It’s late November, it’s dark at 4:30 (and darkish all the time), so have this.
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It’s late November, it’s dark at 4:30 (and darkish all the time), so have this.
Sociedad Argentina de Horticultura
The US is very far from being a beacon of human rights, and so is China.
Seven university students linked to jailed Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti have reportedly gone on trial in China’s westernmost province of Xinjiang.
Tohti was sentenced to life imprisonment in September for separatism and fanning ethnic tensions. [Read more…]
The BBC reports on the global media response to the Ferguson protests and their cause.
There has been enormous headline reaction in the world’s media to the Ferguson protests, and many commentators have taken the opportunity to question America’s credentials as a human rights champion.
European papers highlight inequalities in American society, and a South African commentator sees echoes of his country’s own grim racial history.
Jian Ghomeshi has been arrested. The CBC – his former employer – reports:
Former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi was granted bail today during a court appearance in Toronto to face four sexual assault charges, among the five he faces.
Ghomeshi’s bail was set at $100,000. He must live with his mother and stay in Canada. [Read more…]
News from Baluchistan Province – yet again men with guns have murdered polio workers in a region where polio is endemic.
Pakistan is one of three countries in the world, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where polio remains endemic. But even as Nigeria has managed to halt any rise in new cases, the virus has spread at alarming rates in Pakistan, with 260 new cases reported so far this year, compared with 64 at the same point in 2013, according to Global Polio Eradication Initiative statistics.
So Team We Hate Feminism is pleased that Dawkins withdrew his apology for Dear Muslima by telling Kimberly Winston that he gets impatient with American women who talk about things that he considers trivial instead of about women being stoned to death in Iran. Team We Hate Feminism wants more of that kind of thing. Team We Hate Feminism thinks it’s worthwhile to summon other Team Members, or rather Thought Leaders, to chortle over more of that kind of thing. Team We Hate Feminism can’t see a tweet about contempt for women in Turkey without making it a rebuke of feminists who have the gall to talk about sexist culture in STEM fields.
A friend on Facebook recommended this segment of The Newsroom and someone else found the link and I see why the friend recommended it.
The Jeff Daniels character interviews an EPA guy, who says it’s too late.
Originally a comment by freedmenspatrol on Guest post: A history lesson on states’ rights.
Kongstad, you’re dead on about neo-confederates and the actual confederates alike. The level of blatant hypocrisy in period texts about the issue gets pretty extreme.
When South Carolina finally staged the counterrevolution that it had threatened in one form or another for decades, they published a list of reasons for it. The document included this complaint:
The same article of the Constitution stipulates also for rendition by the several States of fugitives from justice from the other States. [Read more…]
Huh. Pope Cuddly went to Strasbourg to scold Europe for being too old and ugly.
Jeez. What about Mesopotamia?! What about the Rift Valley?!! Older and much older, so nyah.
Besides, does Mr Cuddly think he’s another Justin Bieber?
Pope Francis has warned that the world sees Europe as “somewhat elderly and haggard” during a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
“Warned”? What does Mr Cuddly expect Europe to do about it? Botox? The knife?
At the European Parliament, he spoke of a need to reinvigorate Europe, describing the continent as a “grandmother, no longer fertile and vibrant” and saying it risked “slowly losing its own soul”.
Ooooooooh, that’s harsh. Why doesn’t he just call Europe a witch and be done with it?
