Mood:  happy

Its black on black, just like Black on black should be. Yuck yuck !

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“People have turned off from religion, mosques are empty. But in the West, where there is total freedom, Muslims have become more religious.”

An Indian-Muslim becomes the Canadian equivalent of ‘Tan Sri’ for his outspoken opinions against Western fairy tales about Islam and the Third World. 

Understanding Muslim rage

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March 31 in History

PEC, Serbia - Dragica Besovic and her sister-in-law were back in Kosovo last week on a sad and macabre mission: to dig up their dead relatives and rebury them ...
 

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2007/01454.shtml

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At the end of the 1990s, Boris Berezovsky was Russia's richest man and now he wishes to introduce the

Litvinenko Justice Foundation 

But just across the way from the U.S. Embassy, where Litvinenko is thought to have ingested the polonium. 

Litvinenko had visited the London office of Erinys shortly before his death

according to this article from CorpWatch.

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Government prosecutors admitted they had lost a videotape of an interrogation of  

Jose Padilla

accused of plotting to set off a radioactive bomb in the United States

then

March 26th

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16240430.htm

...new evidence

http://www.fox12news.com/Global/story.asp?S=6295915

Actual Serbian paperclip

 March 11 marked the one-year anniversary of the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in his prison cell in The Hague. March 12 was the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. The consequences and debates over their roles and their legacies continue to this day.

Posted by mach1231 at 5:34 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, May 3, 2007 12:08 AM PDT

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Mood:  celebratory

I wonder how long till we see fashion designers going into music? Like take home along with your eau de toilette (sorry!)...a recording CD by Versace or WHATEVER(lol!)

....if this is the trend, (50 cent into book publishing, Fergie with her own line of purses, of course J-lo and her clothing line).....

maybe its all a matter of time

meanwhile I guess

http://www.contagiousclubwear.com

Uber. 

Posted by mach1231 at 12:27 PM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

Beyoncé will be making an appearance on the Today Show as well as the CBS Early Show April 2nd to perform songs from the B'Day Deluxe Edition-- out the next day.

The release will contain all 12 original tracks, plus 5 new songs in English and 6 new songs in Spanish. In the meantime, check out the Upgrade U video

I heard J-Los new album is really really really REALLY

classy.

I think personally that thats really nice. I mean I still like her old stuff but its so nice to see an artist grow and discover new terrain instead of well you know, just trying to cap bigger and better the same old ground.

But I still think Shania Twain should try unplugged-lol, which just goes to show you cant be all things to all people.

Heres a lil plug for

http://www.myspace.com/peterbjornandjohn

Like, whatever, right.

The glass is half full, and the other half is on its way!

http://www.myspace.com/boyslikegirls

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Mood:  amorous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3URfWTEPmtE

http://www.lyricsspot.com/beyonce-to+the+left-lyrics-1126829.html

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I can easily see Beyonce on the cover of everything from Oprah to Newsweek to Rolling Stone with the headline: Why America Loves Beyonce

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Life goes on!

Posted by mach1231 at 4:57 PM PDT

Updated: Friday, March 30, 2007 5:30 PM PDT

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It seems unlikely that all prior human cultures have been completely wrong-headed. It is far more plausible that we, in departing from historical models of the family, condemn ourselves to unhappiness, impoverishment and - ultimately - replacement by people from less foolish societies. - Tom Flanagan

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 Dear Editor(s),

How wonderful that Mr.Flanagan is able to comment on the social fabric
of the country and the fundamental building block with the family as
its core unit while his choice of government refuses to formerly
apologize for native school abuses of power and process ie. residential
schools.
  
  If one looks at some of the other fundamentalist views Mr.Flanagan
holds in regards to native rights, it's no wonder the myopia of the New
Government is now even more self-evident as they refuse to acknowlege
the accrued moral debt towards problems of the more immediate past, in
addition to politicizing fiscal policy by ignoring the Kelowna Accord.
  
  Instead of using the word "society". Mr.Flanagan should at least
pluralize to let readers know he has some awareness of First Nations in
Canada with societies different from his own or the ones he refers to. I
get the feeling most Canadians dislike being patronized.
  
  As do most First Nations.

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Born and educated in the U.S., shot to infamy with the 2002 publication of his book "First Nations: Second Thoughts" -- which preached, among other things, that First Nations were uncivilized savages that should be assimilated

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Made a comment on this blog about whether or not id's should be anonymous.

