princess of the Stars and to ...
Zimbabwe: ??Beaten, Bloodied, Scared? in Mourning?
2008-06-23 05:32:00 With his supporters beaten, arrested and murdered, Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC leader) was forced on Sunday to withdraw from the so-called election ?runoff? (Daily Mail). Mugabe?s Zanu-PF thugs have succeeded in terrorising the population of Zimbabwe and, according to resident Cathy Buckle, ?a blanket of fear has descended? on the country. Mugabe?s Zanu-PF militia, military and police ...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe In Rome For Food Summit, While Zimbabwe Suffers Mass Intim
2008-06-02 15:28:00 While Mugabe takes a holiday in Rome (Reuters), are Chinese officials and/or military personnel based in Zimbabwe coordinating the mass intimidation, beatings, torture and killing back home? Directed from Zimbabwe?s Joint Operations Command (JOC), many of the most senior Zimbabwe military personnel have been moved temporarily into areas where Mugabe?s Zanu-PF was badly beaten during ...
Letter to President of the United Nations
2008-05-27 06:05:00 Dear President Srgjan Hasan Kerim of the United NationsSir, through you and the United Nations, countries and states have established universal objectives which represent the common good of the human family. My familyand yours.Part of your founding principles is the "the quest for justice, dignity and human rights." There is another principle of "responsibility to protect" that should be the foundation of all actions taken by those in government.Sir, serious violations of those principles are seen in various parts of the globe. But here in my home country, the United States, there is an unseen violation of human rights that, until recently, has been kept hidden. Violations that target the most unsung group in our entire civilization - the elderly - our mothers and fathers!Mr. President, in America, the terms "guardianship," "conservatorship" refer to a court system that was designed to protect vulnerable elderly as they struggle with mental or physical decline. But what the system d...
By: Elder Abuse
Zimbabwe refugees in South Africa, and Mrs Mandela?s necklace
2008-05-26 12:38:00 ?Necklacing? is the primitive and barbaric method of punishment killing used by Nelson Mandela?s political party ? the ANC ? against ?sellouts? in South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s. Anyone who did not support the ANC during their ?struggle? against Apartheid back then was ?sentenced? by ?people?s courts? (lynch mobs) to die by necklacing ...
Xenophobia in S.A.
2008-05-19 18:57:00 The poverty caused by Mugabe in Zimbabwe is pushing people further south into South Africa where they are being attacked, at least 22 have died in the vigilante raids. What is surprising is that these attacks have been called xenophobic in nature. This in a country that only recently emerged from apartheid. Are these refugees the ...
Violence in Zimbabwe spreads to South Africa
2008-05-19 10:53:00 The conditions in Zimbabwe continue to deteriorate, with Mugabe postponing the run off election until June 27. In the meanwhile, violence against opposition leaders continues, with numerous reports of attacks against Anglican churches whose priests don’t recognize a former bishop who has become Mugabe’s henchman, and reports too numerous to list against opposition leaders, trade unionists, ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe, Burma, China and All That
2008-05-12 12:41:00 Right now, apart from the US Democrat Nomination ?race?, Western world media attention is focussed on the Burma Crisis. Burma (aka Myanmar) is suffering a combination of natural and man made disasters. And the West is getting hot under the collar about it because the Burmese Military Junta wants to be seen to be the ...
Frontiers of the Human Spirit
2008-05-08 21:11:00 From Churchill’s Parrot blog “To me the greatest issue in this part of the world is not deserting Israel.” - Sir Winston Churchill There is at present but one flag upon Earth?s moon; for only a society which values the liberty and enterprise this flag represents could achieve such a miracle. That flag yet stands alone, a colorful ...
