Not all of the institutional money involved in the Yahoo! (YHOO) rejection of Microsoft's (MSFT) bid are happy to sit on the sidelines. Several may launch a...
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In his work of critical importance entitled "Man Against Mass Society," the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel writes, "..the fanatic never sees himself as a fanatic; it is only the non-fanatic who can recognize him as a fanatic; so that when this judgment, or this accusation, is made, the fanatic can always say that he is misunderstood and slandered...Fanaticism is essentially opinion pushed to paroxysm; with everything that the notion of opinion may imply of blinded ignorance as to its own nature....whatever ends the fanatic is aiming at or thinks he is aiming at, even if he wishes to gather men together, he can only in fact separate them; but as his own interests cannot lie in effecting this separation, he is led, as we have seen, to wish to wipe his opponents out.And when he is thinking
From The Palestinian Information Center : Palestinian leaders and Christian peace activists as well as representatives of human rights organizations operating in the occupied Palestinian territories on Thursday made an impassioned appeal to "all men and women of conscience all over the world" to help stop Israeli army plans to close down and take over several orphanages and boarding schools sheltering thousands of orphans and impoverished students. Many of the orphans' parents had been killed by the Israeli army and paramilitary Jewish terrorists, also known as "settlers." The appeal was made during a press conference at the main Girl Orphanage in downtown Hebron. The Israeli army has repeatedly raided the orphanages, boarding schools and affiliated institutions, vandalizing pr
After being tossed out, Stafford chaired a hastily organized counter-convention of Paul delegates in the high school's hall. The group approved a report listing the alleged procedural violations by the 2nd District GOP leaders, which Stafford said will be forwarded to the national party headquarters.read more | digg storyLiberty Central- Conservatism's Blog of Choice
An SEC Filing this morning shows activists are going to go after Wendy's International Inc. (NYSE: WEN) with a little more publicity than mere private letters....
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As if in answer to my earlier question, Britain's questionable courts, and government, are still allowing Libyan al Qaeda terrorists who could be dangerous to their country's security - to remain there. The Independent (via Michelle Malkin) reports:
A terror suspect who was once found with a map marked with the flightpath to Birmingham International Airport has defeated the UK Government's bid to
According to the Washington Blade:
"Gay activists in China are hoping to use the international attention from this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing to showcase their fight for greater acceptance.
One such effort from a gay group involves a Beijing exhibition displaying 10,000 petition signatures from Chinese citizens who support the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. The signatures are written in Chinese characters on brightly colored banners and notebooks and are showcased prominently in an exhibition room."
Much attention by the global community will be placed on China with regards to Human Rights abuses and Gay Rights. Queers United will keep you updated with any action alerts or stories regarding activism with regards to the upcoming controversial Olympics.
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Two high-profile shareholder activists in Germany have taken aim at Deutsche Bank, pressing it to separate investment banking from its other operations within two years
Professor Ekkehard Wenger and Leonhard Knoll have proposed several items to be discussed at Deutsche's annual meeting at the end of May, according to the agenda published on the bank's website.
Wenger, the Würzburg University economics professor, has made a second career lobbying for shareholders' rights.
The two professors are working in concert against DaimlerChrysler, where they will argue at tomorrow's AGM that there is a need for a special audit into a share buyback programme conducted last year as well as making other proposals. The board has rejected them.
