Category: The World

  • Trade Problems

  • Tired

    I'm real tired of people.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SKOREA_US_BEEF_RALLY?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">SKoreans protest against US beef deal</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Thousands of protesters marched through Seoul against a U.S. beef import pact that has renewed fears of mad cow disease. Police said Tuesday that 30 demonstrators were arrested after scuffling erupted.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWhat, do these idiots think, Americans are dropping over…

  • Get Real

    People really need to realize that animals are animals and will do what they do. It seems like in Germany that people are upset that a polar bear, Knut, <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,545790,00.html">killed 10 fish and ate them</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Germany's top-selling daily Bild reported that onlookers were disgusted by the spectacle. The newspaper ran the headline "Knut…

  • Consequences

    Sometimes the policies that the US fosters and the public condones has unintended consequences.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://stri.org/english/about_stri/headline_news/news/article.php?id=736" title="interesting">Corn… fuel… fire!<br />nU.S. corn subsidies promote Amazon de forestation</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Amazon deforestation and fires are being aggravated by US farm subsidies, claims STRI’s staff scientist William Laurance.<br />n <br />n According to Laurance, whose findings are reported…

  • Pardon

    You might remember my couple of rants about the woman who was <a href="http://www.sarpysam.com/plugin/tag/saudi+arabia">punished for being raped in Saudi Arabia</a>. Well, there is a little more to the story now.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,,2229151,00.html"> <br />nSaudi king pardons woman who was gang raped</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a woman who was gang raped…

  • Judicial Misconduct

    <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22896877-601,00.html">Child rape sentence 'pathetic'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Nine males who pleaded guilty last month to gang-raping a 10-year-old girl at the Aurukun Aboriginal community on Cape York have escaped a prison term, with the sentencing judge saying the child victim "probably agreed" to have sex with them.</blockquote><br />n<br />nNine men rape a 10 year old girl…

  • Deserve It?

    You might remember <a href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/2973-Under-The-Lash.html">my rant</a> about the Saudi Arabian justice system and how it punished the victim of a rape. Now it turns out there is a little more to the story. According to the Saudi Justice Ministry, <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SAUDI_RAPE?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">she deserved to be raped</a> because she was an adulteress.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Saudi Arabia's Justice Ministry…

  • Under The Lash

    I always hear about how unfair women get treated in our society. Punished for just being a women by not being promoted like they think they should or guys looking at them or some other stuff. You want to see being treated unfairly, check this out.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/15/africa/ME-GEN-Saudi-Justice.php">Report: court hands jail term, doubles lashes…

  • A Little to Far

    <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22761386-2,00.html">Santa Claus outraged by 'ho ho ho' ban</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>HE is an unlikely revolutionary but this Christmas, Santa is a rebel with a claus.<br />n<br />nHe is having the last laugh on political correctness – and it's a great big fat belly laugh.<br />n<br />nSantas across Sydney are rebelling against attempts to ban their…

  • Hard Drive Trojan

    Now this is interesting.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9046424&intsrc=hm_list">Maxtor drives contain password-stealing Trojans</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Seagate Technology LLC has shipped Maxtor disk drives that contain Trojan horses that upload data to a pair of Chinese Web sites, the Taiwanese government's security service warned this weekend.<br />n<br />nThe Investigation Bureau, a part of the Ministry of Justice that's responsible…