“It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.” ― Jon J. Muth
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WORLD CUP INFO
Headed to Moscow for the World Cup? ⚽️
Are you traveling to Moscow for this
summer’s FIFA World Cup? You might not know this, but water
heating is centralized in Russian cities, and there’s a chance that
your accommodations will only have cold running water. The Moscow United Energy
Company has an online service where you can look up your address and find out
when the hot water service is scheduled to be unavailable. There’s one snag:
you’ve got to enter the address in Russian, and you need to type it out,
without copy-pasting the text. Is that annoyingly cumbersome? Of course! Have a
great time in Moscow.
Drink responsibly, soccer fans 🍻⚽️
If you’re headed to Moscow this
summer for the FIFA World Cup, expect
expect a lot of blocked-off streets and sweeping restrictions on
the sale of alcohol (as well as any drinks packaged in glass
bottles). A city official told the news agency Interfax on
Wednesday that a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol will take effect in
certain areas of Moscow on the days leading up to tournament games. The city is
also mobilizing a large force of police and medical staff to manage intoxicated
fans.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup, which
begins on June 15 and wraps up on July 15, will take place in Moscow, St.
Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Samara, Saransk, Volgograd,
Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, and Yekaterinburg.
[The Real Russia. Today. April 25]
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Putin's chef heads to Africa
You’ve heard of Evgeny Prigozhin’s catering empire, his private
military company, his troll factory, and his close ties to the Defense
Ministry, the Moscow school system, and Vladimir Putin, but have you heard
about the team of political scientists he’s fielding in Africa ahead of
upcoming local elections? According to the newspaper Kommersant, Prigozhin is funding
a political-spin-doctor initiative focused on Madagascar, South
Africa, and Kenya. The man reportedly in charge of the “Africa project” is Yaroslav
Ignatovsky, whom Prigozhin formerly paid to monitor the “sociopolitical
situation” in Russia’s North-Western Federal District. [The
Real Russia. Today. April 20, 2018]
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| LEBANON |
We have a chance to save millions of lives by
ending America's shameful role in the war in Yemen.
Vermont progressive Senator Bernie Sanders and
constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee of Utah have introduced a
resolution to cut off U.S. support for this illegal war. Because Congress
has never authorized the war in Yemen, Bernie’s resolution is guaranteed a vote
within days. This is huge. And we have just a few days to get our senators on
board.
For three years, the United States, Saudi
Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been waging a secretive war in
Yemen. Saudi Arabia and its allies have
deliberately put 8 million people a step away from famine. Meanwhile, the
United States continues to funnel bombs, planes, and fuel into enabling Saudi
and UAE brutality.
In the movie Spotlight, I play a journalist
who is determined to uncover abuse, no matter how powerful the abuser.
Spotlight shows us that harm against innocents can only persist when no one is
watching. In Yemen, the powerful figure enabling human rights abuse is our own
government.
I believe that when the American people are
presented with the facts, we will act to stop our tax dollars from being used
to bomb and starve innocent Yemenis simply to advance the Saudi dictatorship’s
military ambitions.
https://stopthewar.us/?email=call&source=conf
Thank you for working for peace,
Mark Ruffalo and the Win Without War team
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