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| Violence at Poolies Billiards! | | 2008-07-02 16:50:14 | | Just read an interesting piece of billiards-related news from Florida Today.com. It concerns about the police responding for a total of 22 times to Poolies Billiards on Palm Bay Road and 25 times to the Motel 6 on Malabar Road. And that was just in June 2008! And I kid you not! Talk about a one-of-a-kind news! More of the story here: Officers are called so frequently to several businesses, along with some residences, that Palm Bay Police Chief Bill Berger and City Manager Lee Feldman say they want the city's criminal hot spots to start paying up for excessiveresponses. "Certain locations -- businesses and residents -- are draining resources, to the point where you're continually having to send officers to that location," Berger said. "If they're monopolizing our services, they should be paying their fair share." The Palm Bay City Council will vote Thursday night on a proposed "Chronic Nuisance Premises Ordinance," which would allow the police department to charge per call for any | | By: The AnitoKid Chronikos | | |
| | The Best Martial Art Is One Without Violence | | 2008-06-28 15:00:01 | | Gary shares us his point: The Best Martial Art Is One Without Violence Playwright Edward Albee, in one of his best works, "The Zoo Story," says through his character, Jerry, "Sometimes it takes you a long distance out of your way, to come back a short distance, correctly."No kidding!Hundreds of times since I read, acted in, and directed that play, I’ve come back to ponder the wisdom in these words.Recently, I’ve been reflecting on my eight-year journey to achieving the rank, Shodan, | | By: Boxing - Fighting Center | | |
| | Orlando IJ Grants Asylum to Victim of Domestic Violence | | 2008-06-20 08:58:27 | | From AILA
An immigration judge for the Orlando, Florida Immigration Court finds that a victim of domestic violence merits a grant of asylum on humanitarian grounds. The social group is defined as “Honduran women in intimate relationships who are unable to leave the relationship.” Decision courtesy of John Ovink.
AILA Doc. No. 08062061. | | By: Partha On Immigration | | |
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| no violence? | | 2008-06-20 08:57:33 | | it was interesting to note that no violence of any real significance happened at the PAD protest today. I was half expecting some shootings and bloodshed on the streets near my apartment. as it were, nothing happened. ..thank god.so, rather than stay home tonight huddled in a corner, I've decided to venture back out to the lobby to hang out with whomever else found the courage to go out to.harrison ford called me up earlier to join him for dinner. but I declined at the time due to my fears of the situation.it is about 9pm now here in bangkok. time to get up, clean up, and make a move to the looooobby.my guess is - the thai baht will weaken a little because of the political events of the last few days. I wonder what it will be? 35 to 1?had a short messenger session with da brain earlier today. he is already to board the plane to come back to bangkok. just a couple of more days to go. moo-ka-tat, moo-ka-tat, moo-ka-tat.gotta go now. it's howdy doody time. | | By: Life of a Lounge Lizard | | |
| | Do Violent Games Desensitise Children To Violence? | | 2008-06-18 00:00:00 | | Over recent years there have been many arguments proposed by those who are not in favour of computer games or video games, or have concerns about either the amount of time spent playing such games, or the nature of the images and scenes watched by those playing them. One of the common arguments put forward [...] | | By: Resources Zone | | |
| | Textbooks Inciting Violence & Intolerance Still Used at Saudi School in Virginia | | 2008-06-11 16:40:52 | | On May 20 , I wrote about the approval by the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, DC, to continue leasing county property to the Islamic Saudi Academy, which is funded by the Saudi government. The school had been criticized for using textbooks which included virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Christian language and teachings. The supervisors approved the lease but refused to release a report, funded by the taxpaying citizens of the county, which translated the newest...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| Risk of Violence in the Workplace | | 2008-06-01 17:11:24 | |
Every now and then The HEADoc finds himself in an undesirable inescapable situation . . .
Last week The HEADoc was trying to forge an alliance with the most delicate of cases; a teenager facing the difficult reality of the first psychotic break of Paranoid Schizophrenia. Failing to make a trusting bond with such a patient could adversely affect his future treatment outcome in many ways. This is the type of case that can truly test the psychiatrist's clinical abilities. As the patient made an effort to let down his psychological walls of defense for the first time, a ruckus was undeniably overheard coming from the front. The situation seemed to be escalating. It was a drug seeker unable to obtain his drug of choice from the local ER after claiming to have unlikely side effects from what he had been prescribed by The HEADoc the previous week. Profanities shouted at the nurse and receptionist along with racial slurs and demands for something to be done immediat | | By: HEADoc | | |
| | Groundhog day in Burundi as Rwasa declares an end to his campaign of violence - again | | 2008-05-30 16:48:00 | | Rwasa (r) promising to stop killing people in 2005Rwasa (l) promising to stop killing people in 2006Rwasa (c) promising to stop killing people in 2008It happened in 2005, it happened again in 2006, and now we're back here for round three: the FNL leader Agathon Rwasa has declared his intention to stop killing people, and affirmed his commitment to peace, democracy etc. while the UN and the international media look on and applaud. Strangely absent, as usual, from the media coverage of Rwasa's latest rebranding exercise, are the names of his many victims: - Pasteur Jacques Rutekereza, one of the 156 Congolese Tutsis murdered by a coalition of FNL, Mai-Mai and FDLR killers in the August 2004 Gatumba refugee camp massacre. Arthur Kabunda, Charlotte Wilson and Richard Ndereyimana, three of the 21 passengers who were massacred after the Titanic Express bus was ambushed close to Bujumbura in December 2000. The thousands of others killed in other bus ambushes around Bujumbura between 1993 and | | By: Agathon Rwasa | | |
| | Men Common Victims of Domestic Violence | | 2008-05-28 10:11:41 | | SEATTLE, May 19 -- Domestic violence against men is common, though often under-reported, and may damage mental health, a retrospective cohort study showed.In a survey of 420 men, 28.8% had been the victim of either physical or psychological abuse during their adult lifetime, Robert Reid, M.D, Ph.D., of the Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies here, and colleagues reported in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.In a similar study, the group found the prevalence to be 44% among women.Action Points * Explain to interested patients that this study found that domestic violence -- either physical or psychological -- affects about 30% of men during their lifetime. Men 55 and older who had been abused had lower mental health scores and were more likely to be depressed than older men who had not been abused, the researchers found.And men younger than 55 who had been subjected to physical or psychological abuse reported more difficulty in functioning | | By: angelite nurses | | |
| | | Picture of the day: Violence in South Africa. | | 2008-05-25 17:41:53 | | Violence in South Africa's townships against foreign nationals has claimed 42 lives and displaced 22,000 people. (Full)The incidents are mapped at United for Africa.More "Pictures of the Day" on the Road.Picture courtesy Joao Silva (The New York Times)
