Toning
down the violence, Italy's mafia has set its sights ...
https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/01/toning-down-the-violence-italy-s-mafia-has-set-its...
With Italy
getting the largest share of the bloc's post-pandemic grants and
loans, mafia-type organisations are starting to eye EU
funds. The director of the Anti-mafia Investigation
Directorate,...
Italy: Criminal clans seek to tap into EU funds |
Europe ...
https://www.dw.com/en/italy-criminal-clans-seek-to-tap-into-eu-funds/a-55901537
Italy: Criminal
clans seek to tap into EU funds Through the recovery fund, the EU will
offer member states €1.8 trillion ($2.2 trillion) in grants for COVID-19
spending. €13.5 billion will go to...
A flood of EU funding is filling the coffers of the ...
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/eu-funding-for-the-european-mafia
A
flood of EU funding is filling the coffers of the European Mafia . Mafia scams
involving farming, tobacco, VAT and alcohol are taking billions out of EU funds.
The Covid pandemic has opened the floodgates. Suna Erdem. A mourner places a
candle in front of a portrait of murdered Slovak investigative journalist Jan
Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova in the centre of Bratislava in 2018
...
Italian mafia raided embezzlement of EU funds - Teller Report
https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-01-15---italian-mafia-raided-embezzlement-of-eu...
European funds (blue
flag) were diverted to Italy (red white green flag).
(illustration) - KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / POOL / AFP. Italian police announced on
Wednesday that they had dismantled a mafia network in Sicily
that embezzled millions of euros of European funds intended
for farmers. Ninety-four people were arrested during a phone call earlier today
against a mafia group in Tortorici, the ...
UK to come under scrutiny in Italy’s largest mafia
trial ...
Green domain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/27/uk-to-come-under-scrutiny-in-italys...
In
the last decade, hundreds of investigations have asserted how the ’Ndrangheta
has laundered billions of euros in the City. A 2019 report
from Italy’s Antimafia Investigative Directorate claimed...
Warning: Italy's Mafias eye EU's billions in recovery
funds
https://headtopics.com/us/warning-italy-s-mafias-eye-eu-s-billions-in-recovery-funds...
Italy ’s
anti-Mafia investigators issued a dramatic warning that mobsters
will scheme to get some of hundreds of billions of euros in Europe an Union
recovery aid after the pandemic.. ROME (AP) — Italy ’s anti-Mafia investigators
issued a dramatic warning Friday that mobsters will scheme to get some of
hundreds of billions of
‘Brutal’
Discrimination Adds Trauma to Roma as they Flee ...
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2022/03/09/30294
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on
February 24 has sparked what the UN has described as the fastest-growing
refugee crisis in Europe since WWII, and as of March 9, an estimated 2 million
people had left the country. These include Roma who, like
other refugees, abandoned their homes and communities as fighting broke out
across the
Ukraine’s Roma
refugees recount discrimination en route to ...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/ukraines-roma-refugees-recount-discrimination...
Cristina
is one of an estimated 400,000 Ukraine’s Roma people who,
besides the trauma of war, have to cope with discrimination along
their evacuation route out of Ukraine. Many have always
been...
Roma and other
people of color fleeing war in Ukraine face ...
www.romea.cz/en/news/world/roma-and-other-people-of-color-fleeing-war-in-ukraine-face...
Ukrainian
Roma fleeing the war are facing border-crossing problems -
according to information made available to the Romea.cz news server and other
media, discrimination is occurring and some are even being targeted with
racism. Students of color leaving Ukraine are also facing
racism.
"About
30,000 Roma in Ukraine have no documents." The ...
https://ukraine.un.org/en/106824-about-30000-roma-ukraine-have-no-documents-story-roma...
According
to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, the rights of
the Roma minority are protected by the general
anti-discrimination provisions of Ukrainian law and complemented by the
Strategy for the Protection and Integration of the Roma National
Minority into Ukrainian Society. Although the Strategy for the Roma Minority
Radicals
Target Roma People in Ukraine | Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/11/29/radicals-target-roma-people-ukraine
Roma people in
Ukraine often face violence, but official investigations rarely produce
outcomes. No one has been held accountable for the 2017 murder of Mykola
Kaspitsky, leader of Roma community ...
Ukraine′s Roma activists working to help at-risk
community ...
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraines-roma-activists-at-work-for-their-community/a-61032799
There
are reports of Roma being denied access to neighboring
countries at various borders." Official statistics suggest
there are around 50,000 Roma living in Ukraine.
However, organizations ...
‘Brutal’
Discrimination Adds Trauma to Roma as they Flee ...
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2022/03/09/30294
Roma refugees
faced ‘brutal’ discrimination at both sides of the border of Ukraine as
they joined 2 million others to flee the bombing in war-torn Ukraine.
These headlines reflect their ordeal. Graphic: IPS . Roma living
in Europe are among the most discriminated and disadvantaged groups on the
continent. In many countries, including Ukraine where it is
thought there are as many as 400,000 ...
Roma People in Ukraine should not be the victims of
other ...
https://idavox.com/index.php/2022/03/02/roma-people-in-ukraine-should-not-be-the...
Roma people in
Ukraine are suffering in these difficult times, and are afraid of the
consequences for them. They are very often discriminated in Ukraine,
considered as second grade citizens. Therefore, we are appealing to the UN,
Russian and USA Government and NATO forces to consider Roma people
affected by new political happenings in Ukraine, and this time to
protect them, and help them to ...
Stateless Roma in Ukraine have nowhere to turn to ...
www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/stateless-roma-ukraine-have-nowhere-turn
Russian post-invasion kill
list includes Ukrainian LGBTQ citizens
The list also includes
politicians and journalists, along with members of religious and ethnic
minority groups.
The
list also includes politicians and journalists, along with members of religious
and ethnic minority groups.
Russia
has orchestrated a continued campaign against the LGBTQ community, both inside
the country and in areas under this influence. While the West mostly overlooked
the imprisonment and torture of gay men and transgender women, the country
solidified its grip on religious conservatives and the far right. LGBTQ people
have been used as scapegoats for the West. “These acts, which in past
Russian operations have included targeted killings, kidnappings/forced disappearances,
unjust detentions, and the use of torture, would likely target those who oppose
Russian actions, including Russian and Belarusian dissidents in exile in
Ukraine, journalists and anti-corruption activists, and vulnerable populations
such as religious and ethnic minorities and LGBTQI+ persons,” Crocker warned in a letter.
Levelling-up:
some wealthy areas of England to see 10 times more funding than poorest
have so far been allocated 10 times more money per capita than the
poorest under Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” agenda, Guardian analysis has
found.
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2022/feb/02/levelling-up-funding-inequality-exposed-by-guardian-research
Uber drivers to be given
workplace benefits including minimum wage and holiday pay after Supreme Court
ruling
Uber drivers are to be granted key workplace benefits
including a guaranteed minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions from today
following a Supreme Court ruling.
The landmark decision by the ride hailing app means that
70,000 drivers will be treated as “workers” rather than self -employed
contractors for the first time.
He added: “The Supreme Court judgment provides a clearer
path forward, so that we can build a model that gives drivers the protections
of worker status while continuing to let them work flexibly, in the same way
they have been since Uber came to the UK in 2012.”
“Uber is just one part of a larger private-hire industry, so
we hope that all other operators will join us in improving the quality of work
for these important workers who are an essential part of our everyday lives.”
C.et: first time globally, finish exploitation by
corporations benefiting from high-way means of the XXI century while expecting
workers to be treated like middle ages serfs. Of those capitalists killing
competition and annihilating work and risks to suck off people that cannot even
be either boss (paid less than salaried (people working for a wage, paid on
wages, with social protection). Working as self-employed, with all investment
and all charges on you, being paid less than staff, cannot be done unless at
credit-working to lose money) or staff. Work till there is no bones or blood.
Are there laws against female genital mutilation in Europe?
16 European countries having specific laws or legal
provisions against female genital mutilation.
https://www.equalitynow.org/fgm_in_europe
Female genital mutilation: where, why and consequences
Although it is illegal in the EU and some member states
prosecute even when it performed outside the country, it is estimated that
about 600,000 women living in Europe have been subjected to FGM and a further
180,000 girls are at a high risk in 13 European countries alone.
https://www.equalitynow.org/europe_statistics
Europe's Country Specific Statistics
BELGIUM
- Indirect estimates indicate 17,575
women and girls who have undergone FGM/C, with a further 8,342 at risk.
FRANCE
- Indirect estimates indicate 125,000 women and girls who have undergone
FGM/C, with a further 44,106
at risk.
GERMANY - Indirect estimates indicate 70,218 women and girls
who have undergone FGM/C, with a further 17,691 at risk.
