Oct 31, 2014

Movember


http://ca.movember.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MovemberCanada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movember
https://twitter.com/MovemberCA
http://www.prostatecancer.ca/get-involved/events/movember#.VFOf3vnF_To
http://globalnews.ca/news/1637616/what-makes-the-movember-movement-so-successful/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/fashion-and-style/11198519/Movember-whose-moustache-is-this.html

Of Interest
http://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2014/oct/29/does-sex-protect-against-prostate-cancer
http://www.medicinenet.com/prostate_cancer/article.htm

The Day Israel Attacked America



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/posts/10152899623868690
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/statuses/527906450547294209
http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-liberty_tuesoct02-story.html#page=1
http://www.businessinsider.com/45-years-ago-this-week-israel-attacked-a-us-navy-ship-and-killed-dozens-of-sailors--survivors-want-to-know-why-2012-6
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/10/23/ex-navy-official-167-israeli-attack-on-us-ship-was-deliberate/
http://somalilandpress.com/israel-knowingly-attacked-us-military-ship-in-1967-%E2%80%93-al-jazeera-investigation-54783
http://www.gtr5.com/
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ussliberty.html
http://america-hijacked.com/2014/10/30/the-day-israel-attacked-america/
http://muteage.com/day-israel-attacked-america-america-alert/
http://www.rense.com/general26/ally.htm

Videos
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2014/10/day-israel-attacked-america-20141028144946266462.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZSzdQuOqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc7sOb7IsPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF_6k1c_0ds
LIBERTY

Oct 30, 2014

Caribbean Men's Internet Survey (CARIMIS)

http://caribbeanhealth.org/tag/carimis/
http://sigmaresearch.org.uk/go.php?/projects/gay/project51/
http://barbadosunderground.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/study-of-caribbean-men-who-have-sex-with-men-launched/#more-43826
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/featured-news/Men_who_have_sex_with_men__the_Caribbean_reality-164223376.html?m=y&smobile=y
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Survey-Bisexuals-more-likely-to-go-for-HIV-tests-280429562.html

Videos
http://vimeo.com/39472968
http://www.tv6tnt.com/sevenpm-news/-CARIMIS-SURVEY-280266562.html

Circle of Blue


Circle of Blue

http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/

https://www.facebook.com/circleofblue
https://twitter.com/circleofblue
https://www.linkedin.com/company/circle-of-blue
http://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/index.php?q=content/circle-blue-fresh-water-news-0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-neill/circle-of-blue_b_4255150.html
http://www.cwn-rce.ca/events/events-calendar/view/62-virtual-event-an-orbital-perspective-with-circle-of-blue
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/10/29/brazil-ngos-form-alliance-amid-water-crisis-in-sao-paulo-state/
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/brazil-s-dangerous-climate-spiral-20141031
http://upriser.com/posts/alarm-bells-toll-for-human-civilization-as-world-s-12th-largest-mega-city-to-run-out-of-water-in-just-60-days

Video
https://www.youtube.com/user/circleofblue

Of Interest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Water_Network

Oct 29, 2014

Daniel Pipes


Daniel Pipes

http://www.danielpipes.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes
https://www.facebook.com/daniel.pipes.official
https://twitter.com/DanielPipes
http://www.meforum.org/staff/Daniel+Pipes
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/08/pipes_the_propagandist.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/author/daniel-pipes
http://www.loonwatch.com/2013/04/daniel-pipes-support-assad-allow-bloodshed-to-continue-for-as-long-as-possible/
http://www.loonwatch.com/2013/02/does-philadelphia-have-a-burqa-crisis/
http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Paranoid-Style-Flourishes-Where/dp/0684871114

Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Rights_in_Islam
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2012/12/10/1569/
http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/04/23-cairo-kayaoglu
https://www.alislam.org/egazette/updates/islam-universal-human-rights-and-cairo-declaration/
http://europenews.dk/en/node/3847
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2828/islam-free-speech-oic
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/205577/human-rights-and-human-wrongs/david-g-littman
http://www.dhimmitude.org/archive/universal_islam.html

