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US animal rights group calls on a New York court to recognize chimpanzee as a legal person with fundamental human rights!
The group will use testimony from scientists to show the court that chimpanzees should be granted "legal personhood"
A US animal rights group is calling
on a New York court to recognise a chimpanzee as a legal person, in what is
believed to be a legal first.
The Nonhuman Rights Project wants a chimp named Tommy to be granted "legal personhood" and thus entitled to the "fundamental right of bodily liberty".
The group is planning to file the same lawsuit on behalf of three other chimps across New York this week.
It wants the four to be released from their captivity.
They should be taken to a sanctuary that is a member of the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance, the group argues.
The group filed the lawsuit on behalf of Tommy on
Monday.
"We are claiming that chimpanzees are autonomous - that is, being able to self-determine, be self-aware, and be able to choose how to live their own lives," its founder Steven Wise told the Associated Press news agency.
Scientists' evidence is included in the lawsuits.
"Once we prove that chimpanzees are autonomous, that should be sufficient for them to gain legal personhood and at least have their fundamental interests protected by human rights," Mr Wise said.
Tommy, the group said, "is being held captive in a shed at a used-trailer lot" in Gloversville, New York.
Patrick Lavery, owner of the site where Tommy lives, said the chimp's cage was spacious "with tons of toys".
He said he rescued Tommy from his previous home, where he had been badly treated, but had been unsuccessful in placing him in a sanctuary because there was no room.
"If [the Nonhuman Rights Group] were to see where this chimp lived for the first 30 years of his life, they would jump up and down for joy about where he is now," Mr Lavery told the New York Times.
The lawsuit invokes the common law writ of habeas corpus, the right to challenge unlawful detention.
The group says it is dedicated to changing the common law status of species considered autonomous, and could eventually file lawsuits on behalf of gorillas, orangutans, whales, dolphins and elephants.
#bbc.co.uk
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'AMERICANAH' Chosen By The New York Times As One Of The 10 Best Books Of 2013
The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
FICTION
AMERICANAHBy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95.
Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95.
By turns tender and trenchant, Adichie’s third novel takes on the comedy and tragedy of American race relations from the perspective of a young Nigerian immigrant. From the office politics of a hair-braiding salon to the burden of memory, there’s nothing too humble or daunting for this fearless writer, who is so attuned to the various worlds and shifting selves we inhabit — in life and online, in love, as agents and victims of history and the heroes of our own stories.
THE FLAMETHROWERSBy Rachel Kushner.
Scribner, $26.99.
Scribner, $26.99.
Radical politics, avant-garde art and motorcycle racing all spring to life in Kushner’s radiant novel of the 1970s, in which a young woman moves to New York to become an artist, only to wind up involved in the revolutionary protest movement that shook Italy in those years. The novel, Kushner’s second, deploys mordant observations and chiseled sentences to explore how individuals are swept along by implacable social forces.
THE GOLDFINCHBy Donna Tartt.
Little, Brown & Company, $30.
Little, Brown & Company, $30.
Tartt’s intoxicating third novel, after “The Secret History” and “The Little Friend,” follows the travails of Theo Decker, who emerges from a terrorist bombing motherless but in possession of a prized Dutch painting. Like the best of Dickens, the novel is packed with incident and populated with vivid characters. At its heart is the unwavering belief that come what may, art can save us by lifting us above ourselves.
LIFE AFTER LIFEBy Kate Atkinson.
A Reagan Arthur Book/Little, Brown & Company, $27.99.
A Reagan Arthur Book/Little, Brown & Company, $27.99.
Demonstrating the agile style and theatrical bravado of her much-admired Jackson Brodie mystery novels, Atkinson takes on nothing less than the evils of mid-20th-century history and the nature of death as she moves back and forth in time, fitting together versions of a life story for a heroine who keeps dying, then being resurrected — and sent off in different, but entirely plausible, directions.
Saunders’s wickedly entertaining stories veer from the deadpan to the flat-out demented: Prisoners are force-fed mood-altering drugs; ordinary saps cling to delusions of grandeur; third-world women, held aloft on surgical wire, become the latest in bourgeois lawn ornaments. Beneath the comedy, though, Saunders writes with profound empathy, and this impressive collection advances his abiding interest in questions of class, power and justice.
NONFICTION
AFTER THE MUSIC STOPPEDThe Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
By Alan S. Blinder.
The Penguin Press, $29.95.
By Alan S. Blinder.
The Penguin Press, $29.95.
Blinder’s terrific book on the financial meltdown of 2008 argues that it happened because of a “perfect storm,” in which many unfortunate events occurred simultaneously, producing a far worse outcome than would have resulted from just a single cause. Blinder criticizes both the Bush and Obama administrations, especially for letting Lehman Brothers fail, but he also praises them for taking steps to save the country from falling into a serious depression. Their response to the near disaster, Blinder says, was far better than the public realizes.
Baker succeeds in telling the story of the several crises of the Bush administration with fairness and balance, which is to say that he is sympathetic to his subjects, acknowledging their accomplishments but excusing none of their errors. Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The Times, is fascinated by the mystery of the Bush-Cheney relationship, and even more so by the mystery of George W. Bush himself. Did Bush lead, or was he led by others? In the end, Baker concludes, the “decider” really did decide.
In harrowing detail, Fink describes the hellish days at a hospital during and after Hurricane Katrina, when desperate medical professionals were suspected of administering lethal injections to critically ill patients. Masterfully and compassionately reported and as gripping as a thriller, the book poses reverberating questions about end-of-life care, race discrimination in medicine and how individuals and institutions break down during disasters.
