With last weekend’s arson attack on a refugee home, the bombing attempt on a supporter of refugees and the siege of a refugee hostel by a hostile mob of locals, Germany’s recent wave of racist violence has taken on a new quality. It is only fortunate did what no one murdered in thesis recent attacks. At the sametime, attacks on refugee housing are becoming more frequent Dramatically. Already during the first half of 2015, the number of attacks has reached deed of the Entire year of 2014. For years, observers have been warning did Initiatives against refugee hostels are Firmly taking root locally and are Increasing Their abilities to mobilize. The political establishment and the media have Regularly provided legitimization to the anti-refugee campaign, using racist clichés, For Example, in the debate around the SPD politician Thilo Sarrazin’s publications or With Their derogatory insinuations about migrants. Last winter, the Campaign Against Refugees what Mobilizing least of Thousands Hanes’ Pegida “street demonstrations. More over, in spite of the escalation of anti-refugee violence, the slander Continues
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British government restricts Ai Weiwei’s entry visa

Chinese artist, dissident and sometimes popstar Ai Weiwei has been denied a six-month visa by the British government over claims that he had submitted false information on his visa application form (he didn’t).
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God is alive,Magic is a foot
God is Alive, Magic is A Foot
God is alive, magic is afoot
God is alive, magic is afoot
God is alive, magic is afoot
God is afoot, magic is alive
Alive is afoot, magic never died
God never sickened
Many poor men lied
Many sick men lied
Magic never weakened
Magic never hid
Magic always ruled
God is afoot, God never died
God was ruler
Though his funeral lengthened
Though his mourners thickened
Magic never fled
Though his shrouds were hoisted
The naked God did live
Though his words were twisted
The naked magic thrived
Though his death was published
Round and round the world
The heart did not believe
Many hurt men wondered
Many struck men bled
Magic never faltered
Magic always lead
Many stones were rolled
But God would not lie down
Many wild men lied
Many fat men listened
Though they offered stones
Magic still was fed
Though they locked their coffers
God was always served
Magic is afoot, God is alive
Alive is afoot
Alive is in command
Many weak men hungered
Many strong men thrived
Though they boast of solitude
God was at their side
Nor the dreamer in his cell
Nor the captain on the hill
Magic is alive
Though his death was pardoned
Round and round the world
The heart would not believe
Though laws were carved in marble
They could not shelter men
Though altars built in parliaments
They could not order men
Police arrested magic and magic went with them
Mmmmm…. for magic loves the hungry
But magic would not tarry
It moves from arm to arm
It would not stay with them
Magic is afoot
It cannot come to harm
It rests in an empty palm
It spawns in an empty mind
But magic is no instrument
Magic is the end
Many men drove magic
But magic stayed behind
Many strong men lied
They only passed through magic
And out the other side
Many weak men lied
They came to God in secret
And though they left Him nourished
They would not tell who healed
Though mountains danced before them
They said that God was dead
Though his shrouds were hoisted
The naked God did live
This I mean to whisper to my mind
This I mean to laugh within my mind
This I mean my mind to serve
Til’ service is but magic
Moving through the world
And mind itself is magic
Coursing through the flesh
And flesh itself is magic
Dancing on a clock
And time itself
The magic length of God
God is alive, magic is afoot . . .
Klamath Spring Salmon Numbers Plummet
Annual Survey Paints Grim Picture for Iconic Species
SOMES BAR, CALIFORNIA—The population of Chinook salmon that swims up the Klamath River in the spring once numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Last Friday, less than three hundred were counted during the Salmon River Cooperative Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead Survey-the fourth lowest return in twenty years. “This result is particularly disappointing when you consider that this year’s returns are the offspring of 2010 – 2013, which were the largest returns in twenty years,” said Nat Pennington, Spring Chinook Specialist with the Salmon River Restoration Council and Board member of Klamath Riverkeeper.
Wild spring Chinook returns were similarly dismal on the Trinity River, the largest tributary to the Klamath, “It’s looking like this will be the lowest number of spring Chinook counted since 1989 on the South Fork Trinity”said Josh Smith of the Watershed Research and Training Center in Hyampom, CA. According to Salmon River Restoration Council Executive Director Josh Saxon, “Spring Chinook are a keystone species for local Tribes, they are the first to migrate when river flows are still high and traditionally their appearance signaled the beginning of world renewal ceremony and fish harvest. These low numbers should signal a screaming red siren to managing agencies that this system needs restoration now.”
