NEAR MADAIN, Iraq Iraqi security forces backed by U.S. troops had the town of Madain surrounded Sunday after reports of Sunni militant kidnappings of as many as 100 Shiite residents, but there were growing indications the incident had been grossly exaggerated, perhaps an outgrowth of a tribal dispute or political maneuvering. The town of about 1,000 families, evenly divided between Shiites and Sunnis, sits about 15 miles south of the capital in what the U.S. military has called the "Triangle of Death" because it has become a roiling stronghold of the militant insurgency.
Last week, mounting criticism from media watchdogs and families of abduction victims of color resulted in an NBC Dateline segment on racial disparities in network news treatment of missing persons' stories. The bias charges elicited the usual head-scratching deflection and outright denial from news executives. Some of those who were willing to go on the record countered that abduction stories that become national news are generated by momentum from local affiliates. Naturally most network execs see little bias in their coverage because whiteness represents the norm in American culture. White lives, white families, white communities, and the world views of white pundits are sold and reproduced in the mainstream media as the normative "unraced" ideal that underlies "our" sense of nati...
Tudor recalls his leisurely walk at Tompkins Square Park, New York City. Here, he notes that usual scene at the park: gutter punks rolling cheap tobacco under the trees; neo-folkies twiddling guitars, drums, and Hacky Sacks; rambunctious schoolgirls practicing for dance squad; old men playing chess; young men playing Frisbee; dog walkers of every shape, size color, and temperament; and sallow street prophets murmuring stories about abduction, redemption, and psoriasis.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Human rights leaders await word from Japan's Ambassador and Consul General in New York, Shinichi Nishimiya, who is due to confirm tomorrow whether he will meet to discuss his country's abuses of religious freedom. Last week, pleading on the steps outside Japan's Consulate, human rights leaders and Christian pastors rallied against Japan's inaction in stopping the abduction and deprogramming of religious minorities. Dr. Luonne Rouse, United Methodist Church Pastor delivered remarks at the October 12 press briefing and was supported by Luke Higuchi, president of the Survivors Against Forced Exit, the Rev. Michael Jenkins, chairman of the American Clergy Leadership Conference, and the Rev. Jesse Edwards. Several victims of Japanese abduction and...
... currently living in the U.S., to share stories of persecution and discuss a course of action to e...
THE RUMORS are true. Roswell, alien autopsies, government conspiracies, even all of those suspicious abduction stories. Aliens are real, they are organized and they have been on Earth for more than 50 years. Oh, and one more thing: They're really mad! Midway's latest first-person shooter, "Area 51," follows the exploits of a member of Hazmat Team Bravo as he searches a contaminated military base (Area 51) for the missing members of Hazmat Team Delta. Along the way, he must battle hordes of nasty aliens, as well as humans infected with a strange alien virus.
NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several human rights leaders and Christian pastors, stoked by a recent documentary on Japanese human rights abuses that aired on Korean television station SBS on October 6, held a press briefing today outside Japan's Consulate in New York to proclaim their discontent with the Japanese government. Dr. Luonne Rouse, United Methodist Church Pastor, delivered remarks. He was supported by Luke Higuchi, president of the Survivors Against Forced Exit, the Rev. Michael Jenkins, chairman of the American Clergy Leadership Conference, and the Rev. Jesse Edwards. Several victims of Japanese abduction and attempted deprogramming attended the event to share their stories and answer questions. Numerous members of the Korean and Japanese media attended.
IN its review of the top stories of 2002, the New York Times recounted the brutal abduction and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the siege of a Moscow theater by Chechen terrorists. These acts, the Times wrote, "underscored the vulnerability of noncombatants.
There was a time in the not too distant past when child molestation was the sin that dare not speak its name. What this meant was that child predators could indulge their perversion with virtual impunity. Everybody but the victim looked the other way. Fortunately, that's been changing in recent decades because of sensational stories of child abduction, rape and murder, and further spurred by the scandal of the Catholic Church covering up for deviant priests who used their esteemed position to abuse children.
One of the most common motifs in alien abduction stories is the use of the rectal probe on unsuspecting humans. Many science fiction films and TV shows also seem to frequently use anal penetration symbolism. 'Independence Day' is an example. These are examples of subtle anti-gay bias.
A series of stories published last week by an Akron, Ohio, newspaper has focused new attention on the nearly 10-year-old unresolved abduction and suspected slaying of a young Western Kentucky woman. The stories quote a police detective who questions whether a man with Tri-State connections might have been involved in the Aug. 26, 1995, disappearance of Heather Teague from Newburgh Beach, just east of Evansville.
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