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Documentary Film Highlights Child Trafficking

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:27:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: American actress Lucy Liu speaks at a press conference to promote the film "Red Light" which she co-produced and narrated and which concerns children abused in the sex trade in Cambodia, at a hotel in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Lucy Liu is in Cairo for the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival, and visited UNICEF-funded anti-human trafficking programs specifically dealing with women and children.

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CAIRO — Actress Lucy Liu, who has produced a film about children sold into the sex trade in Cambodia, says the fight against human trafficking will be long.

That assessment rings true in the Middle East, where stigma in conservative societies and a lack of data have frustrated activists' efforts. Highlighting those challenges, organizers of several UNICEF-funded programs Liu visited in Egypt did not even want to make details of their efforts public out of fear doing so would stir up controversy and pressure from conservatives.

In Egypt, the sex trade is often hidden under the guise of temporary marriages sanctioned by some religious figures and local authorities. Under these marriages, hundreds of underage girls in rural Egypt are essentially sold by their families for large sums to wealthy visitors from Gulf nations.

Egypt recently passed its first child protection law, which criminalized trafficking and raised the age of marriage to 18.

Tags: sociology, culture, crime, human-trafficking, child-trafficking, abuse

Responding to modern Marxism

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:53:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Every single Democrat in the current majority, including Barack Obama, swore an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. Yet, they absolutely ignore the limitation of power set forth in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. None of the 17 powers enumerated there authorizes the current health-care bills or the cap-and-trade bill, or the bailout, or the stimulus package – all recently passed by the House of Representatives.

When asked by a reporter to identify the constitutional authority for the current health-care bills, Sen. Patrick Leahy said: "We have plenty of authority, why would you say we don't have authority?" Speaker Nancy Pelosi's reply to the same question was: "Are you serious? Are you serious?" Obviously, neither one is "preserving, protecting or defending" the Constitution when they ignore its limitation of congressional power.

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Responding to modern Marxism

Denial is not that river in Egypt. It seems to be a river that begins in the White House and flows freely through the Democrat Party and the media. The rest of the nation seems to be encouraged by the prospects of reining in the runaway policies Obama's majority is trying to impose.

It is increasingly clear that the battle is no longer between Democrats and Republicans; it is between liberals and conservatives. Since these terms, too, are fuzzy, let's be perfectly clear: The battle is between the people who subscribe to the principles of freedom set forth in our founding documents, and the people who subscribe to the principles of collectivism set forth by Karl Marx.

Tags: marism, obamaism, democratism, too, damn, many, isms

cleft lip

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:17:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: At Operation Smile, we measure ourselves by the joy we see on children's faces. We're more than a charity. More than an NGO. We're a mobilized force of medical professionals and caring hearts who provide safe, effective reconstructive surgery for children born with facial deformities such as cleft lip and cleft palate.

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WHERE WE'RE GOING NEXT:

Cairo, Egypt
A team of volunteers will be working in Egypt from Nov. 17 through 28 to help children suffering from cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.

View Full Schedule & Read Mission Summaries >

There are many ways to get involved with Operation Smile.

• Become a Medical Volunteer >

• Become a Community Volunteer >

• Student & Youth Programs >

Tags: cleft lip, cleft palate, cleft lip donation

David Wilcock's blog & follow-up of SyFy's 2012:Startling New Secrets

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:08:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Check out much more on David's blog!

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2012: Startling New Secrets on SyFy -- Live Blogging as we watch!

Last Updated on Monday, 09 November 2009 11:34 Sunday, 08 November 2009 19:59

Read as we live-blog while watching the new 2012 special on SyFy -- airing right now! You can read our reactions as we see the show, for the very first time, in real time!

Lots of people will want to do the follow-up work after seeing this, and realize that there is indeed some credibility to the 2012 theories out there.

JOHN MAJOR JENKINS ON THE 2012 MYSTERY IN IZAPA

AFTER FIRST COMMERCIAL BREAK

TIKAL -- DID THE MAYANS UNDERSTAND OUTER SPACE MORE THAN WE REALIZE?

