Sunday, May 31, 2009

Every Scot is to be vaccinated against swine flu...

Every person in Scotland is to be vaccinated against swine flu, the government has announced - at a total cost of more than £100m.

The updated pledge from Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon came as another two Glasgow schoolchildren were confirmed yesterday as the latest victims of the virus.

One new patient is the 13-year-old son of a critically-ill man undergoing treatment at the Victoria Infirmary, and the other is a five year old who came in contact with another of the man's children.

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The vaccine is still in development, with the first doses due to be manufactured by September.

Health workers will be first in line to receive the vaccination, followed by children, the elderly, then the rest of the Scottish population. Full story...

See also:

  1. Do not take a swine flu vaccine...
  2. Paris buys 100 million doses of anti-viral vaccine...
  3. Swine flu to scare you...
  4. Swine flu alert clears old stock of Tamiflu...

Australian cops bashing up drunken driver...

Des policiers australiens tabassent un conducteur ivre...

See also:

  1. Cops manhandling and stripping an innocent woman...
  2. Connecticut cops beating up suspect...
  3. Cops brutalize and taser naked man...

My childhood in the North Korean paradise...

I was nine when I saw my first execution. The man had been condemned to death for stealing copper wire to sell in China, crossing the border under the cover of darkness. He was dragged to the foot of the mountain near a railway track. A train that happened to pass stopped to let passengers watch the scene.

Executions were a frequent occurrence in our small city, but the inhabitants never tired of them. Primary and secondary school pupils skipped classes to join the audience, which always consisted of hundreds, even thousands, of people. Posters went up in the city several days before. When the time came, the condemned man was displayed in the streets before being led to the place of execution, where he was made to sit on the ground, head bowed, so everyone could get a good look at him. He was dressed in a garment designed by army scientists for public executions, a greyish one-piece suit made of very thick, fleece-lined cotton. That way, when the bullets are fired, the blood doesn't spurt out but is absorbed by this fabric, which turns red. The body is thrown on a cart and then abandoned in the mountains for the dogs to eat. More...

See also:

  1. Obama doublespeak on North Korea...
  2. A visit to North Korea and its nuclear facility...
  3. A peek into North Korea via pictures...
  4. A North Korean prison escapee tells a horrific story...

67-year-old Indian fails board exam for 44th. time!!!

When the Uttar Pradesh Board’s High School examination results were declared on Saturday, 67-year-old Jabbar Hussain was anxiously searching his roll number in the pass list. But this time again he returned a disappointed man.

For the 44th consecutive year, Hussain could not clear his board examination.

A student of Dayanand Inter College, Bindki, Fatehpur for High School, the lanky sexagenarian has not given up. More...

See also:

  1. 65-year-old dude in India takes class 10 exams for 44th. time!!!
  2. The Pakistani dude who got ...22 A levels!!!
  3. Elise, the 2-year-old with an IQ of 156...

The Queen of the Mountains, the snow leopard of the Himalayas...

See also:

  1. How to rescue an elephant that falls into a ditch...
  2. 'Crazy Turtle Woman' in Trinidad is a true friend of nature...
  3. The fox, an extraordinary hunter...

Britain's Got Talent serves up the latest "upset" that wasn't...

Shocking! Upset! 

Yes, that's right: Susan Boyle, who became instantly beloved, and almost as instantly overexposed, after singing "I Dreamed A Dream" on Britain's Got Talent, didn't win the final, which is being treated as a massive shock in most corners.

It isn't. Remember the backlash tracker? Susan Boyle was always going to lose this show. Always, always, always. More...

See also:

  1. Susan Boyle pricks society's dark side...
  2. Jade Goody: death as entertainment...
  3. Bulgarian Idol sings "Ken Lee". Hilarious!

Berlusconi défend son "droit à la vie privée" après de nouvelles révélations...

Le chef du gouvernement italien Silvio Berlusconi a défendu dimanche son "droit à la vie privée" après la publication d'une interview affirmant que son épouse avait un "compagnon", et au lendemain de la saisie par le parquet de photos prises dans les jardins d'une de ses villas.

"Je voudrais ne pas répondre, nous avons vraiment touché le fond avec cette intrusion dans la vie privée de tout un chacun", a déclaré M. Berlusconi au cours d'une conférence de presse à Bari (sud).

Le chef du gouvernement était interrogé sur l'interview dimanche d'une femme politique de droite, Daniela Santanche, au quotidien Libero (droite), qui affirme que son épouse Veronica Lario - qui a demandé le divorce il y a quelques semaines - a un "compagnon", et qui révèle même son identité. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. La justice saisit des photos prises chez Silvio Berlusconi...
  2. Le «visage angélique» qui embarrasse Berlusconi...
  3. Berlusconi : "Est-ce que je peux peloter la dame ?"

Paris: rixe entre pro et anti-Dieudonné...

Une violente bagarre a opposé ce matin dans le XXe arrondissement de Paris des militants de la liste antisioniste de l'humoriste Dieudonné à plusieurs individus non encore identifiés pour l'instant, rapporte Leparisien.fr. 

"Dieudonné était présent au moment des incidents mais n'y aurait pas pris part", précise le site internet du quotidien, selon qui trois personnes ont été blessées et cinq autres interpellées. Source...

India fields first women's rugby team!!! Cool...

India's first women's rugby team is preparing to take part in an international tournament.

At their first press conference, the players are curious and amused with all the media attention, but also excited about leaving for Thailand. 

Sangeeta Minz smiles shyly if you ask her about how she started playing. 

It's been only a month since she played her first game and she has already made it to India's first women's rugby team. More+photos...

See also:

  1. Maori Haka vs Aboriginal War Cry!!!
  2. Muslim women pushing their way into sports..
  3. And I thought they drank tea during cricket matches!!!

Where are the humans?

Où sont les humains...

See also:

  1. The humans are dead...
  2. Stephen Hawking: No sign of intelligent life on earth...
  3. Our Planet Earth is just awesome...

