Educating for martyrdom: As well as the encouragement of children through the media, the Palestinian educational institutions and summer camps are also involved in inciting, brainwashing and indoctrinating Palestinian children and youth. Children are indoctrinated with extreme Islamic ideas, calling for support and encouragement of the Jihad against Israel. At the beginning of July, the Islamic Movement in Gaza launched its summer camps, named The Al Aqsa Intifada Martyrs Summer Camp. In addition, the Hamas summer camps are popular with children, where they are given uniforms, shoes and exercise books. At the camps, the children are taught about the history of Islam, and pictures of martyrs are hung in every place. In this way, the seeds of hatred towards Israel are planted in the children.

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Bowing to concerns of a wide range of groups - from Christians who consider Halloween to have pagan or satanic overtones to church-state separatists who object to the holiday's religious roots - some elementary schools are canceling their customary costume parades and Halloween celebrations.

In their place are "Fall-o-ween" events, which take note of harvest and seasonal change but that eliminate all things spooky - or controversial.

"There's been a steady growth of the number of people and the kinds of perspectives objecting to Halloween, and it's become a real issue for schools," says Charles Haynes at the First Amendment Center in Arlington, Va. "There's a lot of strangeness around this issue." Fonte.

Handsome male candidates had a 56 percent chance of winning an election while their less dashing counterparts had a 44 percent chance, according Daniel Hamermesh, the study's author and an economics professor at the University of Texas. Fonte.

Já está marcada a exposição World Press Photo 2005, no Fórum da Maia. O principal evento do fotojornalismo que ocorre em Portugal está agendado para o mês de Novembro, entre os dias 6 e 27. A exposição World Press Photo é uma organização da fundação holandesa com o mesmo nome, e visa promover a liberdade de imprensa em todo o mundo. O objectivo é apoiar o fotojornalismo no desvendar e comunicar factos sem sujeição a qualquer tipo de censura. Todos os anos são escolhidos trabalhos de fotojornalistas de todo o mundo, para este evento, que percorre 70 locais de 37 países de todo o mundo. As fotografias são escolhidas por um júri internacional independente, composto por nove profissionais de jornais, agências noticiosas e revistas dos quatro cantos do globo. Os bilhetes custam três euros. Fonte.

Paris Hilton had sex with her new boyfriend in a portable toilet, it has been claimed. The hotel heiress is alleged to have got hot and steamy with new lover Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos in the unlikely love den at an exclusive Hollywood party.

The blonde beauty has been locked in a war of words with Mary-Kate since she began dating her ex Stavros, while she and Nicole have been embroiled in a bitter feud since Nicole reportedly showed Paris' infamous sex tape, One Night In Paris, to friends at a party. Fonte.

Estamos a elaborar o abaixo assinado que será encaminhado depois para a nossa Assembleia da República.
Temos trabalhado com as pessoas experientes no lidar diáriamente com toda a problemática da violência doméstica e abuso sexual de menores, porém a sua sugestão é sempre preciosa.
Tal como o testemunho da sua experiência.Aqui.

Sono: For a long time, we had hopes for the African Union (AU). In the framework of Nepad, the New Partnership for African Development, it was agreed that governments would have peer review mechanisms and appropriate evaluation and monitoring structures which would allow us to get rid of them. But I?m beginning to despair because I see the AU is just perpetuating the old policies of non-interference in domestic affairs. We have to review the AU. There have to be mechanisms where we say: If a government does terrible things to its own people, we must isolate it and make it fall.

Sono: The so-called development aid is really a misnomer. What does aid do for Africa? I don?t think aid is what Africa needs, to be honest with you. Aid is the last thing that Africa needs, because it is not going to change anything. It is like pouring money into a black hole. There is no sufficient government capacity to deal with aid, and most of the time it is diverted to corrupt government elements. What Africa needs is serious trade infrastructures. Just look at those countries that have been, until recently, communist, like Vietnam. Those countries have abandoned state-controlled economies. They've said: Let the people bloom like flowers, let them have their own economic activities, let them be their own entrepreneurs. That is exactly what Africa needs. Fonte.

Dhiyaa Mussawi: The Western world thinks about reaching Mars in 2015, while we are still debating the question of women driving, like some of our brothers in Saudi Arabia are doing.

Dhiyaa Mussawi: I am not trying to dress it up with pretty words. The West exists. I object to the constant hunt for the Western "demon". The West is not all black. The West has anthropology, and human sciences. Many of our sheiks, when they are sick, they go to hospitals in Britain, America, France, and so on. We can adopt the Japanese mentality. Despite the catastrophes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese benefited from the Western organizational ingenuity, from the institutions in the society, from the rule of law and so on. They adopted all these, and began to produce... This is the difference between us and them.

Bush said Florida responded successfully in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma because the state relied on the expertise of local emergency managers. He said relying on federal emergency officials can be a fatal blunder.

"Our system is a bottoms-up system," Bush said. "In the case of Louisiana it was left to the federal government to fill a void and the consequences are there for the rest of the world to see." (Via Cox& Forkum)

The new laws would give security agencies "shoot-to-kill" powers when dealing with terrorist suspects and allow them to secretly detain persons suspected of having knowledge of a planned attack for up to 14 days.

The authorities will also be able to impose tight controls on the movement of suspects without judicial review and prosecute people deemed to be inciting violence.

The legislation also proposes life imprisonment for people who fund an organisation deemed militant and would impose seven-year jail terms on people who back insurgencies where Australian troops are deployed.

The Italian capital, Rome, has banned goldfish bowls, which animal rights activists say are cruel, and has made regular dog-walks mandatory in the Italian capital.
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The northern city of Turin passed a law in April to fine pet owners up to 500 euros if they do not walk their dogs at least three times a day. Fonte.

BRITISH banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims.
Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reported today.

Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be an impure animal.

Salim Mulla, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, backed the bank move.

"This is a sensitive issue and I think the banks are simply being courteous to their customers," he said. Fonte.

Celebrity metrosexuals include Jude Law, Orlando Bloom and David Beckham, whose good looks can be seen as slightly womanly.

Their übersexual counterparts include George Clooney, Donald Trump, Pierce Brosnan and Bill Clinton, who are fashionable and wear tasteful clothes, but are unashamedly masculine, not least in their often complicated and very heterosexual lifestyles. Salzman's book proclaims the world's leading übersexual as the rock star and anti-poverty campaigner Bono. Fonte.

"I've been a lifelong Democrat," the widely acclaimed smut peddlar said. "But I guess I'm going to have to find a third party or maybe some Republicans."