Bad News: The Chinese Arms shipment Is Now In Zimbabwe
2008-05-07 04:29:00 Last week, there was a lot of publicity about a shipment of arms from China destined to be delivered to Zimbabwe being stopped when local trade unionists refused to offload the shipment in Durban. Mozambique also refused to offload the shipment, and China, after a lot of international pressure, seemed to agree that the arms would ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe ? Results stitch-up
2008-05-05 16:12:00 Make the people keep voting until they vote the ?correct? way and until Mugabe is declared ?President? again. Except that Mugabe can never even claim to be the legitimate President of Zimbabwe. From now on even his African neighbours will look askance at this ancient leader of terrorists with a mixture of condescension, amusement, pity ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe ? Babies in jail because parents voted ?incorrectl
2008-04-28 12:18:00 Twenty-four babies, and forty children under the age of six, were among some 250 people rounded up on Friday, and crammed into ?filthy cells? at a small prison in one of Harare?s southern suburbs. (Christina Lamb and John Makura, Sunday Times.) Their parents were accused by police of ?voting incorrectly? during the elections. Meanwhile in ...
Arming the Zimbabwe Opposition? Reality Check Please
2008-04-26 01:32:00 The Wall Street Journal has an editorial essentially saying that if guns were available to Zimbabwe’s opposition, there would be less of a problem for the people to worry about government persecution and intimidation. Reality check, please. The majority of people in Zimbabwe belong to the Mashona tribe. Traditionally, the Mashona are passive and friendly. They have endured ...
Naomi Campbell Is Ready To Make World Peace at The United Nations
2008-04-23 03:31:00 Naomi Campbell who is known for abusing her assistance and throwing a tantrum, arrives at the United Nations in New York. Hopefully this is a step in the right direction for the cat walker who was in a little trouble with police a London's Heathrow Airport. Apparently Naomi had a fit when they could not find her luggage and she was escorted from the airport by authorities.Naomi we think its a great thing that you are at the UN and all that but you still need to work on your anger management issues. You are still our favorite cat walker, we have not seen another model who has a more elegant walk than you.(photo via wireimage)
By: Young LifeStyle
At Least Marx Had Integrity
2008-04-22 12:15:00 An EARTH DAY SPECIAL from Churchill’s Parrot blog Granted Karl Marx was a bitter, self-loathing, misanthrope, half-crazed with envy and his own depraved world view, but at least he had integrity. When advocating the implementation of his beloved communism, for instance, he made no attempt to sugar coat what would be required: ?The proletariat will use its ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe ? Chinese troops on streets as ?human wave? flees
2008-04-21 12:35:00 Recent headlines have focussed on the ?cargo of death? shipped from China to Zimbabwe last week, but in an even more sinister development, Chinese troops have been seen on the streets of a Zimbabwe town? (Daily Mail) Chinese and North Korean troops were also in evidence alongside Mugabe?s own troops when he attended a rally ...
Pope speaks to the United Nations
2008-04-19 11:01:00 Pope Benedict XVI called on the United Nations yesterday to intervene more urgently in countries that abuse human rights or fail to properly protect their people from the effects of natural or man-made disasters.The Times writes:"In his first speech to the international body, the Pope offered a strong endorsement of action by powerful countries to alleviate suffering. While insisting that diplomatic efforts to preempt conflict should be the focus of such efforts, he also suggested that military force, within the rules of the UN, could be justified.?Every state has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made. If states are unable to guarantee such protection, the international community must intervene with the juridical means provided in the United Nations charter and in other international instruments.?The Pope insisted that national sovereignt...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe - wave of fear
2008-04-14 12:54:00 A wave of fear is sweeping across Zimbabwe as terror reigns, not only in towns and cities but also in rural areas, where people are beaten and otherwise punished for having supported the opposition. Cathy Buckle this week quotes one victim from a small country town telling her, ??it is terrible, there are injured people ...
Zimbabwe headed into Chaos
2008-04-12 04:25:00 The announcement that Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe will not attend an emergency meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in nearby Lusaka is bad news for all involved. After years of destroying the economy and winning elections by a combination of bribes and threats (rural voters knew voting against Mugabe would mean they would ...
