Seen on: YouTube
Life after Cyclone Sidr, has been mixed for its survivors. After a year of promises by the mostly corrupt Bangladeshi administration, people are putting their lives back-together with assistance from non-governmental organizations.
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Showing posts with label Society. Show all posts
November 22, 2008
Bangladesh fails Sidr victims
Seen on: YouTube
The New Rulers of the World
Seen on: YouTube
John Pilger's The New Rulers of the World tackles the double standards inherent in the politics of globalization. It sets out to explain something of the "new" order--the unholy alliance of business interests and imperial repression--and the importance of breaking the silence that protects great power and its manipulations.
November 17, 2008
Obama And The Presidency
Seen on: CBS News - 60 Minutes
Since Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the USA, he has largely remained out of sight, getting high-level government briefings and conferring with his transition team. But he eventually surfaced, alongside his wife Michelle to give 60 Minutes his first post-election interview.
November 16, 2008
Inside Kandahar
Seen on: YouTube
Civilians in Afghanistan have paid the heavist price for the conflict in their country, caught up almost daily in both Taliban attacks and air raids by US force.
The Oxford Project
Sarah Palin would call this place, and these people, the real America - Joe the Plumber country. But Oxford's plumber, Calvin Colony, keeps pet lions ("You can train 'em, but you can never tame 'em") and makes annual treks to a nudist resort in the Caribbean. The Oxford Project is full of such small, exquisite discoveries - personal stories that defy and debunk the stereotypes of smalltown America.
Via Philadelphia Inquirer
October 1, 2008
Nigeria: A Man & His 86 Wives
Seen on: YouTube
A eighty-four year old man in Northern Nigeria has prompted anger from Muslims, even receiving death threats, for having 86 wives. Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reports from Bida, where Mohammed Bello has caused huge controversy.
September 6, 2008
The 'Swazi' Pimp
King Mswati III arrives for celebrations marking his 40th birthday. He arrived in the stadium in a new BMW - one of 20 bought for the occassion.
> Reuters Pictures
September 1, 2008
July 27, 2008
April 10, 2008
Image Day - Born Free
Polar bear cub Flocke jumps in the water at the zoo in Nuremberg. Four-month old Flocke -- German for snowflake -- has until now been kept behind closed doors.
> Reuters Pictures
April 4, 2008
The Fifty-Million Dollar Note
A Zimbabwean holds a newly issued fifty million dollar note. The country is in a severe economic and political crisis, with official inflation figures at over 100,000 percent. The new note is worth the equivalent of three loaves of bread.
> AP Images
March 18, 2008
Top 10 Political Websites
This list features the websites for key political party websites based on US Internet usage. This ranking list has been customized to feature only select websites.Note: Hitwise data is based on US market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the Lifestyle - Politics category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites.
- The Huffington Post
- BarrackObama.com
- CNN Political Ticker
- Free Republic
- RealClearPolitics
- HilaryClinton.com
- Politico
- Elections: Fox News
- Daily Kos
- Election: MSN
Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context.
Source - Hitwise - week ending March 8, 2008 - based on market share of visits.
February 14, 2008
The Torture of Tasneem Khalil
The torture of journalist Tasneem Khalil by Bangladesh's notorious military intelligence agency highlights abuses under the country's state of emergency and the government's failure, Human Rights Watch has said in a new report.
The 39-page report, "The Torture of Tasneem Khalil", graphically details Khalil's 22-hour ordeal in May 2007 in Bangladesh's clandestine detention and torture system -- a setup well known to the government & ordinary Bangladeshis.
"Rampant illegal detention and torture are clear evidence of Bangladesh's security forces running amok," said Brad Adams, of Human Rights Watch.
"Bangladesh's international friends need to make the eradication of torture a top priority in their relations with Bangladesh," said Adams.
Excerpts from Tasneem Khalil's statement:
"[A member of the arresting party] jumped up from the chair, pulled out a revolver, pushed it against my lips, and started shouting, 'You are under arrest.' I started shouting back, telling them that what they were doing was illegal."
"Then they asked me about my connections with Human Rights Watch. I told them I work as their consultant. When they inquired further, I told them I had worked with Human Rights Watch since 2006. I worked with Human Rights Watch on a report about extrajudicial killings by RAB. That suddenly infuriated them so much that all of them started hitting the table with hands and sticks and started shouting at me. 'How dare you write against our brothers in RAB?"
"They started beating me again mercilessly, from all possible directions with hands and batons and kicks. I said I would not do those things again. But one person said I had already 'made the blunder'."
Via Bangladesh-Blogger
February 9, 2008
Terror-Storm
Seen on: YouTube
Alex-Jones provides evidence pointing towards the involvement of the British government in the 7/7 London Bombings in this extract from Terror-Storm.
February 8, 2008
Globalisation: New Rulers of the World
Seen on: Google Video
The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one big global village. In 2001, John-Pilger made 'The New Rulers of the World', a film exploring the impact of globalisation.
It took Indonesia as the prime example, a country that the World-Bank described as a 'model pupil' until its 'globalised' economy collapsed in 1998.
February 6, 2008
The Broken People - Part one
Seen on: YouTube
Reporter Ramita-Navai travels through India exposing the horrific plight of the country's millions of Dalits: literally "the broken people".
February 4, 2008
Shakira's Bangladesh-Appeal
Seen on: YouTube
Musician Shakira calls for action, after visiting Bangladeshi cyclone-victims in 07.
February 3, 2008
Once Upon a Time in Iran - One
Seen on: YouTube
A steady drumbeat of leaks suggests that the US and/or Israel may attack Iran sometime over the coming months. Once Upon a Time in Iran is a road movie featuring pilgrims and presidents: a journey to the spiritual heartlands of the Iranian people and a tale of martyrdom that defines their view of aggressors.
January 29, 2008
Iran jails Bahai 'propagandists'
Iran has sentenced three members of the Bahai faith to four years for security offences and 51 others to suspended terms.
The authorities said they were proselytising in the southern city of Shiraz under the cover of helping the poor. They were convicted for propaganda against the system in the southern city of Shiraz, a judiciary spokesman said.
Via BBC
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