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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-49017284471549227262015-06-22T11:12:00.021-07:002015-06-22T11:12:33.456-07:00Newsmaker: Narendra Modi’s misstep on gender equality<p><span class='entry-content'><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/c49ac_MAC24_NEWSMAKER_WORLD_POST.jpg'><img height='462' width='822' alt='MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/c49ac_MAC24_NEWSMAKER_WORLD_POST.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-728057'/></a><br/><p class='wp-caption-text'>MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images</p><br/><p>Things were going so good for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his revisit to Canada in April, he substantially should have stayed here. Instead, he’s flown off to Bangladesh and stranded his feet in his mouth by complimenting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her bravery to confront terrorism “despite being a woman.”</p><br/><p>The examples of former British primary apportion Margaret Thatcher and her Israeli reflection Golda Meir—hardly restored leaders in a face of terrorism—must have slipped Modi’s mind, and now he’s turn a aim of most online mockery. “DespiteBeingAWoman” has trended as a hashtag on Twitter, where users are bragging about their ability to accomplish tasks such as regulating a Internet and eating breakfast—despite being women. Others reminded Modi of clever Indian women, including one of his predecessors as primary minister, Indira Gandhi, and Noor Inayat Khan, an representative with Britain’s famed Special Operations Executive during a Second World War.</p><br/><p>Modi’s tone-deaf comments mount out in pointy contrariety to some of his prior initiatives and open statements per gender equivalence and women’s rights. When he was arch apportion for Gujarat, Modi auctioned off gifts he perceived and used a income to account programs assisting girls in a state get an education. Last year, during his initial Independence Day debate as primary minister, Modi addressed a emanate of rape and urged relatives to military a poise of their sons, instead of simply tying a leisure of their daughters in an bid to keep them safe. He’s also cursed a jagged termination of womanlike fetuses, that has resulted in a gender imbalance in a country.</p><br/><p>Modi has frequently trafficked outward India given apropos primary minister, visiting during slightest 19 unfamiliar countries. He’s penetrating to attract unfamiliar investment and to accelerate India’s picture and poke in a world, generally as a blow to China.</p><br/><p>Indians seem generally gratified with him so far. A Times of India-Ipsos check published in May suggested a infancy of respondents rated his opening as “very good” or “somewhat good.” But a gaffe like this can hurt. Modi can usually wish India’s womanlike voters, notwithstanding being women, will pardon him.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/newsmaker-narendra-modis-misstep-on-gender-equality/'>Newsmaker: Narendra Modi’s misstep on gender equality</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-7471136270056979522015-06-22T11:12:00.019-07:002015-06-22T11:12:31.143-07:00Bill Clinton defends family foundation, says political attacks on it inevitable<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>DENVER — Former President Bill Clinton pronounced Wednesday that if his mother is inaugurated boss he will stop giving paid speeches and, if she asks, step down from a substructure that bears his name and has fuelled attacks opposite her during her nascent campaign.</p><br/><p>The Clintons have been criticized for raking in millions of dollars from paid speeches given they left supervision service, as good as for vouchsafing unfamiliar countries and companies with interests before Hillary Clinton’s State Department give income to their foundation.</p><br/><p>In an talk with Bloomberg TV during a Clinton Global Initiative’s Denver meeting, Clinton pronounced he’d stop giving paid speeches should Hillary Clinton lapse to a White House. He combined that it would be his wife’s call on either he stayed during CGI.</p><br/><p>“She will have to confirm what is my top and best use, including being around to sire her adult in a morning,” he said.</p><br/><p>Clinton concurred that some of a $2 billion in donations a substructure has perceived might seem controversial when noticed by a domestic lens. But he pronounced they were supposed with a best intentions. “Has anyone valid we’ve finished anything disgusting with this money?” he asked. “No.”</p><br/><p>The gift was set adult after Clinton’s presidency some-more than a decade ago, and he pronounced no one was meditative that Hillary Rodham Clinton would run for boss someday and that “everything we did would be treated with a hypothesis of wrongdoing.”</p><br/><p>Clinton cited a $500,000 concession from a supervision of Algeria in 2010 that disregarded an Obama administration anathema on a substructure holding contributions from unfamiliar states. The concession came dual days after a Haiti trembler that killed some-more than 230,000 people. Clinton pronounced a harmed were being anesthetized in a streets with vodka since hospitals were broken — and he was usurpation assistance from anyone.</p><br/><p>“There are really few countries in a universe we would not accept for assistance to Haiti,” Clinton said.</p><br/><p>In an talk with CNN to be promote Sunday, Clinton concurred “you never know of what people’s motives are” for donations though pronounced he’s seen no efforts to win favours.</p><br/><p>He combined that a substructure has a “strict” non-corruption process and remarkable that several Republicans, such as former President George W. Bush and 2012 presidential claimant Mitt Romney, have oral during the gatherings.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/bill-clinton-defends-family-foundation-says-political-attacks-on-it-inevitable/'>Bill Clinton defends family foundation, says political attacks on it inevitable</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-78889756288006935762015-06-22T11:12:00.017-07:002015-06-22T11:12:28.396-07:00Where have all the Mexicans gone?<p><span class='entry-content'><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/85929_MAC24_GILMORE_POST01.jpg'><img height='548' width='822' alt=' John Moore/Getty Images' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/85929_MAC24_GILMORE_POST01.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-728241'/></a><br/><p class='wp-caption-text'>John Moore/Getty Images</p><br/><h4>Listen to Scott Gilmore review his column, or concede to Maclean’s Voices on iTunes or Stitcher for on-the-go listening:</h4><br/> <br/><p>When we was a boy, my grandfather mostly took me to a tiny lake, where he kept a vessel stashed in a pines and we would hop for pickerel. This was northern Manitoba, a place so remote that if we trafficked north, a subsequent highway would be Russian. Nonetheless, my grandfather feared that this isolated mark low in a proportions of Canada’s forest would fundamentally be overshoot by Chinese immigrants. He would consult a still lake, and say, “One day, this will all be rice paddies.”</p><br/><p>My grandfather’s fear was inexplicable. He was an newcomer himself, from Ireland, who had forged out a square of that northern brush for his own; not to grow rice, though a immature grass of clover. Perhaps it was a primal instinct to “get his,” afterwards envy ensure it.</p><br/><p>In a United States, this same fear of newcomers, generally from Mexico, has dominated politics for a prolonged time. When George W. Bush came to office, there were some-more than 400,000 bootleg migrants channel their southern limit any year. His response was a argumentative limit wall. President Barack Obama attempted immigration reform, though was incompetent to find bipartisan support. He bypassed legislators with an executive movement to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants. But it was reported this week that a devise has derailed, following a sovereign justice claim from Texas and 25 other states. Few issues have remained so steadfastly divisive.</p><br/><p>In a meantime, a problem has mysteriously disappeared. According to new information from a U.S. Census Bureau, sum emigration from Mexico has plummeted by 68 per cent over a final decade, and is now reduce than arrivals from possibly China or India. The U.S. Border Patrol reports that bootleg immigration has halved. And a investigate by a Pew Research Center shows that a sum race of unapproved migrants stopped flourishing in 2006, and has remained during approximately 11 million ever since.</p><br/><p>Many on a left and right once believed this was an unstoppable inundate of humanity. What changed? Historically, there has been a tighten association between bootleg newcomer flows and mercantile growth. The U.S. economy entered a “Great Recession” in 2007, and a stagnation rate has malleable slowly. But, even as a U.S. pursuit marketplace recovered, Mexican arrivals kept declining, suggesting that economics is not a reason.</p><br/><p>Enhanced limit confidence is a some-more expected cause. The U.S. Border Patrol has doubled in distance given 2004, and billions of dollars have been spent on deploying drones and sensors along a frontier. Furthermore, as a wall went up, punishment was also increased. Before, if we were hold channel a Rio Grande, we would simply be driven back. Now, we are hold in detention, infrequently for weeks.</p><br/><p>But there have also been elemental demographic changes in Mexico. The birth rate has depressed from 7 children per lady in a 1970s to only over dual now. Other indicators, such as propagandize enrolment and life expectancy, uncover that a incentives for withdrawal Mexico have declined significantly.</p><br/><p>Unfortunately, while migrant numbers might be down, a domestic discuss stays heated. After Mitt Romney mislaid a 2012 election, many Republicans hoped to justice traditionally Democratic Hispanic electorate by appealing to their regressive Catholic amicable views. The inflection of possibilities such as Cuban-American senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, as good as former Florida administrator Jeb Bush (who is married to a Mexican-American and speaks smooth Spanish), suggests a change in that direction. But a tongue from others hasn’t softened. Governors Scott Walker and Chris Christie, envy guarding a American Dream, are holding an even harder line on immigration than Romney did. In contrast, 70 per cent of a open supports extenuation authorised standing to undocumented migrants, according to a new Pew poll.</p><br/><p>In Canada, a comparatively tiny series of bootleg immigrants has kept this emanate out of a spotlight. However, according to Monica Boyd, a highbrow of sociology during a University of Toronto, this might change. Sociological investigate in other countries, such as Germany, shows that proxy workman programs that don’t concede for transition to permanent-resident standing (such as a one Canada has implemented) emanate incentives for workers to outstay their visas, and mostly lead to a fast boost in bootleg migration.</p><br/><p>Unlike a U.S., Canada fails to collect any information on bootleg immigration whatsoever. Boyd explains: “There is probably no approach to come adult with strong estimates on a series of undocumented migrants.” We have no thought how many people arrive illegally any year, and how many are vital here already. If my grandfather were still alive, he’d seize on that fact, demeanour during me forebodingly, and say, “Mark my words. Rice paddies. As distant as we can see.”</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/where-have-all-the-mexicans-gone/'>Where have all the Mexicans gone?</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-87577960761936791002015-06-22T11:12:00.015-07:002015-06-22T11:12:25.367-07:00PM’s visit with Pope focuses on Ukraine, not residential schools<p><span class='entry-content'><img height='547' width='822' alt='Vatican Pool/Getty Images' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/2c20a_MAC24_POPE_PM_POST.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-728589'/><p class='wp-caption-text'>Vatican Pool/Getty Images</p><br/><p>VATICAN CITY, Italy – Prime Minister Stephen Harper lifted a discouraging commentary of a residential schools elect Thursday during an scarcely brief assembly with Pope Francis, though stopped brief of mouth-watering him to Canada to apologize.</p><br/><p>Instead, Harper referred to a minute sent progressing in a week to a Vatican by his aboriginal affairs apportion that merely told a Holy See of a commission.</p><br/><p>“Prime Minister Harper also drew courtesy to a minute sent by Minister (Bernard) Valcourt to a Holy See per a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” Harper’s bureau pronounced though elaborating.</p><br/><p>Harper’s orator did not respond to a ask for clarification.</p><br/><p>Harper’s 10-minute assembly with a Pope Francis was surprisingly brief by Vatican standards. Russian President Vladimir Putin had a scarcely 50-minute private assembly with a pontiff a day earlier.</p><br/><p>A apart readout from a Vatican did not discuss a residential schools emanate among a topics discussed with Harper.</p><br/><p>Harper instead select to pursue a thesis that has dominated six-day outing to Europe — his defamation of Putin.</p><br/><p>Harper went into a assembly confronting calls to use a arise to secure a pope reparation for a church’s purpose in Canada’s residential propagandize legacy.</p><br/><p>Perry Bellegarde, a inhabitant arch of a Assembly of First Nations, had pronounced a assembly would be a “prime opportunity” for a primary apportion to lift a issue.</p><br/><p>The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, that spoke to thousands of residential propagandize students and documented their experiences, released 94 recommendations final week that enclosed a call for a pope reparation on Canadian soil.</p><br/><p>Bellegarde pronounced a directly reparation from a Pope “would be huge” and would assistance move closure to those who suffered atrocities and abuses during a schools, many of that were run by a Roman Catholic Church.</p><br/><p>In Apr 2009, then-AFN inhabitant arch Phil Fontaine along with 4 aboriginal leaders and a commission from Canada’s Catholic Church had an assembly with Pope Benedict in Rome, that constructed a communique of magnetism from a Vatican.</p><br/><p>Harper’s revisit to a Vatican came on a final day of his six-country European tour, and accurately 7 years after a primary apportion released his possess reparation in a House of Commons to residential propagandize survivors.</p><br/><p>Canadian officials pronounced that given Putin visited Francis a day before Harper, a primary apportion wanted to lift a topic.</p><br/><p>“Prime Minister Harper addressed a conditions in Ukraine and his low regard with Vladimir Putin’s aggression, function and assault in Ukraine,” pronounced Harper’s office. Harper also lifted a predicament of eremite minorities during a hands of Islamic militants.</p><br/><p>The U.S. called on a to Vatican this week to step adult a regard about Ukraine in Francis’ assembly with Putin. It was a Russian leader’s second assembly with Francis given 2013.</p><br/><p>A Vatican orator pronounced a Ukraine and Middle East crises were large topics of discussion, though a doubt of assigning censure to Russia did not arise.</p><br/><p>Harper was during a Vatican for somewhat reduction than an hour, though his tangible assembly with a Pope lasted usually a fragment of that time. He also met with Archbishop Paul Gallagher, a Vatican’s secretary for family with states.