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| | Stop Dating Violence | | 2008-05-06 13:09:24 | | 6 May 2008Went to comb the NUS library for some good reads after examination today when I found this interesting booth display at the entrance.Entitled "Stop Dating Violence", the booth highlighted several indicators of an abusive relationship including "being insulted or called names", "hit, grabbed, pushed, slapped, kicked, punched or burnt", etc. It also described what is a healthy relationship and how one can protect oneself from violence.I find the message that the booth sought to convey as rather fresh, apparently deviating from the usual emphasis on promoting awareness of family violence. Now the focus is on BGRs.The Caption "Love Shouldn't Hurt" sums it all up.For more information on Dating Violence (as well as take a quiz to find out whether you are a victim of Dating Violence), please log on to http://www.family.gov.sg/stopfamilyviolence | | By: My Encounters, My Life | | |
| | A History of Violence | | 2008-04-25 06:51:00 | | TITOLO: A History of ViolenceNAZIONE: USAGENERE: DrammaticoDURATA: 96 min.DATA DI USCITA: 2005REGIA: David CronenbergCAST: V.Mortensen, M.Bello, E.Harris, W.Hurt, A.Holmes, H.Hayes, P.Mac Neill Un uomo pacato, proprietario di una trattoria in una piccola comunità, si ritrova alle prese con due forestieri violenti; reagisce prontamente uccidendo i due banditi assassini.Diventa un eroe nazionale nel circo dei mass media.A livello storico-narrativo è un film classico e lineare, una macchina perfetta nella sua semplicità che pur nasconde ricchezza di temi, sfumature, concretezza realistica e una quasi impercettibile ironia.Si può interpretarlo come una parabola sugli Stati Uniti, paese contaminato dal suo violento passato fondato sullo sterminio dei pellerossa e sullo schiavismo degli Africani. Lo si può anche interpretare come una metafora sulla normalità della violenza: la violenza è abominevole ma è parte integrante dell’esistenza umana. | | By: Recensioni Film | | |
| | 12 Shootings, 3 Murders in Los Angeles During 40 Hour Weekend of Non-Violence | | 2008-04-07 19:55:02 | | I am ashamed of my fellow Angelenos for their behavior during what was supposed to be a weekend of peace.
We have an enormous amount of work to do in the area of non-violence and this means continuing to focus our efforts on the homes and the schools.
There are human lives at stake here, everybody, so please do your part no matter WHERE you may call your home.
READ ABOUT THIS HEREPractice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | Tibet: Petition to end the violence | | 2008-03-28 23:29:34 | | After decades of repression, the Tibetan people are crying out to the world for change. The Olympic spotlight is now on China, and Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama is calling to end all riots and violence through restraint and dialogue.
China’s hardliners are lashing out publicly at the Dalai Lama - but many Chinese leaders believe [...] | | By: Delhi Greens | | |
| | Fight Violence With Nonviolence | | 2008-03-28 16:15:15 | |
Despite many who subscribe to the opposite belief system, I would like you to think about this statement I am making right now...
We don't have to use any weaponry at ALL in order to achieve peace on this planet of ours, as demonstrated by an organization called, Nonviolent Peaceforce which is comprised of a group of nonpartisan, unarmed, trained civilians from around the world.
Isn't this an amazing and exciting proposition?! Just imagine if more groups like these would begin springing up as days go by!!!!!!!!! :D
READ ABOUT THIS HEREPractice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
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| | Dalai Lama 'to resign' if violence worsens | | 2008-03-18 06:38:57 | | BEIJING, China (CNN) -- The Dalai Lama will step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence by protesters in the region worsens, the exiled spiritual leader said on Tuesday as China's premier blamed his supporters for the growing unrest."If things become out of control then my only option is to completely resign," the Dalai Lama told a news conference in Dharamsala, northern India, The Associated Press reported.A spokesman for the Dalai Lama later clarified that he was refering to his political role as Tibetan leader-in-exile, rather than his spiritual role, AP said."If the Tibetans were to choose the path of violence he would have to resign because he is completely committed to nonviolence," Tenzin Takhla told reporters."He would resign as the political leader and head of state, but not as the Dalai Lama. He will always be the Dalai Lama."Earlier, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had blamed supporters of the Dalai Lama for the wave of deadly violence which exploded in Tibet o | | By: Ayurveda in Thailand Blog | | |
| | Rage of Violence | | 2008-03-15 02:17:00 | | Civilization might have brought many facets to human history, but not what is necessary,i.e. PEACE.If we observe incidents happening around us we can easily identify increasing intolerance of people towards simple issues and spreading voilence.Recent example is from Alipur, a village in the outskirts of Delhi, where a 10 year boy is burnt alive. The reason was, his bicycle had a collision with a car which was bringing a groom to marriage. The people inside car were heavily drunk, who, on demand | | By: An Indian Blog | | |
| | | Threats of violence prompt security boost at Chrysler plant after layoff | | 2008-03-08 03:03:20 | | Threats of violence prompt security boost at Chrysler plant after layoff
In response to threats of violence and vandalism, Chrysler boosted security and added police presence at its Belvidere, IL assembly plant Thursday. The rumors have been circulating all week, and are believed to be in response to the elimination of the third shift, which amounts to 1,069 workers being laid off this week, as announced in January. The added Chrysler security staff together with the police on-site are patrolling the plant and parking lots, searching workers’ bags as they enter the factory. These measures are in response to threats that refer to last month’s shooting at the nearby Northern Illinois University, which killed six, according to local media. There have been no reports of any trouble. The Dodge Caliber, Jeep Patriot and Jeep Compass, all of which share a common platform, are assembled at the Belvidere plant, which is one of five at which Chrysler announced it will end a shift. | | By: Auto News: Car Reviews, Car News, Car Shows | | |
| | from violence to non-violence | journey from mind to heart | | 2008-03-05 20:41:52 | | recent incident of disproportionate and indiscriminate killing of civilians by israeli defence forces in Gaza, Palestine saddened me beyond words. this is by no means a new thing. yet as i follow world news quiet regularly, i couldn't help myself not to bleed internally when i saw the missiles killed along with many children, infants as young as five months old who has nothing do to with these mindless violence.ironic sad part is that the militants who are really responsible for firing missiles to israeli side got away and when their abandoned office were hit with missile, nobody was there. the story goes with one third of who killed by israeli attack are civilian including children and women. many are still suffering in hospitals and many will die as the hospitals are always short of supply of medicine and equipment due to check posts and constant blockade.The people of Gaza have been blockaded, uprooted, starved, and silenced ... and now they are being massacred. Over 100 Palestinian | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | After violence, Kenya tourism struggles | | 2008-03-03 15:35:00 | | Hotels are empty up and down the Kenyan coast after ethnic clashes killed more than 1,500 people and forced more than 600,000 to flee their homes in the wake of the disputed Dec. 27 presidential election.Inland, the elephants, lions, and giraffes have the country's game reserves to themselves as safari companies divert to neighboring Tanzania.After years of boom, East Africa's dominant economy seems headed for a fall. Tea companies are struggling to get bushes harvested and farm workers are stranded far from their fields.
