Category Archives: human rights

Deputies Mistakenly Killed ‘Tosh.0’ Production Assistant In West Hollywood: LAist

Deputies executed rather than arrested people who did not have weapons in their hands!

When deputies arrived, a man “bleeding profusely from the neck” rushed out of the apartment with Winkler trailing behind him. Deputies were told the suspect was a white man wearing a black shirt. Winkler fit the description. Three deputies fired their guns, hitting both Winkler and the stabbing victim.

via Deputies Mistakenly Killed ‘Tosh.0’ Production Assistant In West Hollywood: LAist.

British government seeks more power to strip citizenship – UPI.com

This will be GOP-Tea Baggers-Koch Brothers next ploy – Strip citizenship from Americans whom they don’t like!

While most Western countries regard citizenship a right, Britain’s Home Secretary Teresa May called it “a privilege, not a right,” and the government’s program of removing citizenship from selected naturalized citizens is beginning to stir public debate, and other countries are watching closely.

A bill giving the Canadian government deprivation powers is in Parliament, and Australia and the Netherlands are considering similar legislation.

Forty-two people in Britain have had their citizenship removed since 2006, 20 in the past year. The formal procedure typically takes place while the citizen is out of the country, rendering him or her stateless. Israel, by comparison, has used the process only three times since 2000.

via British government seeks more power to strip citizenship – UPI.com.

2 US lawmakers tour Aqsa with right-wing Jews | Maan News Agency

Two members of the US Congress on Thursday joined right-wing Jews who toured the al-Aqsa Mosque compound escorted by Israeli police officers, a Jerusalem-based Fatah official said.

Dimitri Daliani told Ma’an that Republicans Bill Johnson of Ohio and David McKinley of Virginia entered the compound with the “extremist” Chaim Richman, director of the rightist Temple Institute.

Daliani said the “congressmen’s participation in such criminal incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque without being questioned by their own government indicates collusion with settler gangs whose aim is to hurt the al-Aqsa Mosque.”

Daliani urged Arab and Muslim communities in the United States districts represented by those representatives to “punish them at the ballots.”

via 2 US lawmakers tour Aqsa with right-wing Jews | Maan News Agency.

Drunk Driver Who Killed Brooklyn Pedestrian Gets No Jail Time, $500 Fine: Gothamist

A drunk driver who fatally struck a 27-year-old woman in Brooklyn last July was issued a six-month license suspension, a $500 fine and three years probation, after pleading guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was not charged with manslaughter.

According to Streetsblog, 26-year-old Eric Nesmith was handed the nominal sentence yesterday. The sentencing came just over nine months after Nesmith struck and killed 27-year-old Roxana Gomez while she was walking at St. Mark’s and Flatbush Ave in Park Slope on the night of July 5th. Though FDNY first responders noted he was speeding at the time, and the NYPD reported he had a blood alcohol level of .126, Nesmith was not charged with manslaughter following Gomez’s death. Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson told Streetsblog in January “that alcohol was not a contributing factor in the death of the pedestrian in this case.”

via Drunk Driver Who Killed Brooklyn Pedestrian Gets No Jail Time, $500 Fine: Gothamist.

News from The Associated Press – Heartbleed 99% Spin

If hackers had been taking advantage of it for two years – we’d all be broke now and three guys – instead of the 10 guys – would have all the money in the world. Beware of cyber-security experts trying to sell you stuff you don’t need and of news outlets using scare headlines to sell their services!

Security researchers who uncovered the threat, known as “Heartbleed,” are particularly worried about the vulnerability because it went undetected for more than two years. They fear the possibility that computer hackers may have been secretly exploiting the problem before its discovery.

via News from The Associated Press.

 

If hackers had been taking advantage of it for two years – we’d all be broke now and three guys – instead of the 10 guys – would have all the money in the world. Beware of cyber-security experts trying to sell you stuff you don’t need and of news outlets using scare headlines to sell their services!

Polluting of Lake Okeechobee Must End, Court Rules | Earthjustice

Why you should not trust Big Ag about anything but their desire for big profits!

Our case was 11 years in the making—we first filed it in 2002 to challenge the practice of “backpumping.” Backpumping works like this: South Florida sugar and vegetable growers pump the public’s waters out of Lake Okeechobee to irrigate fields. They wash the water over their industrial-sized crops, where it gets contaminated with fertilizers and other pollutants. Then, the agribusinesses get taxpayers in the South Florida Water Management District to pay to pump the contaminated water—along with some polluted run-off from industrial areas and city streets—back into Lake Okeechobee, where it pollutes public drinking water supplies for West Palm Beach, Fort Myers and the entire Lower East Coast metropolitan area.

via Polluting of Lake Okeechobee Must End, Court Rules | Earthjustice.

Starving Artists Fed Up; Seek To Establish Industry Standards With Teamsters Local 705 (Chicago, IL) | ArtLeaks

Mana Terry Dowd is opposing the Teamsters’ efforts to help professional art handlers in making their job one they can thrive in. Mana Terry Dowd is suspected of including managers and supervisors as eligible voters in the upcoming election in an effort to undermine the art handlers’ organizing efforts. Teamsters Local 705 plans to challenge Mana Terry Dowd’s actions at the National Labor Relations Board, but often even that doesn’t stop Mana Terry Dowd and companies like them from dealing dirty with their professional art handlers.

via Starving Artists Fed Up; Seek To Establish Industry Standards With Teamsters Local 705 (Chicago, IL) | ArtLeaks.

Congressman Busted on First Base Asks for FBI Review of Video – The Wire

No shame and wannabe Teflon Religious Representative has similar supporters and one of the no-shamers is a local minister!

To help McAllister try to change focus from his indiscretion to the identity of the leaker, a local pastor came forward to the News-Star to say that he knows who the leaker was: McAllister’s current office manager. Christian Life Church pastor Danny Chance also claimed that there’s a “conspiracy” to remove McAllister from office:

“I’m not taking up for the congressman; what he did was wrong…But I just feel like there is a conspiracy to bring Vance down and destroy him. For someone on his staff to do that is wrong.”

Although the staffer in question didn’t speak to the paper, Terry did tell the News-Star that he was aware of the allegation and has spoken to the staffer. She denied involvement, he added, and she remained employed by the congressman as of Tuesday.

via Congressman Busted on First Base Asks for FBI Review of Video – The Wire.

Soldiers stand by as Israeli settlers attack Palestinian school girls | Maan News Agency

Israeli settlers on Wednesday assaulted Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank, a school official said.

A school principal told Ma’an that a group of extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones at school girls in the village of al-Tuwani, leaving them bruised.

Israeli soldiers stood by and watched without taking action as the settlers threw rocks, the principal said.

The girls who sustained injuries were identified as Kifah Omar Abu Jundiyya and Dalal Awad Zein, both seventh graders.

In al-Tuwani and other areas in the southern Hebron district, school children on a daily basis wait at checkpoints for Israeli soldiers to let them through locked gates.

Regardless of Israeli military presence, settler attacks on children en route to and from school remain commonplace, the principal said.

via Soldiers stand by as Israeli settlers attack Palestinian school girls | Maan News Agency.

Ain al-Hilweh refugees want to emigrate – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

This is what the idea of ​​the migration project is: “Either we live with dignity and they leave us alone or we leave. We do not have the right to travel to any Arab country, and we do not hold any passport. All we have is a travel document that no one recognizes. The idea of ​​claiming the right to emigrate is not aimed at giving up the right to return, but at living a decent life and staking a future for the Palestinian people,” Ghuzai added.

via Ain al-Hilweh refugees want to emigrate – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.

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