the Australian government dropped diplomacy last Thursday and called singapore's plan to hang a young Australian drug smuggler "barbaric."
generosity of barbarians in signapore:
in an unexpected concession, prison authorities granted his mother, Kim Nguyen, permission to hold hands with her son through a visiting-room grille during a final visit -- but would not allow a hug, his lawyer, Julian McMahon, said.
final embrace.
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Australia's foreign minister made an urgent plea Thursday to singapore to allow an Australian mother to hug her condemned son at their final meeting before he is hanged early Friday...
. a mother embracing her allready dead son..
. which human being does not see the cruelty of this 'permission'..
..
there is inhuman madness in the 'state' of singapore.
..(William Shakespeare).
.
singapore, stubborn in their madness..
.. = rogue Chinese port city?
A government with a heart of stone? A first-world city with barbaric laws ? barbarians.
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these are just some of the labels slapped on singapore recently as it ignored repeated appeals by Australia to spare the life of Nguyen Tuong Van -- due to be hanged on Friday for carrying 400 grams (0.9 pound) of heroin while in transit at Changi airport in 2002.
singapore's government appears unfazed by condemnation of its tough anti-drug laws and mandatory death sentence, despite a groundswell of anger all over the world
-the United Nations has joined the Australian government and human rights groups in a last-ditch effort to save the Australian man sentenced to death in singapore for drug trafficking
never again should the name of singapore be written with a Capital.
-huge crowds for the poor hanged man in signapore...
error :tens of thousands of people joined big names from the world of soccer Saturday Belfast Northern Ireland to pay a final emotional tribute to footballing icon George Best
-when the Saints go marching in..Iraq.
.. a roadside bomb Thursday killed 10 Marines while they were on "foot" patrol near Falluja
-a professional at work :Abu Hamza Rabia, who was in charge of international operations for al Qaeda, apparently was working with explosives when the blast occurred, killing him and others
-Angela Merkel's first major test: after the kidnapping of 43-year-old Susanne Osthoff last week, Merkel said the government was doing "everything in its power" to return her and her driver to safety and the German government and the British anti-war movement are trying to contact the gunmen in Iraq.
- Kofi Annan,'$4.7 billion needed to eliminate suffering in 2006': the United Nations demanded the huge amount of money to ease major humanitarian crises around the world in 2006, with about a third slated for Sudan and the conflict in its Darfur region.
- U.
S.in denial: after a meeting with U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern stated that the U.S. has denied that Ireland's Shannon International Airport was used by the CIA in transporting prisoners to secret European destinations.
-Birdlike animal(signapore) had dinosaur monster feet: a new analysis of Archaeopteryx, the earliest known birdlike animal, shows it had feet like dinosaurs -- a finding that supports the belief that the signaporians frequenting backyard feeders today are descendants of mighty ancient carnivores.
.-police say they believe that a Belgian-born woman and convert to Islam, pictured and identified Thursday in a Belgian newspaper, was the first Western woman to carry out a suicide bombing in Iraq
-France's competition watchdog has slapped a record 534 million euro ($628 million) fine on the country's top three mobile telecoms operators for market collusion and a consumer body warned it would sue for damages.
- Canadian eight-week campaign kicks off nasty with PM Paul Martin accusing the opposition of cynicism and unpatriotic interests.
-YILAN, China :another town on a poisoned Chinese river has shut down its water system as Communist Party members went door-to-door giving out bottled water in an effort to show that China's leaders can protect the public;yes and of course..
..
- doctors in France :the first partial face transplant on a woman who had suffered extensive injuries in a dog attack.
.. the surgery took place Sunday in Amiens on a 38-year-old woman, replacing her nose, lips and chin
- Somali pirates have released a Kenyan-owned freighter hijacked nearly two months ago after traditional elders intervened, the owner of the ship's cargo.
- HIV and AIDS is considered "the greatest risk to world health today" by residents of Britain, France and Germany;transit in signapore is worse
- Roughly 12.5 percent of the U.S.
population is living in poverty, according to new data released
- GE takes a $3.4 billion hit, Jeffrey Immelt took over as CEO of General Electric three days before 9/11, and since then he has labored to shed the company's insurance businesses, whose volatility and commodity characteristics he doesn't think fit GE
-Brussels : authorities detained 14 suspects Wednesday during dawn raids on homes of people connected to a Belgian female suicide bomber who struck in Iraq three weeks ago.
- Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres will resign from the Labor Party but will still support the peace effort of Ariel Sharon.
-CIA Director Porter Goss :"we know more than we're able to say publicly" about Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi;...
. so they are well and alive??
???
-Saddam Hussein's trial is adjourned until December 5 ;the defendants said they were not pleased with court-appointed lawyers and that they wanted replacements for two lawyers who were killed recently and a third who left the country.
- Pete Doherty, member of the band the Babyshambles but best known as the on-off boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, has been arrested on suspicion of drug possession but was later released on bail.
-a secret ?
??: the honeymoon plans of billionaire bride Athina Roussel Onassis and Brazilian equestrian Alvaro "Doda" Affonso de Miranda are a secret even to the groom's father.
- A Brazilian singer who promoted the use of condoms in an anti-AIDS campaign has been dropped from the lineup of next month's Christmas concert at the Vatican;
stock markets:
- Asia: Japan's Nikkei 225 share average rose above 15,400 for the first time in five years on Friday, gaining 1.92 percent, as the value of shares traded on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange hit a record high
-Europe: European shares closed at fresh 3-1/2 year highs on Friday, led by miners such as Rio Tinto which soared on strong metal prices and with oil producers buoyed by a crude price rising to around $59.
-America : Stocks were mixed Friday and for the week, as investors welcomed a strong November jobs report, but also showed caution amid its implications for higher interest rates.
1910 - the neon lamp was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show. The lamp was developed by French physicist George Claude.
1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
1947 - the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater.
1967 - in Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
1973 - Pioneer 10 sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter. The first outer-planetary probe had been launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA on March 2, 1972.
1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center removed the respirator of Barney Clark.
The retired dentist had become the world's first recipient of a permanent artifical heart only one day before.
1984 - in Bhopal, India, more than 2,000 people were killed after a cloud of poisonous gas escaped from a pesticide plant. The plant was operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary.
1997 - South Korea received $55 billion from the International Monetary Fund to bailout its economy.
1999 - Tori Murden became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone. it took her 81 days to reach the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
1804 - Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
1927 - the Ford Motor Co unveiled the Model A automobile. It was the successor to the Model T.
1942 - a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated by Dr Enrico Fermi and his staff at the University of Chicago.
1954 - the US Senate voted to condemn Sen Joseph R McCarthy for what it called "Conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The censure was related to McCarthy's controversial investigation of suspected communists in the US government, military and civilian society.
1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared in a nationally broadcast speech that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that he was going to lead Cuba to communism.
1970 - the Enbironmental Protection Agency began operating under its first director, William Ruckelshaus.
1982 - doctors at the University of Utah implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Barney Clark.
he lived 112 days with the device. The operation was the first of its kind.
1990 - Chancellor Hekmut Kohl's coalition won the first free all-Greman elections since 1932.
1991 - American hostage Joseph Cicippio was released by his kidnappers. He had been held captive in Lebanon for over five years.
1993 - Columbian dug lof Pablo Escobar was shot to deaht by security forces in Medellin.
1998 - Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates donated $100 million to help immunize children in developing countries. day before yesterday in history (1 Dec)
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.
1913 - Ford Motor Co began using a new movable assembly line that ushered in the era of mass production.
1935 - birthday of Woody Allen
1952 - in Denmark, it was announced that the first successful sex change operation had been performed.
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of Israel and its first prime minister, died at the age of 87.
1989 - East Germany's Parliament abolished the Communist Party's constitutional guarantee of supremacy.
1991 - Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
1998 - Exxon announced that it was buying Mobil for $73.7 billion, creating the largest company in the world to date.
three days ago in history
1700 - 8,000 Swedish troops under King Charles XII defeated an army of at least 50,000 Russians at the Battle of Narva. Charles XII died on this day.
1782 - the US and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
1803- Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France.
1835 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born, aka Mark Twain. He wrote "Tomy Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
1853 - during the Crimean War, the Russian fleet attacked and destroyed war on France.