Their calls for chang
During the week since Fitna was released over the internet, the reaction in Indonesia has largely been muted. There were a pair of demonstrations in front of the Dutch embassy in downtown Jakarta by hardliners from Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia and the Islamic Defender's Front, but both events were long on fiery rhetoric and short on violence. That changed yesterday noon (2 April), when several dozen protesters from HMI, a Muslim student organization, vandalized the Dutch consulate in Medan, the provincial...(read more)
Do you know that China and India, the motherlands of all Chinese and Indians all over the world also have draconian laws that are quite similar with our very own Internal Security Act?As matter of fact, Chinese and Indian draconian internal security laws are much worst than Malaysia’s ISA. :-)Tags: malaysia kini, malaysiakini, malaysiatoday, malaysia election, 2008 election, barisan nasional 2008
March 28, 2008 - Two human rights activists who received a two-and-a-half year jail sentence are expected to walk out of prison proud and victorious in May 2008.Their defense lawyer, Mengistu Haile Mariam, had confirmed, yesterday that they would be freed quickly.“The two activists will be released from prison in three days’ time because they have already served two-thirds of their sentences,” he told reporters at the court.Daniel Bekele worked for ActionAid, while Netsanet Demissie worked closely with the global anti-poverty campaigner through his Organization for Social Justice in Ethiopia.Rights groups have condemned their trial.The two were the last defendants out of 131 originally charged after demonstrators took to the street to protest polls they said were rigged. A parliament
Below is an article I found at Nuclear Age Peace Foundation I hope you enjoy it friends.Why Today's Peace Activists Should Not Be Discouraged: An Example from 1958 By Lawrence S. Wittner Originally published on History News Network After nearly five years of bloody, costly war in Iraq, with no end in sight, many peace activists feel discouraged. Protest against the war and the rise of antiwar public opinion seem to have had little effect upon government policy. But, in fact, it is too early to say. Who really knows what impact peace activism and widespread peace sentiment have had in the past five years or will have in the near future? Certainly not historians, who will spend decades pulling together such information from once secret government records and after-the-fact interviews. W
From Attention Activists: It's Time to Grow Up! : The Vietnam conflict was ended by those who organized sit-ins and takeovers not vigils. The Johnson presidency was brought down by those who shut down schools and colleges all over the nation, not by those who lit candles in quiet little ceremonies. Does the name Gandhi mean anything to you? He defeated an empire, peaceably and permanently when he organized acts of civil disobedience that sparked similar action by millions of Indian activists. Are there any people in history who ever have affected change via a vigil of any sort? Can you imagine what would have happened if the Founding Fathers had decided to hold a vigil rather than declare their independence from the tyranny of their British rulers? If you truly want change you h
Whoever it was who bombed the Times Square army recruitment center has not been caught yet, and now, the US military has issued warnings to personnel to be on the alert for violent anti-war activists who could target them.
This is most unacceptable on the part of the anti-war hoodlums and vandals to do things like that, and IMO, any who would pull violent crimes against innocent army officials
No Nazi Festival !Left-wing groups are planning a mass protest against a British National Party festival which could take place in Derbyshire for a second year.BNP member Alan Warner wants to attract thousands of people to Red, White and Blue - which he plans to hold in early August on his fields in Codnor-Denby Lane, Denby.He sent a licensing application to Amber Valley Borough Council to play music and sell alcohol on the site.But left-wing groups say that, if the festival goes ahead, a mass rally would be organised drawing "thousands of people across the region who oppose the BNP."The action was advertised on the website which has connections with groups such as Searchlight and Antifa UK. These organisations object, among other things, to the BNP's policies of ending immigration
As far as Hillary and Barack are concerned I’ve been of the mind that there is nothing radically different between them to justify being a near zealot for one or the other. However, a post about Barack’s position on abortion recently landed in my gmail that seems to show that while Barack may be [...]
