Labor Day Hurricane of 1935

Relief train wreckage in Islamorada

The Labor Day Hurricane, a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423. The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 was the strongest tropical cyclone during the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season.

The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second intense hurricane of the season was the most intense Atlantic hurricane that affected the United States, and it was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes that struck the country in the 20th century.

Mandatory evacuations of New Orleans

Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana has ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city ahead of Hurricane Gustav.

Nagin states that residents “need to be scared” in what he calls “the mother of all storms”. Residents are to be out of the city by Sunday evening. Despite the announcement, tens of thousands of people had already began to flee the city on Saturday. Nagin also stated that as many as 10,000 people were taken out of the city by buses they provided, trains and planes.

“This storm is so powerful and growing more powerful every day. I’m not sure we’ve seen anything like this,” said Nagin to reporters during a pres conference Saturday.

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Training Services for the Agriculture Sector Support Project
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Budget (EUR): 890000
Status: Open (until 30.09.2008)
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É aprovado o aborto no México

Com 8 dos 11 votos dos conselheiros da Corte Tribunal de Justiça da Cidade do México, foi aprovado ontem a interrupção voluntária da gravidez nas primeiras 12 semanas de gestação.

Esta decisão foi adotada depois de analisar os argumentos das partes que eram contra a medida governamental, em especial a Conferência Episcopal do México, e as organizações pró-aborto e feminismo, que defendiam o direito da mulher a decidir sobre seu próprio corpo.

Foi negado no julgamento o recurso de inconstitucionalidade apresentado pelo Procurador Geral da República e da Comissão Nacional dos Direitos Humanos, que tentou retirar o poder da mulher decidir o que eu quiser sobre o próprio corpo.

Nove capitais nenhuma mulher concorrerá à prefeitura

Levantamento da Secretaria Especial de Política para as Mulheres, com base em dados do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE), mostrou que em nove capitais (Rio Branco, Manaus, Salvador, Vitória, Goiânia, São Luís, Cuiabá, Porto Velho e Boa Vista) o índice de participação feminina à prefeitura é zero. Ou seja, nenhuma mulher vai disputar a vaga à prefeitura da capital.

Além disso, o estudo mostrou que nenhum partido cumpriu a cota mínima de 30% de mulheres no total de candidaturas para as câmaras municipais. Das 348.564 candidaturas ao legislativo municipal, 271.696 (77,95%) são homens e 76.868 (22,05%), mulheres. Mato Grosso do Sul apresenta o maior índice de candidatas, com 25,16% e o Acre é o último colocado com 19,26%.

Hackers capture data of Blood and Honour web

Radical antifascist computer hackers, from an “international task force” Datenantifa (literally: data-antifa), claim that they have hacked the forum www.bloodandhonour.com. In a press release on the German indy media page from August 29, 2008, they have provided links to roughly 800 MB of data, that are said to be a full mirror of the web forum with its 31,948 registered users.

The German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau has evaluated the files and states that 500 sets of data would belong to users from Germany. (Bild, a German tabloid, gives the number of 1200.) The Blood and Honour network is illegal in Germany, and this data, although obtained illegally and not usable in court, will very likely lead to criminal investigations.

In the press release the hackers said that “As a part of our struggle against the fascist movement we hacked the forum!” They attribute their success to a cooperation with friendly groups “domestic and abroad,” and emphasize that the databases of the server were secured in “laboriously prepared cloak-and-dagger operation” that involved a “house search”.

Günther Hoffmann, from the Center for Democratic Culture commented that “some people in the far-right extremist scene are going to get very nervous, including activists from the NDP,” as a result of the incident. Katharina König from the Action Alliance against the Right in Jena said that there was now “evidence that Blood and Honour concerts continue to take place in Germany.” Furthermore the Datenantifa had secured so-called “red-watch-lists”, on which Neo-Nazis gather information on their political enemies.

On this day August 31, 1957

Tje Federation of Malaya gains its independence from the United Kingdom, the Federation was formed of 11 states on  January 31, 1948 from the nine Malay states and the British settlements of Penang and Malacca.

From 1946 to 1948, the 11 states formed a single crown colony known as the Malayan Union. Due to opposition from Malay nationalists, the Union was disbanded and replaced by the Federation of Malaya, which restored the symbolic positions of the rulers of the Malay states.

iPhone ad banned in UK

The body for regulating advertisements in the United Kingdom, the Advertising Standards Authority has described an iPhone advertisement as misleading and banned it due to the fact it claims that “all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone”.

The authority said this was misleading as Adobe Flash Player and Java, which are used on many web pages, are both not available on the iPhone.