Hmm. guess South Africa’s not the only country in which government ministers get rape crazy…
[Then again, it’s entirely possible there is more to this than meets the eye, Moshe (nee Musa) is an Iranian Sephardi Jew, amongst an Israeli political establishment that is heavily Ashkenazi and historically openly racist towards Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, I suspect there is something political – sexual harassment, I’m sure of it, rape? Like Assange, I suspect the charges may be political. Of course can’t prove it…]
Ex-President of Israel Found Guilty of Rape
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12091982
Non-Custodial Parents Endure More Than Unfair Treatment In The Courts, by Baruti M. Kamau
http://www.barutiwa.com/community/blogs/vociferous/01.html
This is Sobering – Detroit in ruins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit
I always suspected Yoga wasn’t all it was cracked up to be…
Yoga, Bad for your knees
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8222484/Yoga-bad-for-your-knees-Indian-doctor-warns.html
Thought provoking.. amusing hipster pictures as well,
Generational conflict, by Brett Stevens
http://www.amerika.org/social-reality/generational-conflict/
(‘fabricating temperature records’ is a bit of a strong charge, but like, um, well make up your own mind)
New Zealand admits no recent warming over the last half century, abandons it’s previous national temp. record.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1012/S00054/climate-science-coalition-vindicated.htm
Meh… on the changes in language today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-way-we-speak-now-2174495.html
Ethical business in old Cathay..
Feed sellers in China routinely use protein substitute
http://canines.mobi/node/76
Hmmm…. bright idea or not… it makes me nervous
(see previous news links on biowarfare testing of purposefully infected mosquitoes released in lower income black and white communities in Florida a few decades ago – see, your government cares 🙂
$18m world-first trial to eliminate dengue begins in Cairns
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/01/04/142745_local-news.html