Animal activists on Monday pressed the US government to add the polar bear to the list of endangered animal species before the sell-off of oil and gas drilling rights in Alaska begins in the coming days."An endangered listing can affect the sell-off of the oil drilling rights," Brandon Frazier, a spokesman for global animal welfare group International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said."The authorities would have to get approval through the Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct drilling if there is an endangered species that inhabits the area."The US government is due on Wednesday to offer several million acres of polar bear habitat in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska for sale for oil and gas exploration leases.The lease-sale would make the polar bears' habitat "vulnerable to big business intere
Related Post: Islamic Human Rights. Read this Mr. Nice Guy Related Post on MalaysiaKini: Bersih activists warn of further protests Tired of Malaysian politics? Come and visit Orlando's Walt Disney World Resort anytime soon and have the fun of your life! Technorati Tags: bersih, human rights, malaysia, malaysiakini
Related Post: NewsCom: No bail in Malaysia cop attack Related Post on MalaysiaKini: LTTE expert rubbishes HINDRAF link to terror Tired of Malaysian politics? Come and visit Orlando's Walt Disney World Resort anytime soon and have the fun of your life! Technorati Tags: malaysian, malaysia, malaysiakini
Indonesia's new criminal code, currently being considered by the Justice Ministry, is inadequate and threatens civil society, according to human rights activists.Agung Putri, director of the Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM), told a seminar in Jakarta that several articles in the bill - regarding pornography, press freedom and defamation - could pose a serious threat.The seminar was organised by the National Alliance for Criminal Code Reformation to observe World Human Rights Day on 10 December.Activists fear the bill, which has been modified several times over the years, will fail to uphold human rights unless it adopts the international covenants concerning child issues, gender and racial equality, as well as civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.Agung referred to a section on pornography and its restriction of "erotic" activities, saying it would harm women with its ambiguous definition of "eroticism".Activists also fear the draft law would have an
In an opening gambit, Japan has proposed that the Bali climate conference pursue a broad "least common denominator" approach to negotiating new controls on global-warming gases. Environmentalists couldn't think less of it.The proposal says nothing about making future targets for emission reductions legally binding _ the principle underlying the current Kyoto Protocol."Is Japan scrapping the Kyoto Protocol on its 10th birthday?" asked Japanese environmentalist Kyoko Kawasaka. A Canadian colleague spoke of a "plot" by Japan and the United States to block a new Kyoto-style global agreement.Japanese officials protest that they are simply trying to kick-start negotiations here at the annual U.N. climate meeting, viewed as the most critical such session in years.Activists criticized the draft's omission of internationally binding cuts."It's clear to a number of us that the U.S. would like nothing more than for nothing to happen on the Kyoto track," said Canadian Steven Guilbeault, a leadi
AIDS activists slam political, church leaders:
By MINDELL SMALL, Guardian Senior Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Local AIDS activists are calling on political and church leaders to put their faces on ad campaigns about the illness to help combat stigmatization and discrimination. The call comes three days before World AIDS Day, and at a time when statistics are once again showing an increase in HIV infection in the country.
Long-time AIDS activist and administrator of the AIDS Foundation of The Bahamas, Wellington Adderley, said yesterday that despite educational programs, stigmatization and discrimination against HIV-positive people in The Bahamas was still a major problem. He called on the country's leaders to step up to the plate and assist the AIDS Foundation with prevention campaigns, adding that the silence about the virus was contributing to the high level of stigmatization and shame.
"Why aren't the leaders getting involved?" asked 51-year-old Adderley who has been living
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JAKARTA (AP): Environmental activists are blockading a shipment of palm oil from Indonesia to protest the destruction of rain forests that they say goes hand in hand with the planting of the crop. With a banner reading "Palm Oil Kills Forests and Climate," Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior was anchored next to an India-bound palm oil tanker at Dumai port on Sumatra island, the group said in a statement Friday.Activists maintain the crop is planted on forest land cleared by fires that unleash millions of tons of carbon dioxide - a greenhouse gas. They say this defeats the purpose of developing palm-based biodiesel fuel as a renewable source of energy that does not contribute to greenhouse gases."The logging, draining and burning of Indonesia's peat land forests releases a massive amount of store