Blondes march in Latvia to create positive energy!!! Wow!

Several hundred blonde women marched through the Latvian capital Riga yesterday in a bid to cheer up the crisis-hit Baltic nation, suffering the worst recession of all 27 EU member states.

Led by an orchestra, the first-ever blonde parade featured women dressed in pink and white, some accompanied by lapdogs, in a charity fund-raising event that organisers hope will become an annual event.

"I'm not stupid. I'm beautiful and I'll prove it," Ilona Zigure, a participant, said. More...

See also:

  1. Latvian group Melo-M & Intars Busulis sing "Ghost Busters!!!"
  2. People Power vs. Police Power in Latvia...
  3. Is your husband "urban" or "rural?" Ah, blondes...

Egyptian cuts off his penis in protest against parents' bride choice...

An Egyptian cut off his own penis on Sunday in protest at his parents' choice of bride, a police official said.

The 25-year-old laborer from the village of Sheikh Eissa in southern Egypt was taken to hospital in stable condition, the official said, adding that the man had also mutilated his testicles.

"He was in love with a woman but his parents rejected her and told him to marry another woman he didn't want. He took a knife and cut off his penis in his room."

Doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official said.

Source

See also:

  1. The Power of the Penis!!! Poor vagina...
  2. Wife drills hole into husband's penis!!! WTF!
  3. Singapore woman bites of boss's penis...
  4. Man bites off his own penis!!! WTF!
  5. China's penis restaurant!!


The Legend of Xanadu...

See also:

  1. Here are The Small Faces and Itchycoo Park...
  2. Best of the 60's music compilation! Cool!

Un enfant de 8 ans auditionné à la gendarmerie pour s'être battu à l'école...

Un enfant de 8 ans a été auditionné, avec son père, samedi à la gendarmerie de Courdimanche (Val-d'Oise) pour s'être battu à l'école avec un autre garçon, a-t-on appris dimanche auprès de la gendarmerie, confirmant une information du Parisien. 

Cette procédure est la conséquence logique d'un dépôt de plainte de la mère de l'enfant ayant reçu des coups, a-t-on précisé de même source. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Un garçon chinois de 13ans tue une fillette de 3ans et violente le cadavre…
  2. Enfants arrêtés : une affaire banale pour la police...
  3. L'école à la maison prend de l'ampleur en Suisse...

$3.8 million to deflower a virgin? No way, says wife of deflowerer!!!

She won't be taking her golden chastity belt off anytime soon.

The 22-year-old California virgin who auctioned off her virtue online for $3.8 million has yet to meet her winning bidder in the flesh - because his wife won't let him.

Natalie Dylan (not her real name) admitted the deal had fallen through. More...

See also:

  1. $400 if you pump gas topless and bottomless!!!
  2. Romanian teen who auctioned her virginity for £8000 on-line has to pay 50% tax!!!
  3. Student auctions off virginity for offers of more than $3.7m!!!
  4. I'm 14, a virgin and I'm for sale: do you want to buy me?

Gujarat in India, and the great carbon credit con...

The farmers, faces wizened and browned from hours in the harsh Gujarati sun, lower a bucket into a well. It’s a solid-brick cylinder 100ft deep. The sun is high in the sky, beating down on the scorched earth. In the baked fields, maize and cotton have been planted. But none of the crops look very healthy. Leaves are wilted and tinged brown. Nothing has been watered for months. 

Radha, a tough, sinewy widow and the only female farmer here, says that the well, which draws from deep groundwater, used to adequately supply the village and surrounding farms. 

‘We have plenty of water – but water is the problem,’ she says. More...

See also:

  1. Monsanto Doing 'Rural Cleansing...'
  2. India:The Dongria Kondh prepares to fight Big Corporation with axes and arrows...
  3. India: is Coca Cola guilty of unethical practices in Kala Dera?
  4. The green agenda: saving the earth? Or creating more fear?

Cuba authorises sex change operations...

See also:

  1. Transvestite beauty contest in Thailand! And the winner is...
  2. India: they are building toilets for transgenders in Chennai...

Paris buys 100 million doses of anti-viral vaccine...

France in preparations for a possible increase in swine flu cases in the coming winter has purchased 100 million doses of vaccines against the A(H1N1) virus, the French weekly Journal du Dimanche reported Sunday. It is unclear whether the national health care system or the treasury would be picking up the tab. 

So far around 100 people have died worldwide from the new influenza, also known as swine flu. According to experts, the spread of the disease has been slowed by warmer weather, and a wave of infections is expected come winter. 

France has seen 24 cases out of the worldwide total of more than 15,500.

Source

See also:

  1. Swine flu to scare you...
  2. Swine flu vaccination propaganda ... in 1976!!!!
  3. Do not take a swine flu vaccine...
  4. The HPV vaccine. Ashley Ryburn tells her story.

Obama doublespeak on North Korea...

"Obama Calls on World to ‘Stand Up To’ North Korea” read the headline. The United States, Obama said, was determined to protect “the peace and security of the world.” 

Shades of doublespeak, doublethink, 1984.

North Korea is a small place. China alone could snuff it out in a few minutes. Yet, the president of the US thinks that nothing less than the entire world is a match for North Korea.

We are witnessing the Washington gangsters construct yet another threat like Slobodan Milosevic, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, John Walker Lindh, Hamdi, Padilla, Sami Al-Arian, Hamas, Mahkmoud Ahmadinejad, and the hapless detainees demonized by the US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld as “the 700 most dangerous terrorists on the face of the earth,” who were tortured for six years at Gitmo only to be quietly released. Just another mistake, sorry. More...

See also:

  1. A visit to North Korea and its nuclear facility...
  2. Why all the fuss about N.Korea's nukes when it's the US that paid for them?
  3. North Korea loosening up: opens first Italian restaurant!!!

How to rescue an elephant that falls into a ditch...

Comment sauver un éléphant qui est tombé dans un trou...

