Laura Bush continued on her historic trip to the Middle East promoting Women’s Rights and Education to the troubled area.HERE IS THE VIDEO CLIP OF HER WOMEN’S RIGHTS TOUR Laura Bush with Suzanne Mubarakwife of President Hosni Mubarek and a group of school girls in Egypt.
Will Franklin at WILLisms has the complete Revolution Rundown this week in his Carnival of the Revolutions Week III posting.
Uzbek protesters in the capital of Tashkent getting their signs ripped up by government agents on May 20th.
Jimmy Carter gave his “kiss of approval” to the Ethiopian elections earlier this month that later were disputed.
Ariel Sharon was greeted by protesters on his arrival in New York City.
Rally at the Russian TV Tower Protesters marched to Ostankino television tower in Moscow on Sunday to protest for more Freedom of Press:Hundreds of liberal and radical party activists rallied in Moscow on Sunday, demanding greater press freedom and more access to the country’s state-dominated television networks, The Associated Press reported.
This just in…”Newsweek Tightens Guidelines”US magazine Newsweek has changed its policy on using unnamed sources, a week after it was forced to retract a report blamed for riots in Muslim countries.
Just how much anger is there to this man?
German Social Democrats (SPD) lose historic election!They will not be ruling the traditional SPD stronghold of North Rhine-Westphalia’s legislature for the first time in 39 years.Gerhard Schroeder’s popularity is waning due to an abysmal economy in Germany.
The news yesterday made it sound as if throngs were attacking Laura Bush as she visited the Holy Sites in Jerusalem.
MIXED-SEX ROAD RACE PROTEST VIDEO HEREOn your mark…
A dazed protester is assisted by friends after being attacked at a rally in Azerbaijan.
A survivor and witness to Saddam Hussein’s Mass Graves was killed while returning to his home from Baghdad.
From P.R.
Iraqi Reaction to Saddam in Underwear…Saddam caught with his pants down.
The esteemed Trey Jackson, from Jackson’s Junction has the first “Carnival of the Videos” rolling.
This has not happened in 46 Years!VIDEO OF THE RALLY HEREMeeting in a Fruit Orchard…Outside of Havana, Cuban dissidents rally this weekend.
Korasuv women protest for release of Rakhimov and a “wrestler”.
While on a Five Day Middle East VisitU.S.
Riding to Support Our Wounded Soldiers The Soldier Ride 2005 to support wounded soldiers takes off this weekend from Los Angeles.
Welcome,Winds of Change Readers!
The Doctor is now a lawyer…Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean, who famously refused to prejudge Osama bin Laden’s guilt, is standing by his judgment that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay may deserve jail time for allegations of corruption.
On June 4, 1989 Chinese Government Forces slaughtered from 400-800 official reports to 2,600 or more innocent democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in China.On May 13, 2005 Uzbekistan Government Forces massacred from 745 (169 government numbers) to more than 2,000 protesting men, women and children at a similar reform protest in Andijan.
Welcome,Winds of Change Readers!I have other posts many with video clips an the Massacre in Andijan here, here, here, here, and here.Uzbek security forces may have gunned down some 1,000 civilians in the unrest in the Central Asian republic, an international and an Uzbek rights group charged Thursday, accusing authorities of carrying out “summary executions.” “Uzbek police and security forces may have killed as many as 1,000 unarmed civilians in Andijan and Pakhtaabad, using machine guns, other automatic weapons and helicopters, according to independent journalists and local human rights organizations,” the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights said in a statement.
Shaima was let go in February after complaints from conservatives.
Forget the Teamsters, Auto Workers, etc., the French unions know how to get down to business, at least as far as benefits are concerned…
Mongo tipped me off to Neal Boortz’s analysis on judicial nominees.Here are the stunning statistics that the Washington Times detailed on just how obstructionist the Democrats have been lately on judicial appointments:(percentages of presidential appellate court nominees who were eventually confirmed by the Senate)Harry Truman 100%Dwight Eisenhower 92.3%John Kennedy 77.3%Lyndon Johnson 96.2%Richard Nixon 87%Gerald Ford 81.8%Jimmy Carter 100%Ronald Reagan 95%G.H.W.
Ruth Matar is a founder and leader of “Women in Green” an organization in support of the Jewish settlers in Gaza and have found welcome support from many US Christian Churches.
No, thanks…Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov told U.N.
Better than the gifts they’ve been tossing the Israelis…
Bush and Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on Wednesday.
AIDS is now the leading cause of death.Mandela backs Bush’s Call for global liberty but not necessarily his “methods”.Nelson Mandela had a twenty minute visit with President Bush on Wednesday to discuss the AIDS epidemic in his homeland.
The French rule out an exit from Myanmar.Workers for the French oil giant Total pumping gas out of the military junta.
