Gendercide
Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on par with genocide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/19/women-slavery-half-the-sky
Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on par with genocide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/19/women-slavery-half-the-sky
Gizmo’s Freeware has carved out a niche for itself in the freeware reviewing community by creating and maintaining a variety of “best of” lists. This one may be their best yet: scores of best-in-class Web apps and services, divided into 11 major categories. Bookmark this.

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BP’s belief that burning sea turtles alive is necessary collateral damage in their cleanup efforts is a bit like FIFA saying that replays revealing a ref’s mistakes should not be shown on the big screen in the stadium where the match is being played. It completely evades the original problem that brought us to this miserable state of affairs.
A rare and endangered species of sea turtle is being burned alive in BP’s controlled burns of the oil swirling around the Gulf of Mexico, and a boat captain tasked with saving them says the company has blocked rescue efforts.
Mike Ellis, a boat captain involved in a three-week effort to rescue as many sea turtles from unfolding disaster as possible, says BP effectively shut down the operation by preventing boats from coming out to rescue the turtles.
"They ran us out of there and then they shut us down, they would not let us get back in there," Ellis said in an interview with conservation biologist Catherine Craig.
Part of BP’s efforts to contain the oil spill are controlled burns. Fire-resistant booms are used to corral an area of oil, then the area within the boom is lit on fire, burning off the oil and whatever marine life may have been inside.
"Once the turtles get in there they can’t get out," Ellis said.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0620/bp-burning-sea-turtles-alive/
Ah, religion. Time-honoured tool of self-righteous male monsters.
Bangladesh’s High Court has ordered authorities in an eastern district to protect and produce in court a 16-year-old girl who was lashed 101 times earlier this month after becoming pregnant as the result of a rape. The girl, who has not been named, received the punishment on the orders of village elders in the Brahmanbaria district who issued a “fatwa,” or Islamic ruling, declaring that she be flogged for immoral behavior. The elders pardoned the 20 year-old rapist. The incident occurred five months after the country’s highest court issued a ruling ordering authorities to investigate incidents of extra-judicial punishments and take action against those responsible.
The August ruling came after a rash of earlier floggings of women, including one who spoke to a man from a different community, another who filed a rape complaint, and a third who refused sexual advances made by a relative. In each case locally-issued fatwas ordered punishment of 101 lashes.
http://www.wluml.org/node/5903
It’s hard not to despair when you take off the twin blinkers of denial and escape and take a hard look at the world.
Metal puts a match to that despair.
Here’s a whittled list of excellent metal. This post will see many updates.
When metal is done really well, it kind of makes everything else (except for some works by a few immortal jazz artists and classical composers such as JS Bach and Arvo Pärt) pale into insignificance.
Web of Metal aggregates metal-album reviews from several different sites. Since once metalhead’s thrash is another’s trash, this is an important sanity check.
She has a lot to say about the subversion of the South African legal system by corrupt ANC politicians. A lone voice in the wilderness.
Business Day article – "RHODA KADALIE: ANC turning ‘justice’ into a game only it can win" – http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=109472
What took him so long? Go see, then read the comments.
Mine, if the understandably nervous Mail & Guardian editors didn’t let it through by now, was a rare pro-Zapiro comment. It is childish to be offended. No wonder these offended parties display further childishness by stomping about and wagging their forefingers while bellowing purple prose.
Most of the human race seems to consist of superstitious crackpots only a step away from separating bodies from heads, setting the corpses alight and dragging them through the streets.
We are creatures of eternal carnage. Only the faces change.
For the sake of all non-human life on this planet, never mind the rest of the universe, I honestly hope our species dies out very soon.