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Students coming from other countries,other cultures and religion like Muslims,Hindus should be careful when attending Santa Clara University.This university mainly caters to needs to Catholics others could e treated 2nd class citizensStudents coming from other countries,other cultures and religion like Muslims,Hindus... more
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FolkSense.com was begun in 2007 to make the DARAJA Case public, because no one else would. --
We discovered that US news media (NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times) and groups such as Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would not report human rights abuses by the US government, unless the information was already public - such as the torture at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. --
The only way to bring our case to public attention was to tell the story ourselves. -- And once we started, it seemed right to talk about other human rights issues as well. That's what we do: discussion of human rights, social justice and international law. -
FolkSense.com is a contemporary "Diary of Anne Frank". It is a public record of our experiences before and after we were forced to seek Refugee Status to escape persecution by the government of the United States. --
There is a blackout of our case in the US. No one will investigate or report our story. Ours is one of the "invisible" human rights cases in the US. It has been eight full years since we were forced to leave our home. --
We remain even now "excluded" from the protections of civil law.FolkSense.com was begun in 2007 to make the DARAJA Case public, because no one else... more
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What a failure that as a species we can always find time, money and energy for distractions and war, but we can't even build toilets for people to prevent them from dying of preventable diseases. That speaks more to our collective moral conscience than anything I know.What a failure that as a species we can always find time, money and energy for... more
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Is it wrong to hope they get off'ed? I mean...it's basically the same as wishing Pol Pot, Hitler or Saddam had been offed. All of them are war criminals right? Every time Cheney or Bush opens either of their mouths I'm horrendously upset to be an american.
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Faced with a faltering economy and a precarious national security position, President George W. Bush made the best of a bad situation and sought to unite the country in spite of Washington’s toxic political culture.
That’s how Bush views his tenure in office, according to a recent round of exit interviews he and Vice President Dick Cheney have done as part of an effort to wind up their administration on a positive note.
Their argument is not entirely convincing.
“The president and his advisers are focusing an enormous amount of effort on trying to politically shape and spin the legacy to improve his image in history’s eyes,” said former White House press secretary Scott McClellan. “I am not surprised. There has always been great effort placed on the political marketing of this presidency.”
Bush and Cheney aren’t saying much that Americans haven’t heard before, in one form or another. But as the two men take full advantage of their last month in the bully pulpit, there are a few key themes emerging in their narrative about the last eight years.
They did their best with a vulnerable economy: “I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived,” Bush told ABC’s Charlie Gibson, glossing over his long record as a deregulator, which stretches back to his time as governor of Texas.
He continued, referring specifically to the housing crisis: “I’m a little upset that we didn’t get the reforms to Fannie and Freddie…people will say that this administration tried hard to get a regulator.”
“Hard” might be pushing it, since a reform bill never made it through the GOP-controlled Congress. But the administration certainly raised the issue, highlighting the potential market risks of overgrown GSEs as early as April 2001.
Dean Baker, the liberal economist who directs the Center for Economic and Policy Research, was incredulous at Bush’s attempt to displace blame onto his predecessor.
“If he was really troubled by any of the policies inherited from the Clinton administration he kept it to himself,” Baker said. “There’s plenty of blame to go on the Clinton administration. On the other hand, he’s been sitting there for eight years. It’s pretty hard to say there’s nothing you could have done.”
Bush has also cited his administration’s “52 months of uninterrupted job growth” as a feather in his presidential cap – though in many of those months job growth was tepid, falling below the rate at which experts say a healthy economy must grow.
pretty disturbing article at link...Is it wrong to hope they get off'ed? I mean...it's basically the same as... more
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Now this sickens me. Many know me on here for yelling about Palestinian right and otherwise responding to inane commentators who basically are anti-islamic. But this, this sort of abuse disgusts me entirely. the Sudanese gov and their 'janjaweed' mercs should be systematically annihilated.
That said, if the US were truly concerned about ending dictators and being moral authorities we'd have stopped this a long time ago (we've even acknowledged that genocide is taking place). That's why I'm as disgusted with US as I anyone. Shame on America, for letting this happen and hiding behind our facade of moral superiority. Shame on America for forgetting and turning its back on Darfur. Saddam had NOTHING on what is happening in Darfur.
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"Kidnapped men have been forced to work on farmland controlled by Janjaweed militias, the Darfur Consortium says.
Eyewitnesses also say the Sudanese army has been involved in abducting women and children to be sex slaves and domestic staff for troops in Khartoum.
Up to 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million have fled their homes since conflict began in Darfur in 2003.
Sudan's government has not yet commented on the allegations in the report, published on Wednesday.
The Darfur Consortium says it has around 100 eyewitness accounts from former abductees."
obviously, much more at link...Now this sickens me. Many know me on here for yelling about Palestinian right and... more
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Damn Skippy! Obama will hopefully work to stop genocide head on rather than pussy-footing around it like the nazi-collaborator...I mean...Bush
NAIROBI -- If the election of Barack Obama has been greeted with glee across much of Africa, there is at least one spot where the mood is decidedly different.
In the Sudanese capital of Khartoum these days, political elites are bracing for what they expect will be a major shift in U.S. policy toward a government the United States has blamed for orchestrating a violent campaign against civilians in the western Darfur region.
