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POPSModern day slavery Check the source for ways to help end modern day slavery. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.,
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POPSBest Documentary EVER: Never shown in USA !!! Amnesty International has publicly confirmed that a fear of violence directed at their staff forced the organisation to withdraw 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' from their recent film festival in Vancouver, Canada. In an article in the Guardian newspaper (http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,12716,1090788,00.html), an Amnesty spokesman said the organisation had been forced to pull the film after staff at their Venezuelan office expressed fears for their safety if the film was screened. Prior to this, Amnesty has received a series of representations alleging that the film had distorted key events. These representations were rejected. The film was only pulled after the safety fears were raised. The Guardian confirmed that the campaign to halt screenings of the film is connected to opponents of the Venezuelan government.
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POPSHolloween in Dublin. Today... Gays, drink, money, Amnesty. NO religion!
When I saw this photo in the Irish Times of the fun in Temple Bar, Dublin, it was the first time that I knew of the event. Temple Bar was the oldest part of Dublin and has been completely restored. Yet an old fella like me would have stood out with all the young people who flock there. I'm reminded of great Irish traditions that went to America and are now returned, repackaged and better and in some cases even better than left your shores. We've commented here on ChipMarks about Halloween and pumpkins. Well the biggest of all is St.Patrick's Day. That now is celebrated throughout the world, Russia, China, you name it. I'm not sure but I think you invented it. A decade or so ago it was a pitiful affair. Now it would rival any similar event in the World and now not just in Dublin. Spilling out from this are numerous other events throughout the year. That photo gives you an idea of the standard. At times you would think you were in South America. I'm guessing but I think quite a few
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POPSLieberman: What I saw in Iraq Very good read. This is the information the president should have been trying to get to the people on a daily basis instead of trying to cut some amnesty deal for some 12-20 illegal immigrants.
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POPSAmerican Conservative Magazine: GOP Must Go There may be little Americans can do to atone for this presidency, which will stain our country’s reputation for a long time. But the process of recovering our good name must begin somewhere, and the logical place is in the voting booth this Nov. 7. If we are fortunate, we can produce a result that is seen—in Washington, in Peoria, and in world capitals from Prague to Kuala Lumpur—as a repudiation of George W. Bush and the war of aggression he launched against Iraq.
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POPSCourt orders Bush administration to disclose telecom lobbying ties. And why is this important, here is a clue: "It is vital that this information be publicly available. The administration is eager to have Congress bestow onto this industry an extraordinary gift, whereby the entire industry becomes retroactively immunized from the consequences of its past lawbreaking. The administration's primary spokesman on this issue is DNI McConnell, who continously invokes shrill national security warnings to justify this amnesty, though it is rarely mentioned that McConnell has more extensive ties to this industry than almost any other government official."
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POPS 'US Sets Standards, Fails to Meet Them' But while being critical of the position with the U.S. on specific counts, the thrust of the AI position was controversially that the U.S. carries the responsibility of setting an example to the rest of the world.
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POPSThis is pretty big news Hmmm. I wonder how this was overlooked? Could it be that the media did not know about this? Amazing. It is the will of the people against Washington, the media, foreign influence, corporate totalitarians, and socialist greenazis.
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POPSIllegals deporting themselves One of the counters by the amnesty crowd is always "how are you going to deport the millions who are here illegally?" My answer has always been that you won't have to deport them because they will deport themselves. If they come here for the jobs and the jobs go away, then so will they. I think the US as a whole needs to follow Arizona's example and then create a more robust guest worker program that will allow for workers from other countries to come here legally to work. But under no circumstances should we reward criminal behavior with US citizenship.
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POPSUS quits Human Rights Council?
“We don’t understand the reasons nor the timing of the decision”, said Sebastien Gillioz of Human Rights Watch. “There have even been some positive signs during this Council. For example Belarus was not re-elected as a member in 2007 nor Sri Lanka this year”. The stupefaction was made greater by the fact the US actively took part in the universal Periodic Review (UPR) process where 32 countries were scrutinized by their peers in April and May. In particular a series of recommendations were made regarding Romania, Japan, Guatemala, Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine, Indonesia and others. Diplomats are equally concerned. If the current president of the Council, Doru Costea, declined to comment, his predecessor, Luis Alfonso De Alba said that he didnt see any reason to justify such a decision. Several observers mentioned Washington’s growing discontentment with the influence of the Islamic and African countries in the Council. “It is an aberration”, said Peter Splinter of Amnesty Internatio
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POPSIran rapped over child executions Allow me to call Iran the most fucked up country in the world. This is the height of their ridiculousness. Who in their right mind would achieve anything by executing children for any goddamn crime (I don't care what kind of crimes these children are committing). This is a shameful act for any nation.
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POPS Stop Child Executions In Iran:::Sign The Petition
The usual method of execution is hanging, but Iranian law also opens for stoning as punishment for adultery and incest. In 2002 the head of the judiciary announced a moratorium on stoning. Iranian judges have later imposed sentences of stoning, but these are usually overturned higher up in the court system. However, Amnesty International has reported that in May 2006, a man and a woman was executed by stoning in a cemetery in Mashhad, by members of the Revolutionary Guard and Bassij Forces This is in direct violation of Iran's obligations as a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). By signing them, Iran has undertaken not to execute anyone for an offense committed when they were under the age of 18. These treaties also prohibit the use of torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishments Capital offenses in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug t
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POPSI will rape, kill your wives" says South African police chief "Mr Robert MCBRIDE Synopsis Chief of the Metropolitan (metro) Police: Chief of Ekurhuleni Municipality, Ekurhuleni Municipality; He was convicted for the "Durban Bombing" 1986, he was released from prison in 1992. He was granted amnesty by the TRC for his actions.; In 1998 he was arrested by the Mozambican police for alleged gun smuggling, he was later released". This man, under the apartheid era, planted a bomb in a nightclub and killed and maimed several people. He is now our Metro Police Chief. Fine country we live in hey?
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POPSIrishman Angry at the Bush Junket Disruption! Willie has 'balls'. Few would publicly crisis the disruptive Bush. Doesn't he know that the grinning George is responsible for the torture of more humans than all Americans to date? Does he think that being Irish makes him immune to waterboarding. Surely as a aircraft man he knows of 'extraordinary rendition' where you are on permanent tour of the best torture prisons on earth. Even Shannon seems to be on the CIA itinerary according to Amnesty. And your personal politics or none is no disbarment. From Israel, to Egypt, to Iran, to Russia, to Africa, to Cuba, to Abu Ghraib, to Bagram, all are catered for. Fear of flying is sorted with drugs and huds, in best gangster fashion. There are no numbers yet on 'lost in flight' customers, but getting there. After all, this was a favourite method of disposal for the US trained South American juntas. "Lost at sea" is permanent and 'clean'.
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POPSNY Times Opinion on the Border Fence I've never been a fan of the border fence. It seems to me that it's only going to keep out the lazy, not the determined. I don't think that spending billions to build (how much to maintain?!) a fence that won't be very effective makes any sense.
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