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New poll of US voters says most think country headed in wrong direction

Morgan Stanley building
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Two-thirds of likely voters in the United States say the country is on the "wrong track", according to a new poll released by Rasmussen Reports on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Only 27 percent of likely voters say the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the poll, while 65 percent think the country is on a wrong course.


Black Magic

New Mexico man tells police he killed friend for turning into a zombie

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© FacebookChristopher Paquin (pictured), 23, was beaten to death by Damon Perry, 23, according to police
A New Mexico man who had been watching TV's The Walking Dead told authorities he fatally beat his friend before he could become a zombie.

Grants police spokesman Moses Marquez said Sunday that 23-year-old Christopher Paquin was beaten and that 23-year-old Damon Perry is being held on a murder charge.

Perry's attorney, Michael E. Calligan, did not immediately return a call for comment.

Officers were called Thursday afternoon to an apartment complex where Perry was allegedly wielding a knife.

They found Paquin's body inside an apartment and maintenance workers detaining Perry.

Fire

Five killed in fireworks truck explosion in Jordan

Amman fireworks truck explosion
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Five people were killed and eight others injured on Monday when an explosion ripped through two trucks carrying fireworks in the Jordanian capital, a civil defence spokesperson said.

General Farid al-Sharaa said two trucks loaded with containers filled with fireworks exploded in a parking lot at the customs department in southern Amman.

Five people were killed and eight others suffered from burns, he said.

The explosion also sparked a fire that ripped through the parking lot and damaged a dozen vehicles, Sharaa said. Firefighters were working to put out the blaze.

Comment: Other fireworks related explosions this year include:

At least 4 dead and 6 injured in explosion at fireworks factory, Zaragoza, Spain

Huge fireworks factory explosion near Colombian capital


Heart - Black

Twisted Christian website: Don't look at your wife's face during sex to enjoy it even when she resists

Young couple arguing in bed
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A Christian website that gives advice to couples about how to live by the Bible's "gender roles" recently advised men that they should not look at their wives' faces during sex if she engaged in intercourse "begrudgingly."

In a column on the BiblicalGenderRoles.com website last week, a writer going by the name Larry Solomon argued that men "should not tolerate refusal."

According to the Christian columnist, women who did not like having sex with their husbands should "fake it until she makes it."

But Solomon noted that coercing wives into sex did not always result in an enjoyable experience for the husband.

"You also need to realize that whether your wife knows it or not she needs to have sex too," he opined. "If you don't have sex with your wife at regular intervals, even sometimes when she is not in the mood but consents anyway, you will open yourself to temptation."

"Focus your eyes on her body, not her face. Focus on the visual pleasure you receive from looking at her body and physical pleasure you receive from being inside your wife," Solomon recommended. "You want to connect with her physically AND emotionally during sex. But your wife is the one refusing to connect with you emotionally, so you have to concentrate 100% on the physical side."

Solomon said that men should think of unwilling wives like Medusa, the mythical Greek monster who could turn men to stone if they looked upon her face.

"I know you love your wife, most men love their wives. But sin is ugly," the writer remarked. "Your beautiful bride's face becomes ugly during this sinful time that she is grudgingly giving you sex as she grimaces wanting you to 'just hurry up and get it over with'."

"So like the men who could not look at Medusa's face otherwise they would be killed, realize that if you look on your wife's face when she is displaying a sinful attitude toward sex it will kill your sexual pleasure and may actually make it much more difficult for you to achieve the physical connection and release that you need," he concluded. "Sometimes we have to work around the sinful behavior of our wives and this will be one of those times."

Comment: Teaching your daughters and sons this kind of behavior is advocating rape, pure and simple.


Health

Woman napalmed in Vietnam war atrocities gets treatment

As a little girl, Kim Phuc loved to climb up trees. After the South Vietnamese military dropped napalm on her village, Trang Bang, on June 8, 1972, Phuc's skin was partly destroyed and she was no longer able to play many of her favorite games.

Forty years later, the woman who was famously photographed by AP photojournalist Nick Ut, and now lives in Canada, is undergoing laser treatments at Miami's Dermatology Institute. The treatments will continue for the next seven months.

