An account of Human Rights Watch’ personnel, Jose Miguel Vivanco and Daniel Wilkinson of the events in Caracas on September 18 can be found here.

This is pretty neat, the United Nations Postal Administration has put out a set of stamps in the six official languages of the United Nations, one is in Braille featuring the letters “UN”, there is also one in sign-language:

Politics & religion are the two issues one is not to raise at a dinner table. So, good that Colin Powell made the following statement in a Sunday morning television interview, which was generally widely reported. However, the following, regrettably necessary, statement was not covered as widely as it should be:

“Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with a seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she could be president? Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion that he is a Muslim and might have an association with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America.”