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HK a safe place to come out for domestic workers

By Dennis Chong, AFP
February 4, 2014, 8:15 am TWN

HONG KONG–Working long hours away from home for low pay and little time off, life is tough for foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong, but for some the city has brought sexual liberation unheard of in their home countries.

To Jenny Patoc, a 41-year-old Filipina helper, Hong Kong is the place where she met her girlfriend 15 years ago and where they unofficially tied the knot at their own “holy union” ceremony last year — despite the semi-autonomous territory’s failure to recognize same sex marriages.

“In Hong Kong, we are free. We can show who we are,” Patoc told AFP in the southern Chinese city’s packed Central financial district on a recent Sunday, where thousands of helpers congregate every week on their one day off.

While conservative attitudes still prevail in aspects of Hong Kong society, for many migrant workers the former British colony is an easier place than home to be gay, particularly those from Muslim Indonesia and the deeply Catholic Philippines.

Roughly 300,000 domestic workers make about HK$ 4,000 (US$ 515) a month as helpers for Hong Kong families, doing household chores and looking after children while the parents are out at work.

They are mainly from the Philippines, Indonesia or Thailand, many supporting their families by sending earnings home.

Conditions can be tough. In a report last year Amnesty International condemned the “slavery-like” conditions faced by thousands of Indonesian women who work in Hong Kong as domestic staff, accusing authorities of inaction.

The findings came just weeks after a Hong Kong couple were jailed for a shocking string of attacks on their Indonesian housekeeper, including burning her with an iron and beating her with a bike chain.

Last month thousands of domestic workers took to the streets demanding justice for another Indonesian helper who claimed that she was left unable to walk after eight months of abuse at the hands of her employer who has subsequently been arrested.

And this week another Hong Kong housewife was arrested for allegedly assaulting her Bangladeshi maid.

‘I wanted to be free’

For Marrz Balaoro, a member of local lesbian support group Filguys Association, coming out was much easier in Hong Kong compared to her home in the Philippines in the 1980s.

“I came to Hong Kong because I wanted to be on my own. I wanted to be free,” Balaoro said.

“My first employer was considerate and she understood my situation.”

After witnessing a lesbian being bullied by fellow Filipinas in Hong Kong, she formed the Filguys Association to help homosexual migrant workers from her country facing discrimination.

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Mark Levin: "A Gradual, Quiet Coup" Is Taking Place Under Obama

MARK LEVIN: Here’s Obama today before a cabinet meeting. Some of you have heard this, some have not. Everybody needs to hear it. Go:

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: One of the things that I’ll be emphasizing in this meeting is the fact that we are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to ensure Americans are provided with the help that they need. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

LEVIN: He’s just announced that he is going to assume lawmaking powers, he’s just announced that he is going to assume lawmaking powers. He does not recognize the majority in the House of Representatives. I don’t know how much more clearly he can say. You know what this is folks? This is a gradual quiet coup, that’s what is taking place. Its gradual, it’s quiet in the sense that it’s nonviolent, but it’s a coup. Cut two, Mr. Producer, go.

OBAMA: One of the things I’m going to be talking to my cabinet about is how do we use all the tools available to us, not just legislation in order to advance a mission that I think unifies all Americans.

LEVIN: Stop. This is the common parlance of the dictator. Assuming that he represents all Americans, that he’s a unifying figure, that we just need to concentrate more power in his hands. He will decide what laws are good what laws are bad. He will use executive orders to pass laws that Congress won’t pass, and he will ignore laws he doesn’t like. And he’ll rewrite laws that he wants to rewrite like Obamacare and so forth. This is the mindset and the language that dictators have. He assumes to speak for everybody. He is above politics, he is God’s gift. He was put on Earth to do just this.

And yet when you go back to the Constitution, oh, written by slaveowners — men with wooden teeth. They say the officer they say the opposite, they say this is tyranny. I say you are witnessing a gradual yet quiet coup, you just heard what he said.