Clark manages in a single volume to provide a comprehensive, highly readable survey of the events leading up to World War I. He avoids singling out any one nation or leader as the guilty party. “The outbreak of war,” he writes, “is not an Agatha Christie drama at the end of which we will discover the culprit standing over a corpse.” The participants were, in his term, “sleepwalkers,” not fanatics or murderers, and the war itself was a tragedy, not a crime.
WAVEBy Sonali Deraniyagala.
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.
On the day after Christmas in 2004, Deraniyagala called her husband to the window of their hotel room in Sri Lanka. “I want to show you something odd,” she said. The ocean looked foamy and closer than usual. Within moments, it was upon them. Deraniyagala lost her husband, her parents and two young sons to the Indian Ocean tsunami. Her survival was miraculous, and so too is this memoir — unsentimental, raggedly intimate, full of fury.
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Shocking Details: Housewife Slumps and Dies of Exhaustion After Marathon Sex With Lover on Her Matrimonial Bed
A mother of three identified as Mrs Ijeoma Ifebunwa collapsed and died from exhaustion after marathon sex with lover on her matrimonial bed.
According to report, 30-year-old Mrs Ifebunwa invited her new boyfriend, Okechukwu Ani to her one-room apartment at Akubor Nnewichi, Nnewi, Anambra state to come spend the night with her.
It was gathered that the lover arrived the house by 9pm but left and returned by 11pm when the woman’s children had gone to bed.
The agreement was that that he would pay N1,500, being part- payment of the agreed sum of N2,000 for the romance, and pay the balance of N500.00 the following day.
After the marathon sex which lasted which lasted till 4.30 a.m., the woman became exhausted with pains and started yelling for help and slumped in the process. Her screaming attracted her daughter Miss Oluebube, and the landlord of the house, who rushed to the room immediately and forced the door open.
The woman was found on the floor completely exhausted, while her lover, Okechukwu, attempted escaping through the window but he was caught by the landlord of the house who grabbed his legs and pulled him back to the room, and was thereafter handed over to the vigilante group of Abubor Nnewichi, who later handed him to the police.
Mrs Ifebunwa later regained consciousness when the police arrived at the scene. She informed them that her husband worked somewhere outside Abubor Nnewichi, afetr she which she collapsed again and gave up the ghost.
Speaking on the incident, the landlord, Mr Michael Okeke, said that the deceased screaming woke him up from sleep, and that he had to break the door, and found the woman on the ground unclad with her lover in pains and groaning while lover boy held her.
#Nigerian Tribune
According to report, 30-year-old Mrs Ifebunwa invited her new boyfriend, Okechukwu Ani to her one-room apartment at Akubor Nnewichi, Nnewi, Anambra state to come spend the night with her.
It was gathered that the lover arrived the house by 9pm but left and returned by 11pm when the woman’s children had gone to bed.
The agreement was that that he would pay N1,500, being part- payment of the agreed sum of N2,000 for the romance, and pay the balance of N500.00 the following day.
After the marathon sex which lasted which lasted till 4.30 a.m., the woman became exhausted with pains and started yelling for help and slumped in the process. Her screaming attracted her daughter Miss Oluebube, and the landlord of the house, who rushed to the room immediately and forced the door open.
The woman was found on the floor completely exhausted, while her lover, Okechukwu, attempted escaping through the window but he was caught by the landlord of the house who grabbed his legs and pulled him back to the room, and was thereafter handed over to the vigilante group of Abubor Nnewichi, who later handed him to the police.
Mrs Ifebunwa later regained consciousness when the police arrived at the scene. She informed them that her husband worked somewhere outside Abubor Nnewichi, afetr she which she collapsed again and gave up the ghost.
Speaking on the incident, the landlord, Mr Michael Okeke, said that the deceased screaming woke him up from sleep, and that he had to break the door, and found the woman on the ground unclad with her lover in pains and groaning while lover boy held her.
#Nigerian Tribune
President Jonathan of Nigeria and Wife Check Into German Hospital
caption: President Goodluck Jonathan leaving Abuja
By Saharareporters, New York
According to reports by SaharaReporters, President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience Jonathan, today checked in at a hospital in Germany.
Last night, Mr. Jonathan had abruptly flown out of Abuja ostensibly to attend a Summit on peace and security in Africa that is organized by the French government. Several ministers and service chiefs accompanied the president to the airport for the late night flight, but only a handful of officials travelled on the actual flight.
A reliable source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters that, contrary to the impression created that the trip was exclusively for the French-sponsored security summit, Mr. Jonathan and his wife will undergo tests and receive treatment in the same German hospital where his wife spent several months last year.
Source added that the Nigerian president had been feeling unwell since returning from a recent trip to London where he was hospitalized for a serious stomach-related ailment. SaharaReporters had disclosed that the president fell seriously ill after a bout of bingeing on alcohol in celebration of his birthday.
The Source also revealed that plans were made for the president to receive medical attention in Germany after Mr. Jonathan suddenly fell ill last weekend in his home-state of Bayelsa during a visit there. The president’s sudden illness almost led to his emergency evacuation to Germany, our Presidency source said.
Mrs. Jonathan is also expected to receive follow-up medical treatment in the German hospital.
Mr. Jonathan is due in Paris for the summit billed for December 6th and 7th. But Mr. Jonathan’s ability to make the trip will depend on the prognosis of his condition and the advice of the German doctors who will be treating him, according to sources.
SaharaReporters sources in addition,stated that Mr. Jonathan has had recurring abdominal troubles in recent weeks. Mr. Jonathan is notorious as a heavy drinker of alcohol, especially strong spirits.
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