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JANELLE DE SOUZA and LAUREL V WILLIAMS It is time men stop men committing acts of violence against women and girls, an alliance of non-governmental organisations demanded on Saturday, joining the national outcry over the murder of 22-year-old Andrea Bharatt. In a joint statement, the Alliance for State Action to end Gender-based Violence says it is not enough to grieve for those who have gone missing, been kidnapped or been killed. But the “whole of society,” especially men, is obligated to...

February 25, 2020 - 11:36am The Wisconsin Assembly passed a resolution calling for a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution on February 18  by a 60-38 vote, almost entirely along party lines. The measure, Assembly Joint Resolution (AJR) 77, now heads to the Senate, where its companion, Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 57, has yet to move out of committee. If passed, Wisconsin would become the 16 th state to back right-wing efforts to call for a constitutional convention to propose sweeping amendment...

COVID-19 violators face imprisonment as Buhari signs regulations Our Reporters The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021 which made the use of face masks in public places mandatory among other measures to curtail spread of COVID-19. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that the President signed the document on Tuesday. Mustapha, who is also the Secreta...

The Abia State Governor, Okezie lkpeazu has inaugurated the State Action and Technical Committees on Gender Based Violence, with a charge on them to formulate and execute policies that will ensure total reduction and eradication of gender based violence in the State. Speaking while inaugurating the two Committees at the Government House Umuahia, Governor lkpeazu disclosed that Government having noted with concern the increasing rate of gender based violence in the State, country and world at la...

Interference. >> what the russians did was a state action by their security services, by the gru, which was a criminal hack of computers, all done surreptitiously, ordered from the top by kremlin. >> there are incidents where ukrainians weighed in, saying that he might approve of him carving up their country. >> theres a few other incidents that have been cited based on facebook postings and all. hill did say, yes, it would be best if the ukrainians and other countries did not weigh in in this w...

For that is capitalism, its free enterprise, the expansion of the free enterprise system produced by cheap energy, which produces cheap food, cheap transportation, and gives people a chance to lift out of poverty. these people want to impose socialism, which is not only going to not solve the climate problem, its going to decimate our ability to mitigate climate change and its also going to confine billions of people to poverty, so the solution they are pushing for the exact opposite of what we ...

Rich, the first time. every time before that the majority were poor or on the verge of party and the reason for that is capitalism, free enterprise, the expansion of the free and fry system produced by cheap energy, cheap food, cheap transportation and gives people a chance to this out of poverty. these people want to impose socialism which is going -- not only not going to solve the climate problem but decimate our ability to mitigate climate change and consign people to poverty. the solution t...

Two claims. he says if youre goal is to see how the i.r.s. is auditing his returns, it doesnt do you any good to see his state tax returns. secondly they say this is clearly somebody trying to get at donald trump for political reasons. this is a state action going after trump because they dont like his politics and that violates the first amendment. this is a new wrinkle. its a new lawsuit. its different than the one thats already in court. this is trump in his personal capacity, not his officia...

Where states acted to segregate the schools. so whether it was state action or voluntary, he supported busing. and in fact in 1974 he was the deciding vote on an amendment in the senate that would have ended busing once and for all. and he was the deciding vote to stop that. so i think that where the vice president got very nuanced was on whether the federal courts and the federal governments should go in where there was not a policy in place for segregation but that it was segregation because o...

But weve also seen a couple of moves by the new york attorney general which issued subpoenas to deutsche bank a couple of weeks ago, and its entirely possible well see complimentary state action along with the work being done in the southern district of new york. there is a lot left there. >> jeremy, was anyone cleared tonight? mr. corsi was quoted on social media as having given a quote about, you know, im done, this clears me. im paraphrasing. but was anyone cleared? do people whose names weve...