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from __future__ import unicode_literals, division, absolute_import
from builtins import *  # noqa pylint: disable=unused-import, redefined-builtin

import logging

from flexget import plugin
from flexget.entry import Entry
from flexget.event import event
from flexget.utils import requests
from flexget.utils.soup import get_soup

log = logging.getLogger('pogcal')

class InputPogDesign(object):
    schema = {
        'type': 'object',
        'properties': {
            'username': {'type': 'string'},
            'password': {'type': 'string'}
        },
        'required': ['username', 'password'],
        'additionalProperties': False
    }

    name_map = {'The Tonight Show [Leno]': 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno',
                'Late Show [Letterman]': 'David Letterman'}

    def on_task_input(self, task, config):
        session = requests.Session()
        data = {'username': config['username'], 'password': config['password'], 'sub_login': 'Account Login'}
        try:
            r = session.post('https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/login', data=data)
            if 'Login to Your Account' in r.text:
                raise plugin.PluginError('Invalid username/password for pogdesign.')
            page = session.get('https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/show-select')
        except requests.RequestException as e:
            raise plugin.PluginError('Error retrieving source: %s' % e)
        soup = get_soup(page.text)
        entries = []
        for row in soup.find_all('li', {'class': 'selectgrp checked'}):

            # Get name
            t = row.find('strong')

            # Remove <span> tags
            spantags = t.find_all('span')
            for s in spantags:
                s.extract()
            t = row.text
            # remove newlines and whitepsace
            t = t.replace('\n', '').strip()

            if t.endswith('[The]'):
                t = 'The ' + t[:-6]

            # Make certain names friendlier
            if t in self.name_map:
                t = self.name_map[t]

            e = Entry()
            e['title'] = t
            e['url'] = 'https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/{0}'.format(row.find_next('a')['href'].lstrip('/'))
            entries.append(e)

        return entries

@event('plugin.register')
def register_plugin():
    plugin.register(InputPogDesign, 'pogcal', api_ver=2)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Twenty-five-year-old Fanny Stockely died this date, April 7th, in 1829 from a hemorrhage after giving birth to a stillborn child. They would be buried together at Bethel Burying Ground.
I am unable to locate any more definitive information on Ms. Stockely. Her doctor lived at 89 Pine Street in the Old City District. So she may have resided nearby. For further reading on "childbed" deaths and hemorrhaging during childbirth during this period you can go to pages 226-230 at https://archive.org/details/textbookofmidwif001spie.
← Two-year-old Robert Ashton died this date, March 29th, in 1852 and was buried at Bethel Burying Ground.


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Beautiful, almost virgin cove that locals usually visit. To recover from the misuse that has been made of it in the past, the city has banned parking nearby. The anchorage of boats has also been limited. Thus, enjoying this privileged environment becomes an even greater pleasure. On the other hand, the beach is very clean. Of course, due to the new measures relating to parking, you have to walk four kilometers to reach the sea, so a good disposition is recommended for physical exercise and proper footwear. Traveling light luggage is also highly recommended. The quality of the waters is superior and swimming in them completely safe, especially now that there are many fewer boats. The walk eliminates the presence of hikers looking for easier access environments.


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Can you imagine entering into the glorious throne and seeing the seraphim, cherubim, angels, the elders and an innumerable host worshipping The Almighty in all his holy awesomeness…and to think He has a plan that involves me. Wow, how I bear witness to the Ravenhill's conviction in me. How many times has Holy God wanted to glorify His Son and Himself using my life to this date. But, I was to consumed with my selfish ambitions and flesh. My devotion to "other things" is the underlying reason. Oh to know the times, oh so many times I did my own thing, and yet those same character traits are still present in my life. Do I not sacrifice, love, sweat, grieve, weep and yes even pray to get my will done? Is it not because my devotion lies elsewhere than for the King of kings and Lord of lords? Oh, that I will wish less then, and cry out and ask more now.
I believe that the majority of my tears on that day will be due to my lack of surrender to what God wanted to do in all circumstances in my life. The chapter that precedes the one cited above is very sobering. A great white throne judgement where men will be judged according to their works! Whoever's name is not found in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire! They will be tortured forever with the devil the beast and the false prophet! Is my purpose now to allow God to use me to compel the lost to come and be reconciled? Will I not ask now to sacrifice, love, sweat, grieve, weep and pray more? I must say I am relieved for the ultimate outcome of our common salvation and that my tears will be wiped away. However, do I dare try to escape His revelation here—to not yield to the sanctifying work He died and rose to do in me? For the glory of the Father and His great name sake!
I praise God we have today to surrender, sacrifice, pray, love, sweat, grieve and weep more! To abide with our Lord and to seek to do His will.
Lord, please forgive me for being so self-willed and self-seeking and not heavenly minded. I do repent and I want to present myself to You a living sacrifice. Father not my will, but your will be done. Revive me for Your name sake and not mine. Live Your life in me my King!
NEVER has there been a time in history where the call to the follower of Jesus Christ been more urgent.
NEVER in the history of the Christian Church Body of Believers has there been a time of a needing to SEPARATE & QUIT touching that which God has deemed unclean. (What's unclean cannot be clearly known unless one is well equipped and versed in God's Word).
NEVER has there been a time when the importance and pertinence of 'knowing' God's Word been so eminent.
We are, AT THAT TIME NOW. How many more messages on the lukewarm Church do we need to hear before we take a hard look into the mirror and closely examine our own lives with a fine-tooth comb, and, along with the miraculous help of the Holy Spirit to point some difficult truths out? What is it that 'we' are waiting for? But more appropriately, what is it that 'I' am waiting for. The evidence surrounds us (me). The news and events of 'The World' overwhelmingly floods our homes and our very lives. We see it. We feel it. Even at times, we dive in and become a part of it.
Finally, "What do I have or need to do to allow You to put Your fire in me to 'stir' me up?"
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but arelike the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
We must learn never to make any excuse for ourselves that gives us a justification to panic. Jesus relentlessly demanded faith at all times from his disciples. The beautiful conclusion that can be deduced from this truth is that, with Christ, there really never is a true reason not to have a faith that manifests itself practically in not panicking. "But we are in the face of death!" So were the disciples, and Jesus still rebuked them and asked "where is your faith?" "But we are professional fishermen and we know storms, and there was no getting out of this one." That's right as far as it is reasoned without Jesus, but with Jesus present the rebuke still comes to us just as strongly. And if there is always a reason to have faith in any circumstance, the implication is that there is always a reason to rest, like Jesus, amidst any storm.
We must always comfort ourselves, not with possible outcomes to our circumstances, but with the attitude that Jesus himself takes toward our circumstances. If our reasoning goes toward our desired outcome, and our heart gets set on it, immediately our panicky mind will work its way back toward the "how" that will lead to that outcome. Our thoughts will therefore be on the oars, or the sail, or blaming those around us for not doing their job. Ultimately we will set ourselves right up against Jesus, humanistically making our worry the measure of the situation, rebuking Him for not being worried enough! "Master, we are perishing…" as if Jesus didn't care, or didn't know. The strength to rest in the midst of storms comes not from playing out certain outcomes, but from measuring the situation according to the fact of Jesus resting. That he is resting means there must be no true reason to be afraid.
Jesus disciples even knew the outcome — "let us go across to the other side of the lake," and yet still panicked. Jesus might want you to make it through a particular trial, he might will for your marriage to be restored or your family member to be at peace with you, but even that knowledge is not enough to sustain the human heart from panic while the marriage falls apart or while the tension is occurring at that family party. The rest comes from looking to Jesus in his rest NOW. Jesus, asleep on the boat, was sending his disciples a message—"This is my attitude toward all that you are afraid of, therefore it ought to be yours too." Jesus was not just sleeping, he was leading them in rest.
What might Jesus have wanted them to actually do? What would a faith-filled response have looked like to which Jesus might have congratulated them, "well done, you have shown much faith?" It would sound very spiritual to say, "lay down with Jesus in the boat." But I think that a very impractical and improbable answer. What would he have wanted? For them to wake him up right away, at first sign of trouble, and ask him to give them his rest before they do anything. A mature Christian is not one who rows and rows with his own strength until finally the trouble seems unconquerable, but rather one who wakes up Jesus at the first sign of trouble. So often we are rowing in storms thinking that we are heroic victims paying the price to really help God when in fact we are only victims of our pride for waiting so long to wake Jesus up! Wake him up with faith! Cry out with confidence! Beat your chest in humility! Shake yourself from the dust of faithlessness! If there is any fear may it be fear to face any trouble on our own. Call upon him in a day of trouble and he will answer you and you will glorify him.
Now put yourself into Jesus' place. In his rest he bore criticism—The disciples essentially rebuked him for his rest. For the man of faith who leads others in faith there will always be those critics trying to shake you from your slumber. "They are threatening to close the church down if we preach such and such a message, wake up and do something!" If we respond with panic, panic will spread like a forest fire. Once in a tense moment, after trying to work through a difficult situation, I was driving my car nervously drumming my fingers. My wife has learned that this is what I do when I am internally panicking. After 5 minutes or so of silent drumming she reached over and grabbed my hands and stopped me—and it struck me. Perhaps those whom I am leading are panicking because I am panicking. I still have not learned to lead in rest like Christ because I am still internally trying to wake Christ up that he may join me in my panic. Perhaps I need Jesus' rebuke, "where is your faith." May the Lord close down our churches, shut down our businesses, and kill us off before we are shaken out of the conviction to measure every situation according to Jesus' rest.
When I first came to Calvary Chapel Living Hope, I was perplexed concerning how often they took communion. I wasn't against it, I am a Christian after all. I think it was more that I couldn't keep up, it seemed overbearing, perhaps, or made things seem somber unnecessarily.
On top of that it seems that every time we took it somebody was suppose to share a word on communion. I remember reflecting on this "how can somebody share a different communion message everyday, there aren't that many passages in the Bible that talk about communion?" I would say, "communion is just another thing in Christianity, just like prophecy, or spiritual gifts, or baptism. Why this overbalance? Grace was just one topic among many, it didn't have a priority." I was constantly asking why, in our conversation at church, we couldn't get past talking about Jesus' death and on to better subject matter. I was missing the only subject that matters.
All of these thoughts were evidences that the cross represented something peripheral in my Christianity.
It might be asked, then, what was indeed central to me in my Christianity? The answer I have now settled on, with humble regret, is that it was myself. I had been lured into that deceitful snare that history had told me about again and again of using religion for my own ends. I had learned a lot about Christianity, but I had not in my heart approached the central point of Christianity: death to self, life in Christ. The cross needed to become central so that God himself could become the end. Not only did I need to be taught, but my whole paradigm of "do that which was most expedient" needed to be torn down.
For this God used the relentlessness of communion.
1) First our physical life is intrinsically tied to our spiritual life.
Since we are bodies as well as souls, what we do with our bodies brings into (or out of) focus certain spiritual realities.
Why do we get on our knees when we pray? Why do we lift our hands when we praise? Why come together when we eat? Why do we find quiet peaceful places when our souls are disturbed?
It's not just that the physical act responds to the state of the soul. It is also that we begin to do the physical act precisely because we are desiring a certain state of the soul. It might be that feel humbled in a time of prayer and get on my knees, but it might also be that I can't seem to humble my soul enough in a time of prayer and therefore I get on my knees.
Those physical commands that Jesus did give are intended not to be simply a response to the reality in our hearts, but to awaken our hearts to reality. Communion is one of the stokers for the fire of the heart—the cross is the fire.
Everything inside us and outside us tells us not to glorify a crucified Christ, therefore we must take communion more often.
2) The cross is both a receiving and a becoming, the benefits are for us, and a work is done to us.
Therefore we eat and drink communion, because in eating and drinking we both receive and become what we eat.
I have been confused throughout the years as I have taken communion. At moments sitting with the elements the cross seems to be a wonderful gift of friendship. It speaks of forgiveness and God's offering of himself to be fellowshipped with. Of course I would take opportunity to be reconciled to God! When I take counsel with him, when he establishes my heart, when I find myself casting my sins upon him and knowing that sweet taste of freedom again and again—all of these are worthy of communion reflection.
This is all illustrated in communion for in the acts of eating and drinking I am fed, I receive.
However, there are other moments in which the over-abundant gift is shadowed by an inner question, "hey bro, what are you signing yourself up for?" The Bible comes at me with phrases like daggers threatening my soul, "crucified with Christ…" and "baptized into his death?" Well in answer to that question, I'm not sure I did know, but I'm sure thinking about it now. Why? Because I'm eating it and drinking it in communion!
Because whatever I eat I do not only receive, I become.
The great truth of the cross is that in my receiving the life of Christ, he will make sure to conform me to his death. He will not leave one ounce of corruption left to dominate my soul. The dish cannot be cleaned out, the residue is too sticky, it must be re-fabricated completely. The hardest and most wonderful truth that communion teaches us is that in our death with Christ, there, right there, is the life. The receiving comes with the becoming.
My pride might keep me from receiving the gift of the cross, my fear might keep me from becoming conformed to the cross, but I take communion as much as I can, and God levels them both to ground zero and makes me into new creation.
3) Communion brings us to the table of fellowship.
It is "eating" after all, and since ancient days eating has been used as an excuse for people to sit together in fellowship. In fact Christ gave us communion at a feast of fellowship.