See also:

  1. Crazy elephant rampage in Kerala, India!
  2. An elephant painting ... an elephant! Amazing!
  3. Even baby elephants like the snow!!!

800 Britons on Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas waiting list...

the waiting list for assisted suicide at Swiss clinic Diginitas.

Nearly 800 have become members of the controversial clinic, and 34 Britons are ready to go to Zurich for a lethal overdose of drugs, it was revealed today.

This represents a tenfold increase on the number of Britons who have joined since 2002.

According to Dignitas figures, 15 Britons died there in 2003, 26 in 2006, eight in the first five months of 2008 and 23 in the last 12 months, the Observer reports. More...

See also:

  1. Terminally ill British couple choose assisted suicide in Switzerland...
  2. Swiss woman attacks Switzerland's "suicide entreprise..."
  3. France: the right to die...
  4. Switzerland: Exit, or the right to die...

Indians march to protest racism in Australia...

Melbourne's Indian community was out in force Sunday to protest violent assaults that have left one student with severe burns and another fighting for his life in hospital. More than 1,000 marched through the centre of Australia's second-biggest city. 

Sravan Kumar Theerthala, 25, was stabbed with a screwdriver a week ago. On Thursday, another Indian student, Rajesh Kumar, suffered burns in what police suspect was a petrol bomb attack on his Sydney home. More...

See also:

  1. Don't come to Australia, attack victim tells Indians...
  2. Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan snubs Australia after wave of attacks on Indian students...
  3. Indian students being attacked in Australia...
  4. I'm not a racist says Clare, the Sydney "wog" shooting witness...

Toujours s'occuper de ses affaires et fermer sa gueule!!!

A la ferme, le cheval est malade. 
Le vétérinaire dit au paysan : "Je lui injecte un remède, si dans trois jours il n'est pas remis, il faudra l'abattre."
Le cochon qui a tout entendu, dit au cheval: "Lève toi !" Mais le cheval est trop fatigué.
Le deuxième jour le cochon dit: "Lève toi vite !" Le cheval est toujours aussi fatigué.
Le troisième jour le cochon dit: "Lève toi sinon il vont t'abattre !" 
Alors dans un dernier effort, le cheval se lève. 
Heureux, le paysan dit: "Faut fêter ça: on tue le cochon !"

Moralité :

Toujours s'occuper de ses affaires et fermer sa gueule.  

This dog exercises with its master!!!

4ème conférence annuelle eLearning Africa...

Du 27 au 29 mai 2009 s’est tenue la quatrième conférence annuelle eLearning Africa à Dakar (Sénégal). Cet événement international est l’occasion, chaque année, de mieux réfléchir à l’intégration des nouvelles technologies comme soutien capital à l’enseignement sur le continent africain.

Microsoft ainsi que de nombreuses multinationales du secteur sont venus plaider pour des solutions technologiques accessibles. On peut notamment citer à ce titre l’initiative d’Unlimited Potential qui vise à apporter les bénéfices économiques et sociaux des nouvelles technologies à 5 milliards de personnes supplémentaires. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Un blogger africain pas comme les autres...
  2. Après Hollywood et Bollywood, voici Nollywood...
  3. Internet : ces inégalités qui dérangent...
  4. Internet: le très haut débit progresse de 23% dans le monde...

Un garçon chinois accusé de meurtre et de nécrophilie sur une fillette de 3 ans…

Dans un cas bien bizarre de meurtre et de nécrophilie, un garçon chinois de 13ans a été arrêté en Chine pour avoir tué un enfant de 3ans et d’avoir ensuite violenté le cadavre. Selon la police, l’autopsie a confirmé que la fille était d’abord tuée et violentée par la suite.

Le garçon est sous détention et la police enquête sur ses motives. Elle n’a pas révélé le nom du couple étant donné qu’il est mineur. Le crime s’est produit dans le district de Haizhu dans la province de Guangzhou au sud de la Chine.

D’après la police, l’accusé a avoué le crime et qu’il a agi seul sans complice. En voyant la fille seule devant sa maison, le garçon l’avait emmenée chez lui où, apparemment, il avait ligoté ses bras et ses jambes avant de la noyer dans un bassin plein d’eau, selon les journaux locaux.

Le média local, citant les psychologues, pense que le garçon a pu être influencé par la pornographie disponible sur internet. D’après les avocats, la famille de la victime pourrait être récompensée mais le coupable ne sera pas poursuivi car il est mineur. Le garçon vit avec sa mère, une serveuse, tandis que le père, un cuisinier, vit dans une autre ville.

Source (en anglais)

Voir aussi:

  1. A Hong Kong, un écolier de 12ans s’offrait comme gigolo !!!
  2. Un homme en Inde violait ses filles … pour devenir riche et prospère !!!
  3. Pascal Pelloux, l'homme qui a violé un bébé de six mois...
  4. Des pré-ados diffusent la vidéo de leur viol!!

Pirates of Somalia? No. Citizens protecting their land...

See also:

  1. What they are NOT telling you about the Somali pirates...
  2. Toxic e-waste, from Antwerp to Ghana...

Saturday, May 30, 2009

1984, George Orwell's dying legacy...

Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in London on Wednesday June 8, 1949 and in New York five days later. The world was eager for it. Within 12 months it had sold around 50,000 hardbacks in the UK; in the US sales were more than one-third of a million. It became a phenomenon. 

Sixty years later no one can say how many millions of copies are in print, both in legitimate editions and samizdat versions. It has been adapted for radio, stage, television and cinema, has been studied, copied and parodied and, above all, ransacked for its ideas and images.

As I write, the Daily Mail is reporting that “town halls are routinely using controversial ‘Big Brother’ surveillance laws to spy on their own employees”; the Los Angeles Times is describing a Republican party consultant as “a master of the black art of political newspeak”; The Village Voice is citing “a ripe example of doublethink”; and The Guardian is profiling a community leader “attacked as part of the PC thought police”. More...