ITALY - Indirect estimates indicate 70,469 women and girls
who have undergone FGM/C, with a further 18,339 at risk.
NETHERLANDS - Indirect estimates indicate 41,000 women and
girls who have undergone FGM/C, with a further 4,200 at risk.
NORWAY - Indirect estimates indicate 17,058 women and girls
who have undergone FGM/C.
ROMANIA - Indirect estimates indicate 79 women and girls who
have undergone FGM/C.
RUSSIA - FGM/C is
practiced in Russia by the Avar community in East Dagestan. Type I FGM/C was
the most common, though among the Andi people, removal of the clitoris and the
labia minora (Type II FGM/C) was also observed. 1240 girls are estimated to be
at risk of undergoing FGM/C every year.
SWEDEN - Indirect estimates indicate 38,939 women and girls
who have undergone FGM/C, with a further 11,145 at risk.
SWITZERLAND - Indirect estimates indicate 14,700 women and
girls who have undergone FGM/C.
UNITED KINGDOM - Indirect estimates indicate 137,000 women
and girls who have undergone FGM/C, with a further 67,300 at risk.
https://www.equalitynow.org/europe_statistics
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_21_402
Questions and Answers about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
It is estimated that at least 600,000 women in Europe have
undergone female genital mutilation and 200 million women worldwide. If the
practice continues at the current pace, 68 million girls will be mutilated
between 2015 and 2030 in 25 countries where FGM is routinely practiced and data
is available.
In November 2018, EIGE published a study on the prevalence
of FGM in Belgium, Greece, France, Italy, Cyprus and Malta.
It showed that over half a million first-generation
immigrant women and girls in the EU, Norway and Switzerland had undergone FGM
before their arrival.
FGM is a crime in all EU Member States. In many EU countries
it is also possible to prosecute for conducting FGM abroad, following the
principle of extra-territoriality. This prevents families from taking their
daughters to their country of origin to have them mutilated there.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_21_402
I grouped investigative journalism posts that interrogate
the origin of coronavirus. Wuhan, the city in the whole world with lab studying
lethal coronaviruses...
Covid-19: in WUHAN one
of the very few labs in the world dealing with lethal viruses. The one in which
coronaviruses in bats are studied.
https://www.inthenameofhumanrights.com/p/covid-19-coronation-those-are-not.html
A shame one cannot leave comments on your newspaper website
directly and that we need to redirect them to Facebook posting not yet famous
for having swallowed all information shared. None of our sharing will be kept,
the infinite scroll will bury them.
Pangoline extinction, most hunted wild life on earth
Fukujima nuclear accident japan 18 ooo deaths
China official propaganda stating corona is from Maryland bbc wolrd 11/03/21 morning
Antifa falsly accused of going into impersonation trump
followers and destructing property bbc
wolrd 11/03/21 morning
France culture 7/03/21
afternoon, sunday maybe Monday 8th??
Priest talking about sodomy
THE PERFECT ARGUMENT TO SAY
THAT CORONAVIRUS IS MAN-MADE, IS THAT EVEN IF IT ORIGINATED FROM THE WET MARKET
(AND NOT FROM THE LAB IN WUHAN), IT IS THE (RECURRING, CULTURAL AND
INTERNALISED BY ALL) TORTURE INFLICTED ON ANIMALS THAT CAUSED IT.
Canadian scientist sent deadly viruses to Wuhan lab months before RCMP
asked to investigate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs-CSkGKcAs
Virologist Dr. Li-Meng
Yan Claims Coronavirus Lab 'Cover-Up' Made Her Flee China | Loose Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lq3_rsBJ9w&t=309s
Virologist explains
origins of COVID-19
Tulane virologist Robert Garry, PhD,
and a team of researchers analyzed the genome sequence of the novel SARS-CoV-2
coronavirus and found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or
otherwise engineered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLykxJqTBpU
Chinese lab
experimented on 'highly pathogenic viruses' days before COVID-19 outbreak
THE Wuhan
Institute of Virology was given permission to engage in experimental research
involving highly-pathogenic viruses just 10 days before the first recorded case
of COVID-19.
The
order meant the laboratory could start to engage in more experimental activities
with “highly pathogenic microorganisms” such as the “Ebola virus, Niba virus,
Marburg virus, Lassa fever virus… the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Bacillus anthracis and the tick-borne encephalitis
virus.”
Sky News is not suggesting that the
laboratory is responsible in anyway for the outbreak.
It comes as the director of China’s Centre
for Disease Control, Gao Fu, told Chinese state media that the wet market
played a role in spreading the virus but it was not the origin of the outbreak.
“At first, we assumed the seafood market
might have the virus, but now the market is more like a victim,” he told the
Global Times.
He said samples collected from animals in the
market in early January did not contain traces of the virus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDCMwDIcvI
https://nypost.com/2021/01/16/doctor-who-denied-covid-was-leaked-from-a-lab-had-this-major-bias/
Emails reveal that EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak
(inset, left) led the charge to deny the Wuhan lab leak theory, while his
company has worked with that same lab on coronavirus research.FeatureChina
via AP Images; Twitter @peterdaszak (inset)
I was not surprised that Beijing tried to shuffle off its
responsibility for the pandemic onto our little furry flying friends. I mean,
the alternative was potentially being held liable for millions of deaths and
countless trillions of dollars in damage to the world’s economy. But I was taken aback
when The Lancet, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals,
published a letter signed by “27 prominent public health scientists” that
dismissed my lab origin thesis as a “conspiracy theory.”
They reported that scientists from multiple countries
“overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife” and
“strongly condemn[ed] conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not
have a natural origin.”
Then Facebook piled on, suppressing my opinion piece for weeks on end
last year.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/16/doctor-who-denied-covid-was-leaked-from-a-lab-had-this-major-bias/
Gravitas: Facebook
penalises WION for giving a platform to Chinese virologist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsOSs6McSk0
Did coronavirus
accidentally escape from a Wuhan lab? It’s doubtful. | The Fact Checker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3SoJOloQO0
C: dubious? or I or us.
'Extremely unlikely' COVID originated from a laboratory leak, says WHO
official It is "extremely unlikely" COVID-19 originated from a
laboratory leak in Wuhan, China, an expert with the World Health Organization
(WHO) says. The WHO mission had a shaky start, with China seemingly reluctant
to allow the experts to conduct their work, failing to provide clearances to
some of the team.
The WHO mission had a shaky
start, with China seemingly reluctant to allow the experts to conduct their
work, failing to provide clearances to some of the team.
https://www.euronews.com/2021/02/09/who-experts-say-no-evidence-of-covid-outbreak-in-wuhan-prior-to-december-2019
C: here (at last) for WHO, but honestly I don’t know.
THE PERFECT ARGUMENT TO SAY
THAT CORONAVIRUS IS MAN-MADE, IS THAT EVEN IF IT ORIGINATED FROM THE WET MARKET
(AND NOT FROM THE LAB IN WUHAN), IT IS THE (RECURRING, CULTURAL AND
INTERNALISED BY ALL) TORTURE INFLICTED ON ANIMALS THAT CAUSED IT.
In Poland it is not going to get better for abortion, you
know i believe that people want to stop abortion this way they make sure young
women get pregnant and then this way they belong to the society or the
community ever after. and i am not for abortion as contraception at all,
because i admit that the embryo is a life. What complicated matters.
Hi, I
am turning to you because I do not know what else I can do.
I
have been in contact with a gay man from Uganda, a refugee (without official
status) in Kenya, who got attacked numerous times. he has been surviving on UN
food. I have been in contact with him for a little while now (we both were
looking for participating in podcasts, it is how we met). I called out of the
blue, just had a video call with him, he showed me his injuries.
I think
he is in the Kakuma camp in Kenya.
Could
you advise me or him? or broadcast his stories. i don't know... is there
anything I can do?
As for the women we cannot
help, because a way or another they lost any visibility.
FOR BEING GAY, BEING BUTCHERED.
I told the guy i
contacted you, and that you worked on it. i mentioned you to try to cheer
him up, after media exposure, in the hope they will stay put. i asked him
to do anything he could to stay safe. they did a gay pride within the camp a
few years ago. i told him that i was not sure if i wanted to be out to
everyone, myself, you know to reveal to someone who would take any
opportunities to harm you, what you love the deepest, is something i want to
stop in my own life. so i asked him to do whatever they could to stay safe,
stay in the shelter. etc...also i stated that they were lucky to be together,
because the fate of women is often to be separated and scattered, with no
possibility of being together.
To check what social credit imply: lose point over holiday
destination or who you see. ….
