Domestic workers in the USA

Domestic workers are not just often treated badly in Saudi Arabia. Also in the USA (and not just by International Monetary Fund bosses).

This video from the USA says about itself:

When the movie The Help opens this week, hundreds of thousands of viewers will get swept up in the story of domestic workers who are struggling for dignity and respect in Civil Rights-era Mississippi. What those viewers might be surprised to learn is that across America, modern domestic workers are living out that struggle today. Learn more, and pledge to be there for today’s “help” at www.domesticworkers.org/todays-help

The Help: A civil rights era film that ignores the civil rights movement: here.

Saudi dictatorship blocks Dutch broadcasters

This August 2019 video says about itself:

NO MORE LOVE SQUARE – CRINGE CENSORSHIP IN SAUDI ARABIA (MBC3) | Miraculous

Time to analyze the scenes which were cut by MBC3, the official Arabic broadcaster of the series.

Egyptian pro-democracy blogger Zeinobia has warned that Cameron’s Internet blocking plans in Britain are a dangerous precedent, which may help ex-dictator Mubarak of Egypt … and other dictators, still in power.

The royal dictatorship in Saudi Arabia has already started.

Translated from NOS TV in the Netherlands:

Saudi Arabia blocks Radio Netherlands Worldwide Site

Added: Friday, August 12, 2011, 13:12

Saudi Arabia has blocked the website of Radio Netherlands Worldwide. From Saudi Arabia itself, the RNW Arabic language site has been no longer accessible for some weeks, Radio Netherlands Worldwide discovered recently.

The reason for the blocking is probably a movie in which an Arab man is abusing an Asian. It was in an article about the frequent abuse of migrants in Saudi Arabia.

According to the World Service it is unlikely that the decision of the government of Saudi Arabia will ever be reversed. The website will probably remain blocked.

Until pro-democracy people in Saudi Arabia, both men and women; workers, both Saudi born and foreign, manage to severely weaken or overthrow the dictatorship.

According to RNW:

YouTube has removed the video, but a copy is [was; in 2019] still available on the RNW website. The article generated a massive response on the RNW site and on Facebook.

Saudi pressure on the Dutch government, close friends of multinational oil corporations, might succeed in removing the video from the RNW site as well.

UPDATE 15 August 2011: RNW site available again in Saudi Arabia.

On World Youth Day, UN celebrating young people’s role in ousting dictators: here.

An Update With A Woman Caught In The Middle Of Bahrain’s Crackdown: here.

Rare grasshoppers back in the Netherlands

Translated from Staatsbosbeheer in the Netherlands:

Rare grasshopper discovered in Maasduinen

Post published on Friday, August 12, 2011

A forester of Staatsbosbeheer, after a tip from visitors, found dozens of rare blue-winged grasshoppers in the Bergerbos. That forest is part of the Maasduinen National Park in north Limburg.

The blue-winged grasshopper was last seen in the Bergerbos ten years ago. The grasshoppers disappeared as their habitat changed. Staatsbosbeheer has restored the area now. There are heathland corridors now, by cutting down boring pine groves and exposing dunes to the sun again. The blue-winged grasshoppers are highly endangered in the Netherlands because grass and bushes suffocate their dunes habitat. This grasshopper species needs bare sand and much shelter. They also like heat.

Also on west Terschelling, blue-winged grasshoppers have been seen this year. On the island, the dunes in certain areas have been cleared of vegetation to give the species a chance.

August 2011: Wildlife experts estimate that at least 340kg of grasshoppers and crickets are living in one field of a Worcestershire nature reserve: here.

Rare pink grasshopper in Kent: here.

Various species of insects boast ears in the strangest places, including on their necks and under their wings. Now, a new examination of 50-million-year-old cricket and katydid fossils finds that these odd ears evolved before even the appearance of the predators that these ears can hear: here.