See also:

  1. George Orwell died today, 59 years ago...
  2. America's growing surveillance state...
  3. "Big Brother Britain is worse than Russia during Soviet era..."
  4. You are a slave to the government...

Pakistanis rising up against Taliban...

THE first thing Sadaffe Abid did when she heard Wednesday’s massive bomb rattling the windows in her office four miles away was, like most residents of Lahore, to telephone to check on family and friends. However, what she did next was more surprising. 

“I told them we should come out on to the streets to protest against these militants,” she said. “This bomb was meant to turn public opinion against the army operation to clear the Taliban from Swat, and we shouldn’t give in.” 

The stylishly dressed Abid, 35, is chief executive of a foundation providing microfinance for rural women, and says until recently she never thought the Taliban were anything to do with her. More...

See also:

  1. Bill Moyers on how the media manipulates the public on Pakistan and the Taliban (Video)
  2. A campaign of fear about the Taliban grabbing Pakistan's nukes...
  3. Why they love the Taliban in Pakistan...
  4. Sexy boob show... in Pakistan!!!

Teachers are people...(1952 cartoon)

See also:

  1. Pink Floyd: Another brick in the wall...
  2. Stupid in America, a look at American public schools...
  3. Home-schooling, the quiet revolution...

13-year-old boy in China kills 3-year-old girl and has sex with the corpse...

In a bizarre case, a 13-year old boy has been arrested for killing a three-yearold infant girl and then having sex with the corpse.The postmortem has confirmed thatthe girl was first killed and then sexually assaulted, the police said.

"We have arrested the boy and are interrogating him to determine the motive of the murder,” the police in Haizhu district of South China’s Guangzhou province said about the May 19 incident in the district. The arrest took place two days after the incident but the police are holding back the name of the accused because he is a minor. More...

See also:

  1. Thousands raped and abused in Catholic schools in Ireland.
  2. Eleven-year-old girl charged with rape...
  3. 2-year-old girl raped in South Africa. WTF!
  4. Boys, aged 11, rape (sister) and record it on cell-phone...

Illiterate Indians in Malaysia victims of slavery...

Many illiterate ethnic Indians in Malaysia are falling prey to scams by organized syndicates who lure them with well-paying jobs and later treat them like slaves, a leading daily here reported on Saturday. 

Wanting a better life for their family and eager to escape the grip of poverty, many ethnic Indians fall victim to the scam which has been kept under close wraps by syndicates, the New Straits Times said in a report from Malacca.

One of the victims, M Nadarajah, 47, said the syndicate members were like "thugs, who exerted force to instil fear so that we dare not go against them." He alleged that he and some others victims were abused verbally and physically. 

Nadarajah said his captor had also threatened to sell his children, especially his two girls, if he escaped, the paper reported. 

The newspaper, however, did not give any details of how many victims were lured by the syndicate. There was also no mention of any action by the police.

Source

See also:

  1. Malaysia: ethnic Indian died of police beatings...
  2. Malaysia and its Indian citizens ...
  3. Rajeswari, or how the Malaysian govt. screwed up the life of one of its citizens.

Human rights in a woeful state...

 

A Japanese firm has no chairs and alarms go off if you don't walk fast enough!!!

Can you imagine working in a place where the boss got rid of all the chairs and put in alarms which go off when you don't walk fast enough?
Well some of the folks who work at Canon don't need to imagine - its a reality for them.

The president of Canon Electronics Hisashi Sakamaki is also the author of a book called "A company will do well if you get rid of the chairs and computers."

According to his book, employees can concentrate on the meeting at hand without chairs and they have been able to half the number of meetings each year. More...

See also:

  1. The French boss-napping phenomenon...
  2. Karoshi or overwork, Japan's silent killer...
  3. The world's hardest working countries. Insane!!
  4. Indian dude gets into Guiness Book after working for 3 years without leave!!!

UN under fire for selling-out to Sri Lanka...

The United Nations has been accused of failing in its duties to speak out against abuses in Sri Lanka and release credible information in its possession.

The UN European headquarters in Geneva on Friday denied there had been a cover-up.

Le Monde newspaper accused the UN of covering up the "severity of the massacres" in Sri Lanka for fear of compromising its humanitarian operations and of being expelled from the island.

The French newspaper cited UN figures putting the death toll in the Sri Lanka government's final onslaught against Tamil Tiger rebels at 7,720, including 678 children, between January 20 and May 13, while 18,465 people were injured, 2,384 of them children. More...

See also:

  1. Sri Lanka's hidden massacre...
  2. The UN sells its soul to Sri Lanka! 
  3. Amnesty accuses leaders of losing focus on human rights abuse...

The Power of the Penis!!! Poor vagina...

Berlusconi blocks compromising photos showing topless babes at his villa...

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has succeeded in blocking the publication of potentially embarrassing photos of young women at his new year's party. 

Mr Berlusconi, 72, is under pressure to explain his relationship with 18-year-old Noemi Letizia, who was among the guests. He denies having an affair. 

Local media say some of the photographs show young women in bikinis or topless. More...

See also:

  1. Could a teenage girl topple Berlusconi?
  2. The "angelic face" that's embarrassing Berlusconi...
  3. Berlusconi turns Italian politics into sexy show...
  4. Berlusconi, shapely women and entertaining the emperor...

Don't come to Australia, attack victim tells Indians...

After surviving a murderous attack, a 25-year-old Indian student on Saturday appealed to fellow countrymen aspiring to pursue education in Australia that they should not come here.

"My advice to every Indian student now who wants to come to Australia is please don't come and there's no life here," said Baljinder Singh, who was attacked by two youths here recently.

Singh also expressed concern over the condition of another Indian student Shravan Kumar, who was attacked by a screwdriver by a group of teens in a separate incident. Kumar remained "very, very serious," he said. More...

See also:

  1. Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan snubs Australia...
  2. Indian students being attacked in Australia...
  3. Sri Lankan conflict spills over into Australia...

Lennon: God is a concept by which we measure our pain...

