Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Rising Religious Persecution: Islam Threatens Minorities
All religious faiths are victims of persecution somewhere. Over the last year “a horrified world has watched the results of what some have aptly called violence masquerading as religious devotion” in several nations, observed the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in its latest annual report.
The Commission highlighted 27 countries for particularly vicious treatment of religious minorities. Nine states make the first tier, “Countries of Particular Concern,” in State Department parlance.
Burma. Despite recent reforms, noted the Commission, “these steps have not yet improved conditions for religious...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 15, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Religious Persecution: First Freedom Remains Under Global Siege
Doug Bandow
Americans take religious liberty for granted. But four of five people around the world lack the freedom to worship and live faithfully.
The Pew Research Center, with Peter Henne as lead researcher, recently issued its latest study on religious liberty. The report makes for a sad read.
In some nations governments suppress the faithful. In other countries people make their societies unfriendly to minority beliefs, imposing a wide range of less formal sanctions, including murder.
The overall global environment to religious faith is hostile. Concluded the study: “restrictions on religion were high or very high...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 19, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Can Eurasian Energy Compete?
Cheaper oil, government interference and market dynamics jeopardize the future of Russian and Caspian energy. To be globally competitive, the big four Eurasian producers, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan, should let the private sector play a greater role and make more decisions on commercial, rather than political grounds. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 16, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Letting it Go: Ukraine's Frozen Future
Emma Ashford
Secretary of State John Kerry met late yesterday in Paris with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Though somewhat overshadowed by Kerry’s meetings with Iran, the meeting nonetheless provided some fascinating clues as to where the Ukraine crisis is headed.
First, international tensions over Ukraine seem to be slowly relaxing, although violence continues to mar the ceasefire in the Donbas itself. Russian troops are withdrawing from the border, as specified in the Minsk Protocol. The United States is making encouraging noises about the possibility of sanction removal. More importantly, Kerry made a clear ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 15, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
Ukraine Crisis Reminds Americans Why NATO Should Not Expand
Doug Bandow
The bitter conflict in Ukraine drags on. Russia continues to destabilize Kiev and NATO remains divided on how to respond.
Washington has taken the lead against Moscow even though America has little at stake in Russia’s misbehavior. In fact, the crisis has generated a spate of U.S. proposals to take military action and expand NATO.
For instance, Sen. John McCain urged adding Ukraine to the “transatlantic” alliance. Former UN ambassador John Bolton suggested including Georgia and Ukraine. Other proposed candidates for the alliance include Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Finland, Kosovo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 30, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Striving for Gender Equity: My Journey to Armenia
Judy Norsigian and Dr. Meri Khachikyan, coordinator of the Armenian edition of “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” present organizers with copies of the book.
Looking back on 2013, one of the highlights for me was a trip to Armenia where I spoke about gender equity and witnessed a dozen young women organizing around the lack of sexuality education in their community.
I was a featured speaker at a discussion on “Promoting Gender Equity and Breaking Gender Stereotypes,” hosted by the American University of Armenia (AUA), the Women’s Support Center in Yerevan, and the Armenian International Women’s Association. Dr. Bruce Bo...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - December 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Judy Norsigian Tags: Feminism & Gender Global News Our Bodies Ourselves Source Type: blogs
Amazing health tech in surprising places, a report from Baku, Azerbaijan
I f you live in a large, industrialized Western country and you don’t travel much outside your own borders, you may believe that high tech health IT exists only in countries like yours. If so, you’d be wrong. One of the most eye-opening things for me...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog)
Source: HealthBlog - November 13, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Source Type: blogs
Importation of Rabid Animals
The following chronology of rabies in imported animals is extracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series [1] (primary references available on request)
Note that most common scenario has involved rabid dogs imported from Morocco.
Year / Imported From / Into (comments) *
1969 to 1970 / Germany and Pakistan / United Kingdom
1972 / Afghanistan / Netherlands
1987 / Mexico / United States (one dog and one cat)
1992 / Algeria / France (subsequently implicated in a case of human rabies)
1997 / Morocco / Switzerland
2001 / Morocco / France
2001 / Nepal / Germany
2002 / Morocco / France
2002 / Azerbaijan / G...
Source: GIDEON blog - June 23, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Morocco Rabies Source Type: blogs
Overheard
Man and woman, probably late 20s: M: My mom is coming to visit. I'm picking her up at the airport at 1. W: Oh, you're so lucky! I wish my mom was visiting. M: Where does your mom live? W: Washington state. M: Oh, that's close to my mom. W: Where is your mom? M: Azerbaijan. (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - June 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
A right Royal cock-up. Prince Andrew elected to the Royal Society
Today the Royal Society elected Andrew, Duke of York, as a “Royal Fellow”. Well, to be exact. 11% of them did. The numbers, which the Society has not made public, were as follows (as fraction of the electorate, 1300 Fellows)
Yes 147 (11%)
No &...
Source: DC's goodscience - May 3, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Duke of York Prince Andrew Royal fellows Royal Society Source Type: blogs
