Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 September 18

18 September 2006

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Stories from 18 September 2006

U.N. reform: when you talk, will they listen?

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Announcements

When you talk, will this man listen? Let's find out on Tuesday. What is your opinion of the United Nations? What kind of impact has it had on your country...

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Global Food Blog Report #32

Written by Melissa De León · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

#1: From Sri Lanka, Moju meditations on Hitler and Vegetarianism: "Hitler was a vegetarian" As you can see below from the quotes of Hitler…he was a vegetarian and a teetotaler!...

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Knight-Batten Awards: And the winner is…..

Written by Rachel Rawlins · Announcements

It was appropriate that, for an award given for innovations in journalism, overseen by J-Lab (the Institute of Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland), the news came from my...

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Philippines: Most controversial military general

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Army Major General Jovito Palparan is implicated in more than a hundred cases of human rights violations. He retired last week from active military service but the government vowed to...

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Pope, American Embassy and Others

Written by Yazan Badran · Middle East & North Africa

This week was an extremely busy week for all Syrian bloggers, notably Political Blogs had to make a number of updates, since the political atmosphere in syria was swirling with...

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Poland's Pulse in the Blogosphere

Written by Jordan & Maria Seidel · Eastern & Central Europe

The 16th century town of Kazimierz Dolny in Poland - by Gustav (Warsaw Station) The Polish Farmer and the Dell? From bovinechips to microchips, Polish Matters reports on the largest...

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Postcards from the Congo

Written by Jennifer Brea · Sub-Saharan Africa

With the elections, the run-off announcement, the violent clashes between two presidential candidates, it's easy to focus only the DRC's political tempests. However, many Congo bloggers are writing about art,...

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Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

Written by Salam Adil · Middle East & North Africa

I [give] up sometimes… when I wake up in the morning [to] the sound of bomb. I feel like… someone took my heart and returned it back to my body…....

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Updates from 18 September 2006

Malaysia

Nik Nazmi in Malaysia asks whether the speech made by pope was really an attempt at dialogue. “While, yes, the Pope has now apologised, what is glaring is the fact that when he quoted Manuel II, there was no hint of qualification and seemingly tacit approval.”

• Preetam Rai

Australia

The South Pacific Travel Blog has the latest from Solomon Islands where the Australian high commissioner was forced to leave country after he was declared a persona non grata.

• Preetam Rai

Japan

The Samakomlao blog posts pictures of a Laotian pop duo in concert in Japan. Laos is one of the least visited countries in Asia and only recently rest of Asia is getting interested in Lao's pop-culture and travel destinations.

• Preetam Rai

Uganda

African Painters on the late Ugandan artist, Henry Lutalo Lumu, “Henry Lutalo Lumu is credited by many of Uganda's artists as being one of the country's brightest and most widely influential talents of modern Ugandan art from as early as the 1950s until his death in 1989.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Sudan

Death and funeral announcement is a poem written in support of the Global Day for Darfur:
Here lies eighty thousand souls
names and identities- unknown
passions and pains- unknown
feelings and fears- unknown
Origin and nationality- Western Sudan Darfur region
Now buried in a mass grave known as Darfur Crisis….

• Ndesanjo Macha

Ethiopia

“With allies like this, who needs enemies?,” Weichegud asks, and continues to write: “The neighboring Ethiopian government, led by a rabid Marxist ethnicologist who got the Bill Clinton “Enlightened African leader” stamp of approval, was sanguine with the lawlessness in Somalia, even encouraging it, believing that a fractured Somalia was in the Meles government’s best interest. It postured itself as a fighter of terrorism, and an understandably skittish post-9/11 Bush Administration poured money and expertise into Prime Minister Meles’s “terror fighting” apparatus. (Sadly, US-made Humvees meant for this purpose were later used to gun down unarmed protestors. Awkward.)”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Russia: The RuNet's Top 10 Political Slang Words

In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...