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Lebanese Women’s Right to Nationality protest
Amazed that women have to fight of this right in “modern” Lebanon!?!
I participated today in the حق لي ولأسرتي (my right, my family’s right) protest organized by the Lebanese Women’s Right to Nationality and Full Citizenship NGO.
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Obama to speak about Iran deal from the White House
President Barack Obama will make a statement Saturday night on the Iran nuclear agreement from the White House.
Obama will speak shortly after the U.S. and its negotiating partners reached an agreement with Iran. The deal was finalized during talks in Geneva that stretched well past midnight.
The interim deal is aimed at slowing progress on Iran\’s nuclear program while a broader agreement is negotiated.
As part of the interim agreement, the U.S. offered the Iranians limited relief from crippling economic sanctions.
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Running in the dark
Go and keep on going!
Over the past couple of weeks, the upward curve of the mileage required by my marathon training plan has started to run into the downward curve of the daylight hours available for running, which means I find myself, more and more, running in the dark. Last night was one such run. I got out of work at 4 p.m. and by the time I made it home, dressed in my running gear and was out the door, it was ten minutes until 5 p.m. I estimated that I had about 90 minutes to do the ten-mile run I had scheduled (eight miles at race pace, plus a mile each for warm-up and cool down) before dark fell.
Well, I estimated badly. I was just about to start the seventh mile of my run when I realized the sun was quickly saying bye-bye, and because I was nearing the end of…
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Fajardo’s Laguna Grande Loses Bioluminescence
Florida Bottlenose Dolphins Dying in Droves
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Helping hand
Shocking censorship – police threaten to arrest satirical blogger for criticising rogue landlords
(not satire – unfortunately)
This is truly shocking. Police in the UK today are threatening to arrest, prosecute and even help evict tenants who publicly complain about rogue landlords. I find it hard to believe this kind of censorship is going on in Britain today. Please share.
When several tenants complained to police about their treatment at the hands of a couple of wealthy rogue landlords in Hastings, Sussex, they were told the police could do nothing to help them because it was a civil matter.
Here’s an article from local newspaper the Hastings Observer as an example of some of the problems tenants have been having with Oakfield Property in Hastings:
Couple crushed by Oakfield clashes
However, when one of the tenants decided to fight back by setting up a website criticising the dodgy landlords with satirical cartoons – Hastings Police told her to take down the critical posts…
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