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Brother of 'Guantanamo Diary' author denied entry to US, sent back to Germany

Yahdih Ould Slahi
© acluvideos / YouTubeYahdih Ould Slahi holds up a photo of his brother Mohamedou in a May 2016 video by American Civil Liberties Union.
US authorities detained, interrogated and sent back a German citizen flying in to campaign for the release of his brother - author of the best-selling "Guantanamo Diary," who has been imprisoned and tortured at the US camp since 2002.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir, heavily redacted by government censors, was published in 2015 and quickly became a best-seller. The Mauritanian native was arrested in 2001 and rendered to Jordan for interrogation by the CIA. He was transferred to Guantanamo Bay the following year.

His younger brother Yahdih, a German citizen, has campaigned for Mohamedou's release for years. Yahdih was supposed to attend a number of events in the US this week, seeking to persuade Guantanamo's Periodic Review Board to set Mohamedou free at the June 2 hearing.

Comment: See also: America's prison system looks more and more like its torture sites


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Culture of cruelty: North Carolina mother outraged after teacher duct-tapes 9-year-old son to desk

Knollwood Elementary
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A North Carolina elementary teacher who allegedly duct taped a student into his desk will not face criminal charges, though she resigned from her position after the child's mother complained.

Lynda Santamaria told WSOC her son's classmate at Knollwood Elementary School in Rowan County recorded three videos last Friday of the unnamed teacher using duct tape to restrain her 9-year-old son, and one allegedly shows the boy with tape around his body and chair.

School officials confirmed the incident occurred, but acknowledged only one of the videos that does not show the child with tape on his body. The video shows the student in his seat, with tape running from one side of his desk behind his chair to the other side of his desk, according to the news site.

School officials and the Rowan County Sheriff's office allege the teacher never placed tape directly on the boy's body, but Santamaria contends the other videos clearly show otherwise.

"There was another video where she was putting tape on his stomach and the back of his chair," the mother said. "There were three videos," she told WLTX. "One was tape around the ground as a boundary for him. The other one was a video where she was putting tape around his desk and chair, and another one where the tape went around his stomach and the chair."

Comment: Public education and hystericized society: For children in the U.S., school is the first indoctrination into the American police state


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Rise of the machines: Robots wipe out 60K jobs at Taiwanese factory

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Human labor is worth less than ever at the notorious Foxconn factory.

The company, known for producing Apple products and other American consumer electronics, was already notorious for driving workers to suicide at its Shenzhen, China location and prompting suicide nets outside the buildings.

Now, the rise of robots and automation is displacing a staggering 60,000 of its 110,000 strong workforce at a Foxconn factory in Taiwan, delivering a fatal blow to largely migrant wage earners.

Arrow Up

The growing international revolt against glyphosate

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I must make a confession. I never thought it would get this far. There is an absolutely amazing international revolt against the most deadly and most widely used weed killer in world agriculture - glyphosate. Those of you who have followed my earlier writings can detect my feeling of pessimism that mere "democratic" grass-roots protest, combined with a scientific assessment from an agency of WHO that glyphosate was a "probable carcinogen" would be enough to stop the pending, twice-postponed EU Commission renewal of the expiring license for glyphosate in the EU. It almost doesn't matter at this point what the ultimate vote is when the next EU Commission glyphosate meeting is convened. The genie is out of the bottle. One of the world's most important eugenics projects to maim and ultimately reduce human population is on the brink of being banned much as DDT decades ago.

On May 19, a revised proposal by the European Commission to re-approve glyphosate for use in Europe for 9 more years (rather than the original 15 years), but with almost no restrictions on use, failed to secure the required qualified majority among EU governments. This is an amazing and very positive development for democratic empowerment against an institution increasingly seen - not only by the British population - as an anti-democratic, even totalitarian structure irresponsive to the most basic concerns for the health and safety of EU citizens.

The agri-chemical industry bigs—Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and friends - are stunned at their failure. Corruption in government corridors whether in Berlin or Brussels seems to be losing its efficacy.

The next step for the troubled glyphosate renewal process will be for the EU Commission, those faceless, unelected bureaucrats, to come up with a new revised proposal that will bring Germany to approval by end of June when the old license expires or order glyphosate withdrawn from the entire EU market within six months according to Henry Rowlands' international GMO watchdog media, Sustainable Pulse.

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Gaza family mourns loss of 3 young children who burned to death from tipped candle (Video)

Mother of al-Hindi sons
© AFP/Mohammed AbedThe mother of the Abu Hindi family (L) mourns during the funeral of three of her sons who died in a fire caused by a candle at the family home, at the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on May 7, 2016.
On May 7, 2016, fire broke out in the Abu al-Hindi home in Gaza's Shati (Beach) refugee camp. Started by a tipped candle, the flames grew quickly grew out of control.

Three children, Yusra, 3, Rahaf, 2, and Nasser, 6 months, perished in the burning house, and Muhannad, 8, was severely burned. Ali, 6, is the only survivor without physical injuries but lives with deep psychological trauma.

Neighbors attempted to rescue the children by breaking a hole through the wall, but by the time they could reach the children, it was too late.

The fire is a direct result of severe electricity shortages due to the ongoing and tightening Israeli/Egyptian since and repeated Israeli military assaults.

In April, Gaza's sole power plant ran out of fuel. Prior to that, the power plant was working at partial capacity due to repeated Israeli military attacks since 2006. This has only been exacerbated by political infighting between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.

Since the beginning of 2016, the Palestinian Authority, which is dominated by Fatah, has gradually lifted fuel tax exemptions to Gaza's power plant and imposed a 'blue tax', rendering the power plant unable to purchase fuel and further forcing Gaza's residents to rely on candlelight.