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Archive for the 'freedom of expression' Category
Posted in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Algeria, Catholic Church, China, dhimmitude, European Union, freedom of expression, Iraq, Japan, Moonbats, MSM, Pakistan, protect the children, Russia, terrorism, war on terrorism on September 16, 2007| 14 Comments »
Some "experts on negotiation", that Spanish Reuters edition qualifies as "cautious", are asking why we don't negotiate with Al-Qaeda (in Spanish), because "history shows that the extremist movements are better neutralised using negotiation and not force".
Specially dedicated for them this video:
See how Hitler answered to negotiations?? This is what Annakin Skywalker, in Chapter II: The Attack of the Clones, before being Darth Vader, calls "aggresive negotiations", so aggresive that in fact was WWII.
The article also states:
"There are also rational ingredients in Al-Qaeda, but it also attracts psycos" (Of course, every rational and normal human being is inclined to commit suicide bombing… ).
The negotiator, Jan Egeland, is a reknown anti-Israeli Norwegian, who claims having taken part in secret negotiations between Israel and PLO, Colombian "guerrilla leaders" (that is, FARC) and in Uganda (Lord's Resistance Army: 20,000 children abducted to serve as soldiers or as sex toys, 12,000 killed directly by war, plus the non-accounted by desertification, illnesses…). All conflicts have been solutioned as you see.
"Al Qaeda is not an organization, it's an idea". You see? That's why thinking is not good for your health, because ideas can kill you.
"Al Qaeda wants to restore the Muslim Global Caliphate". How on earth can be restored something that has never existed before?
In the end they have to recognise that there are serious difficulties in negotiating with Al-Qaeda because of their goals (creating an Islamic Global Caliphate and convert everyone -including USA- to Islam) which of course is not very realistic and would imply that all the world's Governments had to agree on the plan.
There is no place for another moonbat in this world…
Just this day AlQaeda has menaced Iraqi Sunnis…:
An al-Qaeda front group warns it will hunt down and kill Sunni Arab tribal leaders who cooperate with the U.S. and its Iraqi partners in the wake of the assassination of the leader of the revolt against the terror movement.
In a separate statement, the Islamic State of Iraq announced a new offensive during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting that began this week. The statement said the offensive was in honor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June 2006.
But hey, just put a little flower power in your life … And let's dialogue!!
New cartoon of Mohammed the Dog: VH writes Mo's Days of Summer. Al Qaeda has offered a bounty of $100.000 to kill artist (in their words, to "slaughter him like a lamb"). Let's dialogue….
Stop this world; I'm getting out of it (Groucho Marx).
"War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage". Niccolo Machiavelli (I'm not a fan of him, but he was really a bright guy).
But there are other idiotic moonbats around. Take for example EU Dhimmi Vice-President Commissioner Franco Frattini, the one who, in the midst of the Mohammed's cartoons' furore, stated in an interview to Britain's Daily Telegraph, that EU will be writing down a code of conduct which "would encourage the media to show "prudence" when covering religion". And he added:
"The press will give the Muslim world the message: We are aware of the consequences of exercising the right of free expression," he told the newspaper. "We can and we are ready to self-regulate that right."
Afterwards, he repented:
Mr Frattini thinks I misconstrued what he said. He has issued a stern press release, putting his side of the story….
Eeh, no, he just blamed the journalist.
Well, now he doesn't want you to use Internet to search for "dangerous words, like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorist"… h/t Ignacio and la Frase Progre.
Internet searches for bomb-making instructions should be blocked across the European Union, the bloc's top security official said on Monday.
Internet providers should also prevent access to any site giving instructions on how to make a bomb, EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said in an interview.
"I do intend to carry out a clear exploring exercise with the private sector … on how it is possible to use technology to prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism," Frattini told Reuters.
The EU executive is to make this proposal to member states early in November as part of a raft of anti-terrorism proposals.
So, if I search for "Armenian genocide" that means I want to make one myself. And if I search for "Islamic/Islamist terrorist" is that I am also one of them…. And searching for "Sex bomb" (remember the Tom Jones hit?) will also be forbidden.
Do they really think that someone who is in a terrorist cell doesn't have any other preparation so he/she has to search in Internet how to do a bomb?
But it continues:
The Internet has taken on huge importance for militant groups, enabling them to share know-how and spread propaganda to a mass audience, as well as to link cell members.
Oh, yeah, and also it has a huge importance for anti-EU groups. Or more accurately to anti-this EU group, hasn't it? So today we block terrorist and bomb and tomorrow we block information that we don't want the people to know.
He is so damned politically correct that he does not use "terrorist" but "militant"…
In France Rights groups slam plans for immigrant DNA tests h/t Hodja:
French rights groups and left-wing politicians Thursday slammed an amendment to a new immigration bill that would introduce DNA testing for would-be immigrants seeking to join their relatives in France.
The National Assembly's legislative committee Wednesday approved an amendment that would offer long-term visa applicants the option of a DNA test to prove their family ties.
The amendment's author Thierry Mariani, a deputy from President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party, says it aims to root out bogus visa requests, arguing that in parts of Africa up to 80 percent of identity papers submitted by applicants were fake.
He says the tests would be a voluntary way to speed up visa procedures for immigrants' relatives.
But Socialist deputy George Pau-Langevin, the only black MP from mainland France, called the plans "unacceptable." "This is a significant and unacceptable step in the violation of the right to a private family life, out of all proportion with the goal of fighting paperwork fraud," she said. "Would we consider doing the same for French people?"
Right to a private family life??? This is just a measure whose aim is to prevent that people who do not belong to the same family, come to Europe claiming the right of reagroupment.
And what is more: the test is OPTIONAL. If you want, you do it and the process ends quicker. If you don't, well, everthing is slower… Just your own decission, mate.
Remember the South Koreans who were kept as hostages by the Talibans?
Afghan and US-led troops on Friday raided the hideout of a Taliban commander linked to the July abduction of 23 South Koreans, killing six militants, police said.
Taliban commander Abdullah Jan however escaped the raid in the southern province of Ghazni, provincial police chief Alishah Ahmadzai told AFP.
The US-led coalition confirmed there had been an operation in the province but said only that "several suspected militants" had been killed and one arrested.
"Abdullah Jan fled the raid but six of his associates were killed and an unknown number were detained by the coalition forces," Ahmadzai told AFP.
The bodies of three of the dead were left at the site, he said.
The coalition said one person was detained in the operation in the Qarabagh district, the area where the South Korean aid workers were abducted on July 19.
Troops kill six Taliban linked to alleged SKorean abductor – Yahoo! News
Some days ago I wrote that Al Qaeda had recruited teenagers for the suicide attacks and that they were educated to be like "little A-Zarqawis". Well, over 50 have been recruited and trained by now:
The al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb between December and April recruited over 50 children aged under 16, the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper reported on Friday, quoting Algerian intelligence sources.
Police were alarmed that a 15-year-old suicide bomber carried out a deadly attack earlier this month in the Algerian port city of Dellys. The boy managed to pass unnoticed through security checks.
Radical imams have recruited to al-Qaeda around 15 under-16s from poor districts of the capital, Algiers, to join its fighters hiding in the mountains of Algeria, police said.
Police said the US-led war in Iraq was being used as pretext to radicalise youngsters in Algeria and persuade them to join militants. They said many had been given training in carrying out suicide attacks either in Iraq or in Algeria.
The al-Kalitius neighbourhood of the village ofBourama on the outskirts of southern Algiers is a particular 'hotspot' for Jihadi recruiters, according to police.
After being taken into the mountains, the youngsters have come into contact with Tunisian and Libyan militants and have been trained alongside them to carry out car and truck bomb attacks, police said.
Speaking of children abuse…. What outrage in the MSM and in NGO's there is after knowing this?
And seeing that the suicide attacks are feared, what do you think Pakistani lawyers plan to do if colleagues are tortured? Exactly…
Peshawar High Court Bar Association President Abdul Latif Afridi on Thursday warned intelligence agencies and the army to avoid torturing lawyers or "face suicide attacks by lawyers at forces' headquarters".
At an emergency meeting, the PHCBA passed a resolution denouncing a report that intelligence agencies arrested Advocate Ghulam Nabi on Thursday night and tortured him at a detention cell. Afridi said that if the army and spy agencies did not change their attitude towards lawyers and citizens, the people would "ban the entry of military and agencies personnel to bazaars and main roads". He said the lawyers would charge secret agencies under sections 6 and 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act as "they tried to terrify the entire lawyers' community by torturing a lawyer". The lawyers later staged a protest outside the corps commander house in Peshawar.
I do not like torture, but I also don't like suicide bombings…
NYT reported freed:
A Chinese journalist jailed while working for the New York Times has been released. Zhao Yan had been sentenced to three years in prison for fraud in August 2006. He was detained in 2004 on charges that included leaking state secrets. International human rights groups had severely criticised his imprisonment, saying the Communist Party was using secrecy laws to stifle news.
For a retrospective on Zhao Yan, see HRW:
Zhao Yan writes a four-line note for the New York Times sketching out a reported conflict between President Hu Jintao and ex-President Jiang Zemin over senior military appointments.
The New York Times publishes an article predicting that former President Jiang Zemin will step down from his position of head of the military. A reference to political jockeying between Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao is included as background material in one of the final paragraphs of the article.
[…] October 5, 2005
The Washington Post reveals that Zhao's case relies almost entirely on a copy of an internal New York Times memo obtained by the State Security Ministry, according to a confidential ministry document urging prosecutors to indict the researcher. It is unclear how the agents gained access to the memo, of which a copy is included in an inventory of evidence collected in the case. [Who gave that copy then? ]
But at the same time detains other two AFP reporters h/t Status of Chinese People:
The arrest of two Agence France-Presse reporters on 12 September is the latest in a string of cases of foreign journalists being obstructed in their work. They show that the less stringent regulations introduced in January are being applied erratically and only when less sensitive issues are involved. At least 32 foreign journalists have been detained or prevented by police from doing reports since January.
"The way the authorities have treated journalists from Agence France-Presse, the BBC World Service and other international news organisations in recent weeks do not bode well for the ability of the foreign media to work during the Olympic Games," the press freedom organisation said.
"These are not unfortunate blunders," Reporters Without Borders continued. "They are the result of a clear lack of goodwill on the part of the police, who refuse to let reporters travel and investigate freely. We call on the International Olympic Committee to intervene with the Chinese authorities to ensure that the rules introduced in January are finally respected."
Just keep waiting…
Sri Lanka kills Tamil tigers:
Sri Lankan soldiers killed 15 Tamil Tiger rebels in a clashes in the north and east of the island while six military personnel were also killed, the military said on Saturday.
The latest spike in violence in the country's long-running civil war follows the launch of a new offensive by government forces to drive guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from the northwesterly Mannar area.
Just in case, Tamil Tigers are the "inventors" of suicide bombings. It's said that Bin Laden copied them.
In 1987 the LTTE established the notorious Black Tigers, an elite unit of the LTTE responsible for conducting suicide attacks against political, economic and military targets,[9] and launched its first suicide attack against a Sri Lanka Army camp, killing 40 soldiers, still its not conformed.
Of course, they are only "militants"…
Selling and drinking alcohol is still legal in Iraq, but since the rise of religious parties in this predominantly Muslim country, the trade has come under severe pressure. Aside from legal restrictions, many liquor shops have been bombed in the past four years. But the people still but it…
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Austria for a three-day pilgrimage, saying Christianity was not just the legacy of Europe's past but "the way to the future."
Japanese Shinzo Abe's resigned. The main reason of his decission is that the Liberal party's candidate had different views about the way to conduct negotiations about the continuation of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force's refueling operations in the Indian Ocean in support of the Global War on Terrorism. The front-runner to become Japan's next prime minister vowed Saturday to extend his nation's support for U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan. Ruling party veteran Yasuo Fukuda also said he would take a softer line with North Korea over its past abduction of Japanese nationals, a row that has threatened to upset negotiations over the communist country's nuclear weapons.
Putin, again: British and Norwegian jets intercepted Russian military aircraft Friday after they breached NATO airspace close to the U.K. and Finland, defense officials said. So far!!! Surprise, surprise: Putin does not rule out presenting himself to 2012's elections. But this is not hurting his sucessor's perspectives… No…
