North Korean Human Rights Act Gets New Push

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SEOUL — Wednesday at the Seoul Press Center, Human Rights Foundation (HRF) will launch a global effort to raise awareness about the North Korea Human Rights Act—a bill stalled in South Korea’s National Assembly since 2005.

The International Coalition is led by Garry Kasparov and includes democracy activist Srdja Popovic, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Malaysian opposition leader Nurul Izzah Anwar, former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, Stanford professor Larry Diamond, former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and several others.

If signed into law, the North Korean Human Rights Act would establish a human rights monitoring and documentation program inspired by the East German transition; launch a campaign to educate the South Korean people about the human rights situation in North Korea; send humanitarian aid to the North Korean people; dramatically increase the flow of information into the isolated North by mandating financial support for the civil society groups that carry out this work from South Korea; and create high-level positions in the South Korean government—at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Unification—dedicated to promoting human rights in North Korea.

“The North Korean government’s crimes against humanity are known throughout the free world. The Kim family’s theocratic dynasty has purged millions of its own citizens through concentrations camps, enforced starvation, and mass executions. The horror is so great that Japan and the United States have passed laws to formalize the promotion of human rights in North Korea, while the European Union has held hearings on the subject. Canada has established a North Korea human rights day, and the United Nations has created a Special Rapporteur with the aim of investigating the North’s tyranny, and a Commission of Inquiry which in 2014 found that the Kim regime continues to commit crimes against humanity. Absent in this global effort is South Korea’s government—which has done nothing of the sort,” said HRF’s Kasparov.

For the past decade, a bill for the Act has remained stalled in South Korea’s National Assembly, trapped in political gridlock. South Korea’s opposition party opposes the bill, arguing that South Korea should not criticize the North’s human rights record, in an effort to avoid “offending” the dictator. They instead propose a different bill, which focuses on sending only humanitarian aid to the regime.

However, strong support for the bill does exist in South Korea. National figures in favor include the country’s National Human Rights Commission, the Ministry of Unification, the North Korean defector community, and President Park Geun-hye, who has personally expressed support for the act.

“A larger global voice is needed to express solidarity with the North Korean people and help the South Korean government and people pass the North Korean Human Rights Act,” said Kasparov.

“Non-violent action—in the form of information, education, and global attention—is a key component to bringing an end to the living nightmare of the North Korean people,” said CANVAS co-founder Srdja Popovic. “We only need look at the history of Apartheid South Africa and the Soviet Union to see how international pressure can assist in bringing down dictatorship. In both conflicts it was ideas, not military hardware, that brought about change. This rings true in the struggle against modern dictators, everywhere from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe. With support from world figures, our coalition hopes to provide encouragement for South Korean lawmakers to overcome differences and unite to create a lifeline for humanity’s most oppressed people.”

Jimmy Wales Foundation CEO Orit Kopel will join Popovic, Kasparov, South Korean lawmakers and North Korean defectors at a press conference to announce the International Coalition tomorrow September 30 in Seoul at 11:00am local time at the Seoul Press Center.

Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. HRF’s International Council includes human rights advocates George Ayittey, Vladimir Bukovsky, Palden Gyatso, Mutabar Tadjibaeva, Elie Wiesel, and Harry Wu.

By Henry Song

Vancouver Art Gallery: So Far, Biggest Voting Segment “Really Can’t Stand It,” Want It Stopped

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The design for the new Vancouver Art Gallery has been published, and although so far opinions are split widely about designers Herzog & de Meuron’s vision, the largest voting segment on CBC’s poll is, “Really can’t stand it. It must be stopped.”

Of 1,533 voters 532 said they “couldn’t stand” the new design. Very few of those who responded said they were “indifferent” (4 percent). About 15 percent said they were “not impressed” but could live with it. 23 percent said they “weren’t sure yet and needed time.” The same percentage — a quarter of respondents — said they “totally loved” the design.

Some Canadians criticized the design as looking like a pagoda, being outdated in style, and being built “like Lego.” Some also referred to the inukshuk, a traditional indigenous Canadian symbol popular in the city. Those who approved of the design said it was “exciting” and “something cool happening in Vancouver.”

