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POPSSurviving the Fourth of July by Chris Hedges “As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary,” Proust wrote. “It becomes dangerous, on the other hand, when, instead of awakening us to the personal life of the mind, reading tends to take its place. …”
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POPSSpeaker Pelosi Was Sending Messages To FARC Terrorists elected and popular government. The Wall Street Journal reported on the confiscated FARC documents that implicated Rep. McGovern back in March: The Reyes hard drive reveals an ardent effort to do business directly with the FARC by Congressman James McGovern (D., Mass.), a leading opponent of the free-trade deal. Mr. McGovern has been working with an American go-between, who has been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia's elected and popular government. Mr. McGovern's press office says the Congressman is merely working at the behest of families whose relatives are held as FARC kidnap hostages. However, his go-between's letters reveal more than routine intervention. Now, today we find out who was directing Rep. McGovern-- Speaker Pelosi! Mary Anastasia O'Grady at The Wall Street Journal reported: FARC's 'Human Rights' Friends http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121538827377131117.html?mod=todays_columnists
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POPSDe Niro: "Why striking?" The world we live in is a funny one! Do you get paid millions to do something others would do for free? Do you need more millions but they won't give you? Strike! There was a time when striking was a lower-class affair, all that human rights crap... Now striking it's fashionable. Can't wait to see S.J. Parker protesting in her Manolo's and C. Theron picketing in D&G's! I love my planet ;-)
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POPSMilitia attack Zimbabwe displaced That this continues indicates the priorities of those in the UN and that the Ambassadors of each member country have been told to ignore the situation. It also shows how the power of the UN has been quashed by the fact that the veto countries are engaged in invasions and human rights issues of their own.
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POPSBreathtakingly Offensive Speech ...can be be hilariously inappropriate. Talk about your "unintentional ironies." And no, sadly, this is not satire. He really think that the fact John McCain succumbed to torture proves the concept. But if McCain is a hero... what does that make the people at Gitmo?
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POPSIslam's Biggest Enemy Is The Muslims Themselves
U.N. Human Rights Council, the Saudi Shura Council raised objections, since reviling other religions is one of Islam's central precepts. "The ones who harm the Prophet are those who believe that woman is lewd, and that she detracts from the purity of prayer just like a dog or a donkey...and those who believe that a woman lacks intelligence. "The ones who harm the Prophet are the rulers of Arab states who have made their countries the last bastions of tyranny and dictatorship in the world, and who demand submission to religious texts to justify their crimes. "The ones who harm the Prophet do not live in the West - they are among us, the Muslims. It is the Muslims who have fashioned an Islamic model that is inherently terrorist, hypocritical, life-negating, and sustained by the murder of others in the name of jihad and by attacks on freedom of opinion under the pretext of defending Islamic national principles. This is what we - and no one else - have produced."
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POPSThe Guatemala Genicide Case Among the witnesses was Jesus Tecú Osorio, survivor of the Río Negro massacre and winner of the Reebok Human Rights Award. Tecú was a child when the military began attacking the communities of Rabinal with increasing intensity during 1981 and into 1982. He was ten years old when he watched the Army and civil patrols (PAC) enter his village of Río Negro on March 13, 1982, and carry out the massacre that left 70 woman and 107 children dead, including his own mother and infant brother.
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POPSMexico Police Video Shows Alleged Torture Practice Notice in the article the man with the American instructor. That's what the United States of America has become the world leader in torture and inhumanity. Land of the free and home of the brave. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. ... and the whole world knows it.
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POPStorture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons is the rule, not the exception Shame? Israeli Jews & and their supporters with an ounce of shame? They don't even know the definition of the word. The contradictions are obvious. These are the people stuffing sympathy down our throats around the clock about the brutal Nazis. These creatures are EXACTLY the same and even worse. My question is why should anyone feel sympathy for the profiteering alleged victims who, in the present hour, systematically perform the same torture rituals, justifying such barbaric acts with the same lame excuses?
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POPSRights Commission Dismisses "Hate Speech" Complaint The ruling means the CHRC does not believe there is evidence to support a complaint that the Steyn article was "likely to expose" Muslims to hatred or contempt. Announcing the decision (the CHRC does not publicize dismissals of complaints), Maclean's said in a statement that it "is in keeping with our long-standing position that the article in question, "The Future Belongs to Islam," an excerpt from Mark Steyn's best-selling book America Alone, was a worthy piece of commentary on important geopolitical issues, entirely within the bounds of normal journalistic practice."
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POPSWhy The Silence on This Dictator?
Peter Maass writes on why we rarely hear U.S. criticism of Teodoro Obiang, the draconian ruler of Equatorial Guinea -- when we hear so much about Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. Maass posits that it's because of U.S. oil investments in the West African nation. There's no doubt some truth to that notion. But it could also have to do with the strange ebbs and flows of the media. Britain's BBC has gone to extraordinary lengths to cover Zimbabwe, in part because it was a former British colony, which Equatorial Guinea was not. But more importantly, perhaps, is the fact that just about every news organization in the world that covers Africa on the ground has a correspondent in South Africa. Call it the Jerusalem effect: Sure, it's newsworthy. But there are more foreign correspondents per capita in Jerusalem than anywhere else in the world. So closer things get covered more, farther things not so much. And Equatorial Guinea is a long, long way away from the foreign press.
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POPSSeizing Laptops and Cameras Without Cause This is what the United States of America under the scumbag named George W. Bush has descended to. Not even wincing wtih shame, Condo-Sleazeball still has the nerve to lecture to other countries about human rights and democracy. It like Ted Bundy lecturing parents about spanking their children on the wrist.
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POPS- Two million children face starvation The lack of food was "really critical," with half the population, including close to 2 million children, "facing starvation," according to the account on the World Council of Churches (WCC) website. He described his jail experience as "terrifying."
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