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BERLIN (Reuters) -Fifteen climate activists glued themselves to the asphalt of motorways in Germany, causing rush hour traffic jams on Monday, in the latest protests demanding a law against food waste and cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. A total of 252 protesters have taken part in a series of road blockades over the past two weeks, 69 of them fusing themselves to the asphalt to make it harder to remove them, according to German climate activist group “Last Generation”. A Reuters video showed frustrated motorists held up on the capital Berlin’s main A100 motorway on Monday getting out...

Michelle Fleming Morris and Valerie Lindsey chose to stand in the street in front of oncoming traffic. It’s their own fault they got hit by a car.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)May 25, 2021This new video is from Elizabeth City, North Carolina. It shows some idiots standing in the street in front of oncoming traffic. A car comes by and stops. Then the car starts going – very, very slowly. Two of the protestors deliberately allow themselves to get hit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDISoPWVOskNBC News wrote of this:A white driver was arrested after she was accused of striking two Black women with...

LANTANA, Fla. - An ethics panel has found probable cause against a Florida mayor accused of soliciting sex from a resident in exchange for installing speed bumps in her neighborhood. In her January complaint to the commission, Catherine Padilla said Stewart promised the speed bumps she wanted as a safety measure would be approved if she had sex with him.

Anti-Trump protesters in Portland, Ore. attacked a vehicle driven by a young woman who claimed she was attempting to pass on a road blocked by demonstrators due to a personal emergency.Local press covering the protest filmed the confrontation.Protesters claim the altercation began when a motorist attempted to circumvent a Trump protest due to a personal emergency. The Daily Caller News Foundation is not able to confirm the nature of the alleged emergency. Demonstrators then claimed she attempted to run over one of the protesters with her car.“I can’t agree with them,” the reporter covering the protests said. “I was out...

Police threw down and arrested a man who ran back onto I70 as protesters were being cleared. #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/OGcIacR0Va

Consider nature...as Tennyson saw it, "red in tooth and claw." To glimpse a state of nature as Hobbes imagined it, where human life is "nasty, brutish and short," visit the Whole Foods store on River Road in Bethesda...you will see proof of this social equation: Four Priuses + three parking spaces = angry anarchy. Anger is one of the seven deadly sins. Therefore advanced thinkers are agreed that conservatives are especially susceptible to it. As everyone knows, all liberals are advanced thinkers and all advanced thinkers are liberals. And yet... Recently Paul Schwartzman, a war correspondent for The Post, ventured...

SACRAMENTO – A record $19.9 billion transportation bond pitched to voters last fall as a way to “fast track” projects is hitting slowdowns in some areas. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signaled that the money is flowing with a groundbreaking at Solana Beach last month for the extension of car pool lanes on Interstates 5 and 805. The bond will cover part of the $168 million cost. But legislation to set guidelines for distributing $2 billion to improve the movement of freight was stalled in part because Republicans thought proposals by Democrats were skewed toward improving air quality. And legislative leaders are...

In the 1990s, the world witnessed the forging of a unique entente between Turkey, a predominantly Muslim secular democracy, and the Jewish state of Israel. A range of shared interests brought the two states into alignment, reinforced by joint military exercises, intelligence sharing, and high-level diplomatic visits. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the Turkish architects of the relationship, former deputy chief of staff Çevik Bir, listed the advantages to Turkey and Israel in fields ranging from deterrence to diplomacy. He urged the United States to invest still more in the relationship, which could "develop as...

When anti-American war protesters descended upon Fox News Channel's Manhattan headquarters yesterday, the No. 1 cable news network used its news zipper to fire back. In red neon letters that crawled across the building from the Avenue of the Americas to 48th Street, the peacenistas were taunted with barbs like: "War protester auditions here today. . . . Thanks for coming!," "How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them" and "Attention protesters: The Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street." "I thought I'd have some fun with it,"...

Hoping to replicate the huge traffic jams, closed bridges, and 1,350 arrests San Francisco saw last Saturday, antiwar groups organized a "mass 'die-in'" at New York's Rockefeller Center yesterday. The ongoing effort — dubbed "No Business As Usual!" — targets major media outlets, defense contractors, automobile-manufacturing companies, and other large corporations. The organizers claim they will continue the die-ins and other forms of civil disobedience every day until the war is over. But as protest movements go, this opening-day effort fell flat. At 8 A.M., on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 50th Street, the disparate chants were blending into...