Environmental activists have accused Indonesian courts of what they call corrupt and obstructive attempts to halt illegal logging.Job Rahmad Purba, executive director of WALHI North Sumatra, a branch of the global network Friends of the Earth, told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the country’s legal system cannot be trusted to handle forestry cases.“We need a special ad hoc court for environmental issues,” Purba said. “The judges and prosecutors don’t have enough knowledge about the issue, and although there is some will to stop illegal logging, in practice, with bribery and all, officials have made the legal system negotiable.”His comments followed a court ruling in which a timber baron was freed of all illegal logging charges on Monday, despite what police called the most comprehensive investigation ever conducted into forest destruction.The report was entitled “The Thousand-Headed Snake; Forest Crimes, Corruption and Injustice in Indonesia.”It said: “The hard wo
This whole story confuses me. There’s a guy that used to be an editor in Men’s Fitness magazine named Neal Boulton. He started off straight. Then he made out sometime this year in public with someone named Jann Wenner in Manhattan. This apparently outed Boulton, so I guess I’m to assume this person named Jann is a man. So Boulton then gets harassed by gay activists who complain that Boulton isn’t acting gay enough because he’s living with his wife and has slept with women in the past. I’m not sure how someone can’t be acting gay enough because of sexual relations that happened before the guy came out of the closet. I mean his past is kind of out of his control isn’t it? He’s also still married I’m guessing because it doesn’t call his wife an ex in the article. Meanwhile he wants to do a gay porn film so he can prove his gayness to all the doubters.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around people being offen
August 28, 1977, protest at the gates of Australia's last whaling station in Albany, Western AustraliaPat Rose Farrington, who played a leading role at the whaling station protest, and Kase Van Der Gaag, former master and harpoon gunner of the Cheynes II, meeting for the first time in September 2007 in Albany.American Pat Rose and Canadian Bobbi Hunter returned to Albany thirty ears after they took direct action against the Cheynes Beach Whaling Company. A reception was held for them at the City of Albany.The last whale was taken on November 20, 1978.The orginal direct action crew were honoured at a Greenpeace function in Sydney in September 2007, thirty years since Greenpeace's first campaign in Australia.Jonny Lewis, a key figure in the campaign who formed the Whale and Dolphin Coalition which morphed into Greenpeace Australia, will return to ALbany in November.-Chris Pash
Whaling in Japan as a means of research is being challenged by several activist organizations, as they state that it is not necessary to kill the whales in order to research them. With the new satellite tagging technology in place, research can be done without the hunt.
Watch the video below created by Australian Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, aimed at Japanese girls to understand what whaling is and how it hurts the future of whales.
This is the one being shown to the girls. (not the one below)
Australia VIDEO LINK
WHAT IS WHALING? See Video Below
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I don't comment on my bosses or colleagues. So, read this letter by UTLA (United Teachers Los Angeles, LAUSD's teachers union) president A.J. Duffy and decide for yourselves:
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Something very interesting, and a bit unexpected, happened at a recent RSA CarbonLimited event in Manchester. Carbon Limited is a project that looks at personal emissions trading schemes, and the event was a one-off demonstration of how such a scheme could work.
Before the exercise (more…)
OTTAWA — Three Greenpeace activists who boarded and chained themselves to a coal carrier in Lake Erie on Thursday morning have been arrested. Greenpeace spokesman Shawn-Patrick Stensil said the Ontario Provincial Police made the arrests shortly after noon.
Greenpeace activists boarded and chained themselves to a coal carrier
in Lake Erie
On July 22, 2007 Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Arun Manilal Gandhi, was interviewed by Peter Sissons of the BBC News 24. Peter asked what Mahatma Gandhi would have done had he seen the Al-Qaeda problem. "Why don't all the Muslims, Christians and other religions have a day of fasting to show Al-Qaeda that we reject their philosophy," Arun Manilal Gandhi, founder of M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence replied.Inspired by Arun Gandhi's words, Heidi Hog, from United Kingdom, and Mike W., from Orlando, Florida, began a foundation for a peace movement, Fast for Freedom 8·8·8. They are encouraging all people from all nations to participate in a one-day fast on August 8, 2008 as a peaceful way to protest Al-Qaeda's philosophy.Fast for Freedom 8·8·8 founder Heidi Hog suggested that the day of fasting would be a success due to the simplicity in participating. "There is great success behind [the] Fast for Freedom 8·8·8 campaign because everyone is invited," said Hog. "Fast for Freedom 8
Amnesty International (AI) has confirmed that it has dropped it’s neutral policy in regards to abortion and now supports access to abortion services as a human right. The pro-”lifers” aren’t happy about it. In fact, the right reverend Michael Evans has resigned because it’s not right when a human rights group quits being “neutral” about the rights of women.