Of Interest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-executes-female-human-rights-lawyer-by-firing-squad-after-facebook-post/2014/09/25/c44b0a38-44f6-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/02/iraq-islamic-state-executions-tikrit
http://www.thenation.com/article/what-a-trial-in-pakistan-reveals-about-women-who-choose-fundamentalist-islam/

Harassment in NYC



http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/living/hollaback-10-hours-walking-in-nyc/index.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/10/28/street_harassment_video_a_hidden_camera_records_what_women_go_through_on.html
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/new-york-woman-harassed-100-times-in-10-hours-of-walking/story-fnixwvgh-1227105886338
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/230219/hidden-camera-shows-how-much-a-woman-gets-harassed-walking-around-nyc-for-10-hours/
http://www.ihollaback.org/

Of Interest
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/06/living/street-harassment/index.html
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/29/woman-records-10-hours-of-harassment-walking-through-new-york
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/actress-who-highlighted-street-harassment-receives-rape-threats-online-9824803.html
http://news.yahoo.com/york-street-harassment-video-goes-viral-153003555.html
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/woman.records.10.hours.of.street.harassment.in.new.york.gets.rape.threats.when.video.goes.viral/42345.htm
http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/10/decentering_whiteness_is_essential_to_thinking_about_street_harassment.html
http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/10/on_that_street_harassment_video_and_race.html
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/11/street_harassment_and_the_new_rules_of_engagement.html
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/10/why_that_street_harassment_video_didn_t_help_the_debate.html
http://www.theloop.ca/this-is-your-face-on-mansplaining/

The Pope on Evolution



http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/pope-says-evolution-and-creation-both-right
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/11192802/Pope-Francis-says-Big-Bang-theory-and-evolution-compatible-with-divine-Creator.html
http://www.cnet.com/news/pope-says-evolution-doesnt-mean-theres-no-god/
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/vaticanview.html
http://money24h.co.uk/uncategorized/pope-francis-declares-evolution-and-big-bang-theory-are-right-and-god-isnt-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2014/10/28/god-is-not-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand-says-pope/

Of Interest
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/MEDEVOL.TXT

Oct 28, 2014

Dilma Rousseff


Marlene Bergamo -25.jul.2013/Folhapress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilma_Rousseff
https://pt-br.facebook.com/SiteDilmaRousseff
https://twitter.com/dilmabr
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1722312/Dilma-Rousseff
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/05/the-anointed
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/rousseff-s-gender-revolution-women-take-power-in-brazilian-government-a-809834.html
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/c76e6180-0c70-11e2-a776-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3HWNLKba2
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/former-guerrilla-dilma-rousseff-set-to-be-the-worlds-most-powerful-woman-2089916.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswright/2014/10/27/rousseff-wins-a-second-term-in-brazil-and-investors-are-nervous/
http://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/brazils-rousseff-wins-reelection-with-51-45-pct-of-the-votes-98-pct-counted/#comment-107411

Genetics and Caste in Ancient India


A crowded street in New Dehli, India.

http://www.boston.com/news/science/blogs/science-in-mind/2013/08/09/genetic-study-finds-caste-system-ancient-india-began-about-years-ago/hu52rKxbmjJn3XUMNHS2LK/blog.html
http://www.livescience.com/38751-genetic-study-reveals-caste-system-origins.html
http://world.time.com/2013/08/27/what-dna-testing-reveals-about-indias-caste-system/
http://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetics-proves-indian-population-mixture-8-8-13
http://www.ambedkar.org/News/Thegenofcaste.htm
http://www.healthline.com/health-news/tech-gene-data-reveal-two-millenia-of-caste-relations-in-india-081213
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929713003248
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/11/6/994.full

Of Interest
http://world.time.com/2011/12/15/the-aryan-race-time-to-forget-about-it/
http://www.aryavert.com/genes.html

Le Petit Prince

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
https://www.facebook.com/lepetitprinceofficiel
https://twitter.com/Le_PetitPrince
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/littleprince/section4.rhtml
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/littleprince.pdf
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-strange-triumph-of-the-little-prince
http://www.iwc.com/en/news/iwc-celebrates-the-little-princes-finest-hour/

