About Kaci Hickox and her nursing license Oct 30 2014. Shoplifting Video ... Ellen's Got Nothing on Me (VIDEO) Amanda Bynes danced furiously in a New York clothing store before trying to pilfer a shirt ... and TMZ has the video.
The House GOP's crumbling anti-Obama lawsuit. Americans first learned back on June 24, more than four months ago, about the House Republican plan to file a lawsuit against President Obama.
Two weeks later, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced the basis for the case: the GOP would sue to implement an obscure provision of the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans don’t actually want to see implemented. When the case was announced, congressional Republicans made it seem as if they were headed to court as part of a bold move to preserve our constitutional system of government against the tyrannical moves of a lawless presidency.
But four months later, it looks as if Boehner & Co. got lost on the way to the courthouse. Israel moves closer to building 1,000 settler housing units in East Jerusalem. The Israeli government is to advance construction plans for 1,000 housing units to be built in parts of Jerusalem that Palestinians demand for their future state.
The move, revealed by the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu,, is the first in what is expected to be a series of announcements this week on new settlement construction work in East Jerusalem and on the occupied West Bank. It comes despite a warning from the US this month that continued construction would “poison the atmosphere” and distance Israel from even its closest allies. "Those Terrible Weeks in their Camps": Boko Haram Violence against Women and Girls in Northeast Nigeria. The increase in the number of abductions since mid-2013 appears to mark a change of strategy by Boko Haram.
From 2009 through early 2013, the group did not appear to target women and girls specifically. Instead, it primarily launched assaults against those it considered part of an unjust and corrupt system: members of the security services, politicians, civil servants, and other symbols of authority. By early 2012 schools and students became increasingly targeted for attacks, worsening already dire education indices in the Northeast, which has the lowest primary and secondary school net attendance ratio in the country.
From 2009 to early 2013, according to Human Rights Watch’s research and monitoring of abuses, Boko Haram abducted individual women and girls from their homes or from the street during attacks on their communities. AaronsonHingham201406.pdf. 5 products you probably buy that are quietly driving human rights abuses. Being a consumer means participating in a vast, global system of supply chains, labor markets, and corporations, and almost all of it beyond the average person's visibility.
It can be near-impossible to judge which products might be tied up in something nefarious or destructive. Making this more difficult, there is no truly effective international authority to govern private corporations and guide consumers. The United Nations has tried, but of the world's roughly 80,000 multinational corporations, only 323 appear on a UN list of companies with stated human rights policies, according to GWU Professor Susan Ariel Aaronson and researcher Aaron Higham.
Or those companies, Aaronson and Higham finds that only a fraction have policies that meet UN standards for corporate codes. Ban Ki-moon criticises Ebola restrictions put on healthcare workers. As the UN secretary general criticised restrictions being placed on healthcare workers returning to the US after treating Ebola patients, the White House insisted on Monday that is up to state and local authorities to decide whether to follow national scientific guidelines on quarantines.
After the governors of New York and New Jersey relaxed new quarantine measures that were criticised by the White House and medical professionals, Ban said in a statement that he was concerned by controls being placed on medics arriving in the US and elsewhere. “Returning health workers are exceptional people who are giving of themselves for humanity,” said Ban in a statement released by the UN. 7 things the middle class can't afford anymore. During debates and speeches, politicians often bring up the financial burden that's placed on the middle class.
We talk about the middle class as though they are this singular entity, who used to thrive until they underwent persecution by the evil 1%. But, realistically speaking, the middle class and the 99% are not really synonymous. So, who are the middle class? In its discussion of historical middle class societies, The Economist reports, "Their members are neither rich nor poor but somewhere in-between. . . . Why Do We Keep Thanking the Troops? Delegates hold "Thank You" signs in honor of U.S. troops and veterans during the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina.
(Reuters/Chris Keane) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. The Science Of Fox News: Why Its Viewers Are The Most Misinformed. The Core Thesis:Authoritarian people have a stronger emotional need for an outlet like Fox, where they can find affirmation and escape factual challenges to their beliefs.
Insights from Chris Mooney’s book The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality. Now I know this is going to raise all kinds of hackles but I find the book fascinating and the article referred to here does a reasonable strong job representing a research heavy 336 page tome. The Amazon Link provided provides more insights in the reviews there. 3 billion gallons of oil industry wastewater has been injected illegally into California Aquifers. Ebola Facts: How Many Ebola Patients Have Been Treated Outside Africa? The 13th Step. Violent/ Sex offenders are plea-bargained daily into AA and nobody knows.
