January 2012
“Statistics from the 2001 census show that Pakistani communities in England,...”
– British_Pakistanis, Poverty, Wikipedia
Percentage in poverty:
Bangladeshi 65%
Pakistani 55%
Black African 45%
Black Caribbean 30%
Indian 25%
White Other 25%
White British 20%
It's like a 'Disparity' between
when I visited a house (or a giant, victorian mini-castle) of ice cream business owner (Pakistani British) -
how plaster walls were finished (incredibly thick and had amazing curves)
how they were meticulously painted
how roof windows had ornate start patterns and gold moldings
tropical plants, marbles, security intercom - giant kitchen, tall hall way ceiling
And then there was this woman...
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Rich - Poor Divide/Disparity Within Islam or...
Yeah. It’s hard ._.
Never really comes up onto ‘discourse’ level
While I do know people ‘exercise’ it all the time
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“Many said they were ridiculed because of their beards, head scarves and their...”
– Challenging the Silence of Others - James Estrin
Bharat Choudary is a Hindu photographer who has dedicated his time to documenting the lives of young Muslim Americans who often feel alienated and harassed by the post-9/11 society they live in. “Stress, isolation, depression, humiliation and...
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[[Israeli] Defense Minister [Barak] says Iran is... →
roxygen:
akio:
“It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where practically no surgical operation could block them,”
But then full scale invasion won’t do it either. Rhetoric. Rhetoric. Rhetoric.
Ah, diplomacy.
It would seem that any military action is already futile then.
Notwithstanding anything deemed an initial...
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[[Israeli] Defense Minister [Barak] says Iran is... →
“It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where practically no surgical operation could block them,”
But then full scale invasion won’t do it either. Rhetoric. Rhetoric. Rhetoric.
Ah, diplomacy.
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“Olli Heinonen, Nackaerts’ predecessor who led the 2008 talks, said:...”
– Olli Heinonen, former Deputy Director-General for Safeguards at IAEA, re: 2008 IAEA inspection in Iran
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Iran to restart IAEA nuclear talks, Julian Borger,... →
[Olli Heinonen:] “The important thing is that Iran gives unfettered access to people, sites and information. The first step is to agree on the process. We will probably not see an outcome for some months to come.”
Speaking earlier this month, [Rafael] Grossi said that if Iran refuses to discuss the suspected weapons work, the IAEA secretariat would “call the board of...
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“Iran is determined to move forward toward a nuclear military program,” he said...”
– Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, at Davos Conference
Now Netanyahu and Barak are delivering the same message in unison. No nuance. Very clear.
Jot: BBC World Service covering Somalia's modern...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00n1j3t
BBC WS World Update Jan 27 2011
Question of ‘Clan power’, comparison with Somaliland etc. Northern Somalia - where indigenous conflict resolution capacity etc remained intact, reconciliation took place - and Southern Somalia - where traditions were gone.
Upcoming? London Conference?
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“Education” is such a trashy concept and practice. Finally figured that out.
It turns humans into ‘recipients’ of education contents (usually just bunch of memorization materials). Turns people into passive beings, receptacles. (And then ‘better receptacles’ presides over ‘inferior receptacles’.
We got to have expression/word for ‘growing...
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Keep thinking about
comparison between Tahrir and Tiananmen
Wish already we had few major global conferences on this. Cultural/history experts on both sides - and then tons of young architects, city-design planning students.
[ I tend to suspect that the field of architecture might be very very reactionary. (Castle builders/contractors for rich ppl or wasters of chunky state money.) ]
“I informed the cabinet we have no ability to hit the Iranian nuclear program in...”
– Will Israel Attack Iran? (And If It Does, Can It Really Stop Tehran’s Nuclear Program?) | Global Spin | TIME.com
The key word is”meaningful.” The working assumption behind Israel’s military preparations has been that, to be worth mounting, a strike must be likely to delay Tehran’s nuclear...
Bin Laden raid commander McRaven seizes moment to... →
“If it means handing more over to the military, it could be an improvement from a transparency perspective,” said Andrea Prasow, counterterrorism counsel for Human Rights Watch, which has also pushed for the White House to make public how a suspect ends up on the target list.
“But if the public still cannot find out what’s happening, it’s not good enough,” Prasow said.
materialpossibilities:
>Palestinians are “invented”
>Then what the fuck are Americans?
hangama:
what kind of parents name their son newt though
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Girl's fight for justice breaks silence on incest...
umalik:
After her father began raping her, Mariam felt scared, ashamed and vulnerable.
The Pakistani teenager, who was around 13 or 14 when the attacks began, couldn’t have known her case would lift the veil on an explosive issue long-shrouded in stigma and bereft of justice in her country – incest.
In 2009, the year the attacks began, a trio of human rights organisations took up her case:...
On Gingrich's comments about Palestinians.
roxygen:
While his comment is misinformed and enraging, its not particularly surprising in lieu of American foreign policy and that extends to many life-long Democrats.
Newt Gingrich making this remark for the umpteenth time now is as shocking as your shoes getting wet on a rainy day.
In a sense, when you have US politicians like Barack Obama playing out policies that keep Palestinians...
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I still can't believe that Mitt Romney is a...
akio: didn’t know D:
“Palestinians are an invention of the late 1970’s”
– Newt Gingrich (via phredology)
Jesus Christ.
(via thenoobyorker)
A distinct Palestinian national identity has existed since the mid 1870s and the existence of a Palestinian people has been documented in recorded history thousands of years prior. You know the Philistines, those guys mentioned in...
Iran May Cut Oil Sales to EU Before July - Reuters →
[Iran’s] Parliament will debate on Sunday a bill that would oblige the government to halt oil exports [to EU] ahead of the July 1 deadline the EU set in order to soften the blow to the ailing economies of Greece, Italy and others to whom Iran is a major supplier.
“All European countries that made Iran the target of their sanctions will not be able to buy even one drop of oil...
“In Berlin, every year Islamic fundamentalists, mostly connected to the Iranian...”
– [Aug 31 2011] Quds day in Berlin - PAIC - Progressive American-Iranian Committee
Not really corroborated etc but. Berlin is also has been seeing return of many (young) Jews.
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[Hybrid/Cross-over Anti-Semitism in Germany]... →
[Dec 04 2011] BERLIN - The German publicly funded radio station RBB’s decision in late November to dismiss Ken Jebsen, a well-known leftist radio host who denied the Holocaust occurred and bashed Israel, has brought to the fore a growing expression of hybrid anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic. A telling example of where the intersection of right-wing, left-wing and Islamic...
Sources: 30 Pounds Of Cocaine Found At United... →
samuelfromtheshire:
NEW YORK (CBS 2) – Sources tell CBS 2 authorities are investigating a delivery of cocaine to the United Nations.
Sources say 30 pounds of cocaine were received by the UN in their mail room. It was delivered as a package on January 16th.
The New York Police Department and Drug Enforcement Agency are investigating.
No other details are immediately available.
Not a news.
...
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German report: 20% of Germans are anti-Semitic,... →
*This is from Jerusalem Post, Israel’s quite right leaning outlet.
But when *current* Germany says 1 out of 5 person is ‘Antisemitic’ - I wondered can it be simple ‘white’ phenomenon based on Christianity or - something more complex than that. Need more clues. But probably the original report published in German won’t become available in English, and there...
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