Protest of Disability Bill Delayed by Indian Parliment

NEW DELHI: Scores of differently-abled people today held a protest, expressing anguish over non-passage of Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill due to continuous ruckus in Parliament and demanded extension of the current session for its clearance.

The bill, which seeks to broaden the ambit of disability from existing seven to nineteen categories is stuck owing to disruptions in Parliament on other political issues.

With tomorrow being the last day of the session, there is ...Continue >>> 

Chicago's Ukrainian Community Protest

Members of Chicago's Ukrainian community protest outside Ukrainian consulate offices in Chicago, where they condemned the government's use of force against protesters in Kiev. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)

(Video) Tamara Tyshenko said she felt sick when she saw the images of priests praying over bodies in Ukraine after what should have been peaceful protests against the country's government.
So the 68-year-old drove an hour and a half from her home in northwest suburban Carpentersville to downtown Chicago on Wednesday to join other local Ukrainians disgusted by the violence. More than 25 people — protesters and police — died this week during clashes in the country's capital. Hundreds more were injured.
On Wednesday, Ukraine's president called a cease-fire in an attempt to stop the bloodshed.
"This is so sick. We're not accustomed to that," Tyshenko said. "It is our hope this can be solved so ...Continue >>>

More ObamaCare reports to drop drugs, close hospitals, spread the pain

(Video) Here’s another person for Democrats to insult as a meaningless “anecdote”: Chris Dunn of Sonora, California, who lost his old insurance due to Barack Obama’s Big Lie, got saddled with an overpriced and inferior ObamaCare plan, and can’t get the back surgery he desperately needs.  ”Doc shock” for the win!

ObamaCare was falsely billed as the cure for such “cost shifting,” when in reality it’s increasing the burden on emergency rooms.  Forcing the Affordable Care Act through Congress required states to be given the option of rejecting the Medicaid expansion that would theoretically have replaced these emergency room visits with a certified welfare plan.  Now we've got the worst of both worlds.  ObamaCare is such a disaster that ...Continue >>>

Gun Control Bill would require tech to personalize guns for owner use only

Sen. Edward Markey has unveiled a gun control bill he says will help reduce firearm violence by requiring all new guns be "personalized" with special features, such as fingerprint-reading technology, so they can only be fired by their owners or other authorized users.

The Massachusetts Democrat says the bill will make it harder for stolen guns to be used in crimes and will reduce accidental firearm deaths by making it impossible for children to fire guns they find Markey said technology already exists to make guns inoperable for unauthorized users.

“In the 21st century, we should use advances in technology to our own advantage and save lives, and the [bill] will help ensure that only authorized users can operate handguns," Markey said in a statement. "This is the type of gun ...Continue >>>

Spanish Women Set To Protest Government Abortion Controls

Females across the country of Spain are queuing up (and sometimes lying down) to oppose legislation which will limit the availability of abortions. Alasdair Fotheringham in Madrid asks what these so-called registry protests can achieve as havens of humdrum state bureaucracy, government commercial registry offices are rarely targets for demonstrators. But this month, queues of women have lined up outside offices across Spain to demand that the largely baffled civil servants within allow them to symbolically register their bodies as their own property, with official certificates to prove it.
From Bilbao, Madrid and Barcelona to Pontevedra and Alicante, the so-called “registry protests” are the latest attempt by women’s rights activists to draw attention to controversial government plans to dramatically limit access to abortion – a move that ...Continue >>>

Venezuela Protest Update: Riots Escalate - Government Seizes Control of Media

AA supporter of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez jumps over a burning barricade during a protest against Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas February 19, 2014. Tensions have risen in Venezuela since Lopez, a 42-year-old Harvard-educated economist, surrendered
 to troops on Tuesday after spearheading three weeks of often rowdy demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro's government. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlin

(Video) Violence escalated in Venezuela Wednesday, as protesters angered over economic and crime issues clashed with national police and government supporters. At the latest report, at least five lives have been lost in the unrest.

The most prominent victim is Genesis Carmona, a 22-year-old beauty queen and student demonstrator, who was shot dead in Valencia Wednesday. Carmona, who was named Miss Turismo 2013 for the state of Carabobo, was shot in the head by gunmen on motorbikes during a protest. A photo from the demonstration showed the beauty queen lying limp in the arms of a man driving to take her to a hospital on a ...Continue >>>

Truce Abandoned in Ukraine as more violent riots erupt in Kiev

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine descended into a deeper spiral of violence on Thursday as both protesters and riot police officers used firearms in the deadliest day so far, and fear intensified that President Viktor F. Yanukovych would declare a state of emergency, a move that could herald the deployment of the military.

The former Soviet republic of 46 million hurtled toward a dangerous new phase in a three-month political crisis after a truce announced overnight by Mr. Yanukovych and opposition leaders collapsed amid accusations of treachery on both sides.

The Kiev municipal health authorities reported that 39 people had been ...Continue >>>