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GUATEMALA’S DEATH SQUAD DIARY

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

The bodies of two men whose disappearance in 1984 was recorded in the notorious Guatemalan death squad diary have been located on a former military base outside the capital and positively identified through DNA testing, according to the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala, which announced its findings in a press conference this morning.    Read the rest of this entry »

Les enfants d’Odienné demandent plus de sécurité et l’accès à une éducation de qualité

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Publié dans Agence Ivoirienne de Presse AIP, par Gem/kp, le 3 Novembre 2011.

Odienné, 20 nov (AIP) – Les enfants d’Odienné demandent que les parents se préoccupent davantage de leur sécurité et de leur éducation, à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale de l’enfant célébrée samedi au Centre social d’Odienné, à l’initiative de la plate-forme des ONG pour la protection de l’enfance.  Read the rest of this entry »

SISSILI: LUTTE CONTRE LA PRATIQUE DE L’EXCISION

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Les leaders d’opinion de la Sissili engagés contre le phénomène – Publié dans Sidwaya, le 17 novembre 2011.

Léo, 14 nov. 2011 (AIB) – Dans le cadre de la journée de sensibilisation des leaders d’opinion de la province de la Sissili, l’ONG 3 “Voix de Femmes” en collaboration avec la direction provinciale de l’Action sociale et de la solidarité nationale de ladite province a initié une conférence suivie d’un théâtre-forum sur le thème “Promotion de l’abandon des Mutilations génitales féminines” .  Read the rest of this entry »

Stuck In A Weimar World? Rich and Poor

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Published on The Psi-Fi Blog (A Sideways Look at Psychology and Finance), Nov. 17, 2011.

… Of course, if you delve deep enough, the problem is psychological, and is magnified because the Eurozone is made up of independent countries following their own paths. But at the heart of the problem is Germany, the country that has benefited more than any other from the euro and which is now unwilling to accept the consequences of its Faustian pact. For the Germans it’s heads they win, tails we all lose, because they’re stuck in a Weimar world.

Germany vs Greece:  Read the rest of this entry »

Dark Loft: Dark Loft (self-released)

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Published on Spike Magazine, in Eric Saeger Music Reviews, November 11, 2011.

Watch the video, 5.32 minutes: Comprised of big-deal sidemen who’ve been involved with everyone from Alicia Keys to The Drifters, this project makes arena-rock that should be palatable to Minus the Bear fans, which is not to say that there are that many curveballs here, …
… Grade A.

Mapping the Wilderness: An Interview with Alexi Zentner

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Published in Spike Magazine, by Dan Coxon /Interviews Novels, November 1, 2011.

Set in the harsh forests of the Canadian wilderness, Alexi Zentner’s debut novel, Touch, draws upon mythology as well as literary convention. Dan Coxon finds that its author is rooted in the power of traditional storytelling. Portrait by Laurie Willick.

For a debut novel, Alexi Zentner’s Touch has already earned a startling number of accolades, including nominations for the Giller Prize and the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Awards. These nominations are less surprising, however, once you open the pages of Touch.   Read the rest of this entry »

Locally Produced Crops for Locally Consumed Products

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

(Nourishing the Planet TV) – Published on Nourishing the Planet, November 9, 2011.

In this week’s episode, research intern Isaac Hopkins discusses a collaboration between farmers in Zambia and a local brewery that uses the sorghum they grow to make affordable lager.
Watch this video on YouTube, 2.34 minutes.  Read the rest of this entry »

Breaking down language barriers with translated English-language results

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

Published on The official Google translate blog, by Jordan Gilliland, Software Engineer – Cross Language Search Team – and the Inside Search blog, October 25, 2011.

English speakers take it for granted that they can always find answers online, regardless of their search topic. But what if you speak Hindi, Welsh or Afrikaans? The amount of content available online per speaker for Hindi is just 1% of the vast content out there on the web per English speaker. So if you speak one of the languages with less online content, some of the most relevant results for your search may actually be in English.    Read the rest of this entry »

Public view of the Occupy Wall Street movement as of October 2011

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Published on Statista.com, October 31, 2011.

United States; 18 years and older; 1,009; Pew Research Center; October 20-23, 2011 – see the chart -

Reading support: The statistic shows a representative survey on the public view in the United States on the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The survey was done in October 2011 and gives additional information about the political orientation of the respondents. 39 percent of the respondents support the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Dust bowl looms if US Southwest drought plans fail

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Published on New Scientist.com, by Peter Aldhous, November 01, 2011.