</p><br/><p>Harper was accompanied by his wife, Laureen, Defence Minister Jason Kenney, 3 Conservative MPs and several staffers. Julian Fantino, Harper’s associate counterclaim apportion and an Italian Canadian, was also during a meeting.</p><br/><p>Harper was manifest to reporters usually quickly on 3 occasions when short, mad print ops took place. The primary apportion did not pronounce nor did he take questions from Canadian media travelling with them on a final day of his travel</p><br/><p>Harper finished his outing with a call to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has a most closer attribute with Putin than Harper, who has removed him.</p><br/><p>Renzi also hosted Putin, as they politely toured a Russian pavilion during a world’s fair. Putin breached custom by nearing an hour and 20 mins late for his assembly with a Pope, who speedy him to make “sincere” efforts to move assent to Ukraine.</p><br/><p>Harper visited Ukraine and Poland on this trip, as good as attending a G7 leaders limit in Germany, and was to lapse to Canada on Thursday evening.</p><br/><p>— with files from Kristy Kirkup in Ottawa</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/pms-visit-with-pope-focuses-on-ukraine-not-residential-schools/'>PM’s visit with Pope focuses on Ukraine, not residential schools</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-60510122040153154272015-06-22T11:12:00.013-07:002015-06-22T11:12:23.086-07:00Canadian siblings plead guilty in Malaysian nudity case<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Two Canadians and dual other Westerners have reportedly pleaded guilty to a charged associated to a organisation of tourists posing exposed on Malaysia’s top towering on May 30.</p><br/><p>Media reports early Friday pronounced Saskatchewan siblings Danielle and Lindsey Peterson, along with a British lady and a Dutch man, pleaded guilty to a assign of committing pornographic acts in a open place.</p><br/><p>The 4 — who avoided hearing by pleading guilty — were remanded in jail and could reportedly be condemned to adult to 3 months in jail or fined, or both.</p><br/><p>The Guardian journal says Danielle Peterson arrived in justice handcuffed to British traveller Eleanor Hawkins while Lindsey Peterson arrived handcuffed to Dutchman Dylan Snel.</p><br/><p>The 4 were allegedly partial of a organisation of 10 tourists who acted exposed on Mount Kinabalu only days before an trembler killed 18 climbers on a mountain.</p><br/><p>The Malay Mail online news portal pronounced a justice was told a organisation of 10 had challenged any other to see who could sojourn exposed a longest in a cold.</p><br/><p>They abandoned a counterclaim by their towering beam not to strip, it said.</p><br/><p>It quoted counterclaim counsel Ronny Cham as observant a 4 were immature people whose era was accorded some-more leisure and liberties. He pronounced they had suffered adequate mishap and that endless general news coverage of a occurrence has served as halt for others.</p><br/><p>Prosecutor Jamil Aripin concluded that there was no couple between a trembler and their act though pronounced it had angry a internal community, The Malay Mail said.</p><br/><p>The magnitude-5.9 trembler sent rocks and boulders raining down a movement routes on a 4,095-meter-high towering in Sabah on Borneo island. The victims were 9 Singaporeans, 6 Malaysians and a Filipino, a Chinese and a Japanese national.</p><br/><p>The upheaval shop-worn roads and buildings, including schools and a sanatorium on Sabah’s west coast. It also pennyless one of a twin stone formations on a towering famous as a “Donkey’s Ears.”</p><br/><p>Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan has blamed a tragedy on a foreigners for display “disrespect to a dedicated mountain” by posing exposed during a peak. He has pronounced a special protocol will be conducted to “appease a towering spirit.”</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/canadian-siblings-plead-guilty-in-malaysian-nudity-case/'>Canadian siblings plead guilty in Malaysian nudity case</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-27425080316736759362015-06-22T11:12:00.011-07:002015-06-22T11:12:20.709-07:00Canadians plead guilty in Malaysian nudity case<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Two Canadians and dual other westerners who acted exposed on Malaysia’s top rise were condemned to 3 days in jail and fined for pornographic poise in a open place, their counsel pronounced Friday.</p><br/><p>“They were repentant and regretted their act, and had offering a open reparation during mitigation,” pronounced counsel Ronny Cham.</p><br/><p>The 4 were among 10 foreigners who bare exposed and took photos on Mount Kinabalu on May 30.</p><br/><p>A internal central has pronounced their poise was unpleasant to a mountain, that is believed to be sacred, and caused an trembler on Jun 5 that killed 18 climbers.</p><br/><p>The dual Canadians were Saskatchewan siblings Lindsey Petersen and Danielle Petersen. The other dual westerners were Dutch citizen Dylan Snel and British tyro Eleanor Hawkins.</p><br/><p>The 4 pleaded guilty in a justice in Sabah state on Borneo island to a assign of open indecency, pronounced Cham.</p><br/><p>The justice was told a women were topless while a dual organisation were totally nude, he said.</p><br/><p>The justice condemned them to 3 days in jail and a excellent of a homogeneous of some-more than $1,600 Canadian each, to be followed by their deportation, Cham said.</p><br/><p>They have paid their fines and approaching to be expelled after Friday given of a time they have already spent in jail given their arrests progressing this week, he said.</p><br/><p>Some reports pronounced they were liberated immediately.</p><br/><p>Hawkins was scheduled to fly home Saturday, though a counsel couldn’t contend when a others would leave.</p><br/><p>The Malay Mail online news portal pronounced a justice was told a organisation of 10 had challenged any other to see who could sojourn exposed a longest in a cold.</p><br/><p>They abandoned a defence by their towering beam not to strip, it said.</p><br/><p>Cham pronounced a 4 had suffered adequate mishap and that endless general news coverage would deter others.</p><br/><p>The Guardian journal reported Danielle Peterson arrived in justice handcuffed to Hawkins while Lindsey Peterson arrived handcuffed to Snel.</p><br/><p>Prosecutor Jamil Aripin concluded that there was no couple between a trembler and their act though pronounced it had angry a internal community, The Malay Mail online news portal said.</p><br/><p>The magnitude-5.9 trembler sent rocks and boulders raining down on movement routes on a 4,095-meter mountain. The victims were 9 Singaporeans, 6 Malaysians, a Filipino, a Chinese and a Japanese.</p><br/><p>The upheaval shop-worn roads and buildings and also pennyless one of a famous twin stone formations on a towering famous as a “Donkey’s Ears.”</p><br/><p>Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan blamed a tragedy on a foreigners for carrying shown disregard to a mountain, believed by internal tribes to be a resting place for a dead. He pronounced a special protocol will be conducted to damp a towering spirits.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/canadians-plead-guilty-in-malaysian-nudity-case/'>Canadians plead guilty in Malaysian nudity case</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-83622806194847270462015-06-22T11:12:00.009-07:002015-06-22T11:12:17.714-07:00Blogger Raif Badawi spared flogging Friday in Saudi Arabia<p><span class='entry-content'><img height='462' width='822' alt='(Anthony Devlin/CP)' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/bebf2_MAC08_RAIF_POST.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-679707'/><p class='wp-caption-text'>(Anthony Devlin/CP)</p><br/><p>MONTREAL – The Quebec supervision pronounced it would accelerate immigration procedures for Raif Badawi, a blogger in Saudi Arabia who has been condemned to 1,000 lashes though was spared Friday.</p><br/><p>It was feared his punishment would resume after a Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia inspected a judgment imposed on a blogger, though a Amnesty International bureau in Paris pronounced it had perceived acknowledgment a punishment was postponed.</p><br/><p>Badawi is not a Canadian citizen, nonetheless his mother and children fled Saudi Arabia in 2012 and staid in Sherbrooke, Que., in 2013.</p><br/><p>Ensaf Haidar, Badawi’s wife, took to Twitter on Friday to repeat her defence for an finish her husband’s punishment.</p><br/><p>“I repeat my interest to his sovereignty King Salman to atonement my father … and stop his flogging,” she wrote.</p><br/><p><strong>RELATED: </strong> QA: Ensaf Haidar, mother of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi</p><br/><p>Quebec Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil told reporters Friday a range would offer Badawi an immigration preference certificate on charitable grounds, that would speed adult a routine to concede him to reunite with his family in Quebec.</p><br/><p>Badawi’s apprehension and judgment have influenced adult worldwide defamation and Quebec politicians unanimously adopted a suit in Feb job for his evident release.</p><br/><p>Weil was accompanied by members of all other provincial parties in announcing a measure.</p><br/><p>“I consider it only shows that we’re all of one mind,” Weil said. “It means that we trust that his diagnosis is outrageous, how he’s being treated and for what he has done, and it’s over tying leisure of countenance — it’s vicious and surprising punishment, it’s positively horrendous.”</p><br/><p>Prime Minister Stephen Harper has also oral out opposite Badawi’s treatment, though has pronounced Ottawa’s change is singular by a fact he is not a Canadian citizen.</p><br/><p>International Relations Minister Christine St-Pierre pronounced she spoke with Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson on a Badawi box progressing this week about Canada requesting domestic pressure.</p><br/><p>Edouard Delaplace, executive of legal affairs with Lawyers Without Borders Canada, says a Saudi aristocrat could ask a high justice to meddle again, though a domestic involvement competence be some-more picturesque during this point.</p><br/><p>“It’s utterly expected that it’s some-more a domestic channel that has to be explored,” Delaplace said. “Maybe with a commencement of Ramadan subsequent week, there is an event for a aristocrat to give his atonement and recover Raif Badawi.”</p><br/><p>Badawi has been detained given 2012 for criticisms in his blog that promotes tellurian rights and democracy in his country.</p><br/><p>The Saudi justice had condemned a 31-year-old male to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes for criticizing Saudi Arabian clerics.</p><br/><p>However, after a initial event of 50 lashes in January, all others were postponed, apparently due to health concerns and undisclosed reasons.</p><br/><p>Weil pronounced she spoke with Badawi’s family on Thursday evening.</p><br/><p>“I knew, in a tinge of her (Haidar’s) voice final night, each Thursday night is agony, anguish for her, and each Friday is anguish until she gets a news,” Weil said.</p><br/><p><em>– With files from Alexandre Robillard in Quebec City.</em></p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/blogger-raif-badawi-spared-flogging-friday-in-saudi-arabia/'>Blogger Raif Badawi spared flogging Friday in Saudi Arabia</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-55611593008010849132015-06-22T11:12:00.007-07:002015-06-22T11:12:14.668-07:00Clinging to life on Italy’s margins<p><span class='entry-content'><img height='462' width='822' alt='Fabrizio Villa/Polaris' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/70f8d_MAC24_MIGRANTS_POST01.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-728665'/><p class='wp-caption-text'>Fabrizio Villa/Polaris</p><br/><p>Clement Konyeme is sitting in a interloper centre in Rome, articulate with dual other Nigerians and a Sicilian, Bartalo Spataro, who works in a centre. Unlike a others, Konyeme refuses to pronounce Italian. “I’m angry,” he says, and he looks it.</p><br/><p>Konyeme walks with a baggy given his right thigh bone was crushed. He says this happened when he was in jail in Nigeria for domestic activism. At his initial haven conference after nearing in Italy, his interviewers suspected him of entrance to Europe for giveaway medical treatment. “We have hospitals in Africa,” he says. “I owned a good business in construction. we left my mother who was awaiting a baby. we had a good life there. They [the government] were going to kill me.”</p><br/><p>Konyeme usually had another conference where he wasn’t rejected, yet a preference has been delayed. “I am a restrained here. we have no freedom.”</p><br/><p>Like so many of a group in this centre, he arrived in Italy on an bootleg vessel that crossed a Mediterranean from Libya. He done a tour from Nigeria to Libya toward a finish of 2013, he says, where he paid a raider to pierce him to Europe. And while he’s not behind bars and can ramble Rome during will, he is stuck. If his claims can’t be deemed possibly convincing or somehow verifiable by a interloper commission, that has a deputy from a municipality, one from a range and one from a United Nations High Commission for Refugees, he will be sent behind to Nigeria. In a meantime, not carrying haven standing means he lives in Italy yet a residency or a work permit. The Italian supervision provides food and preserve and an stipend of 45 euros a month ($63), yet until this is resolved he can’t take a pursuit even if he could find one, and he can’t leave a country.</p><br/><p>The group are usually finishing lunch—a beef patty with a side of rice, peas and carrots and bread rolls called ensign given of a approach they smoke adult like a flower. The atmosphere is scented with citrus from a oranges they are eating for dessert. Emanuel Ihene explains that they are usually flitting a time. He wants to rehearse his Italian, yet Konyeme insists on English.</p><br/><p>Ihene arrived in Sicily on a smuggler’s vessel about a year ago after a tour by Chad, Niger and Libya. “It’s swarming [on a ship] and we don’t know if it will make it,” he explains. “You can’t stay in Libya—it’s too dangerous. And we can’t go back.” He says his life was in risk in Nigeria, yet that Libya was distant worse. When he arrived in Italy, he was roughly deported immediately, yet a counsel operative for giveaway helped him benefaction a box for asylum. Italy postulated some form of insurance standing to 60 per cent of a migrants who asked for it in 2014. Ihene is watchful to hear what will happen, and is study Italian to assistance him eventually find work. “I have knowledge as a mechanic,” he says.</p><br/><p>Konyeme, meanwhile, wants to start a business, and to pierce his family to Europe. Even yet Spataro and Ihene disagree that he’s going to need Italian, he refuses to listen. It sounds like an evidence they’ve been carrying for some time and Spataro tries to keep Ihene from being drawn into despair.</p><br/><p>This building, that is famous as a SPRAR accepting centre (an Italian acronym for “system for insurance for haven seekers and refugees”) houses 100. The ability of all SPRAR centres in Italy was increasing in 2014 to accommodate 20,000 people. But by early May this year, 34,570 migrants had arrived in Italy, many of them entrance opposite a Mediterranean from Africa. So far, 1,840 have died during sea compared to 425 during a same duration final year.</p><br/><p><img height='562' width='822' alt='Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post/Getty Images' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/0257c_MAC24_MIGRANTS_POST02.