Rihanna looks like she is deep in thought while she on her Mexican getaway.I'm sure she's still trying to come to grips with the latest turn of events in her life.Not only has she had to deal with the whole issue of domestic violence,but Rihanna has been the target of some venom as well!There are some Chris Brown fans & family members who have attempted to paint her in a bad light.I don't give a damn if she had the worst personality in the world.She did not deserve to get beaten like that.And,I think that people just want to make excuses for Chris Brown. Don't blame the victim.Blame the perpetrator!
The little boy that starred in "Slumdog Millionaire" was beaten by his father for not wanting to talk to journalists.The poor kid had jet lag & he just wanted to rest.And for that reason his father slapped him in the face!Here's more from The Daily Mail:
"He's become an object of adulation for millions, but ten-year-old Azharuddin Ismail’s stardom doesn’t appear to cut much ice back at home with his father. The youngster, who played the hero of Slumdog Millionaire as a child, received a beating from Ismail Usnay, 45, apparently for disobedience.
On Thursday Azharuddin had returned to Mumbai after Slumdog’s triumph at the Oscar ceremony.Exhausted by a chaotic welcome and a long flight from Los Angeles, he was given the day off school yesterday. But when he refused to step outside his home in the Dharavi slum in Bandra to speak to journalists, his father lashed out. ‘His father went mad,’ said a witness.
‘He wanted to show his son off to journalists and local people, but Azharuddin said he wanted to be left alone because he was tired.’
Crying and holding his ear, Azharuddin ran inside the makeshift home and tried to hide in the corner.
The ugly scene lasted no more than 30 seconds after Ismail, who is infected with TB, was restrained by neighbours.The child's mother, who is blind in one eye, had also begged Ismail, 45, to stop the physical punishment.Last night Usnay apologised for striking his son.
‘I was so confused and stressed by my son’s homecoming,’ he added. ‘I love my boy and I am very happy to have him home.’ The aggression was in stark contrast to the previous day's triumphant return to the slums, when Azharuddin's father lifted him up and paraded him like a trophy for the expectant crowds. With the massed media long gone and the euphoria of returning home ebbing away, the reality of life in the slums seemed to be hitting the child hard."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.
Now,I don't care how much stress his father is under.There is no excuse for slapping & kicking your child! WTF?!!This kid's role in that movie really brought good fortune to his family.His father ought to be grateful & angry at the media for invading his son's privacy.Instead,this man just wants to milk his son's sudden fame for all that it's worth.How shameful is that!
Ingrid Betancourt is one of the former Farc captives that is regarded as a hero.She is a woman who was well respected for enduring six long years in captivity.But,now her heroic status is in jeopardy of being diminished by a new book that two of her fellow hostages wrote.Here's more from the Guardian:
"There was celebrating all around the world when Ingrid Betancourt was rescued last July from the Colombian jungle, where she had been held hostage for six years by leftist guerrillas. Newspapers dubbed her the new Joan of Arc, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy greeted her with a hero's welcome in Paris and a special service in her honour was held at Lourdes.
But reverence for great people never seems to last long these days. And so it comes to pass that Betancourt, a Colombian-French politician who once stood for president in Colombia, has been partially toppled from her pedestal.
The attack on her exalted reputation comes from two of the three US military contractors who were among the 14 other hostages rescued alongside Betancourt. In a new book published in the US yesterday in which they describe five years of jungle captivity at the hands of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, they present Betancourt as a domineering presence who suffered from arrogance and egotism.
The strongest attack contained in Out of Captivity comes from Keith Stansell, a former marine from Florida. He was head of the mission run by a private company Northrop Grumman to gather intelligence on the Farc's drug running activities that came a cropper in February 2003 when their surveillance plane crash-landed in the middle of a FARC training camp.
In passages of the book written by Stansell, he accuses Betancourt, who was kidnapped by the rebels a year before the Americans, of haughtiness and self-obsession. She would steal food from other hostages, refuse to share the scarce books that the group managed to obtain and even put the Americans' lives in danger by telling the guerrillas - wrongly the men claim - that they were CIA agents.
Stansell, 44, told the Associated Press: "I watched her try to take over the camp with an arrogance that was out of control. Some of the guards treated us better than she did."
Similar complaints have been made by a second of the Americans, Thomas Howes, 55, a co-pilot of the stricken plane. He told a Bogotá radio station that Betancourt was "a person who likes to control and manipulate, for whom being in captivity was very difficult". "She did not like to share food in equal portions and was "interested in herself."
The 15 hostages, including Betancourt and the three Americans, were snatched from the Colombian jungle on July 2 last year in dramatic fashion. Colombian military forces, with the help of US intelligence, conceived an elaborate plot in which Farc leaders were conned into handing over their prisoners."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.