See also:

  1. John Lennon died today, 28 years ago. R.I.P., brother...
  2. Happy Birthday, John Lennon...

Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan snubs Australia after wave of attacks on Indian students...

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has reacted to racial attacks on Indian students in Australia by rejecting an honorary doctorate offered to him by an Australian university.

The Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane had offered the 66-year-old veteran a doctorate for his contribution to the world of entertainment and Bachchan had earlier accepted the title.

The honour was to be conferred on the star in July as a part of celebrations to commemorate a retrospective of his films to be inaugurated in the city. More...

See also:

  1. Indian students being attacked in Australia...
  2. Indian passengers refuse Air France compensation for "racial profiling..."
  3. India's brutal and murderous caste system...
  4. Amitabh Bachchan denies Slumdog criticism...

If they knew the truth, they'd hate us even more...

We Americans like to think of ourselves as civilized people. Historically, we have supported our government in war under the belief that our government and our soldiers are honorable and that we do not engage in unjust wars. Ugly things like genocide, torture, naked aggression, raping, pillaging, and scorched earth policies are things that others do, not us. Since we are so good and virginal in every sense, we reason that others hate us only because of our goodness and purity. If they knew the truth about us, we think, they would love us.

Yet, if this is so, why is it that we need to hide from the world the activities of our soldiers and intelligence agents over seas? Why cannot we, the “liberators” of Iraq, show the world the lovely photos of our soldiers at work Abu Ghraib? Why must the CIA consider destroying the records of American conduct in the prisons at Guantanamo? We are so pure, clean, honorable, and all, aren't we? What have we got to worry about? More...

See also:

  1. Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'
  2. Did Obama block torture photos because they show guards raping children?
  3. By blocking torture photos, Obama makes a grave mistake...

Plus de 20.000 civils auraient été tués au Sri Lanka...

Plus de 20.000 civils tamouls ont été tués dans les derniers jours de l'offensive de l'armée sri-lankaise qui a permis de vaincre la guérilla séparatiste des Tigres de libération de l'Eelam tamoul (LTTE), rapporte le quotidien britannique Times. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Le Sri Lanka se transforme en valse politique entre pays du Nord et du Sud...
  2. Le Sri Lanka cherche à empêcher une enquête de l'Onu
  3. Massacres des Humanitaires au Sri Lanka...

Situation des droits humains dans le monde...

 

La justice saisit des photos prises chez Silvio Berlusconi...

Le parquet de Rome a ordonné la saisie de «plusieurs centaines» de photos prises lors de fêtes dans une villa du chef du gouvernement Silvio Berlusconi, actuellement empêtré dans l'affaire Noemi. Il a pris cette décision après une plainte pour violation de la vie privée, a indiqué l'Ansa samedi. 

L'avocat de M. Berlusconi, Niccolo Ghedini, avait déposé plainte à l'encontre d'un photographe qui serait en possession de quelque 700 clichés pris lors de réceptions privées dans la villa que possède le chef du gouvernement en Sardaigne, selon l'Ansa. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Le «visage angélique» qui embarrasse Berlusconi...
  2. Berlusconi : "Est-ce que je peux peloter la dame ?"
  3. Une blague de Berlusconi sur les femmes fait des vagues...
  4. La "love affair" qui embarrasse Dominique Strauss-Kahn...

Cigarettes : des images chocs pour dégoûter les fumeurs...

Les images chocs qui devraient bientôt transfigurer les paquets de tabacs ont de quoi répugner les plus récalcitrants des fumeurs. Un malade sous assistance respiratoire, d'horribles dents cariées, une autopsie de poumons, une cigarette molle évoquant l'impuissance… Ce relooking « gore » des paquets de cigarettes, décidé en janvier dernier par la ministre de la Santé Roselyne Bachelot, devrait remplacer, avant la fin de l'année, les simples messages sanitaires écrits. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Inde: fumer est de nouveau interdit dans les lieux publics...
  2. Quoiqu’on nous dise, le vin c’est bon ! Santé !
  3. Polémique sur le verre de vin quotidien, le Web voit rouge...

Sri Lanka's hidden massacre...

More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final throes of the Sri Lankan civil war, most as a result of government shelling, an investigation by The Times has revealed. 

The number of casualties is three times the official figure. 

The Sri Lankan authorities have insisted that their forces stopped using heavy weapons on April 27 and observed the no-fire zone where 100,000 Tamil men, women and children were sheltering. They have blamed all civilian casualties on Tamil Tiger rebels concealed among the civilians. More + video...

See also:

  1. The UN sells its soul to Sri Lanka! 
  2. The staggering cost of the Sri Lanka war.
  3. Sri Lanka: images of devastation and desolation...
  4. Sri Lanka and the Tamil genocide...

The war in Somalia, in pictures...


While Somalia recently has been in the news for its notorious pirates, back on-shore the country continues to struggle through a years-long war that has intensified lately, and to seek some sort of functional unifying government. Back in January, the Transitional Federal Parliament of Somalia elected moderate Islamist Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as President. Ahmed has gained international backing in his efforts to bring an end to 18 years of civil conflict. However, hard-line Islamist groups such as al Shabaab, Hezb al-Islamiya and others continue to reject the government and have been attacking its forces and civilians for years now, most of the fighting taking place in the capital city of Mogadishu. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) provides over 3,000 troops to maintain security where it can. Since the start of this insurgency in December 2006, nearly 17,000 civilians have lost their lives. See images...

Literature is illegal in Palestine...

i went to the last night of the palestine festival of literature expecting that it would be shut down yet again. a friend of mine in the old city had bumped into one of the actors in al hakawati (the palestinian national theatre) and she told him that they were already planning to move it somewhere else. but when i went there to meet him everything was getting set up so it seemed that this was just a rumor. i arrived an hour early because my friends are in a book discussion group every thursday night so i went to join them as i sometimes do. but five minutes after they got started israeli terrorist soldiers invaded al hakawati. they came in and posted a court order in hebrew and arabic on the door and asked everyone to leave the theatre. More +  video + images...

