Last night President Obama wrote a very sweet welcome note to the scientist in Tuesday’s story.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
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2015 – Here are some gifs of Donald Trump being attacked by a bald eagle named Uncle Sam, literally the least patriotic thing that can happen to an American.
#the freedom bird has rejected him
FUCKING GOOD.
@killerchickadee did you do this?
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It is a little known fact that all presidential candidates must be tested by the freedom-bird. Trump has failed and will be withdrawing his candidacy.
True American constitutional law.
Una fila de personas esperan en la capital de Cuba para realizar trámites de emigración en la Embajada de Estados Unidos, reabierta este año después que los dos países restablecieron relaciones diplomáticas. Crédito: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS
IPS Inter Press Service posted a photo:
Una fila de personas esperan en la capital de Cuba para realizar trámites de emigración en la Embajada de Estados Unidos, reabierta este año después que los dos países restablecieron relaciones diplomáticas. Crédito: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS
Centenares de cubanos se congregaron frente a la embajada de Ecuador en La Habana en una inusual exhibición pública de descontento, por la decisión de Quito de solicitar visa a los ciudadanos de este país. Muchos exhibían sus billetes aéreos ya adquirid
IPS Inter Press Service posted a photo:
Centenares de cubanos se congregaron frente a la embajada de Ecuador en La Habana en una inusual exhibición pública de descontento, por la decisión de Quito de solicitar visa a los ciudadanos de este país. Muchos exhibían sus billetes aéreos ya adquiridos y pedían permiso de salida o devolución del dinero invertido. Crédito: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS
Teenagers hopping on a freight train during the Great Depression, ca. 1930s
Will Palestinians take advantage of EU decision to label settlement products?
Palestinians are seeking to achieve economic gains from the EU decision to label products from settlements, by increasing their exports to EU markets.
Source: Will Palestinians take advantage of EU decision to label settlement products?
Global Terrorism Index: The map that shows where 42 different militant groups have pledged support to ISIS – Times of India
Boko Haram, which was the deadliest terrorist group of 2014 and this year pledged its allegiance to ISIS, while engaging heavily with the group through “military training, funding channels and social media”.The five most deadly terrorist groups – Boko Haram, ISIS the Taliban, the Fulani militants and al-Shabaab – were found to be responsible for the 74 per cent of all terrorist deaths in 2014, killing a total of 18,444 people collectively.
ArtLeaks | It is time to break the silence!
Daniel T’Seleie, from the Dene First Nation, Canada, said:“In the Arctic, we are seeing severe impacts from global climate change, simultaneously we are defending our traditional homelands and culture from aggressive assaults on sacred and important subsistence use areas, such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. How are we to survive if the fossil fuel industry, companies such as ENI and Total continue to impede our rights? They are committing climate genocide on us, there is no way that we can allow corporations continue to generate a social license to operate by sponsoring our cultural institutions such as the Louvre.” . The Italian oil giant, Eni, has been widely criticised by environmentalists over its plans to drill in the Arctic [4] and Total was challenged just last year over its decision to purchase a shipment of Arctic oil, shortly after it had publicly declared it had no interest in Arctic oil extraction [5]. Total also has projects in the Canadian tar sands, one of the most carbon-intensive fossil fuels [6].Ragnhild Freng Dale from Stopp Oljesponsing Av Norsk Kulturliv (Norway) said:“We know that the COP is not on route to give us the deal we need to stay within a safe limit of global warming. Oil companies like Total and Eni have business plans to keep drilling for more fossil fuels in ever riskier places, when the climate science is clear it needs to stay in the ground to protect current and future generations from runaway climate change. We need to separate our cultural institutions and the climate negotiations from oil companies’ influence.”
Three generations face imminent expulsion from Jerusalem home
Sub Laban family hopes international pressure will halt settler takeover.
Christian groups urge US to bar Israeli rights abusers from receiving aid
US law prohibits aid going to specific units responsible for human rights violations.
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