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UK government to open 'safe houses' in London for child victims of sexual assault

RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:14 UTC

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Two 'safe houses' offering medical care, psychological support and protection for child victims of sexual assault are due to open in London next year as part of a joint project between London Mayor Sadiq Kahn and Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

The Home Office funded facilities, which were modeled on the success of the Icelandic 'Barnahus' policy, will help an estimated 400 vulnerable children each year.

"Child sexual abuse is a horrendous crime that this government is taking action to tackle, both by protecting children from abuse and ensuring that offenders are swiftly brought to justice," Rudd said in a statement.

Comment: A rather disingenuous comment considering that only low-level predators are brought to justice while elite pedophiles are protected. Investigations into sex abuse by the elites are routinely covered up and many have simply been shut down to protect those in power.

Children's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield was optimistic about the initiative, which is now used across Scandinavia.

Comment: Hopefully these will indeed be 'safe houses', where the UK's high-level predators won't have access to these vulnerable children.

Tent cities are booming all over the U.S. as poverty, homelessness spikes

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:19 UTC

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A view of Tent City, the massive homeless encampment under Interstate 45, near downtown Dallas.

Just like during the last economic crisis, homeless encampments are popping up all over the nation as poverty grows at a very alarming rate. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than half a million people are homeless in America right now, but that figure is increasing by the day. And it isn't just adults that we are talking about. It has been reported that that the number of homeless children in this country has risen by 60 percent since the last recession, and Poverty USA says that a total of 1.6 million children slept either in a homeless shelter or in some other form of emergency housing at some point last year. Yes, the stock market may have been experiencing a temporary boom for the last couple of years, but for those on the low end of the economic scale things have just continued to deteriorate.

Tonight, countless numbers of homeless people will try to make it through another chilly night in large tent cities that have been established in the heart of major cities such as Seattle, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis. Homelessness has gotten so bad in California that the L.A. City Council has formally asked Governor Jerry Brown to officially declare a state of emergency. And in Portland the city has extended their "homeless emergency" for yet another year, and city officials are really struggling with how to deal with the booming tent cities that have sprung up:

There have always been homeless people in Portland, but last summer Michelle Cardinal noticed a change outside her office doors.

Almost overnight, it seemed, tents popped up in the park that runs like a green carpet past the offices of her national advertising business. She saw assaults, drug deals and prostitution. Every morning, she said, she cleaned human feces off the doorstep and picked up used needles.

"It started in June and by July it was full-blown. The park was mobbed," she said. "We've got a problem here and the question is how we're going to deal with it."

But of course it isn't just Portland that is experiencing this. The following list of major tent cities that have become so well-known and established that they have been given names comes from Wikipedia:

'Stop the Violence Peace Day' rally in Alabama ends with six people shot, one dead

PressTV
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:26 UTC

At least six people have been shot, one of them fatally, after a peace rally in the US state of Alabama. The shooting happened at around 8 pm on Sunday, around an hour after the "Stop the Violence Gate City Peace Day" peace rally ended at Gate City in Birmingham, police said.

Police said up to 60 shots were fired at the scene but the injured were expected to survive their gunshot wounds. Officers said they believe one person started the shooting and then the others joined in. According to Birmingham police spokesman Sergeant Bryan Shelton, all of the victims were innocent bystanders.

"The events of tonight are disheartening and troubling," Shelton said. "More lives could have been lost tonight due to reckless actions. We are working with our community to bring all responsible parties to justice."

World turns a blind eye to besieged cities as Syrians die of hunger 'while everyone is worried about Aleppo'

Sputnik
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:09 UTC

The residents of the Syrian cities of Kafriya and Fu'ah in Idlib province are dying of hunger and lack of medication. About 20,000 people are completely surrounded by the terrorists. RIA correspondent Mikhail Alaeddin met with the representative of the people's council of the besieged cities.

The representative of the people's council of the besieged cities is hereby called Amir [not his real name]. The correspondent met with Amir in the city of Aleppo in one of the small cafes.

Amir is the representative of the residents of the Shiite cities in question and was able to leave his home when it was still possible to escape before the blockade.

Comment: One can only hope the latest ceasefire will bring some relief to these cities.

Vienna swimming pool asks women wearing burkinis to leave, citing "hygiene and safety reasons"

RT
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:20 UTC

A swimming pool in Austria's capital has stirred controversy by denying two Muslim women entrance because they were wearing burkinis, but the management says they were barred from swimming for hygiene and safety reasons, and not because they are Muslims.

One of the banned women, a 23-year-old student, said she was particularly annoyed because she had called the Stadthallenbad indoor swimming pool in advance and been told that she could wear a burkini, the full-body swimwear worn by some Muslim women adhering to ultra-conservative interpretations of Islam.

However, when she and her friend arrived at the pool in burkinis last Friday, they were told to leave, the Central European News reported.

"They said that we could not swim in the pool for hygiene reasons," she said.

The pool management says the problem was not the burkinis themselves, but rather that one of them was made of cotton.

