Saif al-Islam - the son of slain ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi - says he is innocent of crimes against humanity, an international prosecutor has said.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said talks with Saif al-Islam had been held through intermediaries.

The ICC says Gaddafi's son, accused of crimes during the recent conflict in Libya, would get a fair trial.

excerpt:"The 2009 interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu that won Craig Ferguson a Peabody Award will air again tonight, with a new introduction by the host. The Peabody Awards will be handed out today.

I would like to propose to EVERY Viner, a day without racism!

I would love it if we could do that all over the world but I am not that popular so I can only reach so many people.

We will choose a day of the week where everyone who comments on articles will look at it with an open mind and not make any racist comment. Actually everyone will make an effort to look at things differently, without a preconception.

Yes, I am pretty sure it will not be as fun as when everyone is arguing and hating each other and making mean comments but why can’t we try just once? It’s just ONE day.

We can see if things would be any better than what is has been for the past, uh let’s see, forever…?!

"We all know that people are the same where ever you go

there is good and bad in everyone
we learn to live we learn to give each other what we need to survive together alive"

So who’s up for it?

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Senior Palestinian leaders — men who once commanded militias — are joining unarmed protest marches against Israeli policies and are being arrested. Goods produced in Israeli settlements have been burned in public demonstrations. The Palestinian prime minister has entered West Bank areas officially off limits to his authority, to plant trees and declare the land part of a future state.

There’s a Holy war going on, the Afghanistan war, and the war amongst us, within each town, city state, country. And there are all of the people fighting against the Government trying to give everyone better opportunities.

People just don’t seem to have any positive thinking or hope anymore. Even before anything happens, everyone expects the worst.

All of the negativity that comes from everyone is just going to make things worse. We are supposed to get better and more united towards one common goal…

What’s happening to the world?

Do we need more killing, more hate, more violence?

Where is the peace everyone keeps talking about?

Where’s the love everyone? Anybody knows??

By the Black Eyed Peas:

What's wrong with the world mama?
People living like ain’t got no mamas
I think the whole worlds addicted to the drama
Only attracted to the things that bring you trauma
Overseas yeah we trying to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here living
In the USA the big CIA the Bloodz and the Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And if you hating you're bound to get irate
Yeah madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
You gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love y'all

People killing people dying
Children hurting you hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?

It just ain't the same all ways have changed
New days are strange is the world the insane?
If love and peace so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations dropping bombs
Chemical gases filling lungs of little ones
With ongoing suffering
As the youth die young
So ask yourself is the loving really strong?
So I can ask myself really what is going wrong
With this world that we living in
People keep on giving in
Makin wrong decisions
Only visions of them livin and
Not respecting each other
Deny thy brother
The wars' going on but the reasons' undercover
The truth is kept secret
Swept under the rug
If you never know truth
Then you never know love
Where's the love y'all?(I don't know)

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm getting older y'all people get colder
Most of us only care about money making
Selfishness got us following the wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting their young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema
Whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness and equality
Instead of spreading love, we're spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down
It's no wonder why sometimes I'm feeling under
I gotta keep my faith alive, until love is found

People killing people dying
Children hurting you hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?

"Stand by Me" On June 24, Iranian Superstar Andy Madadian went into an LA recording.
Absolutely beautiful... heartfelt and warming to the core.

Protests in Tehran after election - Riot police caught by crowd.

Watch until the end, it is what human compassion is all about. Under the helmets and leather is a human. We must respect one another to have freedoms.
Rage is counterproductive and a senseless emotion.

According to the Washington Post, a recent poll revealed a drop in Muslim support for terrorism.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071401030.html?nav=rss_nation

=>Western concerns about Islamic extremism, according to the poll by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, conducted by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization.

"Most Muslim publics are expressing less support for terrorism than in the past. Confidence in Osama bin Laden has declined markedly in some countries, and fewer believe suicide bombings that target civilians are justified in the defense of Islam," the poll concluded.

Rebel Rocker, Michael Franti, talks with Americans for Informed Democracy about his decision to join CARE as a CARE Ambassador, the Obama administration, and what it means to be a rebel.
Highly recommended listening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FE9cPXE3M&feature;=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Di7useS5LE&feature;=related

Dick Cheney says that torturing detainees has saved American lives. That claim is patently false. Cheney's torture policy was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of American servicemen and women.

Matthew Alexander was the senior military interrogator for the task force that tracked down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and, at the time, a higher priority target than Osama bin Laden. Mr. Alexander has personally conducted hundreds of interrogations and supervised over a thousand of them.

