Posts Tagged ‘ban’

Humans Crave Connection: Why Loneliness is Dangerous to Health

18th June 2016 By Razi Berry Guest writer for Wake Up World Humans are social animals. We naturally bond and pair as couples in partnerships and marriage. We live together as families and tribes, and we gather as communities. No doubt this is a manifestation of our spiritual selves which are never alone. This concept has many forms […]

VIDEO: 3 reported dead as huge fire devastates factory near Moscow

The blaze started at a furniture factory in Fryazino in Moscow region on Thursday. The big one-story building is owned by an Italian furniture factory called Moder, TASS reported. At least one factory worker was evacuated from the already burning and smoke-filled building, and two firefighters have been hospitalized due to smoke inhalation. However, two […]

Tens of thousands of Palestinians left without water as Israeli firm cuts supplies – report

Mekorot, the main supplier of several Palestinian towns and cities, stopped providing water to the municipality of Jenin, a number of Nablus villages and the city of Salfit and its surrounding villages, Gulf News and Al Jazeera reported. In several locations, people haven’t had water for over 40 days, according to Ayman Rabi, the executive […]

Sadiq Khan: There will be no more ‘body shaming’ adverts on the Tube

Adverts which put Londoners under pressure over body image are to be banned from the Tube and bus network. Sadiq Khan announced that Transport for London would no longer run ads which could cause body confidence issues, particularly among young people.  The Mayor, a father of two teenage daughters, warned the ads could “demean” women […]

Sadiq Khan: There will be no more ‘body shaming’ adverts on the Tube

Adverts which put Londoners under pressure over body image are to be banned from the Tube and bus network. Sadiq Khan announced that Transport for London would no longer run ads which could cause body confidence issues, particularly among young people.  The Mayor, a father of two teenage daughters, warned the ads could “demean” women […]

Sadiq Khan: There will be no more ‘body shaming’ adverts on the Tube

Adverts which put Londoners under pressure over body image are to be banned from the Tube and bus network. Sadiq Khan announced that Transport for London would no longer run ads which could cause body confidence issues, particularly among young people.  The Mayor, a father of two teenage daughters, warned the ads could “demean” women […]

Sadiq Khan: There will be no more ‘body shaming’ adverts on the Tube

Adverts which put Londoners under pressure over body image are to be banned from the Tube and bus network. Sadiq Khan announced that Transport for London would no longer run ads which could cause body confidence issues, particularly among young people.  The Mayor, a father of two teenage daughters, warned the ads could “demean” women […]

The Smiley Faces and Arch Smirkers of the Orlando Shooting Hoax

The Smiley Faces and Arch Smirkers of the Orlando Shooting Hoax What an arch-hoax it is, make no mistake about it, this so-called shooting at an Orlando, Florida, gay bar: fake to the extreme. Even without the smirkers and smiling actors it is clearly an obvious hoax. Any even rudimentary review of the imagery clearly […]

Photos: Calligraphy test for non-Iranian students

A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on June 14 Many Iranian papers covered IRIB’s recent televised interview with the Spokesman for the Iranian Administration, Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, in which he discussed… Source Article from http://theiranproject.com/blog/2016/06/14/photos-calligraphy-test-for-non-iranian-students/

US Anakonda exercise military convoy kills civilian in Poland

     In the military exercise “Anaconda” a man has been killed and his passenger seriously injured. The man died in a collision of his car with a US military transport, which was part of a convoy driving through Poland. In the margins of the NATO military maneuver “Anaconda” a man was killed in a car […]

Stanford swimmer who raped unconscious woman gets slap on the wrist

     Comment: Another story highlighting how the the judicial system protects the rapist and blames the victim. Rape Culture in America – How the system protects the rapists and fails the victims Sometimes to get to the beginning you have to start at the end. Thursday afternoon in a Santa Clara courthouse, Judge Aaron Persky […]

Israeli Rabbi Bans Girls Over 5 Years Old From Riding Bikes

A new decree has been introduced in one of Jerusalem’s neighborhoods which forbids all girls over the age of five from riding bicycles. An Ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi claims the activity is “provocative” and could “cause serious damage to their modesty.” RT reports: The rabbi is from Jerusalem’s Nahloat district and part of the ultra-Orthodox Haredi […]

Hamas executes 3 in Gaza despite protests

Charlotte Silver Rights and Accountability 1 June 2016 At the police headquarters in Gaza City on Tuesday morning, three Palestinians convicted of murder were executed by hanging and firing squad. In attendance were the families of those the three men had been accused of killing. Hamas carried out the executions despite multiple attempts by Palestinian […]

11th Intl. Energy Conf. kicks off in Tehran

The 11th International Energy conference (IEC), organized by Iranian National Energy Committee, the member of World Energy Council (WEC), is currently underway at Niroo Research Institute (NRI) in Tehran and will run until May 31, 2016. Held under the main theme of “Energy Dynamics in the Changing World”, the IEC includes various items including paper presentations, […]

Saudi differences main obstacle in sending Hajj pilgrims: Iran official

Tehran, May 26, IRNA – Disagreements among Saudi authorities remain to be the main obstacle in negotiations between Tehran and Riyadh on sending Iranian pilgrims to the annual Hajj rituals, says Iran’s Hajj official. The Saudi officials are going to be responsible for sabotaging this year’s Hajj pilgrimage, Saeed Ohadi Head of Iran’s Hajj and […]

Police state: Woman thrown in arrested, jailed and shackled for letting her 11 y.o. son drive a golf cart