AFTER SECOND COMMERCIAL BREAK -- BEGINNING IN EGYPT

THE LABYRINTH

THE ATLANTIS CONNECTION

AFTER THIRD COMMERCIAL BREAK / BEGINNING OF SECOND HOUR

THE BIBLE CODE -- MORE 2012 PROPHECY?

HYPERDIMENSIONAL / TORSION FIELD PHYSICS

TETRAHEDRAL ENERGY UPWELLINGS

MASS AND INERTIA CHANGES VISIBLE IN THE ACCUTRON WATCH

Vanished Persian army said found in desert

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:24:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt.

After walking for seven days in the desert, the army got to an "oasis," which historians believe was El-Kharga. After they left, they were never seen again.

"A wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, whi

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"Since the 19th century, many archaeologists and explorers have searched for the lost army along that route. They found nothing. We hypothesized a different itinerary, coming from south. Indeed we found that such a route already existed in the 18th Dynasty," Castiglioni said.

Hundreds of bleached bones and skulls found in the desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert may be the remains of the long lost Cambyses' army, according to Italian researchers.

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.

Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.

"We have

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:20:23 GMT

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Legendary Lost Persian Army Found in Sahara

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:08:53 GMT

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Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was never heard from again ... until today.

A pair of Italian archaeologists have uncovered bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert. Twin brothers Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni are hopeful that they've finally found the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses II and his armied were buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C. He wrote, "a wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them wholly to disappear."

The Castiglioni brothers studied ancient maps and came to the conclusion that Cambyses' army did not take the caravan route most archaeologists believe they used.

Tags: history, archaeology, egypt

Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:15:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Out in the open .. pretty wild to imagine. Whoever they were...

Clip Source: news.discovery.com

According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt.

"A wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them wholly to disappear," wrote Herodotus.

Tags: lost persian army, egyptian desert

Egyptian Security Arrests Several Christians for Praying At Home

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:05:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In other news, here is a link to the recent Obama/Egypt "PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL,
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS" resolution:

http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/LTD/G09/161/50/PDF/G0916150.pdf?OpenElement

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Egypt (AINA) -- On October 24, 2009 Egyptian State Security arrested a Christian Copt in the village of Deir Samalout, Samalout, Minia province, for praying "without a license." He was held in prison for two days before being released on "compassionate grounds." Maurice Salama Sharkawy, 37 years old, had invited Pastor Elia Shafik, to conduct the sacrament of the 'Anointing of the Sick' for his sick father, who had suffered a stroke. State Security broke into his house while the prayers were ongoing, handcuffed Maurice, put him into a police car and took him to a police station for interrogation.

Authorities accused him of carrying out "religious rites without a license" and "causing sectarian sedation" by calling a priest into the village. A number of his cousins living in the same family house and who attended the prayers were also detained with him.

State Security has placed Maurice under observation by three policemen.

Tags: welcome to the twilight zone, egypt, obama, freedom denied

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:33:04 GMT

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A DREAM HOME UNDONE BY DIVORCE

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:02:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ON HER WAY LESLIE WILLIAMS IS LEAVING HER SLEEK LOFT

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A Dream Home Undone by Divorce

ON HER WAYLeslie Williams is leaving her sleek loft. More Photos >

Home, Alone

The 14-foot table, made in anticipation of large family gatherings, will stay behind. More Photos »

WELCOME to home interrupted, Leslie Williams said, opening the door to what appeared to be just the opposite: a bright TriBeCa loft with near-lapidary finishes.

A slight, blue-jean clad figure, Ms. Williams padded barefoot past the smoky green onyx panel and the Venetian plastered walls in the front hall, where old-fashioned filament bulbs hung like giant fireflies from the ceiling. There were 19th-century wallpapers and 60’s era fixtures designed by Arne Jacobsen, hand-made beech kitchen cabinets and pickled maple floors, and a 14-foot ash table that marched alongside a white-washed brick wall.

“I’ve put a lot of my life in a box to be married,” she said. “I’m taking the box down. I’m going to India. I want to go to Egypt.”

