Teachers say sorry over skirt-liftingMALACCA: The two teachers of a primary school here, who forced their pupils to lift their skirts up to see who was menstruating after a used sanitary pad was found in a washbasin outside the toilet, have apologised to the pupils and the parents.
Richard Knight, 44, chairman of the Parent-Teacher Association of SRK Infant Jesus Convent I, said the teachers apologised to the parents on Thursday when the parents went to the school to discuss the incident with the teachers and headmi... (more)
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Chavez: Bush should get death penaltyCARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez slammed the Saddam Hussein death penalty and said it is U.S. President George W. Bush who should be sentenced to death.
"If sentencing is to be done," said Chavez earlier this week, "the first one to be given the most severe sentence this planet has to offer should be the president of the United States, if we're talking about genocidal presidents," the Miami Herald reported Thursday.
The leftis... (more)
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The Zarqawi affair, part 13 of 23“655,000 people have died in Iraq as a result of the 2003 invasion . . ." --Lancet Report
"I reject the idea that we should cut off funding and by the way, I think it would also have a very, very bad effect on morale of our troops if we told them we were cutting off the funding for what they believe is a noble cause." --Sen. John McCain rebuttal to Congressional candidate Bruc... (more)
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Bush's "New" Iraq Strategy Revealed: More Troops, More WarUS plans last big push in Iraq (Guardian)
Did anyone really imagine it would be any different? The Guardian reports that Bush has already decided on his "new" strategy for Iraq, ahead of the recommendations of the "Iraq Study Group" he appointed – and ahead of the internal government review of strategy which he ordered only this week. And what is the strategy? More of the same. How coul... (more)
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FACT CHECK: Increasing Troop Levels In Baghdad Made Violence WorseThe Guardian reports that the Bush administration may be heeding McCain’s calls for an escalation in Iraq:
President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make “a last big push” to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning a troop withdrawal next year, he may increase US for ... (more)
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New 90-day terror detention bid Ministers are likely to try again to extend the limit on police detaining terror suspects without charge to 90 days, Lord Carlile has told the BBC.
The independent reviewer of terror laws said he expected a bill early next year with several "tidying-up measures".
These might include the 90 day plans which were rejected by Parliament last year, he predicted.
Meanwhile ex-Home Secretary David Blunkett has accepted the public ... (more)
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CNN's Beck to first-ever Muslim congressman: "[W]hat I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies' "On the November 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck interviewed Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who became the first Muslim ever elected to Congress on November 7, and asked Ellison if he could "have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect and I play the cards up on the table." After Ellison agreed, Beck said: "I ... (more)
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Bush gives go-ahead for 'Bush Center' in IsraelWASHINGTON - U.S. President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an initiative to establish a center under his name in Israel, as a sign of gratitude for his support for the country and its security. Outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the United States Daniel Ayalon asked Bush for the go-ahead to establish such a center during a farewell meeting with the president and his deputy, Dick Cheney.
Bush told Ayalon that "freedom" would be a worthy subject for the center to focus on. ... (more)
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Motorists to pay £1.34 a mile in rush hour A pay-as-you drive scheme moved a step closer yesterday with the inclusion of plans for pilot road pricing regulations in the Queen's Speech.
The Department for Transport refused to rule out the possibility of motorists with gas-guzzlers paying more than those with more environmentally friendly cars.
Regional trials will start in five years and the Government hopes to have a national scheme, with drivers possibly paying up to £1.34 ... (more)
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Russian Parliament Says Saddam Execution Will Bring More Violence to IraqRussia’s parliament has warned that carrying out the death sentence imposed on former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could provoke a new wave of violence in Iraq, the Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday.
The lower house of the Russian parliament, controlled by a pro-Kremlin party that supports President Vladimir Putin, said in a statement that the use of foreign force in Iraq had failed for the people of Iraq.
A U.S.-backed Iraqi court... (more)
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Horrific New Evidence of China Organ Harvesting Revealed A Chinese military surgeon had eight Chinese citizens killed to supply a single foreign patient with a new kidney, said former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour on November 14. Kilgour spoke as a special guest at the Asian Human Rights Week forum in Warsaw, on day two of a five day program.
"The incredible thing is that the doctor would…go down the names on sheets of paper looking for blood types and tissue types and so on... (more)
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UK troops kill Afghan civilians UK forces in Afghanistan have shot dead two civilians and injured a child.
An international military spokesman said a patrol opened fire after a van travelling at high speed failed to stop north of Girish in Helmand province.
He said the vehicle failed to respond to hand signals from troops, adding that the incident was deeply regrettable and was being investigated.
UK troops assumed responsibility for Nato operations in Helm... (more)
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Iraq ministry hostages 'tortured' Iraq's higher education minister has said he fears some ministry workers kidnapped by gunmen on Tuesday have been tortured and killed.
