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Blaming the victim: Bishop testifies that boy raped by priest was "culpable"

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© Syracuse DioceseBishop Robert Cunningham
Syracuse bishop objected to a news report that accurately quoted his remarks blaming victims of child-molesting priests for their own sex abuse.

Bishop Robert Cunningham testified in a 2011 deposition as part of a federal lawsuit filed by a man accusing a priest of sexually abusing him years earlier as a child, reported the Post-Standard.

The plaintiff's attorney asked Cunningham, who heads the Syracuse diocese, whether a child molested by a priest has committed a sin in the eyes of the church.

"The boy is culpable," Cunningham said during the Oct. 14, 2011, sworn deposition.

The bishop backed away from that statement later in the deposition but said he would need more information about the child's behavior to determine his culpability.

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3 arrests in fresh clashes in East Jerusalem's holy Al-Aqsa mosque compound

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© © Ammar Awad / ReutersIsraeli police stop woman from entering the compound that houses al-Aqsa mosque, known by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, and by Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City.
The disputed Temple Mount, or Al Aqsa, site is seeing new Israeli-Palestinian scuffles, after a special police operation Sunday resulted in fierce clashes. Stone-throwing resumed Monday, resulting in an Israeli policeman being injured and three Palestinians arrested.

On Monday morning, Israeli authorities tried to reopen the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa mosque site and ensure the safety of any visitors celebrating the Jewish New Year, as well as of tourists.

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But more masked youths emerged, throwing stones, injuring one policeman. Three arrests were made as a result. "As the police entered the compound, masked youths fled inside the mosque and threw stones at the force," police said in a statement Monday.

On Sunday, tear gas and stun grenades were used when Israeli police chased down masked Palestinian youths to the Al-Aqsa mosque and carried out a morning raid on the holy site. Fierce clashes involving various groups then resulted in the mosque grounds being closed.

Comment: Has happened many times before and will happen again...until the perpetual conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis is put to rest, if ever.


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American Airlines sent ill-equipped plane on long-haul flight to Hawaii endangering passengers

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American Airlines "screwed up" last month when the company sent the wrong plane to Hawaii from Los Angeles, one unable to fly over water for long distances.

The airline acknowledged its mistake but only after it was too late — the Airbus A321S unauthorized to fly over Pacific was already en route to the island loaded with passengers and crew onboard, according to American Airlines spokesman Casey Norton.

On August 31, the Federal Aviation Administration and American Airlines made a risky decision to let AA Flight 31 reach the destination after "someone on the ground" realized the unprecedented situation.

The Honolulu-bound aircraft did not have Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards certification to make the flight over Pacific.

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Horrifying: Woman held in psyche ward and drugged for 8 days because NYPD didn't believe she owned BMW

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The story allegedly taking place in New York City sounds horrific. A black woman was held in a mental house, made to take powerful drugs and convinced by doctors she doesn't own her BMW after the NYPD pulled her over at a red light.

Kamilah Brock, 32, said in her first TV-interview to PIX11 she's filed a lawsuit against New York city police for forcing her into a psychiatric hospital, where she was held for more than a week for therapy for claiming she was a banker, owned a BMW and that President Barack Obama follows her on Twitter - all of which is actually true.

Initially, police pulled her over in Harlem at a red light on September 12th, 2014, and asked why her hands were not on the steering wheel, according to Brock. She responded: "I was dancing, I am at a light," and was immediately asked to get out of the car. Brock claims she was then taken into custody, brought to 30th precinct of NYPD and held there for hours without charges. On release, she says, Brock was told to pick up her BMW 325Ci the next day.

When she attempted to do so, police didn't believe she was the owner of the vehicle.

Comment: How is this even legal? If this is true, every person involved should be arrested and charged with kidnapping and assault.


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Charlie Hebdo faces trial for disgusting caricature of drowned Syrian child

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The Society of Black Lawyers will consider reporting a Charlie Hebdo's series of caricatures that featured a three-year Syrian refugee who drowned while en route to Europe as incitement to hate crime and persecution before the International Criminal Court, according to Chair of the Society of Black Lawyers Peter Herbert.

The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo could face legal action for a series of caricatures that featured a three-year Syrian refugee who drowned while en route to Europe, Chair of the Society of Black Lawyers Peter Herbert said Monday.

"The Society of Black Lawyers will consider reporting this as incitement to hate crime and persecution before the International Criminal Court," Herbert, former vice chair of London's Metropolitan Police Authority, wrote in his official Twitter account.