Remember the Alamo?
2008-04-08 12:12:00 From Churchill’s Parrot blog. Hilarious and nauseating at once is mankind?s chronic inability to retain wisdom acquired at the cost of much blood, toil, tears, and sweat. This tragicomedy was played out for us in no uncertain terms upon our recent Stateside pilgrimage to one of the more forgotten shrines to the cause of Liberty: the ...
More Self-Parody at the UN
2008-03-28 18:30:00 From a press release from UN Watch. To the sound of cheers, and by an overhwelming [sic] majority of 40 out of 47 votes, the UN Human Rights Council today elected Jean Ziegler, the co-founder of the “Muammar Khaddafi Human Rights Prize,” as an expert advisor representing the Western world. And for its new Palestine expert, ...
Peter Davies on Africa - Zimbabwe, violence, hyperinflation and elections
2008-03-25 12:38:00 Mugabe says that both Blair and Brown are ?blooming fools? and ?devilish liars?? (Reuters, Africa). Anticipating opposition protests when he declares himself winner of the presidential elections on March 29, Mugabe told supporters in the context of the riots that took place in Kenya that, “If Tsvangirai and his (MDC) group have such plans, they ...
Why the press blackout on the Lisbon Treaty?
2008-03-24 09:59:00 I was startled to read in the Christian Science Monitor: It’s the End of Britain as we know it….if ratified, it will become the decisive act in this creation of a federal European superstate with its capital in Brussels. Britain would become a province and its “Mother of Parliaments,” a regional assembly… The Eurocrat elite in Brussels ...
World Autism Day: UK Parliament applauds Autism Song
2008-02-22 15:11:00 (London, UK) The British parliament has applauded the song for autism, ‘Open Every Door.’ Parliamentary history was created when ‘Open Every Door’ became the first song for autism to be mentioned in the House of Commons in London. Influential parliamentarian Andy Love, MP for Edmonton tabled the early day motion 999 on ‘Open Every Door’. Prime ...
WTO DG Lamy Celebrates Benefits Of Opening Trade In Telecoms
2008-02-22 15:02:00 This is something to watch from the WTO (World Trade Organization), as it could open more doors than one might want. Director-General Pascal Lamy hailed liberalisation of trade in telecoms services as a vital tool in economic growth and development on the occasion of the WTO Symposium on Telecommunications organized in Geneva to commemorate the 10th ...
World Autism Day 2008 - UK Call to PM Gordon Brown
2008-02-19 11:05:00 (London, UK) Autism Campaigners are calling on Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Government’s Secretary of State for Children Ed Balls, to spell out their plans for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on World Autism Day scheduled to be commemorated on 2nd April 2008. The United Nations General Assembly designated World Autism Awareness Day on the ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe - The election gets dirty?
2008-02-18 16:52:00 According to Zimbabwe Today, a memo leaked from Zimbabwe?s Central Intelligence Organisation puts ?all national and provincial security operatives?? on “condition red.”: ”Be advised to temporarily suspend all minor operations in your provinces for RDWK ahead.” (I just love the acronym RDWK, which apparently means ?real dirty work??) It also instructs all operatives to: ??Employ ...
Curfew in East Timor following assasination attempt
2008-02-12 01:46:00 Nobel prize winner and president of East Timor has been airlifted to an Australian hospital following an assasination attempt connected with an attempted coup. In the meanwhile, his country is under a curfew. The accused assassin is an ex General, Alfredo Reinado, who was killed in the attempted assassination, along with one rebel and one of ...
PETER DAVIES ON ZIMBABWE - Elections in chaos, mercenary in Equatorial Guin
2008-02-11 15:28:00 Two weeks ago, I wrote that a former finance minister in Mugabe?s government was rumoured to be planning to stand against Mugabe in the elections scheduled for March 29. Now it is out in the open, and it seems that Simba Makoni really is going to challenge Mugabe. How he will do this is still ...