Deadly candle fires have occurred repeatedly since Israel imposed the siege in 2006. Since 2010, 29 Palestinians, mostly children, have died in home fires.


Comment: All of this - the pain, suffering and heartbreak - just so the psychopaths running Israel can lay claim to a piece of real estate. It's truly horrifying.


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'Obsessed' pharmacist drugged co-worker 23 times for rejecting sexual advances

Yan Chi 'Anthony' Cheung
© 9 NewsYan Chi 'Anthony' Cheung (centre in hooded top) pleaded guilty to poisoning offences at Waverley Local Court in Sydney
A pharmacist from Sydney has pleaded guilty to spiking the drink of a colleague 23 times over the space of a year because she rejected his sexual overtures. The defendant would slip the drugs into his victim's coffee or water, leaving her feeling drowsy.

Yan Chi 'Anthony' Cheung pleaded guilty at the court hearing in Australia on Tuesday of putting phenergan, doxylamine, endep, deptran and seruguel, in his 26-year-old colleague's drinks.

The 35-year-old would spike Pamela Leung's drink every couple of weeks and this carried on for one year. The pair worked together at a pharmacy on the University of New South Wales' campus.

"During their employment together the accused began making sexual advances towards the victim, rough brushing past her breasts, buttocks and hands," court documents said, as cited by 7 News.

"The victim felt as though [Cheung] became obsessed with her," the statement added.

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Masked provocateurs: Belgian police clash with anti-austerity protesters at 60,000-strong rally in Brussels

Demonstrators march in central Brussels, Belgium
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Belgian riot police deployed water cannons to disperse a major anti-austerity demonstration attended by tens of thousands of people in central Brussels. At least two policemen and several protesters have been injured.

Brussels' main commissioner Pierre Vandersmissen was among the injured along with another policeman, local media reports citing Brussels police department.

Initially peaceful the rally that gathered some 60,000 people turned violent after a group of around 100 masked activists broke away from the main rally and started throwing objects at police and vandalizing publicity boards near Brussels South Station. Clashes broke out and police intervened using water cannons and - reportedly - tear gas. Reports say at least 10 people have been arrested so far.

Security measures were reinforced prior to Tuesday's demonstration since the Brussels bombings two months ago.

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Woman who was climbing Everest in bid to prove 'vegans can do anything' dies

A 34-year-old Australian woman who attempted to climb Mount Everest to prove that vegans are not 'malnourished and weak' has died.
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© AgenciasMaria Strydom and her husband.
University lecturer Maria Strydom perished from a lack of oxygen in Nepal on Saturday afternoon after having to turn back from the final leg of her expedition because she felt unwell.

She, along with her husband Robert Gropel, challenged themselves to overcome Everest to show that 'vegans can do anything'.

Dr Strydom had said that climbing Everest while adhering to a strict vegan diet was their 'own personal Everest.'

According to The Washington Post, on an university blog she said: 'It seems that people have this warped idea of vegans being malnourished and weak.' 'By climbing the seven summits we want to prove that vegans can do anything and more.'

Comment: The vegetarian diet is completely anti-physiological. Knowledge protects, ignorance endangers:


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Hacker Guccifer expected to plead guilty for Clinton email hack

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© Mediafax / Silviu Matei / ReutersMarcel Lazar Lehel
The Romanian computer hacker known as Guccifer, who allegedly accessed the email account of an adviser to Hillary Clinton, is expected to plead guilty to charges related to breaking into the computers of top US political personalities.

Computer hacker Marcel Lazar Lehel is expected to appear in federal court on Wednesday for a change-of-plea deal, according to court records obtained by the Associated Press. The 44-year-old Romanian was extradited to the US in March to face charges including unauthorized access to computers, cyberstalking, and obstruction of justice.

Lehel had originally pleaded not guilty to the charges last month, and it's not clear what charges he will plead guilty to.

Lehel was indicted in 2014 on nine felony charges of him hacking into the email accounts of top US politicians. Emails between former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Corina Cretu, a Romanian member of the European Parliament, were released, prompting Powell to deny that the two had had an affair. A set of former Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal's emails were published online in 2013, which exposed a private email address that Clinton used when serving as Secretary of State.

Comment: The authorities should be charging Clinton and throwing her in jail. Guccifer was only doing a public service by shedding light on Clinton's illegal behavior and giving the world a chance to see Clinton indicted and jailed.


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VIDEO: Off-duty Israeli cops brutally beat Arabic teen for not showing ID despite not identifying themselves as police

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Controversial CCTV footage allegedly shows plainclothes Israeli police officers pouncing on an "Arab-Israeli" next to a Tel Aviv supermarket. Eyewitnesses say the man ended up brutally beaten and arrested after he refused to show ID to an off-duty cop.

The incident, which was captured by a security camera and first published by local Israeli media including Walla news, reportedly occurred outside an Arab supermarket on Ibn Gvirol Street in central Tel Aviv on Sunday afternoon.

An employee of Arab appearance walked out of the shop and was about to throw garbage into the bin when he was approached by an off-duty policeman clad in shorts, who asked to see his ID card. The shop worker refused to comply with the request.

The plainclothes officer, later confirmed to be a member of the border police, then reportedly began to beat the unarmed man with the help of a companion without any further pretext, eyewitness Erez Krispin wrote in a Facebook post, which has since gone viral. The Arab employee is said to have been unable to comply, as his ID was inside the shop. He also had no way of knowing that the man asking for his ID was an officer.