Decriminalising prostitution?? what about criminalising the
mafia that does worse than imprisoning, but in fact commit crimes against
humanity-i.e. sexual slavery?
art markets are valuable for laundering money
Save bees from deadly pesticides
Bees are essential for our survival. They pollinate much of
what we eat and play a critical role in sustaining ecosystems around the world.
But the last decade has been devastating for insect populations, and bees have
been hit hard - with populations shrinking by a third in the UK.
Bee-killing neonicotinoids have been banned across Europe
since 2013, but the UK government has just approved these deadly chemicals for
emergency use - posing a lethal threat to bee populations.
The Environment Minister must act to save our bees and
protect them from harmful chemical farming.
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/s/save-our-bees
Right now, our government could
do secret trade deals with countries like the US and Australia. That could mean hormone-pumped beef, pus-filled
milk and pesticide-laden fruit and veg on our supermarket
shelves.
This is our opportunity to stop
the government from negotiating these deals in secret, and to
make sure that MPs are able to properly scrutinise deals before they are
official - making it easier to protect our food standards and guarantee that
other vital issues like the climate emergency are factored in.
Can you
ask your MP to demand they have a say?
TELL YOUR MP:
PROTECT OUR FOOD STANDARDS
This year, the UK
will be keen to negotiate trade deals with countries like the US. That could
mean chlorinated chicken and pesticide-laden fruit and veg on our tables. Right
now, the government could do secret deals behind closed doors without proper
scrutiny before they go ahead.
To protect our
standards, MPs must demand they have a say on future trade deals.
Tell your MP to act
https://act.greenpeace.org/page/73756/action/1
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1063342
COVID-19
crisis putting human trafficking victims at risk of further exploitation,
experts warn
New
analysis from the agency shows that the crisis is having an impact on the lives
of trafficking victims before, during and even after their ordeal.
“With COVID-19 restricting movement, diverting law enforcement resources,
and reducing social and public services, human trafficking victims have even
less chance of escape and finding help”, said Ghada Fathi Waly, the UNODC Executive Director.
As
countries have closed their borders due to the pandemic, some victims are
unable to return home. Others face delays in legal proceedings, as well as a
reduction in the support and protection they rely on. Some are also in danger
of further abuse or neglect by their captors.
“Human
trafficking is the result of the failure of our societies and economies to
protect the most vulnerable”, said Ilias Chatzis, chief of the UNODC section
that works to combat this crime.
Children in danger of new
forms of abuse
UNODC said
its partners report that due to the pandemic, more children are being forced
onto the streets to search for food and money, thus increasing their risk of
exploitation.
School
closures have not only blocked access to education but also a source of shelter
and food for millions of children. The UN recently reported that some 370
million students worldwide are now missing out on school meals, often their
only reliable source of nutrition.
Meanwhile,
a UN independent human rights expert has underlined the urgent need for child protection services during
the pandemic.
‘Drive-thru’ services for
child sexual exploitation
Organized crime could benefit
UNODC
warned that the pandemic has also created new opportunities for organized crime
to profit.
“Traffickers
may become more active and prey on people who are even more vulnerable than
before, because they have lost their source of income due to measures to
control the virus”, said Mr. Chatzis, chief of the agency’s Human Trafficking
Section.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/05/1063342
Easier than curing a toothache? The Story of Lobotomy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rt8w
It is remembered as
the most barbaric medical procedure of the 20th century, but lobotomy was once
hailed as a miracle cure. Claire Prentice explores the archives to
uncover the hidden history of lobotomy, the surgery which some believed would
make treating mental illness 'easier than curing a toothache'.
The most prolific lobotomist in the UK was Sir Wylie
McKissock who carried out an estimated 3,000 lobotomies.
C: BBC trying to make people believe the docs thought one
second they could cure someone, while they just had a ticket for free torture
ordained by the family unit and torture. Total by the doctoral staff through operation,
total political and social domination.
People were counting on the trickle down, so they say. From
joyful and moralism/empiric vampirism, only comes spiral down.
UK regulator Ofcom revokes CGTN's licence to broadcast in the
UK
The
Chinese media outlet is disqualified from holding a licence because of its
affiliation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In
2020, the broadcaster was found to have breached impartiality rules in its
coverage of protests in Hong Kong. Ofcom also upheld complaints about the
channel over breaches of its fairness and privacy rules
https://www.euronews.com/2021/02/04/uk-regulator-ofcam-revokes-cgtn-s-licence-to-broadcast-in-the-uk
C: take that.
Germany gay
Ground
peanuts, they like it. It is the trick I found to give them a vegetarian food
they like, I buy peanuts, 20 kgs at a time, very cheap, and I ground them. My
little birdies like it, in winter they eat all day long.
The powerful consulting firm McKinsey agreed to
pay $573 million to settle investigations into its role in helping
“turbocharge” opioid sales.
|
|
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 8:12 PM EST |
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The settlement comes after lawsuits
unearthed a trove of documents showing how McKinsey worked to drive sales of
Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin painkiller amid an opioid epidemic in the United
States that has contributed to the deaths of more than 450,000 people over
the past two decades. |
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/mckinsey-opioids-settlement.html
C: Trump has built his wealth on building casino, for which
he obtained from the US’ elites that they exonerate him for taxes. To protect a
casino in giving it a tax-free avenue is just the perfect example of how
capitalism treat democracy, common good, real products and work, and insert the
organised crime clubs into every clog. Opioids sales by doctors, are the same.
And the justice that yet again will hold on money and ensure redistribution?
Who knows what they do or another of this scale. Good lord, god saves.
The most appealing and
written with all the wisdom and goodness that a human can summon text, will
never be able to prevent its every word to be used viciously by hell.
By other humans whose aims
is to freely destroy and condemn.
Gay marriage still not
legalised in Germany.
Holocaust, gypsie and
homosexuals unacknowledged.
As We Soy, So Shall We Reap
http://gentleworld.org/as-we-soy-so-shall-we-reap/
Despite the overwhelming evidence of the environmental
disaster of animal agriculture, there seems to be a growing movement – promoted
by environmentalists themselves – that is against vegan diets, for reasons of
environmental sustainability.
When examined just a
little more closely, it becomes clear that this theory is quite ludicrous.
There is no way that the current population of vegetarians and vegans could
possibly create such demand for soy. In fact, the disturbing reality that is being
revealed about the ecological destruction caused by commercial soy sounds more
like something one would associate with… well… the animal industry.
“About 85 percent of the world’s
soybean crop is processed into meal and vegetable oil, and virtually all of
that meal is used in animal feed
According to Grist.org:
“As of 2004, 85 percent of the U.S. soy crop was
genetically modified, accounting for some 63.6 million acres of soybeans.
Statistics for 2003 indicate that at least 55 percent of soy worldwide is now
genetically modified.”
http://gentleworld.org/as-we-soy-so-shall-we-reap/
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/challenges/soya/
Like palm oil, the global food industry has
become utterly reliant on soya. The size of the global meat
and dairy industry has exploded and soya production has vastly
increased to meet it.
Most soya comes from the
Americas and nearly half from just two countries, Brazil and Argentina. Growth
of the soya industry has been meteoric – production in Brazil has quadrupled in
just 20 years. The UK imports huge quantities of soya and globally some 90% of soya is used to feed animals, including cows,
pigs and chickens.
Soya
is destroying other forests
Since the early 1990s, pesticide use has increased by more
than 170% in both Argentina and Brazil. These chemicals wipe out other plants
and insects, pollute water supplies, and cause health problems for agricultural
workers.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/challenges/soya/
Marine Le Pen: National Rally
leader goes on trial for Islamic State tweets
The President of the National Rally (RN) is accused of breaking
hate speech laws by tweeting three images in December 2015 alongside the words
"Daesh, that's it!"
Le Pen claims the tweets were published in response to a
journalist who drew a comparison between her party and IS. The dispute came
just weeks after 130 people were killed by jihadists in the Paris terror
attacks.
One of the pictures showed the body of James Foley, an American
journalist who was beheaded by Islamic militants in 2014. Le Pen later deleted
the picture of Foley after a request from his family, saying she had been
unaware of his identity.
Gilbert Collard, an MEP for the National Rally, is also on trial
in Nanterre for distributing other gruesome photos of IS actions online.
In 2018 a judge charged the two with circulating "violent
messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human
dignity" and that can be seen by children. The crime is punishable by up
to three years in prison and a fine of €75,000.
C: I am totally against far-right, but to criminalise this
way someone who just tries to blow the whistle on ISIS or DAESH horrendous
crimes against humanity is criminal.
I am completely anti-FN, je ne suis ni nazi ni collaborateur, j ose
esperer. mais lui faire un proces pour tenter de delivrer le message du
barbarisme islamique aux francais, c est plus qu' honteux, c' est de la tres
haute trahison. Jamais je n' aurais imagine rien de tout ca. les racistes, les
islamistes et les petits pieds de poules qui courent et vont en profiter.
