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World Bank to end financial support for oil and gas exploration

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Bank announces in Paris it ‘will no longer finance upstream oil and gas’ after 2019 in response to threat posed by climate change

The World Bank will end its financial support for oil and gas exploration within the next two years in response to the growing threat posed by climate change.

In a statement that delighted campaigners opposed to fossil fuels, the Bank used a conference in Paris to announce that it “will no longer finance upstream oil and gas” after 2019.

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“In 2012, Louis C.K. appeared on “The Daily Show” and said that “comedians and feminists are natural…”

“In 2012, Louis C.K. appeared on “The Daily Show” and said that “comedians and feminists are natural enemies” because “feminists can’t take a joke.” Jon Stewart nodded vigorously and agreed. Today, Stewart is being fawned over for acknowledging, in response to Louis C.K.’s fall, that “comedy on its best day is not a great environment for women.” A friend, the comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh, texted me: Ten years from now a man will win awards for his documentary about all this.

If you believe us now only because your peers are facing professional ruin, that deserves its own reckoning. I’ll wait.”

Why Men Aren’t Funny – The New York Times (via brutereason)

Download comprehensive police shootings data

We are all alike so what explains more shootings in some cities over others? Local politics, history, management, un-management?

Data for police shootings is usually the subset that only includes fatalities. Vice News made requests nationwide to get data on people who were shot but not killed by police. To accompany their story, Vice News made the data and code available for download:

Ultimately, we obtained some data from 47 departments — with 4,099 incidents in all. Departments in New York’s Suffolk and Nassau Counties didn’t provide us with any data. Maryland’s Montgomery County Police Department gave us only partial incident-level information and no total number of police shootings, so we excluded them from the analysis.

We put all this information together to analyze trends across the departments and to compare them with one another — the first time this has ever been done for both fatal and nonfatal shootings.

Get the data and look for yourself.

Tags: police, shootings, Vice

الحياة بين افئدة الوجود

نادية حرحش

http://www.huffpostarabi.com/nadia-harhash/-_3291_b_8893250.html

يتساءل الكثيرون عن سر الفلسطيني. ويتساءل الفلسطيني إن كان هناك فعلاً سر في وجوده. وفيما بين التساؤلات عاش الفلسطيني بقناعة ما بأنه لا بد من وجود سر به..

مما لا شك فيه أن هناك شيئاً ما غريباً بالفلسطيني. به بعض السحر الذي يقترب إلى معضلة السر ربما. فهذه القدرة على التعامل مع الواقع تحت الاحتلال قدرة غريبة. ترى الإنسان الفلسطيني فيها يتكيف مع كل الأحوال والظروف الصعبة التي تستمر في إعادة تشكيل نفسها لتزيد من الصعوبة عليه، ويخرج عادياً قوياً مصرًّا متحدياً. هناك قوة ما بإصرار الفلسطيني على الوجود مع احتضانه الزاهد للموت. هناك تحدٍّ يبدو أنه يغلب التحدي نفسه أمام عنفوان وكبرياء لا يُفهم له مبرر ملموس.

هناك واقع صعب يفرض نفسه كالسهل الممتنع. لا يكاد الناظر من بعيد يراه، والداخل إليه لا يلتفت إلى تعقيداته حتى يصادف أول حاجز.. ويتساءل عن امتداد الجدار الذي مع كل خطوة يبدو أنه يقترب من التهامه. وذلك النظام المتمثل بجندي أو…

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