After I wrote these last days about the Deobandi sect in Britain and its overwhelming influence there, we have some fresh news about Tablighi Jamaat and their London's mega-mosque: "The mega-mosque complex would become a flagship for Tablighi Jamaat's mission to indoctrinate Muslims with a hatred of the West and the kuffar [non-Mulims]." But wasn't the Mega-mosque cancelled? But there is more: Irfan al Alawi, international director of the Centre for Islamic Pluralism, says the missionary work of Tablighi Jamaat acts as "a recruitment agency for jihad" in Afghanistan, the occupied territories and Iraq. "They go around deprived areas of British towns and cities, knocking on doors and urging young Muslims to come to their gatherings," he said.
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I bet Oliver Stone is not going to consider this for his new movie
Posted in freedom of expression, freedom of speech, Human Rights, Iran, Islamism, Religious freedom, Women's Rights on June 30, 2007| 9 Comments »
Plateau writes about the new film Oliver Stone is going to make: about Ahmadinejad (no, you have not read wrongly):
Oscar-winner Oliver Stone has sent aletter to the Iranian president's office requesting permission to makea docudrama on President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, stated an Iranian producerwho is regularly consulted by the president's art and culturaladvisors.
"The request was made three months ago byStone, the famous U.S. filmmaker, who has directed numerous films with socio-political themes over the past few years," Alireza Sajjadpur toldthe Persian service of the Iranian Students' News Agency on Friday.
"I think it is a good proposal and I would like the request to be accepted," he added.
I bet he is not going to consider the treatment of women,
of gays
or of minors (also here) for the movie…
Oh and I bet he is not going also to consider the treatment to the Amir Kabir students.
There are good reasons to believe that the students have received repeated physical and psychological tortures in order to confess tofalse confessions about the allegations attached to them by statenewspapers.
I just can't stand this millionaires who had no consideration of the real world. What a difference with this other film. Really impressive. Plateau describes Iranian film Persepolis:
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power — forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.
I will search for it in Spain.
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Venezuelan constitutional draft released
Posted in freedom of expression, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Venezuela on June 24, 2007| 1 Comment »
Daniel from Venezuelan News and Views, has posted about the draft of the new Venezuelan constitution summing it up with the words "the path to an eternal Chávez dictatorship".
No more private property besides your personal belongings. That is, there will be some private sector allowed with business of reasonable size but the sate will have the right to expropriate or confiscate at will if it thinks it is necessary to its interests (NOTE: even if it is all made in the name of the "people", since it is the state that translates the "real will" of the people, well, you know which are the interests truly served).
The air borne media will have rights to emit only if they serve educative purpose. The state decides which are the educative goals.
The autonomy of Universities is done with. The state will be deciding which careers should be offered and which is the right curriculum to follow. You can decide on your own how creativity and free thought in a controlled university will prosper.
Decentralization will be done with. Governors and Mayors will be subordinated to special vice presidents. Mayors can be removed almost at will by the National Assembly. And anyway, elected Governors and Mayors will be gutted of most meaningful power they might have. That is, they will be left with picking up the garbage and be blamed for anything else that doe snot work.
Basically, then, a socialist/communist dictatorship. As we have feared.
If you understand Spanish, just watch this video. Very interesting to see, how Chávez has changed.
There is another worrying sign in Venezuela: its treatment to foreign little investors. And do you think that the support Zapatero has given Chávez has changed it? Well, no, in fact, Spanish -and Portuguese and Italian- emigrants in Venezuela have been robbed and kidnapped because they did not want to give their lands to outsiders:
Canarian and Galician farmers have been denouncing kidnappings and the invasion of their lands by peasants paid by Venezuela. Today the Catalan newspaper "La Vanguardia" runs in its Sunday edition, an important report in the situation. Newspaper El Mundo also takes a look to this matter.
Marbella Rodríguez was nearly burnt alive when she tried to defend the lands of her father. "They are not importing Cuban model but Zimbabwean model. Hugo Chávez is not bringing communism but chaos, robbery, kidnapping. They want Spanish out of the country, they are making us leave it", says Luis Valdés, an unhopeful 67-years-old farmer (51 spent in Venezuela).
He is one of the 66 Europeans – Spanish, Italians and Potuguese- who have been kidnapped in the last one year and a half in the state of Yaracuy by armed bands, who, according to different statements, are connected with oficialist political leaders. There are not more kidnapping counted by police, because the families not only do not denounce them, but also deny them because of the possible retaliation. Dozens of Spanish farmers have seen their lands stolen in moments of full production by false cooperativists who, after stealing harvests, livestock and machinery, abandon the lands.
[…] "Spanish people -states Phandor Quiroga, ex-Major of San Felipe, Yaracuy's capital- have prospered because they are very hard-working types. Emigrants, now with Venezuelan sons and grandsons, revitalised the lands. They were greeted as brothers. Now they are called oligarchs, even if they have little lands, with an average extension of 120 hectares. For the most part they are little landowners who, with a lot of sacrifice and making huge savings, bought some lands".
[…] The method they use repeats itself: outsiders invade a land, in less than a week they are given an stay pass, they are given tractors and other tools. In less than a month they are given 39 millions of Bolivars (15.500 €) in money and 59 millions (24.000 €) in products and tools. Everything is wasted. Nothing is produced there any more".
After lots of negotiations, and thanks to the good relationship between Chávez and the Spanish Ambassador, Raúl Morodo, some of the Spanish farmers received a little compensation for the lose of their lands. Portuguese, Italians and a lot of Venezuelan have received nothing. The Canarian Edmundo Rodríguez received only 110.000 € for a 100-hectares land. "I am totally broke. I cannot even pay the first instalment of an apartment in Spain with that money", he comments with an unhappy expression.
Edmundo and his daughter Marbella are the true image of the two generations dedicated to work. In Venezuela the census lists 175.000 Spanish and 250.000 descendants. Totally sick of the agressions, a lot of the farmers are considering the idea of going back to Spain. But for the most part, they are modest people who, stripped of their lands, do not have enough money to begin a new life.
"Spanish, Portuguese and Italians, we are all annoying the Government. They want us to leave because we are uncomfortable witnesses. They do not want complaints. We cannot go on like this. Do we wait till they shot us in the head? You feel totally defenceless, you are not from there, not from here– says Rosaura Ibáñez, a distressed Canarian. Some names cited in the report are fictitious to preserve the security of the interviewed-. I never though that the hate against the foreigner could be used as a political tool. When Chávez is on TV, I turned it off, because I do not want to get all his hate".
A judicial representative from the state of Yaracuy exposed with all the cruelty to La Vanguardia, that there is a campaign to make the Spanish people emigrate from Venezuela. "A lot of the kidnappings are politically caused. The pro-Chávez MP Braulio Álvarez is the responsible of the invasions of the lands owned by Spanish, Italians and Portuguese. He is protecting them, he promotes and supports them. Europeans are annoying, because they have the protection of their embassies. They do not like that the foreign Governments defend their people. The huge part of kidnapped and subjects of expropiations are Europeans or of European origins. There is not a single kidnapped which has been solutioned. Justice is just a sham", according to the same judicial source.
There haven't been reactions from the Spanish Government that I know of.
You can also read the students manifesto translated by Kate here, who has also sent me the tips -except the link to the video-. And a beautiful composition of the students can be seen here.
You can also see the demonstrations in Rome and Milan supporting freedom of expression in Venezuela. More photos here.
UDPATE: Writing the post in the Spanish blog, I have found that José María Aznar has said: "I prefer the photo of the Azores (the one in which he appeared with Bush and Blair) than the Spanish photo with Castro and Chávez". h/t Prevost. Me too.
UDPATE 2: Chávez has announced that he is going to buy more submarines to Russia and to strengthen the nation's short-range air-defense system, contining then the trend that could make Venezuela the most improtant buyer of weapons of the decade. h/t Lady Godiva.
While the hospitals are in this state (scroll down the link to see more photos).
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Venezuelan RCTV may air from Mexico
Posted in freedom of expression, Venezuela on June 20, 2007| 3 Comments »
This would be great news! From BBC NEWS | Americas |
The head of an opposition-aligned TV station in Venezuela banned by President Chavez has said he may air programmes from Mexico.
Marcel Granier, the head of Radio Caracas TV (RCTV) – taken off the air on 27 May – said he would broadcast to Venezuelans by any means possible.
He said he had "good friends" in Mexican broadcasting, though he did not specify a deal.
President Hugo Chavez replaced RCTV with a state-funded broadcaster.
"Our commitment… is to re-establish that contact [with Venezuelans], either from Venezuela or from abroad, by any means possible, by cable, by satellite, by internet," Mr Granier told reporters in Mexico City, according to the Associated Press.
Ed Morrisey comments:
The distance would be too great for television broadcasts, unless RCTV can get repeaters closer to Venezuela to carry their signal. Cable seems problematic, as Chavez can probably keep providers from carrying the new station. RCTV's best opportunities will be satellite and Internet ventures.
This will force Chavez to impose ever-stricter state control over the media if he expects to block them. Those kinds of censorship will only inflame opposition even further, creating a vicious circle of despotism that will undo Chavez in the long run.
Hmm, what I see is that he is going to divide the Venezuelan society even further. And that is not a good path to walk on.
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Sharia Law in Hamastan (UPDATED)
Posted in corruption, dhimmitude, disasters, economy, freedom of expression, Islamism, Israel, Palestine, Religious freedom, UE, USA on June 19, 2007| 9 Comments »
I wrote some days ago about the possibility of Hamas imposing Sharia Law and how it was feared both by Israelis and Palestinians. Well, it is happening just now:
WorldNetDaily: Christians warned: Accept Islamic law
Christians can continue living safely in the Gaza Strip only if they accept Islamic law, including a ban on alcohol and on women roaming publicly without proper head coverings, an Islamist militant leader in Gaza told WND in an exclusive interview.
The militant leader said Christians in Gaza who engage in "missionary activity" will be "dealt with harshly."
The threats come two days after a church and Christian school in Gaza was attacked following the seizure of power in the territory by the Hamas terror group.
"I expect our Christian neighbors to understand the new Hamas rule means real changes. They must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to live in peace in Gaza," said Sheik Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadia Salafiya, an Islamic outreach movement that recently announced the opening of a "military wing" to enforce Muslim law in Gaza.
Jihadia Salafiya is suspected of attacking a United Nations school in Gaza last month, after the school allowed boys and girls to participate in the same sporting event. One person was killed in that attack.
"The situation has now changed 180 degrees in Gaza," said Abu Saqer, speaking from Gaza yesterday.
"Jihadia Salafiya and other Islamic movements will ensure Christian schools and institutions show publicly what they are teaching to be sure they are not carrying out missionary activity. No more alcohol on the streets. All women, including non-Muslims, need to understand they must be covered at all times while in public," Abu Asqer told WND.
"Also the activities of Internet cafes, pool halls and bars must be stopped," he said. "If it goes on, we'll attack these things very harshly."
Abu Saqer accused the leadership of the Gaza Christian community of "proselytizing and trying to convert Muslims with funding from American evangelicals."
Anyway, West offers cash and talks to keep Abbas in charge as partner for peace-News-World-Middle East-TimesOnline
America and the European Union moved swiftly to shore up Palestinian moderates yesterday, releasing millions of dollars for the new Government based in the West Bank.
Washington and Brussels announced the lifting of economic sanctions after Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, sacked all members of Hamas, the militant Islamic group, which staged last week's bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip. In a telephone call yesterday President Bush told Mr Abbas that the US would support "Palestinian moderates".
Later Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, reaffirmed America's commitment to the "two-state solution" for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, first promised by Mr Bush five years ago. Palestinians faced a choice, she said, between pursuing more violence or peace and a better life.
The US has recognised Mr Abbas and his new Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, as the legitimate leaders of the West Bank and Gaza. Dr Rice promised yesterday that this meant the US would resume normal "government-to-government contacts".
And from Infidel Bloggers Alliance: Stupid request of the day:
B'Tselem demands that perpetrators of war crimes in Gaza be tried and warns against revenge attacks in the West Bank
The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem today calls on the Palestinian leadership of Hamas in the Gaza Strip to investigate all war crimes that may have been committed during the clashes in the Gaza Strip, and to bring all suspects to criminal trial.
This happens as Abbas' aide Yasser Abed accused Iran of being responsible of fomenting the Hamas seizure in Gaza. h/t Desde el Exilio.
UPDATE: GayandRight: Christians under attach in Gaza… Who is going to defend this people??
Father Manuel Musalam, leader of the small Latin community in the Gaza Strip, said masked gunmen torched and looted the Rosary Sisters School and the Latin Church.
