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12:14 Aug 17 2007
Times Read: 731

Friday, 17 August 2007, BBC News

Australia bans 'Mugabe students'

Australia says it will deport eight Zimbabwean university students whose parents are senior members of the government of President Robert Mugabe.

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the move was an extension of sanctions against Zimbabwe.

It was aimed at preventing those behind human rights abuses from giving their children the education their policies denied ordinary Zimbabweans, he said.

The Australian government is a vocal critic of Mr Mugabe.

Earlier this year, it banned its cricketers from going on a planned tour to Zimbabwe.

Mr Downer said the visa measure was necessary because of the continuing disregard for democracy and human rights in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe's government has accused Australia of funding violence by aiding civic groups in the country.

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Highschool Injury Still Haunts Me to this day
05:29 Aug 16 2007
Times Read: 736

A Highschool Injury Still Haunts Me to this day:

While the teacher was out of the classroom, One of my antagonists threw a piece of blackboard chalk at me and hit me right on my left eye.

My left cornea is physically damaged, I failed a vision test today, my left eye scored: 15 / 100

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South Africa is losing its way - Desmond Tutu
23:08 Aug 12 2007
Times Read: 739

Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaking to the BBC in 2004, Tutu has long spoken out against injustices in South Africa. Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu has warned that South Africa is in danger of losing its moral direction.

He said it had failed to sustain the idealism that ended apartheid and warned of growing ethnic divisions.

Referring to South Africa's high murder rate and the rape of children as young as nine months, he said the African reverence for life had been lost.

The retired Anglican archbishop opposes ex-Vice President Jacob Zuma becoming president due to his "moral failings".

Mr Zuma's presidential aspirations received a major boost earlier this month after corruption charges were dropped against him. He was acquitted earlier this year on a rape charge.

Respect

Archbishop Tutu said the country had achieved a remarkable degree of stability in 12 years of democracy despite problems poverty, Aids, corruption and crime.

South Africa's deepening malaise

But delivering the Steve Biko memorial lecture at University of Cape Town, he questioned why a respect for the law, environment and even life, were missing in South Africa.

"What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into licence, into being irresponsible. Rights go hand in hand with responsibility, with dignity, with respect for oneself and for the other.

"The fact of the matter is we still depressingly do not respect one another. I have often said black consciousness did not finish the work it set out to do," he said.

He said government officials often acted like former officials during the apartheid era - treating people rudely.

He said South Africa should oppose xenophobia and act sensitively when place names were being changed rather than appearing to gloat and ride roughshod over the feelings of others.

He also made a plea for people to pick up litter, to care for their own environments and for their fellow citizens.

"Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong, so that when we go on strike as is our right to do, we are not appalled that some of us can chuck people out of moving trains because they did not join the strike, or why is it common practice now to trash, to go on the rampage?

He said that South Africa remained a wonderful country that had produced outstanding people - such as Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid leader who died in police custody in 1977.

"The best memorial to Steve Biko would be a South Africa where everyone respects themselves, has a positive self image filled with a proper self esteem and holds others in high regard."

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Racism in Canada
00:13 Aug 06 2007
Times Read: 746

I am DISGUSTED by Canadians!

3 of my friends are half Native.

2 of them have tales of being beaten up because they are Native or part Native. Some of their friends lost their lives to their injuries.

The Aboriginals are a beautiful people, I have admired them since I was 5 years old.

My friend is half Mohawk, she lives in Kamloops (originally from St. Catharines, Ontario) is one of them. OMG, I CAN'T BELIEVE THE ASSHOLES WHO HURT HER and BEAT HER UP AT SCHOOL.

Then there is her husbands who raped her, cut her with kitchen knives (long 6 inch scars) and told her if she cried, the first of her children who come running will die.

I read a book about Genocides, one line that caught my attention was Contempt (Bullying) to Hate Crime (Criminal Bullying) to Genocide (ExtraOrdinary EVIL)