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-728667'/></p><p class='wp-caption-text'>Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post/Getty Images</p><br/><p>There are opposite migrant centres for youth, for families and for unparalleled children. In this sold building, group in their 20s and 30s—most of them African, yet there are a few Syrians, during slightest one Pakistani and a Tibetan—are possibly watchful to be given asylum, or they’re perplexing to find work so they can pierce out. Without most structure to their days, they deposit in and out. A immature male from Mali says in Italian that he’s going to Termini, Rome’s categorical sight sinecure in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood, to hang around. “Not too most unresolved around,” teases Giulia Consolini, one of a coordinators. He promises to stay out of trouble.</p><br/><p>The windows of a dining room demeanour onto a yard filled with drying laundry. A proprietor from a Ivory Coast comes outward to take his garments down. He’s recently been postulated haven and he found a pursuit during a McDonald’s. But he’s carrying difficulty removing adequate hours to be means to pierce out.</p><br/><p>“They’re usually ostensible to stay for 6 months, there are some-more people entrance all a time and we need a space. But we can’t chuck them out. We have to assistance them get a start,” says Consolini.</p><br/><p>Another proprietor who has a pursuit and is scheming to pierce out is a interloper from Chad. Jules (<em>Maclean’s</em> has concluded not to tell his genuine name to safeguard his safety) grew adult in a gentle family, yet his father dissatisfied a government. His relatives fled a country. Jules had usually started university and motionless to stay. He suspicion it was protected given a brawl was with his father, not him. But dual years after he was arrested along with his cousin. They were tortured and starved, he says. After roughly a year, a cousin died in their dungeon and a jailers left a physique with Jules for a week. “In one year and 3 months we saw a object usually twice, when they had to purify a cell,” he explains.</p><br/><p>He finally transient given of a jail riot. By afterwards he couldn’t walk. Seven associate prisoners carried him for dual months, relocating usually during night toward Niger, where they went true to a hospital. After a month, he went to Libya and from there his relatives paid for a place on an bootleg vessel to Italy. Unlike Konyeme, Jules’s story was probable to verify. He was given a assent and put to work in Sicily as a translator given he speaks French, Arabic and several African languages. He fast schooled Italian and came to Rome where he hopes to finish his studies. He works in another interloper centre for immature people.</p><br/><p>“He’s an impulse for them. He’s a interloper too, yet he’s relocating forward,” says Fulvia Vannoli, a centre supervisor. “Every week some leave and some-more come,” she explains. She opens doors to uncover a swarming rooms, some with 7 or 8 beds. “Look during how purify they are,” she says, proudly indicating out that a beds are made, personal equipment tucked orderly underneath mattresses. The group rinse a floors, purify a rest of a building and they refine their possess linens.</p><br/><p>She keeps opening doors looking for a male from Tibet. There are people fibbing in bed in a afternoon. “Some are unequivocally depressed,” says Consolini. Vannoli finds one of a Tibetan’s roommates who says he’s divided on a film set. Morgan Freeman is starring in a reconstitute of <em>Ben Hur</em> in Rome, and this sold Tibetan interloper is personification a Mongolian. This doesn’t warn Vannoli. “It’s never what we design here,” she says.</p><br/><p>Consolini says she loves entrance to work given of a certain atmosphere. There is a clear clarity of dullness among a men, yet also a clarity of relief. “They’ve been by so most by a time they get here, and now they’re usually prepared to pierce on.”</p><br/><p>The plea is to keep them busy. Consolini helps with resumés and coaches them on how to act in a pursuit interview. “You can’t act like a bad African or Syrian. You can’t say, ‘Oh, I’m so poor, we have to sinecure me,’ given people wish a best chairman for a job. You have to be that person. Talk about your skills and what we can bring.” She usually helped a interloper from Afghanistan get a pursuit during a Vatican, where they were really gratified to have him given of his languages.</p><br/><p>But stagnation is high in Italy, during around 13 per cent. While a images of people being discovered during sea on their approach to Europe has worried sympathy, they have also worried fears. Last November, neighbours collected outward a interloper centre in Rome’s Tor Sapienza area cheering abuse and throwing rocks. In March, a same centre was set on fire. There have been anti-immigrant rallies, yet also counter-demonstrations to uncover support. There are creatively spray-painted swastikas on walls around a city, yet also a word “League-ists and racists not wanted here”—a anxiety to a anti-immigration Northern League party. In new informal elections, a Northern League saw a share of a opinion grow in traditionally left-leaning areas. Matteo Salvini, a party’s childish leader, has suggested a answer to a migrant predicament in a Mediterranean is to leave a migrants on a boats. He pronounced they should be discovered if required yet not authorised to disembark in Italy.</p><br/><p>Consolini encourages a group to pointer adult for courses, to be prepared and open to anything. There is a lot of waiting, yet she encourages them to use a time to put them in a improved position when they eventually get a work permit. She points outward to a yard where 3 men, dual from Mali and one from Senegal who took an rural course, are planting lettuce seeds, parsley and tomatoes.</p><br/><p>They mount behind to demeanour during their tough work and fun about how it still looks like dirt. “Now what?” Consolini asks one in Italian. “And now, we wait,” he answers.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/clinging-to-life-on-italys-margins/'>Clinging to life on Italy’s margins</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-33792480443382781092015-06-22T11:12:00.005-07:002015-06-22T11:12:10.546-07:00Police chief: Sniper shot suspect in Dallas police HQ<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>Dallas’ military arch says a sniper has shot a think in an overnight conflict on military domicile and that a dialect is checking to see if he’s still alive.</p><br/><p>Police Chief David Brown says an officer shot a think Saturday morning while a think was holed adult in a outpost in a parking lot in a Dallas suburb of Hutchins. He says a male told military he had explosives in a van.</p><br/><p>Brown says investigators trust a male acted alone in a early-morning conflict on Dallas military headquarters, notwithstanding early declare reports that others might have taken part. Police recovered dual bomb inclination nearby a building.</p><br/><p>Brown says a male identified himself as James Boulware and pronounced he blamed military for losing control of his son and “accusing him of being a terrorist.”</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/police-chief-sniper-shot-suspect-in-dallas-police-hq/'>Police chief: Sniper shot suspect in Dallas police HQ</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-61350102473460304462015-06-22T11:12:00.003-07:002015-06-22T11:12:08.295-07:00The fall of Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>LONDON — A week ago, Tim Hunt was a obvious Nobel Prize leader who was compelling scholarship preparation around Europe and a world.</p><br/><p>Today he’s widely viewed as a sexist who has been nude of many of his positions given of inapt comments about women in science.</p><br/><p>Gone is his position with a European Research Council scholarship committee, his purpose during a Royal Society, and his titular post during University College London. He pronounced Sunday he was dismissed from a latter, while a university has pronounced usually that his abdication was accepted.</p><br/><p>Hunt’s tumble followed a debate Tuesday during a World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea in that he pronounced that girls means difficulty in labs given “you tumble in adore with them, they tumble in adore with you, and when we impugn them, they cry.”</p><br/><p>The comments caused an present Twitter charge that fast led to Hunt, 72, withdrawal his posts even as he apologized. He has pronounced he had been perplexing to make a joke, though though stood by his criticism that adore affairs in a lab are disruptive to science.</p><br/><p>He was vilified by many, including The Guardian’s Anne Perkins, who wrote that his comments were “the prepared man’s version” of blaming rape victims given they were wearing brief skirts before they were attacked.</p><br/><p>Hunt, 72, laments that his loving career is finished — and some distinguished women scientists who suspicion his remarks were deeply descent pronounced Sunday a punishment might be too harsh.</p><br/><p>Athene Donald, a heading physicist who is master of Churchill College during Cambridge University, pronounced Hunt always enthusiastically upheld her work when she served for 5 years as Gender Equality Champion during a university.</p><br/><p>“I’ve spent a lot of time with him and I’ve never seen any pointer of sexism,” she told The Associated Press. “He has trafficked a universe given he got a Nobel Prize, articulate to immature audiences, masculine and female, giving so generously, and now he has been ruined.”</p><br/><p>Hunt won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 and after was done a knight.</p><br/><p>Donald pronounced his comments were “indefensible” though there have been no cases of women entrance brazen to contend they were feeble treated by Hunt, or discriminated opposite in any way.</p><br/><p>Ottoline Leyser, a former tyro of Hunt’s who now leads a Sainsbury Laboratory during a University of Cambridge, pronounced she was dissapoint that Hunt’s descent comments could have a disastrous impact on immature women deliberation a career in scholarship though that his record is differently unblemished.</p><br/><p>“All my interactions with him were really positive,” she told a AP. “He was a really eager and inspirational teacher. I’ve no indications from my knowledge or from colleagues that he’s in a smallest approach sexist.”</p><br/><p>She pronounced a speed with that news of his comments widespread around amicable media has reinforced for many scientists a dangers of vocalization to a press or to a public.</p><br/><p>“We’re all of us terrified,” she said. “In this media age, when sound bites widespread so quickly, an off-the-cuff acknowledgement after a lunch in some discussion can unexpected outcome in a deadly drop of your career.”</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/the-fall-of-nobel-prize-winner-tim-hunt/'>The fall of Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-48468502389268384782015-06-22T11:12:00.001-07:002015-06-22T11:12:02.959-07:00Teens injured in two separate shark attacks in North Carolina<p><span class='entry-content'><img height='732' width='1024' alt='People support a teenage lady during a stage of a shark conflict in Oak Island, N.C., Sunday, Jun 14, 2015. (Steve Bouser/The Pilot, Southern Pines, N.C. around AP) ' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/c0acf_SHARK-1024x732.jpg' class='size-large wp-image-729603'/><p class='wp-caption-text'>People support a teenage lady during a stage of a shark conflict in Oak Island, N.C., Sunday, Jun 14, 2015. (Steve Bouser/The Pilot, Southern Pines, N.C. around AP)</p><br/><p>OAK ISLAND, N.C. — Two teenagers were severely harmed in dual apart shark attacks in a same North Carolina city on Sunday, terrifying beach goers and call one repelled declare to review a stage to a film “Jaws.”</p><br/><p>Oak Island Mayor Betty Wallace told WECT-6 that a initial victim, a girl, mislaid partial of<br/><br/>her arm and could remove her left leg. Just over an hour later, a 16-year-old child also was pounded by a shark and was airlifted to a hospital, Wallace said. He mislaid an arm.</p><br/><p>“I saw someone lift this lady (out of a water) and people were brisk around and perplexing to help,” Steve Bouser, who was only commencement his week-long beach vacation, told The Associated Press. “It was utterly terrible.”</p><br/><p>The lady was draining heavily, and people practical temporary tourniquets while seeking her questions to try to keep her conscious.</p><br/><p>It was “quite nightmarish,” Bouser said.</p><br/><p>“It was so most like a stage from Jaws,” his wife, Brenda Bouser, added, referring to a 1975 thriller about a hulk man-eating white shark.</p><br/><p>Local officials sent an all-terrain-vehicle to get everybody out of a water, and a Brunswick County Sheriff’s bureau was formulation to have a helicopter unit a coastline, a mayor said.</p><br/><p>Wallace pronounced Sunday dusk that she had no serve information on a girl’s condition. The lady is not from Oak Island though was visiting family, a mayor said.</p><br/><p>Brunswick County Dispatchers pronounced that they perceived a initial call during 4:12 p.m., and agencies including Oak Island Police and a Air Link Helicopter went to a scene. The second shark conflict was reported during 5:30 p.m.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/teens-injured-in-two-separate-shark-attacks-in-north-carolina/'>Teens injured in two separate shark attacks in North Carolina</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-64974127240279193202015-06-22T11:11:00.017-07:002015-06-22T11:11:59.641-07:00Europe’s comet lander Philae makes contact again<p><span class='entry-content'><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/63253_PHILAE.jpg'><img height='463' width='822' alt='This artist sense from Dec. 2013 by ESA /ATG medialab shows Rosetta’s lander Philae (front view) on a aspect of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet lander Philae has awakened from a seven-month hibernation. (ESA/ATG medialab/ESA around AP)' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/63253_PHILAE.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-729625'/></a><br/><p class='wp-caption-text'>This artist sense of Philae (front view) on a aspect of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet lander Philae has awakened from a seven-month hibernation and managed to promulgate with Earth for some-more than a minute, a European Space Agency said. (ESA/ATG medialab/ESA around AP)</p><br/><p>BERLIN — The Philae booster has been in hold with Earth from a speeding comet for a second time given waking adult a few days ago, goal control pronounced Monday, and scientists wish to urge communications with a lander by changeable a arena of a mom ship.</p><br/><p>Philae in Nov became a initial booster ever to settle on a comet when it overwhelmed down on icy 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, though it managed to send information to Earth usually for about 60 hours before using out of power.</p><br/><p>Scientists were ecstatic this weekend when, as a comet approached a sun, Philae’s solar panels engrossed adequate light to recharge a categorical battery and arise a lander up.</p><br/><p>Philae pennyless a overpower on Saturday by promulgation a vigilance behind to Earth around Rosetta, a mom spacecraft, that is between 200 and 240 kilometres (124 and 150 miles) divided from a comet.</p><br/><p>Philae afterwards got in hold again on Sunday night, promulgation behind 5 packets of data, pronounced Sylvain Lodiot, a booster operations manager for Rosetta. Still, that was most reduction information than a prior night, he said.