Archive for June, 2011
UNBELIEVABLE VIDEO: The Most Extreme Animal Cruelty Ever
A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation provides a shocking look into one of the nation’s largest pork producers — Iowa Select Farms in Kamrar, Iowa. At this factory farm, mother sows and their piglets are forced to suffer brutal abuse and lives of unrelenting confinement and misery. Between April and June of 2011, an [...]
VIDEO: French President Attacked During Tour
BRAX, France (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy was involved in a scuffle during a handshake tour Thursday when a man grabbed him by the shoulder and tried to pull him over a crowd barrier. (Scroll down for video) Sarkozy, attending a meeting of mayors near the southern city of Toulouse, was moving down a [...]
California tells online retailers to start collecting sales taxes from customers
Beginning Friday, Amazon.com and other large out-of-state retailers will be required to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make online. By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles TimesJune 30, 2011 Reporting from Sacramento— (lA Times) Shopping at Amazon.com Inc. and other major Internet stores is poised to get more expensive. Beginning Friday, [...]
European Court Bars Deportation of Two Somalis from Britain
(VOA) The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Britain not to deport two Somalis who have been convicted of serious crimes, saying they could face torture or other “inhuman” treatment if they are forced to return to their home country. The ruling reflects a long-held legal principle, and also some tensions inherent in today’s [...]
VIDEO: Conservative Muslims clash with secularists in Tunisia
Tension over the place of religion in the North African country’s public life is rising. Tunisian police have arrested Islamist activists after they clashed with a group of lawyers outside the capital’s main courthouse, as tensions rise over the country’s post-revolutionary future. They were demanding the release of their comrades, arrested during protests over a film [...]
NBC’s Chris Hansen gets caught cheating on wife…… by hidden cameras
By Howard Gensler Philadelphia Daily News Daily News Tattle Columnist TO QUOTE Mary Chapin Carpenter, “Sometimes you’re the windshield/Sometimes you’re the bug.”Predator-catching Chris Hansen, of “Dateline NBC,” made such a big name for himself luring unsuspecting kiddie pervs to suburban homes that “Saturday Night Live” turned him into a sketch character. Well, now there’s a [...]
US drone wounds top Islamists in Somalia: report
WASHINGTON — A US drone fired on two senior commanders of Somalia’s Shebab Islamist insurgency after they were found to have ties to Al-Qaeda, the Washington Post reported late Wednesday, citing US officials. The strike last week is believed to have wounded the two leading militants and came amid increasing concern among US officials about [...]
Watch: Glenn Beck & his Family booed out of outdoor movie in NYC
Glenn Beck on the mob that harassed him and his family: “These people were some of the most hateful people I have ever seen,”, “All I wanted to do is go out on a blanket with my family and have dinner in the afternoon sun and sit around Americans, not like-minded Americans, and just watch [...]
800 Somali kids arrive in Kenyan camps daily
An international aid group says over 800 Somali children arrive at Kenyan refugee camps each day to escape their country’s devastating drought. Save the Children says that the children are part of the nearly 1,300 people who come each day to the overcrowded Dadaab refugee camps in northeastern Kenya. The group said Tuesday that some [...]
VIDEO: Iran plans to send monkey into space-AJ
(Al-Jazeera) Iran has unveiled the next stage of its space programme, saying it is going to send a monkey into space next month. Five monkeys were undergoing tests before one was to be selected for the flight on board a Kavoshgar-5 rocket, the head of Iran’s space agency was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency [...]
Flickers Of Hope In Somalia
Plagued by civil war, terrorism and poverty, Somalia and its capital Mogadishu are often described as hell on earth. But thanks to international help and a handful of courageous citizens, some light has appeared at the end of the tunnel for the troubled African natio By Christian Putsch DIE WELT/Worldcrunch Monday, June 27, 2011 MOGADISHU [...]
Galmudug Sacks it’s Cabinet Ministers
(HOL)The president of the regional state of Galmudug Mohamed Ahmed Alin sacked his Cabinet Ministers, Mudug Province commissioner and Hobyo district commissioner accusing them of low performance. In a statement from the office of the president was said that his Excellecy ,president Alin decided to sack all the ministers and assistant ministers of the regional [...]
Star’s Fatuma Noor is 2011 CNN/Multichoice Award Winner
Star’s investigative reporter Fatuma Noor is the overall winner of the this year’s CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year Award. Noor won the award for her investigative three-part series on the Al-Shabaab. It was chosen from the 1407 entries from 42 nations across Africa. The series tells the story of the young men who [...]
