Amazing: With reform like this, who needs oppression?

A 19-year-old woman in Saudi Arabia was gang raped by seven men in 2006. This month, a court sentenced the men to prison terms of two and nine years. Then, the judges sentenced the woman to receive 200 lashes and six months in prison for "being alone with an unrelated man." Then her lawyer was taken off the case and disciplined for talking to the media. And this is all after King Abdullah INITIATED AN OVERHAUL OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM.

Via Dolorosa in Dongguan
Crucifixes thought to be mass produced in Italy turn out to be made in sweatshops in China, where the girls work 15-hour days, seven days a week for 26 cents an hour with no time off. The women live in filthy dorms and are fed a watery slop, according to a report by the National Labor Committee. New York churches where the crucifixes are sold have removed them from their gift shops. The crosses have been exhibited at an annual trade show organized by the Association for Christian Retail, a Colorado-based trade association that works with thousands of religious stores across the country.
Apparently the Chinese are moving the crucifix from it's modern use as an item of devotional interior design back to it's original purpose as an instrument of torture and shame.

'The (other) nations are as a drop in a bucket'
After massive new oil reserves were discovered off the coast of Brazil, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced that the discovery proves "God is Brazilian." This should not be surprising, because Brazilians have long claimed on the basis of their rich natural resources that God shares their nationality.
Luckily for the rest of us, dual citizenship has been permitted in Brazil without restriction since 1994.

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