The tropical Island of La Réunion experienced a relatively rare snowfall on the top of the volcano, Piton de la fournaise on June 3. Linfo.re explains that [fr] the first snowfall on the island was observed in 1988 and the latest was in 2007.
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Ayatollah Taheri Esfahani's funeral procession in Isfahan. Screenshot from YouTube
Thousands of people in Isfahan, Iran took part in funeral procession for Ayatollah Jalal Al-Din Taheri on June 4, 2013. He was a senior religious figure and a critical voice against regime hardliners. They chanted slogans in support of the two main opposition leaders under house arrest, Mehdi Karroubiand Mir Hussein Mousavi. They also chanted “Down with the dictator!” and “Shame on the dictator!”
Ayatollah Taheri shocked many Iranians in 2002 when he resigned from his position as the Friday prayer speaker in the major city of Isfahan. In his resignation letter he wrote that he could not close his eyes to “tangible realities, and witness the stifling pain and unbearable suffering of people who were seeing the flowers of virtue being trampled, values collapsing, and spirituality being destroyed.”
Down with the Dictator
@Adagio tweeted that the presence of the huge crowd bearing radical slogans to mark his death is happening just in time before the election in mid-June.
Setad Salam tweeted that people were also calling for political prisoner to be released.
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China Says Its Navy is Spying on America
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Reforming Social Security is easy — but it won't be for longby ckulat@thehill.com (Marc Goldwein)
The latest Social Security Trustees report, released last week, shows a program in peril. Within three years, the Social Security disability trust fund will run out of money, at which point the program will only be able to pay 80 percent of benefits to disabled workers. Assuming policymakers decide to allow the disability fund to take money from the old-age fund, the whole program will become insolvent in 2033.
The good news from the trustees report is that the program is in no worse shape than last year. But that should be of little comfort to anyone on the program two decades from now, who will face an immediate 23 percent benefit cut regardless of age or income.
Fortunately, this tremendously unfair and indiscriminate cut can be avoided. And if we act today, it can be averted through a number of modest and gradual changes that mostly slow and speed growth and give workers plenty of time to plan.
The good news from the trustees report is that the program is in no worse shape than last year. But that should be of little comfort to anyone on the program two decades from now, who will face an immediate 23 percent benefit cut regardless of age or income.
Fortunately, this tremendously unfair and indiscriminate cut can be avoided. And if we act today, it can be averted through a number of modest and gradual changes that mostly slow and speed growth and give workers plenty of time to plan.
FEI le radicará cargos a “El Chuchin” by Roberto Mercado, Hijo
Cybernews – El Fiscal Especial Independiente (FEI) Emilio E. Arili se a presta a presentar 26 cargos contra el exsenador Antonio “El Chuchin”Soto Díaz, relacionados con la facturación y cobro de dietas legislativas en días que no estaba laborando, por encontrarse de viaje fuera de la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. La presidenta del Panel sobre [...]
Cybernews – La representante del Precinto 3 de San Juan, Sonia Pacheco, arremetió el martes contra la alcaldesa de la ciudad capital, Carmen Yulín Cruz por supuestamente darle preferencia a los miembros del Movimiento Unión Soberanista (MUS) que a los populares. “La alcaldesa ganó el 6 de noviembre, al día de hoy todavía no se [...]
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El Secretario de Justicia, Luis Sánchez Betances, anunció el martes la radicación de cargos por diferentes violaciones al Código Penal (CP) contra 19 personas implicadas en el alegado fraude cometido durante las Primarias del Partido Nuevo Progresista en Guaynabo. “Tal y como habíamos anticipado, el Departamento de Justicia continúa trabajando activamente para garantizarle al pueblo [...]