"The masked gunmen used rocket-propelled grenades to storm the main entrances of the school and church," he said. "Then they destroyed almost everything inside, including the Cross, the Holy
Book, computers and other equipment."
Musalam expressed outrage over the burning of copies of the Bible, noting that the gunmen destroyed all the Crosses inside the church and school. "Those who did these awful things have no respect for Christian-Muslim relations," he said.
When are going to be the next outraged Christian riots when we will burn Hamas flag? 😦 This is despicable…
UPDATE 2: Israel plans funding clampdown on Hamas-ruled Gaza | Top News | Reuters.com
(Reuters) – Israel plans to tighten a financial clampdown on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip that would choke off all but humanitarian and basic supplies, senior Israeli and Western officials said on Tuesday.
While opening the funding taps to the Western-backed emergency government set up by President Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank,
Israel and the United States want to isolate Hamas financially, diplomatically and militarily in the Gaza Strip, which the Islamist group seized by force last week.
To that end, two senior Israeli officials said the plan was to bar Palestinian tax funds transferred to Abbas from reaching Gaza to run Hamas-led agencies and pay workers.
"Gaza is a terrorist-controlled entity now," said one of the Israeli officials, who is working with U.S. officials to isolate Hamas. "No financial assistance can go to any entity or person with connections to the Hamas-run administration in Gaza."
The humanitarian crisis is going to be outstanding. After last year 14.000 Palestinians flee, now Gazans stream to crossing with Israel – Yahoo! News
Hundreds of terrified Gazans fleeing Hamas rule were trapped at a main crossing with Israel on Tuesday, hoping to gain permission to pass through Israeli territory to sanctuary in the West Bank.
Fearing death or persecution, Gazans began flocking to the Erez passage after Hamas militants wrested control of the coastal strip from Fatah security forces late last week. Israel, which has no interest in letting masses of Gazans pass through its territory and possibly destabilize the quieter West Bank, has refused to let most of them in, saying their lives were not in danger.
By Tuesday, about 600 people were holed up in the long, concrete tunnel that leads to the Israeli side of the crossing. Around 100 people belonged to Fatah security forces, but the rest were civilians, seeking a better life in the West Bank.
Women, children and young men sat between two high concrete walls about 10 yards apart, looking tired and sweaty. Suitcases and trash were strewn on the ground. Some families sat on mats, others on bare concrete. A breeze barely stirred between the walls, and the tunnel, which has no toilets, reeked of urine and sweat.
On Monday, gunmen allied with Hamas disguised themselves as fleeing civilians and hurled hand grenades at Israeli soldiers and Palestinians at Erez, killing a relative of a slain Fatah warlord, and injuring 15 other Palestinians.
UPDATE 3: More about Palestinians fleeing from Israel: My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Palestinians run as they try to cross to the Israel side at the Erez Crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, June 16, 2007. Dozens of Palestinians converged on the Erez crossing with Israel on Saturday, trying to leave the Gaza Strip following Hamas' takeover. At the same time, hundreds of people looted police positions on the Palestinian side of Erez, and at one point Israeli troops fired in the air to keep the crowd at bay. The looters walked off with furniture and scrap metal. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
UPDATE 4: Also read Jules Crittenden's "Enemy of my Enemy" h/t Abdul in Freedom's Zone. Abdul writes:
Conveniently, the word Fatah (or Fath) was a specific label Muslims ascribed to the bloody and barbaric expansion of Islam by the sword over its first hundred years (Hmmmm – there's aclue here somewhere as to their intentions). As an organization, Fatah is one of many borne out of the Muslim Brotherhood. Fatah logo contains two crossed assault rifles superimposed on the land of Israel covered in Islamic green. Qur'anic slogans on the graphic depiction of Fatah's mission encourages jihad. These days, Fatah conducts its terrorist missions under the name al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. As one writer phrases it, if Fatah was Nazism, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades would be the SS. For those who have lived in a cave since WW-II, this is not something that denotes love and kindness, and tolerance of Jews and infidels that don't follow the radical line.
UPDATE 5: Don't laugh: Catholic World News : Gaza convent sacked; Hamas condemns action
Gaza, Jun. 19, 2007 (CWNews.com) – On June 14, a school administered by the Sisters of the Holy Rosary was demolished in the Gaza Strip. In the chapel adjoining the sisters' convent, the crucifix and a statue of Christ were broken and prayer books burned.
Father Manuel Mussallam, the only Catholic priest currently living in Gaza, denounced the sacking of the school and convent, describing it to AsiaNews as a "barbaric act." The incident occurred during the course of fighting between two Palestinian factions: al Fatah and Hamas.
Although the school and convent are located near a police station, a spokesman for Hamas– which now controls the Gaza Strip– said that the group was not responsible for the violence against the Catholic nuns. Salah Bardawil said: "The Christians are our brothers in Gaza and everywhere, and we will protect their holy places and school, as we do our Islamic schools."
We will protect every Christian in the earth the moment they submit. In the meantime, we will ransack their places… to remind them who is in charge…
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Islamic imperialism
Posted in Europe, European Union, freedom of expression, Human Rights, Israel, UE, UN, Uncategorized on June 19, 2007| 3 Comments »
h/t Confessions of a Closet Republican.
Also read the Project of the Muslim Brotherhood h/t Desde el Exilio and the Turkish Islamist party's project for Europe h/t Free Thoughts.
European Union renews its offer to Cuba and invites a Cuban delegation
Posted in Europe, European Union, freedom of expression, Human Rights, Israel, UE, UN on June 18, 2007| 1 Comment »
After considering the state in which some political prisoners are in Cuba (for example, this same week we have known about Guido Sigler Amaya's condition which is very grave but does not have any kind of medical support), we have known today that:
European Union FM are asking to renew the dialogue with Cuba. Only United Kingdom, the Checz Republic, Ireland or Belgium have opposed to it. In the text they include in the dialogue, subjects like political sphere, human rights, economical, scientific and cultural questions and "the support for a peaceful transition in Cuba". They also maintain that the mutual relationship should be based on "reciprocity and no-discrimination". Now, can someone tell me how on earth Europe was discriminating Cuba before? Not maintaining good relations with a dictator is not discriminating, it's just a way to tell the world you oppose him firmly.
"Contrary to all the promises of reform issued last year, the proposal released today by Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba targets Israel for permanent indictment under a special agenda item: "Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories," which includes "Human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories"; and "Right to self-determination of the Palestinian people." No other situation in the world is singled out — not genocide in Sudan, not child slavery in China, nor the persecution of democracy dissidents in Egypt and elsewhere. Moreover, the council will entrench its one-sided investigative mandate of "Israeli violations of international law"—the only one not subject to regular review after a set term—by renewing it "until the end of the occupation." To sum up, the UN Human Rights Council is going to punish Israel but not Belarus, Cuba, China or Iran.
My question is: what do these organizations, which supposedly are fighting for Human Rights, do to really support them?
I answer: nothing. They are only bashing democracies, where they know their pathetic speeches can have some effect in part of the population. But not doing so against the dictatorships where they are not going to receive anything but disdain and reproaches. And we do not want that from China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba or Iran, do we?
Yahoo and Internet censorship
Posted in China, economy, freedom of expression, Human Rights, Islamism, UK, Women's Rights on June 13, 2007| 1 Comment »
BBC NEWS | Business | Yahoo's China policy rejected h/t Chinaview.
Yahoo shareholders have rejected plans for the company to adopt a policy that opposes censorship on the internet. Proposals to set up a human rights committee which would review its policies around the world, specifically China, were also heavily defeated. Yahoo has been criticized by human rights groups since 2005 for its role in turning over some political dissidents' e-mails. The materials were used to prosecute and imprison them. But Yahoo insists it must comply with local laws in areas where it operates.
And this happens the day it's announced that Flickr has problems to be viewed in China… it's confirmed: Flickr has also been censored.
Do we have to remind about Shi Tao, the blogger condemned to 10 years in prison because Yahoo! gave his personal data to Chinese authorities?
At the same time from The Irrawaddy News Magazine Online Edition:
An Internet anti-censorship activist group in Thailand is distributing free software that will allow access to prohibited Web sites blocked by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. The Bangkok-based Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) has placed the software and operating instructions online as "a gift of freedom" to the Thai people.
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Iberoamerican populism
Posted in Bolivia, Ecuador, freedom of expression, Human Rights, Venezuela on June 7, 2007| 3 Comments »
This article is from March but it is really important to read
If any doubts remained about President Hugo Chvez's plans for Venezuela's destiny, they have been erased by his decree to "rescue" unproductive lands and assign them to "groups of the population" and "organized communities" from rural areas. Private property is history, so Chávez is proceeding to strengthen the failed agrarian reforms of socialist Venezuelan governments from the 1960s, '70s and '80s, renaming them the "agrarian revolution."
The new Land Law authorizes the government to expropriate land that bureaucrats consider underutilized and to do the same in those cases in which the government discovers an error in a title of land. Venezuelans already know the modus operandi of Chvezs bureaucracy. In trying to obtain a birth certificate, an identification card, a passport, a certified copy of any legal document and even in registering the elderly to receive pensions, each "mistake" represents a potential source of income for each official, and at the same time, a delay of several months for each citizen's request.
TCS Daily : Technology – Commerce – Society
At the same time, you can read about the similarities between Ibero-American populism and fascism here:
The Iberoamerican nowadays populism have a lot of things in common with both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. For example, the discredit of former regimes, the organization of confrontment groups (such as Bolivarian guards, associations of "owners of no-land", "Cocalean Unionist Policemen"…) the racist retoric, the revolutionary militarization of the society, etc.
These tendencies are very dangerous because, using the motions of numeric control and the electoral manipulation, they only have one and only destiny: the the cult of the personality of the "supreme leader". The closing of RCTV is another proving evidence that these iberoamerican supporters of populism have adopted the nazi-fascist methods. Their announced purpose to establish the model of the so-called "socialism of the XXIst century" to perpetuate themselves in power is another symptom of their totalitarian raptures.
At the same time: the Venezuelan channel Globovisión continues its critics against Chávez. Its president said yesterday that in Venezuela, the decadence of Hugo Chávez has begun. This is not the first time, Mr Ravell targets Chávez: when RCTV was closed he stated: "I prefer to die standing than to change only to satisfy Hugo Chávez". Bolivarian President threaten then to close Globovision.
At the same time, Opposition leader Manuel Rosales and other Venezuelan democrats will take RCTV closing to the Interamerican Court for Human Rights and to the Hague Tribunal.
Also see this two videos posted by The Devil´s Excrement, in which we see the National Guard blocking the students to prevent them from demonstrating for freedom of expression.
See also the Bolivarian V-P saying: "Of course, we want a dictatorship, the dictatorship of democracy, of the Government of you and of us. We want to build a new country". Found here.
Looking at Bolivia, I posted that Evo Morales was imitating Chávez, and, as a result there is a grave crisis involving Bolivian judicial power. Well, among critics from judiciary system, Evo has continued his bullying on the Judicial power:
Morales, far from changing his position in front of the strike announced for last Tuesday by the Judicial Power, has said that with this measure a "new unjustice is made upon the Bolivarian people".
The Bolivian President condemned the actions of the Judicial Power and said that it normally resolves for the people "with money" and very rarely by those who don't have money.
Demagoguery in pure style…
Ecuador's President Correa has also menaced with judicial measures against the newspaper Diario la Hora, which had accused him of governing with "tumults, sticks and stones". The President of Diario la Hora has announced that he will not ask for forgiveness to Correa, who has asked for a compensation of $5 million, while questioning his fellow countrymen where should be invested. He said he is not interested in money, but that "he is really disturbed by impunity and bank abuse. We have them furious and I am not going to abandon to impunity this matter, but I will do with the money what you want, fellow countrymen".
It is not rare then, that Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela are the targets of the Interamerican Society for the Press. Ricardo Trotti, its director, said:
A lot of or several State Chiefs are trying to divide the society, of making the people live in confrontation, and they have blamed this confrontation on the MSM, specially in their owners and on the journalists, who have already problems in those countries.
Related News: Bolivia, infiltrated by Islamists according to Bolivian politician José Brechner, who has had to fled Bolivia due to security concerns.
I had forgotten to post this:
h/t American-Israeli Patriot.
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Malaysia and freedom of expression
Posted in freedom of expression, Human Rights, Islamism, Malaysia on June 7, 2007| 1 Comment »
