Battlestar Galactica at the United Nations VIDEO
2009-03-21 01:38:00 United Nations, 17 March 2009 - a retrospective of the science fiction TV series "Battlestar Galactica" at UN headquarters. The show's Oscar-nominated actors Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos, and UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Orr talk about the portrayal of UN themes like human rights, terrorism and reconciliation among civilizations and faiths.Edward James Olmos, on his authority as Admiral of the Battlestar Galactica, tells the assembled crowd at the United Nations there is no race but the human race (so say we all). edgeofthewestView the entire events (Real Media, 2 hours and 4 minutes): webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand.-..News Story: www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp.-..
Battlestar Galactica at the United Nations VIDEO
2009-03-21 01:38:00 United Nations, 17 March 2009 - a retrospective of the science fiction TV series "Battlestar Galactica" at UN headquarters. The show's Oscar-nominated actors Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos, and UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Orr talk about the portrayal of UN themes like human rights, terrorism and reconciliation among civilizations and faiths.Edward James Olmos, on his authority as Admiral of the Battlestar Galactica, tells the assembled crowd at the United Nations there is no race but the human race (so say we all). edgeofthewestView the entire events (Real Media, 2 hours and 4 minutes): webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand.-..News Story: www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp.-..
Battlestar Galactica at the United Nations VIDEO
2009-03-21 01:38:00 United Nations, 17 March 2009 - a retrospective of the science fiction TV series "Battlestar Galactica" at UN headquarters. The show's Oscar-nominated actors Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos, and UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Orr talk about the portrayal of UN themes like human rights, terrorism and reconciliation among civilizations and faiths.Edward James Olmos, on his authority as Admiral of the Battlestar Galactica, tells the assembled crowd at the United Nations there is no race but the human race (so say we all). edgeofthewestView the entire events (Real Media, 2 hours and 4 minutes): webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand.-..News Story: www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp.-..
Battlestar Galactica at the United Nations VIDEO
2009-03-21 01:38:00 United Nations, 17 March 2009 - a retrospective of the science fiction TV series "Battlestar Galactica" at UN headquarters. The show's Oscar-nominated actors Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos, and UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Orr talk about the portrayal of UN themes like human rights, terrorism and reconciliation among civilizations and faiths.Edward James Olmos, on his authority as Admiral of the Battlestar Galactica, tells the assembled crowd at the United Nations there is no race but the human race (so say we all). edgeofthewestView the entire events (Real Media, 2 hours and 4 minutes): webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand.-..News Story: www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp.-..
Battlestar Galactica at the United Nations VIDEO
2009-03-21 01:38:00 United Nations, 17 March 2009 - a retrospective of the science fiction TV series "Battlestar Galactica" at UN headquarters. The show's Oscar-nominated actors Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos, and UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Orr talk about the portrayal of UN themes like human rights, terrorism and reconciliation among civilizations and faiths.Edward James Olmos, on his authority as Admiral of the Battlestar Galactica, tells the assembled crowd at the United Nations there is no race but the human race (so say we all). edgeofthewestView the entire events (Real Media, 2 hours and 4 minutes): webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand.-..News Story: www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp.-..
Zimbabwe PM injured in ?accident?
2009-03-07 00:54:00 It was only last month that Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, as part of a coalition government with President Robert Mugabe, after two disputed elections and months of negotiations. The terrible news today is that the new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been injured in a motor vehicle accident, ...
Zimbabwe: Disease, strikes, and Elephant meat
2009-01-26 14:37:00 Months ago, we had hope for our friends in Zimbabwe. But every week, reports coming out are worse. The talks between the government of President Mugabe and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai are “stalled”, and often reporters seem to think this means both sides are at fault. After all, essentially the government is not working and the economy ...
Nat Geo heart Genocidal Warlord
2009-01-24 04:53:00 The good news coming out of Africa today is that Rwanda has arrested General Laurent Nkuda, and is planning to turn him over to the DRCongo so that he can be prosecuted for war crimes. Human Rights Watch noted in January 2006: ?An arrest warrant was issued against Nkunda for war crimes, crimes against humanity and insurrection ...
