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Cattle trader, whose beating by Indian soldiers caused outrage, can barely walk one month later.

Watch this video, 2.07 min, published on Al Jazeera, January 21, 2012: In December, 22-year-old Habibur Rahman was tortured by eight Indian army soldiers for being caught illegally crossing into Bangladesh with cows he had purchased in India. Now, a month later, he is still shaking from the brutal, almost 24-hour-long beating he received.  Read the rest of this entry »

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National Call to Action Made by the Portland General Assembly, January 1st, 2012 – Published on Occupy Together, by Ella, January 7, 2012.

Occupy Portland calls for a national day of non-violent direct action to reclaim our voices and challenge our society’s obsession with profit and greed by shutting down the corporations.  We are rejecting a society that does not allow us control of our future. We will reclaim our ability to shape our world in a democratic, cooperative, just and sustainable direction.   Read the rest of this entry »

Video auf SF1 /DOK, 50.37 min, Sendung vom 11. Januar 2012 /22.56 Uhr: (in german, swiss german and espanol language).

Helden und Verbrechen im Kaffeeland Guatemala. Guatemala ist ein wunderschönes Land – und eines der gewalttätigsten der Welt. In diesen prekären Verhältnissen gelang dem Schweizer Ueli Gurtner, die indianischen Kleinbauern zu einer eigenständigen Kraft im Kaffeegeschäft zu machen – gegen massive Anfeindungen der Mächtigen, die ihre Monopole nicht verlieren wollen.

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• Thistlegorm, 4.48 min, by f64se on 6 Apr 2010: A dive at the wreck Thistlegorm in Egypt; Read the rest of this entry »

Watch this video on YouTube, 0.35 min: Rob’s mother never could get him to stop splashing in the puddles.

See also:    Read the rest of this entry »

Published on the f-word.blog, by Cazz Blase, January 01, 2012.

Barbara Panther, who describes her music as modern electronic baroque music was born in Rwanda. Her family moved to Belgium when she was three, and she and her siblings were adopted into seperate Belgium families. She now lives in Berlin.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on The Globe and Mail, Canada, by Tavia Grant, Dec. 30, 2011.

Ten years ago this month, an English economist coined the term “BRICs” to describe four fast-growing, dynamic countries he believed would transform the global economy: Brazil, Russia, India and China.  Read the rest of this entry »

watch this video, 1.57 min., published on Al Jazeera, resp. on YouTube, December 29, 2011.

Egyptian security forces have stormed the offices of 17 human rights and pro-democracy groups. The ruling military said it is investigating how the groups are funded. At least two US rights groups – the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) – were targeted in the operation. The US expressed deep concern over the raids and urged Egyptian authorities to immediately halt harassment of non-governmental organisation staff …

Published on Progress online, by Hopi Sen, December 19, 2011.

… On the day of his death, we should look past the accounts of his life, the real and the imagined legend, and focus instead on those for whom the myth was created, and for whom the truth had, at all costs, to be kept.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on A Tiny Revolution, by Jonathan Schwarz, December 17, 2011.

… Hart writes: In this bizarre re-telling, Saddam Hussein’s support for Hamas and a plot to kill George H. W. Bush seem to matter more than the bogus stories about Iraq’s WMDs.

Notice the sleight of hand? There was no evidence at the time in 1993 that Saddam actually tried to assassinate Bush, Sr. and there’s no evidence now, after we invaded the country and seized all their government officials and files.  Read the rest of this entry »

Publié dans Giving Women/donner aux Femmes (aller vers le bas de la page pour le texte en français), par Michèle Moreau, Valentina Di Felice, Anne Torrel, May Soliman, Karine Lubambu, du GW Project Circle for MEA, le 15 décembre 2011.

MEA est un projet extraordinaire avec une approche novatrice au problème des mutilations génitales féminines dans les communautés de Masanga et environ en Sierra Leone. En particulier, MEA parraine les cérémonies Bondo pendant lesquelles tous les rituels sont respectés sauf l’’excision.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Giving Women, by Michèle Moreau, Valentina Di Felice, Anne Torrel, May Soliman, Karine Lubambu /GW Project Circle for MEA, Dec. 15, 2011.