</p><br/><p>It’s not transparent because a tie was reduction stable, though scientists think a slight boost in a lander’s stretch from Rosetta might have been a factor.</p><br/><p>“Now we have a immature light from all a scientists and from a goal manager to optimize all we can do for Philae contact,” Lodiot told The Associated Press by telephone.</p><br/><p>On Wednesday, scientists devise a manoeuvr to pierce Rosetta closer, shortening a stretch to Philae as small as 180 kilometres (112 miles), something they had designed to do regardless of Philae’s status, he said.</p><br/><p>For a time being, a soaking machine-size lander is usually promulgation behind what controllers report as housekeeping and systems data. To be means to get more, scientists will need to urge communications and send it new commands.</p><br/><p>“It’s going to take a few days,” he said.</p><br/><p>Scientists wish that Philae’s restart will concede them to transparent adult a poser of where accurately on a 4-kilometre (2 1/2-mile)-wide comet a examine landed.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/europes-comet-lander-philae-makes-contact-again/'>Europe’s comet lander Philae makes contact again</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-45328294028636634762015-06-22T11:11:00.015-07:002015-06-22T11:11:56.412-07:00Queen Elizabeth leads commemorations of Magna Carta<p><span class='entry-content'><img height='576' width='1024' alt='Larry Downing/Reuters' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/07bb7_MAC52_MAGNA_CARTA_CAROUSEL-1024x576.jpg' class='wp-image-651569 size-large'/><p class='wp-caption-text'>Larry Downing/Reuters</p><br/><p>LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II led commemorations Monday to symbol a 800th anniversary of a Magna Carta — but a tellurian rights a request helped bless are during a centre of a complicated domestic feud.</p><br/><p>British Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch assimilated a black and other royals for a rite during Runnymede, a riverside meadow west of London where, on Jun 15, 1215, tyrannical King John met discontented barons and concluded to a list of simple rights.</p><br/><p>The Magna Carta — Latin for Great Charter — is deliberate a first request of English law and polite liberties and was an impulse for a U.S. Constitution.</p><br/><p>It determined a element that a aristocrat was theme to a law, rather than above it, and stipulated that “no giveaway male shall be seized or detained … solely by a official visualisation of his equals or by a law of a land.”</p><br/><p>The strange licence was short-lived. King John roughly immediately went behind on his word and asked a pope to cancel it, plunging England into polite war. It was re-issued after a king’s death.</p><br/><p>Lynch pronounced a licence “was conjunction expanded nor permanent … though a adoption served as a signpost on a prolonged and formidable march.”</p><br/><p>“The beliefs traced behind to Magna Carta represented a judgment that is zero reduction than a grace of man,” she said.</p><br/><p>Cameron pronounced it was complicated Britons’ avocation to guarantee a charter’s “momentous achievement.”</p><br/><p>But opponents credit him of perplexing to criticise rights. Cameron’s Conservative supervision wants to reinstate a Human Rights Act — whose autarchic judge is a European justice — with a British Bill of Rights, a pierce opponents fear could break pivotal protections.</p><br/><p>Cameron pronounced a Magna Carta had desirous everybody from women’s voting campaigners to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, who cited it during his hearing in 1964.</p><br/><p>But he combined that “ironically … a good name of ‘human rights’ has infrequently turn twisted and devalued,” in an apparent anxiety to present-day domestic debates.</p><br/><p>“It falls to us in this era to revive a repute of those rights, and their vicious underpinning of a authorised system,” he added.</p><br/><p>Shami Chakrabarti of rights organisation Liberty pronounced Cameron “could give a master category in bare-faced cheek, regulating Magna Carta day to darken a Human Rights Act.”</p><br/><p>The 800th anniversary has brought commemorations including a British Library muster that joined a 4 flourishing strange copies of a document, created by scribes on sheepskin parchment.</p><br/><p>On Sunday, Britons were invited to lift a toast to autocracy with a crater of tea during “LiberTea” events opposite a country.</p><br/><p>And a supervision pronounced a Magna Carta could also be thanked for Britons’ right to a full pint of beer. The licence stipulated that there contingency be customary measures for booze and drink nationwide.</p><br/><p>“We should all be unapproachable of a nation’s good story as a brewing powerhouse,” pronounced supervision pubs apportion Marcus Jones. “Therefore it is usually right we applaud Beer Day Britain alongside a Magna Carta today.”</p><br/><p> </p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/queen-elizabeth-leads-commemorations-of-magna-carta/'>Queen Elizabeth leads commemorations of Magna Carta</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-61973621261197372072015-06-22T11:11:00.013-07:002015-06-22T11:11:53.441-07:00How an America-loving country became a jihadi hub<p><span class='entry-content'><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/4a4f0_MAC24_KOSOVO_POST01.jpg'><img height='534' width='822' alt='Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/4a4f0_MAC24_KOSOVO_POST01.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-728705'/></a><br/><p class='wp-caption-text'>Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images</p><br/><p>The Western republic that has sent a many recruits on a per capita basement to join Islamic State and other belligerent groups in Syria and Iraq is one that owes a unequivocally existence as a state to NATO’s troops involvement on a behalf.</p><br/><p>An Apr news by a Kosovo Center for Security Studies (KCSS) reveals that as of January, some 232 Kosovars have assimilated Islamist belligerent groups in Syria and Iraq, a rate of 125 recruits for each one million people vital in a country. This is good brazen of Bosnia, that comes in second with 85 recruits per million, and of Belgium, a third-ranked country, with 42 recruits per million.</p><br/><p>Kosovo announced a autonomy in 2008 after spending many of a prior decade underneath a transitory United Nations administration that was determined following a 1998-99 quarrel with a Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. That conflict, in that racial Albanians in a Kosovo Liberation Army waged a guerilla quarrel opposite Yugoslav army and Serb paramilitaries, was won in vast partial due to NATO atmosphere strikes opposite Yugoslav troops positions and infrastructure. It finished with Kosovo effectively distant from a Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.</p><br/><p>In gratitude, Kosovars named a vital highway in their capital, Pristina, after Bill Clinton, a American boss during a 1999 war, and flashy it with a three-metre-tall statue of him. They have also named a travel after George W. Bush, who was boss when America famous Kosovo’s independence.</p><br/><p>According to Shpend Kursani, an outmost investigate associate during KCSS and author of a report, many Kosovars still have a certain perspective of America and NATO. And yet, he says, a infancy of Kosovars fighting in a Middle East have assimilated Islamic State, a company whose goals embody waging quarrel on a West—raising unfortunate questions about Islamic State’s ability to dig communities that, being broadly physical and pro-Western, would seem to have small reason to support it.</p><br/><p>Islamic State’s recruiting success in Kosovo upsets Kosovars who are not sensitive to a group, or to their associate adults who join it. “There’s a clarity that people fasten Islamic State are betraying in many ways a unequivocally nation,” says Florian Bieber, highbrow of southeast European studies during a University of Graz.</p><br/><blockquote><p><strong>Related:</strong> Arab nations contingency step adult in quarrel opposite Islamic State</p><br/></blockquote><br/><p>The per capita numbers don’t tell a whole story. Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, a al-Qaeda associate from that it split, are Muslim supremacist outfits. Non-Muslims could never join them. When a commission of recruits is distributed formed exclusively on a country’s Muslim population, Kosovo falls reduce in rank. It sends about 130 volunteers per one million Muslims in a population—far next several Western European countries, including Finland, that sends some 1,667 recruits per million Muslims, and Belgium, that sends 690.</p><br/><p>By this calculation, Kosovo is identical to Bosnia, another Balkan republic with a vast Muslim population, that sends 211 recruits for each one million Muslims vital there. But Muslim Kosovars are still most some-more expected to join jihadist groups than Muslims in Albania and Turkey, both Muslim-majority countries. Turkey, that borders Syria and Iraq and is a vital movement indicate for unfamiliar fighters fasten Islamic State, sends customarily 8 recruits per million Muslims, hardly 6 per cent of Kosovo’s rate.</p><br/><p>(Canada was not enclosed in a KCSS study, though would arrange comparatively low on a list of source countries—both on a per capita basis, and as a commission of a Muslim population. In an talk progressing this year, Amarnath Amarasingam, a post-doctoral researcher during a University of Waterloo, estimated about 60 Canadians were members of Islamic State. Canada’s Muslim race totals a small some-more than one million.)</p><br/><blockquote><p><strong>Related:</strong> Is Islamic State unequivocally winning in Iraq?</p><br/></blockquote><br/><p>That Muslims in Denmark, Austria and France are some-more expected to join jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq than are Muslims in Kosovo competence simulate a disunion felt by Muslims vital in western Europe, says Francisco de Borja Lasheras, a routine associate during a European Council on Foreign Relations’ Madrid Office. Kosovars don’t knowledge a same arrange of informative siege that a second-generation Muslim vital in western Europe might, he says.</p><br/><p>But according to Kursani, a rate of Kosvar recruits is still worrying—in partial given Islamist extremism is such a radical depart from a approach a faith has traditionally been practised in Kosovo and elsewhere in a Balkans.</p><br/><p>Changes began in a arise of a 1999 war, with a liquid of charities and other NGOs from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in a Gulf. These organizations remade mosques, built schools and printed books. They promoted a austere, Salafist chronicle of Islam that dominates eremite sermon in Saudi Arabia. They were generally active in Kosovo’s neglected farming areas, according to investigate by Isa Blumi, an associate highbrow during Georgia State University.</p><br/><p>Kursani has also traced a series of racial Albanians from Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania who complicated together in a Middle East during a 2000s and, as he puts it, “started unresolved out with a wrong crowd.” Some, in Egypt, became influenced by “<em>takfiris</em>”—a tenure referring here to fundamentalist Sunni Muslims who consider they have a right to announce other Muslims apostates. It’s a explain also done by leaders of Islamic State. The racial Albanians returned to a Balkans. A few began to evangelise in Macedonia, and one or dual did a same in Kosovo, where they had some success swelling a unfamiliar beliefs they had acquired.</p><br/><blockquote><p><strong>Related:</strong> Scott Gilmore on Islamic State’s small-time terrorism</p><br/></blockquote><br/><p>Kursani says bearing to this nonconformist chronicle of Islam is a cause contributing to a high numbers of Kosovar recruits to jihadist groups, though it’s not a customarily one. Most of a multitude stays broadly secular, he says. But he argues that there has also been an erosion of inhabitant temperament as a unifying force given a war, and for some immature people, sacrament has filled that gap. This, is turn, creates dislocation within families, Kursani says, as physical relatives boomerang from a new-found religiosity of their children. Young people afterwards spin divided from their relatives and find village among supporters of aroused Islamism. “The brainwashing routine starts, and a brainwashing routine is easy, given Kosovo’s bad preparation complement hasn’t versed girl to consider critically,” he says.</p><br/><p>Another contributing cause to Kosovo’s richness for jihadists competence be a bad mercantile prospects of a immature people. Kosovars are withdrawal their republic by a thousands. Most try to get to a European Union, customarily channel into Hungary from Serbia. Others, unemployed, removed from their families, and lacking a clever clarity of community temperament other than religion, demeanour elsewhere.</p><br/><p>“Seven years after a stipulation of independence, economically things are not relocating forward,” says Bieber. “The cheerfulness of a initial duration has been transposed by frustration, and that has pushed some people to find their fortunes with radical Islamic groups like Islamic State.”</p><br/><p>None of these factors is singular to Kosovo. Liberal strains of Islam have elsewhere been challenged by serious and chauvinistic manifestations of a faith. Other countries are bad and have left by dispute and domestic upheaval. It’s notable that Bosnia, that like Kosovo has emerged from quarrel though is nonetheless to build a moneyed and well-governed society, is also a abounding source of jihadists among European nations.</p><br/><p>But in Kosovo, these mixture are quite concentrated. The multitude during vast stays pro-Western and resistant to Islamic State’s religious perversions. But a minority of a population—a vast minority compared to other countries in Europe—is succumbing to them.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/how-an-america-loving-country-became-a-jihadi-hub/'>How an America-loving country became a jihadi hub</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-44704967147428166652015-06-22T11:11:00.011-07:002015-06-22T11:11:51.630-07:00US archbishop, deputy resign after sex abuse coverup charges filed<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>VATICAN CITY — The embattled archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis and his emissary quiescent Monday after years of pressure, an denote Pope Francis is origination good on his guarantee that no one is above a law when it comes to covering adult for preaching who intimately abuse children.</p><br/><p>Archbishop John Nienstedt and Auxiliary Bishop Lee Anthony Piche stepped down after Minnesota prosecutors charged their archdiocese with carrying unsuccessful to strengthen children from accursed mistreat by a pedophile clergyman who was after convicted of molesting dual boys.</p><br/><p>Separately, a Vatican indicted Jozef Wesolowski, a possess former envoy to a Dominican Republic, on charges of intimately abusing minors in a Caribbean nation and possessing child pornography. He will be a highest-ranking Vatican central ever to mount hearing for a sex crime.</p><br/><p>The developments came days after Francis authorized a origination of a new judiciary inside a Vatican to hear cases of bishops indicted of unwell to strengthen minors, responding years of critique that top-ranked churchmen have prolonged been defence to punishment for ignoring or covering adult for priests who rape and hurt children.</p><br/><p>It’s not transparent if a judiciary — once it becomes functioning — would hoop a cases of Nienstedt and Piche, given they are no longer in office.