The Vatican has started it’s smear campaign and is threatening a worldwide boycott of AI. Of course, the Vatican isn’t as stupid as some of us like to believe or hope. The official policy is, more or less, to support the decriminalization of abortion and not much else from what I can tell from the press releases. The Vatican has to know due to it’s decades long assault on reproductive freedom for women that AI is going to find out that decriminalization isn’t good enough when you’re dealing with laws such as the ones in America.
The fact of the matter is
I wish I'd posted this earlier, but was so swamped in the past week, I wasn't able to. But now, here's some news via Sliwa about one of Egypt's Muslim dictatorship's latest acts of totalitarianism:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEChristian Solidarity International (CSI)August 10, 2007For Interviews Contact: Maria Sliwa, M. Sliwa Public Relations, 973-272-2861 / 212-202-4453, msliwa@msliwa.comEgypt Arrests Christian Human Rights ActivistsWASHINGTON: On August 8, members of the Egypt's State Security Investigations (SSI) arrested Christian activists Adel Fawzy Faltas and Peter Ezzat Mounir in Cairo. The arrests are part of Egypt's alarming and growing trend of state-sponsored persecution of Christians.Although no formal charges have been announced, SSI officials claim the two men insulted Islam, preached Christianity, incited Christian-Muslim confrontation, and maintained an unlawful association with a foreign organization.Egyptian government officials routinely torture prisoners within the
By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY The Humane Society of the United States plans a low-key approach Thursday in Richmond, Va., but People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) says it will “be there in force” outside the federal courthouse where NFL star Michael Vick and three other men face arraignment on dogfighting charges. Vick, 27, quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, and the others face an afternoon bond hearing, followed by arraignment, at which they will enter pleas (guilty, not guilty or more…
Members of the Project 21 black leadership network applaud the defeat of legislation in the U.S. Senate earlier today that would have created a path to legalization for millions of foreigners residing illegally in the United States without solid guarantees regarding border security and the enforcement of current immigration law. "The defeat of the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill shows the American people can still have their say in the legislative process if they are loud enough," said Project 21 member Kevin Martin. "When it appeared that so many of our elected officials were going to turn their backs on the overwhelming desires of their constituents and vote for a bad bill, it was the unswerving determination of grassroots activists and the national forum of talk radio that made these lawmakers remember to dance with them what brung them." (More)
Urgent AppealPolice to remand two human rights defenders for leafleting at demonstration in Johor BahruThe Police arrested 2 activists from Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) Johor Bahru branch who were leafleting at a demonstration in front of Menteri Besar's residence, Johor Bahru on 17 June 2007. The demonstration was calling for MB's attention and action on the rising crime rates in Johor Bahru.The police said the two activists will be brought to a magistrate's court today for remand order application. Suaram condemns strongly the arbitrary arrest and remand of the human rights defenders. The police of Johor Bahru is wasting public monies in intimidating human rights defenders instead of doing their job of busting the crimes.The two activists are Nyam Kee Han and See Siew Min. Nyam is the coordinator of Suaram's Johor Bahru branch while See Siew Min is a secretariat member of the branch. They are currently being held at the IPD Johor Bahru (Selatan) police station. The leaflet that
Gun control is likely to be a high priority in the next administration, especially if a Democrat is elected. We have already heard the rumblings since the shootings at Virginia Tech.
However now there is talk that the second amendment should be repealed, not just controlled.
This quote is from Benjamin Wittes, a guest scholar at the center-left Brookings Institution
Wittes, who said he has “no particular enthusiasm for the idea of a gun culture,” said that rather than try to limit gun ownership through regulation that potentially violates the Second Amendment, opponents of gun ownership should set their sights on repealing the amendment altogether.
“Rather than debating the meaning of the Second Amendment, I think the appropriate debate is whether we want a Second Amendment,” Wittes said.