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A lot of commenters expressed strong feelings about the designers chosen not being Canadian.

“It does not look Canadian or West Coast! Don’t we have a West Coast architect with a Canadian design?” wrote one such commenter.

The new plan is a 310,000-square-foot wood design 20 stories high, and would be built in downtown Vancouver on the site of what is currently a parking lot at West Georgia and Cambie Street.

The site was donated by the city on condition the Vancouver Art Gallery would raise an estimated $300 million needed for the project. So far, funds raised fall far short of that. $23 million has been vouched by the Vancouver Art Gallery board of trustees.

The designers were chosen in 2014. World class designers Herzog & de Meuron have done a number of famous art galleries and museums around the world, including the Tate Modern in London and the “Bird’s Nest” in Beijing.

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1,000mph With 135,000hp – Bloodhound Shown

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1,000mph with 135,000hp. The Bloodhound — the world’s most powerful racing car — has never been publicly viewed before today. It will be on display at Canary Wharf in London.

The current land speed record is 763mph. That record was set by the same UK nationals behind this project. Andy Green was the driver of the ThrustSSC that set the current record in 1997, and Green will drive Bloodhound.

The Bloodhound project has cost £10 million ($15 million) over the past 8 years. Over 350 companies and universities have collaborated on developing the Bloodhound.

Bloodhound (3)The Bloodhound’s power comes from three sources: a Rolls-Royce EJ200 Eurofighter Typhoon jet engine, a cluster of hybrid rockets developed by Nammo, and a supercharged Jaguar V8 engine which is the vehicle’s fuel (oxidiser) pump.

Together, this propulsion system will produce 135,000 break horsepower. For point of comparison, F1 racecars typically produce around 750 horsepower.

The Bloodhound’s body is 44 feet long (13.4 meters) and is 6 feet in diameter. It also sports a 3.3 foot tall tail fin. It weighs in at 7.5 tons.

Bloodhound (6)The Bloodhound will first complete some preliminary trials in Oxford before heading to South Africa for high-speed runs.

“With the car now built and the track in South Africa prepared our focus is on racing in 2016,” Paul Noble, project director and previous (1983) land speed record holder, said.

Bloodhound (8)In South Africa, a perfectly flat 12-mile track has been prepared in the Hakskeen Pan. The team will attempt to break the record in 2016 — they are aiming at 800mph — after which they will return to the UK to review the data. Once satisfied with their preparations, they will return to South Africa to try for 1000mph.

Elections In Turkey – The Country Of Dilemmas 

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Western or Eastern, European or Asian, modern or traditional, secular or religious? Having struggled between many opposing sides throughout their history, the Turkish people are struggling on the border of another dilemma nowadays: to go on with the ruling party which has been in charge for the last 13 years or to choose a new party to form the government as well as the country’s future.

Former elections in June left an impasse and no single party gained a governing majority, which was a great shock for the ruling AK Party which has lost its 13-year “one party” statue in spite of Erdoğan’s efforts during the election campaigns. Opposition parties and several institutions fired away at President Erdoğan accusing him of abusing his presidential power on behalf of the AK Party by asking “400 deputies ” from voters to change the constitution and to establish a presidential system.

Deprived of the majority but having the most of the votes, the AK Party’s new leader Davutoğlu had been asked to form a new government within 45 days by president Erdoğan, which failed after negotiations with other parties’ leaders. Following this, President Erdoğan used his right granted by Turkey’s Constitution and decided to hold a new election after the 45-day period expired without the formation of a government.

The parliamentary re-election on the 1st of November will result in not only party selection but also the people’s decision on Erdoğan’s presidency. If the AK Party gains at least 400 deputies and has the majority there is no doubt that the presidential system is going to be established and Erdoğan is going to be declared the supreme leader of the country. But if the result does not change, difficult times will start for the AK Party which may lead it to dissolution.

