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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Trump considers retired General Petraeus for secretary of state – France 24 – His kind of guy? ROTFLMAO

He took over the CIA in mid-2011 after retiring from the military, but resigned in late 2012 after coming under investigation for giving his biographer and mistress, XXXXXXXXXXXXX, access to classified information. He eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information.

Source: Trump considers retired General Petraeus for secretary of state – France 24

Egyptian Aak 2016- Week46 ( Nov 14-20)

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Top Headlines

  • Egypt court overturns death sentence against ousted ex-President Mohammed Morsi
  • ISIS’ Egypt branch executes 100-year-old cleric
  • Egypt clears way for former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq to return home
  • Egypt lifts assets freeze of anti-torture NGO

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Hundreds of churches offer sanctuary to undocumented migrants after election | US news | The Guardian

Hundreds of churches in the US have said they are willing to provide sanctuary for undocumented migrants threatened with deportation following the election of Donald Trump as president.About 300 churches nationally have come forward in the past two weeks, according to the Philadelphia-based New Sanctuary Movement. It has also seen the number of people in the city registering as volunteers for its “sanctuary in the streets” programme rise from 65 to more than 1,000 since the election.

Source: Hundreds of churches offer sanctuary to undocumented migrants after election | US news | The Guardian

Greek refugee lawyer targeted by police | Europe | DW.COM | 27.11.2016

“This really devastated me, because in all of this, the fact that I have always fought against indiscriminate violence and represented over 1,000 Greek police officers for violations of their own human rights has been ignored. Can you imagine the entire police force of Greece saying my actions as a lawyer are behind them feeling unsafe and needing more security, while I don’t even allow the derogatory term ‘cops’ in my Facebook timeline?”This isn’t the first time that Koutra has been targeted by police. In 2013, the World Organisation Against Torture highlighted an incident in Thessaloniki when the lawyer was detained in a police cell for 20 minutes after demanding access to a transgender client. The police station refused to file a complaint. She filed the complaint that same night at another police station. In 2015, prosecutors closed the case, judging that Koutra had willingly locked herself in the cell. The police officer in question lodged a civil action against her for 80,000 euros alleging “defamation.”One of her Koutra’s main concerns is that such events will put younger colleagues off human rights work. “After this, some team members have been discouraged from active involvement in the Pleiades probono lawyers’ team. It really is a loss.”

Source: Greek refugee lawyer targeted by police | Europe | DW.COM | 27.11.2016

Standing Rock protesters will not follow official directive to leave camps | US news | The Guardian

At a press conference, Standing Rock Sioux tribal leader Dave Archambault and other protest organizers confidently explained that they would stay at the Oceti Sakowin camp and continue with nonviolent protests, a day after Archambault received a letter from the US army corps of engineers that said all federal lands north of the Cannonball river would be closed to public access 5 December over “safety concerns”.The corps cited the coming winter and increasingly contentious clashes between protesters – who believe the pipeline could harm drinking water and Native A

Source: Standing Rock protesters will not follow official directive to leave camps | US news | The Guardian

In Madagascar Test, Drone Delivers Medicine by Air – The New York Times

Speeding Madagascar Health Care by Air

By Heidi HutnerLast summer, Stony Brook University’s Global Health Institute teamed up with Vayu, Inc., a Michigan start-up developing drones aiding medical care, to test aerial shipments of blood and fecal samples and drugs between remote villages in Madagascar and Centre ValBio, the university’s biological research center adjacent to a national park.Parasitic diseases, tuberculosis and a range of other life-threatening illnesses are common among the Malagasy population. But many people live in remote and inaccessible areas. In Ifanadiana, the district where the drone flights took place, travel to medical facilities can take a day or more by foot, across treacherous terrain.“Often, the sick don’t want to walk long distances, they don’t want to leave their children behind and, in many cases, they associate hospitals with bad outcomes and death,” said Dr. Peter M. Small, who heads the university’s health institute and was formerly deputy director of the Tuberculosis Delivery Program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Source: In Madagascar Test, Drone Delivers Medicine by Air – The New York Times

Before the fires are out, Israeli politicians blame the Arabs | +972 Magazine

To be clear, it’s entirely possible that not all of the dozens of fires in Israel and Palestine over the past few days broke out accidentally or naturally. It’s fire season — the combination of unusual dryness for this time of year and strong winds make wildfires a naturally occurring threat. And on top of that, Palestinian and Arab towns, cities and villages, have also been evacuated and hit by the fires — they’re not “targeting” Jews.

Source: Before the fires are out, Israeli politicians blame the Arabs | +972 Magazine

Germany planning to ′massively′ limit privacy rights | Germany | DW.COM | 25.11.2016

Perhaps most contentiously, the draft allows the government to deny people the basic right to know what personal data is being collected if “the release of the data endangers public safety and order, or disadvantages the well-being of the country, or the state in another way.”

Source: Germany planning to ′massively′ limit privacy rights | Germany | DW.COM | 25.11.2016