The Recording Academy has finally decided to rock and rhyme on time and award Queens hip-hop legends Run DMC a Lifetime Achievement Grammy award. The trio will become the first rap act ever to receive the Grammys highest honor; since its inception in 1962, the Lifetime Achievement Award has gone to legends like The Beatles, The Ramones, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, and the late David Bowie. [ more › ]
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Gender-Neutral Single Stall Restrooms May Soon Be Status Quo In NYC
New York City is well on its way toward adopting legislation that would require all single-stall restrooms to be gender neutral, a move that’s being hailed as a positive step forward in the fight for equal rights and safety for transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals. This afternoon the city council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings heard testimony on Intro-0871, a bill that would amend city plumbing, housing, and administrative codes to require existing single-occupancy bathrooms be usable by people of any gender. [ more › ]
Bavarian official sends bus full of refugees to Chancellor Merkel
The head of Bavaria’s Landshut area has sent a bus with 51 refugees to Berlin. The reason, he says, is his region’s inability to find accommodation and a loss of trust in the federal government.
Goldman Sachs reaches $5.1 billion mortgage bond fraud settlement
The $5.1 billion settlement to be paid by Goldman Sachs is the latest in a series of multibillion dollar penalties levied against Wall Street banks. The fraud played a key role in triggering the 2008 economic crisis.
Ellen Degeneres Fan Awarded $33K After Cops Shoved Him For Dancing Near Them
A man who sued the city after he dared to dance behind some unsuspecting cops outside Grand Central, and wound up thrown to the ground by those officers, has been awarded $33K by a Manhattan judge. [ more › ]
Fight ‘Islamic State’ by preventing illegal artifacts trade
Germany’s culture commissioner has said that curbing “IS'” finances can be done by clamping down on looted artifacts reaching German markets. Her comments come as the UN seeks new ways to impede terrorism financing.
Saudi Arabia arrests sister of jailed blogger Badawi
The sister of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes, was arrested on Tuesday and briefly jailed, Amnesty International said, calling it “damning proof” of the kingdom’s human rights abuses.
Ted Cruz Didn’t Disclose Loan From Goldman Sachs for His First Senate Campaign
Poll: Majority of Americans support next president pushing tighter gun laws
US immigration raids as seen from El Salvador
Central America is at the gates of a wave of deportations of its undocumented citizens in the US which will aggravate the precarious situation of the region and could lead to a “certain death” for thousands who left fleeing the gangs.
This is the opening paragraph from an article in El Salvador’s leading newspaper La Prensa Grafica on Sunday. This paragraph highlights how Salvadorans are viewing the raids by US immigration authorities starting New Years weekend which rounded up Central Americans who were under orders of deportation. The news coverage of these immigration raids at migrant’s homes and the subsequent deportations has been constant.
Church leaders in El Salvador denounced the deportations. The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar, used the occasion of his Sunday press conference to call on president Obama to stop the deportations. Escobar labelled the deportations unjust and urged the US to adopt comprehensive immigration reform. Salvadoran Lutheran bishop Medardo Gomez called for migrants who had fled for their lives to be granted asylum in the US, and warned of what could befall them if they were sent back to El Salvador.
US Ambassador to El Salvador Mari Carmen Aponte was forced to give a press conference to defend her country’s actions. She stated that families need to understand that there are consequences for failing to comply with US immigration law which had not changed. Those who failed to comply with the law would be deported, she said, emphasizing that the current round-ups were for those persons who already had an order of deportation after immigration courts had determined they did not qualify for any available status to remain.
The Salvadoran government announced a program for re-integration of Salavadorans deported back to the country.
What the New York Times calls a shameful roundup of refugees has been a major foreign policy mistake for the US. The number of Central Americans being deported in these raids is tiny compared to the more than 21,000 Salvadorans deported from the US and Mexico in 2015. But the result has been news coverage in El Salvador and throughout Central America where the US is easily portrayed as a heartless country rounding up mothers and children at the beginning of a new year and sending them back to mortal danger. It might be a policy intended for political benefits in the US, but if the idea was to deter more migrants from coming it won’t work. The only thing getting more news coverage than the immigration raids is the record wave of violence which forces people to flee..
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