Liberez Lepen, il va falloir le dire, je n' arrive pas à y croire.
Not believe one’ s eyes of a justice that does not hide but
flag its neutrality that in fact support thus Daesh regime and their schools of
thoughts, is not a good sign.
https://notchesblog.com/2019/01/22/queer-history-and-the-holocaust/
Queer History and the Holocaust
Same-sex sexuality in the prisoner society
The first studies of the Holocaust and concentration camps
were written by survivors. These early works set up homophobic patterns that
have proved durable.
Men with the pink triangle were almost always in the lowest
ranks of the prisoner society and only very rarely gained positions of power
History of the persecution of queer men and women
Until the 1970s, historians failed to discuss the Nazi
persecution of homosexuals.
If queer men have received only limited attention in
histories of the Holocaust, research into histories of queer women in Nazi
Germany is even more under-researched.
Significantly, Claudia Schopmann and Alexander Wäldner have shown that some women were indeed
sentenced under §175.
Overall, for women as for men, persecution often took place
intersectionally – that is, same-sex sexuality was rarely the only factor. The
repressive climate against female conduct in general, and queer women in
particular, also played a role.
This
erasure of lesbian persecution is characteristic of German historiography (which
represents almost all of the research on this topic). Research on lesbians has
long not been recognized or seen as relevant for wider histories of Nazi
Germany.
But the discomfort
about and erasure of queer sexuality in studies of the Holocaust demonstrates
that the history of this genocide has too often been written normatively,
violently, and with prejudice.
https://notchesblog.com/2019/01/22/queer-history-and-the-holocaust/
https://notchesblog.com/2019/01/22/queer-history-and-the-holocaust/
Women fleeing Burkina Faso violence face sexual assault
KAYA,
Burkina Faso —
A 20-year-old woman could no longer live in her village amid the rising
violence caused by Islamic extremists. But she needed to return and retrieve
the family’s cows in hopes of selling them.
If her husband
went, jihadists would almost certainly kill him. She went instead, and was
dragged into the bush, beaten and raped at knifepoint.
The extremist violence in
Burkina Faso linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group is fueling an
increase in sexual assaults against women, especially those displaced by
attacks.
The government increased security around the town and is
advising women not to go into the bush alone.
Yet mothers trying to feed their children say they have
little choice.
China Is Secretly
Taking Over Zambia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B9xxXOTUy8
We direly need lawyers to challenge the sacrosanct
protection over abuses perpetrated by religions (ex: sharia laws, casts,
sacrifices, conversion therapies for gay people, LGBT rights, women status
eroded...etc...). I hope the legal community will react and assemble.
I tried to start a petition with the government in the UK,
against paedophilia marriage preaching- allowed by certain Islamic texts
regarded widely as holy or at least as conferring religious authority. The
state administration answered that it was religious matters and on these
grounds my petition got refused and deleted.
Chechnya:
Russia’s Islamic State?
Troubled republic in secular Russia has been thoroughly
‘Islamized’ by staunch Putin ally
In theory, Chechnya—though overwhelmingly Muslim—is an
integral part of the secular Russian Federation, governed by the same laws as
Moscow. In practice, however, this North Caucasus republic of 1.4 million
people, ravaged by two wars of secession, lives under very different rules.
Under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, a former rebel
who has become a fervent ally of President
Vladimir Putin, Chechnya underwent a striking
Islamization in recent years. Most women on the streets of Grozny, the capital,
wear the Islamic hijab, a dress code until recently enforced by drive-by
paintball shootings.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chechnya-russias-islamic-state-1464859621
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366517300106
When we are the violent: The Chechen Islamist guerrillas'
discourse on their own armed actions
For CDA, nonetheless, discourse is much more than a sequence
of linguistic signs; it is, moreover, a three-dimensional entity: text,
discursive practice, and sociocultural practice (Fairclough, 1995). It is text
insofar as it is understood as a product of language. Its analysis – text
analysis – is descriptive, focusing on the structure and formal aspects of
discourse, such as vocabulary, grammar, deixis, and its organization. It is
also discursive practice, linked to text production and interpretation,
inasmuch as it is associated with an established genre or type of discourse
connected to a particular social activity. And, lastly, it is sociocultural
practice, seeing that it explains the relationship between the discursive
process and social processes, since discourse constructs or reproduces a
reality, transmits or transforms ideologies, perpetrates or subverts power
relations and domination through its linguistic structures (Fairclough, 1992,
Foucault, 1992, Wodak, Meyer, 2009). These three dimensions are not expressed
independently, but holistically. It is a material, delimited, and delimitable
product – it is text – elaborated on the basis of specific patterns, practices,
and hierarchies – it is discursive practice – and permeated by potentially
transmittable beliefs, myths, imaginaries, and ideologies – it is social practice.
In this regard, in the analysis conducted as part of this study attention was
paid to the linguistic devices of Chechen Islamist propaganda, its structures
of creation, and its possible sociocultural insertion, insofar as it tried to
explain and justify its own violence against the Russian enemy.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366517300106
Chechnya: Russia’s Islamic State?
Troubled republic in secular Russia has been thoroughly
‘Islamized’ by staunch Putin ally
Under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, a former rebel
who has become a fervent ally of President
Vladimir Putin, Chechnya underwent a striking
Islamization in recent years. Most women on the streets of Grozny, the capital,
wear the Islamic hijab, a dress code until recently enforced by drive-by
paintball shootings.
In theory, Chechnya—though
overwhelmingly Muslim—is an integral part of the secular Russian Federation,
governed by the same laws as Moscow. In practice, however, this North Caucasus
republic of 1.4 million people, ravaged by two wars of secession, lives under
very different rules.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chechnya-russias-islamic-state-1464859621
LGBTQ+ Refugees in UNHRC Refugee Camp at
Kakuma, Kenya.
We
are interacting with a group of LGBT refugees who are currently in UNHCR Kakuma
camp, Block 13. There are 180 people in Block 13, living in squalid conditions.
Having fled from their homes in neighbouring countries because of homophobia
and transphobia they are still living in fear, despite the reasonable
assumption that they would be protected from further violence. They are being
targeted as LGBT people by other refugees in the camp and by local people and
suffer ongoing brutal attacks and arson in the camp under the watch of UNCHR
Kenya.
Refugees run their own businesses in Kenya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCk46Kc7-dM
C: IN THE SAME REFUGEE CAMP, ONE GROUP DOES OFFICIAL
BUSINESS WHILE ANOTHER GET VIOLENTLY ATTACKED. THE ONE VIOLENTENTLY ATTACKED
ARE LGBT PEOPLE FLEEING VIOLENCE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES JUST TO BE THREATENED
WITH DEATH BY THE RELIGIOUS TENETS OF MANY PEOPLE FOLLOWING WHAT THEY SAY
SHARIA LAW PRESCRIBED.
Germany does not want to get involved militarily against
extremist islamist in Africa.
R.france culture.
China and Russia for the military coup in myamar.
Ties with
Myanmar military put pressure on western companies
Activists
criticise oil and gas companies that have set up highly profitable joint
ventures with army chiefs to exploit mineral resources
Western companies are facing
growing calls to break ties with businesses run by Myanmar’s military
after last week’s
coup threatened to cast the
impoverished south-east Asian country back into full-blown dictatorship.
But as the generals try to turn the screw on
opposition, activists are criticising oil and gas companies that have set
up highly profitable joint ventures with the Myanmar’s military chiefs to
exploit mineral resources.
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French oil and gas company
Total owns 31.24% of the Yadana offshore gas field while the US company
Chevron owns 28% through a subsidiary.
The National Resource
Governance Institute, a not-for-profit organisation based in New York that
monitors how nations use their mineral wealth, said that in
2013-14 only 880m Myanmar kyat
($600,000) of MOGE’s revenues were transferred to the ministry of finance out
of a total of 1.3tn ($926bn). The rest was placed in “other accounts” where the
funds are kept off-budget and beyond scrutiny.
C: issues on
radio France culture.
Deforestation, pollution,
pesticides, plastic…just the few trees left on the side of roads and housing
cut, logged by people and council alike. Global warming, and climate change.
This all over the world, from the polar regions to desertification, such as animals
dying from thirst and hunger in Asia, Africa and Oceania. I know you have many
parks in Zambia.
Elated? We have to go to something
completely dystopian now, why?
Because the Eden, the paradise we were in, did not
come from human beings, the planet is the one that by human beings is being
killed.
