Think No Evil

The truth has no agenda. Holding to the truth without any political or social agenda and with no fear of backlash. There are people worldwide suffering, starving, dying and being tortured by dictators and those who wish to destroy them. We said "Never Again" following the Holocaust but we stick our heads into the sand when the time comes to act. OUR mission is to end that.

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Hello Followers

Sorry for there being a huge gap in activity. Real life has consumed most of my time and kept me off of Tumblr. I have returned to tell you that there has be a revolution in the way I will be presenting everything.

I have decided to examine history and the great thinkers of society to find the possible solutions to modern problems. Unfortunately, during this, this blog will not be returning to its usual activity and it may never return to that point again.

I urge all of you begin looking into solutions to the world's problems based on philosophy. It is in that manner that we can all find a common ground for the endgame rather than finding "political solutions" designed to pander to a larger dynamic of left vs. right.

Humanity is more important that ideology. Look for the truth in the words of men and then find common ground.

In that way, I will continue to update thing blog from time to time with thoughts and ideas. I want to create a dialogue with all of you as my followers to find the best concept that can be defended. Thank you.

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New estimates from a local “expert” suggest that as many as 16 million gay men in China are in heterosexual marriages.

The expert in question is Professor Zhang Bei-chuan at Qingdao University and he’s an expert on HIV/AIDS, so how this makes him qualified to make generalizations about gay relationships I’m not sure. Either way, word about his guess has spread and Chinese individuals are reacting.

Not surprisingly, the estimated main cause is the pressure to conform to social norms or the fear of hurting family’s feelings. An interesting take from the Asia One article:

Xiao Dong, a 36-year-old gay man, who heads a civil organization in HIV/AIDS prevention and control, said: “Zhang’s estimation is unsubstantiated and I even feel it’s pointless to research the issue.”

Whether to get married or not is too complicated a question among the gay population and it is almost impossible to project the number of married gay men by simple calculation, he said.

“To put gays’ wives under the spotlight might cause more public misunderstanding or even hatred toward the gay population, which does not help defuse existing social discrimination against them,” he added.

Does the professor’s guess sound justified? Is there a possible benefit in pointing out trends like this? Will it make discrimination worse or improve conditions, or neither?

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Syrian Forces 'Kill Hundreds In Homs' #Syria

http://www.channel4.com/news/syrian-forces-kill-hundreds-in-homs

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The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda.

800,000 people and the rest of the world did nothing….

There are still problems and civil war in Rwanda and the Congo in Africa today.

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KAL’s cartoon: this week, outrage.

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Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers.

In a rare criticism of the kingdom's powerful "mutaween" police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday.

About 800 pupils were inside the school in the holy city of Mecca when the tragedy occurred.

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You are the solution to issues; don't rely on talking heads.

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Updated at 345 p.m. ET: Western and Arab nations launched a major diplomatic offensive at the U.N. on Tuesday in hopes of overcoming Russia's opposition to a resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad relinquish power, The Associated Press reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the British and French foreign ministers traveled to New York for the afternoon Security Council session on the situation in Syria.

Nabil Elaraby, the chief of the Arab League, called on the Security Council to take 'rapid and decisive action' on Syria, Reuters reported

"Realizing the hopes of the Syrian people is in your hands," Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al Thani told council members, asking them to adopt the resolution, based on the Arab League's peace plan for the country. "It is part of your responsibility under the (U.N.) charter," he said, according to The Associated Press.

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Sources tell Egyptian daily that Syrian security forces tried to help smuggle Syrian president's family out of country.

By REUTERS

Syrian security forces attempted to smuggle Syrian President Bashar Assad's family out of the country, sources from the Syrian opposition told Al-Masry-Al-Youm Sunday evening, according to a report published by the Egyptian daily.

According to the report, security forces tried to aid the president's wife Asma Assad, to escape via Damascus, along with his children, mother and cousin.

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Some were too old, too ill for their task. Others quarreled over reimbursements for hotel accommodations, or refused orders to carry out their mission.

Simply put, many of the 166 Arab observers parachuted into Syria on Dec. 24 to document the widening violence were utterly incapable of enduring the rigors of life in a country roiled by social upheaval and conflict, according to an internal account of their work.

"Regrettably, some observers thought that their visit to Syria was for pleasure," wrote Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Moustafa Al-Dabi, the chief of the Arab League monitoring mission. "In some instances, experts who were nominated were not qualified for the job, did not have prior experience, and were not able to shoulder the responsibility."

On Jan. 18, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby ordered the suspension of the organization's observer mission, its first major experiment in human rights monitoring. He claimed that the escalation of violence had undercut its ability to do its job.

But a confidential account of the organization's mission, signed by the monitor's controversial chief and obtained by Turtle Bay, shows that the Arab monitors were hobbled from the beginning by a shortage of equipment -- and by what Al-Dabi describes as a ferocious Syrian media disinformation campaign against the monitors and him personally. "The credibility of the mission has been undermined in the minds of Arab and foreign viewers," he wrote

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New York, NY - Last week's decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague confirming four Kenyans must answer to charges of crimes against humanity does not excuse their government from responsibility to pursue justice at home.

Kenya must continue to investigate and prosecute those who orchestrated widespread post-election violence four years ago. The ICC has acted admirably in the circumstances and done exactly what it was established to do - step into the void when national authorities fail in their duty to investigate serious crimes. The Kenyan government must now act to remedy failures, and to restore and strengthen the independence of its judicial institutions. Chaos erupted in the country after foreign observers reported vote tampering by both sides in what is now regarded as a rigged presidential election in December 2007. In the weeks that followed, more than 1,000 people were killed, 3,500 injured, 600,000 displaced and at least 100,000 properties were destroyed. The violence was perpetrated by both sides of a political and ethnic divide and included arson, rape, torture and murder.

