France Arrests Rwandan Over Congo Atrocities. A Boot to the Head ...from Michael Moore. By Michael Moore There she was, thrown to the pavement by a Republican in a checkered shirt. Another Republican thrusts his foot in between her legs and presses down with all his weight to pin her to the curb. Then a Republican leader comes over and viciously stomps on her head with his foot.
You hear her glasses crunch under the pressure. Holding her head down with his foot, he applies more force so she can't move. Her skull and brain are now suffering a concussion. The young woman’s name is Lauren Valle, but she is really all of us. Teachers union? Muslim-looking people? Thinking of retiring soon? Living in a house you can no longer afford? Doing a bit better with your minimum wage? Stem cell research, the bullet train, reversing global warming? What? In love with someone of your own gender? Hoping there's a few jobs left here in the U.S. when you graduate? And if they win on Tuesday, they plan to show no mercy. Make no mistake about it, my friends. Done? What say you? Yours, Trois anciens députés britanniques passibles d'un procès au pénal. Des nouvelles de la frontière Nicaragua/Costa Rica et Google Maps. Plusieurs sites proposent des analyses sur cet incident diplomatique entre le Costa Rica et le Nicaragua: Goopilation propose la traduction de la réponse officielle de Google (via Google Lat Long); Google reconnait ses erreurs et s'appuie sur une démonstration historique pour justifier leurs changements de frontière: "ne version corrigée suivra la rive est de la rivière San Juan vers le nord, presque jusqu’aux Caraïbes.
Elle tournera alors vers l’est, longeant le rivage sud d’un large lagon, Laguna los Portillos. Cette représentation suit la démarcation définie par le Premier Accord d’Arbitrage de 1897, qui affirmait le traité de Cañas-Jerez de 1858.En 1888, le Président des Etats-Unis Grover Cleveland fut sollicité par le Nicaragua et le Costa Rica pour arbitrer le conflit. Cette année là, le New York Times publia la décision du Président Cleveland. L’Arbitrage de 1888 confirmait le traité de 1858 et ses termes. Puis, en 1897, Cleveland envoya Edward P. The White House Blog. Mark K. Updegrove April 10, 2014 10:45 AM EDT Ed. note: Tune in to whitehouse.gov/live at 11:50 am ET to watch President Obama's remarks at the LBJ Presidential Library to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act. In early December 1972, heroes of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, braved a rare Austin ice storm to convene at the LBJ Presidential Library for a Civil Rights Symposium.
Towering figures like Hubert Humphrey, Barbara Jordan, Clarence Mitchell and Earl Warren rose to the stage in the course of the two-day conference to reflect on the movement they had helped to foster while examining the issues where progress was still needed. Among them was the host of the gathering, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the thirty-sixth President. Lyndon B.
Johnson speaks to the nation before signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He considered the second—the Voting Rights Act—his greatest legislative achievement.