Operation Shut them up:kidnapping activists in Zimbabwe
2008-12-28 14:09:00 Reporters in third world countries know reporting the wrong thing can be dangerous. Here in the Philippines, for example, our press knows that spilling the beans on a corrupt politician may result in being shot at by an unknown hitman on a motorcycle. But in Zimbabwe, things are more open: according to the Zimbabwe Times, the ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe: Images of Despair; is Military Rule under Martial
2008-12-23 15:47:00 People in Zimbabwe are now predicting that Mugabe will use the Cholera Crisis as an excuse to declare a national state of emergency so that he can ?legally? impose brutal Military Rule under Martial Law in Zimbabwe. This is something every ordinary citizen of Zimbabwe dreads. (See??Soldier?s Mutiny?? on December 9). This week, Daily Mail reporter ...
Mugabe smuggling in arms via the DRC
2008-12-23 04:42:00 While the world is busy shipping in vital supplies including food and medicine to help the people of Zimbabwe, the UN reports that President Mugabe, who allowed the Harare area water system deteriorate because they “couldn’t afford” supplies, nevertheless managed to buy guns and other military weapons from China, smuggling them in from his friends ...
Zimbabwe situation: famine, disease, and violence increasing.
2008-12-17 03:24:00 The good news in Zimbabwe: The rains have at last started. It’s a bit late to save the first planting, but at least in the north, December rains will allow people to do a second planting to get a crop. The bad news? The rains will probably worsen the Cholera epidemic which has killed at least ...
The four horsemen of Harare
2008-12-12 01:32:00 The modern city of Harare has descended into hell as the four horsemen of the Apocalypse have descended into Zimbabwe. The traditional four horsemen are war, anarchy, famine and disease. War? Not a war so much as Mugabe using his henchmen to destroy his enemies. Harare has seen riots of soldiers in the capital, terror by the ...
Who?s Watching the (Racism) Watchers?
2008-12-11 19:11:00 The "Durban II" UN conference on human rights dealing with racism is set to meet next March. The first meeting of this type in 2001 became so obsessive about Israel that Colin Powell pulled the US out of it. In a Wall Street Journal editorial earlier this week, they suggested we not even show up ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe: Cholera Epidemic
2008-11-26 17:44:00 At least 3,000 people have died of cholera in Zimbabwe during the past two weeks, reports Basildon Peta in ?The Independent? today, November 26, quoting a senior official in Zimbabwe?s Health Ministry. This is more than ten times the number widely quoted until now. Meanwhile, Mugabe?s government have denied that they have any problems with cholera. ...
Zimbabwe suffers while Mugabe gloats
2008-11-12 02:53:00 Well, there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that the WOZA women were finally granted bail and left out of a horrible jail after they dared to hold a peaceful demonstration a couple weeks ago. The rest of the news is bad news, alas, and what makes it worse is that ...
Peaceful Protesters remain jailed in Zimbabwe
2008-10-26 08:53:00 Two women arrested during a peaceful protest by WOZA in Bulawayo on October 16 remain jailed. Their bail hearing, which was scheduled on October 24, was postponed. The reason? The judge was “forced to attend a workshop” and couldn’t be there. The substitute judge wasn’t around either, so as a result the two women, Jenni ...
Zimbabwe Negotiations ?stall?: the non judgemental way to view evil in Afri
2008-10-09 10:36:00 One does of course understand that no reporters are allowed into Zimbabwe, making actual reporting difficult. But that doesn’t excuse the AP from their admiring reporting on Mugabe. Analysis: Zimbabwe’s Mugabe confident on Cabinet Yup. Not stubbornly refusing to cooperate with the agreement: he is confident! It’s a waiting game, and no one is better at outlasting his competition ...