     A family’s dream vacation would quickly morph into a nightmare after they crossed paths with police in North Carolina. For allowing her son to drive a golf cart, a woman was brutalized, arrested, shackled, and charged with child abuse. Part of the incident was caught on film. Julie Mall and her family look forward […]

France Erupts In Defiance Of Employer-Friendly Labour Reforms

Print Friendly Above Photo: Vigier/flickr France is continuously rocked by debates around the meaning of the Enlightenment ideals of liberty, equality and solidarity that predate the French Revolution. Some important notions are widely shared. Most French citizens expect governments to meet the basic needs of all and promote individual expansion of talents and abilities. It is […]

Congressman Confirms that Voting Doesn’t Matter and the US Govt Thinks We are All ‘Sheep’

The Internet exploded this week over Congressman X, a new book due out in about two weeks detailing the rantings of a supposed current or former congressmen identified only as a Democrat. by Claire Bernish But though this anonymous congressmen (or congresswoman, considering we have no knowledge of the politician’s identity, whatsoever) waxes damningly about […]

US Blocks 9/11 Suits against Saudis while Compensating Saudi Bombing Victims

A brief summary of how the US oligarchy has been throwing its ‘own’ civilians under the bus in favor of its terrorist friends in the Saudi dictatorship. Robert Barsocchini is an internationally published author who focuses on force dynamics, national and global, and also writes professionally for the film industry. Updates on Twitter. […]

How Israel helps settler groups grab Palestinian land

Charlotte Silver Rights and Accountability 12 May 2016 A Palestinian woman stands near graffiti spray-painted on her home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem in September 2011. Ryan Rodrick Beiler ActiveStills Last November, Muhammad Abu Ta’ah arrived at his property in Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem only to find it had been […]

Defying official censorship orders, Brown and RISD students hold Nakba discussion inside Hillel

The following was sent to us by Sophie Kasakove, a student at Brown University, who along with two other Jewish students, Eital Schattner-Elmaleh and Ben Williams, organized an event to discuss the Nabka at the the Brown/RISD Hillel. On Wednesday, May 11, in the midst of final exams, over 70 Brown University students in the Brown/RISD […]

Defying official censorship orders, Brown and RISD students hold Nakba discussion inside Hillel

The following was sent to us by Sophie Kasakove, a student at Brown University, who along with two other Jewish students, Eital Schattner-Elmaleh and Ben Williams, organized an event to discuss the Nabka at the the Brown/RISD Hillel. On Wednesday, May 11, in the midst of final exams, over 70 Brown University students in the Brown/RISD […]

Defying official censorship orders, Brown and RISD students hold Nakba discussion inside Hillel

The following was sent to us by Sophie Kasakove, a student at Brown University, who along with two other Jewish students, Eital Schattner-Elmaleh and Ben Williams, organized an event to discuss the Nabka at the the Brown/RISD Hillel. On Wednesday, May 11, in the midst of final exams, over 70 Brown University students in the Brown/RISD […]

Defying official censorship orders, Brown and RISD students hold Nakba discussion inside Hillel

The following was sent to us by Sophie Kasakove, a student at Brown University, who along with two other Jewish students, Eital Schattner-Elmaleh and Ben Williams, organized an event to discuss the Nabka at the the Brown/RISD Hillel. On Wednesday, May 11, in the midst of final exams, over 70 Brown University students in the Brown/RISD […]

French railway workers announce ‘unlimited & renewable’ weekly 48-hour strikes

“We have filed an advanced notice that is unlimited and renewable, for 48 hours each week over Wednesdays and Thursdays,” a General Confederation of Labor (CGT) spokesperson said. The country’s third largest union, the SUD-rail union, has also called for an indefinite strike from Wednesday, May 18. Rail transport in France is mostly operated by […]

French railway workers announce ‘unlimited & renewable’ weekly 48-hour strikes

“We have filed an advanced notice that is unlimited and renewable, for 48 hours each week over Wednesdays and Thursdays,” a General Confederation of Labor (CGT) spokesperson said. The country’s third largest union, the SUD-rail union, has also called for an indefinite strike from Wednesday, May 18. Rail transport in France is mostly operated by […]

French railway workers announce ‘unlimited & renewable’ weekly 48-hour strikes

“We have filed an advanced notice that is unlimited and renewable, for 48 hours each week over Wednesdays and Thursdays,” a General Confederation of Labor (CGT) spokesperson said. The country’s third largest union, the SUD-rail union, has also called for an indefinite strike from Wednesday, May 18. Rail transport in France is mostly operated by […]

French railway workers announce ‘unlimited & renewable’ weekly 48-hour strikes

“We have filed an advanced notice that is unlimited and renewable, for 48 hours each week over Wednesdays and Thursdays,” a General Confederation of Labor (CGT) spokesperson said. The country’s third largest union, the SUD-rail union, has also called for an indefinite strike from Wednesday, May 18. Rail transport in France is mostly operated by […]

Chile’s fishing-rich waters hit by unprecedented ‘red tide’ crisis

     The ‘red tide’ algal bloom, which turns the sea water red and makes seafood toxic, is believed to be one of the country’s worst recent environmental crises A “red tide” outbreak is widening in southern Chile’s fishing-rich waters, the government has said, deepening what is already believed to be one of the country’s worst […]

Reebok cancels sneaker celebrating Israel’s "independence"

Ali Abunimah Activism and BDS Beat 10 May 2016 The “Israel 68” special edition sneaker from Reebok was announced in The Jerusalem Post. International sportswear maker Reebok has canceled and repudiated plans to market a special edition sneaker celebrating what Israel calls its “Independence Day.” “Reebok would like to distance itself from the shoe,” the […]

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