I wonder if I am the only one that sees irony, or worse, of a President of an oil exporting country visiting a poverty-stricken island for medical treatment.

Good news, a woman has been chosen as head of the IMF, it is way overdue. Bad news that the Europeans had it sewn up. Bad governance!

Actually, #Libya does not reject the ICC's indictments, #Gadaffi and his family does. Not the same thing! http://bit.ly/ku2Eiw

#China Prime Minister to Europeans: if you want my money, shut up
about my Human Rights! Answer? Oh...OK.

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I suppose that local celebrations in #Libya at the ICC indictments of #Gadaffi and his son is not foreign interference. http://bit.ly/if7OkW

Good news in #Cambodia. "Four senior Khmer Rouge to the dock". Shouldn't forget! http://bit.ly/jyMLvU

Philip Morris doesn't like plain boxes with realistic pictures and threatens to sue the Australian government. So, they should stop selling! http://bit.ly/imq3gH

Hu Jia is released, after having been detained prior to the Beijing Olympic Games. The Chinese Prime Minister's visit to Europe is giving Hu Jia a few days outside of prison. He will be back in jail when the trip is over. #China has not changed.

What's up with the President of #Venezuela who doesn't dare to suffer his health system? His poor people don't have the choice to go elsewhere. With so many petrodollars coming in, doesn't he feel shame?

Qué pasa con el sistema médico de #Venezuela que ni su Presidente quiere sufrirlo. Su pobre pueblo no tiene esa oportunidad. Con tantos ingresos petroleros, ¿no le dará vergüenza?

We need to eliminate this oligopoly. These companies control the global grain market with those higher and rising prices and they still don't pay their taxes. http://bit.ly/kC99Km

Whether man or woman, these crimes are wrong. http://tinyurl.com/65a54cn

Does anyone believe that it is a coincidence that China releases artist Ai Weiwei at the same time as Premier Wen Jiabao is to visit Hungary, the UK and Germany?

What's up with French politicians and rape charges? http://bbc.in/lEBR5f

#Bahrain has just convicted freedom demonstrators. Just like thugs running the country to think their legal manoeuvres will convince anyone.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was required to admit his sins, as is the way with the thugs in China. Doesn't mean anything so why not do it. http://tgr.ph/k550kK

Facebook is going into China and, as is usual with them, they will go in without a clear ethics strategy and change as they go along, just what the Chinese authorities love to see. They will run rings around Facebook. Human Rights Watch have it right but will probably not even receive an answer to their open letter. Expect more bad governance from Facebook! http://bit.ly/lhGnXk

Seems like we have forgotten her and her cause. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will address members of the U.S. Congress today. http://bit.ly/mCRpW4

Farcical speech by #Syria's #Assad. That's the thing about depots, they just don't get it!

Good News! Ben & Jerry's is advertising and selling its Fairtrade
icecream in The UK.

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Great to hear Russia's President mention corruption as a problem, with his speech in his iPad. Let us hope we see action!

Brazil needs to act! "Latest activist murder in the Amazon highlights
battle over land, logging" http://tinyurl.com/693tflb

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Bahrain to sue Independent newspaper for saying bad things about them. Good, let their actions come out in open court, if they don’t try to close it. http://bit.ly/kellKX

Bill Gates does it again as donors pledge billions for vaccines for
the poor.  http://tinyurl.com/5rg49hg

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Very well said, about possible role of #Gaddafi's sons in #Libya transition. "News to Make One Vomit" http://bit.ly/gGqtah

And we will do nothing, to not upset their historic friends, the Russians. "Syria to begin ground assault on northern town". http://nyti.ms/kJKGrU

Burman gets $20 billion and China defines its friends. http://bbc.in/isWumW

Bernie Ecclestone lost an opportunity to state that injustice and repression is unacceptable when he said the #Bahrain #F1 cannot go ahead without team support. He says they are concerned about security.

They are going to the UN Security Council to do something in #Syria, so, nothing will happen then. http://bbc.in/lbjPyn

I applaud Arundhati Roy's courage in speaking out! Great writer, weak understanding of Economics. http://bit.ly/lsd0BG

#Yemen President is in #Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. Let us hope he stays with his friends. He will certainly feel at home.

Dictators should not be coddled just because it is good business. Well done Red Bull driver Mark Webber for standing against taking the F1 back to #Bahrain. http://bit.ly/jeURGw

22 years ago, the Chinese goverment massacred its people in Tiananmen Square. Shame! Lest we forget, as they would like us to. http://bit.ly/mo3CkN

Welcome to the fight. The FT's Martin Wolf writes "We should declare
an end to our disastrous war on drugs"

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FIFA husbanding corruption & FIA coddling the dictators in #Bahrain
with the F1. Sports administrators just don't get it and should go!

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Qatar has deported #Libya's Eman al-Obeidy, even though she had UN
refugee status. Shame! http://tinyurl.com/6xxa8bb

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Why is it that they proclaim the obvious only when they are ex-leaders? "The global war on drugs has "failed"" http://bbc.in/mucpdd

FIFA's Blatter presents Henry Kissinger as ethics lead. Wasn't K a
major player at the time of Watergate? This Blatter guy doesn't get
it...holding on to the end, like all these despots.

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Bad news, Sepp Blatter won his vote to head the Fifa politburo. The only candidate, corruption endemic…all under his mandate. Fifa officials should be ashamed of themselves! Where were governments when they were needed?

Why are the governments so quiet on the FIFA corruption debate. Football receives too many exemptions already, are also they exempt from the laws of corruption and social responsibility as well?