Monthly Archives: December 2014

Apartheid, Fail!, Gun-violence, human rights, Palestine

Israeli forces arrest 8-year-old in East Jerusalem | Maan News Agency

 Israeli special forces on Wednesday detained an eight-year-old Palestinian in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, a local information center said.

Majdi Abbasi of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said in a statement that Obeida Ayesh, eight, was arrested in the Ein al-Lawza area of the neighborhood.

Obeida’s mother was allowed to accompany him, Abbasi said.

There were no clashes going on in the area at the time of the arrest, he added.

According to a 2013 report by the UN children’s fund, Israel is the only country in the world where children were systematically tried in military courts, practicing “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.”

Over the past decade, UNICEF noted that Israel has detained “an average of two children each day.”

via Israeli forces arrest 8-year-old in East Jerusalem | Maan News Agency.

denier, Fail!, human rights, Indigenous Achievers, Native-American art, Profiteering

CENSORED NEWS: Paris Auction selling Hopi, Pueblo, Navajo and Plains Sacred Items

The EVE Auction in Paris is selling sacred items of Pueblos, Dine’ and the Plains, continuing an act of cultural genocide for the fifth year. The EVE catalog lists sacred Kachinas and Masks of Hopi, Acoma, Laguna, Zuni, Santo Domingo, Tesuque and other Pueblos. There are also Dine’ (Navajo) Ceremonial Yeibeichei Masks.

There is also a sacred item of the Kiowa listed in the auction, and pouches listed as Cheyenne Arapahoe, Sioux and Plains Indians. There are leggings of the Sioux and Cheyenne, and a rare item belonging to the Hupa in California.

The auction is slated in Paris for Dec. 15, 2014.

via CENSORED NEWS: Paris Auction selling Hopi, Pueblo, Navajo and Plains Sacred Items.

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“Circling Wagons” and Isolating – Netanyahu calls for early parliamentary election in Israel | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he would dissolve parliament and seek early elections and ordered the dismissal of his Finance and Justice ministers.

“The prime minister plans to call for parliament’s dissolution as soon as possible and to go to the people and get a clear mandate to lead Israel,” a statement from his office said.

Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party, also said he ordered the dismissal of Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who both head centrist parties.

“In past weeks, including the past day, ministers Lapid and Livni have harshly attacked the government that I head. I will no longer tolerate an opposition inside the goverment,” Netanyahu said in the statement.

via Netanyahu calls for early parliamentary election in Israel | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR.

human rights, racism, Rock on-Peace Out

Photos: 7 Arrested At “Hands Up Walk Out” March For Michael Brown: Gothamist

Hundreds of protesters marched from Union Square to Times Square yesterday in another demonstration against a grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. In an attempt to sustain the momentum generated last week, activists urged high school and college students to walk out of class nationwide in solidarity.

via Photos: 7 Arrested At “Hands Up Walk Out” March For Michael Brown: Gothamist.

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{Really?}Three H5N8 Introductions In Europe and Netherlands = Wild Birds

{So, where is the report of a die off in large numbers of Wigeon or Teal?}

Of a group of 150 wigeon 52 dung samples collected of which two dung samples the virus was found. The wigeon were in a pasture between Kockengen and Kamerik in the municipality Woerden, Utrecht province. The part of the bird flu virus wigeon that has been explored is genetically almost identical to the virus that has previously been found in a poultry farm in Hekendorp

via Three H5N8 Introductions In Europe and Netherlands = Wild Birds.