THEY like their beef in Texas. So when Texan ranchers started offloading their cattle at bargain prices because pastures were parched – as they did this summer – it was a clear sign that this was no ordinary drought.   Read the rest of this entry »

Bonded slaves

Friday, October 28th, 2011

It is a form of slavery that is passed down from one generation to the next, enslaving millions.

Watch this video, 25.03 minutes, published on Al Jazeera, October 26, 2011: In this episode of Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Al Jazeera’s Rageh Omaar investigates slavery that is passed down from father to son, mother to daughter …

Hugo Chavez has about two years to live

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Published on english Pravda.ru, October 17, 2011.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who undergoes anti-cancer treatment, may live for not more than two years. This opinion was voiced by Salvador Navarrete, who had been Chavez’s personal surgeon in Venezuela … //  Read the rest of this entry »

Muslim immigrants want Switzerland to change national flag

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Published on english Pravda.ru, October 12, 2011.

A group of Muslim immigrants wants to force Switzerland to abandon the current flag – a white cross on the red background. They say that it violates the rights of the representatives of non-Christian confessions.  Read the rest of this entry »

No governments needed, humanity’s future is cooperation

Monday, October 24th, 2011
Published on Rael.org, http://raelianews.org/news.php?extend.421
le 3 Mars 2011: This planet is sick, with countries treating each other badly and governments treating people badly, and it’s that way everywhere … revolt is happening everywhere. People are fed up with their governments, so they’re making revolutions. (yes, this text is from March 2011, but it means what I think since a moment: we need to become able to shut down all these authorities making us only weak (others act in our place), stop hierarchies holding us stupid (others think in our place), and corrupt (we have to excuse and defend constraints weself not agree).
Later, when we will be realy goood, we even no more need someone telling us this stuff …
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Published on Rael.org, March 3, 2011: This planet is sick, with countries treating each other badly and governments treating people badly, and it’s that way everywhere … revolt is happening everywhere. People are fed up with their governments, so they’re making revolutions …

my comment: yes, this text is from March 2011, but it means what I think since a moment: we need to become able to shut down all these authorities making us only weak (as others act in our place), stop hierarchies making us stupid (as others think in our place), and corrupt (as we have to excuse and defend constraints weself not agree). And later, when this humanity will realy be grown up, we even no more need someone telling us all this stuff

The 1% who get the gold mine (we get the shaft)

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

Published on Greg Palast, by Greg Palast, October 20, 2011.

… No one here in Zuccotti Park is protesting Wall Street. Wall Street is just an address, just a street sign on a post. The 99% Movement is about Them:

  • the 1%. The 1% who own Wall Street and all our streets and have posted a foreclosure notice on the entire planet.   Read the rest of this entry »

Untold Story of Mass Murder by Church and State in Canada

Monday, October 17th, 2011

Watch this video, 25.35 minutes, published on International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State itccs.org, Canada, by itccs, October 10, 2011.

LinksRead the rest of this entry »

Féminisme et mutilations sexuelles

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

Publié dans Le Post, par Susan Peer, le 12 octobre 2011.

… Dans les sociétés où la femme est une marchandise, ces excisions, ravalant la sexualité féminine à la fonction de substitut du prépuce, sont le complément ultime, logique, de la circoncision et vice-versa.   Read the rest of this entry »

The dead begin to speak up in India

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

Kashmir is one of two war zones in India from which no news must come. But those in unmarked graves will not be silenced. – Published on The Guardian, by Arundhati Roy, Sept. 30, 2010:

At about 3am, on 23 September, within hours of his arrival at the Delhi airport, the US radio-journalist David Barsamian
was deported. This dangerous man, who produces independent, free-to-air programmes for public radio, has been visiting India for 40 years, doing such dangerous things as learning Urdu and playing the sitar.   Read the rest of this entry »

Sami Aldeeb: Le Coran a été écrit par un rabbin

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Ecoutez cette vidéo, 63.31 minutes, publié dans Enquête et Débat, par Jean, le 3 octobre 2011:

Lors de cet entretien, Sami Aldeeb nous explique notamment que le Coran a été écrit par un rabbin, qu’il convient de lire le Coran dans l’ordre chronologique de la Révélation et non dans l’ordre communément admis (qui n’a rien à voir avec la chronologie de la Révélation), et que le Coran devrait être désacralisé pour que l’islam puisse être réformé. Read the rest of this entry »

Left, right, left

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

how political shifts have altered the map of Europe – Published on The Guardian, by Sheila Pulham, Chris Fenn, Garry Blight and Guardian Research Department, July 28, 2011.

