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Tenth Suicidal Death This Year In Chinese Technical Facility - Joel Hendon
According to an article in the Beijing Review, there have been twelve suicides or attempted suicides this year in the huge complex of the Foxconn Technology Group located in Shenzhen China. Two survived their efforts but received serious injuries. This latest death occurred on the night of... Submitted 1 year 254 days ago.

Islamic Burqa Becoming An International Pain In the Neck - - Joel Hendon
Muslim immigration into non-Muslim countries have, in many cases, brought controversy concerning certain features of their religion. Some segments, not all, have strict rules for their women's appearance in public. There are two items of their clothing which are required by certain groups that... Submitted 1 year 268 days ago.

Are the Falkland Islands to be the next big oil producer? - Joel Hendon
The Falkland Islands are located in the deep south Atlantic. They are situated about 300 miles east offshore from the southern mainland of South America. They are some 700 miles north from Antarctica and about 3,800 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Africa. The archipelago consists... Submitted 1 year 268 days ago.

Iraqi Girl Imprisoned For Using A Forged Passport To Escape Sexual Slavery - Jennifer Stewart
In societies where women have no value, girls have even less. Surely one of the cruelest injustices is when a girl is abused, has to commit a crime to escape, is imprisoned for that crime - and then outcast by her family because she brought shame on them. Meanwhile the perpetrators of the... Submitted 1 year 280 days ago.

UK Election A Close Call With Only Three Days Away - Jennifer Stewart
Countdown to the UK elections and campaigning is in its final week. All three parties have changed leaders since the last election and none of them have headed a general election before. Three public debates which took place between Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats saw public... Submitted 1 year 284 days ago.

Girls Rescued from Nepal's Child Trafficking for Sex Slave Trade - Jennifer Stewart
In Nepal, between 10,000 and 15,000 women and girls around the age of 9 years old are abducted or sold into sexual slavery in India, according to the US State Department. Nepal and Bangladesh provide the main supply of trafficked children in South East Asia and the practice is possibly the... Submitted 1 year 284 days ago.

Ukranian Parliamentarians Lob Raw Eggs - Jennifer Stewart
Men behaving badly we don't expect it of lawmakers, but that is exactly what happened last Tuesday when members of Ukraine's Parliament broke out into a fist- and egg-throwing fight while somebody set off a smoke bomb. A pre-meditated affair, one would imagine, unless Ukranian lawmakers... Submitted 1 year 288 days ago.

Funeral of Polish President Hit by Volcanic Ash Cloud - World Leaders Grounded By Volcano - Julian Price
World Leaders hoping to attend the funeral of Polish President, Lech Kacyznski, who was killed in a plane crash last week, are being hindered by the massive volcanic ash cloud which now covers much of Europe. The ash which is being pumped out of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland shows no... Submitted 1 year 299 days ago.

Election 2010 - Live TV Debate Sees Lib Dem Nick Clegg Out Shine Brown and Cameron - Julian Price
The United Kingdom's first ever live television debate between Prime Minister Gordon Brown and those who long to fill his shoes, David Cameron and Nick Clegg saw, perhaps, Lib Dem Clegg striking the first blow for public affection. In true USA Presidential debate style, though with markedly... Submitted 1 year 301 days ago.

Volcanic Eruption Causes Travel Chaos across UK and Europe - Flights Cancelled - Julian Price
A cloud of volcanic smoke and ash is heading south across the UK and towards mainland Europe. Almost all air travel has been cancelled within the UK, with no flights expected in or out of the country for the rest of the day. The volcano eruption in Iceland has sent tonnes of ash into the... Submitted 1 year 302 days ago.

6.9 Earthquake In Western China Today, Kills 400+, Injures Thousands - Joel Hendon
A series of shocks measuring up to 6.9 shook western China around 8:01 A.M., in their time zone, ( about 2:00 A.M. here in the CST) destroyed a number of homes and badly damaged at least two schools in China's Qinghai Province in the Tibetan plateau. Authorities state that an early count... Submitted 1 year 303 days ago.

50% Income Tax Looms For UK: Some Are Elated To See It! - Joel Hendon
Many British citizens may see their income tax jump to 50% next month. According to the Americano.com, those earning over 150,000 ($227,000) per year will see their incomes taxed 50%.This will be interesting to watch. We can see, not only the reactions of those whose income taxes take half their... Submitted 1 year 338 days ago.

