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Organ trafficking: Prostitutes used to lure migrants into selling their kidneys

Tom Esslemont
Yahoo News
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:22 UTC
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© EPA/STR
Brokers in Egypt's underground trade in human body parts use prostitutes to tempt migrants to sell their kidneys as hospitals turn a blind eye to illicit dealing in donated organs for transplants, a report says.

Undocumented African migrants arriving in Cairo, desperate for cash, told the British Journal of Criminology that sex workers were offered as a "sweetener" before or after removal of their organs.

"(One pimp) used the services of sex workers as leverage when negotiating fees with both sellers and buyers," the report said. "A night with a sex worker was offered as an extra inducement to sell."

Organ purchase is banned in Egypt, though the country is a common destination for transplant tourism, along with India, Pakistan and Russia, according to separate research by Erasmus MC University Hospital Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Comment: Illegal organ trafficking is big business throughout the world.

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French hysteria: Mosque busted for "illegal school" - teaching Koran to children


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:08 UTC
Mosquée Al Islah de Villiers-sur-Seine
© Google MapsMosquée Al Islah de Villiers-sur-Seine
An Illegal Koranic school teaching up to 20 children as young as six was discovered inside a mosque, earlier attended by several extremists, in a Paris suburb. French prosecutors believe the children were at risk of being "turned into jihadist recruits."

The 'Little Bees School' was found during a police raid in Al-Islah mosque in Villiers-sur-Marne commune in Paris eastern suburbs on Wednesday. Some 40 police officers were involved in the operation, French media reported.

It was organizing Koran classes for some 15-20 children between six and 12 years old, Le Parisien newspaper reported. The classes were held for some two years.

"The investigation has confirmed the existence of a Koranic school, which was illegally teaching students and where [children] were at risk of indoctrination," the French interior minister said in a statement.


Comment: They'd better have some good evidence for that. Otherwise, this amounts to little more than busting a church group for running Sunday school and saying the kids were at risk of becoming radical Christian white supremacists.

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Pueblo, Colorado: US Army robots to aid in destroying mustard gas stockpiles


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:51 UTC
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© Pallets Of Artillery Shells Containing Mustard Agent. US Government / Wikipedia
US Army robots are set to destroy 78,000 mustard-gas artillery shells in a specially made $4.5 billion plant in Colorado. The move is to comply with an international treaty that bans chemical weapons.

Robots at the largely automated planet at the military's Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado, are scheduled to begin destroying the weapons next week, according to the Associated Press.

The deadly chemical weapon was widely used during WW1. Once dispersed in the air, the mustard gas acts like a mist and melts any flesh it encounters.
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Japanese police avert 'all-out yakuza war' by arresting nearly 1,000 gangsters


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:38 UTC
Japanese riot police
© Toru Hanai / Reuters
Japanese police claim to have averted an "all-out war" between two rival yakuza factions by arresting nearly 1,000 members. Tensions between the gangs have been high since the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi broke away from the largest crime syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi last year.

A total of 976 gangsters from Yamaguchi-gumi and its spin off the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi were arrested since March when National Police Agency (NPA) agency said the factions declared "a state of all-out war", The Asahi Shimbun reports. Of those arrested 623 were members of the Yamaguchi-gumi, and 353 were from the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi.

NPA said it would hold both of the groups in iron fists adding that the crackdown on yakuza gangs would continue.

"We will try to destroy both groups by tightening controls and appropriating the anti-organized crime law," Masayoshi Sakaguchi, commissioner general of the NPA, said during a news conference on August 25. "We will also keep our strictest watch on them to prevent civilian casualties."

"The situation is exceptionally serious," said Taro Kono, the chairman of the National Public Safety Commission in March adding that the major task for law was to shield ordinary citizens from getting caught up in the hostilities of criminal groups.
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Russian Paralympic athletes' Olympics ban appeal is rejected


RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:33 UTC
paralympics runner
© Bruno Domingos / Reuters
Thirty-four Russian athletes have applied to have their individual cases heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). However, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has said that Russian athletes will not be at the games, even as independents.

The entire Russian Paralympic team was banned from the upcoming games by the IPC after allegations of state-sponsored doping in Russian athletics were published by a November 2015 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report.

Last week the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC), which has been suspended by the IPC, submitted an appeal to the Swiss Federal Court which was subsequently rejected on Wednesday, August 31st.

This has led to many Russian athletes individually submitting their cases to CAS in a last gasp attempt to be granted a place at the Rio 2016 Paralympics.

Comment: More on the non-existent doping scandal and the West's cultural smear campaign against Russia:

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Columbus officials say person in clown mask with a knife chased student

NBC4 Staff
WCMH-TV Columbus
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:59 UTC
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© dpa/Frank Rumpenhorst
Police will be monitoring a north Columbus bus stop this morning after one student said a person in a clown mask chased him with a knife.