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| | Kenya Triumphs Over Post Poll Violence | | 2008-02-28 23:51:13 | | The political impasse is now down and under after His Excellency the President Honourable Mwai Kibaki and His Premiership Honourable Raila Odinga signed a power sharing agreement that is to be entrenched in the Kenyan Constitution under a National Accord and Reconciliation Act .An almost euphoric celebration greeted the wider Kenya due to this recent development that will bring to an end two | | By: A Nairobian Perspective! | | |
| | Violence Against Gays in South Florida is Escalating | | 2008-02-27 20:43:58 | | What's going ON with the peoples' mentalities around us?! Must everyone look, sound and behave the very same way in order not to be bullied and/or killed just for being who they are?!
This fact is chilling me right down to my very bones.
People around the world are fighting against this every single day and in THIS particular story, we are focusing upon the subject of the recent amount of gay bashing that seems to be overtaking South Florida.
In an effort to do my part to help combat this disease called discrimination, I have decided to re-post the following statement for you to read courtesy of the gay rights website entitled, Fight OUT Loud.
"Fight OUT Loud is very disturbed to learn of the recent string of anti-gay crimes in Broward County. First, there was the senseless murder of 17 year-old Simmie Williams Jr, which Police are investigating as a possible hate crime based on his sexual orientation or gender identity. Then, a gay couple was brutally attacked and gay-bashed i | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | Dealing With Violence, Frayed Relations And Black Eyes: | | 2008-02-27 03:50:00 | | Domestic violence, in spite of the progress made by the human mind, is a harsh reality that more often than not is kept under wraps. It can be recognized from a pattern of dominating and aggressive behavior demonstrated by an adult towards another. In the United States alone, as many as 4 million women are known to suffer each year from violence in a relationship. While women are majority of the recipients of abuse in a relationship, homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender individuals and at times | | By: Eyelid Surgery Beverly Hills | | |
| | | The escalating violence in Kenya has destroyed its image for overseas tourists | | 2008-01-31 16:00:00 | | "The image of Kenya has been destroyed overnight -- the image of palm trees and elephants has been replaced by that of a madman," he said."Tourism in Kenya is devastated and the problem is affecting the whole of Africa," he said.He said that in neighbouring Tanzania, resorts are getting 30 percent cancellations. Tourism officials in Uganda said last week that arrivals have dropped by up to 30 percent.
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| | A History of Violence. David Cronenberg. | | 2008-01-14 07:21:00 | |
There’s something about A History of Violence from the first scene, something about the way the titles become part of the motel exterior. It’s a nice long tracking shot from Cronenberg, with a great (small part though) performance from Stephen McHattie. After the opening, Cronenberg spends a lot of time introducing Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello and family. They live in a Hollywood-ized version of a small midwestern town (where everyone looks out for one another, where Bello has a son she had when she was eleven)--it’s a never never land, which is fine, because Cronenberg’s dealing with the role of violence in films here. He manages to make all the commentary on it he wants, while never once letting the characters slip from the most important position.
The film succeeds because of Mortensen and Bello. Bello’s good, but Mortensen is amazing. It’s been a while since the last time I read he was finally going to be big and Violence doesn’t show he can be a leading man... it shows he can act beautifully. The interesting thing about how Cronenberg treats Mortensen... he’s never anything but the protagonist. He never loses the viewer’s identification. Even when he’s scaring the hell out of everyone around him, he’s still the good guy. Because it’s a Hollywood movie. It’s not in the sense one could see Brad Pitt in the lead, but Cronenberg knows very well he can’t comment on Hollywood’s approach to violence without making the film Hollywood.
There is some distraction, given the high schoolers all being mid-twenties or later. I’m guessing it doesn’t have to do with Cronenberg commenting on... the Beach Party movies, but rather... well, regular Hollywood casting practices.