"Compared to the Republicans, the Democrats, I think they are hawks," said Ghazi Suleiman, a human rights lawyer and member of the Southern People's Liberation Movement, which has a fragile power-sharing agreement with the ruling party. "I know Obama's appointees. And I know their policy towards Sudan. Everybody here knows it. The policy is very aggressive and very harsh. I think we really will miss the judgments of George W. Bush."
While the Bush administration most recently advocated the idea of "normalizing" relations with Sudan as a carrot approach to ending a crisis it labeled a genocide, Obama's foreign policy appointees have pushed for sticks.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the nominee for secretary of state, has called for a NATO-enforced no-fly zone to "blanket" Darfur in order to prevent Sudanese bombing of villages. The appointee for U.N. ambassador, Susan E. Rice -- a key Africa adviser to the Clinton administration during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when President Bill Clinton was sharply criticized for failing to act -- has pushed for U.S. or NATO airstrikes and a naval blockade of Sudan's major port to prevent lucrative oil exports. Rice has vowed to "go down in flames" advocating tough measures.
more at link...Damn Skippy! Obama will hopefully work to stop genocide head on rather than... more
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Fathers and husbands who openly hire assassins on the streets of the city are going unpunished.
Authorities in the southern Iraqi city of Basra have admitted they are powerless to prevent 'honour killings' in the city following a 70 per cent increase in religious murders during the past year.
There has been no improvement in conviction rates for these killings. So far this year, 81 women in the city have been murdered for allegedly bringing shame on their families. Only five people have been convicted.
During 2007 the Basra security committee recorded 47 'honour killings' and three convictions. One lawyer in the city described how police were actively protecting perpetrators and said that a woman in Basra could now be murdered by hired hitmen for as little as $100 (£65).
The figures come despite international outrage which followed The Observer's coverage of the death of 17-year-old Rand Abdel-Qader, who was murdered by her father last April in an 'honour killing' after falling in love with a British soldier in Basra. The 4,000 British troops stationed in the city since the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 withdrew to the airport last September.
Rand Abdel-Qader was killed after her family discovered that she had formed a friendship with a 22-year-old infantryman whom she knew as Paul. She was suffocated by her father then hacked at with a knife. Abdel-Qader Ali was subsequently arrested and released without charge.
Rand's mother, Leila Hussein, who divorced her husband after the killing, went into hiding but was tracked down weeks later and assassinated by an unknown gunman. Her husband had told The Observer that police had congratulated him for killing his daughter.
Seven months after the murders, the problem of these killings in Basra has become worse, according to lawyers. Ali Azize Raja'a, an Iraqi prosecutor who has represented the victims of 32 'honour killings' since 2004, said that, despite accumulating sufficient evidence to prove who was responsible in each murder, he had won only one case.
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Reminiscent of "Soylent Green" in terms of sheer audacity of the government. For reference, this is not a pro-Tibetan article, this is an anti-CCP article. It relates the stories of members of Falun Gong, victims of an unregistered and unregulated practice of illegal black market organ harvesting program (perhaps pogrom would be more accurate) carried out by the CCP from the late 90's up to 2006. Thousands of people have disappeared into the Chinese detention and forced labor systems and never been heard from again. Draw your own conclusions (but read the article first).
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Tibetan sources estimate that 5,000 protesters disappeared in this year's crackdown. Many have been sent to Qinghai, a potential center of organ harvesting. But that's speculative. Both the Taiwanese doctors who investigate organ harvesting and those who arrange transplants for their Taiwanese patients agree on one point: The closing ceremony of the Olympics made it once again open season for harvesting.
Some in the human rights community will read that last assertion with skepticism. Until there is countervailing evidence, however, I'll bet on bargain-basement prices for organs in China. I confess, I feel a touch of burnout myself at this thought. It's an occupational hazard.
It's why I told that one-night-in-Bangkok joke to get you to read beyond the first paragraph. Yet what's really laughable is the foot-dragging, formalistic, faintly embarrassed response of so many to the murder of prisoners of conscience for the purpose of harvesting their organs. That's an evil crime.
Washington faces its own imperatives: The riptide of Chinese financial power is strong. Those in government do not want to hear about Falun Gong and genocide at a time of financial crisis, with China holding large numbers of U.S. bonds. So the story continues to founder under the lead weight of American political and journalistic apathy. At least the Europeans have given it some air. They can afford to. They aren't the leader of the free world.
It will be argued--quietly, of course--that America has no point of easy leverage, no ability to undo what has been done, no silver bullet that can change the Chinese regime. Perhaps not, but we could ban Americans from getting organ transplants in China. We could boycott Chinese medical conferences. Sever medical ties. Embargo surgical equipment. And refuse to hold any diplomatic summits until the Chinese put in place an explicit, comprehensive database of every organ donor in China.
We may have to live with the Chinese Communist party, for now. For that matter, we can console ourselves that there are no bones, for now. There will be none until the party falls and the Chinese people begin to sift through the graves and ashes.
We are all allowed a touch of compassion fatigue--it's understandable. But make no mistake: There are terrible lizards. And now that the Olympic Games are over, and the cameras have turned away, they roam the earth again.
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