Reports implicate serving police officers, security officials and powerful legislators for ordering attacks that were widespread, well-orchestrated and which unfolded in notable patterns. Two of those facing charges before the ICC - Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former Education Minister William Ruto - are prospective presidential candidates. Even before the ICC's confirmation, it was clear culpability extended throughout the upper echelons of the national government. In the four years since the violence, Kenyan authorities have been remarkably consistent in evading their obligation to undertake credible criminal investigations. To their credit, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), an independent body, fulfilled its statutory obligation to investigate abuses and produced a report offering several recommendations to the president and his cabinet. These appear to have been completely ignored.

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Egypt's ruling Military Council has imposed a travel ban on several foreign non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers – including the son of the US Transportation Secretary – in a move which risks further inflaming political tensions between America and one of its key Middle East allies.

The ban, which covers at least 10 American and European NGO staff, forms part of a wider campaign of intimidation that the Egyptian government is accused of waging against civil society in recent months.

In December police raided the offices of a number of foreign civil rights organisations in Cairo, hauling workers in front of judges for questioning.

"It's bad enough that a month ago there was a raid on our headquarters in the country," said Lorne Craner, president of the International Republican Institute (IRI), a Washington-based NGO funded by the US government which provides political training programmes. "Then they had people brought in for questioning, and now there's this no-fly list."

I don't want to be start sounding alarms but think about this in terms of human rights in Egypt. The military is in control of the country and repressing human rights - now they are continuously targeting human rights and other NGOs.

This is dangerous and I really hope that international powers and international groups are watching this. If Egypt becomes a state of repressing and continued violence, the media could be forced out similar to how there is no organized external media in Syria.

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(New York) – The Indonesian government should drop charges against five Papuan activists who are being prosecuted for peacefully expressing their political views, Human Rights Watch said today. On January 30, 2012, the district court in Jayapura, the Papua provincial capital, will begin the treason (makar) trial of five leaders of the Papuan People’s Congress, which the authorities forcibly dispersed last October.  “The Indonesian government should show its commitment to peaceful expression by dropping the charges against these five Papuan activists,” said Elaine Pearson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “It’s appalling that a modern democratic nation like Indonesia continues to lock up people for organizing a demonstration and expressing controversial views.” On October 19, 2011, Indonesian security forces, using excessive force, broke up a three-day Papuan People’s Congress gathering in Jayapura, Human Rights Watch said. After one of the leaders read the 1961 Papua Declaration of Independence out loud, police and the army fired warning shots to disperse the approximately 1,000 Papuans gathered for the peaceful demonstration supporting independence for Papua. The security forces then used batons and in some instances firearms against the demonstrators, killing at least three and injuring more than 90 others. Witnesses said that demonstrators had been struck on the head and several suffered gunshot wounds.

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(New York) – The Indian government should prosecute members of the security forces for recent high-profile cases of torture, to send a message that such practices will no longer be tolerated, Human Rights Watch said today. Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers, long implicated in torture and extrajudicial killings near the border with Bangladesh, were captured in a video posted on YouTube brutally beating a Bangladeshi national caught smuggling cattle in West Bengal state. And the Indian government has awarded a medal to a police superintendant alleged to have ordered the torture and sexual assault of a female schoolteacher in Chhattisgarh state, instead of investigating him. “These horrific images of torture on video show what rights groups have long documented: that India’s Border Security Force is out of control,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The Indian government is well aware of killings and torture at the border, but has never prosecuted the troops responsible. This video provides a clear test case of whether the security forces are above the law in India.”

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Haiti’s judicial authorities have dealt yet another blow to the victims of former leader Jean-Claude Duvalier, Amnesty International said today after the criminal case against the former “president-for-life” for grave human rights violations was dropped. An investigating judge in Port-au-Prince yesterday announced that Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier will not stand trial for alleged crimes against humanity – including torture, disappearances and extrajudicial executions – but only for embezzlement of public funds committed during his rule between 1971 and 1986. The text of the judge’s decision has not been made public. Jean-Claude Duvalier has been under investigation in Haiti since he returned from exile in France in January 2011, after a group of victims filed complaints accusing him of crimes against humanity as well as corruption and theft. The victims can appeal the judge’s decision and Amnesty International has vowed to continue supporting their search for justice.

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Amnesty International has urged the Ukrainian authorities to stop the ill-treatment of a group of detained asylum-seekers and their supporters, who were yesterday attacked by security forces attempting to forcibly end a hunger strike. Baton-wielding security officers in riot gear descended on the Migrant Accommodation Centre in Zhuravichi, Western Ukraine, where a group of about 60 Somalis and six Eritreans had been on hunger strike in protest against their illegal detention since 6 January. Detainees at the centre told Amnesty International that security forces forced them to eat, and then filmed them doing so. "The authorities must ensure there is no torture or other ill-treatment of these detainees, who should not be held in the first place," said John Dalhuisen Amnesty International's Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia. "These migrants and asylum-seekers are merely trying to escape human rights violations in their countries of origin and they are now being subjected to abuses in Europe."

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At least 74 people have been killed by armed gunmen in a cattle raid in South Sudan, officials say.

Among the dead were 45 women and children, Warrap state governor Nyangdeng Malek told the BBC.

South Sudan's interior minister has blamed a militia group from Unity State, which he says is armed by the Sudanese government in Khartoum.

Tensions remain high since South Sudan seceded peacefully from Sudan in July after decades of war.

Cattle play a vital role in the lives of many South Sudanese communities. Hundreds of people have been killed in a series of tit-for-tat cattle raids in Jonglei state in recent weeks.