Cronenberg offsets the violence and the implications of it and Mortensen and Bello’s respective inner turmoil with a couple fantastic performances. First, Ed Harris. Harris plays a creepy mobster and he’s a joy to watch, but it’s not a stretch for him. Ed Harris doesn | | By: The Stop Button | | |
| | Kenya tourism hurt by images of violence | | 2008-01-11 06:32:00 | | Kenya's game parks usually teem with camera-toting tourists at this time of year. Now they are all but empty after images of deadly clashes that rocked the country were beamed around the world.Operators say pictures of machete-wielding youths battling riot police and of a torched church that evoked nightmares of the Rwandan genocide, have sent some tourists packing and others delaying trips or scrapping planned visits outright.A minority have bravely chosen to see out their holidays."We have never felt like we were in danger," said Debbie Shillito, a Canadian relaxing by the pool of a lodge in the Samburu Game Reserve, the only tourist in sight. "Our biggest fear was that our trip would be cancelled."Protests and clashes following President Mwai Kibaki's re-election have killed 500 people. His rival, Raila Odinga, believes he was cheated of an election win and the controversy has triggered bloodletting displacing more than 250,000 people.Tourism industry players say the violence, which has been in isolated places and usually far away from where tourists stay, has portrayed the whole country as a basket case and no-go zone.Tourism is Kenya's biggest foreign exchange earner and supports about a million people.Many western countries, including Britain -- Kenya's biggest source market -- have slapped travel bans on non-essential visits, meaning insurance firms won't cover anyone going there.As a result, bed occupancy across the country has fallen to around 20 percent, when it would normally have been above 85 percent at this time, the industry's peak season."Phones are not ringing with new bookings. That is the main concern for us," said Peter Mbogua, sales and marketing manager for the Serena Group of hotels. "And the phones will not start ringing until the perception created is changed."Mbogua said the Mara Serena in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, famous for its annual wildebeest migration, was just 40 percent occupied. Usually in January it would be nearly full. | | By: Most Popular Tourist Places | | |
| | Flambée de violence depuis l'assassinat de Benazir Bhutto | | 2007-12-29 11:08:52 | |
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - De violentes émeutes ont éclaté jeudi soir au Pakistan après l'assassinat de l'opposante Benazir Bhutto, symbole du possible retour de la démocratie dans ce pays. Accusant le terrorisme islamiste, le président Pervez Musharraf a exhorté la population au calme et décrété trois jours de deuil national.
A deux semaines des élections législatives fixées au 8 janvier et un peu plus de deux mois après le retour d'exil de l'ancien Premier ministre, l'attentat-suicide qui lui a coûté la vie à Rawalpindi, dans l'Est du Pakistan, menace de jeter le pays dans le chaos. La condamnation de la communauté internationale est unanime.
Déjà à son retour de huit ans d'exil volontaire le 18 octobre, Benazir Bhutto avait échappé à un attentat-suicide à Karachi qui avait fait plus de 140 morts.
Jeudi, Mme Bhutto, qui était âgée de 54 ans, venait de s'adresser à des milliers de partisans du Parti populaire du Pakistan (PPP) dans le cadre de la campagne électorale quand elle a été tuée, avec une vingtaine d'autres personnes, selon les témoins, dont un journaliste de l'Associated Press.
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| | Pakistan on the Brink: Assassination of Benezir Bhutto triggers widespread violence in Pakistan | | 2007-12-27 09:40:41 | | Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a terror attack during a political rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. Over 20 people killed and many more injured in this suicide attack. As per sources, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader was shot in the neck and chest as she was entering her vehicle after addressing the campaign rally at Liaqat Bagh Park. Soon after the gunshot, the bomber blew himself up amid the crowd. It was reported that the bombers came in a motor...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
| | The Machine Girl Movie Trailer - Mindless Violence at its Best | | 2007-12-09 13:19:51 | |
This is so bad, that it’s good. I almost thought that this was a spoof of Tarentino’s Grindhouse and Kill Bill movies, but it’s actually the official trailer for ‘The Machine Girl‘ (Kataude Mashin Gâru), a Japanese exploitation flick.
The movie is about the quest of Ami, a teenage Japanese girl out to avenge her brother’s death at the hands of a crime family. Without giving anything away, the movie trailer has enough Ninjas, Yakuzas, chainsaws and gallons of fake blood to whet the appetites of even the most exacting devotees of the exploitation genre.
The trailer is absolutely not suitable for kids and people with weak stomachs.
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| | | | Increased Violence in Afghanistan | | 2007-12-04 02:56:22 | |
Violence is on the rise in Afghanistan; it has been the most violent year since the war began. At the same time we are seeing a decrease in violence in Iraq. We have been told that this decrease is due to the troop surge, but I now wonder if some of that decreased violence is a result of the announcement of the surge. I still find myself troubled by the fact that we announced our military intentions to the enemy. I feel this gave them time to develop a plan to deal with the surge. Is it possible that the enemy's plan was to pull out of Iraq and move their operation to Afghanistan? Some people have commented that having a surge was going to be like playing wac-a-mole. Of course, those people figured the enemy would move around Iraq. With the increase in violence in Afghanistan it is possible that the enemy moved there.Since the invasion of Iraq it seems that Afghanistan has been put on the back burner. Even the media seems to pay little attention. We continually&nb | | By: Miscellaneous Reflexions | | |
| | Soccer Violence in Italy Getting Sicker | | 2007-11-13 11:52:14 | | This soccer violence in Italy is getting sicker but there ARE ways to put a stopper on it once and for all.
1) The officials need to declare that there will be no further soccer games until a game can be played without violence taking place.
2) During all games played they need to post the following on a screen:
RESPECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS BY RESISTING THE URGE TO BE VIOLENT
READ ABOUT THIS HEREPractice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | TV Violence to AGGRESSION CHILD - Research Study | | 2007-11-06 03:57:53 | | TV Violence to AGGRESSION CHILD - Research StudyFound interesting fresh news about Watching TV and the effect to Your Baby Boy but not for Your Baby Girl. This news come from deep research on hundred children.Must read for all parent:Preschool boys who watch violent television become markedly more aggressive and anti-social as they grow older, according to a study by Seattle researchers in one of the largest examinations so far of such connections.At the same time, girls appear impervious to the effects of television violence, a finding that has the researchers puzzled.The study, which focused on years of data for 330 children around the nation, found that each hour of violent shows viewed per day by boys ages 2 to 4 increased their aggression threefold, as reported by their parents five years later. It adds to a large body of evidence that kids learn from what they watch, the study's lead author said.Read the full research on TV violence to aggression Child.Tag:aggression+child|TV Vi | | By: Baby First Year | | |