1874 - birthday of Winston Churchill.
1932 - Bob Moore was born.
1939 - the Russo-Finnish War began when 20 divisions of Soviet troops invaded Finland.
1954 - in Sylacauga, Alabama, USA, Elizabeth Hodges was injured when a meteorite crashed through the roof of her house. The rock weighed 8.
5 pounds.
1962 - U Thant of Burma was elected secretary-general of the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold.
1981 - the US and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva that were aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.
1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roverts and Co took over RJR Nabisco Inc. with a bid of $24.53 billion.
1989 - Alfred Herrhausen was killed in a bombing. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility of killing Herrhausen the chairman of West Germany's largest bank.
1989 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat was refused a visa to enter the US in order to address the UN General Assembly in New York City.
1998 - the Deutsche Bank AG announced that it would acquire Bankers Trust Corp for $10.1 billion creating the world's largest financial institution.
the wood of our world:
the world's forests are mainly used for the production of wood, fiber and non-wood products,
Key facts about the world's forests:
-- Russia has the largest area under forests - 850 million hectares (2.
1 billion acres) - taking up just over half the country's land area.
-- tropical forests account for more than half world's forest area and boreal/polar forests one quarter.
-- more than 8,000 tree species -- 10 percent of the world's total -- are threatened with extinction.
-- forests are home to 300 million people around the world and more than 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods.
-- the global annual trade in forest products is worth some $270 billion.
Losses due to illegal cutting of forests are estimated at $10 billion.
-- forests provide habitats to about two-thirds of all species on earth.
-- wood energy accounts for 7 to 9 percent of energy consumed worldwide.
More than 2 billion people depend on wood fuel for cooking, heating and food preservation.
-Pregnant? You're fired!
Every year women are sacked or forced out of their jobs because of pregnancy or face discrimination...
..
-US next presidential campaign started.
...
:democrats against republicans(and .Bush as easy target)
- the common cold and birdflu: more than 60 people in Southeast Asia have died of bird flu or a fraction of the people dying daily of the comon cold..
.
-Darwin or God: a not so easy choice?
in God's own counhtry ?
??
Darwin or "intelligent design," the concept that evolution alone cannot explain nature's complexity, and it must be the work of a "designer" -- a higher being by implication.
..
about 45 percent of Americans believe God created human beings "pretty much in their present form" within the last 10,000 years.
...
.excactly 'God bless (his own creation)America'
-the Yuan has to and will be reevaluated and not only against the dollar (China's competitive edge against the rest of the world is 'enormous')
-Japan's next 15 years sunnier than the last 15
-a positive bet : birdflu wil not become an epidemic human flu but yes is allready a mass psychosis
-once the president of the USA
will be a woman
will be black
we bet on Condoleeza Rice
-UN and all people of the world will be more and more in real control of their 'own' world
for the moment and since nine eleven, America, more than ever before rules and will rule the world
since a few decenia giant Asia , awakes and
between the two world powers America and Asia
we find small but decisive miss Europe
-U.S.
jobs outlook rebounding.. forecasting payrolls will have grown by more than 200,000 for November, a solid rebound from two dreary months.
-South Korean Hwang Woo-suk, a trained veterinarian, gained worldwide attention apologizing now after announcing last year that his team had cloned the world's first human embryos and extracted stem cells from them ;in Korea he is a national hero..
an earthquake a mine explosion benzene intoxification
- at least 17 killed in China Hubei province quake (5,5 Richter) ;thousand left homeless.
..
- A weekend coal mine explosion in northeast China has killed 140 miners and left another 11 missing, ,
-in Harbin, where water service has been disrupted by an 80 kilometer-long (50 mile) toxic spill in his river flowing direction Russia and city's main water source ; Russian environmental officials say they are fortifying water treatment facilities with 50 tons of activated carbon as a toxic spill from China nears its border
-Angela Merkel was sworn as Germany's eighth post-World War II leader and its first female chancellor,heading an alliance of the right and with the key task of reviving Europe's biggest economy.
-Sunday courtesy in Bejing :visitor Bush told his host China's prime minister Jintao to give the Chinese more freedom (yes master...
) and sell the Americans less of his goods (yes master...