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Les FEMEN remises en place

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Using Satellite, Scientists Pinpoint Coldest Place On Earth

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Sastrugi stick out from the snow surface in this photo near Plateau Station in East Antarctica. Most of Antartica looks quite flat, despite the subtle domes, hills, and hollows.

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Sastrugi stick out from the snow surface in this photo near Plateau Station in East Antarctica. Most of Antartica looks quite flat, despite the subtle domes, hills, and hollows.

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Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) say they have now pinpointed the coldest place on Earth.

On a 1,000 kilometer swath of the highest section of the East Antarctic ice divide, scientists measured temperatures of -134 to -137 degrees Farenheit.

That is about 8 degrees lower than the coldest temperature ever recorded. The AP reports the old record — -128.6 degrees — was measured by thermometers in Vostok, Antartica, in 1983.

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“Ice scientist Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the new record is ’50 degrees colder than anything that has ever been seen in Alaska or Siberia or certainly North Dakota.’

“‘It’s more like you’d see on Mars on a nice summer day in the poles,’ Scambos said, from the American Geophysical Union scientific meeting in San Francisco Monday, where he announced the data. ‘I’m confident that these pockets are the coldest places on Earth.’

“However, it won’t be in the Guinness Book of World Records — or recognized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the official keepers of world weather records — because the readings were measured by satellites, not from thermometers, Scambos said.”

If you’re staring out a window and looking at some snow right now, you might be wondering just how different 20 degrees feels from -137 degrees. In a statement Scambos said: “I’ve never been in conditions that cold and I hope I never am. I am told that every breath is painful and you have to be extremely careful not to freeze part of your throat or lungs when inhaling.”

Scambos explains that conditions have to be just right to reach this extreme:

“Under clear winter skies in these areas, cold air forms near the snow surface. Because the cold air is denser than the air above it, it begins to move downhill. The air collects in the nearby hollows and chills still further, if conditions are favorable.

“‘The record-breaking conditions seem to happen when a wind pattern or an atmospheric pressure gradient tries to move the air back uphill, pushing against the air that was sliding down,’ Scambos said. ‘This allows the air in the low hollows to remain there longer and cool even further under the clear, extremely dry sky conditions,’ Scambos said. ‘When the cold air lingers in these pockets it reaches ultra-low temperatures.’”

NASA put together this video to give you an idea of where this place is and what the topography looks like:

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Incognito: "My Actions Were Coming From A Place Of Love"

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In his first interview since the Miami Dolphins suspended him, Richie Incognito says his words to Jonathan Martin sound harsh, but that’s not the way he meant them.

“My actions were coming from a place of love,” he told Fox NFL Sunday. “No matter how bad and how vulgar it sounds, that’s how we communicate, that’s how our friendship was, and those are the facts and that’s what I’m accountable for.”

Incognito if you remember was suspended indefinitely for allegedly sending threatening messages that included racial slurs to Martin, his younger teammate, who left the NFL after he faced harassment that his lawyer said went “beyond locker-room hazing.”

The story surfaced a conversation about bullying, race and the culture inside the NFL.

Incognito told Fox that he was “not a racist” and that this has nothing to do with bullying.

“This is an issue of my and Jon’s relationship, where I’ve taken stuff too far and I didn’t know it was hurting him,” Incognito said.

What’s more. Incognito said he texted with Jon after the news broke and Jon allegedly told him that he didn’t blame Incognito and the Dolphins players instead “it’s just the culture around football and the locker room got to me a little.”

“When I see that voicemail, when I see those words come up across the screen, I’m embarrassed by it,” Incognito said. “I’m embarrassed by my actions. But what I want people to know is, the way Jonathan and the rest of the offensive line and how our teammates how we communicate, it’s vulgar. It’s, it’s not right. When the words are put in the context, I understand why a lot of eyebrows get raised, but people don’t know how Jon and I communicate to one another.”

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Israel"s Netanyahu urges Obama to keep sanctions in place on Iran

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged President Barack Obama on Monday to keep sanctions in place against Iran and to even tighten them if Tehran continues its nuclear advances during a coming round of negotiations with the West.