Carton of Cruelty: Behind Big Dairy's Closed Doors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxJ3d_hnXXM
Most rape victims in conflict zones are
children - report
Wed, 10 Apr 2013
09:04 GMT
Source: reuters //
Reuters
Children carry their family's belongings as they go to
Yida refugee camp in South Sudan outside Tess village in the rebel-held
territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan, May 2, 2012.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN CONFLICT: Most victims of sexual violence in conflict zones are children who are suffering rape and
abuse at an appalling rate, say campaigners who describe the attacks as the
"hidden horrors of war".
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-children-violence-sexual-idUSBRE93909120130410
In 1974, Richard Nixon came perilously close to prosecution
when a federal grand jury named him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the
Watergate cover-up. Nixon was later preemptively pardoned by his successor,
Gerald Ford, for all Watergate-related federal crimes. https://progressive.org/magazine/lock-him-up-blum/
Germany and Turkish, ottoman empire.
the big problem that it is there is that we talk about the
need to change on paper one’s gender to be permitted to dress and behave or do
the activities more traditionally assigned to the opposite gender. This should
not be the case at all. I contend that nowadays society will pressurise people
wanting to simply dress with clothes fanatically assigned to the opposite sex,
or even aspire to activities or even aspire to marry the same sex to have to
get operated…to be…’reassigned’.
Lyon school canteens going vegetarian: The meat
of the matter
Heated debates in
France over meatless meals in schools
https://mediaindia.eu/politics/lyon-school-canteens-going-vegetarian-the-meat-of-the-matter/
Just a day earlier, French agriculture minister Julien Denormandie
had asked local officials in Lyon to bet on meat in the school menus to help
the meat growing industry. He also said that he had raised the issue with
the Prefet,
administrative head of the region. Interior minister Gerald Darmanin had also
sharply criticised the decision of the Green party Mayor of Lyon Gregory Doucet
as hurting the poorer sections of the society. Darmanin said that the Greens
were imposing a “scandalous ideology” and “moralist policies”, on top of
offering up an “unacceptable insult” to French farmers and butchers.
The far-right party of Marine Le Pen, Rassemblement
Nationale, has also criticised the move to go vegetarian saying it was against
the French culture and culinary traditions.
Certainly, the prospect of losing this lucrative slice is
bound to give them and a whole lot of others a bout of severe indigestion.
https://mediaindia.eu/politics/lyon-school-canteens-going-vegetarian-the-meat-of-the-matter/
Citing logistics problems, Lyon’s mayor Gregory Doucet
decided to temporarily provide the city’s 29,000 school children meals without
meat from Monday, although the city will still serve eggs and fish.
“This is absurd from a nutritional point of view and a
scandal from a social point of view,” Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie
said on RTL radio on Tuesday.
On his Twitter feed on Saturday, conservative Interior
Minister Gerald Darmanin slammed the “scandalous ideology” of the Lyon city
government.
C.et: just to give an idea on how much some of the French
deserve their reputation, or rather methods, qualified as ‘viandard’. Viandard
meaning counting on, (‘je dirais meme plus’) revering butchery.
PRESS FREEDOM
I was just listening to a French radio program on French
media independence and quality, I am trying here to summarize it:
Content created by journalistic media, but advertisement
paid to google and social media instead of being paid to the journals and
newspapers online. In turn, social media and search engines will not create
articles and will not pay journalists. In consequence journalism is thus being
killed.
To still make profit, journalism low-cost, that is,
journalism that deal with opinions and debates instead of paying people to
study independently a subject and more importantly to investigate unknown or
undealt with problems.
Also independent media that investigate are often if not
always (when not protected by law against being bought), bought once they
gained influence by big broadcasters, such as national or international
companies owning the internet and the telephone networks! And of course aiming
at monopolisation, as well as not being a public good and protecting free press
and non-profit journalism, but that are an agglomeration of companies selling
information for profit.
A lot of hope could reside in monopolies such as google to
be stopped, only by them to be taxed normally in the countries in which they
operate. In France taxation of the GAFAM (an acronym for the stocks of American
technology companies: Google; Apple; Facebook; Amazon; and Microsoft) has been
at the centre of debates for several years now, but people also say that even
if done the targets that are today on the table, would in fact just be token
measures, not affecting significantly these leviathans.
Macron yet again being accused of being about only speech,
of green washing.
Anti-trust legislation certainly being the best option, and
of course taxation in all other countries and also stopping the monetisation of
the web to such extent that only international companies or big companies might
be listed, as they appeared by default in all searches as first choices, while
local businesses never appear even though they are alone to match the search
initiated- because of not being able to pay for the ads, even if they pay they
cannot pay more than the biggest companies that then sell the services of the
local and take extortionary introducing fees, for example.
Was reading about the prevalence of polygamy in Mormons.
Here what I found on a BBC page. I hope it is a mistake but
the item is praising the ‘preacher’ who initiated the practise:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/socialvalues/polygamy.shtml
Modern Mormon teachings about polygamy, the history and why
so many people still associate Mormons with plural marriages.
Polygamy and the Latter-day
Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints discontinued
polygamy over a century ago and excommunicates anyone who practices
it.
The reason many people
associate Mormonism with polygamy is that the Church did support plural
marriage until 1890.
Joseph
Smith introduced plural marriage early in the history of the
Church as the result of a revelation from God. He
first wrote about it in 1843, although the revelation had occurred much
earlier.
Although many justifications
were offered for the practice of plural marriage, there was really only one
reason for it: God had told the Mormons to do it.
It took great courage to introduce this practice, as Smith was aware that
it would expose the Church to ferocious attack, as well as putting himself in
personal danger.
The early Mormons were often
unwilling to enter a plural marriage, and many only did so after much prayer
and anguish.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/mormon/socialvalues/polygamy.shtml
C.et: please check the link, it is what the BBC broadcast or
at least wrote about it.
Catching human trafficking, sexual exploitation:
an absolute meager amount of resource
to combat pedophilia online is given to the police.
'That's enough': France
confronts decades of neglect of incest cases
Under French law, there is no
legal age of sexual consent, though last month the Senate voted for the
threshold to be set at 13. At present a victim of rape or abuse is considered
consenting by default and has to prove non-consent. New legislation proposes
criminalising sexual acts between an adult and a child under 13 – currently an
“offence” and not a “crime” – and extending the statute of limitations to give
victims more time to bring legal proceedings. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/france-begins-to-confront-decades-of-neglect-of-incest-cases
by the way this week after europe
totally justified refusal to pay in place of the region, Montenegro in Europe
faces the same type of Chinese debt trap.
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C: LOOK at one of the examples on how internet get depleted.
I have been blogging for more than 10 years on blogger. And what is the new
feature? No more clicking for my feedburner followers!!
Not to mention on how I tried for a few years to monetise my
books’ writing. The few dollars I had earned, never ever have been paid. Even
after I resubmitted many a time my bank details, etc…no costumer help! As easy
as this.
THE END FOR THE (INTERNET)
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Same Love (Remix) By
Art Attack (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EataOQvPII
https://www.yahoo.com/news/government-washed-hands-teacher-showed-151956669.html
Government has ‘washed its
hands’ of teacher who showed Mohammed pictures
Officials at the
Department for Education (DfE) are also accused of failing to ensure that the probe
will examine the school’s reaction to the incident and whether it was
appropriate to immediately suspend the teacher.
The 29-year-old teacher
and his family went into hiding after reportedly receiving death threats in the
wake of the protests.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/government-washed-hands-teacher-showed-151956669.html
C.et: click to watch the
videos
Germany: Hesse’s Ministry of Culture warns
teachers that showing Muhammad cartoons in class can be ‘radicalizing’
This is how the freedom of speech is lost. One bows to
violent threats in the name of prudence, and soon one finds violent threats not
decreasing, but increasing. That’s only to be expected. By bowing to these
threats, you have shown that they work, and thereby invited more of them.
“‘Showing the Mohammed cartoons can have a radicalizing
effect on students,'” translated from “‘Zeigen der Mohammed-Karikaturen kann
radikalisierend auf Schüler wirken,'” by Joachim Wagner, Welt, April 19, 2021:
C.et: Wait a minute, and what if the
'western' was waiting for the best means to reuse blatant, open, official
censorship and religious worst pedantic, affected and modern slave bigotry?
Sharia UK: School apologizes,
launches inquiry after Muhammad image ‘mistakenly’ shown during assembly
Yes, while the Batley
Grammar School controversy rages on, another school in Britain has violated Sharia
blasphemy laws and shown an image of Muhammad, this time by “mistake.” No one
involved in this case seems to be at all concerned about the fact that Britain
is not actually under Sharia, and that there might be negative consequences
from enforcing one aspect of it, including but not limited to the possibility
that there will begin to be calls for the enforcement of other elements of it
as well.
Muslim parent refuses to send children to school after
teacher showed Prophet Mohammed image in assembly
A Muslim parent is refusing to send his children to school
after a teacher mistakenly showed an image of the Prophet Mohammed during
assembly.