It wasn't just Clinton, either -- certain parts of the United Nations and T
2008-09-29 21:29:00 Need to find Court Records? Then you can do one of two things:travel all over the state or country, finding the courthouse, then going to the clerk's office, then waiting in line behind the people that are there filing small claims lawsuits and paying traffic tickets, then fill out a public records request, then get told that the records are across town, then go there and wait in line behind the guy who wants to find out if it's true that Bill Clinton really was part of a global conspiracy to have his dog put to sleep, then finally get led down to a dank basement where you'll be given a rickety card table and a moldy set of files to page through...... or, go to Localcourtrecords.org, where you type in some basic information about the person you want records on, and get basic information back, instantly -- and free! No nuts, traffic tickets, or dank. Just ease of searching and speed. For a little extra fee, you can get even more information.So unless you really want to talk to...
Zimbabwe Agreement: a small step that just might work
2008-09-14 08:47:00 Last week, it was revealed that after long negotiations a tentative settlement agreement was reached between the government of President Mugabe and the opposition leader and probably winner of last March election, the MDC’s Morgan Tsvangirai. The deal was negotiated with the help of South African President Mbeki. Everyone is cautious about the deal (a similar “agreement” ...
Cholera stalks Harare
2008-09-06 13:28:00 The latest scourge to hit Zimbabwe is the deterioration of their water supply in the capital of Harare, resulting in an outbreak of diarrhea disease and cholera. Cholera is not unknown in Africa: when I worked in Zimbabwe, there was an outbreak from a contaminated well in one rural area, and when I worked in Liberia, ...
Mugabe ?allows? NGO?s to feed his people?maybe
2008-09-03 05:06:00 Two million people in Zimbabwe are facing a food crisis. Many children in rural areas are dropping out of school so that they can help their families gather food from the woodlands and carry water to the small garden plots. A lot of the problem is that despite Mugabe’s claims that he confiscated white farmland under ...
Zimbabwe: ??people are surviving on fruit and roots like wild animals?
2008-09-01 15:50:00 Whole families are now having to live off the land in Zimbabwe day after day, week after week, month after month. This is a terrible hardship. Children and nursing mothers will be worst affected by this harsh diet. Obert Gumpo wrote ?Hungry Zimbabweans Forage to Survive? in the Institute for War and Peace Reporting from ...
Gorillas in danger? ?what about the people?
2008-08-30 13:34:00 This sort of article annoys me greatly: From the UK Telegraph: Renewed fighting threatens Congo gorillas Heavy fighting between rebels and government soldiers is again threatening Congo’s already endangered population of mountain gorillas…”All of this fighting is taking place a stone’s throw from Congo’s gorilla sector and the rangers of the Congolese Wildlife Authority are powerless ...
Mugabe pulls a fast one, finds Pasty to join in ?Unity? government
2008-08-13 06:50:00 Yes, Professor Mutambara is a brilliant computer scientist. And when he was young, he led a student uprising against ZANU-PF. But now it looks like the professor is doing a deal with the devil to get power in Zimbabwe, and the story is not a pretty one. A year ago, there was a lot of confusion among the ...
Child abuse and HIV
2008-08-02 03:00:00 My friends in Zimbabwe inform me that the HIV epidemic has caused many people, even educated ones who claim to be Christians, to resort back to traditional methods of healing. Usually this means herbs or ceremonies, but there are bad apples in every profession, and some who go by the name of healer/witchdoctor (i.e. detector of ...
The United Nations Is America?s Overlord? Jose Ernesto Medel [Digg]
2008-07-17 02:47:00 Is it too late to cut these asshats off? Who the fuck are they to demand anything!
By: Stix Blog
Zimbabwe: ?Generals? Wage War On Unarmed Civilians?
2008-07-07 11:10:00 Mugabe is no longer in charge of Zimbabwe, he?s a puppet. When it became evident that he?d lost the March elections, he wanted to concede defeat (See ?Mugabe Admits Defeat?, April 03.) He was ready to slither into the undergrowth to enjoy retirement on the vast riches he?d stolen from the people he claims to ...
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 ... |
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