| | Commit a Random, Senseless Act of Violence! | | 2007-10-26 16:26:00 | | Actually, that might be frowned upon, but it is the subject of the new poll. We all know celebrities and politicians can be annoying, so here's your chance to exact some revenge (in your mind, at least). Whatever you do, don't take this too seriously, because a) it's supposed to be fun and b) I don't want any of you going to jail (though the headlines might be fun).For the record (and since it's deleted now), the results of the Jean Claude Van Damme movie poll were as follows:* Bloodsport (7 votes)* Cyborg (5)* Timecop (3)* Double Impact (2)* Lionheart (2)* Death Warrant (1)* Hard Target (1)Total Votes - 21I'm shocked that Kickboxer received no votes. Not that I like it all that much, but I know many that do. Let's get some more votes this time around, people... | | By: Blog Cabins | | |
| | | Pakistan: Musharraf-Bhutto reconciliation 'could lead to fresh violence' | | 2007-10-07 20:18:00 | | Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf signed a law on Friday dropping corruption charges against ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto. This paves the way towards a power-sharing deal between the two and Bhutto is expected to return to Pakistan from self imposed exile on 18 October and stand in the forthcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to be held before 15 January. Reports have said that the power sharing deal was even endorsed by the United States and mediated with the help of a British diplomat, with both the US an Britain keen to see political stability return to Pakistan ending the political upheaval that has engulfed the country.“This is a sad occasion that the national political leadership would strike a deal for its own political benefit and not for the nation and all political solutions would be imposed on us from abroad,” commented the acting president of opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Navaz (PML-N), Javed Hashmi.A report in the Pakistani newspaper Daily Times on Friday said that islamic leader Mehsud has also threatened to "welcome" Bhutto with bombings on her arrival in Karachi on 18 October. More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
| | Domestic Violence a review. | | 2007-10-04 12:29:48 | | God made Adam, then he made Eve. He made Adam smart and strong and he made Eve his obedient helper. The roles are very clearly defined by the Bible. The man has to hunt and has to protect the family. A woman has to take care of the children and his husband as well as keep the house clean. A women gets disciplined by her husband. Maybe she was a bitch, maybe she was a slut, maybe she did not fulfill her duties. It’s not our business to know. The husband knows and that should be good enough for us. It’s between him and her. A good woman will always submit to the will of her husband no matter what. The notion of the so called “domestic violence” or “domestic abuse” should not even come up, because in the majority of “abuse cases” we should trust the husband to use his good judgement to despense praise as well as punishment. It is not our right to get involved.The role of a woman in our society is outlined as follows: Be obedient, cheerful, | | By: IBIBO | | |
| | God. Sex. Violence. Immorality. | | 2007-09-28 16:58:44 | | In a comment on my recent post about Decadent Old Europe, SamD, of SamuelDouglas.wordpress.com, pointed me towards an article worth quote mining. The piece is from the Journal of Religion and Society. It is cross-national comparison of the more secular vs. the more religious developed democracies. The numbers in square brackets, [], indicate paragraphs as [...] | | By: Hell's Handmaiden | | |
| | Violence Quotes - Martin Luther King | | 2007-09-28 15:38:00 | | “The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the...
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| | In the Name of God: Islamists Spearheaded Violence over Cartoon in Bangladesh | | 2007-09-21 23:14:59 | | Hundreds of Islamic hardliners including activists of Hizbut Tahrir, Islami Oikya Andolon, Chhatra Mukti Andolon, and Islami Shasantantra Andolon descended to the streets and later resorted to violence and arson to protest the publication of a cartoon that allegedly made fun of Mohammed, in a vernacular daily. The protesters said this was a deliberate attempt by the cartoonist and the news paper to ridicule Prophet Mohammad. The cartoon appeared on Sept 17 issue of Prothom Alo’s magazine Alpin. It...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
| | | Domestic Violence in Ghana | | 2007-08-26 03:48:00 | | This lack of basic transportation is a crippling problem for the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), formed in 1998 to deal with the rising number of cases involving women and children in domestic settings. One in three Ghanaian women experiences some form of domestic violence, according to a 1999 study by the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre.
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| | Workplace Violence Prevention Expert Releases Findings From Research | | 2007-08-21 22:19:27 | |
In the interest of doing my part to help Mr. W. Barry Nixon reduce violence in the workplace, I would now like to direct your attention to his excellent information, via his website, The National Institute For The Prevention Of Workplace Violence. In addition, there is an interesting article on Mr. Nixon's findings from his recent research on this subject. If we wish to live in a less violent society, we need to figure workplace violence into our equation. READ ABOUT THIS HERE Practice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | "Stop the violence through Peace, Healing, and Empowerment" | | 2007-08-16 16:50:00 | | "Stop the violence through Peace, Healing, and Empowerment"10th Annual Suitland FestivalFree Health Screenings, Youth & Community Networking Empowerment,Skating Showcase, Vendors, Go Go Bands, Games, Poetry S.L.A.M.Keynote SpeakersSuitland Community Center5600 Regency Lane, Forestville MD 20747Saturday, October 6th 200710 AM - 6 PM@ Noon there will be aPoetry S.L.A.M.(Spreading Love And Messages)of Unityhosted byChristopher "Poetry Man" FieldsFeaturing:The Boyd Sisters, Sistah Joy, Crystal Wigfall, Deserie JohnsonLalah, Da Truth, Brenardo, Rhyme Cypha, Sir Charles CaryS.L.A.M. Sponsors:AprilSims.ComVirgo Body Training JoDom PublishingKent Ballard IncDeeprootz.bizPeppy Promotions"WE" are Greater Than "i"Christopher "Poetry Man" FieldsThePoetryManDC.Com | | By: April Sims A & E | | |
| | Kansas Governor Signs New Domestic Violence Bill | | 2007-08-09 05:56:40 | |
A wise move, Governor Blunt. It is traumatic enough for a woman to have to endure domestic abuse and once they emerge from this storm, they need the umbrella you are offering in the form of this excellent bill.
READ ABOUT THIS HERE
Practice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | Chicago Launches Anti-Violence Campaign | | 2007-08-09 05:54:56 | |
Accolades to everybody included in this vital program called Faces Against Violence, a three-month campaign, which is part of Mayor Richard M. Daley's "Safe Summer" initiative.
If every city's mayor would decide to follow suit, it would take our country's citizens just that much closer to a healthier, happier and much safer summer, fall, spring AND winter for us all!
READ ABOUT THIS HERE
Practice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | Boston Bikers Ride Against Domestic Violence | | 2007-08-09 05:53:24 | |
Many people seeing a group of bikers form an instant image regarding them, often viewing them as people who eat rusty nails for dinner and follow them up with a barroom brawl.
I say don't judge a book by its cover, dear readers, you have to open it and read it first.
These bikers' hearts are as big as the sound coming from their bikes when they rev them up and take off flying down our various city roads - vroom!!! vroom!!!!!