PETER DAVIES ON ZIMBABWE - Will deported prisoner be ?personally sodomised?
2008-02-04 16:05:00 In the dead of night last Thursday, British citizen and former SAS officer, Simon Mann was spirited away from a cell in Zimbabwe?s Chikurubi prison to face trial in Equatorial Guinea. Britain?s Daily Mail reports that according to sources inside the (West African) country, ?President Teodoro Obiang Nguema had promised his henchmen that once Mann ...
Job Vacancy at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Ja
2008-02-03 00:00:00 Office Logistics Assistant (National), Jakarta Under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative, the Project Chief Technical Advisor and the Project Manager and under the guidance and direct supervision of the Senior Administrative Assistant in coordination ...
Jihad, Islamism, and the United Nations
2008-02-02 01:30:00 In the ongoing battle against Jihad , the most important advances are not tactical, but rather those advances that allow us to define, address, and counter the ideology behind Jihadist actions. As the 9/11 Commission report states , "Islamist terrorism is an immediate derivative of Islamism ." (Notes, Part 12, Note 3, page 562) Recently, a little-noticed advance in countering Islamist ideology was achieved in the one of the least likely places of all: the United Nations Human Rights Council ( UNHRC...(read more)
George Clooney at the United Nations media after officially accepting the U
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Peter Davies on AFRICA, ZIMBABWE and ?STONE AGE WARRIORS?
2008-01-28 15:44:00 The day before Zimbabwe?s election date was announced last week, incumbent president Mugabe?s main opposition rival, Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC party was arrested by police in a dawn raid. (I wonder if some contenders for the US presidential nomination might sometimes wish they had similar powers?) After months of speculation, Zimbabwe?s people have finally been ...
Philippine Political killings only count if you are a communist
2008-01-28 03:52:00 My Yahoo headlines today proclaimed: Manila courts issues new rules to stop killings Ah, that’s nice. Just a simple declaration and voila, no more murder. Yet a lot of the murders here are done by rogue elements from both sides It’s like the famous comic skit: Man puts on hat: “I’m A”…takes off hat: “I’m B”. So if a policeman/soldier takes ...
Another One Bites the Dust
2008-01-28 02:27:00 An example of how the left/right, Islamofascist/Western infidel paradigms don’t fit much of SouthEast Asia can be found in the history of General Suharto, who is facing eternal judgment after a long illness. Many of the obituaries on the dear leader relate his 32 year reign as leader of Indonesia in a mixed light, but in ...
Tribalism vs the African middle class
2008-01-26 00:05:00 It is sad to watch Kenya descend into tribal war. Essentially it is about one man of one tribe stealing an election…which of course will allow him to distribute all the perks of the government jobs to those of his tribes, not the other tribes. If you know your US history, this is why Garfield was assasinated, ...
Peter Davies on ZIMBABWE
2008-01-22 10:44:00 While the USA primaries move forward in the world?s most powerful and successful democracy, Kenya continues to experience political violence (now over 600 dead) following flawed presidential elections. The world stands by helpless as Kenya?s incumbent party and tribe crushes the opposition. Readers might recall that the Great Rift Valley in Kenya is reputedly where ...
Why The United Nations Doesn?t Work ?
2008-01-22 02:03:00 The topic for discussion in my Intro to International Relations class was the United Nations. Most people know the name but know little about the organization itself. The definition according to Wikipedia is: The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, ...
