I wish I had paid more attention in Human Rights class...

I am of the belief now that in the new century two events have greatly deminished the advances that we have made on the protections of human rights against the State and the prosecution of those leaders commit crimes against humanity.  Although it gets lost in the stuffle, the post WWII world ( Read more... )

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I have gotten really tired of the Pro-china crowd that have rallied around blind Chinese nationalism in order to support the Chinese Government. Mostly I have seen this on Youtube.com in the form of videos like the one that this is responding to. As far as I can see there are three main arguements ( Read more... )

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So I made a new video about a Tibetian temple that I saw in Beijing. The historic Lama temple was really pretty and unique but there was a strong police presence.  I decided that this would be the next video because it became really timely with the riots in Tibet and China's declaration of a "People's War" (the equivelant of a communist jihad)  ( Read more... )

So in a story that would have sounded like a SciFi novel ( or something straight out of the RPG Fates Worse Than Death) mere decades ago, individuals around the world have banded togather to attack the Church of Scientology (CoS).  In this video they declare war on the CoS and call people to action.  Calling itself Anonymous, this group seems to me ( Read more... )

Its offical, Pakistan is now poised to spiral out of control.  Yesterday (I think, its sometimes hard to tell because I live in the future) Pro-democratic and anti-Islamic extremist leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber (Bryant Park Project interview with someone who was there).  BBP also has this photo of moments before the ( Read more... )

I have been downloading the Alive in Bagdad podcast from iTunes.  It is valuable in so far as it provides intimate pictures of life in todays bagdad and it it all brought to you by citizen report.  Friday one of thier contributors was gunned down by Iraqi soldier with 31 bullets to the head and torso.  His name was Ali Shafeya.  The details are ( Read more... )

Here is a handful of videos to commerate Human rights day on Dec 10th (in the US).  Blah blah blah awareness is the first step.  Blah blah blah the dire state of hoo-min rights.  Blah blah blah if you want to do something this holiday season that fits almost every budget you can become a micro lender here.

-Next year the United Nations African ( Read more... )