The Genesis Galaxy
A technician wearing Interstellar News Network press credentials met Captain Carson and Dr. Palmer in one of the Starbase conference rooms.
He had them sit, set up the video links and asked,
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine
Lesbians subjected to "corrective rape" in South Africa
Lesbians living in South Africa are being subjected to "corrective rape" and severe violence by men trying to "cure" them of their sexual orientation, human rights groups have said.
Published: 1:12AM GMT 13 Mar 2009
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A report by the international NGO ActionAid, backed by the South African Human Rights Commission, said the horrific crimes against lesbians were going unrecognised by the state and unpunished by the legal system.
The report called for South Africa's criminal justice system to recognise the rapes as hate crimes in an attempt to force police to take action over the rising tide of violence.
The ferocity of the attack became clear in April last year when Eudy Simelane, former star of South Africa's national female football squad, became one of the victims. Miss Simelane, and equality rights campaigner and one of the first women to live openly as a lesbian, was gang-raped and brutally beaten before being stabbed 25 times in the face, chest and legs.
But scores more women have been deliberately targeted for rape, the Guardian reports.
"Every day I am told that they are going to kill me, that they are going to rape me and after they rape me I'll become a girl," Zakhe Sowello from Soweto, told the paper. "When you are raped you have a lot of evidence on your body. But when we try and report these crimes nothing happens, and then you see the boys who raped you walking free on the street."
Research shows 86 per cent of black lesbians from the Western Cape live in fear of sexual assault. Triangle, a gay rights organisation, said it deals with up to 10 new cases of "corrective rape" every week.
"What we're seeing is a spike in the numbers of women coming to us having been raped and who have been told throughout the attack that being a lesbian was to blame for what was happening to them," Vanessa Ludwig, the chief executive at Triangle, told the paper.
Support groups claim an increasingly macho political environment led to inaction over attacks.
A statement released by South Africa's national prosecuting authority said: "While hate crimes
I must admit that I like the kid because he's the living image of a character from my story Broken.
If you've read Broken, piano kid is Nick Turner in the flesh.
There is an invisible world that surrounds us all. Actually there are several of them. People walk around them and through them all the time never notice. These worlds are only known to a few and are hidden in plain sight. They are everywhere but you will only see them if you know what you are looking for or if those worlds collide.
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You know I tease story ideas in my blog. Anyone intrigued?
explosions, pointless car chases and wrecks,
dirty cops and dirty Feds, corrupt politicians,
dope heads, winos, punks, perverts, non-molesting priests, gun fire at night,
confrontation, collaboration, confusion, coronation, celebration,
mourning, bliss, discord, rebels in the hills, your favorite pills,
photo-realism and psychedelia, insanity and neurosis,
10,000 shades of gray including black and white.