</p><br/><p>They quit underneath a formula of criterion law that allows bishops to renounce before they retire since of illness or some other “grave” reason that creates them non-professional for office.</p><br/><p>Earlier this month, prosecutors charged a Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis as a house with carrying “turned a blind eye” to steady reports of inapt poise by a priest. The censure did not name any individuals.</p><br/><p>The charges came dual years after diocesan canon lawyer-turned-whistleblower Jennifer Haselberger purported widespread coverup of preaching sex bungle in a archdiocese, saying archbishops and their tip staff lied to a open and abandoned the U.S. bishops’ oath to have no toleration of priests who abuse.</p><br/><p>Haselberger, who was Nienstedt’s archivist, indicted a church of regulating a pell-mell complement of record-keeping that helped disguise a backgrounds of guilty priests who remained on assignment.</p><br/><p>She pronounced she regularly warned Nienstedt and his aides about a risk of gripping indicted priests in ministry, though they took movement usually in one case. As a outcome of lifting alarms, she pronounced she was eventually close out of meetings about clergyman misconduct, and after resigned.</p><br/><p>Nienstedt refused to renounce after Haselberger’s accusations, and after after announcing that allegations of inapt passionate poise had been done opposite him. He denied bungle and a archdiocese hired a organisation to investigate. No formula were ever announced and recently Nienstedt hired his possess profession to demeanour during a matter again.</p><br/><p>In a matter Monday, Nienstedt pronounced he was stepping down to give a archdiocese a new beginning. But he insisted he was withdrawal “with a transparent demur meaningful that my group and we have put in place plain protocols to safeguard a insurance of minors and exposed adults.”</p><br/><p>In a statement, Piche said: “The people of a Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis need recovering and hope. we was removing in a approach of that, and so we had to resign.”</p><br/><p>Monday’s resignations pierce to 18 a series of bishops who have stepped down after being publicly criticized for covering adult for abusers, according to Anne Barrett Doyle of a online apparatus BishopAccountability.org.</p><br/><p>In April, Francis supposed a abdication of U.S. bishop Robert Finn, who had been convicted in a U.S. justice of unwell to news a suspected child abuser.</p><br/><p>Francis has affianced that not even high-ranking churchmen — “daddy’s boys” he called them — will get divided with abuse or coverup.</p><br/><p>The rapist charges opposite a archdiocese in Minnesota branch from a doing of Curtis Wehmeyer, a former clergyman during Church of a Blessed Sacrament in St. Paul, who is portion a five-year jail judgment for molesting dual boys and faces charge involving a third in Wisconsin.</p><br/><p>Prosecutors contend church leaders unsuccessful to respond to “numerous and steady reports of discouraging conduct” by Wehmeyer from a time he entered seminary until he was private from a ecclesiastics in 2015. The rapist censure says many people — including parishioners, associate priests and bishopric staff — reported issues with Wehmeyer, and many of those claims were discounted.</p><br/><p>Jeff Anderson, an profession who has filed lawsuits opposite a Catholic Church over purported abuse, pronounced Monday’s resignations are partial of an “important reckoning” for a disaster of tip officials to respond reasonably when priests were indicted of abusing children.</p><br/><p>But David Clohessy, executive executive of a Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, says a Vatican should do most some-more to purify adult a Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.</p><br/><p>He pronounced a acceptance of a dual resignations “doesn’t feel like reform” and that Francis should pierce to defrock tip church leaders in a archdiocese.</p><br/><p>The resignations came on a same day a Vatican announced it was putting Wesolowski, a former envoy to a Dominican Republic, on hearing in a Vatican court. Wesolowski, who has already been defrocked after being convicted in a criterion law court, now faces probable jail time if convicted by a rapist judiciary of a Vatican City State.</p><br/><p>The box has been rarely sensitive, given that a Polish-born Wesolowski was an envoy of a Holy See — a approach deputy of a pope and not only one of a world’s 440,000 priests _ and had been consecrated both a clergyman and a bishop by St. John Paul II.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/us-archbishop-deputy-resign-after-sex-abuse-coverup-charges-filed/'>US archbishop, deputy resign after sex abuse coverup charges filed</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-12136283060331325502015-06-22T11:11:00.009-07:002015-06-22T11:11:48.615-07:00Jeb Bush officially enters the presidential race<p><span class='entry-content'><img height='571' width='880' alt='Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush waves as he takes a theatre to rigourously join a competition for president, Monday, Jun 15, 2015, during Miami Dade College in Miami. (AP Photo/David Goldman)' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/dfa62_08852112.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-729767'/><p class='wp-caption-text'>Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush waves as he takes a theatre to rigourously join a competition for president, Monday, Jun 15, 2015, during Miami Dade College in Miami. (AP Photo/David Goldman)</p><br/><p>MIAMI — Jeb Bush launched a Republican presidential bid months in a creation Monday with a vouch to get Washington “out of a business of causing problems” and to stay loyal to his beliefs — easier pronounced than finished in a bristling primary competition where his regressive certification will be neatly challenged.</p><br/><p>“I will debate as we would serve, going everywhere, vocalization to everyone, gripping my word, confronting a issues but flinching,” Bush pronounced in his prepared remarks, opening his debate during a convene nearby his south Florida home during Miami Dade College, where a institution’s vast and different tyro physique symbolizes a republic he seeks to lead.</p><br/><p>The former Florida governor, whose mom is Mexican-born, was addressing a packaged college locus in English and Spanish, an surprising turn for a domestic debate directed during a inhabitant audience.</p><br/><p>“In any language,” Bush said, “my summary will be an confident one given we am certain that we can make a decades usually forward in America a biggest time ever to be alive in this world.”</p><br/><blockquote><p><strong>Related: </strong>American politics are now a family affair</p><br/></blockquote><br/><p>Bush enters a 2016 Republican competition that will exam both his prophesy of conservatism and his ability to stretch himself from family.</p><br/><p>Neither his father, former President George H.W. Bush, nor his brother, former President George W. Bush, attended Monday’s announcement. The family was represented instead by Jeb Bush’s mom and former initial lady, Barbara Bush, who once pronounced that a nation didn’t need nonetheless another Bush as president, and by his son George P. Bush, recently inaugurated Texas land commissioner.</p><br/><p>Before a event, a Bush debate came out with a new trademark — Jeb! — that conspicuously leaves out a Bush surname.</p><br/><p>Bush joins a competition in swell in some ways in a autocratic position, in partial given of his family connections.</p><br/><p>He has substantially lifted a record volume of income to support his candidacy and recognised of a new proceed on how to structure his campaign, both directed during permitting him to make a low run into a GOP primaries. But on other measures, early open opinion polls among them, he has nonetheless to mangle out.</p><br/><p>While undoubtedly one of a top-tier possibilities in a GOP race, he is also usually one of several in a vast and able Republican margin that does not have a loyal front-runner.</p><br/><p>In a past 6 months, Bush has done transparent he will sojourn committed to his core beliefs in a debate to come _ even if his positions on immigration and preparation standards are deeply unpopular among a regressive bottom of a celebration that plays an outsized purpose in a GOP primaries.</p><br/><p>Tea celebration personality Mark Meckler on Monday pronounced Bush’s positions on preparation and immigration are “a nonstarter with many conservatives.”</p><br/><p>“There are dual domestic dynasties eyeing 2016,” pronounced Meckler, a co-founder of a Tea Party Patriots, one of a movement’s largest organizations, and now personality of Citizens for Self-Governance. “And before conservatives try to kick Hillary, they initial need to kick Bush.”</p><br/><p>Yet a daring Bush has showed small eagerness to assuage his party’s right wing.</p><br/><p>Instead, he directed his summary on Monday during a broader swath of a citizens that will eventually confirm a Nov 2016 ubiquitous election. Minority voters, in particular, have fueled Democratic victories in a final dual presidential elections.</p><br/><p>Bush has done minority overdo a priority given he began exploring a probable bid in December.</p><br/><p>In a video for a event, display women, minorities and a infirm child, Bush says “the many exposed in a multitude should be in a front of a line and not a back.” This calls for “new care that takes regressive beliefs and relates them so that people can arise up.”</p><br/><p>Of a 5 people on a vocalization module before Bush, usually one was a white male. The others enclosed R.B. Holmes, a African-American priest of a Tallahassee Baptist church, and Berthy De La Rosa-Aponte, described as a Bush crony and “noted Florida disciple for people and children with disabilities.”</p><br/><p>Bush is one of 11 vital Republicans in a hunt for a nomination. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are among those still determining either to join a margin that could finish adult usually bashful of 20.</p><br/><p>Bush’s critics in both parties have criticized him as aggressively as they would if he were a transparent Republican favourite.</p><br/><p>Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul pronounced Monday there’s “Bush-Clinton fatigue” in America. “I consider some people have had adequate Bushes and adequate Clintons,” Paul pronounced in an talk with The Associated Press.</p><br/><p>After furloughed 4 early-voting states, Bush fast launches a private fundraising debate with stops in during slightest 11 cities before a finish of a month. Two events alone — a accepting during Union Station in Washington on Friday and a breakfast a following week on Seventh Avenue in New York — will comment for roughly $2 million in new debate cash, according to invitations that list some-more than 75 already committed donors.</p><br/><p>“We will take Washington — a immobile collateral of this energetic nation — out of a business of causing problems,” Bush Monday and added, “I will take zero and no one for granted. we will run with heart. we will run to win.”</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/jeb-bush-officially-enters-the-presidential-race/'>Jeb Bush officially enters the presidential race</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-53664088938150891982015-06-22T11:11:00.007-07:002015-06-22T11:11:46.329-07:00U.S. airstrike kills Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>CAIRO — A U.S. airstrike has killed Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader, who ordered a absolute Yemeni affiliate, traffic a tellurian network a biggest blow given a murdering of Osama bin Laden and expelling a charismatic personality during a time when it is opposed with a Islamic State organisation for a layer of tellurian jihad.</p><br/><p>In a video matter antiquated Jun 14 and expelled Tuesday by a Yemeni affiliate, a comparison user announced a genocide of Nasir al-Wahishi, a maestro jihadi who once served as bin Laden’s aide-de-camp, and pronounced his deputy, Qassim al-Raimi, has been tapped to reinstate him.</p><br/><p>“Our Muslim nation, a favourite of your heroes and a master of your masters left to God, steadfast,” Khaled Batrafi pronounced in a video, vowing that a group’s fight on America would continue.</p><br/><p>“In a name of God, a blood of these pioneers creates us some-more dynamic to sacrifice,” he said. “Let a enemies know that a conflict is not with an individual… a conflict led by crusaders and their agents is colliding with a billion-member nation.”</p><br/><p>Yemeni confidence officials had progressing pronounced a U.S. worker strike killed 3 suspected militants in a al-Qaida-held southern pier city of Mukalla final week. U.S. officials had pronounced they were perplexing to determine either al-Wahishi was killed.</p><br/><p>Al-Qaida’s Yemen associate has prolonged been seen as a many lethal, and has been related to a series of foiled or botched attacks on a U.S. homeland. The organisation claimed shortcoming for January’s conflict on a French satirical repository Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people.</p><br/><p>In further to heading a Yemeni affiliate, famous as al-Qaida in a Arabian Peninsula, al-Wahishi also served as emissary to Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida’s tip leader, who succeeded bin Laden in 2011.</p><br/><p>Al-Wahishi’s genocide is a vital detriment for al-Qaida as it struggles to contest with a Islamic State, a breakaway organisation that has seized immeasurable swaths of Syria and Iraq and spawned a possess affiliates elsewhere in a region.</p><br/><p>Both groups are dedicated to bringing about Islamic sequence by force, though al-Qaida does not commend a IS group’s contentious caliphate and has confirmed that a priority should be to salary jihad opposite America in sequence to expostulate it out of a Middle East.</p><br/><p>Batrafi vowed to make a United States “taste a sour essence of fight and better until we stop ancillary a Jews, a occupiers of Palestine, until we leave a lands of a Muslims and stop ancillary dissident tyrants.”</p><br/><p>Al-Raimi, a new personality of AQAP, is suspicion to have masterminded a 2010 tract in that bombs secluded in printers were shipped to a U.S. on load planes before being rescued and defused.</p><br/><p>Yemen’s supervision has incorrectly announced al-Raimi’s genocide 3 times given 2007. He is believed to approach training camps in Yemen’s remote deserts and mountains, where he organizes cells and skeleton attacks.</p><br/><p>AQAP’s master bomb-maker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, is also believed to still be alive. He is suspicion to have designed a bombs used in a load planes tract and in a unsuccessful try to blow adult a U.S.-bound newcomer craft in Dec 2009 by a male who had explosives secluded in his underwear.</p><br/><p>Al-Asiri is also believed to have dispatched a self-murder bomber in 2009 to murder Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, afterwards conduct of Saudi Arabia’s counterterrorism agency. The conflict failed, and Mohammed bin Nayef is now a climax prince.</p><br/><p>Al-Wahishi had fought alongside bin Laden during Tora Bora in Afghanistan in late 2001 before a al-Qaida personality slipped opposite a limit into Pakistan. Al-Wahishi fled to Iran, where he was incarcerated and deported to Yemen in 2003.</p><br/><p>He was among 23 al-Qaida militants who pennyless out of a apprehension trickery in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in Feb 2006. Three years later, al-Wahishi announced a origination of AQAP, that collected together Yemeni and Saudi militants following a unconditional crackdown on a nonconformist organisation by Riyadh.