.. where the ideas on multiculturalism and other 'isms' are challenged
By FRANK BAJAK | Associated Press – 14 hrs ago
- . read the news and find out who has done what as far as discomfort is concerned ...
February 02, 2012
on the news
escaping globalisation ..
.. where the ideas on multiculturalism and other 'isms' are challenged
By FRANK BAJAK | Associated Press – 14 hrs ago
.. where the ideas on multiculturalism and other 'isms' are challenged
By FRANK BAJAK | Associated Press – 14 hrs ago
January 31, 2012
China's ghost cities
where 'over heated' economy is mentioned,
as well as social polarisation,
and there's reference to a bubble about to burst
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January 30, 2012
The Obama Deception
The documentary that I just posted is a very important one. It refers to something that isn't really known, for example the various types of higher organizations that controls almost everything we hear, see or do.
In January 2008 America, trought all the Iraq war and economical crises, saw a "light at the end of the tunnel". The victory of Barack Obama in presedency brought a new hope for all americans, but something also very important happened: America had the first afro-american president.
Barack Obama made many promises, one of them was to end the war in Iraq. When Obama spoke those words he had the vote from almost all the famillies that had their beloved sons,husbands and brothers in Iraq. But as the time got by the intire world started to see that all thoses promises being broken, a deception that was spreading all over the world.
In this especific documentary we can see how he broke those promises and why. I truly advise you to take a little time to see, it's worth it.
January 25, 2012
the American Dream at risk
In State of the Union address, Obama says ‘basic American promise’ is at risk
By Holly Bailey (Senior Political Reporter)
6 hrs ago
President Obama warned in his State of the Union address Tuesday that the nation's middle class is at risk because of growing economic inequality, and argued that the government must do more to preserve the basic American dream.
In a speech that is likely to set the theme of his 2012 re-election bid, Obama said "the basic American promise" that hard work can allow one to own a home and support a family are at risk if the government doesn't do more to balance the scale between the nation's rich and poor.
"The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive. No challenge is more urgent. (read further)
January 23, 2012
New mail from "Fight for the future"
Hi everyone!
A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.
The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard.
On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.
This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.
A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.
The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard.
On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.
This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.
The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”
“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."
Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause
January 21, 2012
SOPA & PIPA horror story
UK Student Richard O'Dwyer is being extradited to the United States to face USA Courts for just LINKING to copyrighted material on his webpage TVShack.net The USA is using an extradition treay intended to be used for terrorist to bring England Resident Richard O'Dwyer to America to be imprisoned for copyright infringement for what he did on his TVShack.net site in spite of the Fact that he broke no UK / England Laws and has never been to the USA.
The Famed Billionaire Alki David has publicly announced that he will cover ALL of Richard O'Dwyer's Legal Costs in the USA once he is brought here to stand trial.
MPAA Head former US Senator Chris Dodd supports the Imprisonment of World Citizens in the USA for Copyright Infringement and has called Anti SOPA and PIPA pundits "Dangerous".
This Video continues to expose how the Large Media Companies Actually Created the phenomenon of "Online Piracy" to Craft laws to take over the World Wide internet and Media Portals.
January 19, 2012
new page: political regimes
Hi!
There's a new page for all the issues we've been / will be discussing this 2nd. term. I've named it "regimes" and there's some stuff there already ..
Anything you research connected to the theme and comment on should be posted there as well
Some mail I've received yesterday (about SOPA & PIPA)
Today was nuts, right?
Google launched a petition. Wikipedia voted to shut itself off. Senators' websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them. NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks.
You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before. Tech companies and users teamed up. Tens of millions of people who make the internet what it is joined together to defend their freedoms. The free network defended itself. Whatever you call it, the bottom line is clear: from today forward, it will be much harder to mess up the internet.
The really crazy part? We might even win.
Approaching Monday's crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators publicly opposing PIPA. Last week there were 5. And it just takes just 41 solid "no" votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate. What seemed like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach.
But don't trust predictions. The forces behind SOPA & PIPA (mostly movie companies) can make small changes to these bills until they know they have the votes to pass. Members of Congress know SOPA & PIPA are unpopular, but they don't understand why--so they're easily duped by superficial changes. The Senate returns next week, and the next few days are critical.
January 18, 2012
SOPA and PIPA
Breaking News ... The U.S. are continuing their conquest of the world through the power and total control. Guess what they did now! The American Government is trying to ruin the internet by considering create a legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. According to the congress they only want to "save the world" by shutting down, for example, Wikipedia the biggest source of info on the internet... Now... Save the world or just get a easy way to control us? I have my doubts about their good intentions.
SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act." ("IP" stands for "intellectual property.") In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in my and Wikipedia's opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet.
I think it’s pretty clear what they want. Protecting copyrights and fighting piracy are one thing, but these acts take it way too far. If these pass, you are completely forgetting about that whole “by the people, for the people” thing in the Constitution.
Websites such as Wikipedia and Google have included a blackout to their page to join the protest against SOPA/PIPA. I will leave you some links here so you can see by yourself: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
A lot of people dont believe in the whole “new world order” thing. But if you open your eyes and look it's all happening right in front of our faces. No one knows what's gonna happen in 2012 but I can assure you if we continue to be ignorant as to what's going on, it's gonna be BAD. So EVERYONE needs to educate themselves. Do your research and prepare yourself.
I apologize for the long text but I needed to express myself about this whole madness going on and since we're talking about democracy and U.S. power over the world I thought this would be appropriated.
January 17, 2012
on atrocities ..
«We support much more brutal regimes .. [than the ones we attack]» **
«What honest people are saying is "We should pay attention to our own crimes and stop committing them!" This would be true even if we were killing one person! And it's even more true when we're killing millions of people!»
Q: «Do we need a central force (in this case America because it's a super power) that sometimes use 'unjust means' in the service of 'just causes'?
NC: «What are the 'just' causes? What is the just cause in ... for example, slaughtering Kurds in south eastern Turkey? What was the just cause?»
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Nicolae Ceaușescu (Romania)
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Suharto (Indonesia) -- Noam Chomsky has referred to the 1975 Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor as the worst instance of genocide relative to population since the Holocaust
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Occupy in Davos
Protesters ready igloos to Occupy Davos
Occupy protesters with their sights set on the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering next week of the rich and powerful in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, unveiled their igloo accommodation on Jan. 16. - sea photos and read further)
January 15, 2012
The Lost Boys of Sudan
The Lost Boys of Sudan is the name given to the groups of over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced and/or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005), about 2.5 million killed and millions were displaced. The name "Lost Boys of Sudan" was colloquially used by aid workers in the refugee camps where the boys resided in Africa.
Most of the boys were orphans separated from their families when government troops and government-sponsored militias systematically attacked villages in southern Sudan, killing many of the inhabitants. Many avoided capture or death because they were away from their villages tending cattle at the cattle camps (grazing lands located near bodies of water where cattle were taken and tended largely by the village children during the dry season) and were able to flee and hide in the dense African bush. Presumably orphaned, they traveled by foot for years in search of safe refuge, on a journey that carried them over a thousand miles across three countries to refugee camps where they resided in Ethiopia and Kenya and in various villages where they sought refugee in South Sudan. Over half died along their epic journey, due to starvation, dehydration, sickness and disease and attack by wild animals and enemy soldiers. Experts say they are the most badly war-traumatized children ever examined
Some of the unaccompanied male minors were conscripted by the Southern rebel forces and used as soldiers in the rebel army, while others were handed over to the government by their own families to ensure protection, for food, and under a false impression the child would be attending school.
The war impacted girls too. When villages were attacked, girls were reportedly raped, and women and small children (boys and girls) were taken to the north to be used or sold as slaves. When arriving in the camps in Ethiopia, the boys were placed in boys-only areas of the camp, but according to Sudanese culture, the girls could not be left alone and were placed with surviving family members or adopted by other Sudanese families. When the resettlement program to the US was initiated in 1999, one of the requirements was that the children must be orphans. Because these girls had been living in these family units for up to 9–14 years, they were no longer considered orphans and therefore, were not eligible for the resettlement program. As a result, relatively few of the Lost Girls were deemed eligible for the resettlement program to the US.
In 2001, as part of a program established by the United States Government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), approximately 3800 Lost Boys were allowed to resettle in the United States. They are now scattered over at least 38 cities. Halted after 9/11 for security reasons, the program restarted in 2004. As of 2006, the largest population of Sudanese refugees in the United States is in Omaha, Nebraska, which hosts about 7,000 people. Numerous resettlement agencies, such as Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, the IRC, World Relief and others assisted in the resettlement process. A variety of programs have been initiated to help these displaced people, in areas of education, medical assistance, reconnecting with families in South Sudan and in rebuilding efforts and providing humanitarian aid in Southern Sudan.
(André C.)
The Lost Boys of Sudan is the name given to the groups of over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced and/or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005), about 2.5 million killed and millions were displaced. The name "Lost Boys of Sudan" was colloquially used by aid workers in the refugee camps where the boys resided in Africa.
