An urban garden in Havana, Cuba One of the first ways in which a city gets judged is by its greenery. However it is well to remember that aspects of urban greenery at first glance can be quite deceptive. There may be big lawns with very colorful flowers on various sides. But a question worth […]
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CBI, Urban Development Ministry discuss financing housing plan
TEHRAN – The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnaser Hemmati and the Transport and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Eslami discussed ways of financing the National Housing Action Plan in a meeting on Tuesday. In this meeting, which was also attended by the managing directors of some of the country’s banks as well […]
Rural vs Urban Population in India
The Farmers’ Protest Movement has brought into sharp focus that India consists of two countries. One is the mighty sprawling urban India where all of us fortunate live spoilt by consumerism and wanting more and more at the cost of others. The other is the weak scattered rural population who are waiting still since 1947 […]
500 transport, urban development projects to be inaugurated within 3 weeks
TEHRAN – Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Eslami said on Sunday his ministry is going to inaugurate 500 projects worth 100 trillion rials (about $2.38 billion) within the next three weeks, on the occasion of Ten-Day Down (this year from January 31 until February 10). Eslami made the announcement on the sidelines of […]
How do you say ‘urban renewal’ in Arabic? In Israel, you don’t
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Urban Voices Project’s Skid Row Choir Releases First Single ‘A Holiday Called Home’
[embedded content] When Mostly Kosher frontman Leeav Sofer co-founded the Urban Voices Project (UVP) Choir along with Christopher Mack, an outreach worker in skid row dubbed “the Urban Sage,” he had no idea six years later the choir would have its first single out for the community to enjoy for the holidays. Released on Dec. […]
COVID – URBAN WARFARE
[embedded content]…. Are they expecting urban warfare? October 2020 – Reservists with 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland have stepped up their training with urban combat drills in Dalbeattie, in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland. The adventure playground at Cream o’ Galloway, in Dumfries and Galloway, is to shut for ever as the need […]
French Police Targeted With Explosives Amid Surge of Urban Warfare
French police have been engaged in urban warfare in multiple cities with combatants utilizing fireworks, Molotov cocktails, and other deadly weapons, according to reports. In the Paris suburb of Argenteuil, officers and fire crews have been targeted in a series of ongoing ambushes around the commune, Actu17 reports. “For 3/4 days, the police […]
Minister orders urban transport in Israel restored to full force after holiday
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54 million people in the US may go hungry during pandemic—can urban farms help?
Image Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. When I call Chef Q. Ibraheem to discuss urban farming in her own cooking career, she’s in the middle of placing an order for microgreens from a small farm in Lake Forest, […]
Democratic Convention Ignores the Elephant in the Virtual Room: Urban Violence
John Kass The “We the People”-themed Democratic National Convention, like the Republican one to follow, shows us what America has known for years: that conventions are only infomercials designed to bend reality to political will. The Democrats bend their reality toward a referendum on President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, but they bend it […]
AG Barr calls ANTIFA a ‘new form of urban guerrilla warfare’
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Community gardens: Why urban preppers are building these gardening plots
(Natural News) If you live in the city but you want to start prepping, don’t despair. You can start a kitchen garden in your own home, or you can join other preppers and cultivate a community garden. Community gardens have once again risen in popularity, and this is probably because most city-dwellers […]
New Orleans And Detroit Are Models For The Urban Police State
By Derrick Broze Detroit and New Orleans are quickly becoming examples of a city under total surveillance. How can you prevent your hometown from becoming a Surveillance State? New reports on the increasing amount of surveillance conducted by police in New Orleans and Detroit are causing concern among local residents. The Intercept recently […]
America’s Urban War Zone: Baltimore Doubles Chicago’s Homicide Rate In 2017
Via StockBoardAsset.com, Back in June, President Trump used Twitter to officially announce America’s urban crisis. He hit the ground running calling out the death and destruction in Chicago. Trump made it clear that he was “sending in Federal help” to contain the dying city. Crime and killings […]
Urban Warfare: NATO Issues RFP For Training To Fight In Big Cities With "Dense, Interconnected Populations"
Throughout the 2016 campaigning cycle, then candidate Trump frequently criticized NATO as “obsolete” and repeatedly knocked allies for not paying their “fair share.” Then, in a shocking reversal, Trump hosted a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg, just a few months after moving into the White House, in which he […]
Big city war: NATO seeks concepts for waging urban conflict
The request, titled ‘Development of NATO Military Operations in Urban Environment Concept’, cites UN estimates which say that by 2035 the world’s population will reach 8.7 billion people, with most living in urban areas. US plans ‘global’ drills to counter Russia & other ‘complex threats’ – top US military official “The world as a whole […]
Israel unveils upgraded ‘Namer’ APC with urban warfare turret (VIDEO)
The upgraded Namer will be better suited to urban warfare and less dependent on other units to provide firepower, Brigadier General Baruch Matzliach, head of the Tank Program Administration, told the Israeli media on Monday. Matzliach also announced that the vehicle was slated for a series of tests before being introduced by the IDF Ground […]
SCI: Iran urban inflation at 7.1%; rural 8.1%
Financial Tribune- The goods and services Consumer Price Index for urban areas increased 7.1% in the 12-month period ending May 21, which marks the end of the Iranian month of Ordibehesht, compared with last year’s corresponding period, the Statistical Center of Iran announced in its latest report. SCI put the preceding month’s inflation rate at […]
Urban Abundance – 1/2-Acre Urban Property Transformed Into Organic Veggie Gardens
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast off the coast of the United States. This had unforeseen and radical consequences on the price of food. Around 2,900 oil rigs were shut down, disrupting 95% of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico — the impact of which lasted several months. While to the […]