Down With Everybody

Down With Everybody

• Like China Cares
  They got the Olympics. Mission accomplished. The rest is details. [Concord Monitor] Isolation only hardens totalitarian regimes, so the gamble the International Olympic Committee took when it awarded the Games to China was worthwhile. But it’s a gamble that the committee, the athletes and China will lose if the story of the Games becomes not one [...]
• We’re All Broken Up To See Someone Ripping Off The Ripper
  [Spectator] Ten billion contraband cigarettes are smoked in Canada every year, depriving governments of taxation income of up to $4 million a day. vs. [National Anthems] The survey found that the average price of five mid-range cars was, on average, 19 per cent higher in Canada. Discounted books were still 21 per cent more expensive. A sample of eight point-and-shoot [...]
• That Pesky “Public” Again
  [Standard Freeholder, Peter Worthington] Since then a campaign has been mobilized on Omar’s behalf — a support team consisting of couple of Edmonton lawyers, military defence lawyers, opposition MPs (led by Bob Rae who sounds more than Liberal), Amnesty International and human rights groups, the CBC, Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. The only ones unimpressed [...]
• Iran To Stone 8 Women To Death For Adultery
  Just the type of guys we’d want to be seen negotiating with, preconditions be damned. [Telegraph] Eight women and one man convicted of adultery are set to be stoned to death in Iran, according to activists and lawyers. … A man is usually buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her neck. Those carrying [...]
• UK Human Rights Chief: TV Companies Must Change Their “Hideously White” Ways
  [BBC] TV soaps EastEnders and Coronation Street stereotype ethnic minorities, according to a report. But talent shows like The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing represented the UK’s diverse ethnic mix, it said. The report’s leader, Trevor Phillips - head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission - said TV companies remained “hideously white”. … Mr Phillips, who wrote [...]
• Human Rights Commission Opens A New Revenue Stream
  From the Keep The Business Booming file. [Holiday Lettings] New EU legislation has been introduced to give disabled travellers more rights. Disabled air passengers will receive more help when using EU airports. … A recent survey by the charity revealed that 61 per cent of respondents had experienced difficulties when boarding a plane. Disabled passengers will now be [...]
• Mugabe A Fiend, West To Blame
  [Huffington Post, Allan Miller] We have seen the volume rise steadily recently for intervention of various kinds in Zimbabwe, however if one looks back over the past recent history it becomes apparent that many of the issues at the forefront currently are because of western interference in some fashion. The rest. [...]
• The Winning Strategy Of Speaking Softly While Carrying No Stick
  [IOL] Durban-born Navanethem Pillay has been notified of her nomination as the new UN Human Rights Commissioner, despite American reservations. … Arbour put pressure on the US State Department and the White House to close down Guantanamo Bay prison camp. But when she did not get results, Arbour spoke out against the UN’s most powerful member. She [...]
• They Were Probably Singing Camp Songs While Drafting A Human Rights Petition
  [AOL] An archeological dig at the site of the future Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has unearthed a rare find: a footprint estimated to be 800 years old. … It’s not clear if the footprint was made by a man or a woman, but it was probably left in the mud around 1200 A.D., Kroeker [...]
• Guilt Trip: Bought An iPhone? Shame On You
  [Chronicle Herald] What more can be said? The jury is out. The iPhone petition was strong and loud. Oh, the plastic, the shine, the downloads. How many 15-year-olds will be spending time with their new tech-toys as Omar Khadr, a Canadian, waits for justice? Justice in this case must be operating on a 14 kbps [...]