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Assange: Snowden in "a safe place"

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Julian Assange on Monday declined to reveal where NSA leaker Edward Snowden was camped out as he bashed the Obama administration for asking other countries to turn Snowden over to the United States.

Snowden is “healthy” and “safe,” WikiLeaks founder Assange told reporters on a press call, but he couldn’t provide further details “other than to say the matter is in hand.”

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“We are aware of where Mr. Snowden is, he is in a safe place and his spirits are high,” he said when pressed again on Snowden’s location. “Due to the bellicose threats coming from the U.S. administration, we cannot go into further detail on that at this time.”

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His comments came amid reports that Snowden, who was slated to leave for Cuba on Monday, was not on the designated plane, making his whereabouts uncertain. On Sunday, Snowden left Hong Kong and arrived in Moscow, despite U.S. wishes that Hong Kong officials assist in getting Snowden to American law enforcement. The administration has since called on Russia, China and Hong Kong to cooperate in bringing Snowden back to America.

“Every person has the right to seek and receive political asylum,” Assange said, adding, “It is counterproductive and unacceptable for the Obama administration to try and interfere with those rights. It reflects poorly on the [U.S.] and no self-respecting country would submit to such interference or such bullying by the U.S.” on this issue.

Assange, who said that WikiLeaks has funded some of Snowden’s travel and lodging since he left Hong Kong, pushed back on the judgment of some U.S. lawmakers who say Snowden undermines his promotion of civil liberties by seeking help from repressive countries including Russia.

“I simply do not see the irony,” he said. “Mr. Snowden has revealed information about mass, unlawful spying which has affected every single one of us. The U.S. administration has issued a series of bellicose, unilateral threats against him…it’s a very serious situation. Any country wishing to assist in upholding his rights must be applauded for doing so.”

When asked about the treatment of citizens in those countries, he rejoined, “that’s another matter,” and argued that “we do not criticize people for seeking refugee status in the U.S. despite its use of torture, drone strikes…and so on.”

Assange also blasted Secretary of State John Kerry, who said on Monday that Snowden has “betrayed his country.”

“This morning the U.S. secretary of state called Edward Snowden a traitor,” he said. “Edward Snowden is not a traitor. He is not a spy. He is a whistleblower who has told the public an important truth.”

Possible asylum options for Snowden include Ecuador and Iceland, WikiLeaks officials said.

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Rosa Parks has a Permanent Place in the U.S. Capitol

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February 27, 2013
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President Barack Obama touches the Rosa Parks statue after the unveiling during a ceremony in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Feb. 27, 2013. Helping with the unveiling, were, from left: Sheila Keys, niece of Rosa Parks; Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio; House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Assistant Democratic Leader Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.; and Elaine Eason Keys. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

National Statuary Hall inside the U.S. Capitol was once the meeting place of the House of Representatives. Now it’s home to a collection of statues and monuments — two from each state — representing some of the defining figures in our nation’s history.

Today those sculptures were joined by that of a civil rights icon. One hundred years after she was born and 58 years after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus, Rosa Parks has a permanent place in the halls of Congress.

President Obama was one of the leaders on hand for the unveiling of the statue this morning.

“Rosa Parks held no elected office,” he said. “She possessed no fortune; lived her life far from the formal seats of power. And yet today, she takes her rightful place among those who’ve shaped this nation’s course.”

The statue is close to nine feet tall and depicts Rosa Parks in bronze wearing the same clothes she wore on the day she was arrested. The monument consisting of both her statue and the granite pedestal on which it rests weighs 2,100 pounds.

“Rosa Parks’s singular act of disobedience launched a movement,” President Obama told today’s crowd. “The tired feet of those who walked the dusty roads of Montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind. It is because of these men and women that I stand here today. It is because of them that our children grow up in a land more free and more fair; a land truer to its founding creed. And that is why this statue belongs in this hall — to remind us, no matter how humble or lofty our positions, just what it is that leadership requires; just what it is that citizenship requires.”

Read the President’s full remarks here. 

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