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"They Are Destroying the Female Species in Congo"

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:38:52 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

we are not talking about normal rapes anymore. We are talking about sexual terrorism, because they destroyed, and they -- you cannot imagine what's going on in Congo. Rape is a taboo, I think, in most of African countries, so the women who accept to go to the hospital or to be registered, it's because they don't have a choice anymore. They have to go and be repaired, because we are talking about new surgery to repair the women, because they’re completely destroyed. And the ones who are just raped without big destruction, they don't talk about rape, because the African -- the Congolese woman, she suffered so much that she can support being raped without telling it, when she doesn't need medical care.

Tags: congo, rape, women, terrorism

History Your Mama Didn't Tell You

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:54:38 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: From the article:

"Columbus and his men also used the Taino as sex slaves: it was a common reward for Columbus’ men for him to present them with local women to rape. As he began exporting Taino as slaves to other parts of the world, the sex-slave trade became an important part of the business, as Columbus wrote to a friend in 1500: “A hundred castellanoes (a Spanish coin) are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand.”

It seems Chris was a naughty, naughty boy.

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Columbus Day - As Rape Rules Africa and American Churches Embrace Violent ‘Christian’ Video Games

When Columbus first landed on Hispaniola in 1492, virtually the entire island was covered by lush forest. The Taino “Indians” who loved there had an apparently idyllic life prior to Columbus, from the reports left to us by literate members of Columbus’s crew such as Miguel Cuneo.

When Columbus and his crew arrived on their second visit to Hispaniola, however, they took captive about two thousand local villagers who had come out to greet them. Cuneo wrote: “When our caravels… where to leave for Spain, we gathered…one thousand six hundred male and female persons of those Indians, and these we embarked in our caravels on February 17, 1495…For those who remained, we let it be known (to the Spaniards who manned the island’s fort) in the vicinity that anyone who wanted to take some of them could do so, to the amount desired, which was done.”

Tags: columbus, rape, history, slavery

Lost in Translation - Broken English

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:40:24 GMT

clipped by: kielipuoli
clipper's remarks: I think I'll have half a lawyer with some frozen ice!

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Lost in translation

Charlie Croker reveals the highlights from his second compendium of baffling broken English encountered abroad.

Small hotel, Cornwall: Will any guest wishing to take a bath please make arrangements to have one with Mrs Harvey

Munich, Germany: In your room you will find a minibar which is filled with alcoholics

Toledo, Spain: Frozen ice available here

Restaurant, Switzerland: Half a lawyer with prawns

Restaurant, Yaroslav, Russia: Lorry driver soup

Restaurant, China: Dumpling stuffed with the ovary and digestive glands of a crab

Hotel in Canary Islands: Great entertainment – live paella

Budapest: Forbidden to hang out of hotel window. Person which do so will be charge for clean up mess on footpath

Sign in Prague hotel: Water is officially drinkable (but not for sucklings), but we don’t recommend to drink it

Hotel brochure, Copenhagen: In fire, the bells rings three times. There is a fine escape on each floor. For other amusements see page 3

Tags: translation, funny

A HUGE illusion!

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:25:20 GMT

clipped by: angie3484

Clip Source: mostinterestingblog.blogspot.com

Tags: illusion, paint, street, ocean, picture