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Campaigners have attacked British makers Paladone for its latest range of dish cleaning products which caricatures black soul legend Diana Ross as having a brillo pad for a hairstyle.
‘Although it’s aimed at being humorous, sometimes it’s not funny.
‘We’ve spent 40 years removing racist imagery out of general politics, removing golly wogs, removing black and white minstrels, and it would be a shame if it crept back in.
That’s can’t be a positive thing in the 21st centry that we are using images that were really invented in periods of slavery and discrimination.’
Aiming a stinging attack directly at the company behind the products and called on them to be take off the supermarket shelves.
Mr Weyman said: ‘They need to think again. Is there no way they can come up with positive views of people without just using negative views of black people.
‘Trying to compare black people’s to brillo pads is not a really positive image – it’s not appropriate.’
Paladone said the range had been a phenomenal success since hitting the shelves.
But its attempts to give the humble cleaning implement a funky 70s disco makeover seems to have backfired.
A company spokesman said: ‘Our range of four washing up sponges are designed to make an everyday chore like washing up more fun.
‘The Disco, Beehive, Punk and Diva have sold hundreds of thousands of pieces. They have been a phenomenal success.Read more:
Pictures collections of honduran white bats (Ectophylla alba) roosting in heliconia tent. While searching on this article, i came acros to this interesting news Receptionist stunned to find a baby bat in her BRA. More pictures and details of Honduran White Bats
The Honduran white bat is the smallest fruit-eating bat in the New World, and is found from eastern Honduras to western Panama. This species commonly roosts in tents made by biting along the large, central midrib of Heliconia or banana leaves. The wing membrane between the second and third fingers is translucent, such that the bats can fold their wings over their body and still watch for predators. Ther species photographed near Tortuguero, in northeastern Costa Rica. SOURCE
A woman living in Toronto has been formally charged in the U.S. with taking part in a scheme to steal from a Holocaust survivors’ fund.
In documents obtained by CBC News, the FBI alleges that Luba Kramrish was part of a conspiracy that falsified documents to claim financial support from a special fund created by the German government after the Second World War.
Germany set up the fund, which is administered by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, to compensate those who lived through the Holocaust. The money was earmarked for people who fled parts of the Soviet Union, ahead of advancing Nazi soldiers and those who somehow managed to survive ghettos and concentration camps.
The FBI announced charges against several U.S. citizens allegedly involved in the scheme in 2010. Now court documents show the investigation has reached into Canada.
In one case, the FBI says, she falsified details to get money for a man who never lived in an area occupied by Nazis. The U.S. indictment says that when he got the money, she took a cut.
A court document states “Kramrish provided documents for approximately 20-25 different cases…[she] helped falsify these applications so that they would be approved.”
An elderly camp survivor living in New York, Roman Kent, says he was shocked when told about the charges. “My reaction was, how could it be possible? Who could be so low as to try to cheat or steal money from Holocaust survivors?”
The FBI found that the very people who had listened to the stories of survivors had massaged the details and used fake names to submit claims of their own.
The investigation is still underway, but it is estimated that at least $60 million has been siphoned from the fund.
Kramrish’s Canadian lawyer told the CBC that she is not interested in talking about the U.S. indictment.
In the meantime, the German government has tightened restrictions on who can get the money. In some cases, authorities have been forced to ask actual survivors of the Holocaust to prove yet again that they were victims. more at source
TONEY, Alabama -Student Launch Initiative, NASA’s engineering and science challenge for college, high school and middle-school students.
Cast and crew members of the hit television series “Rocket City Rednecks” showed up at NASA’s Student Launch Initiative on Sunday but were reportedly turned away at the gate by NASA officials.
Travis Taylor, or the “ringleader” on the show, and his crew showed up, apparently unannounced, at Bragg Farms on Sunday with a large rocket strapped onto the bed of a beat-up, old, white Ford pickup. They wanted to launch the rocket alongside the students participating in the competition.
Travis Taylor, one of the "Rocket City Rednecks," films a scene with the Rednecks' rocket Sunday outside the front gate at Bragg Farms, during NASA's Student Launch Initiative.
Though NASA officials wouldn’t comment on the incident, Taylor said during filming of a scene outside the launch area that NASA told his crew launching their rocket would not be safe.