Comment: At least people have started to have had enough of this pathological nonsense. Why mock the death of a child except to incite hatred and violence? And to heap that upon these refugees, after all that they have faced and are facing, is simply subhuman. For more details, check out:

Disgusting! Charlie Hebdo mocks death of drowned Syrian child Aylan Kurdi


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Here we go again: We all know what happened the last time the Feds did some funny things with air traffic control over the East Coast

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With only a 24-hour advance notice on September 1st, 2015 the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) suddenly announced that due to ongoing US military exercises, the Department of Defense (DoD) just informed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the entire East Coast of the United States extending 200 miles offshore will apparently be at high risk of air accidents throughout the month of September. And that's because the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) has been shut down from the second of September to the first of October 2015. This is the electronic system that all airplanes have installed that detect any danger of nearby aircraft that potentially could fly into a plane's flight path and cause midair collisions. Apparently TCAS for a month may fail to give flight crews traffic alerts (TA) and resolution advisories (RA) accurate or any notice at all of incoming aircraft. Instead this advisory simply urges pilots to keep their eyes peeled since they will not be aided by their flight detector instruments.

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Disgusting: Charlie Hebdo mocks death of drowned Syrian child Aylan Kurdi

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While newspapers across the world have paid tribute to Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who became the symbol of the refugee crisis, Charlie Hebdo has featured cartoons of the toddler, mocking his death.

Eight months after the terroristic attack that hit its headquarters in Paris in January, the French satirical magazine is back to the spotlight with a new controversial set of cartoons.

Hiding behind the freedom of speech, Charilie Hebdo made fun of the death of Aylan Kurdi, who was found dead recently on a Turkish beach, in two offensive drawings.

Entitled "So Close to His Goal", the first drawing features Aylan lying face down on the sand near a publicity board of a 2-for-1 McDonald Happy Meal saying what translates into: "Two menus of children for the price of one."

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Disappearing freedoms: U.S. city proposing ban on wearing short shorts and mini-skirts

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Short shorts and mini-skirts may be disappearing from one Alabama city.

The Dadeville City Council is considering an ordinance to ban the attire. The proposal comes after the City Council last month passed an ordinance banning saggy pants.

The council, however, didn't think men should be singled out when it comes to provocative clothing.

"My concern is it should be for everybody," said Councilwoman Stephanie Kelley during a council meeting on Tuesday. "I think for the girls, with these shorts up so high looking like under garments and dresses so short, I don't want us to be showing favoritism."

Dadeville City attorney Robin Reynolds is expected to have the ordinance ready by the next council meeting.

"It is about respect," Goodman said. "Who is going to respect you if you don't respect yourself? The reason I brought this up is I think people deserve respect when they are in public. I think slacking is disrespectful. I think it gives our younger generation the wrong impression of what is cool."

Comment: It's ridiculous for any government, small or large, to make laws banning people from wearing specific kinds of clothing. Soon we'll all be forced to wear one specific piece of attire for all occasions.


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Refugees escape Islamic State and point finger at the United States

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Refugees are streaming into Europe from Syria and Iraq, escaping the rapacious fist of ISIL. While the extremist "Islamic State" cuts a clear bogeyman, many refugees are pointing their fingers at the West, especially the US, and their handling of the situation.

Rzgar Abdul, 28, fled his home in Iraq to escape ISIS. He now resides in a barrack-style campground for refugees in Hungary.

He blames his squalid existence on the United States.

"Iraq's problem is America's problem," Abdul said "This crisis is America's problem. In Iraq, Syria, all over, the U.S. did not do enough."

However, the CIA alone spent $40 million just in efforts to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Nonetheless, Abdul's views are shared by refugees across countries in Europe and the Middle East.

Refugee Jebrail Mohamed, 26, said the United State's failure to use more man power in Syria led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands.

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Disgusted with the EU: Europeans embrace Euroscepticism, far Right and far Left politics

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Jeremy Corbyn's election as UK Labour party leader has highlighted a growing trend of dissatisfaction with Europe's political establishment. From the right-wing National Front in France to Spain's leftist Podemos, parties have tapped into the frustration with cultural and economic globalization.

Despite being met with some criticism and concern among his own party members, Corbyn's appointment as the head of the UK's major opposition party has been praised and supported by a number of similar left-wing movements across the continent, who have expressed their extreme dissatisfaction with the status quo of neoliberal politics in Europe.

The Left: Fighting Against Austerity, Neoliberalism

Greece's Syriza party, who swept to power in January on the back on a popular, anti austerity-driven message, said Corbyn's appointment sent a "message of hope to the people of Europe" that would help its own fight in "halting the neoliberal policy" of Europe.

Comment: Disgusted with the political establishment? Is it because their only solution to the refugee crisis is to drop even more bombs on the countries they're fleeing? Or because the only solution they can come up with to every economic problem is to steal more of the public's money? There's no shortage of reasons to be disgusted with the parasitic 'establishment'. The real shortage is in viable options, because the psychopaths in charge in the West have sabotaged the future in almost every way imaginable.

Also see: Lew Rockwell interviews Gerald Celente: Psychopaths rule us