</p><br/><p>AQAP has been means to enhance a strech in new months as Yemen has slid into chaos. Shiite rebels famous as Houthis prisoner Sanaa final year and are battling southern separatists, Islamic militants, and internal and genealogical militias opposite a country. Yemen’s military, once a tighten U.S. fan opposite al-Qaida, has separate between opponents and supporters of a rebels, and a Saudi-led bloc has been bombing a Houthis and their allies given March.</p><br/><p>In April, AQAP took advantage of a disharmony to seize Mukalla and liberated several prisoners, including Batrafi. It afterwards struck a power-sharing understanding with internal tribesmen.</p><br/><p>But notwithstanding such gains, it is intent in battles with a Houthis and associated army on during slightest 11 fronts, Batrafi said.</p><br/><p>And Mukalla has valid something of a genocide trap, with U.S. strikes murdering al-Wahishi, dual comparison militants and scores of fighters there given a city fell in April.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/u-s-airstrike-kills-al-qaidas-no-2-leader/'>U.S. airstrike kills Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-65414713835725135302015-06-22T11:11:00.005-07:002015-06-22T11:11:43.935-07:00Flooding toll in Tbilisi rises to 16<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>TBILISI, Georgia — All of a lions and tigers that were blank after serious flooding swamped Tbilisi’s zoo have been found dead. One jaguar remained unaccounted for, though zoo staff pronounced they have small wish that it survived.</p><br/><p>The find of a final of a blank lions and tigers on Tuesday as a waters receded eased fears in a collateral of Georgia, an ex-Soviet republic, that some of a large cats were still erratic a hills of a city.</p><br/><p>The tellurian genocide fee rose to 16 on Tuesday when a physique of a blank lady was found in a children’s park, a military said. Seven people are still blank after an heated surge that began late Saturday incited a tide that runs by a city into a distracted swell that broken houses and tore adult roads. About 40 families mislaid their homes.</p><br/><p>Zoo mouthpiece Mziya Sharashidze pronounced 8 lions, all 7 of a zoo’s tigers and during slightest dual of a 3 jaguars were killed. Only dual of a zoo’s 14 bears survived, while 9 of a 17 penguins died, she said.</p><br/><p>Ivane Daraseliya, arch veterinarian for a zoo, pronounced staff on Tuesday found a carcasses of 3 lions, a tiger and dual wolves.</p><br/><p>A immature white lion named Shumba, one of a zoo’s many dear attractions, was found shot in a conduct on zoo domain on Sunday. Most of a animals seemed to have been killed when H2O and sand flooded their enclosures.</p><br/><p>The flooding also killed hundreds of homeless dogs during a private preserve nearby a zoo, preserve staff said.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/flooding-toll-in-tbilisi-rises-to-16/'>Flooding toll in Tbilisi rises to 16</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-12088103885247935872015-06-22T11:11:00.003-07:002015-06-22T11:11:41.286-07:006 dead, 7 injured in Berkeley balcony collapse<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>BERKELEY, Calif. — A fourth-floor patio of a California unit building collapsed Tuesday, murdering six Irish students and withdrawal seven other people with vicious injuries during a 21st birthday party, officials said.</p><br/><p>All 5 of a passed in a college city of Berkeley were in a U.S. on proxy work visas, Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan pronounced in Dublin.</p><br/><p>Police were operative with glow and building officials to establish what caused a accident. No information was accessible on a identities of a victims.</p><br/><p>Police perceived a sound censure concerning a shrill celebration in a unit about an hour before a patio collapsed during 12:41 a.m. though had not nonetheless responded, pronounced Officer Byron White, orator for a Berkeley Police Department.</p><br/><p>The balcony, estimated to have been 5 feet by 10 feet, distant totally from a building and landed on a reduce balcony.</p><br/><p>“What a initial responders pronounced is it was utterly disturbing,” White said.</p><br/><p>Two Irish students defunct in a building pronounced they listened a crash during a accident.</p><br/><p>“I walked out and we saw rubble on a travel and a garland of Irish students crying,” pronounced Mark Neville, who has been in a U.S. for 3 weeks underneath a J-1 visa program.</p><br/><p>“I only listened a crash and a lot of shouting,” combined Dan Sullivan, 21.</p><br/><p>The building in a heart of downtown Berkeley has apartments in a top floors and sell shops during belligerent level. The walkable community only blocks from a University of California, Berkeley, is dotted with museums, a city library, restaurants, coffee shops and sequence stores.</p><br/><p>The Library Gardens apartments were built in 2006, a Los Angeles Times reported.</p><br/><p>Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs pronounced it was perplexing to hit families of a victims and could not give sum of their identities. Four died during a stage and one in a hospital, officials said.</p><br/><p>Irish President Michael D. Higgins pronounced in a matter that he had “heard with a biggest unhappiness of a terrible detriment of life of immature Irish people and a vicious damage of others in Berkeley, California today. My heart goes out to a families and desired ones of all those involved.”</p><br/><p>Jerry Robinson, who lives nearby, told San Francisco news hire KGO-TV that he had only gotten out of a film when dual excitable people flagged down his automobile seeking for a float to a sanatorium to check on harmed friends.</p><br/><p>“They were friends of a people who were on a balcony. A integrate of a women did not have shoes. One of a women had blood on her knees,” he said.</p><br/><p>The Irish consul ubiquitous in San Francisco was providing assistance to those affected.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/6-dead-7-injured-in-berkeley-balcony-collapse/'>6 dead, 7 injured in Berkeley balcony collapse</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-14286875098052495802015-06-22T11:11:00.001-07:002015-06-22T11:11:31.021-07:00Bernie Sanders tells Bill Maher: Climate change is young people’s issue, and mine, too<section class='article-body clearfix'><p>As we know, writers in New York’s coolest precinct have zero improved to do on a Friday night than to watch domestic speak shows. So it was that we was examination HBO’s<em> Real Time with Bill Maher</em> on Friday and we got to see him speak Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a claimant for a Democratic presidential nomination. Sanders is a clever meridian hawk who has authored a CO taxation check with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and a garland of bills to urge appetite efficiency, boost renewables, and cut corporate gratification to hoary fuels. Sanders has always mentioned meridian change as one of a pivotal issues that is motivating him to run.</p><br/><p>On Friday, though, he changed it to a core of his representation to intensity supporters. Maher noted, “Where we consider we could do unequivocally good is with younger electorate … are we on Tinder?” Sanders, 73, seemed to indeed know what Tinder is. At least, he laughed as if he did and talked about his campaign’s amicable media presence.</p><br/><p>Then he pivoted to an emanate that he thinks immature people caring about, saying, “I consider what we wish to do is to have, Bill, a faith of kids. And what a kids are saying, for example, is that this nation should lead a universe in transforming the appetite complement and traffic with meridian change. And that’s an emanate we’re gonna speak about a whole lot.” Sanders went on to regard Pope Francis for arising an encyclical job for movement to reduce climate change.</p><br/><p> <a id='grist-end-of-article'/><br/></p></section><br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/bernie-sanders-tells-bill-maher-climate-change-is-young-peoples-issue-and-mine-too/'>Bernie Sanders tells Bill Maher: Climate change is young people’s issue, and mine, too</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-87890737087016887722015-06-22T05:09:00.025-07:002015-06-22T05:09:36.948-07:00Fentanyl: The king of all opiates, and a killer drug crisis<p><span class='entry-content'><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/55b34_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST01.jpg'><img height='640' width='426' alt='(Photograph by Cole Garside)' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/55b34_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST01.jpg' class=' wp-image-730651'/></a><br/><p class='wp-caption-text'>Michael Morton. (Photograph by Cole Garside)</p><br/><p>Michael Morton and his crony had a plan, and they’d finished their homework. It started with a event for high propagandize commune placements during internal pharmacies, and a favourite swat strain that rattled off a list of drugs to abuse. “OxyContin, Xanax bars, Percocets and Loritab,” Lil Wyte rhymed in <em>Oxy Cotton</em>. “Valiums, morphine, patches, ecstasy. And it’s all adult for grab.” Within weeks of starting their jobs, a dual teenagers from Barrie, Ont., had pilfered adequate medication narcotics to start their possess drugstore. And around a Internet, they researched how to best injustice them, right down to a dosages and a correct sequence in that to take them in sequence to build adult tolerance.</p><br/><p>Sitting in a coffee shop, with a story of his high propagandize years orderly spelled out on pieces of foolscap before him, Michael, now 26, still gets a small cloudy about what he calls “the aristocrat of all opiates.” He and his crony had amassed a accumulate of some-more than 200 fentanyl patches, though kept divided from them for months out of a healthy honour for a pain reliever that is 20 times stronger than heroin and adult to 100 times some-more manly than morphine. But, usually before Christmas of his Grade 11 year, Michael had been held violation into lockers during propagandize and expelled. His bosses during a pharmacy—rightly suspecting him of hidden there, too—also discharged him. Now sitting during home, grounded and alone all day, he had a ground and event to pull his limits. He unwrapped a patch, squeezed out a small volume of jelly from between a cosmetic layers, and put it in his mouth. “I fell behind in my chair and we fell in love,” he says. “It was a best high we ever had.”</p><br/><p>Within a year, he was going by dual of a patches—each designed to yield 72 hours of solid service for people pang from intense, ongoing pain—every day, nipping them, or scraping out a jelly to fume or inject. He came tighten to overdosing on many occasions, and frequently upheld out, as a drug slowed his respirating and pulse. “Every time we did it, my heart forsaken to, like, 30 beats a minute,” he says, “but we suspicion we was invincible.” It took a deaths of 4 of his friends and associate abusers—two of them still in their teens—to remonstrate him to find help. Six years later, he’s still on methadone, struggling to finish his daily sip and erect a future. “It’s hell, though it saved my life,” he says, “because a titillate always comes back.”</p><br/><p>Over a past few months, fentanyl has been creation headlines opposite North America, as troops learn some-more and some-more of it on a streets, and overdose deaths surge. Authorities in Alberta related a drug to 120 fatalities in 2014, and 50 some-more in usually a initial dual months of this year. In British Columbia, it killed roughly 80 people in 2014, and was obliged for a entertain of all drug deaths, adult from usually 5 per cent in 2012. In Ontario, where 625 people died of opioid overdoses in 2013, fentanyl was endangered in 133 of those cases and, any year, it now kills twice as many people as heroin.</p><br/><p><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/55b34_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST02.jpg'><img height='640' width='360' alt='(Surrey RCMP)' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/55b34_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST02.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-730653'/></a><br/></p><p class='wp-caption-text'>(Surrey RCMP)</p><br/><p>But a deeper story of a drug and a abuse is even some-more worrying. Police and health workers now face an rare situation, with a burgeoning travel trade in both a legitimate medication rags and illicitly done fentanyl—often sole in tablet form and done to demeanour like OxyContin, a distant reduction absolute narcotic. The drug, also accessible in glass and powder form, is increasingly being used to cut heroin and heroin, dramatically boosting their potency, mostly with lethal consequences. Indeed, fentanyl seems to branch adult roughly everywhere we look. And it’s murdering both fresh newbies and hardened addicts:</p><br/><ul><li>In Montreal, in a summer of 2014, there were during slightest 25 overdose deaths—six of them in usually one week in June—linked to fentanyl-laced heroin.</li><br/><li>Police in Moncton, N.B., found dual upheld organisation inside an section final November, with a package of fentanyl powder they had apparently purchased online.</li><br/><li>In Durham region, easterly of Toronto, there were 11 fentanyl overdoses—eight of them fatal—in Nov and December.</li><br/><li>Two vital busts in Barrie, Ont., endangered health caring workers. One trafficking ring, in that fake prescriptions were created with a assistance of a medical secretary, enclosed dual dozen people and 1,000 patches. The other endangered an emergency-room physician, who was charged with 68 depends in tie to fake prescriptions for 515 doses.</li><br/><li>Since final summer, 16 deaths and dozens of non-fatal overdoses have occured on a Blood First Nation haven nearby Lethbridge, Alta., race usually 12,000.</li><br/><li>A Vancouver troops raid in Mar netted 29,000 “fake Oxy” fentanyl pills and $215,000 in cash. Police in Alberta, meanwhile, have seized some-more than 20,000 pills in a final year.</li><br/></ul><p>Dr. Karen Woodall, a toxicologist with a Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto, frequently testifies as an consultant in fentanyl cases. She initial beheld a drug in 2005 in a autopsy files that cranky her desk. She after traced deaths as distant behind as 2002, mostly around people overdosing after nipping cut-up pieces of patches—a quite dangerous practice, given there’s no approach to envision a apportion of a drug in any piece. “The large problem with fentanyl is that a lot of people who aren’t passive to a drug are holding it. And if you’re not tolerant, it’s a lot some-more expected to means critical toxicity and even death,” she says. “It exceedingly depresses respirating and a heart rate.” Combined with ethanol or other drugs that delayed a executive shaken system, it becomes even some-more dangerous. “It’s a critical issue,” says Woodall. “We’re saying some-more and some-more deaths.”</p><br/><p>Kelly Best of Saskatoon died late in a morning of Jan. 3, 2015, a city’s third lethal fentanyl overdose in 5 months. The 19-year-old took half a “fake Oxy” pill, afterwards lay down in a vital room with his sweeping and his dog, Kush. He placed his eyeglasses and favourite blue ballcap on a cot beside him. He never woke up.