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Tuesday, 23 April 2013
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When Iceland announced they were considering a ban on hardcore pornography online, Americans, for the most part, responded as though it were a (potentially) regressive move. But with Iceland's current track record of prioritising equality, perhaps it is Americans who should be taking a cue from the progressive country.
Since the economic crash in 2008, the country has turned itself around in more ways than one.
Iceland ranked first place in the 2012 Global Gender Gap report, moving up from number 4 in 2008. Based on factors like economic participation and opportunity (so, looking at things like wage equality and the number of women in the labour force and in positions of power), educational attainment (based on factors such as female literacy and the number of women enrolled in higher education), health and survival (which looks at life expectancy and mortality rates), and political empowerment (which takes into account the number of women holding political office as well as the number of female heads of state); this report ranks countries throughout the world.
The US, on the other hand, ranked 22nd, having moved down a few notches from 17th place in 2011.
Since the economic crash in 2008, the country has turned itself around in more ways than one.
Iceland ranked first place in the 2012 Global Gender Gap report, moving up from number 4 in 2008. Based on factors like economic participation and opportunity (so, looking at things like wage equality and the number of women in the labour force and in positions of power), educational attainment (based on factors such as female literacy and the number of women enrolled in higher education), health and survival (which looks at life expectancy and mortality rates), and political empowerment (which takes into account the number of women holding political office as well as the number of female heads of state); this report ranks countries throughout the world.
The US, on the other hand, ranked 22nd, having moved down a few notches from 17th place in 2011.
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Duello
Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels She performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world,
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Fines
Activists from the feminist movement FEMEN, who conducted a stunt in Notre Dame de Paris in February 2013, may be sentenced to prison terms and be given large fines.
According to the official response I have received from the French Foreign Ministry, they are facing up to one year in prison and a 10,000 euro fine for insulting believers' feelings, Yaroslav Nilov, the head of the State Duma committee on public associations and religious organizations, said on Russia's Spas television.
Nilov said the feminists are facing up to ten years in prison and a fine in an amount of up to 200,000 euros for the damage they have inflicted to the Notre Dame property.
According to the official response I have received from the French Foreign Ministry, they are facing up to one year in prison and a 10,000 euro fine for insulting believers' feelings, Yaroslav Nilov, the head of the State Duma committee on public associations and religious organizations, said on Russia's Spas television.
Nilov said the feminists are facing up to ten years in prison and a fine in an amount of up to 200,000 euros for the damage they have inflicted to the Notre Dame property.
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Jean Brown
The female leader of a marijuana trafficking organisation has been sentenced to life in prison.
Jean Brown, a 43-year-old Jamaican woman, was sentenced Friday for murder in aid of racketeering. Officials with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) unit say Brown is one of the leaders of the Brown Organization – a criminal organization whose members distributed narcotics in primarily in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Jamaica.
“Today’s life sentence of Jean Brown for her drug conspiracy, kidnapping and murder in aid of racketeering is a victory for HSI special agents, who since 2009 have been investigating the Jean Brown drug trafficking organization, which spanned five states and two countries. HSI special agents have seized approximately 100 pounds of marijuana, $853,000 in cash and bank accounts and six firearms from these co-conspirators, who used intimidation and violence to further their criminal activities,” said William Winter, special agent in charge of HSI Baltimore. “HSI will continue working with our law enforcement partners to investigate and ultimately dismantle criminal organizations that are wreaking violence in our communities through the illicit drug trade.”
Read more: http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/state/jamaican-female-crime-boss-sentenced-to-life-in-prison#ixzz2P90bafzZ
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Library
I was reading something about the first libraries. The Sumerians kept word lists. When the Akkadians defeated them and assimilated the Sumerian culture they produced word lists in the two languages. The Akkadian word for dragon was equated with the Sumerian word for giant caterpillar.
Friday, 29 March 2013
Ladies
All credit to Quentin Tarantino for his achievements in film-making but I can manage without his work. He's definitely too foul-mouthed for my taste. Crudity is his thing. I'm not denying the cleverness but essentially he doesn't understand the genres he's pillaging. I'll give you an example. His Kill Bill films do not capture anything of the two Lady Snowblood films. Give me the originals any day.
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