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We are all born Free

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:21:15 GMT

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures

We are all born free is an outstanding and beautiful picture book celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Artists and illustrators from all over the world offer their personal interpretation of the Articles, making them easy to understand for young readers. Children aged 6 and over will take great pleasure in discovering an exceptional illustration as well as a fundamental right on every page they turn.

Published by Frances Lincoln in association with Amnesty International, with forewords by David Tennant, who describes this collection as a 'beautiful book' in which 'you’ll find thirty rules for the world to live by' and John Boyne, for whom this book 'might be the most important one that you ever own.'

We Are All Born Free has already been translated into more than 30 languages and sold over 200,000 copies.

Tags: freedom, rights, declaration, books, children

The Moral Blindness of Nationalism

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:27:44 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: From George Orwell's 1945 essay, Notes on Nationalism.

I was inspired to come out of brief clip retirement by the state of the world we find ourselves in and by Ouyangwulong's inspiring comment.

(New clippers, also consider this clip, which, like Orwell's quote, is depressingly apropos yet again.)

Clip Source: www.salon.com

All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side ... The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them

Tags: orwell peace war nationalism hate terrorism israel

"They are bombing 1.5 million people in a cage"

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:07:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Norwegian doctor describes serving 2500 wounded; 50% women and children; has seen only one military casualty. Surgery around the clock.

Clip Source: www.juancole.com

"It's Hell in Here"
"They are Bombing 1.5 million People in a Cage"

CBS News broadcasts an interview with a Norwegian physician on the scene in Gaza.

He says he has seen one military casualty come into the hospital. Of 2500 wounded, 50% are women and children. Doing surgery around the clock. There are injuries you do not want to see-- children coming in with open abdomens, with injured legs, we had to amputate both of them. This is a war on the civilian population of Gaza. It is a very young population. They cannot flee. They are fenced in. They are bombing one and a half million people in a cage.

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Please write CBS News and thank them for their journalistic integrity in running this piece.

Casualty toll in Gaza as of Monday morning from the Mizan Center for Human Rights.

Also please write your representative and senator, send this link, and demand that the US intervene diplomatically to stop this atrocity.

Tags: israel, gaza, atrocity

Whole Genome Sequencing To Cost Only $1,000 By End Of 2009

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:54:44 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: In 2008, only one year later, it appears that at least 3 human genomes have been completely sequenced, one of which was the first female to be fully sequenced. The sequencing successes in 2008 took less than 1 month and cost roughly $60,000 to complete. Wow!

Now as we approach 2009 the $1,000 barrier just might be eclipsed.

Clip Source: singularityhub.com

Singularity Hub predicts the cost to sequence an entire individual human genome will plummet to an astonishing $1,000 by the end of 2009 and the time required for sequencing will require less than one week.

The ability to sequence entire genomes for $100 in a matter of days or hours is not far behind, probably only two to three years away.

The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 resulted in the first complete sequencing of a human genome.

This first human genome was fully sequenced in 2003 (13 years later) with the aid of an estimated $300 million and the collaboration of thousands of people, corporations, and institutions.

In 2007, only 4 years after sequencing the first genome, the entire genomes of not one, but two people (Craig Venter and James Watson) were sequenced for a cost of roughly $1 million each.

Tags: genetics, human genome, sequencing

Ron Paul: Why Do We Run A World Empire!

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:04:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Ron Paul: Why Do We Run A World Empire!

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We are all born Free

The Moral Blindness of Nationalism

"They are bombing 1.5 million people in a cage"

"It's Hell in Here" "They are Bombing 1.5 million People in a Cage"

Whole Genome Sequencing To Cost Only $1,000 By End Of 2009

Ron Paul: Why Do We Run A World Empire!

Ron Paul: Why Do We Run A World Empire!

"It's Hell in Here"
"They are Bombing 1.5 million People in a Cage"