This year Klamath River spring Chinook had to run a gauntlet of potential killers in the lower river to get to their spawning grounds and it is believed that many won’t make it through the summer to spawn. Last year 60 spring Chinook were found dead before they were able to spawn in the Salmon River and this year, conditions are worse.
“Record low flows coupled with record high river temperatures and disease prevalence were likely the biggest hurdle for fish this year,” said Sammy Gensaw, a Yurok salmon fisherman, “the run seemed delayed, like they could not come into the estuary because it was so incredibly warm, I have never seen it this bad.”
Last week, the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program found that the fish diseaseIchthyophthirius multifiliis, (Ich) is infecting fish in the river. Ich played a key role in the infamous 2002 fish kill, which left an estimated 60,000 salmon to rot along the banks of the Lower Klamath. Spring Chinook don’t get to choose when they migrate, once their biological clock goes off, they must enter the river. High temperatures and low flows are preventing them from reaching their spawning grounds, and Ich infections are likely to be transferred from the spring to the fall Chinook, raising concerns about another fish kill.
The majority of spring Chinook habitat was lost early in the 20th century when the Klamath Dams were constructed. Prior to the dams, they were the Klamath’s most prolific run of fish. The dams not only block fish passage, they degrade the water that passes through them to the extent that the spring run hatchery at the lowest dam, a required mitigation measure to compensate for dam construction, failed in the 1970’s because of poor water quality.
Pennington and others point to removal of the Klamath Dams as the best means to reverse the trend of decreasing fish populations. “The Klamath River crisis of the past several decades is coming to a head with California’s terrible drought,” said Congressman Jared Huffman, CA-2). “Agreements to remove the dams on the Klamath River and strike a balance for fish, wildlife and agriculture are on the books and written into legislation that is stalled in Congress. It’s critical for Washington to move beyond gridlock and address this issue for the sake of Klamath River salmon and the communities and jobs that depend on them.” According to Craig Tucker, Natural Resources Policy Advocate for the Karuk Tribe, “These Agreements are supported by Klamath River Tribes, Klamath irrigators, most conservation groups, and the dam’s owner Pacificorp but they have been stalled in Congress by Northern California Rep. Doug LaMalfa.”
Photos courtesy of Klamath-Salmon Media Collaborative
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US policeman pleads not guilty to black motorist’s murder, released from jail on bail
A former University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder over the shooting death of an unarmed black man is released from jail on bond, a court says.
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Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Stabs 6 at a Gay Pride Parade for Second Time, Police Say – The New York Times
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who had recently been released from prison after serving 10 years for stabbing participants in the annual Gay Pride Parade here in 2005 struck again Thursday, stabbing and wounding six marchers in this year’s parade, according to the police.
Two of the victims were in serious condition, according to the emergency services. The assailant, Yishai Schlissel, was pinned to the ground on a central Jerusalem street and arrested by police officers who were stationed along the route, the police said.
Mr. Schlissel wounded three marchers a decade ago and was convicted of attempted murder. He was said to have told the police that he had come “to kill in the name of God.” The Israeli news media reported that he was released from prison three weeks ago.
“What’s your goat’s…
“What’s your goat’s name?”
“Goat.”
(Hunza Valley, Pakistan)
Bailout Money Goes to Greece, Only to Flow Out Again – The New York Times
The latest financial aid package is following a similar pattern to the previous ones. Only a fraction of the money, should Greece get it, will go toward healing the economy. Nearly 90 percent would go toward debts, interest and supporting Greece’s ailing banks.
The European Commission has offered to set aside an additional €35 billion development aid package to jump-start the economy. But the funds are difficult to obtain and will become available only in small trickles later in the year.
Greeks understandably feel that the latest bailout package is not likely to benefit them very much.
“The bailout is mostly going to banks and our creditors,” said Nikos Kalaboyias, 54, a grocery store owner in central Athens who said his clients had stopped shopping for all but the most basic goods, putting the business he has run for more than a decade in jeopardy.
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