See also:

  1. More and more Israelis refusing military service...
  2. Israel to raze 1,700 Palestinian homes...
  3. Palestine soccer team plays at home before ecstatic fans...

Poverty-stricken Britons in Zimbabwe pack up their bags...

More than 60 British passport holders, reduced to poverty in Zimbabwe, are to be repatriated to Britain over the next few weeks.

They are the first successful applicants to a UK government scheme to resettle elderly and vulnerable people unable to afford the move themselves. 

All their savings were lost in years of hyper-inflation in Zimbabwe. More...

See also:

  1. Zimbabwe expats in Hong Kong not happy about Mugabe proximity...
  2. Zimbabwe: Mugabe ‘vacationing in, and switching funds to, Malaysia...'
  3. It's Christmas, but not for Zimbabwe...
  4. Zimbabwe: the sad demise of a nation...

Zager and Evans: In the year 2525...

See also:

  1. The Tremeloes and My Little Lady...
  2. David Garrick - Dear Mrs. Appleby...
  3. The Kinks lazing on a Sunny Afternoon...

Friday, May 29, 2009

Indian chick wins US spelling bee...

After months of training, in the end it took Kavya Shivashankar, 13, just nine correct letters to be crowned the new US spelling champion.

She correctly spelt Laodicean, meaning to be lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics, to claim victory in the 2009 Scripps Spelling Bee. 

A record 293 spellers, including 28 from countries outside the US, had made it to the final stages of the contest. 

Among the 9-15 year olds were 33 who speak English as their second language. More + video...

See also:

  1. Can you spell " sardoodledom?"
  2. Spelling bee genius goes berserk on Onion TV!!!
  3. The anguish of being illiterate: one woman's story...

Grande rencontre "Le Sari Dévoilé" les 27 et 28 juin à Paris...

"L'Inde au féminin". C'est ainsi que l'association "le Sari Dévoilé" décrit le futur salon du même nom qui doit avoir lieu à l'espace Reully, à Paris, les 27 et 28 juin. Là où les salons sur l'Inde mettent trop souvent en avant les mêmes aspects du sous-continent, "le Sari Dévoilé" n'est consacré qu'à la femme indienne pour aborder, à travers elle, à la fois l'Inde qui brille, l'Inde éternelle et les contrastes actuels du pays. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Inde: Sampat Pal ou la justice en sari rose...
  2. Pour avoir un fils, un homme en Inde ne se lave plus depuis 35 ans!!!
  3. Des fanatiques hindous tabassent les jeunes filles « indécentes » en Inde…
  4. Une fillette en Inde se marie avec un chiot!!!

Deux semaines sans eau à l’Hôpital central à Yaoundé...

Les principales structures sanitaires de la ville n`ont pas le précieux liquide, la Cde dégage ses responsabilités. 

Comment parvient-on à travailler sans eau dans un hôpital ? La question revient, depuis quelques jours sur toutes les lèvres et c`est avec appréhension que les malades se rendent dans les différentes structures sanitaires de la ville de Yaoundé confrontées à ce problème. Parmi celles-ci, l`hôpital général de Yaoundé. Il a passé toute la journée du mardi et une partie de la journée de mercredi sans eau. Pour cause, la bobine de la pompe à eau de ladite institution a lâché. Une situation qui n`a pas été facile à gérer par les gardes malades et les infirmiers : "Il a fallu sortir tôt pour trouver de l`eau et revenir avant que le malade ne se réveille, puisqu`il faut l`assister dans la prise de ses médicaments", raconte un garde-malade. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Drame de jalousie: deux étudiants de l’Esstic brûlés à Yaoundé...
  2. L'eau de luxe, vous en buvez? Hmmm...
  3. Inde: Cow Water ou l'urine de vache comme boisson sacrée!!!
  4. Suisse: Fin du verre d'eau gratuit dans les bistrots?

If you like Kentucky Fried Chicken, maybe you should watch this...

See also:

  1. Hong Kong KFC serves food from thrash!!! WTF!
  2. How they kill pigs in Egypt. (Graphic)
  3. Thanksgiving? Not for the turkeys.
  4. This is where your milk, beef and veal may be coming from...

Indian passengers refuse Air France compensation for "racial profiling" and demand more...

A group of 53 Indian passengers, who were allegedly subjected to racial profiling by Air France at Paris Airport on May 10, have threatened to move court if the airlines did not provide compensation in accordance with law. 

Air France has offered €350 per passenger to settle the matter. But the aggrieved passengers have said they cannot accept anything less than €650 as compensation.

"Air France has offered us €350 to settle the matter. This is a violation of the European Union law on such matters," Sachin Gupta, an aggrieved passenger, told PTI here. More...

See also:

  1. Indian passengers accuse Air France of racial bias...
  2. Indian students being attacked in Australia...
  3. Air India grounds fat air hostessess...

Indian students being attacked in Australia...

In a fresh incident of racial attack on Indians in Australia, a 25-year old student was stabbed here, even as another youth from Andhra Pradesh was battling for life after an assault by local teenagers. 

Baljinder Singh, 25, was attacked on Monday night when two men carrying weapons approached, the 'Herald Sun' reported. 

The attackers demanded money and as Singh was searching through his bag to hand over his wallet he was stabbed in the abdomen. Singh screamed for his life, his attackers laughed and fled the scene, the report said. More...

See also:

  1. I'm not a racist says Clare, the Sydney "wog" shooting witness...
  2. Riots in Punjab after Sikh shooting in Austria...
  3. Indian passengers accuse Air France of racial bias...
  4. Kerala family massacred in Silicon Valley tragedy...
  5. Savages and monsters in Chennai, India. Meet the barbarians...

Yin and Yang crop circle in Wiltshire...


Is this an amazing work of art, or of something from science-fiction? 

The neat, intricate pattern does pose the question - how on earth was it made?

