Another unintended consequence of the law is that it pushes police to profile people based simply on their appearance. This will cause police to approach and harass adults who may have a younger looking appearance; demanding that they produce an ID to prove that they are “allowed” to be out past the government-mandated bedtime. Is there any greater way exemplification of a Nanny State mentality?
Beyond the impracticality of the curfew, the enforcement difficulties, the costs, and the unintended consequences, there is the argument that it infringes on the rights and freedoms of the individuals involved. Rights do not begin arbitrarily when a person turns 18 years old. A child’s curfew is a parenting matter. Police should never be used as a substitute for mommy and daddy.
„At this time there is a request from the European Commission, after which we‘ve suspended the current works, I ordered it,“ Oresharski told journalists after meeting with John McCain, Chris Murphy and Ron Johnson during their visit to Bulgaria on Sunday. „Further proceedings will be decided after additional consultations with Brussels.“
But the innate human desire to make ourselves look cleverer than we are, combined with an overabundance of consumer choice and the intense cultural bombardment of the digital age, means we increasingly lack both the time and willpower to engage with anything longer than 140 characters or more demanding than Granta or Grazia. Better to speak volumes than to read them.
Public sentiment in a country struggling with a huge recession and plagued by several years of bad government decision-making reached a new tipping point when on Monday, June 2, when King Juan Carlos announced his abdication in favor of his son, 46-year-old Crown Prince Felipe.
One week after a federal appeals court ruled that citizens possess First Amendment rights to film cops, a police department in New Hampshire agreed to settle with a woman who was arrested on wiretapping charges.
Der ukrainische Präsident Petro Poroschenko hat am Sonntag eine Waffenruhe in der Ostukraine angekündigt. Der Kampf müsse in dieser Woche enden, erklärte Poroschenko der Agentur Interfax zufolge in Kiew.
„Russia‘s investigative committee this morning informed Greenpeace International that it has annulled the arrest of the Arctic Sunrise, which has remained in custody in Murmansk,“ Greenpeace said in a statement.
We have gathered here, Israelis and Palestinians, Jews, Christians and Muslims, so that each of us can offer his or her own that each of us can express his or her desire for peace for the Holy Land and for all who dwell there.
Together with Pope Francis, who greatly desired this moment, Patriarch Bartholomaios of Constantinople and all those present, Presidents Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas will join in this calling, voicing the desire of their respective peoples to invoke to God the common longing for peace.
This evening’s meeting will consist of three parts, followed by a conclusion.
Each part will be devoted to an invocation by one of the three religious communities, in chronological order: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Israeli and Palestinian presidents meet in an unprecedented prayer meeting with Pope Francis on Sunday, a gesture he hopes will „re-create a desire, a possibility“ of relaunching the Middle East‘s stalled peace process.
Survey by Israeli institute also finds that 40 percent would back recognition of Israel if it signed agreement with Palestinians, withdrew from territory.
08.06.2014 - 16:53 [ Hassan Rohani, Präsident der Islamischen Republik ]
Präsident Hassan Rohani wird am Montag auf öffizielle Einladung von dem türkischen Staatspräsidenten Abdullah Gül in die Türkei reisen.
Bei seinem 2-tägigen Aufenthalt in der Türkei wird sich Dr. Rohani mit dem türkischen Staatspräsidenten Abdullah Gül und dem Ministerpräsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan treffen.
According to the prosecutor‘s office, 45 people were crammed into a van made to carry 24 and subjected to tear gas fire. „This led to the death of 37 prisoners and the suffocation of two others,“ said its report issued last October.
Those sentenced were convicted on charges including inciting violence and blocking a major road north of Cairo during protests after the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last July.
Die japanischen Regierung hat in ihren Jahresberichten 2012 und 2013 an die Internationale Atomenergiebehörde (I.A.E.O.) den Bestand von 640 Kilogramm Plutonium unterschlagen, was Experten als eine “unangemessene Unterlassung” bezeichneten.
Ukrainian law enforcers have been occasionally shelling Kramatorsk in Donetsk region since Sunday morning, head of the Southeast Front information center Konstantin Knyrik has told Interfax.
„Separate shots were heard at night. Fire from the dominating height began at 8:30 a.m. Presently explosions are heard in the territory of the Kramatorsk airfield,“ Knyrik said.
If Thaci’s political allies win enough seats to secure him a third term as prime minister, Thaci is expected to come under immediate pressure from the West to heed the findings of an investigation by a special European Union task force into allegations that Kosovo’s guerrilla army harvested organs from Serb prisoners and sold them on the black market during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.
Am Pfingstmontag, 9. Juni, findet in der Akademie der Künste im Tiergarten ab 18 Uhr ein Abend zum Thema “Katastophen/Formen – Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Lyrik” im Rahmen des poesiefestivals Berlin statt.
A group called Breaking the Silence has spent 10 years collecting accounts from Israeli soldiers who served in the Palestinian territories. To mark the milestone, 10 hours‘ worth of testimony was read to an audience in Tel Aviv. Here we print some extracts
The discovery that the Gates Foundation is funding PBS programming that supports its political agenda comes only a few months after Pando first revealed that Enron mogul John Arnold attempted to use $3.5 million of his fortune to finance an anti-pension “news” series on the PBS NewsHour.
Carey Eaton, an Australian-born internet entrepreneur and founder of One Africa Media, the largest online classifieds company in Africa, has been murdered in an armed robbery attack in Nairobi, Kenya, according to news reports.
Foreign and Expatriates Ministry denounced Saturday the European Union‘s statement on Syria‘s recent presidential election as a flagrant violation of the international law that provides for respecting the countries‘ sovereignty and non-interference in their internal affairs.
Die Leitung der Halbinsel Krim, die sich im März von der Ukraine losgelöst und sich mit Russland wiedervereinigt hat, hat den Chef der russischen Kaukasus-Republik Tschetschenien, Ramsan Kadyrow, aber auch den Gouverneur der Schwarzmeerregion Krasnodar, Alexander Tkatschow, mit den Medaillen „Für die Befreiung der Krim“ ausgezeichnet.
Iranian, U.S. and European Union officials will start two days of talks about Tehran‘s nuclear programme on Monday, Iran said, giving its first word about what appears to be a bid to rescue faltering wider negotiations on ending a decade-old dispute.
ustrian far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache wants to become mayor of Vienna in elections next year, he told a Sunday newspaper in an interview laden with anti-Turkish venom.