Raw Story reports: Japan’s Olympic female judokas were beaten with bamboo swords and slapped by their coaches, officials said, weeks after a schoolboy suicide sparked debate over corporal punishment. A 15-strong group of judokas complained to the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) last month that they had been subjected to physical punishment by the team’s head […]
Archive for January, 2013
Is The “UN Agenda 21” Boogey-Man Just a Paper Tiger?
A friend asked me to review an article in “The American Thinker” that was critical of what is called the UN “Agenda 21”, a blueprint for “sustainable” communities. Now, we live in a very rural community which has seen quite a battle with farmers and folks living in simple, rough conditions being squeezed out of […]
Was Anwar al-Awlaki a U.S. Agent?
Joseph Cannon at “Cannonfire” has re-opened a nasty wound that has proven troubling to the Obama administration: Was Anwar al-Awlaki a U.S. deep-cover agent? Or was he possibly killed in a drone strike as a “mop-up operation”, burying evidence related to 911? Or Both? Here he describes the cover story: “Anwar al-Awlaki was an American […]
Germany Wants It’s Gold Back
The excellent financial website “Zerohedge” has a strangely disturbing story up – The Germans want their gold back: –It Begins: Bundesbank To Commence Repatriating Gold From New York Fed “In what could be a watershed moment for the price, provenance, and future of physical gold, not to mention the “stability” of the entire monetary regime […]
Christian Outrage Over Military Yoga Training
Salon.com is reporting on the latest Christian outrage: Yoga training in the U.S. military: “Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, a right-wing Christian think tank that has been classified as a hate group, has flipped out over a “wacky” new initiative being tested in U.S. military training programs. No, it’s not the […]
With Rape on the Increase, Indian Women Turn to Self-Defense
“Raw Story” Reports: “New Delhi has long been known as the “rape capital of India”, with more than twice as many cases in 2011 as the commercial hub Mumbai, and special care is taken by most women when travelling at night or on public transport. But the December 16 gang-rape, in which a 23-year-old student […]