READ ABOUT THIS HEREPractice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | Stalking and Violence: New Patterns of Trauma and Obsession | | 2007-07-16 06:44:00 | | Author: Stephen J. Morewitz Paperback: 150 pagesPublisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 31, 2002)Language: EnglishISBN: 0306473658Stalking and Violence: New Patterns of Obsession and Trauma provides new perspectives on the prevalence, causes, and effects of stalking in intimate and non-intimate relations. Drawing on the results of a large random survey of restraining orders, this book found that stalking is highly prevalent in a variety of relationships and is a pattern of behaviors that is routinely regulated by the demographic and social characteristics of the victims and offenders. This book demonstrates that it is possible to develop reliable stalker profiles to help better detect and respond to the threat of stalking. These findings differ from previous studies that considered stalking limited to severely disturbed persons. Covering a wide range of topics from offender profiling, the dangers of stalking, cyberstalking, traumatic health effects, and the responses of the polic | | By: GanEden For Books | | |
| | | Sri Lanka's luxury hotels hurt by violence | | 2007-07-02 15:06:00 | | Singers Britney Spears, Paul McCartney, Sting and Paul Simon have all traveled to Sri Lanka for a big-bucks taste of tropical luxury. But an escalating war with Tamil Tiger rebels and increasingly gruesome headlines on the human- rights situation means that the rich are now staying away -- and rooms in the island's boutique hotels are going for a song.
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| | Lou Dobbs:Mexican Gang Violence Enters the U.S. | | 2007-06-15 23:34:00 | | It's important to note that criminal organizations in Mexico attempt to destabilize politics in the areas they operate in and resort to killing police, media people, priests, and entire families for control. Some parts of Mexico are actually under the control of the cartels and nobody can do anything about it.With our sieve-like border, it's only a matter of time before their influence beings to affect local politics on the U.S. side of the border.. and we spend our time worrying about whether a smuggler got shot in the behind.-The Paleo ConservatistSubscribe to: Posts (Atom) | | By: The Paleo Conservatist | | |
| | Study Shows Violence Costs USA 70 Billion Dollars a Year | | 2007-06-11 21:55:00 | | This astronomical figure is just mindboggling to me and since there are many ways for us to prevent violence from occurring in the FIRST place, I think we all need to seriously consider what we can do about this shameful waste of money.
Not only would we as human beings be living healthier and happier lives both mentally and physically, but just think about all of the places this money can go to which would better serve our great nation as well as the world!!!!
Phaedra Corso, lead author of study and associate professor of health policy at the University of Georgia College of Public Health and health economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, "The most burdensome category is among young males who are victims of assaults with firearms, so if you want to prevent those costs from occurring, you need to focus on prevention in that particular population."
What does this statement tell me? it tells me:
1) We need more focus on dealing with every day problems a | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | Anti-Christian Violence in Iraq not covered by MSM | | 2007-06-07 21:03:18 | | The following is from Amy Welborn's Open Book blog: June 07, 2007 Where's the coverage? Of anti-Christian violence in Iraq?The mainstream media can't get enough of the sectarian violence between the...
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| | La violence a-t-elle un sexe? | | 2007-06-07 06:01:30 | | Un des préceptes fondamentaux du féminisme moderne est le statut de victime de la femme face à un homme qu’on décrit souvent comme étant très violent. Cette vision partiale des choses ne tient plus la route quand on observe que, selon une nouvelle étude, les hommes sont plus souvent victimes de violence conjugale que [...] | | By: Un homme en colère | | |
| | US Seeks to Increase Pressure on Sudan to End Darfur Violence | | 2007-06-01 05:00:00 | | DownloadThis is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.What exactly is genocide? The word was invented by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who fled Poland at the start of World War Two and came to the United States. He lost almost every member of his family to the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany.Sudanese women in a refugee camp in Chad in July 2004 protesting the violence in DarfurIn a nineteen forty-four book, Raphael Lemkin wrote that by "genocide" he meant the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group. But not necessarily the immediate destruction. It can also describe a plan of actions taken against groups with the aim, in the end, to destroy the groups themselves.His efforts led in nineteen forty-eight to a United Nations treaty against the crime of genocide. It took effect in nineteen fifty-one. It defines genocide as actions taken with the goal to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.The acts listed include killing or causing serious phys | | By: Giang Day Truc Tuyen - Teaching Online | | |
| | The Violence Continues On and On and On Between the Israelis and Palestinians | | 2007-05-24 20:32:00 | |
Ping-pong bombing and killing continues. Revenge and retribution goes on and on. This kind of mindset makes absolutely no sense to me and I am sickened by the news I see!!!!!
I feel there will be no peace between the Israelis and Palestinians until all violence between them is stopped!!!!!!!!!
Why is it so very difficult to sit down and discuss rational plans in order that both sides can begin to live their lives in peaceful co-existence in that region, anyway???!!!!
READ ABOUT THIS HERE Practice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | Off-Beat: Scott Stapp’s Domestic Violence Rap - What a weenie! | | 2007-05-22 20:24:14 | | Scott Stapp has apparently fallen off the wagon and back on to the police blotter.