The decision is not so easy to be made as Turkish People are divided into two groups — as usual — on Erdoğan’s identity. His followers see him as an unquestionable Islamic and national hero who should be in charge with full authority while the others see him as the dictator head of a corrupted and kleptocratic regime who abuses his power and manipulates Islamic values.

But Erdoğan’s identity is not the only dilemma which complicates the situation for a Turkey which has been ruled by the same party for 13 years. On one hand the tarnished image of a ruling party with the claims of corruption and being over-oppressive and on the other hand an incompetent image of the other parties with bad reputations seem to confuse voters who see no obvious selection between the two.

Besides the unsolved mystery of the recent terrorist attacks and the inconsistent comments made by authorities on the Kurdish situation, there are other issues which will have a deep effect upon parliament’s formation depending on voters critical opinions on HDP, the party which has mainly but not only Kurdish but also leftist and even nationalist Turkish followers as well as strong haters and which won 80 deputies in the former election with the campaign against Erdoğan’s presidency and deprived the AK Party of the majority.

Turkey is getting through difficult times between political dilemmas. And the future does not seem to be easier.

Analysis by Emre Seven

Splendour And Misery: Painting Prostitution At The Musée d’Orsay In Paris

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PARIS — Women of the night and their artistic impact is the subject of a major exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The show focuses on prostitution seen through the eyes of painters between 1850 and 1910. This extraordinary undertaking, whose title is borrowed from Honoré de Balzac’s controversial novel ‘Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes’ (The Splendours and Miseries of Courtesans), aims to unveil the faces and bodies of prostitutes as a genuine and rich source of inspiration for the painters of the period.

The mid-nineteenth century generated an effort to depict a concrete contemporary reality with a new desire to reject Romantic modes of idealization in art and literature which opened a new range of subject considered worthy of representation. The prostitute’s body as the ultimate anti-academic subject matter previously considered socially inappropriate could eventually be brought in the frame and became emblematic of the modernist gaze. Widely represented across canvas and texts, prostitutes became a symbol for modernity and embodied modern life itself.

From Van Gogh, Manet to Picasso or Munch, the exhibition features various generations of painters across several countries. As already suggested by its title, the exhibition also intends to examine the contradictory connotations of disgust and beauty associated with prostitution. Yet if some artists emphasized the ‘misery’ of it in their work while others chose instead to highlight its ‘splendour’, artists were all operating under the prism of fascination. Whether as cubists, impressionists, postimpressionists or expressionists, all were trying with a particular brush to reveal this disorienting world of the unseen sometimes lugubrious, sometimes colourful, no matter the technique of representation.

As they were experimenting and looking for new pictorial ways of representing prostitution, the subject was treated very differently depending on the painter’s artistic vision. Rather than reproducing scenes accurately and realistically, painters like Edgar Degas or Constantin Guys based their visions mainly on fantasies, suggesting and sublimating the noisy brothel atmosphere through unconventional techniques. Some chose to paint the common spaces of prostitution such as streets, harshly illuminated rooms or the dark interiors of ‘cafés-concerts’ and ‘music-halls’, while others preferred the intimate details of a face or a body.

Along with its artistic impact, the event also examines the social and cultural aspect of prostitution through Salon painting, decorative arts, sculpture and photography. In addition, various documentary and archival materials made available to the public highlight the ambivalent status of prostitutes from the splendour of the ‘demi-mondaine’, a pleasure girl living on her wealthy clients, to the misery of the ‘pierreuse’, an often clandestine street walker.

The social subject of prostitution is still a complex one nowadays. The fact that the Musée d’Orsay decided to conclude the year with a celebration of artistic images of prostitution has a particular resonance in light of the latest debates on the subject in France. We cannot but connect it to the recent decision of the French senate to scrap important sections of a government-backed law on prostitution that brought hundreds of prostitutes in the streets of Paris and other French cities last April. In spite of this resonance, whether taken as a subtle reminder of the still open debate on the controversial prostitution law in France or as a pure celebration of nineteenth century artistic imagery of prostitution, this impactful event is definitely not to miss.

