Category: World News & Politics

World Peace Society: We’d love you to vote in the U.S. Election for the Rest of the World. We think it’s pretty obvious to everyone but perhaps those inside America what the rest of the world thinks in the forthcoming U.S. Election.

Please spend 1 or 2 seconds voting at World Peace Society and maybe another minute telling as many people as you can about it.

We need thousands of votes to make it meaningful, so we desperately need your help. Imagine how cool it would be to help the U.S. with their presidential selection, Lord knows, they ‘help’ every other country with theirs!

[Via Bouillabaisse]

Well lately I’ve been asking myself this question a lot?
What is the difference between Bush & Kerry?

I mean when Howard Dean was the front runner, the differences were obvious, and it was obvious that Dean is closer to normal people

A German woman and a male friend face prosecution for human trafficking after they put the woman’s daughter up for auction on the Internet at a starting price of one euro ($1.18).

A photograph of the 8-year-old child was posted by the man, from the Bavarian town of Traunstein, who later told police he had placed the offer to test the online auction system.

Three people made offers for the child and the bidding price reached 25.50 euros before the item was removed after between three to four hours by the company’s security.

This is just sick.
The thought of a mom auctioning her daughter on the internet is revolting.
What is this world coming to?
Next thing you’ll know we’ll have Gay Marriage! Oh we already do?
Well, whatever!

“There is no surprise in Sharon’s plans. He at least has remained consistent. The wonder is that George W. Bush should rip up his own “road map,” undo 37 years of American policy, and go along with a plan that leaves the Palestinians no hope for a viable state of their own. It is not only morally wrong; it dooms Palestinians and Israelis to generations more of conflict and endangers America’s entire position in the Middle East. Friends are betrayed and moderates marginalized. Democracy and a better life will not come to the region if the Palestinians are excluded from it.”

H.D.S. Greenway

President Bush on Wednesday rejected international condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and said world leaders owed him a “thank you” for his plans for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

In “my judgment, the whole world should have said, ‘Thank you, Ariel. Now we have a chance to begin the construction of a peaceful Palestinian state,”‘ Bush added.

“Responsibility is hard. It’s hard to be responsible for promoting freedom and peace when you’re used to something else. If you don’t have the aspirations of the people firmly embedded in your soul, it’s hard to take a gamble for peace,” Bush said.

Like a democratic Iraq, Bush said, he believes “a free Palestinian state will be a major change agent for world peace.”

Hmmm…
George, george, george…
What are we gonna do with you?
At first you were simply dumb, now you’re dumb and your jokes are lame!
So please put a sock in it, will ya!

[More: Reuters]
[Via: Je Blog]

Released Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has called for the country’s Dimona nuclear reactor to be opened for world inspection.

Vanunu, who walked out of the Shikma prison in the Israeli town of Ashkelon on Wednesday, where he was imprisoned for 18 years, said Western leaders such as US President George Bush, Tony Blair, Gerhard Schroeder and Vladimir Putin should “speak up” on Israel’s nuclear secrets.

“Israel doesn’t need nuclear weapons, especially now that all of the Middle East is free from nuclear arms. My message today to all the world is open the Dimona reactor for inspections,” he said.

Vanunu was jailed in 1986, reportedly for treason, after disclosing information to Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper which led analysts to conclude Israel had produced more than 100 nuclear warheads.

On another note, Vanunu reiterated that “I don’t think we need a Jewish state” and added “the Jewish state needs to solve its problems with the Palestinians”.

Hmmm, knock knock IAEA and UN Security Council, anybody home?
Or are you too busy inspecting and sanctioning countries that the US tells you to?

[Source: Al Jazeera]

Master & Slave…

So this is the liberation, democracy, freedom and civilization they promised the Iraqi people?!

Fallujah (Iraq) – An old Iraqi man kisses the hand of U.S. Marine Cpl. Joseph Sharp for some food and water.
[ AP Photo/John Moore, 19 apr.2004 ]

[via Je Blog]

In another blow to President Bush and his coalition partners in Iraq, Honduras followed Spain on Monday in announcing it will pull its troops out of the country.

President Ricardo Maduro said in a television and radio address the withdrawal would be carried out “in the shortest possible time and under safe conditions for our troops.”

Nice…

[More: Yahoo!]
[via Je Blog]

I helped kill a Palestinian today.
If you pay taxes to the U.S. government, so did you.
And unless the policies of the U.S. government change,
tomorrow will be no different.

Robert Jensen, Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin

The same goes for people who buy American and Israeli products.
They should remind themselves that by buying those products, they’re helping kill innocent Palestinians.

[Full Article: I Helped Kill a Palestinian Today]
[via Lawrence of Cyberia]

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Sunday he had given orders for Spain’s 1,400 troops in Iraq to come home as soon as possible.

Zapatero had said previously he would pull out the troops if the United Nations did not take charge in Iraq by June 30. He said he was acting now because there was no prospect of a U.N. resolution being adopted that met Spain’s conditions.

Zapatero’s decision creates more problems for the United States whose forces are locked in the fiercest fighting in Iraq since last year’s war toppled Saddam Hussein.
U.S. combat casualties in Iraq topped 500 Sunday.

I told you I liked this guy.
Bravo Mr. Zapatero, Bravo.

[More: Yahoo! News]
[Via: Je Blog]