The following is an article about Speilberg, indicating that he decided to boycott his position with the Beijing Olympics because of China’s support of the Sudanese government as it continues the genocide against people in the Darfur region. Â The articles doesn’t go into depth about C[...]
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1-800-GENOCIDE
Last week I went with this blogger to an event about the genocide in Darfur.  At the event there was a screening of the film The Devil Came on Horseback and an information panel featuring members of the city government and people who worked on anti-genocide campaigns.    One of[...]
Sex even sells the ‘Holyland’
I came across this article a long time ago, but haven’t had the chance to actually put it on the blog for you to enjoy. It is called “Babes in the Holyland” and was in Newsweek magazine several weeks ago. Essentially, Israel is going to start using sexy women to attract tourists to[...]
If you can see the genocide, will it make a difference?
Google Earth, in cooperation with the Holocaust Museum, has launched an effort to photograph the areas in Darfur where the genocide is taking place. If you download Google Earth, you can do your own investigation. Here is one photo they have on the site: You can learn more about the project, and lin[...]
March 18th, 2007 - 11:31 am § in Global
Haltinner Review of Books
So… rather than just reading more books than is probably healthy and keeping all the equisite enjoyment for myself, I should let you in on some of my favorite secrets trapped on paper… I’ll give you a good start here, and then add others in new posts as I come across literary delig[...]
March 17th, 2007 - 11:02 am § in Global
To make more money we should charge poor people for water…
Sound crazy, huh? Tell that to the World Bank and IMF. Thats right, the worlds international lending institutions, force low income/ highly indebted nations to charge the poorest people in their country for water. You may be wondering 1) how the IMF/World Bank got this power or 2) Why it makes much [...]
Genocide is Bad
Friday morning I was at the gym, browsing the Post Express. Every day they have a different ‘survey’ questions, polling their readers. This week’s question was “Should the US do more to combat violence in Darfur?” Now, I had always assumed that genocide wasn’t a p[...]
World on Fire
The current population of the United States is 298,444,215 (according to the CIA factbook). Of that, 35,813,305 people are of African American decent. That is about 3 times the number of people that were brutally kidnapped from Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries (not counting the 30% of peop[...]
November 19th, 2006 - 9:19 am § in Global, Hodge Podge
First they came…
In the class I teach on Monday, we are going to be discussing religion. As I was preparing this weekend I made a realization of just how many more Jewish people there would be alive today, had the holocaust not happened. I’m going to give you a breakdown of the current number of people of [...[...]
The News Tonight
This morning I was watching CNN at the gym and reminded of the horrid school shootings that have occurred, most recently at the Amish oneroom schoolhouse in Pennsylvania. As I looked around and realize that very few people were taking in the horror of this action, Jack Johnson’s song “Th[...]