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Young Woman Meets Tragic End -- No, It's Not Anna Nicole

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:29:58 GMT

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Young Woman Meets Tragic End -- No, It's Not Anna Nicole

NEW YORK A young woman met a sudden and tragic end, it was reported on Thursday, leaving her family and people who knew her in great distress.

No, it's not Anna Nicole Smith. Her name is Jennifer Parcell, and she died in Iraq. But you'd be lucky if you could find any mention of her, amidst the front page and wall-to-wall media coverage of the likely drug-related death of "starlet" Smith.

In fact, as of noon today, there were only seven press mentions, all in the area of her native Maryland, according to a Google search.

In contrast to, say, Anna Nicole Smith, Parcell seemed to have a serious side. Even in Iraq, she was managing to take a course at the University of Maryland, the Baltimore Sun relates, adding: "Helping others was routine for the Marine corporal. She sponsored an African child through a mission charity. And when Pakistan was devastated by an earthquake last year, she and others in her unit were dispatched to the scene. She earned the Humanitarian Service Medal for her efforts."

In fact, the Sun, in a separate story noted: "With the death of reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith yesterday, a ferocious barrage of Marilyn Monroe-like images and scattershot speculation was instantly loosed across the on-air and online landscape of 24-hour news...The one constant: The story was consistently framed in a breathless tabloid manner."

The cause of Parcell's death has not yet been released. The Pentagon notice simply says that she died "supporting" combat operations in Anbar province, not actually in combat.

It would be nice, he suggests, if just one cable news channel, instead of dwelling on Anna Nicole, would bring on a medical expert "to talk about the type of combat injuries that America's fighting men and women are suffering in Iraq, and whether the troops have adequate protection." Or maybe find a friend or colleague in the field who could tell us about Parcell's life, "and our loss."

Tags: news, war

Five Women Buried Alive - and the Media Ignore It

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:43:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Last month, the U.S. media were full of stories about the resignation of Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan. But another event that same week in Pakistan -- that tribesmen buried five young women alive for wanting to choose their own husbands -- got almost no coverage.

According to the Asian Human Rights Commission, the women's "crime" was that they defied tribal elders and arranged marriages to men of their own choosing in a civil court. They were abducted at gunpoint by some men and dragged off to a remote field, where they were beaten, shot, thrown into a ditch, and then, while still breathing, smothered to death with rocks and mud.

Yet not even when a member of the Pakistani parliament, Israr Ullah Zehri, defended these barbaric killings as "century-old traditions" -- when he said that killing women who defy male control by wanting to chose their own husbands is necessary to "stop obscenity" -- was there international outrage.

Tags: pakistan, human rights, murder, traditions, women, democracy

The World Reacts in picture to Obama's victory

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:22:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A modern hero? no doubt he stirs the heart of many.

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The World Reacts

Mr. Obama's Kenyan relatives and Africans across the continent celebrated his victory

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Mama Sarah, president-elect Barack Obama's step-grandmother

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Kenyans celebrated Senator Barack Obama's election victory

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Filipinos celebrated with cutouts of Mr. Obama

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The refrain from Mr. Obama's campaign, "Yes We Can," is written on the window of the American Book Centre in Amsterdam.

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London's Evening Standard newspaper produced a special edition

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French and U.S. supporters cheered Mr. Obama's victory on the streets of Paris.

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A group of Kashmiri students celebrated Mr. Obama's victory, and appealed to him to resolve the dispute over the Himalayan region between India and Pakistan.

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Kuwaiti investors watched Mr. Obama giving his victory speech on a television at the Stock Exchange in Kuwait City

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Palestinians watched Mr. Obama's acceptance speech from a coffee shop in Gaza.

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Serena Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan

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Students in Jakarta, Indonesia

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U.S. Embassy in Beijing

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An audience gathered in Hong Kong

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Delhi

Tags: obama, elections, world

Test your Geography Knowledge

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:09:36 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: I love these type of quizzes as they,at least, slow down the rotting of my brain.

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Test your Geography Knowledge

Click on an area of the map to select a quiz

World- Continents and Oceans
Continents:	Cities:
Africa
Asia	Asia - country capitals New!
Europe	Europe - country capitals New!
Australia/Oceania
South America	South America - country capitals New!
Continent zoom-ins: (regions within a continent)
Caribbean (part of N. America) Central America (part of N. America) Middle East (Western Asia)
Countries:	Cities:
Australia
Canada	Canada - provincial capitals New!
China
Germany
India
Mexico
Pakistan New!
Russia
United States	United States - state capitals New! United States major cities New!

The Assasination of Benazir Bhutto

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:45:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When in power, corruption hemmed in around her, and her visions were stalemated by the reality of bureaucratic government. She was at her best when she was disenfranchised, chiding those in control.

In power she was a bureaucrat, but in opposition she was an icon.

Now she has died as icons die, as opposition leaders die, in an explosive annihilation of waves of humanity.

...at the back gate of a park after a speech, on the eve of her comeback.

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Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader, killed in suicide attack

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died Thursday from her injuries sustained in a suicide attack, a party aide said.