Abd Dhiab said some of the 70 or so captives who have since been released were badly beaten.
They were among scores of workers taken hostage when the gunmen raided an education ministry building in Baghdad.
In continuing violence meanwhile, gunmen killed nine people in an ambush on a bakery ... (more)
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Why Rumsfeld Can Rest Easy Over German ChargesThe lawsuit filed in Germany this week against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Administration officials for alleged war crimes in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo has little chance of making it into court. That's according to Andreas Zimmerman, a professor of international criminal law at Kiel University who helped negotiate the Rome Treaty that founded the International Criminal Court and who drafted the German law under which Rumsfeld has been charged. Under... (more)
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Lowry falsely claimed poll shows most Americans support sending more troops to IraqSummary: The National Review's Rich Lowry falsely claimed that a "late-October New York Times poll found that 55 percent of the public favors sending more troops to Iraq." In fact, according to an October 27-31 New York Times/CBS News poll, only 16 percent of respondents favored increasing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. In his November 14 National Review Online column, "Be Careful What You Believe," National Review editor Rich Lowry falsely claimed that a "... (more)
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The nursery rhyme police - parents to take lessons in reading and singing Parents could be forced to go to special classes to learn to sing their children nursery rhymes, a minister said.
Those who fail to read stories or sing to their youngsters threaten their children's future and the state must put them right, Children's Minister Beverley Hughes said.
Their children's well-being is at risk 'unless we act', she declared.
And Mrs Hughes said the state would train a new 'parenting workforce' to ensure p... (more)
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Man Immolates Himself To Protest Iraq War In December 2002, the city of Chicago dedicated a statue called "The Flame of the Millennium"-- a seven-ton, stainless-steel, abstract rendering of a flame in high wind, standing over the Kennedy Expressway, just west of the downtown Loop. Last Friday, November 3, the statue appeared to be on fire. When authorities got there, they found a video camera, a canister of gasoline, a sign reading "Thou Shalt Not Kill", and a human body so badly charred that it was impossi... (more) Read his self-written obituary here. |
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Couple told stop arguing or face jailA COUPLE of neighbours from hell have been warned they face jail unless they stop ARGUING.
Pole dancer Jenny Hague, 18, and jobless boyfriend Dan Brinkley, 17, row so much that sleepless residents called in council officials.
Now magistrates have given them both ASBOs and warned they will go to prison if they do not pipe down. Pint-sized Brinkley was hauled into court and ordered to stop rowing and swearing at Jenny at home and in the street.
Six-foot... (more)
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CIA acknowledges existence of presidential order authorizing it to detain, interrogate terror suspects overseasIn response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, the CIA has finally acknowledged the existence of a presidential order authorizing the agency to detain and interrogate terror suspects overseas.
"For more than two years, the CIA had refused to either deny or confirm the existence of the documents and had argued in court that doing so could jeopardize national security," the ACLU notes in a press release received by RAW STORY.
Along with a memorandum written... (more)
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Martial Law Made Easy Alittle-noted provision of the recently passed Defense Authorization Act allows President Bush to send in the military to police any trouble spot in this country regardless of the wishes of state governors.
On Oct. 17, President Bush signed the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007.
The act grants the military the authority to seek from Congress $462.8 billion. In addition, Senate and House conferees added anothe... (more)
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The "Nuzzling" Terror Cell The Insanity of Homeland Security enforced airline security measures reached a new high today as two American citizens were charged with violating the Patriot Act for "sexual play" on a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles.
Just when you thought it was safe to get back on a plane, just when you thought it may be possible to fly without fear of hij... (more)
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Blair 'faces new rebellion over anti-terror legislation'Tony Blair has been warned that he faces renewed dissent over planned anti-terror laws as research showed the Government faced record levels of rebellion from its backbenchers last year.
Labour MPs defied the whip in more than a quarter of votes during the last session of Parliament, academics at Nottingham University said.
More than half of the rebellions, and the four defeats inflicted, were over Home Office Bills, leading to warnings that the Government could fac... (more)
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The Zarqawi affair, part 11 of 23"I was going to -- I pick up the phone and say, Mr. Secretary, I've got an interesting question. This is what delegation -- I don't mean to be dodging the question, although it's kind of convenient in this case, but never -- I really will -- I'm going to call the secretary and say you brought up a very valid question, and what are we doing about it? That's how I work. I'm -- thanks.” --President George w. Bush answering a question from a Johns Hopkins’ first-year student in South Asi... (more)
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The Zarqawi affair, part 12 of 23“But the central role afforded Zarqawi, both in 2003 and now, is as tendentious as many of the other suppositions that undergird the administration's Iraq policy. The evidence offered to support the administration's assessment of Zarqawi as a driver of the Iraqi insurgency and top lieutenant of bin-Laden is reminiscent, in form and substance, of the spurious evidence regarding Iraq weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, some of the sources may be the same.” [From articles c ... (more)
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