The 14-year-old boy was headed to the bus stop Tuesday morning near Sandalwood Place on his way to school at Columbus North International School. He said around 6:15 a.m., a guy in a clown mask, dressed in all black, chased him with a knife.

Moms in that neighborhood said they're reminding their kids to pay attention and follow their gut.

"I thought it was crazy!" said mom of two Tombi Williams, who lives in the neighborhood where it happened.

Recently, there have been reports of clowns luring children in South Carolina. Williams couldn't believe this time it was in her backyard.

"I did not think it was here, but it goes to show things crazy and stupid can happen everywhere."

Mom of four Tasha Jones worries about her teenagers not paying attention.

"(I'm) very concerned because one of them plays Pokemon a lot on his phone, so I told him 'you have to be more aware now,'" she said.

Comment: Clown trying to lure kids into woods in Greenville County, SC

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White supremacist runs down and kills black teen while girlfriend cheers him on


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 09:39 UTC
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A white supremacist mowed down an African-American teenager with his car and smashed youth's head into the window of a convenience store as his girlfriend cheered him on. Both have been indicted for murder.

Larnell Malik Bruce, 19, was charging his phone outside a 7-Eleven in Gresham, Oregon, just before midnight on August 10, a female acquaintance told local police.

But his evening suddenly took a violent turn after 38-year-old Russell Courtier and his girlfriend, 35-year-old Colleen Hunt, allegedly approached him. Courtier and Bruce engaged in a physical altercation, with Hunt yelling "Get him, baby!" as the fists flew, the Portland Mercury reported.

The 38-year-old managed to smash Bruce's head into the store window, cracking a pane of glass and prompting the 7-Eleven clerk to call 911.
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Philadelphia cop exposed as neo-nazi after BLM protest photos emerge


teleSUR
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 12:30 UTC
Phila cop
"God and Country": The peace officer was a big fan of World War II regalia and fascist iconography. Photo: Evan P. Matthews (left) / Philly Antifa (right)
Photos surfaced Wednesday on social media showing Philadelphia police officer Ian Hans Lichtermann displaying his Nazi tattoo while working the #BlackResistanceMarch during the Democratic National Convention in July. After the photos were posted, local activists discovered that the officer had previously been exposed as a member of a neo-Nazi organization who had quit the force, only to resurface in uniform once again at the anti-police brutality rally.

In the photos that led to the discovery, the police officer had a large tattoo of an eagle and the familiar Nazi symbol, with German-style text reading "Fatherland" on his left forearm.

The photo showed the officer, identified as Lichterman based on his name patch, tattooed with an assault rifle and a U.S. flag on his right forearm accompanied by the text "For God and Country"—the motto of the American Legion, a U.S. veterans' organization that openly supported fascism prior to the Second World War.
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Which country has the best programmers?

Rahil Bhagat
CNet
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
In a study of hundreds of thousands of programmers, China and Russia were found to produce the best software developers
HackerRank programmer ranking
© HackerRankHackerRank maps out the competition.
If you ever wondered about which country produces the best programmers, wonder no more.

A new report from California-based HackerRank, a service that administers tests to developers around the world, says it's China.

Second place goes to Russia, and Poland takes bronze. Traditional programming powerhouses like the US and India came in at 28th and 31st, respectively.

HackerRank offers its community of programmers, apparently 1.5 million strong, with challenges to hone their skills. It examined data from these challenges from the last few years to come up with the rankings, scoring developers from different countries and finding national averages.
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No vaping in British Columbia! E-cigarettes banned in workplaces, parks and beaches

Amy Judd
Global News
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:26 UTC
Vaping
© AP/Nam Y. Huh
Starting Thursday, e-cigarettes will be treated the same as tobacco in B.C.

New regulations mean that vaping will no longer be allowed in workplaces or on parks or beaches. It will also not be allowed in a car when someone under 16 years old is present.

New rules also mean anyone who wants to smoke will have to be six metres away from a building opening.

Recently, the provincial government also banned the sale and advertisement of e-cigarettes to youth as well.

The B.C. Government says the Tobacco and Vapour Products Control Act is "designed to protect youth from the unknown effects of e-cigarette vapour and from becoming addicted to nicotine, which is why it treats e-cigarette use exactly the same as tobacco, with the same bans and restrictions."

A vaporizer is defined as an electronic cigarette or other device that contains a power source and heating element that's designed to heat a substance to produce a vapour to be inhaled through the mouth.

Comment: Tobacco and nicotine have been demonized for quite some time now. The fairly new trend of vaping nicotine may be dangerous - who knows? Carcinogens have been found in e-cigarettes. They also reportedly have chemicals in them that have been linked to lung disease along with toxic compounds linked to oral disease. A similar trend happened with tobacco.

Unfortunately, people are vaping to quit smoking or they think that it's a healthier option than tobacco. To the contrary, there are many amazing health advantages to smoking tobacco. Given the history of junk science (lies) behind the anti-tobacco movement, it makes us wonder why something so beneficial is being portrayed as so wicked!

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