Kate Harrison, a council member who helped author the Green Monday resolution, explains, "I'm not asking people to give up meat, I'm asking us to all think about what it is that we do every day, how we can reduce our meat consumption."
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Kate Harrison, a council member who helped author the Green Monday resolution, explains, "I'm not asking people to give up meat, I'm asking us to all think about what it is that we do every day, how we can reduce our meat consumption."
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Leger, who is covering the standoff, posted a selfie with a wound on the right side of his cheek.
Tobacco sales ceased last week
It is estimated about 72% of Scottish prisoners smoke regularly, although sales of tobacco ceased in last week in preparation for the ban on Friday.
Vaping is still allowed and the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has offered e-cigarette kits free of charge to prisoners who want them.
Comment: Ahh, vaping, the 'healthy' alternative: Vaping damages DNA and may increase cancer risks, says study
The SPS chief executive said the ban would bring "significant improvements".
Comment: Any objective data to back up that spurious statement?
The date of the ban was announced following a major report into prison workers' exposure to second-hand smoke in July 2017.
Comment: Contraband is big business in prison and so tobacco will just become another item for smugglers, and at rates that will require prisoners to engage in shady activity in order to be able to afford them. Making more work for already overstretched wardens in the process.
However it's no surprise to see this legislation enacted, because councils in the UK are considering threatening tenants with homelessness if they don't comply with their no smoking policies. All in the name of 'health promotion', of course.
Now, where have we seen this duplicitous behaviour before? Anti-smoking campaigns aren't new: The Nazis' forgotten drive to eliminate tobacco from the Reich
See also:
- A comprehensive review of the many health benefits of smoking Tobacco
- Nicotine - The Zombie Antidote
- The oldest people on Earth are all smokers!
- UK hospital asks snitches to trigger anti-smoking alarm if people smoke outside
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In this Oct. 22, 2018 file photo, a fentanyl user holds a needle near Kensington and Cambria in Philadelphia. Suicides and drug overdoses helped lead a surge in U.S. deaths last year, and drove a continuing decline in how long Americans are expected to live. U.S. health officials released the latest numbers Thursday, Nov. 29. Death rates for heroin, methadone and prescription opioid painkillers were flat. But deaths from the powerful painkiller fentanyl and its close opioid cousins continued to soar in 2017.
In this Oct. 22, 2018 file photo, a fentanyl user holds a needle near Kensington and Cambria in Philadelphia. Suicides and drug overdoses helped lead a surge in U.S. deaths last year, and drove a continuing decline in how long Americans are expected to live. U.S. health officials released the latest numbers Thursday, Nov. 29. Death rates for heroin, methadone and prescription opioid painkillers were flat. But deaths from the powerful painkiller fentanyl and its close opioid cousins continued to soar in 2017.
Overall, there were more than 2.8 million U.S. deaths in 2017, or nearly 70,000 more than the previous year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. It was the most deaths in a single year since the government began counting more than a century ago.
The increase partly reflects the nation's growing and aging population. But it's deaths in younger age groups - particularly middle-aged people - that have had the largest impact on calculations of life expectancy, experts said.
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According to the latest research conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), 46 percent of Russian citizens have expressed a negative opinion of the US leader. The findings are based on interviews with 1,500 Russian citizens, conducted across the country late in November.
The fresh figures record nearly a twofold growth compared to the FOM's poll conducted last June, when only 25 percent of respondents viewed Trump negatively. 13 percent of the respondents have expressed a positive opinion of the US leader, while 41 percent were indifferent. Favorable views of Trump among Russians tanked twofold as well; last year 24 percent of Russians thought well of him.
Hunting Boko Haram: Nigerian warrior 'queen' leads flintlock-armed fight against Islamist extremists
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Aisha Bakari Gombi (center), leader of the anti-Boko Haram vigilante squad in Nigeria.
Aisha Bakari Gombi (center), leader of the anti-Boko Haram vigilante squad in Nigeria.
Boko Haram roughly translates to 'Against Western Education'. Its ruthless militants have been plaguing Sub-Saharan Africa for decades.
The Islamists know no mercy, as their attacks wreak havoc on Nigerian towns and rural villages. When they aren't setting off bombs, they raid the area for hostages. While doing so, Boko Haram often targets women and girls.
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MSF personnel work in four hospitals and five postoperative clinics in the Gaza Strip, providing dressing changes, physiotherapy, and plastic and orthopedic surgery. The cumulative needs of wounded patients are creating a medical emergency, as the lack of appropriate treatment in Gaza's crippled health system leads to a high risk of infection, especially for patients with open fractures.
"Osteomyelitis is a deep infection of the bone," Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF medical referent in Gaza, wrote recently. "If it goes untreated, it can lead to non-healing wounds and increase the risk of amputation. And as time goes on, it gets worse. These infections need to be treated as soon as possible. It's terrifying to think they could lead to amputation for these young men. But the infection is not easy to diagnose and there is currently no structure in Gaza for analyzing bone samples to identify it."
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Um Muhannad from Southern Syria's As-Suwayda was freed by the terrorists a month ago. Along with the other released captives, she was welcomed by the whole city. She had spent three months in captivity and heard nothing of her 19-year-old son, who had also been captured. Back at home, she learned that the terrorists had executed him.
'We didn't really worry when he was arrested. They told us they were going to question him and then he'd be free. Then I got captured. I've been thinking of Muhannad for all three months of my arrest. I was worrying a lot as I couldn't get in touch with my family, but I wasn't expecting such bad news. It's really hard', Um Muhannad told Sputnik.
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Critics of Mr McInnes were urging the department and Immigration Minister David Coleman to ban him from travelling to Australia for a speaking tour next year, concerned about his extreme views and promotion of violence.
The ABC understands Mr McInnes was notified a few weeks ago that the department was likely to block his visa application because he was judged to be of bad character, and the formal window for him to appeal closed on Friday.
Mr McInnes cut ties with the Proud Boys group earlier this month. The group, which Mr McInnes has previously labelled a "gang", describes itself as a men's organisation, committed to upholding "Western chauvinist values".
The FBI designated them as an extremist organisation.
While protests have so far been peaceful, even jovial, police aren't taking any chances. Around 22,000 officers have been deployed to the area in anticipation of possible violence, particularly during mid-afternoon on Friday, when a huge demonstration is planned.
Authorities have said they will not tolerate any protesters wearing masks or committing any kind of violence.
Comment: The push from the mainstream to try and get more and more people to adopt veganism to 'stop climate change' is so woefully misguided it's pathetic. It's simply driving an increasing number of people to compromise their health for absolutely no good reason. It won't stop climate change, it is not more green. It's only encouraging the populace to become malnourished while feeling that they're helping the planet.
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