Leader Of Armenia’s ‘Velvet Revolution’ Takes Power After Weeks Of Protests : The Two-Way : NPR
wild.
Category: International Affairs,
Montenegro votes for new leader with pro-Western veteran tipped to win
Victory for the European future of Montenegro,” said the pro-Western economist who led Montenegro to independence from Serbia in 2016 and into NATO last year.
Djukanovic wants to develop the predominantly Orthodox Balkan nation, a part of which has strong pro-Russia sympathies, by joining the EU.
Montenegro votes for new leader with pro-Western veteran tipped to win
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Seoulbeats – Irene’s Crime: Reading?
It is a book with themes of marginalization, internalized misogyny, and gender based discrimination. Male fans of Irene took this as a personal attack.
…Irene’s angry male fans have been leaving comments like, “I’m disappointed in her”, “I regret ever thinking of marrying you”, and “Don’t be so naïve to the world. She needs to realize that the majority of her fans are male and it’s wrong for her to make them feel bad when they’re spending money on her”.
…Not unlike many other modern societies, the true heart of feminism is lost through the representation by more radical feminists, who dominate the gender equality conversation.
This may be the case with South Korea: with some of the public’s understanding of feminism being misandry as opposed to equality, feminism has become equated with man-hating.
… When female idols associate with feminism, the problem isn’t that it is seen as an act of man-hating. The real problem is that female K-pop idols associate with feminism, it directly undermines the system of objectification and fantasy that toxic fans construct around female idols. The K-pop industry markets their idols with the perfect boyfriend or girlfriend fantasy.
…A person with autonomy cannot be a fantasy, because a person isn’t a fantasy. Irene, in an offhanded comment, reminded her fans that she is more than just her K-pop persona, and that was her gravest crime in the eyes of toxic fans.
Irene’s Crime: Reading? – seoulbeats
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Trump freezes $200 million in funds earmarked for Syria recovery
Trump freezes $200 million in funds earmarked for Syria recovery – CBS News
Heartless asshole without a soul.
Treaties Between the United States and Indigenous Nations, Explained | Teen Vogue
Today, Natives are often thought of in terms of race, and we are considered people of color. But American Indians specifically are also designated by the federal government as a political classification. This is because we belong to ancient Indigenous tribes that predate the existence of the United States of America and we made treaties with them. These treaties recognized our sovereignty as independent nations.
Treaties, and the U.S. government’s history of unilaterally breaching them, have had a profound effect on Native people. To be blunt, we were lied to. Treaties were used as a ruse to coax tribes out of defending their territory and to steal Native lands and resources.
…Of the payments that were made, the government often gave the money directly to traders who were supposed to supply the Dakota with rations. The withholding of rations by these traders led to the Dakota War of 1862, because the Dakota, of which there were an estimated 6,500 people, were starving.
…In 1980, in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the seizure of the Black Hills from the Lakota was a wrongful taking and that the Sioux were entitled to “just compensation” under the 5th Amendment’s “Takings Clause.” The Lakota refuse to accept the money, because the Black Hills are not for sale. To this day, they rightfully belong to the Great Sioux Nation.
Treaties Between the United States and Indigenous Nations, Explained | Teen Vogue
Sighhhh
(It’s worth repeating: not your mother’s Teen Vogue)
The Palestinians in Gaza are once more bidding to burst out – Will Gaza boil over?
The Palestinians are calling it the “Great Return March”, a salute to the homes their grandparents lived in, across the border, before they fled or were pushed out by the newborn Israel. They promise to keep marching for another six weeks, at least. From Israel’s perspective, these are “acts of terror”, aimed at sabotaging the border fence and orchestrated by Hamas, the militant Islamist group that wrested control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2007 after winning an election the year before. Since then Gaza’s neighbours, Israel and Egypt, have imposed a near-total blockade on the cramped strip’s 1.8m people. But the march’s organisers insist that they do not represent any one movement, and are simply protesting against their perpetual refugee status and the siege.
The Palestinians in Gaza are once more bidding to burst out – Will Gaza boil over?