… MEA is an extraordinary project with an innovative approach to the problem of female genital mutilations in the Masanga communities of Sierra Leone. In particular it sponsors Bondo ceremonies during which all rituals are respected with the exception of the excision.  Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Cleveland.com, by Robert L. Smith, December 13, 2011.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Within the collection of abandoned houses haunting the region stand some unpolished gems, sturdy structures that lack only a caring family to again become a home. Where will those families come from? They’re already here.  Read the rest of this entry »

Schau dieses Video auf YouTube an, 33.31 Minuten, am 29 nov. 2011 aufgeladen: Im Sommer 2009 war das Fass für die Freigeister übergelaufen. Der Allgegenwart religiöser Werbung aller Art musste dringend etwas entgegen gesetzt werden. Aber da haben die Humanisten die Rechnung ohne die Kirchen gemacht. Read the rest of this entry »

Solving the Mystery of a 35,000-Year-Old Statue – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Matthias Schulz, December 9, 2011. (Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan).

Archeologists have discovered previously unknown fragments of a figurine known as the “Lion Man,” and are piecing it back together. Could the 35,000-year-old statue actually represent a female shaman? Scientists hope to resolve a decades-long debate.  Read the rest of this entry »

You can find in MAYOTTE:     Read the rest of this entry »

Published on swissInfo.ch, by Marc-André Miserez (from French by Thomas Stephens), Dec 4, 2011.

Flames erupt from an exploding hydrogen balloon. Don’t panic! This is part of Chimiscope, an attempt by Geneva University to attract people to careers in chemistry.   Read the rest of this entry »

… à l’occasion du 12ème anniversaire de la Journée Mondiale pour l’élimination de la violence à l’égard des femmes – Publié dans BLADA,com, enGuyane, par Lawoetey-Pierre AJAVON, le 4 décembre 2011.

… Mais, la position de la France si innovante qu’elle soit, ne doit pas faire oublier les sévices faits aux femmes dans les autres pays occidentaux, voire dans le reste du monde. D’ailleurs, d’après le rapport du Fonds des Nations Unies pour la population (FNUAP) de 2010, au moins une femme sur trois dans le monde a été maltraitée, battue ou contrainte à des rapports sexuels dans sa vie… Deux millions de filles âgées de 5 à 15 ans se retrouvent sur le marché du sexe chaque année.   Read the rest of this entry »

Published on The Cholesterol Truth, by editor, December 1, 2011.

Eating saturated fat can cause blood cholesterol levels to rise. This fact, as well as the belief that cholesterol causes heart disease, is at the basis of the advice we’re often given to avoid saturated fat … (full text and free newsletter).   Read the rest of this entry »

Im Tages-Anzeiger, Zürich, von René Donzé, 29. November 2011. (Update: Atheist kids better at sports: study, on the Local.ch, Nov. 30, 2011 – La réligion influence les performances sportives, dans 20minutes, le 29 novembre 2011).

Eine ETH-Studie bei 600 Winterthurer Primarschülern zeigt: Kinder aus Südosteuropa sind im Durchschnitt weniger geschickt und weniger beweglich als ihre Schweizer Schulkollegen … // Read the rest of this entry »

La Caravane de lutte contre l’excision et les violences faites aux femmes – Publié dans AFRIK HEUR, le 22 novembre 2011.

Le projet de la caravane Halte à l’excision et aux violences faites aux femmes est un concept artistique original qui met en interactivité le public, les artistes et les spécialistes des Mutilations Génitales Féminines (MGF) et des violences faites aux femmes … //

… L’APPEL DE KAYA:   Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Nourishing the Planet /Worldwatch Institute, by Kamaria Greenfield, November 26, 2011.

According to the anti-poverty group The ONE Campaign, the Group of Eight (G8) and other rich nations have donated only a fifth of the US$22 billion promised to impoverished countries in July 2009. This reflects a larger trend of the decrease of foreign aid for agricultural development. Aid was at a high point in the mid-1980s, reaching US$20 billion, but has since declined. In the early 2000s, the number was around only US$3 billion. By 2009, it had crawled back up to around US$9 billion.   Read the rest of this entry »

• REMAINS OF TWO OF GUATEMALA’S DEATH SQUAD DIARY VICTIMS FOUND IN MASS GRAVE, Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala identifies them through DNA. – Published on National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 363, by Kate Doyle, November 22, 2011.
• For more information, please visit FAFG and Myrna Mack Foundation.
• (en espanol: RESTOS DE DOS VICTIMAS DEL DIARIO MILITAR DE GUATEMALA ENCONTRADOS EN UNA FOSA COMUN Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala los identifica por su ADN).

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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.

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 »

(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 »