After Lina Joy has been denied the right to convert from Islam to Christianity, and has been transferred to a Sharia tribunal -with the huge joy of the extremers and the result, as Ms.Song pointed to me in comments' section: "she has been disowned by her family and cannot marry her fiance, a Christian because Syariah laws make it compulsory for him to convert to Islam" -, now Malaysia is going against freedom of expression –not surprisingly-:
Malaysia has banned 37 books and other publications on Islam, saying they contain "twisted facts" that could undermine Muslims' faith.
Che Din Yusoh, a senior official of the Publications and Quranic Texts Control Division, said in a statement Wednesday that 21 of the items were English-language publications from the US, UK and Jordan, and 16 others were in the Bahasa Malaysia language, published in Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Go on and continue reading.
Why don't they publish books confronting those theories that could undermine Muslims' faith? Why don't they use reason for once?
And I keep questioning: Where is the international community? Who is critisizing Malaysia for this?. I have read critics towards Poland because of an article pro-Israel Pilar Rahola wrote in which she maintains the idea that Poland was one of the main supporters of Holocaust. Polish Prosecutors have called for judicial measures against Spanish newspaper El Pais, which was the one who published it. Even if that criticism is justified, when is the international community going to condemn an Islamic country for having a much more fierce censorship? when are those same MSM who are all day critisizing Polang to critisize also Islamic repression?
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ETA, after the ceasefire, seeks its own Twin Towers
Posted in antizp, freedom of expression, Human Rights, Spain, terrorism, violence, Zapatero on June 5, 2007| 2 Comments »
And after ETA has said that it was ending by itself the ceasefire, police sources are fearing a great blast and what is better than Madrid and its financial heart:
All the sources consulted by City FM related to antiterrorism fight have been very clear about what could be ETA's next targets, "ETA would like to do an attack wuthout victims to exhibit its operative capacity and to raise the chaces of intimidation and blackmail". Considering different informations, antiterrorism experts from the Interior and Defense Ministries have reached the same conclusion: ETA is going to attack again and perhaps imminently.
In this scenery, the Antiterrorists Forces have informed to this radio station that there are more that suspicions that ETA terrorist band will seek as a target the zone of the 4 towers in the old sport city of Real Madrid and in which the Torres Espacio burned when the Spanish selection of basketball was celebrating the triumph in the world championship of Japan. This zone of the Spanish capital is known as the "Four Towers Business Area". This new financial district, located in the north part of the city, is one of the most important urban developments of the city: the Real Madrid sold that space for more than €450 millions in 2001. The Business Area includes 4 buildings whose height is taller than 200 meters: the SyV tour (from Sacyr Vallermoso), the Cristal Tower (from Mutua Madrileña), the new Corporative offices of Repsol YPF and the known as Torre Espacio (from Villar Mir Group). This financial zone represents the Spanish economical power and is considered by ETA as one of the first targets in its aim to attack directly Spanish business and economical interests. Antiterrorist Forces confirm that ETA is searching for its Twin Towers.
The level of alert and vigilance in this area of Madrid will be increased in hours.
City FM Radio
Zapatero's speech: a total rubbish. More appeasement. And a calculated ambiguity.
At the same time, that Socialist called Pepe Blanco (ironic mode on: he was missed… terribly! ironic mode off) is blaming PP about ETA's end to ceasefire, and, of course, not blaming ETA terrorists for it:
José Blanco stated that, of the end to the negotiations, "the only culprits were the ETA terrorists". After stating also his support for the Security Forces, Judges and prosecutors, he said his party maintains that "those who use violence should pay for it". [Of course…]
Then, he said that "it is not a moment to reproach anything" because the most valuable instrument to face terrorists "is the unity of the democrats" and announced the Socialists are "for doing what is needed to recover unity". But after that he blamed the PP supporters and politicians because there have been several "irresponsible statements" that "have charged against the Spanish Government" [irresponsible to critic this Government? … don't make me laugh…]. And he demanded Rajoy and PP not to "pursue on that path" and that they should show "loyalty". The fight against terrorism, he said, should not be an "element of confrotnation between democrats" (oh, but PP wasn't the extreme-far-right-dictatorial and all that?) and should not be used as an "opposition weapon".
Of course, of course, after the electoral campaign we have had, of the Tinell pact (by which all the political parties compromised themselves not to ally never with PP) and all that, now they want to recover unity… So they can call us murderers, assasins, genocidal…. because the Iraqi war was supported by PP, and we supported PP some because of that, others not considering that. But if you are critical with their way of handling terrorism, you are considering terrorism as an "opposition weapon" and not feeling loyalty to them.
I disagree entirely, Mr Pepiño, Spanish people should be loyal to Spain and in these matters, they should be loyal to principles, such as no to the negotiation with terrorists (whoever they are) and backing the protection of the innocent citizens against the menaces of those same terrorists. If you negotiate with someone who pretends to impose his/her vision, not with reason but by force, we would be going back to the future: the past would happen again in the future. Violent people would impose their will on peaceful ones. And that is unacceptable.
[En Español]
Etiquetas de del.icio.us: ETA, terrorism, Zapatero, Spain, Eta ends ceasefire, ETA's ceasefire
Etiquetas de Technorati: ETA, terrorism, Zapatero, Spain, Eta ends ceasefire, ETA's ceasefire
Journalist from Libertad Digital menaced and insulted for asking about Cuba to Leonardo Boff
Posted in Cuba, freedom of expression, Human Rights, Spain, violence, Zapatero on June 3, 2007| Leave a Comment »
leonardo Boff, theologian known for his support to the "Theology of liberation" was giving a conference in Madrid. Asked about Venezuela, Boff critisized Chávez about the RCTV's closing. But when was asked about Cuba, all of the questions were made and answered in favor of Cuban regime. Then this happened:
"Can you explain me why did you select those questions and were censored all the ones who were directed to enquire about Cuban situation?", the journalist from this newspaper insisted.
"Look here, you're only provocating, you're no journalist at all, you're not going to tell me how I have to conduct a meeting, I'm an EFE journalist (EFE is the official Spanish news agency, the man speaking is Martínez de Velasco, president of the Association of Religious Journalism) since a lot of time ago and I know perfectly how to distinguish between what it is journalism and provocation, and you're only a provocating, you're harrasing me and I will not tolerate that. I have told you already that there wasn't enough time for all the questions, and Mr. Boff had to attend another meeting", he replied, each time more unconfortable and angry.
"Wasn't you aware of the interest that Cuba has and that that same interest was the cause of me asking three asking? Why did not you ask one single question?", he insisted again.
"Of course, Cuba is… but Who do you think you are? You go just provocating, you're a shame for journalism! I do not have anything more to speak with you, I repeat that you're harrasing me and I will not consent you that…", he answered.
LD tried then, to make a photo of the people who were sat by the table –Martínez de Velasco, Leonardo Boff and the University Carlos III's teacher, Juan José Tamayo–, who, in that moment were speaking with people from the public.
In that moment, a cameraman from EFE, who had filmed all the tense dialogue, began insulting and menacing the LD journalist.
"Don't even try to take my photo, you fascist", he threatened.
"Excuse me? What have you called me?", we just happen to ask, totally (bad) surprised, stupefied.
Then the reporter of EFE TV left his camera on the table and went over to the LD journalist, trying to beat him, an intention in which he was refrained from by Martínez Velasco, who stop him, while the democratic cameraman threatened: "We go out and I will explain it to you, you fascist of bullocks".
Libertad Digital: Amenazan e insultan a un periodista de LD por preguntar sobre Cuba a Leonardo Boff
Hmm, Spanish pacifism, Zapatero's version…. Apart from the obvious bad language…
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Etiquetas de del.icio.us: violence against journalists, Spain, Cuba, Libertad Digital, Leonardo Boff
See how Chavez's supporters shoot the protestors
Posted in freedom of expression, Human Rights, Venezuela on June 2, 2007| Leave a Comment »
This video is from the night when RCTV was closed. The guys with the red cups are Chávez's supporters who have rifles with which they shoot the protestors:
I think no comments are needed.
Etiquetas de Technorati: Chávez, Venezuela, RCTV
Etiquetas de del.icio.us: Chávez, Venezuela, RCTV
Rice comes to Spain and the Government changes it views on RCTV
Posted in Cuba, freedom of expression, Human Rights, Spain, USA, Venezuela on June 2, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Estados Unidos y España solicitaron el viernes al presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, que reabriera una cadena de televisión cuya licencia ha cancelado y le acusaron de reprimir la libertad de expresión.
EEUU y España instan a Venezuela a que permita emitir a RCTV | Reuters.es
USA and Spain asked on Friday to the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to reopen a TV channel whose licence he has cancelled and accused him of repressing the freedom of expression.
So a change of 180º.
Hmm, look at the photo. But Rice wasn't the representant of a genocidal-imperialistic-moobat….?
Now, the Government could also change its views on Cuba and make Spain have a better image on defending Human Rights.
Ooops, that we need them for defending our own country. Spanish Army will buy its first Tomahawk missiles this summer with a cost of €72 millions. But it's even more stupid the anti-americanism when we depend on US to fire those missiles!!!
And here Rice with Rajoy, PP leader:
In the interview, Rajoy spoke with Rice about the Spanish political situation and agreed with Rice in the exam on Venezuelan and Cuban situation. Rice told him that Spanish and US Government agreed that there were a disagree on Cuban matters.
Rajoy said about Cuba:
For PP leader, the Spanish Government must give his express support the political transition on Cuba and from the Castro's regime to democracy. Rajoy also added that the Zapatero's Government is on danger of be considered before the international community as the "representant of a inherited dictatorship", and supported the defense of freedom and human rights of the cubans, and to the opposition in a "visible and express" way.
Etiquetas de del.icio.us: Rice, Rice in Spain, Condolezza Rice, Rajoy, Zapatero, PSOE, Moratinos, PP, Spain
Etiquetas de Technorati: Rice, Rice in Spain, Condolezza Rice, Rajoy, Zapatero, PSOE, Moratinos, PP, Spain
VENEZUELAN STUDENT ALERT: PLEASE REPOST THIS IN YOUR BLOGS (UPDATED)
Posted in blogosphere, freedom of expression, Human Rights, Venezuela on June 1, 2007| 1 Comment »
Scroll down for updates.
My friend Kate has sent me this conversation with one of her friends who is in Caracas:
Subject: conversation with my friend who is at UCAB in Caracas — if anyone can help get this to int'l media, please let me know!
2:50 PM . .: Kate theres a lot of police man surrounding my university
the situation its very very tense and surreal
me: hola, Julia
. .: hello,
keep an eye on UCAB
check the news
call univision
make someone publish something
me: have been watching it as much as possible today
2:51 PM . .: the students need support
we are kidnapped
me: where are you right now?
at the univ?
. .: at my university
inside an office just near by the entrance
where everything is happen
i have my hands painted with white
me: ok, am going to see what has been posted online just now
2:52 PM . .: the people is going out
or trying i think
http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/?p=5347
2:53 PM I gotta come back outside to see whats going on
me: fuck, next wk i won't be able to check a lot bc i'll be in mexico on business
. .: seems like they are letting the people get out
me: yes, go
i'll be here for another few hrs
i can give you my cel phone if you need anything, am more than happy to help
. .: right now , i just need international support right now
me: believe me, am working on it
. .: i have your skype, dont worry
gotta go
me: ok, perfect
talk with you soon
cuidate, chama
2:54 PM . .: no s{e ni por que{´te hable en ingles
estioy muy tensa
me: sisas, me imagino.. pues contactate conmigo cualquier cosas que necesites
This is an alert. Please, if you value freedom, repost this alert: Venezuelan Government has kidnapped the students inside the University. No one can enter or exit -from the above link-:
A police barrier of the Military Police is forbidding the students of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) to get out of it as they wanted to demonstrate in front of the National Parliament. The Military Police has said that the students should wait till a MPs Commission who will receive a document. In these moments there are more groups of students who are getting to the area in support of the rest.
The students have announced they will demostrate today at 11 in the La India Sq. to march till the Parliament. Major Bernal has announed them they do not have any permission to do that, but they have answered they will concentrate themselves just the same in the pavements without having the traffic interrupted. Globovisión has informed jsut now that Chávez's supporters have just now began to get to the place and they have even set up some tents, from where they want to call on others to defend the revolution. But the students have begun to march whatever the menaces and protests and the advices from the Major about being forbidden.
UDPATE: the students have desisted and had not march to the Parliament. From the link above. They have accepted the mediation of the Catholic Church in the conflict. The students of UCAB were released but had to pass through the police, after being informed they could not march without autorization from the Caracas' Major. But the students insisted they were going to march to the Catholic Brishops' Conference.
"WE ARE STUDENTS, NOT GOLPISTAS (=PEOPLE WHO GIVE A COUP D'ETAT)"
Etiquetas de del.icio.us: UCAB, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela, Chávez, freedom of expression, dictators
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A documentary film on child labour was broadcasted on television.
I have not thought this deeply. I just said evil is evil.
N.B. The writer makes no assertion at all about good and evil regarding child labour.