Staff have since apologised for the incident, which happened
at Hunter's Bar Junior School in Sheffield last week, saying the teacher was
left "mortified" by the "genuine mistake".
But Atif Mohammed has rejected the apology and demanded that
the school's deputy head, who he believes was responsible for accidentally
displaying the image, step down.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/muslim-parent-refuses-send-children-school-image-mohammed-110737518.html
Outrage after social media users discover
series of Hitler-praising tweets from CNN freelancer
"The only reason I am supporting
Germany in the finals - Hitler was a German and he did good with those
Jews!" Raja wrote during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-adeel-raja-says-world-today-needs-a-hitler
C.et: I saw the same in
France, with a very appreciated alternative big news company, mediapart, I
myself spent times looking for their items in French to be translated into
English in order to share. But those guys allowed openly extremists, favouring
the veils, sharia law, difference of treatment between women and men etc…to be
hosted on their blogs.
They go on with their
pretended ‘scholarly’ knowledge of the different Islamic sensibility, just as
if they were only what was left of is to become the new societies. Belligerents
backing more or less, feigning to divide their supporting ‘intellect’ between
Iran, Pakistan, the Maghreb, Indonesia, entering in skirmishes, not for
knowledge but for sharia laws to be established.
What does the UN teach
Palestinian children at UNRWA schools?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3hOrRMARZo
http://worldebooklibrary.org/article/WHEBN0000160227/Nestl%C3%A9
Nestlé S.A. (French pronunciation: ; English , , ) is a
Swiss transnational food and beverage company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud,
Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world measured by
revenues,[4][5] and ranked #72 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2014.[6]
In May 2015, Food Safety Regulators from
the Uttar Pradesh, India found that samples of Nestlé's leading noodles Maggi had up to 17
times beyond permissible safe limits of lead in addition
to monosodium glutamate.[39][40][41][42]
In June 2015 Nepal indefinitely
banned Maggi over concerns about lead levels in the product.[48] On the same day
Food Safety Agency, United Kingdom has launched an investigation to find levels of lead
in Maggi.[49] Maggi noodles has
been withdrawn in five African nations- Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and
South Sudan
Nestlé's baby food product Nan-Pro has also been found to
contain "live larvae" in India.[57] In another incident weevils and
fungus were found in Cerelac baby food.[58][59]
In late September 2008, the Hong Kong government found
melamine in a Chinese-made Nestlé milk product. Six infants died from kidney
damage, and a further 860 babies were hospitalised.[60][61] The Dairy Farm milk
was made by Nestlé's division in the Chinese coastal city Qingdao.[62] Nestlé
affirmed that all its products were safe and were not made from milk
adulterated with melamine. On 2 October 2008, the Taiwan Health ministry
announced that six types of milk powders produced in China by Nestlé contained
low-level traces of melamine, and were "removed from the
shelves".[63]
In June 2009, an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 was linked to
Nestlé's refrigerated cookie dough originating in a plant in Danville,
Virginia. In the US, it caused sickness in more than 50 people in 30 states,
half of whom required hospitalisation.
http://worldebooklibrary.org/article/WHEBN0000160227/Nestl%C3%A9
C.et: a famous whistle-blower, one of the directors of board
at Nestle, tried to stop dangerous for consumption biscuits for babies, they
fired her.
During that time what is published by nestle is all about
strategies around money.
Within our Food and Beverage business we believe our
performance is resilient, here again
3.4% organic growth combined with an improvement in EBIT
margin in constant currency of
20 basis points.
We have even clearer strategies a
Scenario planning
An important part of our day to day execution is to achieve
simplicity.
Gaza's
Tunnels, Now Used to Attack Israel, Began as Economic Lifelines
Israel's Operation Protective Edge aims to prevent underground incursions
from Gaza.
Until recently, though, the tunnels extended only into Egypt
and were used mainly to smuggle in consumer goods.
Now citizens of Gaza appear to be applying tunnel thinking
to its attack strategy. A new network of Hamas-built tunnels into Israel was
created expressly for launching attacks, according to news reports.
In a public statement released as the incursion began, Hamas
said that the new tunnels—some of which apparently extend hundreds of yards into Israeli territory—are
just one of the "surprises" it has in store for Israelis.
There are connections between the Egyptian and Israeli tunnel
networks. It's believed
Hamas used the Egyptian tunnels to smuggle firearms and rockets—weapons that
are now being used against the Israelis—into Gaza.
And the cement used to build Hamas's network of underground
bunkers probably came, in part, from Egypt. The same may true of the materials
used to build the new tunnels that go into Israel.
When Egypt destroyed most of the older smuggling tunnels
last year, it deprived Hamas of a vital source of revenue. The group's
inability to provide for Gazans, worsened by its lack of funds, has turned some
against Hamas.
The Long History Of The
Gaza Tunnels
An Israeli army officer on Friday shows journalists a
Palestinian tunnel that runs from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Israel says its
current military campaign is aimed at destroying the tunnels.
The
Hamas ‘Metro’ tunnel network: Secret, sprawling and in Israeli crosshairs
The Israeli military has taken journalists on
tours of tunnels it has captured, showing them to be surprisingly sophisticated
structures with concrete walls, electricity and carts, and some journalists have been shown around operational tunnels by militants.
About 30 tunnels were destroyed during the 2014
conflict. At the time, Israeli officials said Hamas had built more than 1,300
tunnels since 2007 at a cost of $1.25 billion, diverting funds that could have
been spent on public infrastructure in Gaza.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/14/gaza-tunnels-hamas-israel/
One the reasons why WeChat is so crucial is that if one is
blocked from their account (because they have been punished for bad behavior,
or bad comments and opinions by the state agents), then they cannot pay for
example their bills because it is exclusively via WeChat that states or run
-state companies such as the rail services for example, will ask the Chinese
people to pay online.
networking actvists app
Danish Refugee Council
how judges play a role in banning lula brasil from the
presidency.
Bolsonaro wanted to close the suprem cour. Complicated
Hi Michael, on BBC world service today, at 8 pm, a
program stating that Australia are being ill-viewed by the international
community for its lack of measure taken against global warming.
Also this reticence at curbing coal consumption, it is to
do possibly to do with how strongly Australians might see themselves as from
belonging to Oceania or Asia.
What does the TV licence
money pay for?
The BBC
C.et: while BBC radio impose on all its nation (BBC TV is
altogether something else, often interesting but very expensive to produce
program with useless travel all over the world just to make the point that they
pay that for just the guys’ face to be photographed [fiend]) and with the same
anchors), a level of program on academic knowledge all day long, that should be
renamed CBBies, i.e., programs for primary [not even secondary, no] school
education (still free in England! ---pfff…between the ball of traditional
values, choice and change and chase- close shave).
To be clearer...what I wanted to say, is that almost all
scientists said it is not possible that it is a virus made by scientists, but
what may have happened (or not?) is that the virus escaped, through a leak,
through negligence, from the covid and other lethal viruses lab (very few other
labs studying lethal viruses are authorized in the all wide world) based
where?...the covid lab based in Wuhan.
I was wondering if producing a vaccine was so such an
achievement. Most big countries did it (including Cuba), (the UK I think is
more or less a tropical disease specialist though} and as for France it did not
but some specialists hinted at being very surprised that (I do not know
anything around this question) Sanofi has not respected very very common steps
in the normal procedure and procedures (everyone knows you have to follow these
steps) that should have been followed and that have been cancelled. That those
steps have not been performed has been identified as the reason for the
failure…. So did some pockets and wallets had interest in Sanofi failures. Well
of course. But did they manage to pull the strings to ensure misfiring…you know
above all that now that companies are bigger than states….at least a
ramification of why one asks workers to be mediocre.
Syrian and
Russian Strikes on Civilian Infrastructure | HRW
https://www.hrw.org › 2020/10/15 › targeting-life-idlib
15 Oct 2020 — In total, the 46
strikes killed at least 224 civilians and wounded 561 others, according
to reports from witnesses, family members of victims, ...
Russian-led
assault in Syria leaves over 500 civilians dead ...
https://www.reuters.com › article › us-syria-security-cas...
6 Jul 2019 — The Syrian
Network for Human Rights,(SNHR), which monitors casualties and briefs various UN agencies, said the 544
civilians killed in the ...
Reported
civilian deaths from Russian Military strikes ... - Airwars
https://airwars.org › conflict › russian-military-in-syria
Alleged deaths
14,212–23,062. Locally reported civilian deaths from Russian Military actions in Syria. 4,081
separate alleged incidents ...