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmyf6LIxX8

The former GDR



http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/24/why-did-the-east-germany-really-go-under/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-feel-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/02/margot-honecker-east-germany-interview
http://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/
http://www.workers.org/2011/editorials/berlin_wall_0825/
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/blog/2013/mar/13/gdr-museum-berlin-east-germany
http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_books/article/9369#.VE-E8vnF_To
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/former-gdr-coaches-investigated/
http://www.ishr.org/Germany-Former-GDR-prison-Cottbus-now-in-Prisoner-s-Hands.1379.0.html
http://www.bstu.bund.de/EN/PublicEducation/SchoolEducation/WhatWasTheStasi/_node.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/koehler-stasi.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/03/reality-of-oppression-in-east-germany

Gender Equality Worldwide


The BBC's 100 Women

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-24371433
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-24650912
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29758794
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-29792551
http://ukfeminista.org.uk/take-action/facts-and-statistics-on-gender-inequality/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-24643344
http://www.arabnews.com/news/468870

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgS-cZC-UmU
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29744400

Of Interest to Educators
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/afghanistanunveiled/edu_1.html
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21648632-recruitment-academic-scientists-may-be-skewed-surprising-way-unfairer

Oct 24, 2014

Peled: The General's Son




http://www.amazon.com/The-Generals-Son-Journey-Palestine/dp/193598215X
http://mikopeled.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko_Peled
https://www.facebook.com/TheGeneralsSon
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/19/a-zionist-generals-son-shatters-the-myths/
http://www.tbiport.org/community-2/library/book-reviews/the-generals-son/
http://disinfo.com/2014/07/idf-generals-son-israel-doesnt-like-rockets-decolonize-palestine-interview-miko-peled/
http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-generals-son-comes-home-miko-peled.html
http://www.islamistgate.com/807
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-2979351881/the-general-s-son-a-journey-of-an-israeli-in-palestine
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/following-in-the-footsteps-of-his-father-a-zionist-hero-toward-a-free-and-democratic-palestine-1.514402
http://religiondispatches.org/emthe-generals-sonem-recounts-very-different-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9_OcCXvT6Y

Of Interest
http://barbadosunderground.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/caribbean-against-apartheid-to-observe-67th-anniversary-of-united-nations-resolution-to-partition-palestine/#more-43772

Reflective Democracy Campaign





http://www.womendonors.org/what-we-do/strategic-initiatives/reflective-democracy/
http://wholeads.us/
https://www.facebook.com/reflectivedemocracy
http://www.bust.com/who-leads-us-bringing-awareness-to-reflective-democracy.html
http://www.womendonors.org/
https://twitter.com/WomenDonors
http://www.nten.org/case-studies/2012/nta-profile-women-donors-network
http://blog.ncrp.org/tag/reflective-democracy-campaign

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMVW2aTYzIk
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/diversity-not-a-priority-in-house-gop-picks-360605763632

Oct 23, 2014

Yasmina Khadra: The Swallows of Kabul


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmina_Khadra
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jun/22/france.world
http://blogcritics.org/an-interview-with-author-yasmina-khadra/
http://www.dohafilminstitute.com/blog/people-in-film-yasmina-khadra
http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/The-Fundamentalist-Reader

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jun/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview14
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n19/adam-shatz/one-big-murder-mystery
http://allreaders.com/book-review-summary/the-swallows-of-kabul-34314
http://www.curledup.com/swallows.htm
http://www.powells.com/review/2004_02_16.html
http://talinedv.com/2011/03/27/from-my-files-review-of-the-swallows-of-kabul-by-yasmina-khadra/
http://quizlet.com/8172579/swallows-of-kabul-flash-cards/
http://lucyannwrites.blogspot.ca/2008/02/swallows-of-kabul.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/books/the-stoning.html
http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2013/07/the-swallows-of-kabul-by-yasmina-khadra.html
http://www.redsunacademy.com/bookclub/DiscussionQuestions/qswallows.htm
http://reginamortua.blogspot.ca/2011/09/swallows-of-kabul-lost-hope-of-yasmina.html
https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/1371/the-swallows-of-kabul
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1763791
http://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/khadra-and-the-swallows-of-kabul/

Videos
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24pr5d_download-the-swallows-of-kabul-yasmina-khadra-pdf-free_shortfilms