"Torture does not save lives. Torture costs us lives," Mr. Alexander said in an exclusive interview at Brave New Studios. "And the reason why is that our enemies use it, number one, as a recruiting tool...These same foreign fighters who came to Iraq to fight because of torture and abuse....literally cost us hundreds if not thousands of American lives."

Some historic, religious structures, like Angkor Wat in Cambodia or the pyramids in Egypt, draw hundreds of thousands of tourists each year. Other temples, tombs and mosques, no less spectacular than their tourist-heavy peers, have been reclaimed by nature, turning from architectural marvels into man-made shells covered with trees, plants, vines, or sand. Despite being aged and broken down, the unique hybrid of man-made elements and natural ones makes the ruins below as spectacular as when they were newly constructed.

Gordon Brown has released yet another book about Britishness to clutter the nation's bookshelves. He proposes an abstract statement of "British values", or maybe an expanded oath of loyalty, to cement us all together under the Union Jack – but all this well-meaning ho-humming misses the point. Most of us love our country simply because it's ours. I love my flat not because it represents "Johannish" values, or because it's objectively the best flat in the world, but because it's where the things I know and love are cluttered together, and I feel a wave of calm when the door shuts behind me. I feel the same when I step off the Eurostar at Waterloo or stagger out into Terminal Five: Ah, I'm home.

To all NewsViners...
We are so different, we are so much the same. Please think of Peace in your hearts and in your every step for we have so very far to go.

The gentle, upbeat documentary "Throw Down Your Heart" chronicles the African pilgrimage of the American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck in search of the origins of his chosen instrument, which he sheepishly admits is "associated with a white Southern stereotype."

At every stop on a journey that takes him from Uganda to Tanzania to Gambia and finally to Mali, Mr. Fleck plays and records with gifted local musicians. Early in the film, a Ugandan villager insists that the common perception of Africa as a continent ravaged by war and disease is "just a very small bit of what Africa is," and "Throw Down Your Heart" sets out to prove him right.

While traveling, Mr. Fleck encounters reminders of the slave trade. At a seaside port in what used to be German East Africa, he is told that an enslaved African, upon seeing the sea and the ship, understood that there would be no returning and was advised to "throw down your heart."

Niels Harrit and 8 other scientists found nano-thermite in the dust from the World Trade Center. He is interviewed on danish TV2 News.
If you ever wondered?
Wonder no more...

Junior and High School students from all around the Peace Country united for a rally with the following message: MAKE POVERTY HISTORY. The students marched through the city with signs, chanting "Make poverty history". The end point culminated with a rally at the local venue, the Crystal Centre, where keynote speaker Charles Mulli (found of Mully's Children's Family Charitable Foundation) and children from his orphanage gave their stories.

The students had an amazing time, singing and dancing.

Life may be tough for its full-time residents, but for Miss Universe a day out at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay was simply "a loooot of fun!"

Venezuelan beauty queen Dayana Mendoza visited the center and wrote about it on the Miss Universe blog on 27 March.

Her remarks that she "didn't want to leave" the "calm and beautiful" place attracted some scathing reactions.

Earth Hour is an initiative that is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Last year, during its first worldwide observance, 36 million to 50 million people observed by turning off their lights for one hour. During that hour, hundreds of tons of carbon dioxide emissions were saved from going into the atmosphere. Will this year be bigger and better than 2008? The World Wildlife Fund, which runs the initiative is hoping so, and so are environmentalists all over the world.

So, how can you observe Earth? Here are 27 ways to observe Earth Hour and make a bigger difference in the environment.

On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time.

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Hugo Chávez's greatest sin is that he has shown disrespect for the American Empire. Or as they would say in America's inner cities — He's dissed the Man. Such behavior of course cannot go unpunished lest it give other national leaders the wrong idea. Over the years, the United States has gotten along just fine with brutal dictators, mass murderers, torturers, and leaders who did nothing to relieve the poverty of their population — Augusto Pinochet, Pol Pot, the Greek Junta, Ferdinand Marcos, Suharto, Duvalier, Mobutu, the Brazil Junta, Somoza, Saddam Hussein, South African apartheid leaders, Portuguese fascists, etc., etc., terrible guys all, all seriously supported by Washington at one time or another; for none made it a regular habit, if ever, to diss the Man.

All mothers know there is no limit to what they will do to protect their children.

But this mother orang-utan proved that the selfless sentiment extends to the animal kingdom also.

These astonishing pictures from the World Wildlife Fund capture the moment the terrified mother caught a rope thrown to her by humans and swam across a flooded river to bring her baby to safety.