Most of the boys were orphans separated from their families when government troops and government-sponsored militias systematically attacked villages in southern Sudan, killing many of the inhabitants. Many avoided capture or death because they were away from their villages tending cattle at the cattle camps (grazing lands located near bodies of water where cattle were taken and tended largely by the village children during the dry season) and were able to flee and hide in the dense African bush. Presumably orphaned, they traveled by foot for years in search of safe refuge, on a journey that carried them over a thousand miles across three countries to refugee camps where they resided in Ethiopia and Kenya and in various villages where they sought refugee in South Sudan. Over half died along their epic journey, due to starvation, dehydration, sickness and disease and attack by wild animals and enemy soldiers. Experts say they are the most badly war-traumatized children ever examined
Some of the unaccompanied male minors were conscripted by the Southern rebel forces and used as soldiers in the rebel army, while others were handed over to the government by their own families to ensure protection, for food, and under a false impression the child would be attending school.
The war impacted girls too. When villages were attacked, girls were reportedly raped, and women and small children (boys and girls) were taken to the north to be used or sold as slaves. When arriving in the camps in Ethiopia, the boys were placed in boys-only areas of the camp, but according to Sudanese culture, the girls could not be left alone and were placed with surviving family members or adopted by other Sudanese families. When the resettlement program to the US was initiated in 1999, one of the requirements was that the children must be orphans. Because these girls had been living in these family units for up to 9–14 years, they were no longer considered orphans and therefore, were not eligible for the resettlement program. As a result, relatively few of the Lost Girls were deemed eligible for the resettlement program to the US.
In 2001, as part of a program established by the United States Government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), approximately 3800 Lost Boys were allowed to resettle in the United States. They are now scattered over at least 38 cities. Halted after 9/11 for security reasons, the program restarted in 2004. As of 2006, the largest population of Sudanese refugees in the United States is in Omaha, Nebraska, which hosts about 7,000 people. Numerous resettlement agencies, such as Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, the IRC, World Relief and others assisted in the resettlement process. A variety of programs have been initiated to help these displaced people, in areas of education, medical assistance, reconnecting with families in South Sudan and in rebuilding efforts and providing humanitarian aid in Southern Sudan.
(André C.)
USA immigration and today's discrimination
- Since 1800s that immigration in USA has increased alot. Immigrants came from many countrys like Ireland and Germany, England, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries and eastern European countries such as Italy, Poland and Russia. But all this different cultures and backgrounds they are all mixed together (the concept of melting pot) in one big culture, the american culture. All this "mixes" can create a beatiful culture and country but it can create several problems too.
- It can lead to many conflits, to discrimination, to racism! In our days there are too many reasons for that things to happen. People are discriminated because of their skin colour, sexual choices, their size, if they are fat or skinny, all carachteristics are used to discriminate the others. People can't understand that we are all equal, that we have all the same rights and that we should behave to have a better and peaceful world.
( Francisco )
January 12, 2012
violation of human rights
One of the violations of the Human rights is the Female genital mutilation, which is also known as "female circumsion". In my opinion is maybe the must violent mutilation that women suffers, this kind of practice is more usual in many parts of Africa, but it happens also in some immigrant communities in Europe, North America and Australia. The female circumsion is the removal of the external female genitalia, it can be done in a hospital, usualy whithout anaesthesia and its done by a traditional circumciser using a knife, razor, or scissors.
There is three types of the genitalia removal: Type one consistes in removal of the clitorial hood, and the removal of the clitoris itself, type two is the removal of the clitoris and the inner labia, and the tupe three is removal of all or part of the inner and outer labia, and usually the clitoris, and the fusion of the wound, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
they do this to girls almost in the age of puberty, who really are just children, they don't even care about the risks which include epidermoid cysts, recurrent urinary and vaginal infections and chronic pain.
oraganisation of personal pages
please note:
- older assignments should be put at the bottom and more recent ones at the top, following sort of a timeline
- separate posts according to the respective school terms (1st term works at the bottom)
Democracy
assignment 1:
about democracy:
Why The Elites Hate Democracy, by Noam Chomsky
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famous quotes on democracy (--choose one and write a comment on it..)
about democracy:
- The term comes from the word Greek: δημοκρατία – (dēmokratía) "rule of the people", which was coined from δῆμος (dêmos) "people" and κράτος (Kratos) "power", in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens (...) --- source
The International Center for Peace and Development (ICPD) carries on research in the fields of development, education, employment, peace and security and works in collaboration with other organizations to promote activities that will advance progress toward world peace and prosperity. -- source
Why The Elites Hate Democracy, by Noam Chomsky
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- Noam Chomsky : Obama is worse than George Bush and Tony Blair
2nd. assignment to this subject:
Add some more meaningful links/videos/pictures to this themedon't forget to identify the source if you choose to post a text!
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