Category Archives: human rights

Iranian sting uncovers ′un-Islamic′ criminal modeling ring | News | DW.COM | 16.05.2016

Iranian voters ushered President Hassan Rouhani into office in part over his more liberal stance, but his power is limited in the face of Iran’s myriad competing centers of power and the Supreme Leader. On Saturday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said un-Islamic thoughts on the Internet should be watched and countered. Young women in Tehran leave some hair showing from their scarves. “This is a real battlefield. The clerics and seminary students should prepare to enter this field and fight against deviations and erroneous thoughts,” Khamenei was quoted as saying on his website. Iran blocks Facebook, Youtube and many other websites, but many Iranians get around censorship and filtering by using a virtual private network (VPN). Online sedition is monitored by a branch of the feared Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Source: Iranian sting uncovers ′un-Islamic′ criminal modeling ring | News | DW.COM | 16.05.2016

The women will win out because they are on the right side of history.

Two men kicked off plane in what captain calls ‘racist act’ – The Local

Shortly before the flight was due to take off from Moss airport in Rygge, just outside the Norwegian capital Oslo, passengers were asked to disembark and police carried out a search of the aircraft. Two men were detained by police for suspicious behaviour but were later released. Police said that the two men, one British and one Sri Lankan, had been heard arguing loudly in the toilet, and some passengers thought they heard the word ‘bomb’, according to media reports. Meanwhile, a passenger was removed from an easyJet flight in Pisa in early April after another passenger complained of “suspicious behaviour”. On the same day, Meghary Yemane-Tesfagiorgis, from London, told Britain’s ITV news that he was the victim of racial profiling after being asked to leave an easyJet plane that was readying for take-off from Rome on March 29th because another passenger “felt uncomfortable”.

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Duterte vows to kill criminals and reintroduce hanging in Philippines | World news | The Guardian

“What I will do is urge Congress to restore (the) death penalty by hanging,” Duterte, 71, told a press conference in Davao on Sunday. He also said he would give security forces “shoot-to-kill” orders against organised criminals or those who violently resisted arrest. “If you resist, show violent resistance, my order to police (will be) to shoot to kill. Shoot to kill for organised crime. You heard that? Shoot to kill for every organised crime,” he said. He said military sharp shooters would be enlisted in his campaign to kill criminals. Duterte also vowed to introduce a 2am curfew on drinking in public places, and ban children from walking on the streets alone late at night. If children were picked up on the streets, their parents would be arrested and thrown into jail for “abandonment”, he said. Duterte said he wanted capital punishment – which was abolished in 2006 under then-president Gloria Arroyo – to be reintroduced for a wide range of crimes, particularly drugs, but also rape, murder and robbery. He added he preferred death by hanging to a firing squad because he did not want to waste bullets, and because he believed snapping the spine with a noose was more humane. Advertisement The centrepiece of Duterte’s stunningly successful election campaign strategy was a pledge to end crime within three to six months of being elected. Duterte vowed during the campaign to kill tens of thousands criminals, outraging his critics but hypnotising tens of millions of Filipinos fed up with rampant crime and graft. On one occasion he said 100,000 people would die, and so many bodies would be dumped in Manila Bay that the fish would grow fat from feeding on them. He complained on Sunday that people no longer feared the law, and he would change that. “We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only,” he said. “Do not destroy my country because I will kill you. I will kill you. No middle ground. As long as the requirements of the law are there, if you try to evade arrest, refuse arrest… and you put up a good fight or resist violently, I will say: ‘Kill them’.”

Source: Duterte vows to kill criminals and reintroduce hanging in Philippines | World news | The Guardian

Cape Grim carbon dioxide reading exceeds 400ppm landmark for first time – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Cape Grim, on the remote north-western tip of Tasmania, is the only station analysing baseline carbon levels in the southern hemisphere. Scientists warned last week that the world’s cleanest air was nearing the 400ppm milestone. Lead scientist Paul Krummel, from the CSIRO, said the landmark CO2 figure was concerning. “It’s probably one of the last places on Earth to actually reach this milestone, and it just highlights the ever-increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere,” he said. The key impacts of carbon monoxide is warming the atmosphere and acidifying the oceans. “Globally, this is going to contribute to rising temperatures, which we are already seeing in the atmosphere,” Mr Krummel said. “It’s another milestone that we’ve reached where it’s indicating that the health of the planet is probably in trouble.” Mr Krummel said initial analysis last year predicted Cape Grim would not record such high measurements until June or July. “It’s certainly come earlier than I expected … most likely due to El Nino effects on the CO2,” he said. The El Nino weather pattern causes hotter and drier conditions, preventing the growth of plants that would suck up carbon dioxide. The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station is operated by the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology. It measures the presence of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide and ozone-depleting gases like aerosols. The station samples some of the cleanest air on the planet, derived from the Southern Ocean and unaffected by any nearby urban pollution. When measurements began in 1976, carbon dioxide levels were slightly more than 300 parts per million.

