Prepare to be shocked: 100 million baby girls have “gone missing” due to the Gendercide taking over parts of Asia

March 12, 2010 by Annie | Tags: abortion, b-listed, babies, Bell Bajao, breakthrough, CASS, china, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, culture shockers, Gendercide, india, motherhood, pregnancy, sex selection, The Economist | No Comments »

The University of Florida. Home of the Gators taser incident, “Don’t tase me,bro!” and now home to an even more tragic scene.
A PhD student was shot in the head in his apartment last week—by the University police.
Kofi Adu-Brempong had been having delusional thoughts over the past year. He sought help in the past before sending [...]

March 9, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, culture shockers, Don't tase me bro, Gainesville, Ghana, Kofi Adu-Brempong, police brutality, University of Florida | No Comments »

Recently, the New York Times did an article about the growing anti-choice propaganda that targets black women.
The group, Georgia Right to Life, recently funded billboards with pictures of cute African American babies with the words “Black children are an endangered species. Too many aborted.com”
The idea comes from a conspiracy theory that African American women are targeted [...]

March 5, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: abortion, African American, anti-choice, b-listed, breakthrough, culture shockers, eugenics, Planned Parenthood, pro-choice, pro-life, propaganda, Racial Justice | 1 Comment »

Our favorite ice-skaters performed at the Olympics last night with the same offensive routine. This time, however, they lightened the costumes skin color and opted out of brown face paint. They also added more leaves.
The judges weren’t impressed by the routine this time. Maybe they were influenced by the uproar among Aboriginal communities in Australia? [...]

February 22, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: Aborigines, b-listed, culture shockers, Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, Winter Olympics | 1 Comment »

From our Bell Bajao blog:
A police officer in Utter Pradesh, India beat up a woman who’s in laws accused her of murdering her husband. She claimed he died in his sleep, but they brought her into the police station for interrogation purposes. The officer slapped her repeatedly on the face and snatched her veil, when [...]

February 19, 2010 by crissy | Tags: Bell Bajao, breakthrough, culture shocker, culture shockers, Domestic Violence, india, police brutality | 1 Comment »

In case you missed this, Russian duet figure skaters, Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, found their way to the Olympics back in January, with this pretty offensive skating routine at right.
Back in Jan., the team showed up in dark skin colored body suits that imitated traditional paint used in Aboriginal groups in Australia. They danced [...]

February 16, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: Aborigines, australia, b-listed, culture shockers, figure skating, Maxim Shabalin, Oksana Domnina, Russia, Vancouver, Winter Olympics | No Comments »

New York police officers arrested a 12-year-old girl for a horrific crime on Monday.
Alexa Gonzalez went to Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, Queens, armed with a lime green marker. In her Spanish class, overwhelmed with affection for her friends, she pulled it out and wrote in the citrus inspired color, “I love my [...]

February 10, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: child arrest, culture shockers, education, junior high school | No Comments »

Michael Winterbottom premiered his new film, The Killer Inside Me, at Sundance this year. The film based on the 1952 Jim Thompson novel of the same title.
Blogs are firing up about the brutal violence against women in the movie. It follows a young man played by Casey Affleck, who is a serial killer who fancies [...]

February 3, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: b-listed, Bell Bajao, breakthrough, Casey Affleck, Domestic Violence, Jessica Alba, Killer Inside Me, Michael Winterbottom, Sundance, violence against women | No Comments »

Maher Arar is appealing the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that blocks him from suing the U.S. government for torture he endured in Syria.
In 2002, while returning from a holiday in Tunisia, Arar was detained at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York during an overlay. After spending two weeks in confinement [...]

February 2, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, Canada, constitutional rights, culture shockers, extraordinary rendition, human rights, Maher Arar, Supreme Court, terror suspect, terrorism | No Comments »

This weekend, Miss America was crowned.  If you missed it, it’s OK, apparently so did a lot of people. The big beauty contest has been waning in ratings in recent years.  But what was interesting this year, the not-without-controversy Rush Limbaugh sat on the judges’ table, helping to crown Miss Virginia, Caressa Cameron, who is the [...]

February 1, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: b-listed, Beauty Pageant, Caressa Cameron, culture shocker, Feminism, Miss America, reality TV, Rush Limbaugh | No Comments »