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Trump says military troops will guard US-Mexico border
Trump says military troops will guard US-Mexico border
Grrrrrrrrreat. Our ally Mexico should loooooooooooooove that.
..Not.
Québec program sends unsold grocery store food to food banks
The Supermarket Recovery Program is intended as a large scale society project that will benefit the 400,000 people, including 150,000 children who, each month, have no choice but to turn to a food program for help.
…In 2016, the pilot project resulted in the recovery of almost 2.5 million kg of food from 177 supermarkets, representing a market value of almost $20 million. Our project also allowed a reduction of more than 2,000 tons of eqCO2 of greenhouse gases. When fully functional, the program will recover approximately 8.5 million kg of food annually in 645 supermarkets, thereby avoiding more than 7,500 tons of eqCO2 of greenhouse gases each year – the equivalent of taking 1,600 cars off the road!
Supermarket Recovery Program – Les Banques alimentaires du Québec
Israel Reaches Deal To Send 16,000 African Immigrants To West
Israel said on Monday it has canceled a plan to deport African migrants to Africa and reached an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to send more than 16,000 to Western countries instead.
Other migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum, will be allowed to remain in Israel for at least the next five years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
Netanyahu named Canada, Italy and Germany as some of the nations that will take in the migrants – although they appeared not to have been informed of the plan yet.
Israel Reaches Deal To Send 16,000 African Immigrants To West – The Forward
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Protesters real animals in Antler dispute
But who determines whether or not it’s ethical to eat wild game, whether all restaurants should be vegan? And does the right of those who feel aggrieved by the ethically suspect actions of others have the right, as is the case with the Antler protest, to disrupt and harass someone they disagree with?
The trouble with that notion that it fundamentally undermines liberty, it fuels subjective, oppressive and authoritarian consequences.
Democratic notions of liberty permit protest and dissent but also embrace tolerance. At the end of the day, that means individuals are entitled to engage in ethical behaviour others find wrong or even abhorrent.
…Ugar is a dog walker. There are animal rights activists who view pet ownership as slavery and by that reasoning ought to be entitled to picket outside her house, disrupt her business and scream “SLAVER” when she takes her dogs for a walk.
Hunter is the one whose rights are being violated by bullying, intolerant and self-appointed vigilantes, the real animals in this dispute.
WALLACE: Protesters real animals in Antler dispute | Toronto Sun
Exactly.
Antler Kitchen & Bar chef Michael Hunter carved deer leg in window after vegans came to protest
Protesting a restaurant because you didn’t like the joke they made is obnoxious. Deciding that your beliefs and eating habits are worth destroying a small business person’s livelihood is beyond obnoxious. These people are why plenty of innocent, non-preachy and not holier-than-thou vegans get some so much verbal abuse.
And finally, butchering up a leg of venison next to some presumptuous, judgmental, self-righteous, and wholly without consideration for their fellow human protesters is the best thing I heard all weekend.
Can wait for the chance to eat at Antlers!
Gaza: 15 Palestinians killed in confrontations with Israeli forces – CNN
At least 15 Palestinians were killed and more than 1,400 injured in confrontations with Israeli forces during protests at the Gaza border on Friday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The Health Ministry said 1,416 people were wounded as protesters marched toward a fence that separates Gaza from Israel on the first day of demonstrations scheduled to take place over six weeks. The dead included one 16-year-old, the ministry said.
…A Palestinian Red Crescent spokesman in Gaza told CNN that 355 injuries were from live bullets and included serious wounds to the head, abdomen and back. The Red Crescent had set up a field hospital in eastern Gaza and was setting up a second hospital in nearby east Jabalia.
…Tent cities have been set up to host the marches, which are expected to continue through May 15 when Palestinians mark the anniversary of the “Nakba” (“Catastrophe”), the day after Israel declared independence in 1948. Roughly 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes during the Arab-Israeli war.
Today, approximately 1.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza are registered refugees, according to the United Nations.
Gaza: 15 Palestinians killed in confrontations with Israeli forces – CNN
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