International Training Institute of Irrigation & Water Management Kothmale is a Tertiary and Vocational Educational Commission accredited training institute for conducting National Diploma in Irrigation Technology which is in par with National Vocational Qualification Level 6 Standard.
An ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to irrigation.
To be in the fore front amongst the institutions providing water sector Education and skill developments to national and International standards.
Support and facilitate knowledge enhancement and skill development of youth to become competent technologist in water resources development and management.
I take this opportunity with great exhilaration to scribble a note to this broacher. KITI-IWM has been established to produce middle level technologists required to man the ongoing construction and handle the management of existing projects pertaining to water sector developments viz Irrigation, domestic water supply and drainage, sanitary and hydropower. There is a huge dearth of middle level technologist in Sri Lanka as well as in other developing countries, especially South Asian Countries.
Annually about 100000 students obtain the minimum qualification in mathematic stream required to enter into a university in Sri Lanka. But only about 4000 get an opportunity to enter into a university or a technical college due to the meager available facilities. The main objective of KITI-IWM is to harness the potentials of these unfortunate talented young students for the benefit of the country by training them as competent technologists. The successful trainees of KITI-IWM are offered diploma in Irrigation Technology N.V.Q.level 6.
In the meantime the institute conducts many in-house training programs to update and enhance the knowledge of personal working at various departments and institutions in par with the modern innovations and findings.
Providing training facilities to foreign trainees, especially for the trainees of SARC countries too is a venture embarked by the institution.
Developing a modern research center with state of the art facilities to do research on water and water sector developments is in the pipe line of the development programme of KITI-IWM.
A Blood Donation Campaign was held on 17th December 2018 by KITI staff and KITI Engineering Assistants Batches.