While the idea of repealing the second amendment is absurd, at least this person has a couple of points correct here. His point that controlling guns is unconstitutional is o
If you wanted to destroy the rights of a sub-group in your society how would you do it? Would you just issue a degree declaring “Group X is hereby stripped of its rights and privileges as members of Society XYZ” or would you start off small with something they’ll ignore and slowly work your way up to the degree which by the time you announce it it would be little more than a formality?
That’s the question the anti-womens rights activists seem to have asked themselves and they’ve apparently decided that anyone who goes with the second option is not a True Believer™.
How do we know this?
Well, they’ve went and attacked James Dobson of Focus on the Family for his support of the recent SCOTUS decision that essentially banned intact D&Es in an open letter that was published in the Washington Post a couple of weeks ago. Why are they upset about Dobson’s support of the decision? If you guessed anything other than “it’s just a ban on particular
They want Vermont to secede from the United States — peacefully, of course.Disillusioned by what they call an empire about to fall, a small cadre of writers and academics is plotting political strategy and planting the seeds of separatism.
They’ve published a “Green Mountain Manifesto” subtitled “Why and How Tiny Vermont Might Help Save America From Itself by Seceding from the Union.” They hope to put the question before citizens at Town Meeting Day next March, eventually persuading the state Legislature to declare independence, returning Vermont to the status it held from 1777 to 1791.
You can read the full article here.
I have only one thing to say to all Vermont residents who would want to stay in the USA if Vermont were ever to pull of this ridiculous idea. Actually it’s a plee. Please flee to Massachusetts and not New Hampshire. We already have enough of your refugees here screwing up our state. Besides we are new to the nanny state, Massa
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - In some ways, Hiasl is like any other Viennese: He indulges a weakness for pastry, likes to paint and enjoys chilling out watching TV. But he doesn’t care for coffee, and he isn’t actually a person—at least not yet.
In a case that could set a global legal precedent for granting basic rights to apes, animal rights advocates are seeking to get the 26- year-old male chimpanzee legally declared a “person.”
Hiasl’s supporters argue he needs that status to become a legal entity that can receive donations and get a guardian to look out for his interests.
“Our main argument is that Hiasl is a person and has basic legal rights,” said Eberhart Theuer, a lawyer leading the challenge on behalf of the Association Against Animal Factories, a Vienna animal rights group.
“We mean the right to life, the right to not be tortured, the right to freedom under certain conditions,” Theuer said.
“We’re not talking about
on april 17, rep. dana rohrbacher (r-ca) had some choice words for members of the european union parliament’s committee on human rights who were invited guests and witnesses an the house of reps' foreign affairs european subcommittee hearing:Rohrabacher said if European countries did not cooperate with the United States and go along with whatever the Bush administration wanted, they were condemning their countrymen to death by not using extralegal methods to imprison terrorist suspects. When citizens attending the hearing, including members of Codepink Women for Peace and Veterans for Peace, heard Rohrabacher’s statement, they collectively groaned. Then, much to the shock and disbelief of everyone in the hearing room, Rorhbacker said to those who had expressed displeasure at his statements: "I hope it’s your family members that die when terrorists strike."now i realize the bar is set pretty low for u.s. representatives nowadays, but this is simply heinous and abhorrent.
A hardline Muslim group protested Monday against the government's decision to allow a delegation of Israeli lawmakers to attend an upcoming international parliamentary conference. Indonesia's House of Representatives is hosting this year's assembly of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU), an association of parliaments of 148 nations, scheduled to be held on the resort island of Bali from Sunday through May 4. More than 50 protestors from the Forum of Islam Followers staged a noisy rally outside the Justice and Human Rights Ministry building, carrying banners including one that read, 'Turn down and revoke visas for the delegation of Israeli lawmakers.' 'Israel are terrorists and colonizers in Palestine,' Sodik Ramadhan, the protest leader, was quoted as saying by the detik.com online news service.