‘Splendour and Misery — Pictures of Prostitution, 1850-1910’
22 September to 17 January 2016 – Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Pictures of Prostitution

‘At the Moulin Rouge’, 1892, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Art Institute of Chicago

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‘Olympia’, 1863, Édouard Manet, Grand Palais, Paris

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‘The Absinthe Drinker’, 1901, Pablo Picasso, Hermitage Museum, St Petersbourg

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‘The Absinthe’, 1873, Edgar Degas, Grand Palais, Paris

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‘Party at the Moulin Rouge’, 1889, Giovanni Boldini, Grand Palais, Paris

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‘The Gallien Girl’, 1910, Frantisek Kupka, Národni Galerie, Prague

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‘Rolla’, 1878, Henri Gervex, Grand Palais, Paris

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‘The Wait’, 1848, Jean Béraud, Musée d’Orsay, Paris

By Pauline Schnoebelen

 

David Cameron Under Pressure To Meet The Dalai Lama Again

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A Tibetan rights campaign group has challenged Prime Minister David Cameron to invite the Dalai Lama to meet him during the current visit to the UK of the Tibetan spiritual leader and bête noire for the government of China. The group, Free Tibet, has submitted a 4,000 signature petition to 10 Downing St this week, calling on Mr Cameron to stand up to pressure from China’s government to shun the Nobel Peace prize winner.

The Dalai Lama’s trip is the first visit to London since 2012, when the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg provoked China’s anger by having a private meeting with the spiritual leader. After the meeting, the Chinese government threatened “serious consequences”, saying it had “seriously interfered with China’s internal affairs, undermined China’s core interests, and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.”

In 2013, Mr Cameron announced he had “no plans” to meet the Dalai Lama again. The statement was widely perceived to be the catalyst for warmer relations between China and the UK, with subsequent visits by the Prime Minister to China and by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to the UK in 2014 . President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the UK this October – his first since assuming power in 2012.

In July 2012, two junior ministers in the Coalition government wrote to Mr Cameron to express their frustration after being banned from meeting the Dalai Lama at a private event. Tim Loughton and Norman Baker wrote that the Foreign Office’s approach to the issue was “that British foreign policy on Tibet is whatever China wants it to be.” They added that in regard to Tibet “the Chinese government does not respond positively to any conciliatory gesture by the British government, but instead interprets this as a sign of weakness and so makes further demands for concessions.”

Free Tibet director Eleanor Byrne-Rosengren said:

“No foreign government has the right to tell our political leaders who they can and can’t meet. For China, the willingness or otherwise of political leaders to meet the Dalai Lama is a convenient measure of how low they are willing to go in bending to its will. In shunning the Dalai Lama, David Cameron is sending them a message about how weak we are and that is hardly in the UK’s interests, diplomatically or financially

“Unelected leader Xi Jinping will be greeted with all the honour and respect of a state visit next month – even though he has recently overseen a clampdown on human rights and freedom of expression in China itself that hasn’t been seen for a generation. In contrast, the Dalai Lama – a globally respected leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate – is visiting Britain to talk about compassion. What sort of message does Mr Cameron imagine he is sending to the British people, China and the world by shunning the Dalai Lama and feting Xi?”

London Mayor Boris Johnson has yet to respond to a request from Free Tibet to welcome the Dalai Lama to London, even though both the Labour Group and the Green Group on the London Assembly have extended welcomes to him. The national Green Party has confirmed to Free Tibet that it will issue a welcome to the Dalai Lama. Similar requests were sent in August to Tim Farron MP, leader of the Liberal Democrats; Angus Robertson MP leader of SNP MPs in Westminster. No replies have yet been received from them. Jeremy Corbyn has been sent the request this week, following his election as Labour Party leader.

By Alistair Currie

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Tatsumi Kimishima: New Nintendo President

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In a press conference at the Osaka Stock Exchange in Osaka, Japan, newly appointed Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima spoke to reporters regarding the state of the company and what direction it was headed in. Kimishima previously served as the president of Nintendo of America from 2002 to 2006 until he handed over the reigns to current Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime.

