Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (January 9) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom
Newsletter date: 13 January 2015
* Joint Urgent Appeal: Franciscans International & Edmund Rice International: Forced Displacement of Aborigines in West Australia
* Background: Franciscans International - a voice at the United Nations: Indigenous Peoples
* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA
The death penalty around the world has two faces - one is in the international spotlight and the other is hidden from view.
Is the president of Nauru, Baron Waqa a leader or a dictator?
Five MP’s have been suspended from the nation’s parliament simply because they spoke to the international media.
The President supports the decision saying the MP’s acted in an “unruly manner”.
Now the Chief Justice has upheld their suspensions, saying the Supreme Court did not have the power to reverse parliament's decision.
One of the suspended MP’s Roland Kun is now openly referring to the current government as a dictatorship.
83 people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia in 2014, the highest number in five years.
Most were executed for non violent offences including drug smuggling.
Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia has one of the highest execution rates in the world.
There were 79 executions in 2013 and 2012, and 82 in 2011.
The countries that carried out the most executions on record last year were Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the U.S.
China is thought to kill thousands but the figure is a state secret.
Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (January 2) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom
AMERICA STUMBLES THROUGH ANOTHER YEAR, SPREADING CHAOS AND TRIVIA EVERYWHERE IN ITS PATH
John Chuckman
Ethical human rights will not only turn America around but take it forward.
Anthony Ravlich
Human Rights Council (New Zealand)
10D/15 City Rd.,
Auckland City.
Ph: (0064) (09) 940.9658
Ethical human rights, development and globalization will not only turn the country around but take it forward.
On 4 November 2014 when the Republicans won a majority in the US Senate Mitch McConnell, the presumptive Senate Majority Leader said that America needed to be ‘turned-around’.
Newsletter date: 30 December 2014
President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo insists the state willl push through with the execution of 64 inmates on death row, most of them convicted of drug offenses.
DRUG TRAFFICKING - "AN EXTRAORDINARY CRIME" ???
According to President Jokowi and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, drug trafficking leads to thousands of fatalities every year. It is therefore an “extraordinary crime” for which the only appropriate penalty is death by firing squad.