The united nations of future music vol. 2
2008-01-04 20:19:00 Type: compilation Source: unmixed CD Label: OM Records Cat. #: OM-136 Release date: 21. July 2003 Genre: Downtempo, Electro, Deep House Format: MPEG-1 layer III Quality: 192 kbps Samplerate: 44 100 Hz Codec: FhG Ripped to: separate file Released by group:
The united nations of future music vol. 1
2008-01-04 20:15:00 Type: compilation Source: unmixed CD Label: OM Records Cat. #: OM-128 Release date: 03. March 2003 Genre: Electro, Deep House, Future Jazz Format: MPEG-1 layer III Quality: 192 kbps Samplerate: 44 100 Hz Codec: Lame 3.92 Ripped to: separate file Released by group:
A Standing Army for the United Nations
2008-01-01 00:00:00 -By Frank Salvato There are many disturbing issues to contemplate in the world. From the dangers of aggressive Islamofascism to the pomposity and arrogance of the American elected class (and those vying to be included) the world stands witness to myriad threats and power grabs. But two power grabs opens ...
By: Publius Forum
Al-Robin Hood: Terrorists in Tights
2007-12-24 13:42:00 From Churchill’s Parrot blog (Hear Charlie’s oral presentation of the following post here.) ?It was the deep knowledge–and pray God we have not lost it–that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.? - President Ronald Reagan, 40th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion, Pointe du Hoc, ...
The United Caliphate of The United Nations
2007-12-23 08:25:00 Photo courtesy of SandRat - Free Republic Defaming Islam @ Gates of Vienna by Baron Bodissey According to CNS news, the UN General Assembly has passed a resolution against the “defamation of religions”, especially Islam. The UN resolution dovetails perfectly with the Framework Decision and the European Parliament resolution on combating the rise of extremism in Europe. The UN ...
Dhimmitude At The United Nations
2007-12-20 16:26:00 It is no big surprise that the United Nations is a body which supports marxist theories and actions, loves their human rights violaters, and prefers radical Islam over democracy Alongside a resolution adopted by the U.N. General Assembly this week calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, the world body passed a raft of other ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Terrorists hit the innocent aid workers?again.
2007-12-18 08:44:00 The war against the innocent by terrorists is not limited to those hiding behind Islam (the Tamil Tigers and communists are just as bad) but those who say it is all America’s fault need to see how the main victims of what can be best described as “Islamofasicm” are civilians who are Muslim or are ...
Drink locally
2007-12-16 06:45:00 Drink Locally That’s what people need to be told. There’s a lot of stuff in the European news about eating only local fruits and vegetables, according to the season. But here, the problem might be to drink locally. The Philippines pays $ 500million a year to import milk and milk products. We use carabao milk (i.e. waterbuffalo milk) for ...
INDONESIA: The world is counting on a breakthrough at the United Nations Cl
2007-12-14 09:30:00 The world is counting on a breakthrough at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates at the summit, calling the fight against global warming "the moral challenge of our generation". According to UN Information Center (UNIC) in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)Whose Mission is it ful
2007-12-13 01:08:00 by Franklin Lamb In Lebanon, almost nobody, and certainly not UNIFIL, drinks the local water and I have not seen anything remotely resembling Tijuana; certainly not in my Hezbollah neighborhood, Dahiyeh. Rather, from Naquora to Kafr Shuba, along the 75 mile 'blue line' fine French, Spanish and Italian wines are, understandably, the preferred default UNIFIL boire. What has UNIFIL been doing in Lebanon? The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was created with the adoption of Security Council Resolutions 425 and 426 on March 19, 1978, primarily to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and "to restore international peace and security". Both goals have proved elusive these past three decades with Israel still in Shebaa Farms, the village of Ghajar, and violating Lebanese airspace and sovereignty at will.An examination of 30 years of UNIFIL's presence in Lebanon reveals that UNIFIL, like its parent the UN Security Council, has been exploited by power politics conduc...
Sign this paper or we?re doomed
2007-11-28 01:57:00 I’m anti pollution, and worried about big businesses that exploit poor people, but I’m even more skeptical about the global warming hysteria…and the assumption that giving power to a big quasi governmental organization that has little oversight is the way to go. Where are the checks and balances in the UN? I mean, a lot of ... |
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