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Revolution Trains Gains New Staff Member
The model manufacturer satisfies growing demand on human resources by recruiting its third employee.
Revolution Trains has gained a third full-time member of staff. Model railway enthusiast Mike Buick has joined the company as a third full-time member of the team.
Having previously designed couplings and detail parts in N, OO and O gauges, his role at Revolution Trains will be primarily project design and customer service. "With more and more projects under development it was becoming clear we needed to recruit someone to help Revolution grow," explained Revolution co-director Mike Hale. "We are confident Mike's enthusiasm and skill are what we need as we move forward with our plans." He'll be the third permanent member of the team, joining company founders Ben Ando and Mike Hale, and will also represent Revolution Trains at exhibitions alongside long-time helpers Paul Churchill and Gareth Atkinson. "Mike will be a familiar face to many," said Revolution co-director Ben Ando, "and we are confident he'll be a good fit in our small but dynamic team."
Revolution Trains has said that Mike is a keen railway modeller in all scales and his 4mm:1ft scale layout 'Oak Road', which depicts a stretch of the present-day Great Western Berks and Hants line has been admired on the exhibition circuit since debuting in 2017. "I have been interested in railways for as long as I could talk," says Mike. "Joining Revolution Trains is a fantastic opportunity and I am looking forward to bringing my passion, CAD design skills and eye for detail to the job." As well as being a popular attraction, 'Oak Road' has also raised money for the charity Meningitis Now. Having survived meningococcal meningitis at the age of 20, Mike is dedicated to supporting research into the disease. Mike is formerly a member of the Fareham and District Model Railway Club and says he 'has a passion for HSTs.'
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Review Roundup – What are people saying about our Japanese Classes in Tokyo?
We want to thank everyone that has studied with us over the last year.
Reading our website is a great way to learn about courses we offer.
But – What is it like to study Japanese at Coto?
In this blog post we will share some of our most recent reviews from places like Google and Facebook.
We hope this can help you to understand what being a student at Coto is like!
"I had the great pleasure of attending a one-month Beginner-Intensive-Course last August and I can only recommend Coto! Although it is a bit pricy and you have some initial cost for the text books and registration, it is worth every yen!
The teachers keep you engaged all the time and show a good balance between humor, teaching expertise and professionalism. Daily homeworks guarantee that you deal with the contents at home. However, questions in class are welcome in case something is unclear.
"As a language school owner myself, I can safely recommend Coto Japanese Academy. Both their 101 lessons AND intensive courses are first-rate, their teachers are kind and highly professional and their facilities are comfy and conducive to studying (common areas are greatly appreciated). Cancellation policies are reasonable, the pricing matches the quality you get and staff is very accommodating.
The school is easily connected through subway and surrounded by a wide variety of restaurants that have international menus or are 'foreigner-friendly'.
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Q: How can I make TeamCity build parameters dynamic? My situation is:

