Category Archives: Fail!

Argentina seeks negotiations with UK over Falklands | News | DW.COM | 04.01.2016

Argentina is firmly committed to “peacefully settling its differences” and to “international law and multilateralism,” the nation’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.The statement confirmed that the new Argentinean government would continue to press its territorial claim on the Falkland Islands, with the conflict remaining the key stumbling block between Buenos Aires and London.The administration “invites the United Kingdom to resume, as soon as possible, the negotiations aimed at settling the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas [Falklands] islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich islands and surrounding territorial seas fairly and definitively,” the ministry said.

Source: Argentina seeks negotiations with UK over Falklands | News | DW.COM | 04.01.2016

Middle East – Protests over Saudi execution of Shiite cleric turn deadly in Iraq – France 24

{No question any longer that Saudi Arabia aids ISIS and its terrorism by further dividing Sunni and Shia Muslims.}

The spark for Sunday’s attacks appears to have been Nimr’s execution a day earlier, which triggered angry reactions in Shi’ite-led Iraq and Iran.Saudi Arabia cut ties with regional rival Iran on Sunday after protesters attacked the kingdom’s embassy in Tehran. Bahrain, the Shi’ite-majority Gulf state ruled by a Sunni family, and Sudan followed suit on Monday.The attack on a mosque in central Hilla destroyed its dome and several walls, according to a Reuters TV cameraman who visited the site. Provincial council member Falah al-Khafaji and a police source said a guard in the building was killed.“We saw smoke rising from the dome of the mosque. We found all the walls destroyed and the furniture inside in shambles,” said resident Uday Hassan Ali.Another mosque in Hilla’s northern outskirts was also attacked, and a Sunni cleric was killed in a separate incident in Iskandariya, about 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, Khafaji and the police source said.“We have leads and security measures will be taken near mosques,” said Khafaji, pledging to rebuild the buildings.

Source: Middle East – Protests over Saudi execution of Shiite cleric turn deadly in Iraq – France 24

DuPont’s deadly deceit: The decades-long cover-up behind the “world’s most slippery material” – Salon.com Ohio screwed again by upstream polluters!

On October 7, after less than a day of deliberations, the jury found DuPont liable for Bartlett’s cancer, agreeing with the defendant that the company had for years negligently contaminated her drinking water supply in Tuppers Plain, Ohio with a toxic chemical formerly used to make its signature brand of nonstick coating: Teflon.

Source: DuPont’s deadly deceit: The decades-long cover-up behind the “world’s most slippery material” – Salon.com

Armed anti-government militiamen seize federal wildlife refuge in Oregon | News | DW.COM | 03.01.2016

Many locals in Burns want the Bundy family to leave

The sentencing has stirred controversy in a tight-knit rural community and reignited a long-running dispute between ranchers and the federal government over grazing land.The Hammonds’ case has drawn the attention of far-right, anti-government groups , including the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.Previous standoffBacked by right-wing militia, the Bundy family challenged the federal government in a 2014 standoff after the federal Bureau of Land Management tried to remove cattle from public grazing land.Bundy owed more than $1 million in arrears to the government after not paying leasing fees for some 20 years. The Bureau ultimately handed back the cattle and federal agents withdrew.Taking up the Hammonds’ cause, Ammon Bundy and other militiamen arrived in Burns in December. Ammon told “The Oregonian” the militiamen demanded the Hammonds be released from prison.

Source: Armed anti-government militiamen seize federal wildlife refuge in Oregon | News | DW.COM | 03.01.2016

Confederate Flag-Waving, Anti-Government, Open-Carry Nut Fatally Shoots His Two Toddlers | Occupy Democrats

Neighbors report that Fuller was often intoxicated, and often firing off his guns. He was also reported to be very paranoid, convinced that his house was going to be broken into. He called a friend shortly after shooting his sons, telling him that he had shot his sons and was about to begin firing on law enforcement. Instead, he turned his gun on himself.It’s a horrific outburst of murderous violence from a delusional, paranoid, anti-government, gun-obsessed conservative. Or, as the NRA would put it, “just a regular Sunday.”

Source: Confederate Flag-Waving, Anti-Government, Open-Carry Nut Fatally Shoots His Two Toddlers | Occupy Democrats

Driver rams car into French soldiers guarding mosque in Valence | News | DW.COM | 01.01.2016

The perpetrator attempted to hit the soldiers twice, and they shot at him on the second attempt, he added.“Even if this happened near a mosque, the target was the soldiers,” the mayor stated.France has been on high alert since “Islamic State” (IS) militants killed 130 people in shootings and suicide bombs in Paris in November.Across the country soldiers are protecting sensitive places, including official buildings and religious sites.

Source: Driver rams car into French soldiers guarding mosque in Valence | News | DW.COM | 01.01.2016

Israel bans novel on Arab-Jewish love story | News | DW.COM | 31.12.2015

Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan holds her novel ‘Borderlife’The book, ”

The book, “Borderlife,” by the Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan, tells the story of Liat, an Israeli translator, and Hilmi, a Palestinian artist, who meet in New York and fall in love. Eventually, they go their separate ways, as she has to return to Tel Aviv and the to the West Bank city of Ramallah.

“Intimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threaten the separate identity of each sector,” the Education Ministry said in a statement, adding that “young adolescents don’t have the systemic view that includes considerations involving maintaining the national, ethnic identity of the people and the significance of miscegenation.”

 

 

Preventing fruitful debate

However, many cultural figures in Israel, and even high school pupils themselves, tend to disagree.

“I know I may not represent the opinion of all the students, but I personally think it’s pretty stupid to ban the book,” Noa, a 17-year-old student from Haifa, told DW. “What happens now is that it created such a stir that our teacher is forced to talk about the book with us, because we keep asking her about it,” she adds.

Source: Israel bans novel on Arab-Jewish love story | News | DW.COM | 31.12.2015

Exclusive: Microsoft to warn email users of suspected hacking by governments | Reuters{Umm, err, aah, wouldn’t making better more secure be a better bet? Hotmail has been the most hacked software in history!}

The Hotmail attacks had also targeted diplomats, media workers, human rights lawyers, and others in sensitive positions inside China, according to the former employees.Microsoft had told the targets to reset their passwords but did not tell them that they had been hacked. Five victims interviewed by Reuters said they had not taken the password request as an indication of hacking.Online free-speech activists and security experts have long called for more direct warnings, saying that they prompt behavioral changes from email users.

Source: Exclusive: Microsoft to warn email users of suspected hacking by governments | Reuters