U.N. Panel Says
Russia Bombed Syrian Civilian Targets, a ...
https://www.nytimes.com › World › Middle East
2 Mar 2020 — The
investigators said Russian aircraft had carried out a “double tap” attack on a
market last July 22, killing at least 43 civilians, and an ...
A Texas doctor who admitted to violating the
state’s abortion law appears to be the first to be sued, by a man in Arkansas
and another in Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/us/texas-abortion-lawsuit-alan-braid.html
C.et: the proof that unwanted pregnancy is used as
insemination. And a way to control the female body and ‘enforce’ offspring.
Jewish women wanted to pray like men in front of the
wailling wall but forbidden by orthodox.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital explosion: 'Heroic efforts' of taxi driver
praised
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-59288929
C.et: yes, MOHAMED,
the islamic prophet is a polygamous 'married' to a child, who enslaved, killed
and raped people and it is a thing to officially idolise (deify) and emulate
that. it is what happens. With the BBC and other national channels all over the
world, presenting that as being the religion of love?!?
Mind terrorism
definition is clearly state sponsored.
To save their neighborhood small businesses, people are rebelling
against delivery apps
The Washington Post
C: the ticks, none
of the responsibility or the work taken, just take introduction fees that never
ends, from the postcode they stole in the internet, as they are not located
where people not live doing that, that is counting on those (oz) siphoning
fishy middle-men, but surf first and then don’t even survive.
IRAN: 30+ YEARS IN PRISON FOR PROTESTING FORCED
VEILING LAWS
Three women have been charged with 'inciting
prostitution' for not wearing veils and sentenced to 30+ years in prison
between them.
Flowers on the train
As an act of peaceful protest, Monireh, Yasaman and Mojgan handed
out flowers to female passengers on a metro train in Tehran.
The unveiled women were filmed sharing their hopes for a future
where all women in Iran would have the freedom to choose what to wear.
Days after the video went viral on social media, they were charged
with sham offences including ‘inciting prostitution’ for choosing not
to wear veils and are now serving 31 years 8 months in prison
between them.
They are in grave danger
A worrying trend
This is the latest in a worrying trend of crackdowns against women
human rights defenders in Iran.
Earlier in 2019 Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 38 years in
prison and 148 lashes for defending women who peacefully protested for women to
have the right to choose what to wear.
What is China doing in Africa ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ko5BxPz2OE
China worst offender in record-breaking year for
jailing of journalists
This article is more than 11 months old
Number of journalists imprisoned
globally for their work hits new record in 2020
As of 1 December, at least 274 journalists were behind bars
in relation to their work, according to the CPJ survey. This figure does not
include those who had been arrested and released, paroled, or assaulted in the
course of performing their duties.
China jailed at least 47 journalists in 2020, 10 more than
in Turkey, where journalists continue to be sent to prison despite a fall in
numbers since the 2016 attempted coup.
Among the journalists jailed in
China, several are serving long sentences or are being held without
charge. Some have not been heard from
in some time, or are known to be held in
horrific conditions, including those
arrested for reporting on
the Wuhan lockdown. Many are accused of espionage.
No to neonics
Evidence has shown the
loss of 50% or more of our insects since 1970, and the shocking reality that
41% of the Earth's remaining five million insect species are now 'threatened
with extinction’. Farmers
should not have to choose between farming and nature. We
want farmers to be supported to adopt non-chemical alternatives that are proven
to support nature long-term.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/say-no-neonics
Do proposed reforms of Spain's
controversial 'gag law' go far enough?
But the proposed reforms have galvanised protest on both
sides of the divide, pitting police associations against human rights
collectives, and the right against the left, further polarising the country.
“Disobedience
and a lack of respect are the most exploited offences by the police because
they are completely ambiguous and allow for a great deal of flexibility
However,
citizens have been deemed to lack respect for a range of perceived
misdemeanours from smirking at a police officer to calling them
"mate" to engaging in polite disagreement.
“It’s not even about being insulting,” counters López. “Any
disagreement with a police officer can be interpreted as a lack of respect.
Disagreements are costly in this country.”
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/romani-holocaust-survivors-1945
Strangers in Their Own Land: Romani Survivors in Europe 1945
In France, for example, the interned “nomads” were held in
the camps and many were not released until June 1946. New research has revealed
the participation of Romani men in the French Resistance, but also a shameful
story of victimization after the liberation, by neighbors and Resistance
activists who “naturally” suspected them of collaboration. In southern Moravia
(Czechoslovakia) in the summer of 1945, the return of a handful of Romani
families prompted five local mayors to protest that “in spite of all the
suffering they endured, most of them have not changed for the better: work-shy,
thieving, etc.”; they recommended resettling the survivors in a border area, “where
they could be set to work under surveillance.” In German towns they were often
assigned to sites on the outskirts where they camped or were housed in
emergency barracks—and where they remained for generations after the post-war
emergency was past.
“Rejected: Policy not to grant Resettlement Services to
Gipsy.”
IRO Eligibility Officer
While emigration was an important route to a new life for
many Jews in post-war Europe, it was less of an option for Romani survivors,
even if they had lost all ties or their circumstances meant that simply going
back home was unrealistic. The prejudice against “Gypsies” was global, and
families who sought emigration through agencies like the UNRRA/IRO were
sometimes turned away as undesirables.
Until 1963, the official position of the West German courts
was that their racial persecution (the qualification for compensation) had only
begun in 1942, with the deportation to Auschwitz. The harassment, exclusion,
internment, sterilization, and slave labor that they had suffered before were
all justified by their criminal and antisocial behaviour. And even when the
legal position changed, their testimony was often not believed. Discriminatory
regulations and police practices continued as though the genocide had never happened.
In other countries, too, the persecution of Roma was a
non-subject.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/romani-holocaust-survivors-1945
C.et: negationism explained.
Investigation: Field Farm Duck Eggs
Appalling
conditions filmed at Lincolnshire Duck Farm supplying major egg suppliers
Over two decades after we first exposed duck factory farming,
comes the release of disturbing
new footage from inside a filthy Lincolnshire duck egg farm
Ducks are semi-aquatic birds who would naturally
spend a huge amount of time in the water. It’s fundamental to their mental and
physical well-being as they use open water for head-dipping, swimming, bathing
and feeding.
However,
our investigation found the farm has no water baths for the ducks, their only
access to water is through dirty bell drinkers, robbing these captive
waterbirds of their natural behaviours. Thousands of birds are forced to live
on layer-upon-layer of decayed excreta with nowhere to clean themselves.
https://viva.org.uk/animals/campaigns/investigation-field-farm-duck-eggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNUnSWY5i14&t=161s
C.et: please go on their website for more info.
Conversion therapy
is physically and mentally crippling. In Russia, there is still no ban on
surgery, torture and sexualized violence to “change” sexual orientation and
gender identity.
Conversion therapy is a
non-scientific practice for forcibly changing a sexual orientation or gender
identity. The United Nation equates conversion therapy with torture.
https://action.allout.org/en/m/fa065842/
My name is Fatima and I'm a Campaigns Fellow at All Out, an
activist, and a grassroots community organiser in Ghana. In recent years, I've
seen the rights of my community taken away by right-wing religious extremists.
I'm here to bring you a warning of what
this force of hate is capable of.
At the start of last year, an LGBT+ community center was raided
by police and shut down by the government. 21 activists were unlawfully
arrested, detained, and abused for 3 weeks. Soon after, Parliament tried to
pass an anti-LGBT+ hate bill - the same kind we've seen in other countries as
well.
These are not isolated events, but
part of a coordinated global attack by right-wing extremists, heavily funded by
evangelical religious institutions. It's estimated that in the 10 years between
2008 and 2017, U.S.-based
organisations like these funneled over 1 billion dollars overseas to promote
their hateful beliefs.
A coordinated global attack on our rights
must be answered with a coordinated global defense! That's where you come in.
Thanks to the All Out community, we were able to fight back here
in Ghana.
Immediately after the 21 activists were arrested, All Out
members donated enough to support their eventual release by covering legal
costs, food, and medical supplies. But it didn't stop there – thanks to the
public outcry from our global community, all charges were dropped!
But the fight continues. Ghana's anti-LGBT+ law, which would
criminalise LGBT+ people and LGBT+ activism with up to 10 years in jail, is
still on the table. It's one of the most severe anti-LGBT+ laws to arise in
recent history.
It's all under the false guise of LGBT+
people being "non-religious" and "perversions against
religion" – ideas actively exported by evangelicals from the U.S.