?); Jintao answered with a smile ..
so, he opened his day in Beijing by going to church..
-Siemens on track in China: a $788 million contract to build 60 high-speed trains for China has put the German engineering giant on track to win further lucrative orders as Beijing begins a massive expansion of the country's railway network.
-flying competion :Boeing extends lead over Airbus with $13.7 billion in orders for 112 aircraft from Emirates and China. U.
S. assures clarification: after meeting German foreign minister Steinmeier, Condoleezza Rice says the U.S.
government will clarify reports that the CIA set up secret jails in some European nations and transported terror suspects by covert flights to be interrogated and detained there.
- Cases of pneumonia are coming in: Hundreds of people, most of them children, have contracted pneumonia in Pakistan's earthquake-stricken zone as harsh winter weather sets in; the United Nations and government officials on the other hand denied reports of any cold-related deaths so far.
- Japan's unemployment rate rose to 4.
5 percent in October, suggesting a slowdown in the job market despite steady improvements in corporate profits.
-After months of political instability, the government of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin lose a vote of confidence after opposition parties unite. Election set for January 23
-Bush in Mongolia: standing before Mongolia's Parliament thanks the Asian nation for standing with him in the war on terror.
comparing the struggle against Islamic radicalism to the United States' Cold War battle against communism(China listening...
.)
- Spaniards nostalgic for Franco's rule: thousands of right-wing demonstrators made stiff-armed fascist salutes and shouted insults against gays, Muslims and immigrants at a rally in Madrid remembering the 30th anniversary of the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.
-China incorporated:after years of fierce lobbying and months of secrecy, Beijing unveiled five mascots for the 2008 Olympics on Friday, opening a marketing blitz that is expected to reap record profits.:cartoon renditions of a panda, fish, Tibetan antelope, swallow and the Olympic flame, each one the color of one of the Olympic rings.
-China announces it will walk on the moon in 2018, two years before the Americans .
..the Russians out the race ?
??
- Rights protesters and Tibetan activists jeered Chinese President Hu Jintao as he arrived at Buckingham Palace for a state visite to Britain.
...
.China is still occupying Tibet..
..
-Iran "wipe out Israel":"my word is the same as that of (the) Iranian nation,"Pres.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- the official death toll in Pakistan from the mammoth october 8 earthqueake jumped to more than 73.000, with about the same number listed as severely injured
- European Union membership talks with Turkey ..
...
..sombody has to remember the genocide of Armenians, Kurds and Assyrians
- in Northern Ireland, the IRA has put all of its weapons beyond use, ending more than 30 years of violence.
-once upon a time in China...
...
.Australia has returned 10,000 fossils dating back millions of years, including fossils of dinosaur eggs and ancient turtles, that had been illegally exported from China
-do not forget half a million: Protais Zigiranyirazo, the brother-in-law of late Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana went on trial on charges of extermination and murder related to the 1994 genocide of more than half a million people in Rwanda.
-a deal by the world's richest states to erase debt of up to $55 bn owed by the poorest backed by the International Monetary Fund
-Venice 'will get protection dam' : an underwater dam to protect Venice from flooding will go ahead;a 4.
5bn euro project,
- a bargain...
South Korea estimates it will cost as much as 15.5 trillion won (US$15 billion; euro12.27 billion) aid to North Korea in exchange for the country dismantling its nuclear programs--
- go east young man.
.. :Microsoft wil outsource more than 1,000 jobs a year to China .
...
the trend
- US space agency Nasa has announced plans to return to the Moon by 2020 :four astronauts would be sent in a new space vehicle, in a project that would cost $104bn (82 bn euro)
Vancouver is the world's most desirable place to live, according to a survey, while Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby is at the other end of the scale.
best 10: Vancouver, Melbourne, Vienna, Geneva, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, Zurich, Toronto, Calgary
(4 Australian 3 European 2 Canadian and Calgary?)
Worst 10: Port Moresby, Algiers, Dhaka, Karachi, Lagos, Phnom Penh, Abidjan, Harare, Douala, Tehran
being and non-being create each other.
difficult and easy support each other.
-fries may come with warning on side or the battle to stop genocide by junk food??
?
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