Northern Ireland government salvaged by deal | News | DW.COM | 17.11.2015

A deal has been reached to ensure the territory’s power-sharing government can continue after a months-long stand off. Ministers have published a 67-page document to tackle rows over security, the economy and welfare.

Source: Northern Ireland government salvaged by deal | News | DW.COM | 17.11.2015

G.O.P. Governors Vow to Close Doors to Syrian Refugees – The New York Times {25 Governors announce they are actively anti-American, bigoted, and cowards!}

Twenty-five Republican governors vowed to block the entry of Syrian refugees into their states, arguing that the safety of Americans was at stake after the Paris attacks by terrorists including a man who entered Europe with a Syrian passport and posed as a migrant. Among the governors were those from Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas and other states that have already resettled relatively large numbers of refugees from among the 1,900 Syrians accepted by the United States in the last four years.

Source: G.O.P. Governors Vow to Close Doors to Syrian Refugees – The New York Times

It has now been confirmed that one of the Paris suicide bombers reached Europe disguised as a refugee. Security officials had long felt that such a scenario was unlikely. How big is the risk?

Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

For information on foreign fighters, German investigators are dependent on intelligence information — indications gleaned by the US from emails, phone conversations or chats, for example, that a certain jihadi may have left Syria. In such instances, however, police work is necessary to find them, particularly if they are traveling on falsified documents. Simply closing Europe’s or Germany’s borders, as has frequently been demanded in recent weeks, wouldn’t offer much protection.

The Mothers of Mexico’s Disappeared Organize in the Face of State Violence

It’s been a year since the disappearance of the Ayotzinapa students—now the most emblematic and publicized case of disappearances in the history of the country. When speaking of the anniversary, Nava expresses herself with the resolve and frustration characteristic of many other mothers, many of whom have searched for their children for much longer.“Many are saying that one year is a long time. But for us, no time has passed at all. We are still living on the night of the 26th. For us time is at a standstill. For us it is the same day when our children were disappeared. In my case, I had to go to the morgue to claim my son’s body. I never thought I would have to go recognize his body. But we’re still here, to ensure that the death of my son and the disappearances of these young men doesn’t stay in impunity.”

Source: The Mothers of Mexico’s Disappeared Organize in the Face of State Violence

Pussy Riot brings protest message to Mexico, shows support for families of 43 missing students | Fusion

After the speech, several young woman jumped into the stage wearing the band’s signature neon-colored ski masks and started dancing to one of the collective’s punk rock songs.“I feel free when I can shout Ayotzinapa lives!” shouted a woman on stage, referring to the missing students who were allegedly kidnapped and murdered last year by a criminal gang in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.Alyokhina and Zhivago later met with the Mexican branch of H.I.J.O.S., a human rights activist organization created in Argentina in 1995 by family members of those who disappeared during that country’s military dictatorship. In Mexico, H.I.J.O.S., along with other rights groups, has actively pushed for more answers from the government in the case of the missing students.

Source: Pussy Riot brings protest message to Mexico, shows support for families of 43 missing students | Fusion

The Israeli soldier who arrested me wore faux leather army boots

"And you shall teach this to your children"

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By Ariel Gold

We were at the weekly nonviolent demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil’in trying to get away from the army jeep when two female soldiers jumped from it and grabbed us. They held us by the jeeps twisting our arms behind our backs as we watched another international and a Palestinian get arrested as well. The other international, who was from Italy, was being badly beaten and pepper sprayed in his eyes. Me and the other woman were each being held by the women soldiers. The soldiers were in full head to toe protective gear and holding each of us in front of front of them in line of rocks being thrown by young Palestinian teenagers who could not see that their rocks were hurling forward toward unarmed unprotected civilians. I tried to bend my head forward to protect my face and neck from the oncoming…

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