Ritual Forces Women in Indian State Walk Barefoot

In a mindless ritual, women in India’s Haryana state are forced to mourn the death of an elderly relative by walking barefoot for 12 days, while men in the family don’t. An IndiaUnheard Community...

Guga hunter culture revealed by poet

Salted and boiled the guga are eaten as a delicacy. For the uninitiated just the smell can make one wretch but they are prized by the people of of the Isle of Lewis. The guga are young gannet chicks taken by the...

Fat boy executed

Good riddens"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be put to death. ...

Supreme Court rejects inmate's too-fat-to-execute appeal

Oy Vey!, please someone, hand me a gun, I'll make his execution nice and painless. You have to have your brains in tact to feel pain, a 50 cent bullet will take care of that. Would he like some cheese with his whine?"COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected...

SC Executed Convicted Killer by Electric Chair, first time since 2004

SC Executed Convicted Killer by Electric Chair, first time since 2004 Media Credit gangsorus.com " COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Corrections Department announced that James Earl Reed was executed at 11:27pm Friday.The...

Zimbabwe government suspends aid group activities

Back in the late 70s, Robert Mugabe was considered to be the new savior during the transition from Rhodesia / Zimbabwe. I attended a lecture he gave at LaTrobe Uni. here in Melbourne back then. The crowd loved him. He represented hope for all of Africa. So what happened? His...

Missing teenage beauty queen is found in London

"A TEENAGE beauty queen has been reunited with her parents after vanishing for nine days with a man she met on a social networking website. The family of Kovi Dunbar, 17, blamed cruel jibes at school about an illness which altered her looks, after she disappeared from her...

Fur Industry is Alive and Kicking, Despite Campaigns

It is amazing to me that people continue to wear fur. What is it that compels people to support such an inhumane industry? Why are there"more people wearing fur today than ever before"?"Anti-fur campaigners have...

Electric chair banned in Nebraska

The Nebraska Supreme Court has banned the use of the electric chair in the execution of murderers. The court found that the application violated the Nebraska constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Since July 2002, Nebraska has been the only state...

Finally, now you can break up anonymously

This is a great service. Hurting the people you love has never been easier or more satisfying."Sometimes you don't want to dump him or her in person. Sometimes you don't even want to do it over the phone. So you...

UN Rapporteur to observe human rights in Indonesia

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - United Nations` rapporteur on torture and other cruel treatment, Manfred Nowak, will visit Indonesia from November 10 to 25, 2007 at the invitation of the Indonesian government, according to the UN representative office here on Thursday. He will be...

Interwiew with a fighter...

We have lost everything Istalif sits an hour's drive north of Kabul, in the fertile Shomali plain. Once filled with vineyards and crops, it is...

Justice document gives green light for interrogation violence

""We start with the least harsh measures first," Townsend told CNN television. "It stops ... if someone becomes cooperative." She said the White House was "baffled" by suggestions that if the US government didn`t...

informationliberation - Britain's Own "Big Brother" Eyed Orwell

As evidence that the demonization of the left is nothing new, the release of government documents to the British public shows that author George Orwell was suspected of being a communist supporter despite his...

Execution Date Set for Tennessee Cop Killer

Legal wrangling continues as the execution date looms for Philip Workman. The condemned was convicted in 1981 of murdering a police officer during a restaurant robbery, and his executino date had been shifted several times."Lawyers for convicted cop killer Philip Workman and...

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