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POPSUN-Backed Troops Accused of Killing & Raping Civilians British-based organization Oxfam said. Human Rights Watch said it documented the killings of 732 civilians between January and September by the Congolese army and troops from neighboring Rwanda fighting alongside it. In the same period, it counted 701 civilians killed by the rebels they are fighting. “Some victims were tied together before their throats were, according to one witness, ’slit like chickens.’ The majority of the victims were women, children, and the elderly,” the group said. More than 7,500 cases of sexual violence against women and girls were registered at health centers during that nine-month period, nearly double that of 2008 and likely representing only a fraction of the total. Gateway Pundit Jim Hoyt http://bit.ly/6H6ewH Previously: UN Soldiers Arrested in Congo On Sex Abuse Charges UN Peacekeepers Trade Food for Sex… Again! UN Slapped with New Child Sex Scandal UN Faces Another Child Sex Scandal
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POPSUnexploded landmines? Call the HeroRats! More: The cheapness of breeding and maintaining them is further helped by their ability to adapt to a number of environments. Once they are trained the rats seem to actively enjoy performing repetitive tasks and they do not get stressed if their trainers are changed in the way that dogs will. Plus of course – one serious advantage over dogs – they are too light to detonate a mine by themselves if they step on it. A living rat is better than a canine cadaver… The HeroRATS are currently deployed in Mozambique where they have enabled over one thousand families to reclaim their land. They have also helped with clearing areas so that power lines can be passed through – so bringing electricity which would not otherwise have been possible to over ten thousand local citizens. It is hoped that they will soon be deployed to Zambia, Congo and Angola as well, but negotiations are still underway.
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POPSWho are Leakey's Angels? The third of Leakey's Angels is Birute Galdikas, a German-born Canadian who was introduced to Leakey in the 1970s. Unlike Goodall and Fossey, Galdikas actually had training and experience in the field, and she approached Leakey to discuss the studying of orangutans. Her studies took place in the jungles of Indonesia. Galdikas is credited with coining the term “Leakey's Angels,” discussing the three women in a 1995 book.
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POPSMore Canada Mining - 60% world`s mining companies ! I couldn`t get the vid to clip, sorry. The true face of Capitalism. Here are the roots of terrorism - it is the only way that `locals` can fight back. What do you do when your land and resources are being taken at gunpoint, by a powerful and ruthless invader ? Spain against Napoleon, Palestine against the West and Israel, Mandela and the ANC in S Africa, current Afghanistan, Colombia etc 17 of 19 9/11 bombers were Saudis - how else can they protest ?
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POPSChild Witches
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo nearly 50,000 children live on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital, because they were accused of witchcraft and rejected by their families. In Nigeria, the Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network reports that nearly 25,000 children have been abandoned or persecuted on the belief they were witches or wizards. Organizations such as the United Nations Children’s Fund, Africa Unite Against Child Abuse, and Save the Children have stepped in where they could to stop the witch-hunt. But the phenomenon of “witch children” is so widespread throughout Africa these organizations have set up “witch camps” as shelters for children who cannot be safely placed with a relative. Throughout history, people described as witches have been tortured, persecuted, and even murdered. And it is usually society’s most vulnerable who are targeted. With the HIV/AIDS epidemic leaving many children orphaned, and rampant poverty ensuing from crop failure and decade-
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POPSTIME Top 10 scientific discoveries 9. Can You Spell Science? only one in four adults can read and understand the stories in the weekly science section of The New York Times. 10. First Family Researchers in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, found the oldest nuclear family ever uncovered when they excavated 4,600-year-old graves of a group of Stone-Age people who appeared to have been killed together in a raid
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POPSSummit for Another World Very creative and thought provoking ads from International Action Network on Small Arms. They are a global movement against gun violence - a network of 800 civil society organizations working in 120 countries to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons.
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POPSHillary's African Rant The only problem? Apparently the translator made a mistake and the student had wanted to know what President Obama thought of the deal. A State Department official tells ABC News the student went up to Clinton after the event and told her he was misquoted. No immediate word yet how Clinton responded. Regardless of the error, the notion of Secretary Clinton's deference to her husband clearly touched a nerve with America's top diplomat. Just a week ago the former President stole his wife's thunder when he appeared in North Korea to rescue two American journalists detained there. His trip came just as Secretary Clinton embarked on a swing through Africa she hoped would shine light on the plight of the continent. Still, imagine what the students thought when her response was translated back and they heard Clinton call President Obama her husband….
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POPSHillary Clinton Outburst Not Silent, But Deadly A live radio broadcast suggests it was initially thought to be heavy machine gun fire, which had people diving under their seats until the commentator responded, "GOOD LORD! What's that SMELL...???" While describing the green fog drifting towards the crowd, mayhem could be heard in the background with shouts of "My eyes," and "It BURNS, it BURNS!" Several dozen people were overcome by the fumes and had to be hospitalized overnight. Scores of others remain in critical condition with injuries ranging from chemical burns to concussions. While it is agreed that Hillary should be allowed to toot her own horn without having to constantly be compared to her husband, Bill, it is also agreed that she probably shouldn't have popped off a bun shaker like that in public. "A blast on the butt bugle of that magnitude probably should have waited until she was off-camera," said one reporter who declined to be identified. One observer expressed amazement that Mrs. Clinton didn't COMPLETELY expel
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POPSWhere Have All the Flowers Gone? The flowers of North Korean, Vietnamese, and ? womanhood are being slave-traded to provide wives and concubines in rural China - that's the story that Laura and Euna were following when they were caught up by North Koreans who are part of the new slave trade. So two women reporters will risk all and Sec. Clinton will go out on a limb against army rapes int e Congo - when will you guys stand up with them!?
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POPSCONGO Did Mr. Obama say anything about the Congo?
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POPSSwamp Gorillas Perform Hand Clapping Ritual more (at source): "The sound was always two rapidly consecutive beats and the sound does carry within the rainforest, much like a gorilla chest beat," added Kalan, a researcher in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Oxford Brookes University.
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POPSMediastorm Each photograph represents a different project and a different story...
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POPSCatholic charity CARITAS supplied LRA rebels Why in the world would CARITAS agree to supply the thugs of the Lord's Resistance Army with food and supplies? How much are they getting paid by the "international sponsors" for fulfilling this contract? Is it worthwhile to give murderous thugs an incentive?
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