When I was in the USAF I had 2 different jobs eah for roughly 3.5 years. My first job was as a technician on Minuteman II nuclear missile sites and launch control facilities. The second job was with the USAF's european Aggressor Squadron. Our squadron taught Soviet fighter tactics to NATO fighter pilots. But my point is I have always had an eye eastward towards Russia and have stayed as current on affairs there as a layman can. I read Pravda and have even quoted it here in this blog. The changes since the demise of the Soviet Union have been amazing. Is Russia a perfect democracy? Of course not. They still have a lot of old Soviet and even Bolshevik momentum to overcome. But a few years ago something very simple showed me that Russia is past the point of no return as far as change goes. I was watching a Soyuz rocket launch to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and they had a big sign right down front underneath the main screen that was an ad for Hewlett Pac
WebProNews: Activists YouTube Wolfowitz Into "The Office" - Phil de Vellis created the now-famous 'Hilary 1984' video that exploded across YouTube and hordes of other sites; he's at it again, helping an activist group cast World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz in a video as the less than brilliant leader of Dunder Mifflin.Excerpt:"De Vellis even posted the video to YouTube under his ParkRidge47 ID. That was a play on Hilary Clinton's birthplace and year: Park Ridge, Illinois, 1947.The sub-three minute video intersperses content from The Office with public appearances from Wolfowitz, set against the background of the global kerfuffle over his role in securing a State Department job for his romantic interest, Shaha Ali Riza.An activist group called Avaaz worked with de Vellis to make the video. In their statement, which was passed along to us by MoveOn, Avaaz calls for the firing of Wolfowitz from the World Bank."http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/04/20/activists-youtube-wolfowitz-
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Yesterday 4/16/07, I contacted the VT Muslim Students Association to find out if they had issued a statement of any kind because their website didn’t have anything on it. Sometime after that I received a reply with a statement which I put up here.
Today 4/17/07, Ibrahim Cooper of CAIR sent me an email with the [...]
Malaysia accused Western activists Monday of trying to undermine the palm oil industry by claiming that orangutans are threatened by the clearing of forests in Malaysia and Indonesia.Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said government and industry officials should take immediate action to disprove claims that the spread of palm oil plantations is endangering wildlife such as orangutans, the national news agency Bernama reported.Over the past two years, environment and consumer advocacy groups in the United States and Europe have increasingly warned that the palm oil sector in Malaysia and neighboring Indonesia is destroying large tracts of forests and encroaching on the habitats of endangered species.A recent United Nations report, "The Last Stand of the Orang Utan: State of Emergency," said oil palm plantations are expanding so rapidly in the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia that almost no virgin forest will remain by 2022.Related: Saving Sumatra' s Wild Orangutans
Ever drawn to conflict, real or imagined, the media is now trying to make it sound like there is a great split in the atheist community over how vocal we should be in our criticism of religion. I am not convinced that this is a real conflict, but there are clearly differences among atheists in what is perceived as our responsibility to society. The mistake the media is making, as is its tendency, is one of oversimplification. Sure, there are atheists who just want religious people to leave them alone and who have no interest in expressing their opinions. There are also outspoken atheists, activists working toward meaningful change. The problem is that most atheists fall somewhere between these poles such that any artificial dichotomization is going to be misleading.It is interesting that the question buzzing around the atheist blogosphere is what to call atheists who tend toward the outspoken pole. One rarely hears people asking what we should call the atheists who just want to avoid a
Presidential candidates offer few specifics so far on K-12 policy proposals.From Alyson Klein of Education Week.Republican education policy advisers and advocates are divided over where Congress and the next presidential administration should take federal K-12 policy: Some applaud the 5-year-old No Child Left Behind Act for holding states accountable for student achievement, while others are put off by the major expansion of the federal role in education.So far, it’s unclear how that debate will play out in the race for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Republican experts on education issues are largely uncommitted at this early stage. Some state policymakers have begun advising one of the candidates, but most are waiting to see the ideas the current candidates put forth or who else gets into the race.The next president could oversee reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind law, President Bush’s signature initiative in education, as many observers predict the measure won’t
Hyderabad, April 10 (IANS) At least 40 activists of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were injured Tuesday as the Maharashtra police caned them at Dharmabad near the Andhra Pradesh-Maharashtra border where they were protesting against an irrigation project being built by the neighbouring state.