The former Creed frontman was arrested Sunday at his home in Boca Raton, Florida, and charged with felony assault stemming from a domestic violence row, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
According to a sheriff spokesman, Stapp returned to his [...] | | By: What a Weenie! | | |
| | NIGERIA: Chevron shuts some Nigerian operations amid violence | | 2007-05-12 06:38:00 | | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Chevron Corp. temporarily shut down some operations in Nigeria's offshore waters today as the second-largest U.S. oil company scrambled to protect its workers and equipment from rampant violence that threatens to drive up gasoline prices. The San Ramon-based company's lockup in the Niger Delta came just a few days after gunmen seized four of its American subcontractors from | | By: energy BLOG | | |
| | Bangalore violence | | 2007-01-22 07:26:00 | | Night curfew was clamped in part of the City even as a 12 year-old boy was killed in police firing and more than 30 people injured in fresh violence that broke out during a 'Shobha Yatra' taken out by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on 21st January 2007. The curfew, clamped as precautionary measure, would be in force till morning in Bharatinagar area and depending upon the situation decision would be taken to withdraw.Police said the boy was killed at Kamaraj road when the police opened fire after lobbing of tear gas shells and lathi charge was proved to be futile to disperse the mob which indulged in torching vehicles besides pelting stones on roadside shops.More than 40 vehicles including buses, autorickshaws and two wheelers were damaged and torched and scores of shops were damaged in stone pelting.More than 30 people, including six police personnel, who were injured in violence were admitted to various Hospitals.More than 300 people were taken into custody in connection with the violence.In other two areas Shivajinagar and Halasur police limits Prohibitory Orders under section 144 were clamped. Large scale violence broke out during 'Shobha Yatra' taken out by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists.No fresh incidents of violence was reported last night in the trouble hit areas where night curfew had been clamped.Additional Police Commissioner Bipin Gopalakrishna said the curfew in Shivajinagar, Bharatinagar and Halsur, Tannery Road, K G Halli and Thimmaiah Road last night, was relaxed in the morning. | | By: World News, News Updates, Current Events, News Art | | |
| | Violence in Nandigram, West Bengal | | 2007-01-08 06:10:00 | | The situation in Nandigram, West Bengal that witnessed a mob violence on Wednesday, remained under control even though tension simmered as villagers put up barricades to cut-off the area from rest of the state, official sources said today.Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Ray said the situation in Nandigram, in East Midnapore district, was under control but tension still prevailed in the area.A large contingent of police had been posted in the area after the mob fury in which 20 people, including 14 cops, were injured following a reported government move for acquisition of 22,500 acres of land for two proposed Special Economic Zones (SEZs) by the Indonesian Salim Group.The incident took place even before the political situation in Singur over the land acquisition by Tatas cooled down.However, the state government denied having issued any notification for land takeover in the area saying the violence was ''deliberate'' and it was made to happen on the basis of a rumour. | | By: World News, News Updates, Current Events, News Art | | |
| | UN condemns "endemic" sexual violence, torture and killings in Burundi, calls for justice | | 2006-11-28 12:31:00 | | From ReutersBUJUMBURA, 27 November (IRIN) - Human-rights violations have continued in Burundi, despite a new democratically elected government, according to a senior United Nations official in the country.Sexual violence is commonplace, while arbitrary killings, arrests and torture are also happening, according to Ismael Diallo, the director of the human-rights division of the UN Operation in Burundi (ONUB)."The human-rights situation has really not improved since the previous government; it has more or less remained the same, except for abuses by the intelligence services, which have become noticeably worse," Diallo said.Burundi is emerging from 13 years of civil strife during which human rights were regularly abused. The current government swept to power in a landslide election in August 2005 pledging to restore order.Diallo noted that abuses by Burundi's national intelligence service, the Service National de Renseignement (SNR), had grown significantly worse over the past few months, with its agents carrying out arbitrary arrests and torturing detainees suspected of being allied to Burundi's last active rebel group, the Forces nationales de libération.Bodies foundIn an October report, an international watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW), accused the SNR of torture and possible involvement in extrajudicial killings that it said went unpunished."Intelligence agents are believed to have been involved in the killing or presumed killing of at least 38 people over the past year," the report said. "Thirty-one people are currently missing and presumed dead in Muyinga [province in the north] with several bodies and body parts having been found in a local river."HRW said that in July, people in Muyinga told human-rights organisations that family members had been arrested and could not be found. At least seven bodies were recovered from the region's River Ruvubu. However, Burundi's government spokesman and minister of information, Ramadhan Karenga, told IRIN the HRW rep | | By: Agathon Rwasa | | |
| | The Religious Roots of Violence: Islam IV | | 2006-09-04 23:28:00 | | not one of the 70 virgins: his niece is cute (Previously on the LHG: The Religious Roots of Violence: Islam I, II, and III)Osama Bin Laden:This is also where Bin Laden comes in: Osama's dad had a flair for palace building and over the years royal favor turned his family business into the largest construction company in Saudi Arabia and one of the largest in the Middle East. The Bin Laden children were raised and educated with Saudi princes and had contact with leaders of Islamic movements all over the Muslim world. Soon after the Soviet invasion of Afganistan Bin Laden started to raise money for the resistance. By 1984 he had established a guest house in Peshawar to house fighters bound for the front. In 1988 he established a database of all the jihadists and other volunteers who had passed through his camps - giving birth to an organizational structure built around a computer file whose Arabic title Al Qaeda (the [data] base) would become famous later. When Bin Laden returned to visit Saudi Arabia he warned the Saudis that Iraq was planning to invade Kuwait. This embarrased the Saudi government which at the time was on good terms with Hussein. When the Iraquis did invade Kuwait in 1990, Bin Laden offered his fighters to defend the Saudi kingdom. Instead of accepting the offer, the Saudi government accepted US military assistance. This convinced Bin Laden that the Saudi's Islamic credentials were a sham. For him, driving out the Americans is the condition for reclaiming Islam in the peninsula. In 1996 he issued a "Declaration of Jihad against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places: Expel the polytheists from the Arabian Peninsula." And on August 7th of 1998, on the anniversery of the arrival of American troops in Saudi Arabia, two huge explosions rocked the US embassies in Nairobi Kenya and Dar es Salaam Tanzania. The rest is well known.(Christianity coming soon) | | By: The Left Hand of God | | |