House

Police arrest activists for building free housing for homeless in Denver park

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© Via FacebookDenver Homeless Out Loud building microhomes in Sustainability Park.
The Denver Police Department arrested 10 housing advocates and tore down a set of small, single-occupant dwellings they were attempting to build in the city's Sustainability Park. According to KMGH Channel 7, the activist group Denver Homeless Out Loud came to the park on Saturday and began to build "tiny homes," small dwellings intended as free housing for the homeless.

The group is protesting the sale of the land to a private developer which plans to build an upscale apartment complex. "Today hundreds of people came out to Sustainability Park in the Curtis Park neighborhood of Denver to build a tiny home village where three urban farms are being displaced to build an apartment development," the group said in a statement.

"The group, led by Denver Homeless Out Loud and composed of houseless people and supporters, had been constructing tiny homes and trying to find a location for the village for over a year," the statement explained. "But due to zoning and code constraints they have not been able to find a legal place to put the houses."

According to activists, the Denver Housing Authority eliminated hundreds of low-income housing units to create the park. For a time, the land was farmed by a group known as the Urban Farming Collective, but now the land is being sold to a developer, which will construct "multifamily housing that will support gentrification in Curtis Park" and drive rents upward and out of reach of current residents.

Comment: People are homeless due to the psychopathic capitalist system. It was designed to feed those at the top of the food chain. The rest of humanity exist to serve that system: 'useless eaters' to be discarded when they are no longer profitable.

Other states, countries and individual citizens have shown many viable options to help homeless people and even restore them to some semblance of a life. Colorado could take a lesson from them on how to handle the problem instead of hiding the homeless and punishing people who want to help.


Handcuffs

Unbelievable! School officer chokes and slams female student sitting at her desk

School police officer abuse
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A video is rapidly going viral of a school resource officer in South Carolina choking and slamming a high school student who was sitting at her desk.

The incident took place on Monday at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, and was captured on camera by two different students from different angles.

"The student was told she was under arrest for disturbing school and given instructions which she again refused," Sheriff Leon Lott told WIS-TV. "The video then shows the student resisting and being arrested by the SRO."

The videos captured the teenage girl sitting at her desk in her classroom when Officer Ben Fields approached and grabbed her before wrapping his arm around her throat. The desk flips over as he throws her to the ground and out of view of the camera.


Comment: What a truly sick society America has become. This is outrageous behavior for a policeman supposedly there to protect children!


Family

When Greeks fled to Syria: History repeats in the opposite direction

Syrian rain
Giorgos Taktikos was just 5 years old when he and his family began their long journey to the Sinai Desert by boarding a small boat in the middle of the night and leaving behind their native Chios.

Today, at the age of 78, Taktikos is following history being written the other way round. As a former refugee, he is pained to observe the boatloads of people fleeing the Middle East and reaching Greek shores, while his mind races back to his own long and difficult journey into the unknown.

A native of the Chiot village of Kourounia, Taktikos was one of over 30,000 Greeks who left several eastern Aegean islands during the German wartime occupation, some seeking refuge in Syria, others reaching South Africa, in an effort to escape hunger and war.

Comment: Interesting how the current refugee crises is the reverse of what happened during World War II.


Stock Down

How low can we go: US economic data has never been this weak for this long

Despite the ongoing propaganda reinforcing America's "cleanest sheets in a brothel" economic growth, the fact is, there is a reason why The Fed folded, why Draghi doubled-down, why China cut, and why Kuroda will likely unleash moar QQE this week. It appears the 'trap' that central planners have set for themselves - by enabling massive financial asset inflation in the face of what is now the longest streak of economic weakness and data disappointment on record - now looks set to prove their impotence and/or Enisteinian insanity.

As Ice Farm Capital notes,
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Corporate profit margins have taken a sharp hit and corporate profits for the S&P are now down 3% year-over-year despite continued share buybacks.

Through this entire period, markets have continually expected happy days to be just around the corner.

Comment: Despite what the mainstream news spews out that all is well in America, it definitely is not well. How much longer can this go on before the bottom falls out?

Real numbers prove US economy similar to Great Depression - and it's getting worse


Pistol

Not again! Shots fired at Iowa military recruiting center and nearby warehouse

Davenport, Iowa
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Police are responding to reports of shots fired at a US Navy recruiting center in Davenport, Iowa, as well as at a second location in Bettendorf. The gunman shot himself near Miller-Meier Limb and Brace in Bettendorf, police told local news.

No one else was injured, and both scenes are safe, Davenport Police Captain Jane Imming told the Quad City Times.

Comment: Here we go again!