</p><br/><p>It was a second time he’d ever taken a drug. His initial was a night before. Kelly’s comparison brother, Kayle, who has prolonged struggled with addiction, was already during a dealer’s section when Kelly showed adult during around 11:30 p.m., pushing their mother’s car. He done Kelly take half a tablet in front of him and “hang out awhile,” to safeguard he could hoop a drug. “I knew how f–ked adult a life was, though we felt false revelation him he couldn’t—because we was using,” says Kayle. “So we told him, ‘Be careful.’ ”</p><br/><p>Their mother, Marie Agioritis, was in Calgary visiting family when her ex-husband, Don Best, phoned, screaming, “He’s dead! He’s gone!” Marie was certain he was articulate about Kayle. After all, their eldest, now 21, had been in a reason of an soporific obsession for 4 years. And he had survived 3 overdoses, including one final May, that left him clinically dead, nonetheless doctors were eventually means to revitalise him in hospital. Don had to keep cheering into a receiver, meaningful Marie didn’t understand: “No, Marie. It’s Kelly. Kelly is dead.” It took a few moments for a existence to penetrate in.</p><br/><p>Kelly had always been a voice of reason, a obliged one, who helped his relatives cope with a romantic cost of Kayle’s skirmish into drugs. He hadn’t trafficked to Calgary with Marie, given he had a change during a Keg grill he couldn’t miss. It was a initial time he’d been authorised to stay home alone.</p><br/><p>Half a year later, a family is still racked with shame and grief. Don, who owns a golf march in Prince Albert, Sask., says he’ll find himself removing brief with customers. He can’t sleep. He can’t focus. He says he feels zero though sadness. Marie, who is on leave from work, is channelling her appetite to advocacy: fighting to get a Saskatchewan supervision to collect and recover overdose statistics, and to make a take-home drug-test kits (for endangered parents), that are ordinarily accessible in U.S. drugstores, accessible in Canada. She also worries—endlessly—about Kayle: “He was in a room when that tablet was sole to Kelly. He didn’t stop it. He’s got to live with that, too.”</p><br/><p>Kayle hasn’t used travel drugs given a day Kelly died, and is now on methadone to provide his addictions. Slowly, he’s starting to join a family now and again. But he struggles with his weight, his earthy strength, his short-term memory, and depression: “There’s days where we don’t wish to live. It’s tough for me to leave my house,” he says. The toughest partial is that Kelly looked adult to him. “I gave him a flattering s–tty example.”</p><br/><hr/><p><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/5934a_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST04.jpg'><img height='547' width='822' alt='MAC25_FENTANYL_POST04' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/5934a_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST04.jpg' class='alignnone size-full wp-image-730655'/></a></p><br/><p>Fentanyl abuse might be a comparatively new problem in Canada, though a drug itself has been around for some-more than half a century. First grown by curative explorer Paul Janssen in 1959—he law some-more than 80 drugs in his lifetime—it was creatively used as an analgesic underneath a code name Sublimaze. The slow-release transdermal rags for ongoing pain service were introduced in a mid-1990s.</p><br/><p>Its dangers have also prolonged been recognized. There have been a series of erudite studies about all a doctors and nurses, generally anaesthesiologists, who have turn dependant to it, and important victims such as Jay Bennett, a late guitarist for Wilco, who died of an random fentanyl overdose in 2009 after being prescribed a patch for an aged hip injury. And a drug’s unlawful analogues—there are during slightest a dozen variations—have been murdering people on a streets given a late 1970s, many infamously underneath a name “China White.”</p><br/><p>Fentanyl has even been used as a weapon. The U.S. troops spent a decade tinkering with an aerosol chronicle of a narcotic, perplexing to emanate an incapacitating spray. And it is believed to have been a active partial in a gas that Russian commandos used in 2002 to hit out Chechen terrorists who were holding 750 people in a Moscow theatre, fatally poisoning 117 hostages in a process.</p><br/><p>To date, a biggest cluster of fentanyl deaths came between 2005 and 2007, in and around Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia, with 1,013 reliable lethal overdoses. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency eventually traced their source behind to a singular surreptitious laboratory outward Mexico City, run by a Breaking Bad-style chemist nicknamed “El Cerebro” (the Brain). The powder he done was exported to a States, afterwards cut into heroin and distributed by a Chicago drug patrol famous as a Mickey Cobras. Users accepted that a hybrid pound was manly and intensely dangerous, and that was a large partial of a attraction. On a street, it went by names such as Suicide Mission, Code Blue, Reaper and Lethal Injection. It left after a Mexican lab was close down and a Brain and 47 Cobras were arrested.</p><br/><p>The unlawful fentanyl that’s now flooding Canadian markets in tablet form has some-more soft nicknames: greenies, immature beans and immature monsters (all references to a emerald hue). But that doesn’t make it any reduction deadly. Stamped as OxyContin, a fentanyl has been retailing for as small as $10 a pill—an denote of how inexpensive it is to manufacture, and how easy it is to obtain a tender material. The large B.C. review in Mar incited adult dual industrial tablet presses that were used to make a 29,000 tablets. Two of a 14 people arrested in compared raids in Alberta and Saskatchewan are “full-patch” members of a Hells Angels. A third male is a boss of an dependent motorcycle gang, a Fallen Saints.</p><br/><p>Shutting down a “fake Oxy” trade won’t be simple, however. This time, there seem to be mixed sources for a fentanyl. Police have suggested that Mexican drug cartels are endangered in a importation, though that it’s being done even over afield, in places such as Turkey and China. It can even be systematic online. “Companies pledge delivery, even if it’s seized by a Canadian Border Services Agency,” Staff Sgt. Martin Schiavetta, of a Calgary troops drug unit, pronounced in a new speak with a CBC. In fact, so most of a tender powder is now entrance into a nation that Canadian dealers are pronounced to be exporting their additional product to a northwest United States.</p><br/><p>Then there’s a other problem: a flourishing abuse of a legitimate curative chronicle of a drug. Prescriptions for high-dose painkillers have skyrocketed over a final 15 years. A investigate by a organisation of Ontario researchers, published final tumble in Canadian Family Physician, crunched 6 years of drug information and dynamic that Canadians are now a world’s biggest per capita consumers of authorised opioids, with some-more than 30 million high-dose tablets and rags distributed each year. (Statistics Canada estimates that one in 10 Canadians suffers from ongoing pain.) “Clinicians haven’t been given a lot of superintendence on how to understanding with long-term pain,” says Tara Gomes, systematic lead for a Ontario Drug Policy Research Network and one of a authors. “There is a place—a unequivocally specific place—in therapy for these drugs, when people have horrible, bullheaded pain. But not when they have a bruise knee from golf.”</p><br/><p><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/5934a_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST06.jpg'><img height='547' width='822' alt='(Photograph by Cole Garside)' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/5934a_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST06.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-730657'/></a><br/></p><p class='wp-caption-text'>Det.-Const. Justin Ford in Barrie, Ont., displays seized fentanyl patches. (Photograph by Cole Garside)</p><br/><p>Such widespread accessibility of opioids fundamentally leads to widespread abuse. A new meta-analysis by an American scientist, published in a biography Pain, found that a normal rate of injustice of prescribed painkillers is around 25 per cent, and that one in 10 medical users ends adult addicted. In new years, it was OxyContin that was pushing that trend, given it could simply be dejected and snorted. But, once governments forced a manufacturer to deliver a tamper-resistant formulation, called OxyNeo, to a Canadian marketplace in early 2012, a elite high fast became fentanyl. “There’s unequivocally a association between a decrease of Oxy and a arise of fentanyl,” says Const. Chris Auger of a Ontario Provincial Police drug diversion unit. “You don’t need to import it into a country; it’s straightforwardly available, and it’s fundamentally free.” A three-month supply—10 patches—costs $52.75, and dispensing fee, in Ontario, and is entirely lonesome underneath many private plans, as good as a provincial drug-benefit intrigue for fixed- or low-income earners. The going rate on a travel for a singular patch ranges from $100 in southwestern tools of a province, to $300 in Barrie and $600 in North Bay. “The people who sell rags are mostly a people who have prescriptions,” says Auger.</p><br/><p>That said, fentanyl addicts aren’t quite choosy. Used patches, that can keep adult to 90 per cent of their potency, even after 3 days of use, are mostly resold. Dr. Woodall, a debate toxicologist, says rags are infrequently peeled off upheld bodies during wake homes, and relates a story she listened from an clandestine drug officer about a unequivocally hairy male who was selling his cast-offs. “When he took a patch off, it was like waxing, though he still managed to sell it to someone to chew,” she says.</p><br/><p>When fentanyl takes reason in a community, a effects can be devastating. North Bay, Ont., with a race of usually 55,000, has had 16 overdose deaths given 2007. To put it in perspective, a city usually had one murder over a same period. “There’s a lot of disastrous impacts,” says Det.-Const. Brad Reaume of a North Bay troops street-crime unit. “A $500-a-day robe destroys a household.” Once, he had to detain a lady who was smoking a patch in her automobile with her 18-month-old strapped in a child chair in a back.</p><br/><p>Even a users were apropos alarmed. In a summer of 2013, Reaume and his partner, Tom Robertson, were out on unit when an addict flagged them down and begged them to get a drug off a streets. “ ‘It’s murdering all my friends,’ is what he told us,” says Reaume.</p><br/><p>The officers incited to a Internet and found an Ottawa pharmacist who was refusing to refill prescriptions unless clients brought behind each singular one of their used patches. After consulting with internal doctors and druggists, North Bay launched a possess “Patch 4 Patch” beginning that winter. One pharmacy saw a series of fentanyl prescriptions it was stuffing dump by 20 per cent overnight. The travel cost peaked and, within months, roughly nothing was available. Some addicts have been perplexing to improved a complement by branch in suave tawdry patches, though a elementary exam will shortly be accessible to apart out a fakes. And a private member’s check from internal MPP Victor Fedeli, that would make a module a law opposite a province, recently upheld second reading in a Ontario legislature.</p><br/><p>The courts have been wielding a large stick, as well. In a false-prescription intrigue in Barrie, a 31-year-old medical secretary was handed 9 years in jail after pleading guilty, and her beloved perceived a same during trial. (The box opposite another man, a purported ringleader, is still pending.) “Judges are holding a unbending stance,” says Det.-Const. Justin Ford, who led a review for a city’s drug squad. “Fentanyl cases are removing a kind of sentences we would routinely get for trafficking in heroin—if not more.”</p><br/><p><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/5934a_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST07.jpg'><img height='631' width='420' alt='(Photograph by Cole Garside)' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/5934a_MAC25_FENTANYL_POST07.jpg' class=' wp-image-730659'/></a><br/></p><p class='wp-caption-text'>Peter Selby. (Photograph by Cole Garside)</p><br/><p>But, ultimately, it creates small disproportion for users possibly a fentanyl is curative or illicit; it’s a ruin of a tough robe to kick. Dr. Peter Selby, arch of a addictions module during a Centre for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto, says elementary detox is both emasculate and dangerous. “People remove their tolerance, and relapses are common,” he says. “They take a same volume and overdose and die.” Methadone programs, that surrogate one opioid for another some-more controllable one, are a improved bet, nonetheless it can take years to stabilise patients. Quick fixes—such as a offer to make fentanyl “tamper-resistant,” too, that is now underneath care by Health Minister Rona Ambrose—don’t unequivocally do much. “If we press during one end, people usually switch to whatever else is available,” says Selby.</p><br/><p>There’s no doubt there’s a complicated direct for opioids on Canada’s streets. Barrie, a city of 143,000, has 3 methadone clinics, and there are now 6 in North Bay. “It’s possibly that, or a Tim Hortons on each corner,” says Reaume. But he, for one, would be happy to see fentanyl supplanted by a subsequent new high. “It doesn’t matter what takes a place, given it’s not going to comment for 16 deaths,” he says. “Nothing is as lethal as fentanyl.”</p><br/><p>Six years on, Michael Morton is still perplexing to leave it behind. He’s had to cut ties with all his aged friends, including a friend who worked during a drugstore. He pennyless adult with his final partner dual years ago when he found out she was regulating Oxy. Now, he’s vital in an section with his dad, struggling to get by on welfare. “I’m lonely,” he admits. “I have nobody to speak to.”</p><br/><p>The weekly visits to a alloy to get tested and collect adult his methadone are a worst. The watchful room is packaged with addicts, and all they ever speak about is drugs. The 26-year-old is still dual credits brief of his high propagandize diploma, though he dreams of one day apropos a writer. Or maybe he’ll usually settle for drug counsellor. “I don’t wish other people to start holding fentanyl,” he says. “I’ve been by hell.”</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/fentanyl-the-king-of-all-opiates-and-a-killer-drug-crisis/'>Fentanyl: The king of all opiates, and a killer drug crisis</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-2032382419197077892015-06-22T05:09:00.023-07:002015-06-22T05:09:31.051-07:00Michelle Obama: ‘The world needs more girls like you’<p><span class='entry-content'><img height='576' width='1024' alt='US First Lady Michelle Obama speaks with immature children during a revisit to a Ron Rosner Family YMCA of Spotsylvania County in Fredericksburg, Virginia. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/f4cef_MAC14_BOOKS_CAROUSEL02-1024x576.jpg' class='size-large wp-image-697371'/><p class='wp-caption-text'>US First Lady Michelle Obama speaks with immature children during a revisit to a Ron Rosner Family YMCA of Spotsylvania County in Fredericksburg, Virginia. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)</p><br/><p>LONDON — Michelle Obama’s revisit to a girls’ propagandize in a different easterly London village incited into a lovefest Tuesday when she was greeted with singing, communication and interpretative dance on her goal to foster preparation for girls.</p><br/><p>In return, a U.S. initial lady spoke from a heart about a purpose preparation played in her conspicuous arise from a tough working-class environment, and a need for lady students to quarrel taste and cut their possess unapproachable swath in a world.