| | The Religious Roots of Violence: Islam III | | 2006-08-27 23:20:00 | | better than santa claus(Previously on the LHG: The Religious Roots of Violence: Islam I and II)Saudi Arabia: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1791) and the Wahhabi movement.Al-Wahhab regarded the condition of Arabia of his time - land of Muhammad - as corrupt and idolatrous. He and his followers set out to purge Islam of what they considered impure going as far as to destroy the tomb of Muhammad and his Companions in Mecca and Medina.Wahhab combined religious zeal and military might when he allied with Muhammad ibn Saud, a local tribe chief, to form a religious and political movement. Eventually Saudia Arabia was created: the kingdom merged the political and religious; it was and is led by a succession of kings from the House of Saud with the close support of the religious Wahhabi establishment.Today the Saudis export this extreme and militant version of Wahhabi Islam to other countries and communities. They offer development aid, build mosques, fund and distribute religious tracts and commision religious scholars. And provide financial support to extremist groups who follow militant brands of Islam worldwide. Afghanistan:In December of 1979 the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan; and this provides an opening for Saudia Arabia to retake leadership of the radical wing of Islam. Afghanistan allowed the Saudi government to shield the US from radical Islamic activists, making sure that the Soviet Union would replace the US as their main scapegoat.In the training camps around Peshawar - the capital of the Pakistani NW frontier province where three million Afghan refugees were living - thousands of Islamic radical fighters converged from all over the Muslim world. An international group of Islamic militants, willing to fight worldwide for the sake of their radical understanding of Islam, emerged. They were funded by Saudi Arabia, and the US who provided military support and training.Think about it: you've got three million refugees and Islamic radicals converging in Pe | | By: The Left Hand of God | | |
| | The Religious Roots of Violence: Islam II | | 2006-08-23 23:44:00 | | here's looking at you, kid(Previously on the LHG)To uncover the roots of today's mess in the Middle East, you need to look at the interplay between Iran, Saudia Arabia and Afganistan that began with the Iranian Revolution.Iran:In the 50's and 60's many Muslim states were governed by modernizing rulers who tried to suppress Islam and follow what they understood to be the US's and Europe's secular example. They thought that if they could just imitate the "West" their nations would prosper. They were wrong. Economic progress did not follow the closing of mosques and religious schools, the banning of the headscarf and imitation of Western dress. Opposition grew, and no opposition had greater impact than the 1979 Iranian revolution that, led by Ayatollah Khomeini, overthrew the Shah of Iran and set up a theocracy, an Islamic government run by Islamic scholars which he himself led. Most importantly, however, the Iranian revolution also defined itself in opposition to Saudia Arabia. There emerged a struggle for leadership of the Islamic world. Regimes in Muslim countries viewed the Shah's fate as a lesson, and many of them became ostentiously religious in response. The Muslim world had been under Saudi religious domination since the late sixties: Saudi Arabia claimed to be an Islamic state, was guardian of Islam's holiest sites, had oil and thus lots of money to spread its views around the Muslim world. After 1979, however, the new masters in Iran considered themselves the true standard bearers of Islam. As far as they were concerned, the leaders in Saudi Arabia were usurpers who sold oil to the West in exchange for military protection - a US backed monarchy with a facade for ostentatious piety.(to be continued) | | By: The Left Hand of God | | |
| | Introduction to violence at work | | 2006-08-13 01:02:00 | | Violence is rapidly becoming an everyday reality for many workers, from bus drivers to teachers, bank security personnel, nurses and air crews faced with mounting cases of air rage among passengers. But shrouding it in silence and secrecy is counter-productive. Many remedies exist, including security measures, surveillance, organizational solutions and the training of staff in how best to diffuse potentially violent situations. In most cases, these remedies are extremely cost-effective in terms of reduced medical and personnel costs and improved performance. But they can only be applied effectively once the problem has been acknowledged and brought out into the open. Experience in this and allied fields strongly suggests that the most effective solutions are obtained when the issue is addressed by an active partnership of all the actors concerned.Governments, trade unions and employers are increasingly worried by what is emerging as a major workplace concern. The response at the national and international levels is taking shape. The European Commission is analysing the action to be taken for the prevention of workplace violence in the European Union as part of its current programme on safety, hygiene and health at work. All around the world, further surveys and studies are being carried out to identify the main problem areas. Innovative experiments are underway to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of different solutions to the problem. However, the new information and ideas resulting from these initiatives are only now starting to become available. This introduction to violence at work is intended to provide brief answers to a number of questions. These include: How great a problem is violence at work? What forms does it take? Which sectors and occupations are most affected? To what extent are women particularly vulnerable, with special reference to sexual harassment? What is the cost of violence at work to the individual, the company and society? Do we under | | By: SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE INFORMATION | | |
| | The Religious Roots of Violence: Islam | | 2006-08-10 09:40:00 | | somos los piratasExile is the second key story line in Western religion that shapes violent images of God. Notice that the Exodus story is a story about God's liberating violence. But what if instead of defeating your enemies you are always getting your ass kicked? What if instead of living in the Promised Land you are always living under foreign rule? How do you make sense of that? While Exodus is a story in which God uses superior violence to free an oppressed people; exile, on the other hand, is a story where God uses violence to punish the chosen people for their sins. If Exodus was a story of God's liberating violence; then the exile is a story of God's punishing violence. Obey God and prosper. Disobey God and suffer. This theme of exile is key to fundamentalist interpretations of Islam today. Islam was once a great empire, far superior in wealth and culture than Western Europe. How then does one explain why the Islamic empire declined and gave way to domination by imperial, capitalistic, and mostly "Christian" nations? The logic is simple: if fidelity to God leads to historical prominence, then historical decline is caused by lack of fidelity to God, Muhammad, and the Qur'an. As the charter of Hamas states: Hamas "found itself at a time when Islam disapeared from life. Thus, rules were broken, concepts were vilified, values changed, and evil people took control; oppression and darkness prevailed, cowards became tigers; homelands were invaded, people were scattered…When Islam is absent from the arena, everything changes." From this perspective, Israel's occupation is seen as punishment from God for deviations from Islam. Thus independence, development, dignity will be achieved only by a return to Islam, the re-Islamization of societies that have become lax and therefore weak.(to be continued) | | By: The Left Hand of God | | |
| | The Religious Roots of Violence: Judaism III | | 2006-08-08 00:10:00 | | Wishing he was an only child(Previously on the LHG)In 1979 a small group of Jewish women and children from Kiryat Arba crawled through the window of an abandoned hospital in Hebron, occupying it illegally and establishing a a Jewish settlement on the site, Beit Hadassah. In time the settlement grew to more than fifty families with some 450 Jews sequestered in what amounted to an armed fortress in a city of more than 100,000 Muslims. The land is sacred, it is Jewish sacred land, and the Jews must take what is theirs by divine right. A Jewish text records the debate of sages 1800 years ago on why Cain murdered Abel. By naming what drove Cain to kill, each sage meant to identify the source of human violence. According to one, a twin sister was born with Abel and the brothers fought over who'd possess the only available woman. Another sage argued that the brothers agreed to divide everything in the world between them. One claimed the shirt on his brother's back and ordered him to strip; the other claimed the ground under his brother's feet and shouted, "fly." Blows followed, then blood. The third sage, a Rabbi Levi, also said the brothers agreed to split the world. But then, he said, one claimed the land where Israel would reside, the other insisted it was his, and "Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him." The history of fratricide began, said Rabbi Levi, with a fight over the Holy Land.Sources:Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, Is Religion Killing Us?Gershom Gorenberg, The End of Days | | By: The Left Hand of God | | |
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