Category Archives: International
Police tap social media in wake of London attack – Strategy – Business – News – iTnews.com.au
“There’s a lot of work we’re doing to analyse the language and how people are talking on Twitter,” Ertogral said. The department, which has been mobilised around other major events such as the G20 conference, London student riots and London Olympics, is using Radian 6 and RepKnight software to explore trends, sentiment and association of […]
INTERNATIONAL – Muslim religious leaders deliver emotional prayer at Auschwitz for Holocaust dead
The emotional visit was part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide programme organised in part by the US State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom. Of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II, a million were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, mostly in its notorious gas chambers, along with tens of thousands […]
Tornadoes Have Devastated American Indian Families in Oklahoma NEED HELP
The Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference (OIMC) Disaster Relief Team – whose mission is to provide direct support, care, and assistance to American Indian victims of disasters – is serving as a focal point to coordinate Native relief efforts. Rev. David Wilson (Choctaw), dwilson@oimc.org, head of the OIMC Disaster Relief Team, has provided telephone numbers for […]
Sign reclaiming traditional name Pkols for Mount Douglas will stay for now – National – Times Colonist
Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard said Thursday that First Nations did not ask permission to erect the sign and no one has yet worked out the process for either changing the name or dealing with the sign. “It’s too soon to know what we’re going to do with it,” he said. “Our staff did ask them […]
Kerry’s Purposeless Shawarma Diplomacy « Commentary Magazine
Though it’s probably worth pointing out that Kerry reportedly ate turkey shawarma, which of course isn’t shawarma at all but rather a ludicrous shawarma impostor whose proliferation is a terrifying sign of impending total civilizational collapse, and thus Kerry didn’t even accomplish that one goal. (The fault here lies, however, with the Israeli side, not […]
Engineer at Elite Army Weapons Lab Tied to Racist Groups | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
A young research engineer at the U.S. Army’s elite chemical and biological research laboratory in Maryland has close ties to two racist groups espousing white nationalist views, one of which has called for a homeland for white people. John Stortstrom, a mechanical engineer who works for the Army at its Edgewood Chemical Biological Center ECBC […]
Filipino Workers to Get More Rights in Saudi Arabia | @pritheworld
The governments of Saudi Arabia and the Philippines have now signed an agreement giving Filipino workers more rights – specifically Filipino household service workers. Anchor Marco Werman talks to Kathleen Newland, Director of the Migrants, Migration and Development Program at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington DC. via Filipino Workers to Get More Rights in […]
Police raids cause generational damage: waateanews.com
Tūhoe leader Tamati Kruger says the Independent Police Conduct Authority report doesn’t fix things for Tūhoe people caught up in what have now been found to be illegal actions by the police. The IPCA backed the police decision to arrest people involved in alleged military style training camps in Te Urewera, but said community members […]
Police commissioner defends raid decisions
The Independent Police Complaints Authority has slammed the way police set up blockades and detained people in the Ruatoki valley, but considered there was a case for leaving some of its most experienced Māori staff out of the loop. Mr Marshall says the team investigating alleged military style training camps in Te Urewera, thought it […]
Obama Administration Admits Drone Attacks Killed 4 US Citizens | Common Dreams
In a letter to senior members of Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder writes that in addition to the targeted assassination of cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, since 2009, three other U.S. citizens—Samir Khan, Abd aI-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaqi, and Jude Kenan Mohammed—were also killed in “U.S. counterterrorism operations” though they “were not specifically targeted.” The Washington Post notes […]
