30/07/2017
BP and Total are trying to get permission to drill for oil near the Amazon Reef, but this group of experts called for the companies’ plans to be put on hold, saying that “The priority should be to protect the reef and surrounding waters in order to conduct further research.”
This letter adds more pressure on BP and Total to cancel their plans to drill. So far, over a million people have signed the petition against oil drilling near the Amazon Reef, and more than 29,000 people have written to BP’s CEO in protest.
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30/07/2017
By Moin Qazi*
24 July 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service
“You live in such a time that if any of you abandon even a tenth of what you are enjoined, you will be ruined. But a time will come when, if a person fulfills only a tenth of what is enjoined, they will be saved.” — Prophet Muhammad (Tirmidhi, Book 34: Fitan (Sedition), Section 79, No. 2267)
**Panoramic view of Masjeed Al Nabawee at sunset | Author: Ahmed Medineli | public domain. ” Wikipedia Commons
In the above hadith or prophetic saying, the Prophet was referring to times like ours when we live in great strife and are facing tough challenges to balance religion with modern imperatives.
This Prophetic advice emanates from the holy Quran: “And God has not laid upon you any hardship in matters of religion” (Q22:78).
The Qur’an further says: “God intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship.” (Q2:185) The Qur’an reinforces this message again: “God does not burden a soul beyond its capacity” (Q 2:286).
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30/07/2017
By Uri Avery*
29/07/2017
MY LATE friend, Nathan Yellin-Mor, the political leader of the LEHI underground, once told me that a certain politician is “not a great thinker and not a small fool.”
Uri Avnery
I remember that sentence every time I think about Gilad Erdan, our Minister of Public Security. His part in the events of the last few weeks, in which the entire Middle East almost exploded, confirmed this judgment.
On the other hand, Binyamin Netanyahu reminds me of the saying: “A clever person is one who knows how to extricate himself from a trap which a wise person would not have gotten into in the first place.”
About Netanyahu I would have said: “A very clever but not a very wise person.”
THERE ARE two ways to look at historic disasters. The one sees them as plots of evil persons, the other as acts of folly.
It is easy to understand the first school. After all, it cannot be possible that our very lives depend on a bunch of fools, who have no idea about anything.
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30/07/2017
30 July 2017 – Criminal groups feed off the instability created by conflicts, and as links between wars, trafficking and migrant smuggling become more widely known, the United Nations is calling on the international community to act now to help and protect trafficking victims and to end this crime forever.
Young women in Colombia forced into sexual exploitation. Photo: UNICEF/Donna DeCesare
“Conflict is a breeding ground for criminal activity,” said Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “People forced from their homes are falling prey to human traffickers as they try desperately to escape the violence.”
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30/07/2017
By John Scales Avery
John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 13: Count Leo Tolstoy. The others will follow successively.
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Figure 13.1: Portrait of Count Leo Tolstoy made in 1887 by Ilia Repin. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828. While he was still a child, his parents died, and he became Count Tolstoy, with responsibility for the family estate at Yasnaya Polyana.
As a young man, he was attracted to the gay and worldly social life of Moscow, but his diary during this period shows remorse over his pursuit of sensual pleasures.
Disgusted with himself, he entered the army, and during idle periods he began his career as a writer.
While still a soldier, he published a beautiful nostalgic work entitled “Childhood” as well as a number of skillful stories describing army life.
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