Her supporters at the hospital began chanting "Dog, Musharraf, dog," referring to Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf.

Some of them smashed the glass door at the main entrance of the emergency unit, others burst into tears.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene could see

scattered at the back gate of the Liaqat Bagh park where Bhutto had spoken. He counted about 20 bodies, including police, and could see many other wounded people.

It was the second suicide attack apparently targeting the former prime minister in two months.

Her homecoming parade in southern city of Karachi from an eight-year exile on Oct. 18 was also targeted, killing more than 140 people.

Tags: terrorism, pakistan, bhutto

Jihadist Video Shows 12 Year Old Boy Beheading Man

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:08:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 12! 12! 12! What the F@#$. The Boy was 12 and doing this crap. Now you tell me, Where will the outrage be say, from the CAIR organization, denouncing such a horrible act. The BOY was 12 for God sake. He did not need to be part of a beheading. If Islam and Muslims do not speak out then there is no hope for Islam.

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Jihadist Video Shows Boy Beheading Man

KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan (AP) - The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair

A video circulating in Pakistan records the grisly death of Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taliban official who was killed in a December airstrike in Afghanistan.

An Associated Press reporter confirmed Nabi's identity by visiting his family in Kili Faqiran, their remote village in southwestern Pakistan.

The video, which was obtained by AP Television News in the border city of Peshawar on Tuesday, appears authentic and is unprecedented in jihadist propaganda because of the youth of the executioner.

The footage shows Nabi making what is described as a confession, being blindfolded with a checkered scarf.

Tags: science, war, religion, politics, news, internet, education

7 Terrible Abuses Suffered By Women Around The World

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:45:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Barbaric - we have no right to call ourselves developed nations of the 21st century until such scourges are removed from the face of this earth forever and those guilty of these heinous crimes are severely punished. I ask what 'honor' do people speak of when they treat women so degradingly?!

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7 Terrible Abuses Suffered By Women Around The World

Ritual servitude

Ghana, a family may be punished for an offense by having to turn over a virgin female to serve as a sex slave within the offended family.

Human trafficking

former Eastern bloc countries such as Albania, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

major trafficking source countries for women and children.

Female genital mutilation

refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.

Acid attacks

Acid Attacks are a violent phenomena that primarily occur in Afghanistan.

Bride burning

Bride Burning is a form of domestic violence practiced in parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries located on or around the Indian subcontinent.

Honor Killing

a punitive murder, committed by members of a family

Bride kidnapping

common

in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan

Tags: women, atrocities, female, prostitution, honor killing, human trafficking

What is an American?

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:12:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: pl read the whole article: very nice..

Clip Source: www.opey.com

A while back there was a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper that offered a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American!

So an Australian dentist wrote the following to let everyone know what an American is, so they would know when they found one:

An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek.

An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American is generous.

The myth of Muslim support for terror

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:18:47 GMT

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Opinion
The myth of Muslim support for terror

WASHINGTON - Those who think that Muslim countries and pro-terrorist attitudes go hand-in-hand might be shocked by new polling research: Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians than any major Muslim country except for Nigeria.

The survey, conducted in December 2006 by the University of Maryland's prestigious Program on International Public Attitudes, shows that only 46 percent of Americans think that "bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" are "never justified," while 24 percent believe these attacks are "often or sometimes justified."

Contrast those numbers with 2006 polling results from the world's most-populous Muslim countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. Terror Free Tomorrow, the organization I lead, found that 74 percent of respondents in Indonesia agreed that terrorist attacks are "never justified"; in Pakistan, that figure was 86 percent; in Bangladesh, 81 percent.

Do these findings mean that Americans are closet terrorist sympathizers?

Hardly. Yet, far too often, Americans and other Westerners seem willing to draw that conclusion about Muslims. Public opinion surveys in the United States and Europe show that nearly half of Westerners associate Islam with violence and Muslims with terrorists. Given the many radicals who commit violence in the name of Islam around the world, that's an understandable polling result.

But these stereotypes, affirmed by simplistic media coverage and many radicals themselves, are not supported by the facts - and they are detrimental to the war on terror. When the West wrongly attributes radical views to all of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims, it perpetuates a myth that has the very real effect of marginalizing critical allies in the war on terror.

Tags: war, politics, government

After being gang raped by her village elders, Mukhtar fought back...

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:47:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

After being gang raped by her village elders, Mukhtar fought back...

Isambard Wilkinson in Multan, Pakistan, hears the extraordinary story of an illiterate peasant woman who took on her village as well as the state

Mukhtar Mai's story is as horrific as it is simple, and it is quickly told. On June 22, 2002, the council of her tiny village, on the southern fringes of the Punjab in Pakistan, ordered that she be gang raped as a punishment for an offence supposedly committed by her 12-year-old brother.

At gunpoint she was taken into a stable. Her clothes were ripped off and she was violated by four village elders. The ordeal lasted about half an hour and, when it was over, she was dragged out, semi-naked, in front of all the village men. Her father covered her with a shawl and carried her home.