Source: Cape Grim carbon dioxide reading exceeds 400ppm landmark for first time – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

NYPD Used ‘Body Bags’ To Make 122 Arrests In 110 Days: Gothamist

Nonetheless, use of the bags appears relatively routine—though zipping them over the restrained person’s head, as was done in the inciting video, seems rarer. Attorney David Rankin, who has represented clients that have been restrained in EDP bags, told us in March that he’d never heard of the bag being zipped over someone’s head. And a source who works in the psychiatric emergency room of a New York City hospital said that she sees the “burritos” on a weekly basis, but has never seen one used to move someone, or cover a patient’s head.

Source: NYPD Used ‘Body Bags’ To Make 122 Arrests In 110 Days: Gothamist

An artful robe full of thoughts

The pieces of cloth that understands Huppert symbolizing skin were sewn on the inside of a large tarpaulin hemp fabric, which in turn is held by the wire in the form. 1997, “The Robe” finish – a seeming archaic, walkable tent object of 15 meters, 25 square meters outer surface and an estimated 250 kg weight, its internal and external appearance subject to change depending on the light. The handwritten texts float, formed into rolls of paper, unattainable far above, but can be found on the project website – here the entire history is documented. For the funded Kirchenstiftung resumption of the project Huppert had now specifically launched a new call. Since April 40 more pieces of fabric were sewn on Tuesday pulled a construction company, the sculpture carefully high. The original thought, “The Robe” to send on trips, Huppert was never realized until now – now she wants to tackle the idea again.

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Right-wing coup and who cares? Michel Temer, Brazil’s Interim President, May Herald Shift to the Right – The New York Times

The new Brazilian president’s first pick for science minister was a creationist. He chose a soybean tycoon who has deforested large tracts of the Amazon rain forest to be his agriculture minister. And he is the first leader in decades to have no women in his cabinet at all. The new government of President Michel Temer — the 75-year-old lawyer who took the helm of Brazil on Thursday after his predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, was suspended by the Senate to face an impeachment trial — could cause a significant shift to the political right in Latin America’s largest country. “Temer’s government is starting out well,” Silas Malafaia, a television evangelist and author of best-selling books like “How to Defeat Satan’s Strategies,” wrote on Twitter. “He’ll be able to sweep away the ideology of pathological leftists,” Mr. Malafaia added of a conservative lawmaker whom Mr. Temer chose as education minister.

Source: Michel Temer, Brazil’s Interim President, May Herald Shift to the Right – The New York Times

Brazil′s interim President Michel Temer vows to restore economic growth | News | DW.COM | 12.05.2016 Soft coup leader and pimp for corrupt mega-oligopolists will fail – next a military coup?

Temer under investigation for corruption Unlike many of the senators and Temer himself, Rousseff is not under investigation for corruption, even though much of the graft at state owned oil giant Petrobras happened while the Workers’ Party was in power. Temer vowed to fight corruption and maintain the wide reaching investigation into graft, though critics worry he will use his power to undermine investigations into the country’s political and business elite. Temer sought to smooth concerns he would unravel social programs implemented by the Workers’ Party that brought an estimated 35 million people out of poverty over the past decade.

Source: Brazil′s interim President Michel Temer vows to restore economic growth | News | DW.COM | 12.05.2016

Serena Williams eats dog food, begs world not to judge

{Seems that racists and anti-feminists will stoop as low as they can in search to hurt on of the most outstanding competitors in the world. Duh – dog food, cat food is all mammal food. Trying to make Serena seem weird or whatever is mean, small, and racist.}

In a no-holds-barred social media confessional, Serena Williams admits to tasting her dog’s pet food, only to overcome any ill effects to advance at the Rome Masters.Original enclosures:

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