This video shows a yellow wagtail resting on a hedge in Zeeland province in the Netherlands.
Yellow wagtail resting, video
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Daily Archives: May 22, 2016
Ken Loach film wins at Cannes festival
This video is called I, Daniel Blake. Festival Teaser Trailer (2016, UK) by Ken Loach.
From Reuters news agency today:
May 22. “I, Daniel Blake” by British director Ken Loach won the Palme d’Or for Best Picture at the 69th Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
Loach had already won the highest distinction in 2006 for “The Wind That Shakes the Barley“.
From the BBC today:
“I, Daniel Blake” focuses on an elderly British carpenter who forms a friendship with a young single mother as they both struggle with an implacable and unfeeling bureaucracy that makes life harder for the lower classes.
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Pine marten and otters, video
This is a video about a pine marten and otters at a hollow tree near Fluessen lake in Friesland province in the Netherlands.
Noordwijk pine marten: here.
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Saudi puppets kill Yemeni for protesting electrity blackout
This video says about itself:
Yemen: Human cost of Saudi-led bombing campaign – BBC News
24 June 2015
**WARNING** Harrowing pictures in his report**The BBC has seen powerful new evidence of the plight of civilians in Yemen, where civil war has led to thousands of deaths. Since the overthrow of Yemen’s government, a coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia has been flying daily airstrikes … Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen is one of the few western journalists to reach the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
In Yemen, you are at risk of the Saudi royal air force killing you, if you are a civilian in non-Saudi occupied parts of the country. Whether you are in a Doctors Without Borders hospital; in a home for blind people; on a market; in a beautiful ancient home in the capital; in an ancient mosque; or at a wedding. Whether you are a child at school; or a worker in a factory; or a refugee in a camp.
And if you live in a Saudi-occupied part of Yemen, you are at risk of a violent death as well. Eg, if you demonstrate non-violently against there being no electricity.
From France 24:
22 May 2016 – 13H25
Yemen police kill one in Aden protests over power cuts
ADEN (AFP) – Police have opened fire to disperse dozens of Aden residents protesting power cuts in Yemen’s second city, killing one, a local government official said on Sunday.
“A resident was killed and others were wounded” by police gunfire during the late Saturday protests, said the official who requested anonymity.
Dozens of people took to the streets in Aden‘s districts of Crater, Mualla, and Mansura to protest against the lack of power supply as temperatures soared to almost 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the coastal city.
Residents blocked roads, erected barricades and set tyres ablaze, prompting police intervention, witnesses said.
Most of the city’s electricity [in]stallations were destroyed during fighting between pro-government forces and Iran-backed rebels last year.
The rebels who seized Sanaa in September 2014, expanded south and entered Aden in March last year, but loyalists backed by a Saudi-led coalition pushed them out in July.
President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi did not become president in a democratic election. He used to be a general and vice president in a dictatorial government, against there were mass Arab Spring protests. Then, Hadi was rammed down Yemenis’ throats in a presidential ‘election’ in which he was the only candidate. Few Yemenis minded his flight from the presidential palace in Sanaa. He had resigned the presidency; but the Saudi absolute monarchy ordered him to annul that resignation to serve as a puppet president-in-exile.
government has so far failed to restore security and power supply in the city that it declared a temporary capital.
“Our life is a real disaster,” said 20-year-old Aden resident Mohammed Abdulhakim. “We are unable to sleep” because of the heat.
“The war has destroyed everything and the aid arriving in Aden is not enough to restore power,” he complained.
The United Arab Emirates, which plays a key role in the pro-government coalition, has sent generators to Aden in recent months to help restore power supply in the city.
But [the] governor of the nearby Abyan province, Elkhedr al-Saidi, said earlier this month that “weak generating capability” in Aden’s power plants is affecting supplies in the southern provinces of Abyan, Daleh and Lahj.
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Fighting has killed more than 6,400 people, displaced about 2.8 million and left 82 percent of Yemen’s population in need of aid, the United Nations says.
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David Attenborough on catching a python
This video from Britain says about itself:
Young Attenborough Catches A Python – #Attenborough90 – BBC
18 May 2016
Sir David remembers how nervous he was when catching a python.
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Billionaire says cut my taxes, close schools
This video from the USA says about itself:
Hedge Fund Billionaire: Cut My Taxes, Close More Schools
21 May 2016
The top twenty-five hedge fund managers made $13 billion last year. Yet that doesn’t seem to be enough for some of them. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“The world’s top 25 hedge fund managers earned $13bn last year – more than the entire economies of Namibia, the Bahamas or Nicaragua.
Kenneth Griffin, founder and chief executive of Citadel, and James Simons, founder and chairman of Renaissance Technologies, shared the top spot, taking home $1.7bn each – equivalent to the annual salaries of 112,000 people taking home the US federal minimum wage of $15,080.
The earnings of the best-performing hedge fund managers, published by Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine on Tuesday, dwarfs the pay of top Wall Street executives who have been under fire for their multimillion-dollar pay deals. The best paid banker last year was JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who collected $27m.”
Read more here.
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Beached porpoise Nena can catch fish again
This 21 May 2016 video from the Netherlands says about itself:
Harbour porpoise in rehabilitation center is offered live fish to test their hunting skills.
This is young harbour porpoise Nena. She beached in March 2016. At first, she was unable to swim. After a day in the rehabilitation center she could swim again. So now, a new stage in her recovery.
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Fast food workers want living wage
This video about Portland, Oregon in the USA says about itself:
21 May 2016
TYT reporter, Jordan Chariton, spoke to Burgerville workers. These fast-food workers want to form a union and earn a $15/hr wage. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Jimmy Dore, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“A group of Burgerville workers have formed a union and on Tuesday it held its first rally and march.
After a rally at the Clinton Theater, workers picked up signs and walked down the street to the Burgerville at Southeast 26th and Clinton. That’s where they confronted management with their demands.
A group of Burgerville workers have formed a union and on Tuesday it held its first rally and march.
After a rally at the Clinton Theater, workers picked up signs and walked down the street to the Burgerville at Southeast 26th and Clinton. That’s where they confronted management with their demands.
Workers told KATU the minimum wage they get paid is not a living wage.
“We matter; we work hard; we want respect, and we need a raise,” said Claire Flanagan, Burgerville 42 crew member. “Burgerville workers and their families depend on this income, and we’re struggling to get by every month.”
Flanagan told management the workers wanted a $5 an hour raise.”
Read more here.
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Young red squirrel on video
This video shows a young red squirrel, investigating the surroundings of its nest, on 21 May 2016 near Ede in Gelderland province, the Netherlands.
Michael de Vries made this video.
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Eastern chipmunks in the USA, video
This video from the USA says about itself:
21 May 2016
Chipmunks acting like prairie dogs and some great birds’ songs too! Eastern Chipmunks are a variety of ground squirrel – although we usually don’t think of them that way. High in the Great Smoky Mountains surrounded by thousands of acres of dense wood chipmunks are seldom seen well out in the open, but they are nothing if not motivated, hardworking and adaptable.
Watching me feed the birds in an open meadow next to the edge of their forest homes they quickly excavated an access/escape tunnel to reach the seed feeding area and escape if need be since they would be easy targets for predators like hawks, owls and foxes. Watching Chipmunks out in the open more like prairie dogs is quite entertaining! More on this in the future!
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