Aside from his obvious contributions to the popular Pokemon franchise, Kimishima has a corporate background as he worked for the Sanwa Bank of Japan for 27 years. He has served as the Chief Financial Officer for The Pokemon Company and the president of Pokemon USA Inc. Kimishima has also served as the Managing Director of Nintendo since 2013.

The organizational restructuring of Nintendo was made in September partly due to an unexpected turn of events earlier this year. Kimishima fills the void left by former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who died on July 11, 2015 due to bile duct cancer. Much like Iwata, when he first took over as Nintendo President in 2002, Kimishima is not well known among gamers and game critics. Unless you are an avid follower of Nintendo and you study the names behind the daily operations of the company, you probably wouldn’t be too familiar with Tatsumi Kimishima’s work. It is also interesting to note that Kimishima is 65 years of age — 10 years older than Iwata when he last held the position of president.

Kimishima takes over at a time when Nintendo is in a transition period, realizing that the Nintendo Wii U hasn’t been winning the race in console sales against the Xbox One and the Sony Playstation 4. Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda will oversee software development for Nintendo, taking on the roles of “Creative Fellow” and “Technology Fellow” respectively while Kimishima will handle the administrative side of Nintendo. Kimishima is said to have a different management style and business approach compared with the former president.

Game editor analysis: In my opinion, while they made a safe pick in selecting him to lead the company, I also believe that Tatsumi Kimishima will do just fine as the new Nintendo President. He has the experience working in a similar role and he has great knowledge of the company. Considering that he doesn’t intend to change the direction where Nintendo is going, it seems to me that Kimishima will fit right in with the everyday core operations of Nintendo. Sometimes it just makes sense to stay in house when making a key hire like this one.

By Steven Vitte

5 Artworks Not To Miss At Centre Pompidou’s Latest Exhibition Of Mona Hatoum

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Born in Beirut in 1952, Mona Hatoum is of Palestinian descent and British nationality. This latest exhibition of an unprecedented scale has gathered over 100 works of this leading contemporary artist in various media, ranging from performance, video, photography, works on paper to installation and sculpture. Some of the must-sees are highlighted for you here to spend more time experiencing and understanding them.

Mona Hatoum Grater Divide
“Grater Divide”

  1. Grater Divide, 2002

Hatoum’s artistic practice often features modifying or scaling up familiar objects from daily life into threatening or hostile sculptures up to human proportions. This cold and solid room divider was based on a foldout cheese grater and now aggressively blocking the view of visitor across the exhibition room. If standing close enough, one may even have the feeling of going to be peeled.

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Mona Hatoum Light Sentence

  1. Light Sentence, 1992

This installation made up of piling square wire mesh lockers gives an illustration of animal cages. It also reminds of stacked and uniform architecture not unfamiliar to large cities. Thanks to up and down movements of the simple household lightbulb hanging in the centre, the walls of the dedicated exhibition room was showered with enchanting shadow patterns while the moving shadows give visitors swaying feelings as though they are on a boat sailing in the sea.

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  1. Map (clear), 2014

Definitely no one would have missed this large world map consist of numerous glass marbles lying on the floor in front of the view of Paris city. All the marbles of this amazing piece are not fixed to the floor, infusing a sense of instability and vulnerability as movements of viewers may possibly shift parts of it or even destroy it. It also creates an unwelcoming surface to pass or walk on. Map is also a recurrent theme of Hatoum’s works, quite some other works with this theme can be found in the exhibition too.

Mona Hatoum Twelve Windows

  1. Twelve Windows, 2012

This beautiful installation of twelve pieces of Palestinian embroidery hanging in a room by steel cables may not be the most attention-seeking. However, its subtle beauty originates from the artist’s determination to preserve the traditional skill of Palestinian needlework which is endangered by exile and dispersion of Palestinians all over the region. Each ‘window’ symbolises a key region of Palestine.

Mona Hatoum Natura Morta (Medical Cabinet)

  1. Natura Morta (Medical Cabinet), 2012

Those seemingly appealing objects exhibited in a medical cabinet are actually in the forms of hand grenades in colourful glass. They are presented as precious objects to be aesthetically appreciated by viewers. However, they are marked with malevolent undertone at the same time. Thinking of the series of Medicine Cabinets by Damien Hirst, this is slightly more visually alluring and underscored by stronger tensions.