The huge crop circle sculpted in a sea of barley seems to be based on the Yin and Yang theme, and appeared near an ancient British burial mound beneath Windmill Hill near Devizes, Wiltshire on 25 May.

The ancient area of Wiltshire close to Silbury Hill, Windmill Hill and the Sanctuary is a hot spot for crop circles. More...

See also:

  1. Complex crop circle discovered in Wiltshire...
  2. 2012, debunking an enigmatic year...
  3. Princess Inca from Peru levitating...
  4. Autopsie d’un extra-terrestre ?
  5. Did a biochemical UFO explode over Vietnam?

'Crazy Turtle Woman' in Trinidad is a true friend of nature...

With its white sand and clear, blue water, Trinidad's Matura Beach looks like a postcard. It's a far cry from its recent past, when leatherback sea turtle carcasses littered the ground and kept tourists away.

"Twenty years ago, this was a graveyard," Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said of the six-mile stretch of beach near her home. 

"The stench was horrendous. You could smell it for miles," she said. More...

See also:

  1. A two-headed, two-tailed turtle...
  2. 75 hibernating tortoises in her fridges!!!!
  3. Faroe Islanders and the red sea of whale slaughter...
  4. How they kill pigs in Egypt. (Graphic)

Russian serial-killer used home-made electric chair on his victims...

A Russian man killed at least six people with a home-made electric chair, police have revealed.

The power station worker, identified only as Dmitry K, is also accused of designing an electric carpet which would kill anyone who stepped on it. 

The 30-year-old lured his victims by posting an advert on an internet website claiming he wanted to buy computer parts, detectives said. More...

See also:

  1. Ira Einhorn, co-founder of Earth Day, was also the Unicorn Killer...
  2. Ukraine: serial killer claims more than a 100 murders...
  3. Indonesian sorcerer and serial killer Ahmad Suradji to be executed soon...
  4. Woman in Russia kills and eats her friend...
  5. Cannibals cook and eat their brother for six months...

Best of the 60's music compilation! Cool!

Emmaüs commercialise les ordinateurs et téléphones reconditionnés...

consoGlobe.com, le leader des sites écolo sur le net en France, et les Ateliers du Bocage d’Emmaüs ouvrent un partenariat visant à :
  
Collecter des ordinateurs et téléphones auprès des entreprises et à les reconditionner pour les remettre « à neuf »

Les commercialiser auprès du grand public via la boutique de consoGlobe parmi les autres gammes de produits verts (cosmétique, économies d’énergie, entretien, textile, …) Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Emmaüs dénonce la stigmatisation des pauvres ...
  2. L'abbé Pierre : un storytelling gagnant !
  3. Les pays pauvres relégués au second plan par la crise financière...
  4. Autriche :un supermarché pour les pauvres?

Un blogueur égyptien condamné à près de 6 000 euros pour avoir dénoncé la pollution industrielle...

Reporters sans frontières est scandalisée par la lourde amende à laquelle le blogueur Tamer Mabrouk a été condamné en appel, le 26 mai 2009, par la Cour d’Al Zohor à Port Saïd (est du Caire). Accusé de “diffamation” et d“outrage” par l’entreprise Trust Chemical Company, accusée de pollution dans l’un de ses articles, le blogueur a été condamné à verser 45 000 livres égyptiennes (environ 5 759 euros). Lors de son premier jugement, le 20 janvier, le juge l’avait déjà condamné à 340 euros d’amende.

“L’attitude de la justice est inacceptable. Le jugement en appel de Tamer Mabrouk a été conclu à la hâte et son cas n’a pas été réexaminé. L’amende qui lui est infligée est une insulte à la liberté d’expression. Il s’agit d’un clair moyen de le ruiner et de décourager toute prise de parole ou de position de sa part. Nous demandons l’abandon des charges à l’encontre du blogueur”, a déclaré l’organisation. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. La peste porcine, dernier fléau de l’industrie de la viande...
  2. Comment on tue les cochons en Egypte.
  3. Egypte: arts martiaux contre les agressions sexuelles...
  4. Egypte : des ânes obligés de porter des couches !!!
  5. "Chaque procès que je gagne, c'est une victoire pour les blogueurs"

Child labour, a necessity in Bangladesh...

As one of the world's leading suppliers of ready made garments , Bangladesh frequently encounters hostile criticism over the use of child labour in its textile industry.

Western retailers have rushed to assure conscience-stricken consumers that steps are taken to eradicate the practice, and in 2006 the Bangladeshi government passed a new labour law.

It enshrines the rights of young workers to receive a fixed salary, compensation in case of accident, proper holidays and to have access to education. 

But that law is only designed to help children in the textile sector, so it does nothing to ease the problem of child labour in one of the poorest countries in the world. More...

See also:

  1. The slave children of Bangladesh (Photostory)
  2. Bangladesh: is this guy a labourer or an artist?
  3. India's brisk trade in child slaves...
  4. How shameful!! Today's modern slaves...

Life of a 14-year-old in the Congo...

The most popular leader in the Middle East? Hugo Chavez...

The results of the new survey of 'Arab opinion' conducted by Zogby International show that Barack Obama has a much more favourable rating than did his predecessor as US president. But when asked to name the world leaders whom they most admire, the participants put the President of Venezuela at the top of the poll.

The survey, which was conducted in April and May 2009, sampled the views of 4,087 people in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. According to the respected Zogby polling organisation, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.6%. One of the questions put to the participants was "which two world leaders (outside your own country) do you admire most?" The most frequently named leader is Hugo Chavez, at 36%. Following Chavez in order of admiration are Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and former President of France Jacques Chirac (both at 18%), Osama bin Laden (16%), Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi (15%) and the current French president Nicolas Sarkozy (14%). More...

See also:

  1. Arabs sceptical on Obama...
  2. Which are the world's most unpopular countries?
  3. What the world thinks of the United States...
  4. Venezuela nationalizes 60 oil service companies...
  5. Gaza: Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador ...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Were the US moon missions faked as many believe?