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*I have some revisions of code (in SVN)

*I have some build configurations for different applications

*I have a Map in another app (Zookeeper) which knows what revisions I want to build now

I want TeamCity to update build parameters dynamically when build process starts.
Any ideas?

A: I have found answer in similar question How to permanently change a system property in TeamCity 6 from a build step
Here is the recipe:
Adding or Changing a Build Parameter from a Build Step

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This Scandinavian designed floor lamp with clean and simple lines is made from solid cherry and comes with a handy pull chain to turn on and off. No more struggling to find the switch!
This item is oversized and will ship in 2 boxes.


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Judith Schuyf (Den Haag, 12 juni 1951) is een Nederlands historicus en archeoloog.

Levensloop
Schuyf studeerde geschiedenis, culturele prehistorie en middeleeuwse archeologie aan de Universiteit Leiden en promoveerde daar in 1974 op een proefschrift over de recente geschiedenis van lesbische vrouwen in Nederland. Ze deed onder meer wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar Nederlandse landschapsarcheologie en vooral naar de emancipatie van lesbische vrouwen, homoseksuele mannen, biseksuelen en transgenderpersonen (lhbt'ers) en de gevolgen van oorlog en geweld voor hen.
Aan de Universiteit Utrecht was Schuyf een van de initiatiefnemers voor de Interfacultaire Werkgroep Homostudies en streed ze voor de toekenning van compensatiegelden voor oorlogsslachtoffers. Ze zette deze strijd in haar vrije tijd voort toen ze Hoofd Onderzoek bij het Informatie- en Coördinatieorgaan Dienstverlening Oorlogsgetroffenen (Stichting ICODO, nu COGIS) was geworden. Schuyf adviseerde overheden over seksuele diversiteit en lhbt-beleid, onder meer voor roze ouderen, sport en transgenders. Ook was zij als adviseur verbonden aan het landelijk kennisinstituut en adviesbureau voor het sociaal domein Movisie.

Onderscheidingen
 2008: de eerste Annie Brouwer-Korffprijs van de gemeente Utrecht, voor bijdragen aan de integratie en emancipatie van homoseksuele mannen en vrouwen in Utrecht en wijde omgeving.
 2014: Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau vanwege haar onderzoek naar de leefsituatie en acceptatie van lhbt'ers en lhbt-oorlogsgetroffenen.
 2015: Bob Angelo Penning van het COC.

Publicaties (selectie)
 The Recording and Management of Historic Landscapes in the Netherlands (with comparative reference to Britain), in: Brandon, P.F. and R.N. Millman (ed.); Historic Landscapes. Identification, Recording, Management, London 1978, 97-109
 Beyond the Castle: moated sites in the Netherlands, in: Hoekstra, T.J., H.J. Janssen en I.W.L. Moerman (ed.), Liber Castellorum, Zutphen 1981, 144-153
 Plaats en waardering van fossiele elementen in het Nederlandse landschap, Wageningen, Pudoc, 1986
 met P.Schedler en K. Soesbeek (ed.): Homoseksualiteit in beeld, Veen, Utrecht/Antwerpen, 1989
 Een stilzwijgende samenzwering. Lesbische vrouwen in Nederland 1920-1970, Amsterdam 1994. Proefschrift Leiden
 Heidens Nederland. De materiële resten van een niet-christelijk verleden. Uitgeverij Matrijs, Utrecht 1995, 1997
 Oud rose : de positie van lesbische en homoseksuele ouderen in Nederland, Utrecht, Interfacultaire Werkgroep Homostudies, Universiteit Utrecht, 1996
 met Lizet Kruyff: Twintig eeuwen koken en eten: op zoek naar de eetcultuur van onze voorouders : met tientallen historische recepten die het proeven waard zijn!, Utrecht, Kosmos-Z&K, 1997
 Gevoelsgenoten van zekere leeftijd. Levensverhalen van oudere homoseksuele vrouwen en mannen. Met foto's van Jan Griffioen. Schorer/Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 1997
 De oudere oorlogsgetroffene, in: Schuyf, J. (ed): Trauma door Oorlogsgeweld, 1999
 met Polak, K. (red.): Een Stilte die Spreekt. Herdenken in Diversiteit, Den Haag SDU, 2000. Engelse vertaling:  A Telling Silence. Spectrums of Dutch remembrance, Amsterdam/Utrecht; Anne Frank Stichting, Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei, Icodo
 "Hidden from history? Homosexuality and the historical sciences." Lesbian and gay studies, an introductory, interdisciplinary approach. London: Sage (2000): 61-80.
 Aging, The Netherlands en Anna Blaman, lemma's in: Zimmerman, B. (ed.): The Encyclopedia of Lesbianism, Garland Press, 2000
 Levenslang. Tiemon Hofman, homoseksueel en avonturier, Schorer Boeken, Amsterdam, 2003
 (red.): Nederlanders in Neuengamme. De ervaringen van ruim 5500 Nederlanders in een Duits concentratiekamp 1940-1945, Zaltbommel, Aprilis, 2005
 met Klaus Müller: Het begint met Nee zeggen, biografieën rond homoseksualiteit en verzet, Schorer, Amsterdam, 2006
 Gender en trauma, in: Aarts, Petra G.H. en Wim D. Visser (red): Trauma, diagnostiek en behandeling, Houten/Diegem, Bohn, Stafleu Van Loghum. pp. 111–122, 2007
 Lesbisch en homo-emancipatiebeleid in Nederlandse gemeenten, Utrecht, Movisie, 2008
 De Roze Gemeentegids. Praktisch beleid voor gemeenten, 2014
 Heidense heiligdommen. Zichtbare sporen van een heidens verleden, 2019

Externe links
 Koninklijke onderscheiding voor Judith Schuyf, Movisie
 Judith Schuyf: onvermoeibaar op de bres voor LHTB's, Universiteit Leiden

Nederlands archeoloog
Nederlands historicus
Homorechtenactivist

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