Tags: dream, home divorce, loft

Hillary Clinton: US Wants Israel To Stop Building West Bank Settlements 'Forever'

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:06:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: But Clinton has had to do a lot of explaining since last Saturday, when she stood with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and praised his offer to limit settlement construction without halting it.

Clinton has since tried to clarify the remarks, saying that the Israeli offer does not got far enough. Still, she has indicated that the Palestinians should resume negotiations with Israel without a full settlement halt as they demand.

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CAIRO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S. stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesday, saying Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the West Bank enclaves and wants to see their construction halted "forever."

Still, she said an Israeli offer to restrain – but not halt – construction represents "positive movement forward" toward resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

Clinton met for an hour with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a hastily arranged stopover in the Egyptian capital to soothe Arab concerns that Washington is backing off demands for an Israeli settlement halt.

Egypt appeared reassured by Clinton's visit, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit called for a resumption of negotiations.

Tags: israel, palestine, obama, clinton, foreing policy, settlers, peace, war, occupation, empire

Italian court convicts 23 CIA agents over rendition

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:44:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Italian prosecutors had charged the Americans and seven members of the Italian military intelligence agency in the abduction of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as //Abu Omar, on Feb. 17, 2003. Prosecutors said he was snatched in broad daylight, flown from an American air base in Italy to a base in Germany and then on to Egypt, where he asserts that he was tortured.//

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Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions

MILAN — In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003.

Critics of the Bush administration have long hailed the case as a repudiation of the tactics it used to fight terrorism. And the fact that Italy would actually convict intelligence agents of an allied country was seen as a bold move that could set a precedent in other cases.

Judge Oscar Magi handed an eight-year sentence to Robert Seldon Lady, a former C.I.A. base chief in Milan, and five-year sentences to the 22 other Americans, including an Air Force colonel and 21 C.I.A. operatives. Three of the other high-ranking Americans were given diplomatic immunity, including Jeffrey Castelli, a former C.I.A. station chief in Rome.

“Of course it was an illegal operation. But that’s our job.

Tags: cia, italy

23 Americans Convicted in Italy for CIA Kidnapping

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:46:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Americans were accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, on Feb. 17, 2003, in Milan, then transferring him to U.S. bases in Italy and Germany. He was then moved to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. He was released after four years in prison without being charged.

The trial is the first by any government over the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, which transferred suspects overseas for interrogation. Human rights advocates charge that renditions were the CIA's way to outsource the torture of prisoners to countries where it is permitted.

Italy's government has denied involvement.

Among the Americans acquitted was Jeffrey Castelli, a former Rome CIA station chief, who prosecutors had alleged coordinated the abduction. The two other acquitted Americans were also assigned to the U.S. Embassy in the Italian capital and thus were covered by broad diplomatic immunity.

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MILAN — An Italian judge today convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism.

Citing diplomatic immunity, Judge Oscar Magi told the Milan courtroom today that he was acquitting three other Americans.

Former Milan CIA station chief, Robert Seldon Lady, received the stiffest sentence, eight years in prison. The other 22 convicted American defendants each received a five-year sentence.

The Americans, all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents, were tried in absentia. Their lawyers entered innocent pleas on their client's behalf. They are considered fugitives from Italian justice.

In Washington, CIA spokesman George Little declined to comment on the convictions. He said, “The CIA has not commented on any of the allegations surrounding Abu Omar,” the kidnapped man.

The CIA has declined to comment on the case

Italy Convicts CIA Agents of Kidnapping

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:43:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Direct challenge to extraordinary rendition.

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(AP) – An Italian judge today convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism. Judge Oscar Magi acquitted three other Americans, citing diplomatic immunity. Former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady received the stiffest sentence, eight years in prison. The other 22 each received a five-year sentence. All were tried in absentia.

All but one of the Americans were identified by prosecutors as CIA agents. Their lawyers entered innocent pleas on their behalf, and they are considered fugitives from Italian justice. They were convicted of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr and transferring him to US bases in Italy and Germany. He was then moved to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. Nasr was released after four years in prison without being charged.

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