Innocent victims are being, harassed, raped and murdered. Elizabeth Peña and the Truth About Alcoholic Women. Jamie Blandford, the 12th Duke of Marlborough is the latest in a long, disreputable line of British aristocrats, whose high-spending, drug-taking excesses have landed them in jail—and worse. Jamie Blandford, who has become the 12th Duke of Marlborough following the death of the 11th Duke at the age of 88, was once described by his father as the “black sheep” of the Spencer-Churchill family (British aristocrats have an unnerving habit of changing their name as they ascend the family tree), and with good reason. Jamie has long been celebrated—or disdained, depending on one’s perspective—as one of the most riotous of British aristocrats. His Grace, as we must now address him, has more than 20 criminal convictions going back 30 years for offenses ranging from drug possession to burglary. In 2007 he was jailed for six months for a road rage attack. Despicable New York Woman Defaces Yosemite, Other Parks With Her Art: SFist.
One of Nocket's graffiti artworks near Crater Lake in Oregon. Photo via Instagram A woman by the name of Casey Nocket recently traveled from New York out west to deface some of our national parks with her crappy art, and then Instagram it. Nocket doesn't sound like the sharpest knife in the drawer given the fact that she was broadcasting her rampant vandalism and was fully aware that what she was doing was not allowed, as Modern Hiker reports. But now she's at least deleted her Instagram and is waiting quietly somewhere for a call from Parks Police. Did she think this made her some kind of amazing rebel artist? Mexico missing students: Mayor, wife suspected.
Mexico's attorney general says the mayor of the town of Iguala and his wife are suspected of involvement in the disappearance of 43 student protesters in the area last month. From NPR: The students were apparently headed toward Iguala when they were intercepted and attacked by police acting on the instructions of the mayor; six students were killed outright and 43 are still missing. Canada's Parliament Gives Sergeant-At-Arms Standing Ovation. Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers is applauded in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Thursday.
Vickers was credited with shooting the suspect during an attack on the Parliament complex on Wednesday. Chris Wattie/Reuters/Landov hide caption itoggle caption Chris Wattie/Reuters/Landov. Annie Lennox Doesn’t Give a Damn What You Think. AP U.S. History: Why “Historical Thinking” Is Controversial. King Tut Revealed: Scientists do Virtual Autopsy of the Famous King and Find Shocking Surprises. Police Report Sheds New Light on Palin Brawl. Ohio Governor Kasich says Obamacare is here to stay, backtracks. This story has been updated. Roman Catholic Church and Homosexuality: Celibate gay Catholics are driving the changes in the church. Iran nuclear program: Scaled back, IAEA says. Why Voter ID Laws Aren’t Really about Fraud. Voters going to the polls in Texas starting this week will have to show one of a few specific forms of photo ID under a controversial new law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court over the weekend.
Three minutes on Ebola worth watching on 'Meet the Press.' Really! Meet The Press finally put on a substantive program that showed a few rays of what good journalism could look like. ALEC Resorts to Religious Hate to Raise Cash. Something truly curious happened yesterday. In a fundraising effort, ALEC railed against the Unitarian Universalist Church as a bunch of professional activists trampling on their "freedom. " George Will Ohio Campus Appearance Sparks Protests Over Rape Column.
George Will's planned appearance at Miami University this week is sparking fierce opposition and planned protests on campus, with both students and faculty speaking out against the event as "highly inappropriate" due to Will's repeated comments that trivialize campus rape. In Reversal, Pro-Gun Forbes Columnist Discloses National Rifle Association Ties In Latest Column. After repeatedly using his regular Forbes column to attack gun safety efforts without mentioning that he also writes for the National Rifle Association, Frank Miniter's latest column discloses his ties to the gun group.
Keeping Faith in Democracy. Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria. Dallas Hospital Alters Account, Raising Questions on Ebola Case. Downfall for Hospital Where Ebola Spread. Addicting Info – Rich Guys Try To Kick Poor Kids Off Their Own Playing Field, Get A Life Lesson Instead (VIDEO) Security threatens Russell Brand in front of Fox News headquarters: ‘You wanna get arrested?’ Dollar Tree stores accused of ‘willfully and repeatedly’ endangering workers. Bill Maher rips Dallas hospital and US fumbles on Ebola: ‘What the f*ck?’ A 1998 ice storm was so stressful on pregnant women, it shows up in DNA of their kids. Navarro College in Texas apologizes after rejecting Nigerian applicants over Ebola fears. 9 reasons Christopher Columbus was a murderer, tyrant, and scoundrel.
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