Though NASA officials wouldn’t comment on the incident, Taylor said during filming of a scene outside the launch area that NASA told his crew launching their rocket would not be safe.
Taylor also said the crew had another location in mind, but it was not clear if they launched a rocket in the Huntsville area Sunday.
Blake Krause, 18, said Taylor and the crew asked them a few questions before moving onto a description of the giant rocket the Rednecks hoped to launch.
Krause said he had some doubts about whether the rocket visible in the back of the pickup truck, which was much larger than those of the students in the competition, would launch.
“He said it had two end motors, which are about 16 times as powerful as the ones we use,” Krause said. “And those were just the first stage. It had two motors for the second stage.”
(NaturalNews) Amid all the controversy over genetically-modified (GM) crops and their pesticides and herbicides decimating bee populations all around the world, biotechnology behemoth Monsanto has decided to buy out one of the major international firms devoted to studying and protecting bees. According to a company announcement, Beeologics handed over the reins to Monsanto back on September 28, 2011, which means the gene-manipulating giant will now be able to control the flow of information and products coming from Beeologics for colony collapse disorder (CCD).
Since 2007, Beeologics has been studying CCD, as well as Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV), for the purpose of coming up with intervention-based ways to mitigate these conditions. And based on the way the company describes both CCD and IAPV on its website, Beeologics has largely taken the approach that intervention, rather than prevention, is the key to solving the global bee crisis.
Now that Beeologics is owned and controlled by Monsanto, the company is sure to completely avoid dealing with the true causes of CCD and IAPV as they pertain to Monsanto’s crop technologies — GMOs and their chemical counterparts.
According to Anthony Gucciardi atActivist Post, Beeologics has also long had a cozy relationship with the U.S.Department of Agriculture(USDA), which is convenient for Monsanto. The USDA, in fact, considers Beeologics to be one of the foremost bee research organizations in the world, as does the USDA’sAgricultural Research Service(ARS), the mainstream media and “leading entomologists” worldwide, according to the company.
Monsanto to use Beeologics’
‘biological tools’ to develop more
GMOs, crop chemicals
Beeologics’ acquisition announcement explains that Monsanto plans to incorporate all the biological research that Beeologics has conducted over the years into its own programs for developing more GMO systems. Monsanto has also seized control of a key product that is currently in the Beeologics development pipeline that supposedly “help[s] protect bee health.”
First the bees now bats have succumbed to the horrors of pollution and genetic tampering with our food crops. Nevertheless, we allow Monsanto and a host of Chemical Corporations to continue to turn a profit!
The typically short term ‘solution’ Corporations are pursuing is to purchase unpolluted and untampered with arable land offshore in poorer nations and other food producing nations stupid enough (Australia) to surrender their prized fertile lands to Transnational Corporations — that, by nature, would eventually see all viable ecologies replicating the destruction which is occurring in the USA. Ed.
A virulent and deadly pathogen in America is exterminating a predator that is vital to farmers for controlling insect pests.
As a biologist with more than four decades of experience in the field, Thomas Kunz is not prone to exaggeration. He likes the data to do the talking. But when it comes to describing the recent deaths of more than a million bats across the eastern United States he is unequivocal.
“I’ve worked with bats over 45 years and never have I seen, or even known about, any kind of mortality rate comparable to what we’ve seen,” he says. “The analysis that we’ve done here indicates that bats – in at least the north-eastern US – are going to die out within 20 years.”
Dr Kunz, a biology professor at Boston University and one of a handful of bat specialists in America, is describing the terrifying advance of white-nose syndrome. In just four years the virulent fungal infection has spread from a single cave in upstate New York to massacre more than a million bats across the North-east.
Scientists and conservationists have been astonished by both the virulence and viciousness of the disease. When a cave becomes infected 75 per cent of the bat colony is likely to be wiped out during the first winter hibernation. After the next winter 90 per cent of the original colony will have succumbed.
This savage fatality rate threatens to destroy one of North America’s top predators, leaving a gaping hole in the continent’s food chain with as yet incalculable knock-on ecological effects. One senior US wildlife official has gone so far as to describe the massacre as “the most precipitous decline of North American wildlife caused by infectious disease in recorded history”.
Bat disease threatens ecological catastrophe