Take the pleasure to contemplate European countries’ changes in left-right-left-right- … – swingings by pushing the buttom down of the chart, showing a time-shift from 30 Dec 1972 to 26 Sept 2011.

DISCLOSURE CONCERT

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Sunday September 25, 2011, at Avalon Hollywood Night Club in Hollywood, CA – Published on Disclosure Project.org /advanced admission tickets.   Read the rest of this entry »

Culture of credit seducing Swiss youth

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

Published on swissinfo.ch, by Isabelle Eichenberger (Adapted from French by Sophie Douez), September 17, 2011.

One-third of people in debt in Switzerland are aged 18-25, a study has found, and almost half of 18-25-year-olds who were in debt in 2006 still are.  Read the rest of this entry »

Brisante Doku über Swissair-Absturz vor Halifax vom 2. September 1998

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Beweise für Terror-Anschlag unterschlagen? Eine kanadische TV-Doku enthüllt brisantes: Beweise wurden vernichtet, Untersuchungsberichte gefälscht. Der Film läuft in Kanada, Co-Produzent SF lehnt die Ausstrahlung ab. – Blick.ch, von Frank Hubrath, 14. Sept. 2011.    Read the rest of this entry »

Schweizer Fussballraudis

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Video aus der Rundschau von SF1 vom 24.08.2011, 15.47 min:

Solange wir nicht bereit sind, bei solchen Gewaltakten KOLLEKTIV alle Beteiligten zur Verantwortung zu ziehen, und die ganze Meute einzuräuchern, abzuriegeln und zu verhaften, wird sich die Polizei, und damit der Staat bei diesen Raudis nur als Weicheier auten. Jeder, der in dem Haufen mitläuft hat die gleiche Verantwortung und weiss genau, bei was er da mitmacht. Read the rest of this entry »

Auch Bischöfe sollten bei der Wahrheit bleiben

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Zu finden auf Salomons Homepage /Chronologie der Ereignisse, (seine Startseite).

… August 2011: Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht stellt in seinem Urteil vom 8.8.2011 (BVerwG 7 B 41.11) fest, dass „die religiöse Äußerungsfreiheit, auch soweit es um eine Predigt geht, keinen absoluten Vorrang vor den Belangen des Persönlichkeits- und Ehrenschutzes“ genießt. Damit findet die dreijährige gerichtliche Auseinandersetzung zwischen dem Vorstandssprecher der Giordano-Bruno-Stiftung, Michael Schmidt-Salomon, und dem Regensburger Bischof Gerhard Ludwig Müller ein Ende.  Read the rest of this entry »

Conversations with Dr. Steven Greer

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Received by e-mail, From: CSETI, Date: 12/08/2011

  • View the show online.
  • About the show: the term “Renaissance Man” truly describes Steven M. Greer, MD … //
    … “Conversations with Dr. Steven Greer” airs on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month on the World Puja internet broadcasting system. 11:00am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern time, and again at 6:00 pm Pacific / 9:00 pm Eastern time — or you can listen to the archives 24 hours a day.
  • Upcoming shows: 12th and 26th August 2011 … (full text).  Read the rest of this entry »

News for Swiss Politics

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Received from a good friend these links:

Integrale Politik / Politique Intégrale

Some possible diving destinations

Monday, July 18th, 2011

Videos out of YouTube:  Read the rest of this entry »

Philosophisches Zauberstück

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Siehe auch auf unseren Blogs: zu Peter Sloterdjiks Buch die Verachtung der Massen. – Auf Deutschlandradio, von Michael Opitz, 14. Juli 2011, uu Peter Sloterdijk’s Essay Streß und Freiheit, erschienen im Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2011, 60 Seiten.  Read the rest of this entry »

diving dreams

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

during 2010 I was in Phuket /Thailand for divings, twice during 6 weeks with Dive2Phuket … here after found on YouTube some videos, good for the soul … :  Read the rest of this entry »