Die-In Dies Out An antiwar-protest movement falls flat on opening day. Hoping to replicate the huge traffic jams, closed bridges, and 1,350 arrests San Francisco saw last Saturday, antiwar groups organized a "mass 'die-in'" at New York's Rockefeller Center yesterday. The ongoing effort — dubbed "No Business As Usual!" — targets major media outlets, defense contractors, automobile-manufacturing companies, and other large corporations. The organizers claim they will continue the die-ins and other forms of civil disobedience every day until the war is over. But as protest movements go, this opening-day effort fell flat. A few supporters of the war, many...

Fox News had its own response to the demonstrators. The news ticker rimming Fox's headquarters on Sixth Avenue wasn't carrying war updates as the protest began. Instead, it poked fun at the demonstrators, chiding them. "War protester auditions here today ... thanks for coming!" read one message. "Who won your right to show up here today?" another questioned. "Protesters or soldiers?" Said a third: "How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them." Still another read: "Attention protesters: the Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street" - a reference...

"There's no room to die," complained a woman, surveying the crowd of several hundred antiwar protesters that by 8 a.m. Wednesday were crammed inside the metal barricades strung up by police along the perimeter of Rockefeller Center on Fifth Avenue. Instead of being able to flood into the plaza and stage a mass die-in to dramatize the death of innocent Iraqis, they were once again being penned in by the NYPD. "Break it up, keep moving," a cop ordered, shoving back the protesters who spilled into 49th Street. "No war, no profits, no business as usual!" chanted the demonstrators, circling...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Not only have antiwar protesters been complaining about the war in Iraq, they're now accusing the media of bias in favor of the Bush administration.They say the television networks are so patriotic that they're blinded to broadcasting the truth. On Thursday, more than 200 people were arrested in New York during a series of protests, including some involved in a scuffle near CNN's offices.And earlier this week, demonstrators marched in front of the CNN bureau in San Francisco to protest what they said was a lack of reporting about Iraqi casualties and too much coverage of...

Opponents of the war in Iraq lying on Fifth Avenue at Rockefeller Center on Thursday morning blocked traffic for more than an hour. More than 200 people were arrested Thursday for blocking traffic in Manhattan during a day of civil disobedience called to protest the war in Iraq and the corporate media's reporting of the conflict. Waves of protesters lay down in the streets throughout the day, conducting mass "die-ins" that city police broke up by hauling people away in handcuffs, sometimes by the busloads. The largest die-in occurred during the morning rush hour in the area around Rockefeller Center...

<p>As dozens of protesters plopped themselves down in the middle of Fifth Avenue, pretending to be dead, I noticed a small claque of pretty yuppies - each as angular and edgy as a Benetton ad - lying, safely, over on the sidewalk.</p>

Hundreds of chanting anti-war protesters lined Fifth Avenue on Thursday and dozens rushed into the street and lay down at the beginning of a series of civil disobedience actions planned for throughout the day. Officers, some in riot gear and on horseback, clamped plastic handcuffs onto about 150 protesters who refused to get up, and half-carried them into police vehicles. Anti-war groups have called for a day of widespread civil disobedience, including blocking busy intersections and a “die-in” to protest media and corporate “profiteering from the war.” As helicopters hovered overhead, the protesters — some beating drums and chanting “Hey-hey,...

Protesters Crowd N.Y.C.'s Fifth Ave. By ELIZABETH LeSURE .c The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of chanting anti-war demonstrators lined Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Thursday and dozens lay down in the street to begin a day of planned civil disobedience actions. Officers, some in riot gear, clamped plastic handcuffs onto protesters and loaded them into police vehicles. Anti-war groups had called for a day of widespread civil disobedience, including blocking busy intersections and staging a ``die-in'' to protest media and corporate ``profiteering from the war.'' As helicopters hovered overhead, the protesters - chanting ``Hey-hey, ho-ho, Bush's war has...

aking their cue from protesters in San Francisco, who shut down that city's financial district last week with a wave of raucous street blockades, marches, and sit-ins, activists in New York—including many from more mainstream groups—are calling for widespread civil disobedience in midtown Manhattan this Thursday. Their aim is to disrupt "business as usual."