There are absolutely much more to see and experience at this exhibition. The wide range of works actually enables us to understand the significance of the artist’s works in today’s art world and to appreciate the diversity and versatility of Mona Hatoum’s artistic practice.

By Rickovia Leung

Ohio Supreme Court Rules Against Secretary Of State

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Decides in favor of communities’ right to initiative; bars chief elections officer from keeping duly qualified initiatives off the ballot – even those involving fracking

COLUMBUS, OH:  Today, the people’s constitutional right to vote on local County Charter initiatives was upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court. The Court ruled that Ohio Secretary of State John Husted – who claimed “unfettered authority” to keep Home Rule county charter initiatives off the ballot – has no such prerogative.

On August 13th, Mr. Husted blocked citizens from voting on Home Rule Charter initiatives in three counties, declaring, “I find nothing to materially limit the scope of my legal review,” including ruling on the substance of the initiatives. The measures included provisions on fracking infrastructure development, alarming the oil and gas industry. Mr. Husted handed them a victory in his decision to remove the measures from the ballot. In doing so, he trampled on the rights of the people.

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Secretary of State on behalf of community members in Athens, Medina, and Fulton Counties, seeking to restore the initiatives to the November ballot.

In addition to barring Mr. Husted from keeping community measures off the ballot based on substantive review of the content, the Court also ruled that, because the charter initiatives did not create a new form of government, they cannot be on the ballot this November. Communities had kept the existing governmental structure intact, while adding initiative and referendum powers to residents.

CELDF community organizer Tish O’Dell stated, “Athens, Medina, and Fulton Counties have triumphed against a government official claiming ‘unfettered authority’ to rule on the content of the people’s initiatives – a dangerous threat to democracy. The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled on behalf of the people, safeguarding their inalienable right to advance and vote on their own initiatives.”

Dick McGinn, Athens County Board member of the Ohio Community Rights Network – a partner organization of CELDF – added,“The Ohio Supreme Court – rather than being influenced by the oil and gas industry – stood by the people’s rights. Communities across the state are celebrating this decision, and are ready to get to work to draft Home Rule county charter initiatives that meet the Supreme Court’s requirements.”

Added Kathie Jones of Sustainable Medina County, “We’re also fully prepared for attempts by the Secretary of State and the oil and gas industry to try and find other reasons to keep future measures off the ballot. But, the people will not quit fighting for their inalienable right to local self-government and the right to protect their health, safety and welfare, even if that means amending the state constitution itself.”

By Emelyn Lybarger

Monk Arrested After Lone Protest In Tibet

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Originally published by Tibet Post, Sept. 9

This year has seen a trend in lone peaceful protests by Tibetans. This footage is from Ngaba, Tibet. A monk, Lobsang Kalsang, marched into the streets, calling for “freedon for Tibetans.” “the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet,” and raised slogans for the long life of the spiritual leader.

What The World’s Capital Cities Look Like From Space, Part 2

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Did you guess some of the cities of the Americas from “What The World’s Capital Cities Look Like From Space, Part 1“?

Here are the answers: Ottawa, Ontario; Trenton, New Jersey; Phoenix, Arizona; Havana, Cuba; Mexico City; Panama City; Lima, Peru; Brasilia, Brazil; Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Now let’s move from the southernmost tip of Africa northwards:

 

Now let’s move over to Asia, where the answers for these eight will be found: What The World’s Capital Cities Look Like From Space, Part 3

What The World’s Capital Cities Look Like From Space, Part 3

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How did you do on the cities in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe?

Now lets move southwards down Asia, and see how many of these you can guess:

 

The cities pictured on this page are: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Beijing, China, through pollution; Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo, Japan; New Delhi, India; Vientiane, Laos; Bangkok, Thailand; Singapore; Canberra, Australia; and Wellington, New Zealand.

That’s it for now. Should we add some of the Pacific Islands, or some other world cities?

How many did you get?