Friday, September 26, 2008
Posted by Daisy Cobb
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
The state of Pensylvania is seriously lacking in moral fortitude as well as justice for animals. If a nation is judged by the way it treats it’s animals then Pennsyvania would be very low indeed [...]
Posted by Daisy Cobb
“To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”
A new hotel that has recently opened in Berlin has been stylized in the manner of an East German Apartment block. In fact it is an adapted Plattenbauwohnung, which is a concrete [...]
Posted by Daisy Cobb
“Action is my domain. It is not what I say but what I do that matters.”
In the past few years the fate of refugees has been much more uncertain than it ever was in the past. Over forty four million people have been driven from their homes by the Iraq war, Darfur and [...]
Posted by Daisy Cobb
“Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.”
Abu Dujana, the leader of an Islamic extremist group called Jemaah Islamiah, who is believed to be responsible for the bombings of a popular Bali Nightclub in 2002 that killed 88 people, has been arrested by Indonesian police [...]
Posted by Daisy Cobb
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always.”
Robert Mugabe’s violent reign as president of Zimbabwe has sent the country [...]
Posted by Daisy Cobb
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
For the past seven years Aze Adine Ould Baja and his family have literally lived in the toilet. After his daughter was abducted he had to sell everything he owned in order to get her back. As a result, she was returned to her family but [...]
Posted by Daisy Cobb
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
In a particularly disgusting display, performance artist Mark McGowan and Yoko Ono ate a Pembroke Welsh Corgi on a live London Radio Broadcast. They claim to have done this because on a hunt Prince Phillip shot a fox and then beat it to death [...]
Posted by Daisy Cobb
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Four body guards and a finance expert were taken captive by a militia force disguised as police officers. It has been known [...]
Posted by Daisy Cobb
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
The Australian version of the reality television show, Big Brother, has come under fire once again. The show has [...]
Posted by Daisy Cobb
“The method of Satyagraha requires that the Satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.”
On 12, March 2007 Alan Johnstone, a BBC reporter was abducted in Gaza while he was returning to his house after work. To this day there is little known about his whereabouts or [...]