R. C. Camphausen
Digital Journalist based in Chania, Crete, Greece.
Joined on Dec 19, 2009
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A 26-year-old son of a Muslim scholar has been jailed for claiming on Facebook that he was God, allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohamed and asking his more than 70,000 followers to smoke marijuana. His mother now hopes he'll stay in jail forever.
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Sendai -
A Japanese man has committed suicide live on the Internet after first talking to users in an online chat room. Some of these tried to keep him from doing it, others egged him on. Police was also alerted by users, yet arrived at his apartment too late.
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Vienna -
While most readers know about the recent free-speech trial involving Geert Wilders, another such trial is coming up in Austria on November 23. Pat Condell speaks about it in his latest video, forcefully defending free speech in contemporary Europe.
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Morogoro -
Rats are being trained to use their superior sense of smell, and human are using their Pavlovian proclivity to respond to treats, resulting in the rodents detecting hidden mines, and patients infected with tuberculosis as well.
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Once regarded as wonder drugs against anxiety, depression and other undesirable mental states, these medicines are under scrutiny now that a 30- year-old, leaked study shows that risks and dangers were known early on, yet the drugs were prescribed anyway.
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Jakarta -
As the death toll keeps climbing, from 22 to 200 and now to 343, questions are being raised as to why this happened. Has the elaborate tsunami warning system failed the islands, or is the error with someone who early on revoked the tsunami warning?
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Twenty-one years after Soviet troops were withdrawn from a long, bloody war in Afghanistan, Russia appears ready to join forces with NATO in a variety of ways that will aid ISAF in the short term, but will also make a 2011 withdrawal more easy to achieve.
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Adam Pearlman a.k.a. Adam Gadahn, the American who joined al-Qaeda and rumored to have been either captured or killed, has appeared in a new video which, as he has previously done, asks young Muslims in Europe and the US to carry out attacks there.
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Jakarta -
Last week, Indonesia seemed obsessed with male genitals. First, members of the army were filmed scorching the phallus of a farmer they deemed an insurgent, then came the case of police officers searching for the dismembered missing member of a polygamist.
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A few minutes after midnight of Saturday 23/10 in Europe, both Al Jazeera and the New York Times came out with their reports about the mass of documents WikiLeaks has now made available about the Iraq war between 2003 and 2010.
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Amsterdam -
For a second time, the lawyer defending Geert Wilders has called for the judges to be dismissed because of apparent partiality. This time, today, an independent appeals panel agreed with him and the trial will have to start all over again.
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Xiamen -
The one-child policy in China leads to an estimated 13 million known abortions annually, and many of these are performed on orders given by family planning officials. The video posted by Al Jazeera appeared first on a Chinese version of Twitter.
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Willemstad -
From today onwards, the country known as the Netherlands Antilles will not exist anymore. In its place, two new countries come into existence -- Curacao and St Maarten -- and the rest of the islands become municipalities of the Netherlands, 8000 km away.
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Oslo -
The currently imprisoned Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, a fact greeted by the Chinese government with the expected harsh criticism.
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The US-based Jewish ADL (Anti-Defamation League) has accused rock star Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) of anti-semitism, citing his use of the Star of David hexagram and the dollar symbol in his latest 2010/2011 production of 'The Wall.'
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Iranian president Ahmadinejad plans to throw a rock at Israel to demonstrate his hatred for the nation and its people during a mid-October visit to Lebanon. Guarded by Hezbollah, he intends to visit places of significance in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.
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Den Haag -
After 7 months under a care-taker cabinet, it seems that the Netherlands are close to getting a new government over the coming weekend, one which anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has said will bring a 'new wind' blowing across the Low Countries.
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San Paulo -
Since last weekend, the 2010 Sao Paolo Art Biennial is sparking controversy because it shows the work of Brazilian artist Gil Vicente, large drawings that depict him assassinating heads of states, the Queen of England and the Pope.
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A grave dating to the 7th century BC has been discovered on the Greek island of Crete. Unique in the Greek world, one of two female skeletons was completely covered with 3,000 pieces of gold foil
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A portable device producing a painless laser beam is under development and can spot early signs of breast cancer, tooth decay and osteoporosis. The method is known as Raman spectroscopy, and researchers think it can come into use in about 5 years.
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