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Zero Hedge The core problems of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have been addressed many times here, but it may bear repeating these two facts – First, in a cashless society all privacy in trade is lost, and second, banks and governments will control access to all of your money. If such a system is […]
Major Australian Banks Going Cashless – Forced Acceptance Of CBDCs Next?
from thefreeonline on 8th Aug 2023 by Home & Culture
People gathered to pay tribute during the funeral procession of Sinead O’Connor in Bray, Ireland, August 8
The legendary singer was laid to rest on Tuesday
Crowds lined the streets of Bray in Ireland on Tuesday to pay their final respects to Sinead O’Connor, the iconic and controversial singer who passed away last month aged 56. Among the mourners were Ireland’s president and prime minister, U2 star Bono, and Dublin singer Bob Geldof.
O’Connor’s funeral cortege passed her former seaside house in Bray en route to a private burial, where Muslim funeral prayers were led by Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri of the Islamic Centre of Ireland.
“Sinead never stopped her search to know God fully, exemplifying a life marked with a deep communion with God,” Al-Qadri said. “I know that peoples of all faiths throughout the world will be praying for this beloved daughter of Ireland, among them will be countless Muslims praying for their sister in faith and humanity.”
O’Connor shot to fame with her cover of Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ in 1990, and went on to become one of the most prolific entertainers of the 1990s. Unafraid of courting controversy, O’Connor infamously tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II during an appearance on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 1992..
The stunt generated a wave of condemnation from her fellow celebrities, but O’Connor continued speaking out against the Catholic Church and promoting feminist causes.
Read more Sinead O’Connor dies aged 56
After a brief spell as a priestess of the breakaway Latin Tridentine Church, O’Connor converted to Islam in 2018. Beset by mental health issues and anguished by the death of her son by suicide last year, O’Connor was found dead in her London home last month. Police did not reveal a cause of death.
As O’Connor’s coffin passed through Bray, speakers played a collection of her most famous work, including her rendition of the traditional Irish ballad ‘The Foggy Dew’. Flags and placards hung outside her house honored the causes that she supported: Palestinian liberation, gay rights, and justice for victims of clerical sex abuse.
“The outpouring of grief and appreciation of the life and work of Sinead O’Connor demonstrates the profound impact which she had on the Irish people,” President Michael D. Higgins said in a statement. “The unique contribution of Sinead involved the experience of a great vulnerability combined with a superb, exceptional level of creativity that she chose to deliver through her voice, her music and her songs.”
From the start, women were at the center of the demonstrations that swept Iran last year. Schoolgirls emerged as an unexpected source of defiant energy. By Azadeh Moaveni One morning this past winter, the students at a girls’ high school in Tehran were told that education officials would arrive that week to inspect their classrooms and […]
The Protests Inside Iran’s Girls’ Schools
from thefreeonline on by Elizabeth Weise at The Extinction Chronicles
Climate change effects usually become clear over decades and centuries, but they seem to be everywhere this summer.
Temperature records broken constantly, ocean waters as warm as hot tubs and world leaders so alarmed they’ve called this the “the era of global boiling.”
And as concerning as these developments are, scientists have long worried about even more dramatic, looming and irreversible changes to the planet that could happen quickly. Even in the past year, there’s evidence some of these scenarios are becoming more likely.
A paper in the journal Science in 2022 looked at several climate “tipping points” – conditions beyond which changes become self-perpetuating and difficult or impossible to undo. While the concept raised the hackles of some scientists, who suggested it was overly simplistic, the paper suggested even the possibility of such no-going-back points provided compelling reasons to limit warming as much as possible.
Continue reading “The world inches closer to feared global warming ‘tipping points’: 5 disastrous scenarios” from thefreeonline on 5th August 2023 by Ecologistas En Accion
The local groups of the ecological organization of Santa Pola and Elche, in collaboration with the Elche City Council and the NGO Xaloc, will be in charge of monitoring and controlling the nest.
The local groups of the ecological organization of Santa Pola and Elche, in collaboration with the Elche City Council and the NGO Xaloc, will be in charge of monitoring and controlling the nest.
Talaiola and Margalló-Ecologistas en Acción, local groups of Ecologistas en Acción, will start up —as of next September 2— a surveillance and control device for the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nest on the Carabassí beach in Elche , formed with volunteers.
Both groups are very excited about this challenge of guarding the first turtle nest in the south of Alicante. In the words of Alberto Bernabé, a member of the Talaiola de Santa Pola group, “the nest had to be moved to Elche from our town on July 14, as it was not in a safe location for laying viability. We are lucky that the nest was moved very close, to a beach that adjoins our term, which helps us to collaborate and that this nest succeeds.”
Imágenes del Campamento Tortuga en el El Saler |
The one in Santa Pola, however, was not the first nest in the Baix Vinalopó region. A few weeks earlier, on June 26, another turtle chose a beach in this Alicante region to lay its eggs. It did so on the Arenales del Sol beach in Elche, although the nest was moved to the Saler beach in Valencia for safekeeping.
“Until now, all the clutches found in our community had been relocated to the protected beach of El Saler, with restricted access. This year, since the beginning of July, it has been decided to keep, whenever possible, the nests in their original location or, at least, in a nearby location, perhaps due to the high number of layings that have occurred, eight to date. only in the Valencian Community”, says Eleonora Brose, a member of Margalló-Ecologistas en Acción.
Elche and Denia have been the first towns chosen to host turtle nests. “In our case, it has been worth the fact that we were already prepared to host a nest in a suitable location and that we had a good group of volunteers collaborating for several years in the area of surveillance of possible nesting attempts,” he adds.
Continue reading “Ecologists in Action guard 1st loggerhead turtle nest in the sth Alicante / Eng/Esp”
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Press Release | August 7, 2023 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) extrajudicial execution crime (assassination) that killed three Palestinians dead, including a child, after their vehicle was directly shot yesterday evening in Jenin, north of the West […]
PCHR: «In a New Crime of Extrajudicial Executions, 3 Palestinians, Including Child, Assassinated in Jenin»
Por Aram Aharonian | 03/08/2023 | Opinión No le va bien a estadounidenses y europeos en su guerra en Ucrania. Tampoco les va bien en el resto del mundo que creían suyo y ahora se lo disputan con China, mientras Brasil -sobre todo a través de su presidente Lula da Silva-, Rusia, Sudáfrica e India […]
Colombia, ¿la Ucrania de América para los planes de Washington?
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