Patronage

 
Patronage
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege and often financial aid that an organization bestows to another person or organization. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors. It can also refer to the right of bestowing offices or church benefices, the business given to a [...]

Nepotism

 
Nepotism
Nepotism is the showing of favoritism toward relatives based upon that relationship, rather than on an objective evaluation of ability, meritocracy or suitability. For instance, offering employment to a relative, despite the fact that there are others who are better qualified and willing to perform the job. The word nepotism is from the Latin word ‘nepos’, meaning “nephew” or “grandchild“.

Articles on Discrimination in Wikipedia

 

Articles onDiscrimination

General forms

Ageism · Biphobia · Heterophobia ·Homophobia · Racism · Sexism
 · Speciesism · Religious intolerance
Reverse discrimination · Xenophobia

Cronyism

Cronyism
 
Cronyism is partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications. Hence, cronyism is contrary in practice and principle to meritocracy. Cronyism exists when the appointer and the beneficiary are in social contact; often, the appointer is inadequate to hold his or her own job or position of authority, and [...]

World map of the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International

 
 World map of the Corruption Perceptions Index 
by Transparency International

Political corruption

Political corruption
Political corruption is the use of governmental powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Neither are illegal acts by private persons or corporations not directly involved with the government. An illegal act [...]

Democracy and Muslim dictators

Democracy and Muslim dictators
 

The quality of royalty is very dependent upon the moral fibre or character of the royal persons themselves, and this element is highly variable.The Iranian Shah-hin-shah who preceded the Ayatollah Khomeini was said to have been modernising some aspects of his kingdom as rapidly as possible, yet Muslims felt there was too much [...]

Vicious Deflation causing widespread and prolonged decline in consumer prices is bad for economy

Vicious Deflation causing 
widespread and prolonged decline in consumer prices is bad for economy
Falling prices sound like a gift at first — at least to consumers. But a widespread and prolonged decline can wreak more havoc on the economy, dragging down Americans’ wages, and clobbering already-stricken home and stock prices. Dropping prices already are hurting businesses’ profits, forcing them [...]

Thai military accused of ‘killing’ refugees

Thai military accused of ‘killing’ refugees
 
The Thai military has been accused of seizing hundreds of refugees, towing them out to sea and “leaving them to die” without engines and barely any food or water.
 
Aid groups said that hundreds of water-borne refugees from the Burma-Bangladesh border were arrested and held on an island in the Andaman [...]

Al Jazeera:Olmert announces Gaza ceasefire

 
Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister, has announced a unilateral truce in the Gaza Strip.
Israel will halt its offensive in Gaza at 0000 GMT on Sunday but troops will remain in the enclave for the time being and will respond to Hamas fire, Olmert said on Saturday.

The announcement came after a meeting of Israel’s security council [...]

War criminal Israel using phosphorus in Gaza

War criminal Israel
using phosphorus in Gaza
Iran accused Israel of using white-phosphorus munitions in Gaza and called for an investigation in a letter to an international watchdog agency made available to media on Saturday.
The accusation came after U.N. humanitarian affairs chief John Holmes on Thursday said a warehouse in a U.N. compound in Gaza that came [...]

U.N. officials have said war crimes may have been committed during Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip

U.N. officials have said war crimes may have been committed
during Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip 

 
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.N. officials have said war crimes may have been committed during Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip — a suggestion Israeli officials reject out of hand.

Destroyed buildings are seen in the northern Gaza Strip January 17, [...]

Thousands ruined as Chinese tea bubble bursts

   Thousands ruined as Chinese tea bubble bursts 
 
KUNMING, Jan 18 – Saudi Arabia has its oil. South Africa has its diamonds. And here in China’s temperate south-west, prosperity has come from the scrubby green tea trees that blanket the mountains of fabled Menghai County.

Jews against Zionism

By:BUNN NAGARA
from:thestaronlinenews
Some religious Jews also reject an immoral, outlaw Israel in the name of their religion.
AMONG the many religious Jewish groups that reject today’s Israel and its Zionist basis are Satmar, Dushinski and Neturei Karta (NK, or “Guardians of the City/Faith”).

 Cohen: ‘Any form of unjust violence is terrorism, whether state-sponsored or otherwise, and must be [...]