In the end, the threat also arrived. And not even particularly veiled. The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has made it known that it is prepared to call in the army and forcibly repress any attempt by the native Mexican communities to block the work in the new hydroelectricity generating station, to resist with the aim to construct a dam in the state of Guerriero, near Acapulco
A foundation reunites people who should hate each other, and makes them work together. It is called Breaking the Ice and it is an initiative which involves individuals who have personally experienced the traumas and horrors of war. The second day: the palestinian territory
Neil Young is the latest to add his name to the list. The Canadian singer announced that his new album "Living with War" includes a song called "Let's Impeach the President." He thus joins a group calling for the president to go, a utopian notion at the moment given the Republican dominated Congress
After the scandal of the Mohammed cartoons, another religious leader calls for destroying icons. In an interview with an Israeli newspaper, Mordechai Eliahu, former chief rabbi of Israel and currently head of the Safed community in Galilee, has proposed that the faithful should destroy human representations as part of the fight against idolatry
A foundation reunites people who should hate each other, and makes them work together. It is called Breaking the Ice and it is an initiative which involves individuals who have personally experienced the traumas and horrors of war
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