There is something wrong with US mission to the Moon. The legendary space mission is still shrouded in mystery. Mankind still has a number of reasons to cast doubt on the miracle of inter-planetary flights. Many people still say that US astronauts have never landed on the Moon.

Japan’s Kaguya lunar orbiter took several pictures of the site, where Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 supposedly landed in 1971 and 1972. If the astronauts had ever landed there, they should have left a lot of equipment on the site, including the rovers, on which they traveled on the surface of the Earth’s satellite. The pictures, which the Japanese rover took, showed not even the slightest hint of the US presence on the Moon. More...
See also:
  1. Was China's space-walk a fake?
  2. And so, 40 years ago, did Neil Armstrong really walk on the moon?
  3. Don't tell Buzz Aldrin that the moon landing was a hoax!!!

Corrupt and lying Euro deputies come under fire...



See also:
  1. British MP Daniel Hannan slams Gordon Brown...
  2. Secret report says Euro MP fat cats get filthy rich by bogus deals at taxpayer expense...

A man in China had a leech in his nose for 5 years!!!

A man who was suffering from nose bleeding for several years is feeling a lot better since doctors extracted from his nose a 10-inch leech that had been living there for five years, reports a daily from South China.

According to the Canton Daily, as quoted by the China Daily, the 73-year-old man, called Fu, a bare-foot doctor in a village in the South, decided to consult a doctor after his nose kept bleeding for 10 consecutive days.

Fu thinks the leech got into his nose about five years ago, the time when his hemorrhagic symptoms and nasal congestions started, probably at a moment when he was drinking some spring water in the mountains as he was collecting herbs.

Source (in French)

See also:

  1. Another Chinese cat with wings...
  2. Cat-boy in China can see and read in the dark...
  3. The Russian who had a fir tree growing in his lung!!!
  4. China: baby born with 16 toes!!!
  5. A "fast food" competition in China...

Un homme en Chine avait une sangsue dans son nez depuis 5 ans!!!

Un Chinois qui souffrait de saignements depuis des années va nettement mieux depuis que les médecins lui ont extrait du nez une sangsue de dix centimètres qui vivait là depuis cinq ans, a rapporté un quotidien du Sud. 

Selon le Quotidien de Canton, cité par le China Daily, cet homme de 73 ans, nommé Fu, un médecin aux pieds nus d'un village du Sud, s'est décidé à consulter après avoir souffert de saignements de nez pendant dix jours consécutifs. 

Fu pense que la sangsue s'est introduite dans son nez il y a cinq ans, début de ses symptômes d'hémorragies et de congestion nasale, peut-être à un moment où il buvait de l'eau dans une source, en montagne, alors qu'il ramassait des herbes.

Source

Voir aussi:

  1. Un morceau de sapin retiré du poumon d'un russe!!!
  2. Encore un chat en Chine qui pousse des ailes !!!
  3. Le plus grand homme du monde est chinois...
  4. Il n'a qu'une jambe, elle n'a qu'un bras, et pourtant ce couple chinois...
  5. Un concours de "fast food" en Chine...
  6. Le garçon en Chine qui voit parfaitement bien dans le noir sans lumière…

Orange condamné pour le mot de passe "salearabe"

On se souvient de l'affaire. En 2007, un garagiste de Pessac, dans la région bordelaise, décide de s'abonner à Internet. Il se rend à son agence France Telecom, signe un contrat, tout va bien. Puis un jour, il a des problèmes de connexion. D'origine marocaine, l'homme contacte alors la hotline d'Orange par téléphone, et donne son nom : Mohamed Zaïdi. Le technicien lui indique alors qu'il recevra un nouveau mot de passe par courrier. Suite...

Voir aussi:

  1. Violentes manifestations de musulmans à Athènes...
  2. Des passagers indiens accusent Air France de racisme...
  3. Migrants jetés à l'eau dans le golfe d'Aden: 6 noyés, 11 disparus...

A visit to North Korea and its nuclear facility...

See also:

  1. A peek into North Korea via pictures...
  2. A North Korean prison escapee tells a horrific story...
  3. Pyongyang, traffic cops and a red mini...

The UN sells its soul to Sri Lanka! (War victims everywhere take heed; no one cares about you...)

Sri Lanka last night scored a major propaganda coup when the UN human rights council praised its victory over the Tamil Tigers and refused calls to investigate allegations of war crimes by both sides in the final chapter of a bloody 25-year conflict.

In a shock move, which dismayed western nations critical of Sri Lanka's approach, the island's diplomats succeeded in lobbying enough of its south Asian allies to pass a resolution describing the conflict as a "domestic matter that doesn't warrant outside interference". More...

See also:

  1. Amnesty accuses leaders of losing focus on human rights abuse...
  2. The staggering cost of the Sri Lanka war. 
  3. Tamil ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka?
  4. 200,000 Tamil civilians imprisoned in Sri Lanka's Manik Farm "concentration" camp...
  5. Sri Lanka authorities on revenge rampage in Tamil refugee camps; women being murdered, children abducted...

Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'

Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged.

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. 

Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube. More...

See also:

  1. Did Obama block torture photos because they show guards raping children?
  2. By blocking torture photos, Obama makes a grave mistake...
  3. Here are some of the torture photos that Obama does not want you to see...

Microsoft launches its Bing search engine...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today drew back the curtain on the new incarnation of Live Search: Bing.

Speaking at the D7 Conference in San Diego, Ballmer launched Microsoft's new Search brand, formerly code-named "Kumo." Bing will begin rolling out in the coming days and will be fully available on 6/3.

More than just a rebranding of Live Search, Microsoft is repositioning Bing as a "decision engine," with a goal "to provide customers with intelligent search tools to help them simplify tasks and make more informed decisions," according to a Microsoft spokesperson. More...

See also:

  1. Windows Vista SP2 is now available...
  2. Microsoft to offer "Morro", a free anti-virus software...
  3. Google: friendly giant or greedy goliath?