Sharia and the Lives of Muslim Americans -by Abdul Malik Mujahid
You might have seen a government-required sign at a McDonald’s restroom telling employees to wash their hands. Muslims do this as a part of living their faith, which is called sharia in Arabic. The Prophet Muhammad also encouraged Muslims to wash their hands before and after eating. Muslim parents raise their children on many such [...]
Taliban reportedly tricked 8 year old girl into being SUICIDE BOMBER
(NYT) KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents tricked an 8-year-old girl in a remote area of central Afghanistan into carrying a bomb wrapped in cloth that they detonated remotely when she was close to a police vehicle, the Afghan authorities said Sunday. Only the girl was killed in the blast, which occurred Sunday morning in the village [...]
Somali Bantu refugees farm for a better life (GREAT PHOTOS)
The Virginia Tech-run Catawba Sustainability Center helps Somali Bantu refugees produce food and flowers they can sell on their way to becoming self-sustaining entrepreneurs. By Beth Macy 981-3435 (Roanoke) CATAWBA — Cucumbers were new to them. So were the orderly rectangular beds, the mesh plant supports, the black plastic and straw mulch to keep the [...]
More Popular than Palin, Bachmann Ties Romney in Iowa Poll
DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann are neck and neck atop the Des Moines Register Iowa Poll on the Republican presidential field, the newspaper reported Saturday. In the first Iowa Poll of this campaign cycle, Romney got 23 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers, and Bachmann got 22 percent, [...]
Somalia champions left Mogadishu hoping to make an impact in the Cecafa Kagame Club Cup
(The Standard) Somalia champions Elman FC left Mogadishu on Wednesday hoping to make an impact in the Cecafa Kagame Club Cup which will kicks off in Dar es Salaam today. A small farewell ceremony was held at the Elman FC headquarters in Mogadishu where Somali Football Federation authorities addressed the team members. Secretary General Abdi [...]
Somalia: Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan spent 462 days in captivity
WHEN he finally came home after 15 months being held hostage in Somalia, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan was expecting his family to be angry. After all, he had cost them $1.2 million in ransom and associated costs, not to mention pain and distress. ”But what surprised me was their calmness,” Brennan says. ”My brother Matt [...]
Soomaali lagu dilay dalka Mozambique
HALKAAN KA DHAGAYSO (BBC-Somali) Qaramada Midoobay ayaa ugu baaqday dowladda Mozambique inay joojiso tallaabooyinka ay dalkeeda kaga eryeyso dadka magangelyo-doonka ah ee ka soo jeeda dalalka Soomaaliya iyo Ethiopia. Mozambique ayaa todoobaadkan waxay dib ugu celisey dalka Tanzania 59 Soomaali ah iyo 34 Ethiopian ah. Qaramada Midoobay waxay kaloo cambaareysay fal la sheegey in lagu [...]
Justice In America: A Tale Of Two Crimes-by Abby Zimet
by Abby Zimet Consider Paul Allen, 55, a former mortgage CEO who defrauded lenders of over $3 billion. This week, prosecutors celebrated the fact they got him a 40-month prison sentence. Consider Roy Brown, 54, a hungry homeless man who robbed a Louisiana bank of $100 – the teller gave him more but he handed [...]
Woman Dies at Her Own Funeral
Started screaming as mourners gathered around coffin saying prayers for her soul ‘Her eyes fluttered but she only lived for another 12 minutes before she died again, this time for good’ A woman died from a heart attack caused by shock after waking up to discover she had been declared dead – and was being [...]
Canada: Safe Haven
by IRIS WINSTON Friday, June 24, 2011 Abdirizak and Farhia Mohamud have fostered 10 children over the last six years. They stepped forward because there were no other families with a similar heritage available to take in children in need. “We have a Somali background and heard of a couple of issues in the [...]
Diyaaraddo Duqeeyay Kismaayo
(HOL) – Iyadoo xalay fiidkii ay duqeymo ka dhaceen deegaanka Qandalka oo magaalada Kismaayo kaga beegan dhanka koonfureed ee xeebta ayaa waxa arintaasi ka hadlay Maamulka Xarakada Alshabaab ee Degmada Kismaayo. Sheekh Xasan Yacquub Cali Gudoomiyaha Degamda Kismaayo oo warbaahinta la hadlay ayaa sheegay in diyaarado dagaal oo uu sheegay in ay leeyihiin dowladaha Mareykanka [...]
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