Mukhtar, who is also known as Mukhtaran Bibi, should then have killed herself. That was the custom. But such was her sense of outrage and injustice that she refused to commit suicide; and that act of defiance started a sequence of events that turned her into an international cause célèbre, who was first praised and then condemned by Pakistan's president, Gen Pervez Musharraf.

Mukhtar, an illiterate peasant, is an unlikely heroine. The crime committed against her is not uncommon in an area benighted by poverty, acts of brutality against women and the rule of thuggish overlords.

But she has refused to be cowed by the pressure put upon her, by local officials right up to the president, to end her campaign against the men who raped her. She wants them to be hanged. "I will never forgive them," she said yesterday. "They must be punished according to the law."

Tags: mukhtar mai, pakistan

Pakistan rape victim's blog makes waves

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:22:44 GMT

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Pakistan rape victim's blog makes waves

Mukhtar Mai was once an anonymous Pakistani villager - but that was before she was gang-raped, apparently on the orders of local elders in a neighbouring village.

From then onwards she has been determined to bring them to justice, and her fight made her an international figure.

Some of the men she said attacked her were convicted, but then the appeal court in Lahore overturned their convictions, amid an outcry from human rights groups.

Now Mukhtar Mai, who is in her mid-30s, is writing her own internet diary, or blog, about her life and her concerns, as a woman from a remote village in southern Punjab.

Mukhtar Mai is exceptional because she defied the shame of the gang-rape four years ago by not only bringing her attackers to justice, but also by fighting for a change in traditional attitudes towards women.

Mukhtar Mai's blog is unique. Although she cannot read or write, she tells her stories to a local BBC journalist, who types it up as a web diary.

Make what you will of those railing against her - perhaps 5-10% of the mailbag. But it is a measure of the controversy she has stirred up within Pakistan, and the hidden issues so rarely talked about that she has managed to bring into mainstream discussion.

Tags: politics, women, pakistan, mukhtar mai, blogs, rape, law, international

The war that time forgot: 37 years ago

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:10:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 400,000 females raped!

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Students preparing for war in 1970

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soldier training camp, 1971

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A Mukti Bahini fighter carries a comrade injured in the fight against the Pakistani army

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As well as modern weapons, primitive weaponry was also used

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after a military strike

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Soldiers smuggle grenades

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refugee camp

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400,000 birangona, meaning 'brave women', who were raped during the war

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surrounded by spent rocket bombs

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first prime ministe

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The war that time forgot

The Bangladesh war was one of the 20th century's bloodiest, yet outside the region, little is known about it. Now, 37 years on, an exhibition records the painful birth of a nation

independence from Pakistan, the people of Bangladesh began to reckon with the human cost of their new nation

As they took account of what they had won and what they had lost, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the independence movement leader who became the first prime minister of Bangladesh, urged his people to embrace the many thousands of women who had been raped by Pakistani soldiers

Tags: rape, asia, war, history, females

Who are the REAL Christians around here?

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:36:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "We are living in the 21st century after all. Who would use the name of the Christian God to justify mass killing? A majority of modern day American Christians, that's who.

Perhaps the argument used against Muslims should be applied to Christians instead. Their religion has been hijacked by fundamentalist fanatics while the non-fanatics remain silent. The term clash of civilizations is definitely a misnomer. There can be no clash unless both sides are in fact civilized. Any assertion of American civilization is clearly open to question."

... By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report., AlterNet

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Falwell and Savage Christians: A Legacy of Hate and Violence

Muslims were the perpetrators, but that is usually not the case. The purveyors of hate and violence in America are almost always Christians

Pew poll

of American Muslims

vast majority, 78 percent, said suicide bombing against civilian targets was never acceptable.

Christians, 65 percent of Protestants and 72 percent of Catholics, believe that torture is justifiable under certain circumstances

Americans, 46 percent, believe that it may be acceptable to deliberately target civilian populations in war time

75 percent of Muslims in Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia and Morocco believe that such attacks are never acceptable.

The public reaction to Falwell's death showed how ineffectual the supposedly good Christians have become. Few were willing to point out the numerous examples of his hate speech

Christians perpetrated the crusades, the inquisition, the slave trade and imperial adventures too numerous to mention

Falwell

a racist propagandist

Very Sobering Images of the World Today

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:11:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Do not look at these if you are upset real easily, because they are awful, but they are real of what's going on round the world today. Still absolutely shocking though, it should't be going on anymore! Their is enough money in the world to stop this!

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Afghanistan, 1996 - Mourning a brother killed by a Taliban rocket.

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Afghanistan, 1996 - The game of Buzkashi was brought to the country by
Genghis Khan.

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Afghanistan, 1996 - Land mine victims learned to walk on prosthetic legs
at ICRC clinic.

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Afghanistan, 1996 - Ruins of Kabul from civil war.

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Zimbabwe, 2000 - In a tuberculosis ward where the great majority of the patients suffer from AIDS.

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South Africa, 2000 - Grandmother cared for young girl affected by HIV.