Go Down,Ye Murderers (The Ballad of Tim Evans)was written by Ewan MacColl about Timothy John Evans (November 20, 1924 -- March 9, 1950). Evans was a young man, possibly mentally retarded, who was hanged in the United Kingdom in 1950 for the murder of his wife and infant daughter. The real murderer was Evans' neighbour and landlord (at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London), John Christie. Events subsequent to his execution, including a book by Ludovic Kennedy proclaiming his innocence and a pardon for the murders, led to abolition of capital punishment in Britain.

Author: JG2000
Keywords: Christy Moore Go Down Ye Murderers Tim Evans Ewan MacColl Irish Folk
Added: October 20, 2006

http://www.bgpetition.com/Macedonian-Bulgarians/index.html Otkas ot fila Mera spored Mera. Filmat e sazdaden vaz osnova na rakazi na uchastnici v maledonskoto osvoboditelno dvijenie, zapisani ot Prof. L Miletich PLOT DESCRIPTION Mera Spored Mera is exactly five hours long, divided into three parts for a little breather between "acts." This epic production was created as a part of the 1981 celebration of 1300 years of Bulgarian statehood - about 260 years per hour if the director, Georgi Dyulgerov had been interested in the greater picture. Fortunately, he was not and instead, the film covers the modern history of Bulgaria's fight for full independence. Part I deals with the years between 1878 and 1903, as a growing militance first leads to the liberation of most of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Turks (1878), and then to a fight to free the western segment of the nation as well (1903). Part II (1903-1906) covers the early battles for this western segment, and Part III (1906-1912), full liberation from the Turks. With a view to presenting this story in dramatic, human terms, Dyulgerov has chosen to focus on one character above all others, a young shepherd who undergoes a transformation that is in step with the times around him, and embodies all of the ideals, problems, and sorrows of this war for independence. The shepherd is a Macedonian, and the western segment of Bulgaria that was still under Turkish control after 1878 is, in fact, a part of a greater Macedonia that came to be divided between Greece, Yugoslavia, and eventually, Bulgaria - still a problem today. In the early 19th century, the hero Dilber Tanas (Roussi Chanev) is an ignorant shepherd who like everyone else around him, has no real view of the larger, revolutionary issues on the ascendence. When a bandit leader decides that it is time for the men in the area to marry, Dilber suddenly finds himself about to be wed when someone shoves a rifle into his hands and he becomes so undone that he accidentally shoots the marrying orthodox priest. This, of course, lands him stiff punishment - he is thrown into a quarry where after fervent prayers for his salvation, he gets out - a new man, and a revolutionary. Like it or not, he is caught up in the fighting against the Turks, spa! rked by the uprising at Ilinden on August 2, 1903. In Part II, Dilbert and his compatriots are facing extinction as the Ottoman Turks burn and pillage, killing everyone in their path. Fate in the form of Kemal Ataturk (future president of Turkey) ends this situation when he revolts against the Turkish government and enlists the aid of the Turkish army in Macedonia - and some Macedonians - in his fight. In Part III, the subsequent changes put Dilbert into the newly-formed government of Macedonia, completely turning the tables on him. His former fellow soldiers are out to kill him as they consider him allied with the Turkish enemy. Facing death as a real prospect, he is saved by the faith of his wife - and at the same time - parallel to this, his second salvation - Macedonia attains full liberation from Turkish control

Author: anchy78
Keywords: Makedonija Macedonia Bulgaria Mera spored mera
Added: December 10, 2006

Alana Colette Connell is seen here "pregaming," only minutes before her alleged assault on Alabama Coach Nick Saban and subsequent DUI arrest. We will show you today that Ms. Connell is a Model Bama fan; With integrity, class and dignity on par with a great majority of the Bama Nation. So What if Colette was wasted off her ass before five on a Wednesday?! She's got love for the Tide! And if loving your team (and your Dickel) too much is a crime, then...yeah..maybe Colette's guilty. But if Not...You have to acquit Ms. Connell on all charges. Isn't this video punishment enough? http://deepsouthsports.blogspot.com/2007/01/this-just-in.html

Author: eahennin
Keywords: Alana Collette Connell Drunk Fan Kiss Bama Tide Nick Saban Tuscaloosa Airport DUI Classy Alabama Football Jersey
Added: January 5, 2007

This is the first of several videos on the death penalty. Check out the podcast by James Gilligan: "Preconditions for a Peaceful World." He describes the link between exposure to violence and subsequent violent behavior. He also talks about other topics including the influence of religion on violence. http://vodreal.stanford.edu/csp/gilli.ram or check out the Stanford page on iTunes U and then choose the "Aurora Forum": http://itunes.stanford.edu/ Also check out this list of murder rates by country: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita That list shows how the forces of culture, economic strife, and social strife strongly affect murder rates. Learn about Hutterite culture and their literal interpretation of the New Testament: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterite

Author: philosophydude
Keywords: death penalty capital punishment violence Jame Gilligan
Added: June 17, 2007