Violence broke out when hundreds of TDP activists tried to march towards the site of the Babli project to protest the “illegal” construction of the dam on the Godavari River by Maharashtra.
As the protesters tried to cross into Maharashtra in violation of the prohibitory orders, police resorted to force to disperse them. TV reports showed policemen chasing and beating up the protesters.
At least 40 people were injured, five of them seriously, after the police action, senior TDP leader S. Venugopal Chari told IANS from the protest site over telephone.
The TDP has been protesting over the issue for the last few days.
Maharashtra recently refused to allow Andhra Pradesh’s Minister for Maj
Does anybody else find it ironic that gay activist groups pick the white-house egg roll to make their statement? After all the Easter egg out-dates Christianity and was a pagan symbol for fertility. Just throwing that out there.
And by the way, how come the ACLU hasn’t put an end to this tradition anyway?
Berlin's polar bear cub Knut is very famous. Swedish newspapers have written about him and have published cute photos of this survivor.
You know, this little cutie is being raised by human hand after his mother rejected him.
But now he is in a scandal. The panda who lives in the neighbor-cage has died, and the newspaper published allegations on Tuesday that Knut the celebrity polar bear cub was
responsible for the sudden demise of one of its older attractions, a
22-year-old panda who was found dead in her cage.CNN:Just four days after the euphoria over the debut of three-and-a-half-month-old "Cuddly Knut," the mysterious death of Chinese-born Yan Yan stole the headlines in Tuesday's German newspapers.
Top-selling Bild reported the influx of visitors to the zoo -- about 30,000 a day -- could have stressed the black and white bear, who spent much of her time lying on her back chomping at bamboo shoots.
But the little bear has also got more enimies. Animal rights
HAVANA - U.S. authorities presented independent Cuban activists and independent journalists with the State Department's annual human rights report Wednesday, saying the situation has not changed since
Fidel Castro stepped aside seven months ago
Jonathan D. Farrar, the State Department's principal deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, spoke via video conference from Washington, answering questions from a small group of activists. "They changed one for the other," Farrar said of the 80-year-old Castro's decision in late July to temporarily cede power to his 75-year-old brother Raul while he recovered from intestinal surgery. "But we really have not seen a change in the human rights situation," Farrar added in Spanish to the group gathered inside the U.S. Interests Section, the American mission here. The survey of human rights worldwide was released Tuesday in Washington and was available on the Internet. But many attending the video conference did not see i
They don't like that performance artist Kira O'Reilly sits naked for hours with a dead pig, it seems.
Said PETA, "As Miss O'Reilly seems to have to depend on the shock value of using a murdered pig as a prop, perhaps lacking the talent to make it as a proper artist, may we suggest she take up a day job instead to pay the bills?"
PETA doesn't seem to recognize the irony of a 'rights'
Animal activists in Britain are urging voters to back Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty to become the next winner of Celebrity Big Brother.
Shetty is taking part in the Celebrity Big Brother reality TV circus and is having to contend with the antics of Jade Goody and her clan.
The 31-year-old Indian beauty, who supported the drive to [...]
{mosgoogle right}Japanese whaling ship owner Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha is set to take legal steps with the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) over alleged trespassing and forcible obstruction of business by the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, company officials said.The company is considering which of three attacks by activists this year to make the subject of its complaint.In January, butyric acid, which produces a foul smell, was hurled at the No. 2 Yushinmaru whaling research vessel, [...]
New York, NY (CaymanMama.com) -- The acquittal of three policemen in the shooting case of Sean Bell lays bares the system with all its flaws that is in the dire need of desperate reforms. According to civil right activists, a special prosecutor should be appointed to handle like cases.
According to ...