Also prior to that, shot this off to the editor of the Globe and Mail.

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Mood:  not sure

Art revolution

Youve Come a Long Way, Babe-uh?

Imagine the most extraordinary feminist dinner party ever held

The Big Picture

wretched in appearance, vulgar in his performance and coarse in his speech

 youre being sued in the United States

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200703/20070322/article_309858.htm

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Chinese computer virus maker A R R ES T E D!!!!!

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Mood:  bright

Human rights inquiry scheduled
(Raven's Eye)

Paul Barnsley, Human rights inquiry scheduled.  Vol. 2, Raven's Eye,

1998


An organization which monitors human rights abuses for the United
Nations
will look into Canada's Indian residential school system during a
hearing  scheduled for Vancouver's Maritime Labor Centre in mid-June.
The International Human Rights Association of American Minorities
(IHRAAM) is one of 1,356 non-governmental organizations in the world
with the  standing to issue reports for the United Nations High
Commissioner
on  Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council of the United
Nations.  A United Nations official confirmed that IHRAAM is one of
the 666  organizations world-wide listed on a roster of organizations
consulted by  the Economic and Social council.

Rudy James, the tribal leader of the Kuiukwaan people of southeastern
Alaska and a tribal judge with the Combined Tribal Court of Thlingit
Law,  is the North American director of IHRAAM whose northwest regional
office  is located in Seattle, Washington. James told Raven's Eye
a former United  Church of Canada employee named Kevin Annett asked
IHRAAM to investigate  potential human rights abuses connected to
the residential school system.  After recording seven hours of
interviews
with victims of abuse at the  Port Alberni school, James decided an
inquiry into the system, and  Canada's treatment of the victims of
the system, was appropriate. Lawyers,  law professors and judges from
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities  will be asked to sit as
members of the tribunal which will consider the  charges against Canada.
The human rights infractions that Canada, several  churches,
organizations
and individuals associated with the schools will  be asked to explain
are: forced removal from traditional lands and waters,  institutional
racism., psychological warfare, genocide and murder. Prime Minister
Jean Chretien, Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart and church 
officials
have been asked to appear as witnesses.

An organization with consultative status does not work at the direction
of the United Nations and is not funded, but it is fully screened
and  follows a written mandate.

James said Canada and the churches will be asked to answer for what
look  like serious human rights abuses.

"No one can punish a nation," James said. "But, so much of what is
done  by our organization is done through world public opinion. After
the  tribunal is done, a report will be sent to the High Commissioner
and the  Secretary General. Canada could be asked for a formal response
to the  report in the General Assembly. If Canadian authorities haven'
t done a  full investigation, on the murders especially, Canada will
be exposed to  international embarrassment."

James offered opinions about the $350 million healing fund established
this year by the federal government.

"It would impress me and allow me to write a favorable report if
Canadian
authorities assisted in identifying people who suffered from these
atrocities and then took direct action," he said. "If Canada made
a  determined effort to go right to the victims themselves, not the
people  treating them, and said 'What can we do for you?' they would
come across  as a Nation that is honest and willing to do something
about a mistake it  made."

Organizers of this tribunal make no secret of the fact that they are
not  impartial. Lead judge George Suckinaw James, Jr.   Rudy James'
brother    said his family is part of an unrecognized tribal government
with its  own history of oppression at the hands of colonizing forces.
The Kuiukwaan  people were forcibly removed from their ancestral home,
Kuiu Island in  southeastern Alaska by the United States Coast Guard
in the 1930s.

Paul Barnsley, Human rights inquiry scheduled.  Vol. 2, Raven's Eye,
06-01-1998, pp 2.

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The man who will write a report to the United Nations on Canada's residential school system said he has seen evidence that the system was an example of forced assimilation, genocide and forced removal of peoples from their traditional lands

http://sisis.nativeweb.org/resschool/jul98tri.html 

Posted by mach1231 at 11:28 AM PDT

Updated: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:44 AM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP WATER WORLD: This stretch of the Congo may someday power all of Africa

http://www.time.com/time/europe/next/040517/river.html

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Congo rapids to power Africa, Italy
The Australian, Australia - 16 Mar 2007
The world's biggest hydroelectric scheme, the Grand Inga power station, a project to harness the Congo River and power the African continent....

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