The first one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0Ru_tLcFs 2.1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJcQjn89ASU Childhood Spanking and Increased Antisocial Behavior About 90 percent of parents use some form of corporal punishment on toddlers, and about 50 percent continue to use it during the early teen years, despite a growing body of evidence that it does not positively affect a child's behavior and may actually result in increased aggressive or delinquent behaviors. Straus and colleagues examined the relationship between corporal punishment and antisocial behavior in children. A sample of 807 mothers with children between the ages of six and nine years was drawn from an original cohort of women who were part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement conducted at Ohio State University. The mothers completed an antisocial behavior (ASB) scale that described their child's behavior over the preceding three months. Descriptive items in the ASB scale included the following: "cheats or tells lies," "bullies or is cruel or mean to others," "does not feel sorry after misbehaving," "breaks things deliberately," "is disobedient at school" and "has trouble getting along with teachers." The items were scored as "often true," "sometimes true" and "not true." Categories ranging from no spanking in the past week to spanking 15 or more times in the past week were used to assess the frequency of spanking. For the purpose of statistical analysis, the numbers were broken into four categories of how many times the child was spanked in one week: zero (451 children), one time (160), two times (114) and three or more times (82). Using the ASB scale, data were collected at baseline and again two years later. The study was controlled for several independent variables, including sex, race, socioeconomic status, cognitive stimulation and parental emotional support. Spanking was significantly related to the ASB score at baseline and two years later. In the zero-frequency spanking group, the ASB score actually declined four points from baseline. In contrast, the ASB score increased 14 points in the group of children whose mothers reported spanking them three or more times at baseline. The consistent finding was that the more frequent the spanking at the beginning of the study, the greater the ASB scores two years later. The trend toward increased ASB scores was stronger in boys than in girls and also in American children of European descent compared with minority children. The tendency also persisted regardless of the extent to which parents provided cognitive stimulation and emotional support to their children. The authors conclude that corporal punishment or spanking is a statistically significant predictor of subsequent antisocial behavior, even in children who may be spanked only once a week. They believe their data show a "dose response" to corporal punishment, starting with young children. The more frequently spanking is used, the longer its negative effects last and the greater the likelihood that it will induce behavior problems. They further suggest that reducing or completely eliminating corporal punishment would be beneficial to society, since antisocial behavior is associated with violence and more serious crimes committed by teenagers and adults. JEFFREY T. KIRCHNER, D.O. Straus MA, et al. Spanking by parents and subsequent antisocial behavior of children. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 1997;151:761-7. There is no unnatural... it is a stupid thing to say, stupid concept. All things are IN nature. We are evolving out of the need to be strong physical animals. That is a good thing. You must be the same people that say if a husband is unhappy with his wife, hits her without leaving a mark, it is not abuse... it is not really hitting her, it is just a "smack". Same thing, she's not listening, right?

Author: rkzenrage
Keywords: Spanking Corporal Punishment
Added: December 5, 2007

There has been a blizzard of books released about the ill-fated Iraq War. Some have been penned by Bush insiders; others by outsiders. Such is the blizzard that the net result is often confusion, for each is written from the perspective of the writer, and to project or protect one side or the other. Well, here's another one for ya. Now comes Greg Palast, the irascible author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2004), whose newest work is a broad, if irreverent, look at not just the Iraq disaster, but also the nation's economic debacle, and other perfidies of the governing classes. Palast's new book is: Armed Madhouse (New York: Dutton, 2006). Palast is perhaps best known for his BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) reports on the stolen elections in Florida, and the subsequent assaults on democracy in 2004, in Ohio, and beyond. What hit me, however, was his analysis of the conflicting interests in the Bush administration on the Iraq invasion and occupation. One side, he argues, wanted to use the Iraq takeover as a massive tool to crack OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), and by so doing, kick the Saudis out of the driver's seat, and flood the market with cheap oil. The second option was a relatively modest invasion, the installation of a dutifully obedient puppet, but hands off oil, except to control its flow. According to Palast, the objective was never to take the oil, but to control it, and thereby moderate its flow. By so doing, this would keep the price at a high level, based on the principle that plenty would bring prices too low. Palast writes: "In the short term, Iraq's fields were trashed even before saboteurs torched them. The CIA and the Pentagon knew it no matter what (Paul) Wolfowitz said to bobble-headed Congressmen. In the long run, however, many years from now, Iraq, with 114 billion barrels of proven reserves, might be able to crank up above its OPEC quota. "*But that won't happen*. The globe is littered with the economic skeletons of nations that fragrantly busted their OPEC quotas.. There's the skeleton of Venezuela. In 1973, Venezuela broke the first Arab oil boycott. But in 1997, when Venezuela again ramped up production, punishment was swift. Saudi Arabia, which can live without big oil revenues for up to a year, opened its spigots and drowned the market. The price of oil dropped to $8 a barrel and Venezuela went bankrupt. Its government fell. The current President of that nation, Hugo Chavez, is now a good member of OPEC, indeed its most fanatic adherent to the quota system." (pp. 86-87) This was a war, Palast explains, not to get oil, so much as it was to keep goo-gobs of oil in the ground! The rarer a commodity, the higher its price. In fall, 2005, Exxon Oil raked in $9.9 billion, net. It made more profit during its third quarter than in the history of money! Now why would they want to threaten that? The guy makes one hell of a point. These were wars of capital, with the army, air force, and generals, but footmen for big businesses. This was a 'war for oil', as millions of protesters screamed in spring, 2003. But not the way we thought it. It was a war to make more profits, profits that have only grown since the war began -- till now. Hey, Congress belongs to the corporations. Why shouldn't the army? In a real sense, oil explains everything, in ways that other explanations do not. It seamlessly slips throughout the political, theological, and military justifications for the carnage in Iraq, and emerges as the only consistent rationale for this continuing disaster, which seems to so easily elude logic. Reading Palast's latest book, I thought of a quote from the book, The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant: "...[T]he men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all." [p. 54] This hot, deadly war is but a front in the invisible economic war.

Author: DaSubject
Keywords: Mumia abu jamal radio essays Iraq war america usa us bush admistration
Added: December 23, 2007