VIDEO OF KORASUV UPRISING IN UZBEKISTAN HEREIncluding footage of horseback rebel leader, RakhimovAuthorities provided foreign dignitaries a guided tour of Andijan yesterday.The US is urging an international probe of the massacre.An Uzbekistan Protest Wednesday in London.
Iowahawk has possibly outdone himself with this weeks episode of: “Newsweek Lutefisk Story Sparks Fury Across Volatile Midwest” The debris-strewn streets of this remote Midwestern hamlet remain under a tense 24-hour curfew tonight, following weekend demonstrations by rock- and figurine-throwing Lutheran farm wives that left over 200 people injured and leveled the Whippy Dip dairy freeze.
Try telling that to this bunch!
CBS said Wednesday it is cancelling the Wednesday edition of “60 Minutes,” insisting the decision was made because of poor ratings and not last fall’s ill-fated story about President Bush’s military service.I love this part…”This was a ratings call, not a content call,” Moonves said Wednesday.The newsmagazine spinoff was where Rather reported last September that Bush skirted some duty while in the Texas Air National Guard and a commander felt pressure to sugarcoat an evaluation of him.
Get this…
Hundreds of protesters rallied in Syria on Sunday.
On June 4, 1989 Chinese Government Forces slaughtered from 400-800 official reports to 2,600 or more innocent democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in China.On May 13, 2005 Uzbekistan Government Forces massacred from 745 (169 government numbers) to more than 2,000 innocent men, women and children at a similar reform protest in Andijan.
Zell Miller is back in the public eye with as strong a southern drawl as ever and a brand new book, A Deficit and Decency .
Pakistani protesters tossing a “burning Bush” head.
Landless rural farm workers in Brazil have been walking for a week from Goiania to the capital of Brazilia demanding increased funding for agrarian reform from President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Glenn Reynolds has posted a letter here from a friend in Central Asia who is curious about the US response to the Uzbek uprising.
Israelis protest the settlement disengagement plan by the government.VIDEO OF THE PROTESTS HEREProtesting the Disengagement of the settements in Gaza.
Condoleezza Rice receives flowers from Kurdish children on her surprise visit to Iraq.
**Streets turned purple with blood, the world has not witnessed a similar scene of this magnitude since Tiananmen Square in 1989**MOVING BODY BAGS FROM ANDIJAN SLAUGHTER, VIDEO HEREThe head of the Committee for Fredom of Speech and Expression, Inera Safargaliyeva, lays flowers at the Courage Monument in the Uzbek capital Tashkent on Monday in a rare Uzbek Oppposition protest.
With the Newsweek debacle in the background, liberals picked the wrong weekend to convince the public that they are victims of a conservative media dominance.
After government forces just slaughtered 700 Uzbekans in the Andijan area over the weekend as described here:Uzbek soldiers reportedly fired into a crowd of thousands protesting over hardships in the former Soviet republic as police officers begged them not to shoot.”They shot at us like rabbits,” one youth said.
A bit miffed…
Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty on 6 charges of corruption today: Judges on Monday found Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of six charges in his fraud trial at the end of a 22-month case in which his Yukos oil firm has been torn apart.
In the likeness of Ward Churchill, Spain has it’s own Anti-American “career-making-victim-opportunist”.
NEW VIDEO TELLS OF GRUESOME SCENE IN ABIJAN HERESCENES OF MOVING THE DEAD IN ABIJAN HERE”If the reports of more than 700 deaths since Friday hold true and if Uzbek forces were behind the killing – as most reports indicate – it would be some of the worst cases of bloodshed involving a government’s troops and civilian demonstrators since the massacre of protesters in China’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.” “Women and Children Shot Like Rabbits…”Refugees waiting to cross into Kyrgyzstan Gruesome reports are coming out of Andijan as western media is slowly let back in to certain areas of the city of 300,000:Uzbek soldiers reportedly fired into a crowd of thousands protesting over hardships in the former Soviet republic as police officers begged them not to shoot.”They shot at us like rabbits,” one youth said.
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Andy, an expert in Russian affairs, at “Siberian Light” is leading the “Carnival of the Revolutions” this week.
THE CITY OF ANDIJAN IS SEALED OFF, VIDEO HEREA funeral in Andijan, Uzbekistan for a 21 year old student killed by government forces on Friday.
HERE IS THE ALJAZEERA VIDEO OF POLITICAL EVENTS IN EGYPTThis video also shows the Egyptian Parliament passing a vote to allow multicandidate presidential elections.
Saudi Arabia takes a “Big” democratic step backwards!
MORE BBC VIDEO HEREThe wife of a slain protester embraces her daughter during funeral services in Uzbekistan’s eastern town of Andijan on Sunday.
Thanks, Tom!