The Highly Touted Global Warming Consensus, Becomes Nonsensus - - Joel Hendon
As far back as the turn of the millennium, sound and legitimate scientists have disputed the frantic screaming of the planet being destroyed by man made carbon dioxide. But the screamers have insisted there is a consensus of the scientific community who have evidence and are convinced that such... Submitted 2 years 1 day ago.

The Iranian February “Punch” Threat, Shouldn’t Be Taken Lightly - - Joel Hendon
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can be expected to run off at the mouth anytime and say some really stupid things. He is brainless, however, the remark he made this past week that the world could expect a surprise from Iran on February 11...that's Thursday, should put a dread on all people's mind and I'll... Submitted 2 years 2 days ago.

Haiti - What Is the Faith of the Haitian Orphans After the Earthquake? - - Rose-Marie Chaperon
After the January 12, 2010 earthquake over 500,000 people were killed, some of these people were parents with young children as young as 1 year old. It is estimated currently close to one million children in Haiti are without anyone to care for them. Although many countries and many people want... Submitted 2 years 7 days ago.

Jimmy Carter’s Belated Apology to the Jewish Community - Joel Kontinen
In 2006 former US president Jimmy Carter wrote a book entitled Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. Its very title proved to be a source of controversy as readers associated the erstwhile South African racist system with what the Israelis were doing with their wall that soon became a symbol of... Submitted 2 years 11 days ago.

Rape of Women and Young Girls in Haiti Occurring—How To Help Stop Sexual & Other Crimes Immediately - - Steve Kovacs
While the world is stepping up to the plate to help the needy in Haiti , another problem looms in the darkness. On top of all the unbelievable anguish the people of Haiti are going through, another horror is occurring-the rape of women and young girls. Females living on the streets and others... Submitted 2 years 13 days ago.

Haiti - Pat Robertson's Comment Regarding Haiti's Earthquake - Rose-Marie Chaperon
Pat Robertson is indeed a very cold and heartless man. He should be ashamed to claim himself an American Christian! His cold statement about Haiti only proves that he is simply a muttonhead. I have been going over my history book to see exactly when Haiti made a pact with the devil; I cannot seem... Submitted 2 years 14 days ago.

Might Civil Upheaval Or Violence Occur Over Homosexuality? - - Joel Hendon
Perhaps the best place to begin our article is in Uganda in 1879. A Catholic mission had been started and established there a few years. King Mwanga was not familiar with Christianity and started no interference until one of them, Joseph Mkasa, corrected him for the life he was living. He was a... Submitted 2 years 36 days ago.

Billion Dollar Bride? Cave Dwelling Billionaire Looking for a Bride! - Michelle Mackin
Zslot and Geza Peladi The breaking news regarding Zslot and Geza Peladi should ring a familiar bell for anyone who has ever seen the 1999 movie, The Bachelor . The word is that Zslot and his brother Geza were destitute, living in a cave outside of Budapest, Hungary, when they... Submitted 2 years 69 days ago.

Postal Strikes During Recession - Irresponsible Action or Freedom of Speech? - Julian Price
As the Western world continues its clamouring campaign for all things "freedom" and as Global recession hits lives and livelihoods at every level across the planet, the postal workers (or the Union that heads them) in the United Kingdom have decided now is a good time to have a good whinge about... Submitted 2 years 111 days ago.

The Ayatollahs of Washington - - Jerome Grossman
As I write this blog on June 17, the streets of Iran's capital are jammed with demonstrators rallying to protest the country's disputed presidential vote. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians defied the country's religious leaders who have the final say on state matters demanding a new election... Submitted 2 years 238 days ago.

Terrorists May Be Planning Dirty Bomb Detonation - Joel Hendon
Everyone understands that the radical terrorists lay awake planning for the most horrible incident they can successfully pull off. And even though they could care no less about how many casualties they might cause, their primary objective is terror. Of course, the more casualties they can inflict... Submitted 3 years 41 days ago.

New Zealand Earthquake Depicts a Spiritual Awakening Situation - Harry
Nobody expected it to happen and yet, it did. This time it happened in New Zealand, by means of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that inflicted death to several lives and ruined the supposedly fine structures surrounding the place. Perhaps, we have to consider this a kind of spiritual awakening and... Submitted 348 days 21 hours ago.

The U.S. Is An Empire. How Did It Get The Tribute Empires Deserve All These 100 Years? - - THE DEFLATION GURU
I ask this question all the time and never get the right answer. So, here goes. Rome was an empire. Rome at it's peak had conquered all its neighbors. Empires can demand and get tribute from those it has vanquished in the form of gold, grain, slaves, spices, silk, olive oil, wine, wild animals... Submitted 1 year 128 days ago.