</p><br/><p>“The universe needs some-more girls like we flourishing adult to lead a parliaments and a house bedrooms and a courtrooms and a universities,” Obama said, visibly moved. “We need you.”</p><br/><p>She came to London to foster her “Let Girls Learn” initiative, that now has a subsidy of a British government. The dual nations on Tuesday announced skeleton to support girls’ preparation in countries influenced by predicament such as Sierra Leone, Liberia and a Democratic Republic of Congo.</p><br/><p>About $200 million will be clinging to a efforts, that also embody ancillary clergyman training, girls’ care camps and other village formed programs.</p><br/><p>Obama pronounced there are some-more than 62 million girls with no possibility to go to propagandize _ a simple right she pronounced should be extended to each lady on a planet. She cited unaffordable propagandize fees, early and forced marriages and pregnancies, and also governmental beliefs that girls are simply reduction estimable as some of a factors holding girls behind from reaching their potential.</p><br/><p>Girls in their maroon propagandize uniforms waved American flags and screamed with fad as Obama arrived during a Mulberry School for Girls in a Tower Hamlets neighbourhood.</p><br/><p>She told a tyro audience, that enclosed many Muslims, that they competence hear people make monotonous comments about their sacrament though that they can't means to be discouraged.</p><br/><p>“You competence consternation if people will ever demeanour over your headscarf to see who we unequivocally are,” she said. “But with your preparation from this extraordinary propagandize we have all we need to arise above it.”</p><br/><p>Obama was assimilated by Justine Greening, Britain’s International Development Secretary, and former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. They argued that countries that teach girls on an equal basement with boys reap many benefits.</p><br/><p>“It has a approach impact on inhabitant economies. It’s tough to disagree with a facts,” Obama said.</p><br/><p>The initial lady brought her teenage daughters Malia and Sasha and her mom Marian Robinson on a outing and they all had tea with Prince Harry during Kensington Palace before a propagandize visit.</p><br/><p>They also designed to have tea with Prime Minister David Cameron and his mother Samantha during 10 Downing Street.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/michelle-obama-the-world-needs-more-girls-like-you/'>Michelle Obama: ‘The world needs more girls like you’</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-11615747311973368482015-06-22T05:09:00.021-07:002015-06-22T05:09:28.771-07:00Former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal: ‘I identify as black’<p><span class='entry-content'><br/><p>NEW YORK — The NAACP section boss who quiescent after her relatives pronounced she is white pronounced Tuesday that she started identifying as black around age 5, when she drew self-portraits with a brownish-red crayon, and she “takes exception” to a row she attempted to mistreat people.</p><br/><p>Rachel Dolezal pronounced on NBC’s “Today” uncover that some of a contention about her has been “viciously inhumane.”</p><br/><p>Asked by Matt Lauer if she is an “an African-American woman,” Dolezal said: “I brand as black.”</p><br/><p>Dolezal’s career as a polite rights romantic in a Pacific Northwest crumbled in a past few days.</p><br/><p>She quiescent Monday as boss of a Spokane, Washington, bend of a NAACP, mislaid her position as a part-time African studies instructor during a internal university, was dismissed as a freelance journal columnist and is being investigated by city Ethics Commission over either she lied about her competition on her focus when she landed an appointment to Spokane’s military slip board.</p><br/><p>The anger has overwhelmed off inhabitant discuss over secular temperament and divided a NAACP itself. The polite rights classification has pronounced that care jobs don’t need a chairman to be black.</p><br/><p>Dolezal, a 37-year-old lady with a light brownish-red mettle and dim curly hair, graduated from historically black Howard University and was married to a black man. For years, she publicly described herself as black or partly black.</p><br/><p>The conflict that led to her abdication began final week after Dolezal’s relatives pronounced their daughter is white with a snippet of Native American heritage. They constructed photos of her as a lady with satisfactory skin and loyal blond hair.</p><br/><p>“I unequivocally don’t see since they’re in such a rush to varnish some of a work we have done, who we am, how we have identified,” she pronounced Tuesday.</p><br/><p>Asked when she started “deceiving people,” she replied, “I do take difference to that.”</p><br/><p>Shown a print of herself with a most lighter mettle in her youth, she said: “I positively don’t stay out of a sun.” But she added, “I also don’t … put on blackface as a performance.”</p><br/><p>“I have a outrageous emanate with blackface,” she said. “This is not some weird ‘Birth of a Nation’ hoax blackface performance. This is a really real, connected level. … I’ve had to indeed go there with a experience, not only a manifest representation, though with a experience.”</p><br/><p>She pronounced published accounts described her initial as “transracial,” afterwards “biracial,” afterwards as “a black woman.”</p><br/><p>“I never corrected that,” she conceded, adding that “it’s some-more formidable than being loyal or fake in that sold instance.”</p><br/><p>Dolezal pronounced that she told people that a black crony was her father since that’s how she thinks of him.</p><br/><p>Her sons are supportive, she said: One told her he views her as culturally black and racially “human.”</p><br/><p>Dolezal’s relatives denied that their daughter identified as black from a immature age.</p><br/><p>“No, that is a fabrication,” Ruthanne Dolezal pronounced in an talk with her father on Fox News on Tuesday.</p><br/><p>Asked about Dolezal’s explain that she suspicion of a black family crony as her father, Larry Dolezal said: “That hurts deeply since for over 20 years Rachel fondly referred to me as ‘Papa.”’</p><br/><p>The Dolezals pronounced they have not oral to their daughter for some-more than dual years.</p><br/><p>“We are really dumbfounded during a turn of duplicity that Rachel is exhibiting,” Ruthanne Dolezal said.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/former-naacp-leader-rachel-dolezal-i-identify-as-black/'>Former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal: ‘I identify as black’</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-31211874683899219952015-06-22T05:09:00.019-07:002015-06-22T05:09:25.400-07:00Erdoğan 2.0: Behind the four-day makeover<p><span class='entry-content'><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/f3a18_MAC25_ERDOGAN_POST01.jpg'><img height='548' width='822' alt='Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan chats with students during a graduation rite in Ankara, Turkey, Jun 11, 2015. President Erdogan on Thursday urged a country's domestic parties to work fast to form a new government, observant egos should be left aside and that story would decider anyone who left Turkey in limbo. In his initial open coming given Sunday's parliamentary election, Erdogan pronounced no domestic growth should be authorised to bluster Turkey's gains. He pronounced he would do his partial in anticipating a resolution with a powers given to him by a constitution. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/f3a18_MAC25_ERDOGAN_POST01.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-729941'/></a><br/><p class='wp-caption-text'>Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan chats with students during a graduation rite in Ankara, Turkey, Jun 11, 2015. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)</p><br/><p>It took 3 days, 22 hours, one notation and 45 seconds for Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to reinvent himself. In a issue of a catastrophic choosing on Jun 7 that reduced his lucky party—the Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party, famous by a Turkish acronym, AKP—to a parliamentary minority, Erdoğan, a broadside chase by nature, uncharacteristically left from open view, retreating into his sparkling-new, 1,000-room presidential palace.</p><br/><blockquote><p><strong>Related:</strong> ‘We are awake': Democracy lives in Turkey</p><br/></blockquote><br/><p>Turks waited for his response. The Hürriyet Daily News, an anti-AKP journal whose primogenitor company, a Dogan Media Group, has been targeted by Erdoğan in new weeks for reporting, among other things, allegations that Turkey’s comprehension services have been funnelling arms to Islamist militias in Syria, posted a time on a website counting adult a minutes, afterwards hours and, finally, days of Erdogan’s hiatus.</p><br/><p>When a boss emerged on Jun 11, walking onto a theatre during a graduation rite for university students in a capital, Ankara, he was a altered man.</p><br/><p>Gone were a heading rants of a firebrand domestic reverend Turks had come to adore and depreciate in equal measure. In their place was a accommodating politician few approaching to see. “Everyone should put aside their egos and form a supervision as shortly as possible,” Erdoğan 2.0 said, putting aside his common divisive denunciation and job for a bloc government. “No politician has a right to say, ‘I.’ We have to say, ‘We.’ ”</p><br/><p>Turks, no strangers to domestic intrigue, scratched their heads. This was a same male who, for years, had dabbled in persecution with startling ease—who, banking on an AKP choosing sweep, had betrothed to idle Turkey’s parliamentary democracy and reinstate it with an strict presidency.</p><br/><p>That goal has failed, for now. But if Erdoğan is zero else, he is a shrewd tactician. His presence now depends on adopting a picture of a unifier tasked with preventing Turkey’s domestic collapse. It’s a intelligent play: If a attempts to form a bloc supervision fail, his direct for a presidency will demeanour some-more enticing; if it succeeds, he can take a credit, shoring adult his slipping popularity.</p><br/><p>Whatever a outcome, it’s now looking as if Erdoğan’s 4 days of waste were good spent.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/erdogan-2-0-behind-the-four-day-makeover/'>Erdoğan 2.0: Behind the four-day makeover</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333228929944163870.post-2446941645410902932015-06-22T05:09:00.017-07:002015-06-22T05:09:21.121-07:00Shark attacks put Oak Island on alert<p><span class='entry-content'><img height='732' width='1024' alt='People support a teenage lady during a stage of a shark conflict in Oak Island, N.C., Sunday, Jun 14, 2015. (Steve Bouser/The Pilot, Southern Pines, N.C. around AP) ' src='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/wp-content/plugins/RSSPoster_PRO/cache/2f879_SHARK-1024x732.jpg' class='wp-image-729603 size-large'/><p class='wp-caption-text'>People support a teenage lady during a stage of a shark conflict in Oak Island, N.C., Sunday, Jun 14, 2015. (Steve Bouser/The Pilot, Southern Pines, N.C. around AP)</p><br/><p>OAK ISLAND, N.C. — A North Carolina beach city is advising opposite sea swimming after dual youths were mauled by during slightest one shark over a weekend — but a beaches sojourn open.</p><br/><p>A 12-year-old lady mislaid her left arm subsequent a bend and suffered a leg damage Sunday afternoon; afterwards about an hour and 20 mins after and 2 miles away, a shark bit off a left arm above a bend of a 16-year-old boy. Both had been swimming about 20 yards offshore, in waist-deep water.</p><br/><p>The child is Hunter Treschel of Colorado Springs, Colorado, New Hanover Regional Medical Center mouthpiece Martha Harlan pronounced Tuesday. He is recuperating during a hospital. Harlan pronounced she could not contend either a lady stays during a sanatorium or was changed given her family asked that no information be common with a public.</p><br/><p>After a second shark attack, authorities gathering along a beach on ATVs and shouted to advise people out of a water. But they concurred Monday that they didn’t make a accordant bid to advise people before that.</p><br/><p>Tim Holloman, city manager of Oak Island, one of dual separator islands off a North Carolina seashore where a attacks happened, pronounced a city has no bidding sanctioning officials to sequence a roller privileged even if sharks benefaction a threat. And a state law guarantees open entrance to beaches.</p><br/><p>Even on beaches with lifeguards “the customary is to transparent a evident area and advise people,” pronounced Chris Brewster, boss of a U.S. Lifesaving Association. “It’s adult to people to make their possess decisions.”</p><br/><p>Regardless of what authorities decided, many beachgoers Monday seemed to willingly stay out of a H2O — or during slightest remained in really shoal areas where they were reduction expected to confront a shark.</p><br/><p>“We’re not going to go in as far,” pronounced Devin Dorian, 24, who was personification volleyball in a roller with friends from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.</p><br/><p>Holly Helmig, 39, of Raleigh watched her 6-year-old son bobbing on a boogie house in shin-deep H2O instead of striking in a waves over out. Her 5-year-old daughter Zoe shovelled silt in a bucket subsequent to her.</p><br/><p>“It’s flattering apparent we’re staying tighten to a shore,” she said. “I talked to a kids about it before we came.”</p><br/><p>Deputies saw a 7-foot shark Sunday in an area between a dual places where a attacks happened, Sheriff John Ingram said. Sharks of that distance are common along a coast, Holloman said, and authorities are not perplexing to hunt one down. But reserve officials scouted for sharks from boats and a helicopter Monday. One was speckled Monday morning, Holloman said.</p><br/><p>Lise Watson, a shark consultant during a Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, pronounced there is a odds that a same animal was behind both attacks. The smell of fish blood in a H2O that’s common around angling spots like a post can excite a shark looking for a meal, she said.</p><br/><p>“They also detect transformation like a transformation that a ill or diseased fish would do by relocating behind and forth. That’s one of a reasons we feel that kids striking during a shore” attract a shark, Watson said.</p><br/><p>Experts contend a series of shark attacks is augmenting given some-more people are entering a sea each year while a series of attacks per capita has remained consistent. Precautions to equivocate an conflict embody avoiding a H2O during dark or twilight hours when sharks are many active, staying together given sharks tend to conflict individuals, and staying divided from piers where fish are drawn by bait.</p><br/><p>There were usually 72 unprovoked shark attacks on humans around a universe in 2014, including 52 in a U.S., according to a International Shark Attack File during a Florida Museum of Natural History. Three of them _ all outward a U.S. _ were fatal. Shark researcher George Burgess, who oversees a database, pronounced he’s wakeful of usually dual other mixed shark attacks on a same beach in one day.</p><br/><p>Sharks that do punch humans typically let go when they comprehend that they don’t have a fish, he said.</p><br/><p>“This by contrast, is an conflict finished by a incomparable shark that clearly goes after incomparable chase items,” Burgess said.</p><br/> </span></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.futuregoodnews.com/shark-attacks-put-oak-island-on-alert/'>Shark attacks put Oak Island on alert</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0