SOURCES:
●︎ 'God Has A New Africa': undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT
'hate movement' – Open Democracy, 11. December 2019
● The media disinformation campaign against Ghana's queer
community – Open Democracy, 21. March 2022
● Why Ghana's LGBTIQ community needs your help – Open Democracy,
22. March 2022
● Lighting the Way: a Report for Philanthropy on the Power and
Promise of Feminist Movements – Shake The Table, 5. May 2022
● Meet the moment: A Call for Progressive Philanthropic Resonse
to the Anti-Gender Movement –Global Philanthropy Project, 17. February 2021
● Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says gay rights,
contraception rulings should be reconsidered after Roe is overturned – CNBC, 26
June 2022
● All Out - Help! My Kid Just Came Out – All Out, 17 May 2022
● All out - Listen to Voices of Ghana – All Out, 17 May 2022
https://campaigns.allout.org/countering-hate
Toning
down the violence, Italy's mafia has set its sights ...
https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/01/toning-down-the-violence-italy-s-mafia-has-set-its...
With Italy
getting the largest share of the bloc's post-pandemic grants and
loans, mafia-type organisations are starting to eye EU
funds. The director of the Anti-mafia Investigation
Directorate,...
Italy: Criminal clans seek to tap into EU funds |
Europe ...
https://www.dw.com/en/italy-criminal-clans-seek-to-tap-into-eu-funds/a-55901537
Italy: Criminal
clans seek to tap into EU funds Through the recovery fund, the EU will
offer member states €1.8 trillion ($2.2 trillion) in grants for COVID-19
spending. €13.5 billion will go to...
A flood of EU funding is filling the coffers of the ...
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/eu-funding-for-the-european-mafia
A
flood of EU funding is filling the coffers of the European Mafia . Mafia scams
involving farming, tobacco, VAT and alcohol are taking billions out of EU funds.
The Covid pandemic has opened the floodgates. Suna Erdem. A mourner places a
candle in front of a portrait of murdered Slovak investigative journalist Jan
Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova in the centre of Bratislava in 2018
...
Italian mafia raided embezzlement of EU funds - Teller
Report
https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-01-15---italian-mafia-raided-embezzlement-of-eu...
European funds (blue
flag) were diverted to Italy (red white green flag).
(illustration) - KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / POOL / AFP. Italian police announced on
Wednesday that they had dismantled a mafia network in Sicily
that embezzled millions of euros of European funds intended
for farmers. Ninety-four people were arrested during a phone call earlier today
against a mafia group in Tortorici, the ...
UK to come under scrutiny in Italy’s largest mafia
trial ...
Green domain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/27/uk-to-come-under-scrutiny-in-italys...
In
the last decade, hundreds of investigations have asserted how the ’Ndrangheta
has laundered billions of euros in the City. A 2019 report
from Italy’s Antimafia Investigative Directorate claimed...
Warning: Italy's Mafias eye EU's billions in recovery
funds
https://headtopics.com/us/warning-italy-s-mafias-eye-eu-s-billions-in-recovery-funds...
Italy ’s
anti-Mafia investigators issued a dramatic warning that mobsters
will scheme to get some of hundreds of billions of euros in Europe an Union
recovery aid after the pandemic.. ROME (AP) — Italy ’s anti-Mafia investigators
issued a dramatic warning Friday that mobsters will scheme to get some of
hundreds of billions of
‘Brutal’
Discrimination Adds Trauma to Roma as they Flee ...
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2022/03/09/30294
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on
February 24 has sparked what the UN has described as the fastest-growing
refugee crisis in Europe since WWII, and as of March 9, an estimated 2 million
people had left the country. These include Roma who, like
other refugees, abandoned their homes and communities as fighting broke out
across the
Ukraine’s Roma
refugees recount discrimination en route to ...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/ukraines-roma-refugees-recount-discrimination...
Cristina
is one of an estimated 400,000 Ukraine’s Roma people who,
besides the trauma of war, have to cope with discrimination along
their evacuation route out of Ukraine. Many have always
been...
Roma and other
people of color fleeing war in Ukraine face ...
www.romea.cz/en/news/world/roma-and-other-people-of-color-fleeing-war-in-ukraine-face...
Ukrainian
Roma fleeing the war are facing border-crossing problems -
according to information made available to the Romea.cz news server and other
media, discrimination is occurring and some are even being targeted with
racism. Students of color leaving Ukraine are also facing
racism.
"About
30,000 Roma in Ukraine have no documents." The ...
https://ukraine.un.org/en/106824-about-30000-roma-ukraine-have-no-documents-story-roma...
According
to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, the rights of
the Roma minority are protected by the general
anti-discrimination provisions of Ukrainian law and complemented by the
Strategy for the Protection and Integration of the Roma National
Minority into Ukrainian Society. Although the Strategy for the Roma Minority
Radicals
Target Roma People in Ukraine | Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/11/29/radicals-target-roma-people-ukraine
Roma people in
Ukraine often face violence, but official investigations rarely
produce outcomes. No one has been held accountable for the 2017 murder of
Mykola Kaspitsky, leader of Roma community ...
Ukraine′s Roma activists working to help at-risk
community ...
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraines-roma-activists-at-work-for-their-community/a-61032799
There
are reports of Roma being denied access to neighboring countries
at various borders." Official statistics suggest there are
around 50,000 Roma living in Ukraine. However,
organizations ...
‘Brutal’
Discrimination Adds Trauma to Roma as they Flee ...
https://www.globalissues.org/news/2022/03/09/30294
Roma refugees
faced ‘brutal’ discrimination at both sides of the border of Ukraine as
they joined 2 million others to flee the bombing in war-torn Ukraine.
These headlines reflect their ordeal. Graphic: IPS . Roma living
in Europe are among the most discriminated and disadvantaged groups on the
continent. In many countries, including Ukraine where it is
thought there are as many as 400,000 ...
Roma People in Ukraine should not be the victims of
other ...
https://idavox.com/index.php/2022/03/02/roma-people-in-ukraine-should-not-be-the...
Roma people in
Ukraine are suffering in these difficult times, and are afraid of the
consequences for them. They are very often discriminated in Ukraine,
considered as second grade citizens. Therefore, we are appealing to the UN,
Russian and USA Government and NATO forces to consider Roma people
affected by new political happenings in Ukraine, and this time to
protect them, and help them to ...
Stateless Roma in Ukraine have nowhere to turn to ...
www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/stateless-roma-ukraine-have-nowhere-turn
Russian post-invasion kill
list includes Ukrainian LGBTQ citizens
The list also includes politicians
and journalists, along with members of religious and ethnic minority groups.
The
list also includes politicians and journalists, along with members of religious
and ethnic minority groups.
Russia
has orchestrated a continued campaign against the LGBTQ community, both inside
the country and in areas under this influence. While the West mostly overlooked
the imprisonment and torture of gay men and transgender women, the country
solidified its grip on religious conservatives and the far right. LGBTQ people
have been used as scapegoats for the West. “These acts, which in past
Russian operations have included targeted killings, kidnappings/forced
disappearances, unjust detentions, and the use of torture, would likely target
those who oppose Russian actions, including Russian and Belarusian dissidents
in exile in Ukraine, journalists and anti-corruption activists, and vulnerable
populations such as religious and ethnic minorities and LGBTQI+ persons,” Crocker warned in a letter.
post office 5 5,
5 personnes who took the post office before court, after paying legal
fees 20 000 only as compensaiton, because post office had a legal team paid by
tax payers, paid millions.
Cats in Laboratories | PETA
Cats
in Laboratories More than 19,000 cats are abused in U.S. laboratories every
year—in addition to the tens of thousands who are killed and sold to schools
for cruel and crude classroom dissections. These cats are just as deserving of
fulfilling lives and loving homes as
Animals in Laboratories - National Humane Education Society
Animals Used
An estimated 50 to 100 million vertebrates are used annually, including over 20
million mice and rats, in laboratory experiments in the United States. Other
animals used in laboratory experiments include primates, dogs, pigs, cats,
sheep, and rabbits.
A leading global player
in its sector, Orpea runs a network of 1,156 establishments offering more than
100,000 beds in 23 countries, mainly in Europe.
In an investigation based
on 250 testimonies, he exposes the system developed by Orpea to maximise its
profits and the dividends paid to its shareholders — a complex strategy based
on drastic cost cutting and the maximum use of public funding. On top of the
prohibitive rates charged, he reveals a range of abusive practices directly
impacting the quality of care for residents and employee working conditions:
systemic shortages of care staff, a ban on replacing absent staff, and the
rationing of food and healthcare products The journalist was even offered 15 million euros not to
publish his work.
https://www.etui.org/news/nursing-home-group-orpea-centre-another-scandal
Journalists imprisoned in Belorussia.
Journalists imprisoned
Oman trafficking of African women
france driver spill acid in rivers
animal rights in Africa?
post office 5 5,
5 personnes who took the post office before court, after paying legal
fees 20 000 only as compensaiton, because post office had a legal team paid by
tax payers, paid millions.
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