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

German reporter leaves Turkey after death threats over mine story | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR

A correspondent for Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine has been forced to temporarily leave Turkey after he received thousands of death threats over his article on the country’s worst mining disaster.

“I was not withdrawn” by the magazine, Hasnain Kazim, the Istanbul-based correspondent, told AFP in an emailed statement on Wednesday.

“I am just spending a few days somewhere else to be on the safe side. In a few days I will be back in Istanbul and continue to do my work,” he said.

In his article, Kazim quoted a miner from the western town of Soma saying, “Go to hell, Erdogan,” in a show of anger at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s response to the mining disaster that claimed 301 lives.

Kazim said he has received over 10,000 threats via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter, adding that a few hundreds of them were death threats.

“Get out of my country you filthy pig,” one Twitter user wrote.

Kazim said he did not express his or Der Spiegel’s views in the article but just quoted a miner.

“I reported from Soma and quoted one surviving worker with the words: ‘I would not have said this earlier, but now I want to tell Erdogan: Go to hell!'”, he said.

“AKP trolls did not see or did not want to see that this was a quote but considered me and Der Spiegel to have said that,” he added, referring to Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP).

“Unfortunately, several papers and TV channels spread that, too – some close to the government to show Germany’s ‘evil’ character, some critical of the government to misuse me as their spokesperson.”

via German reporter leaves Turkey after death threats over mine story | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR.

GM adds 218,000 older small cars to growing recall list | Reuters

{Maybe GM should jut put out a list of which cars and trucks it has sold in the last ten years are safe? Well, maybe not since it would probably be too short a list to bother with?}

Wednesday’s two recalls add to a string this year that covers almost 11.8 million vehicles in the United States, topping the previous full-year high of 10.7 million vehicles that the company recalled in the U.S. market in 2004. It pushes the number of vehicles that GM has recalled globally this year to about 15.6 million.

via GM adds 218,000 older small cars to growing recall list | Reuters.

Megachurch pastor compares abortion clinics to Nazi concentration camps

Megachurch pastor compares abortion clinics to Nazi concentration camps.

(60+ percent of Americans support women’s right to decide whether to have an abortion or not. So according to this wannabe-superstar-who-knows-more-than-God 60+ percent of Americans are Nazis?)

Of course, everyone loves hijacking and trivializing the Holocaust for their own political agenda. But if Garlow is really interested in history, abortion and Nazism, he should listen to someone who actually knows about it, likeGisella Perl, a physician and prisoner of Auschwitz, who saved women’s lives by providing them with abortions. Garlow may condemn her, but I’m pretty sure history won’t.

Finding Common Ground in Our Stand for the Earth

When I am asked who I am and where I come from I am able to answer with one word, Penahwabskek. Penahwabskek is the name of a place, ‘the place where the white rocks come out of the water’, and; it is the name of a people, the tribal nation who makes its home along the waters of the Penobscot River. For me, being Penahwabskek means that my roots are embedded in the land and nourished by the waters of the Penobscot River.

via Finding Common Ground in Our Stand for the Earth.

Green Roofs Florida! Urban Vertical Green: Native Plant Patterns and Historical Rainfall Trends, Predictors of Green Roof Plant Success

Still I find it very interesting to study rainfall patterns across the U.S. and across the world.  Nature has laid out and sorted the different types of vegetation across our continent in a manner relating to wind light and also according to rainfall amounts.

Yes, it is a simple and very broad generalization to say that following Mother Nature’s lead supports project landscape or green roof plant potential success.

via Green Roofs Florida! Urban Vertical Green: Native Plant Patterns and Historical Rainfall Trends, Predictors of Green Roof Plant Success.

FAO – News Article: Pope Francis to attend the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2)

Pope Francis will add his voice to the fight against hunger and malnutrition by addressing the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) scheduled to take place from 19 to 21 November at FAO’s headquarters in Rome.

The pontiff’s participation at the conference which is organized by FAO and the World Health Organization (WHO), was today confirmed by the Vatican’s Permanent Observer to the Rome-based UN agencies, Archbishop Luigi Travaglino.

via FAO – News Article: Pope Francis to attend the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2).

teabagger Alert!! – ‘Tea Party blogger sneaks into nursing home for photo of GOP Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife’

The Last Of The Millenniums

wife

Hey Senator Graham…..I found a real ‘scumbag’ for you……

‘A conservative Mississippi blogger was arrested Friday for sneaking into a nursing home to shoot a photo of the ailing wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)’.

‘According to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 28-year-old Clayton Thomas Kelly — who was charged with exploitation of a vulnerable adult — wanted the image to use in a “hit piece” video supporting Cochran’s far-right Tea Party primary challenger, Chris McDaniel’.

‘Kelly runs the Constitutional Clayton blog, where he regularly posts anti-Cochran rants, screeds against the United Nations, posts defending religious discrimination against LGBT people and a smattering of posts heaping praise on McDaniel, who Kelly calls “the next Rand Paul.”
From : http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/17/tea-party-blogger-sneaks-into-nursing-home-for-photo-of-sen-thad-cochrans-wife/

Yep….real teabag values….

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The Courageous Career of Slain French Photojournalist Camille Lepage · Global Voices

Conflicts on the African continent claimed another journalist last week. Camille Lepage, a 26-year-old French photojournalist, is the latest reporter to pay the ultimate price for trying to inform the world of the violence against unarmed civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Lepage’s body was found on May 15 by French peacekeepers in a village near the town of Bouar, CAR, in a car driven by Christian militia fighters known as Anti-Balaka.

The Central African Republic has been marred by conflict since 2012 when the Muslim faction Seleka and the Anti-Balaka began warring over control of the territory. Lepage is the first western journalist to be killed in the fighting.

She specialized in photojournalism in Africa, notably in Egypt, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. She explained that her motivation was to cover news stories that mainstream media tend to ignore. “I can’t accept that people’s tragedies are silenced simply because no one can make money out of them,” she said.

Emotions ran high after the news of her death broke, especially among her colleagues in the news industry and in communities with an interest in human rights and African affairs.

via The Courageous Career of Slain French Photojournalist Camille Lepage · Global Voices.