Protesters rally behind Rousseff in 40 cities, demand resignation of the usurper Temer

PressTV
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:09 UTC

Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Brazil to condemn the ouster of former president Dilma Rousseff and demand the resignation of her successor, Michell Temer. Hundreds of protesters rallied in Rousseff's hometown of Porto Alegre on Sunday, holing banners and chanting "Temer out." Police blocked the street of the town and attempted to disperse the protesters.

A similar demonstration was held in Sau Paulo by thousands of people who gathered outside the city's Art Museum. They held numerous anti-Temer placards and banners and called for new elections. Rallies were held at around 40 other cities across the country on Sunday. In addition to condemning Rousseff's impeachment, the protesters denounced labor, pension and social security reforms taken by the new government.

'Allah Akbar'-shouting, machete-wielding man goes on rampage in Sydney suburb; one man injured

news.com.au
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:06 UTC

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Alleged terror suspect Ihsas Khan (front right) is seen brandishing a large knife in the Sydney suburb of Minto.

Horrifying footage has emerged of knife-wielding terror suspect Ihsas Khan going on an alleged rampage in a western Sydney suburb, which left one man critical and countless witnesses traumatised.

The CCTV images, shot from inside and outside a Minto hair salon, allegedly show Khan hunting down victim Wayne Greenhalgh and will be shown on A Current Affair tonight.

The chilling footage appears to show the 22-year-old attempting to force his way into the salon while clutching a very large knife.

He is seen wrestling with the door handle while holding the weapon up against the glass.

In other footage, a woman and a man armed with what appears to be a large tree branch, bravely confront Khan on the front lawn of a house as he lunges at them with the knife.

Prolonging the misery they created: UK government 'making it impossible' for Syrian refugees to reunite with families

Sputnik
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:49 UTC

Thousands of Syrian refugees are making the perilous journey to the EU, fleeing war, abuse and death. They are hoping to forge a new life in the UK. However what they find when they arrive is far from a safe haven.

The UK government is preventing Syrian refugees from being reunited with their families and as a result, some are having to return to war-torn Syria, risking their lives just to be with their loved ones. Bashar Al-Kawaret, a 32-year-old former pharmacist from Syria, had a good job, life and loving family. He studied for 12 years and worked hard, but lost it all in one day when the first massacre took place in Damascus in 2011.

"I was at the hospital when it happened. After this, the part of Damascus that we lived in was under siege," Bashar told Sputnik.

Bashar was called for military service and decided this was the time he had to escape war-torn Syria or his and the life of his family would be in severe danger. He fled the country on November 23 in 2011, traveling to Egypt, where he stayed for three months. Then he went to Turkey and traveled by land to Greece. Once in Athens he went to Calais and then he hid himself in a lorry, arriving in the UK.

Comment: The British government who has played a pivotal role in igniting the conflicts in the Middle East now continues to show its contempt for the plight of these people who they see as expendable in its geopolitical games. If the UK government prefers for the refugees to return home, they might consider assisting the real anti-Daesh coalition that is actually committed to defeating terrorism in Syria.

Human Rights Watch report: Filthy and degrading conditions in child refugee centers in Greece

Nika Knight
Common Dreams
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:37 UTC

© Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press
Refugees at the Moria detention center on the Greek island of Lesbos in April 2016.

A scathing report from Human Rights Watch reveals the degrading and inhumane conditions under which hundreds of refugee children in Greece are being forced to sleep in dirty, vermin-infested police station cells, detention centers, and coast guard facilities for months at a time—in violation of Greek and international law.

"The Greek government justifies the detention of unaccompanied children as a temporary protection measure in the child's best interest," the report notes. "In practice it is anything but."

Hundreds of thousands of migrants have arrived in Greece so far this year as a wave of asylum seekers attempts to enter Europe through the coastal nation, as the report, titled "'Why Are You Keeping Me Here?' Unaccompanied Children Detained in Greece," observes.

Thousands of unaccompanied refugee children have also endured horrific sea crossings, the threat of trafficking, and other abuses to reach Greece, only to then face the country's chronic shortage of facilities and lack of a protection system for minors, Human Rights Watch found. The situation was made even worse when other European nations closed their borders to refugees.

Comment: More on the plight of refugees:

Terror on easyJet flight as migrant being deported to Venice screams in two-hour frenzy

Simon Murphy, Martin Beckford and Adrian Hearn
Daily Mail
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 15:31 UTC

Holidaymakers were forced to endure a terrifying two-hour flight alongside a migrant who repeatedly screamed 'Allahu Akbar' and 'death is coming' - as it emerged the Home Office is using budget airlines to deport illegal immigrants.

Children were reduced to tears and travelers feared a terror attack until it became clear that the handcuffed man was being guarded by Home Office officials.

But there was no official explanation from the captain or crew as he kicked, thrashed about and threatened passengers and crew in an expletive-strewn tirade.

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Society's Child

UK government to open 'safe houses' in London for child victims of sexual assault

Tent cities are booming all over the U.S. as poverty, homelessness spikes

'Stop the Violence Peace Day' rally in Alabama ends with six people shot, one dead

World turns a blind eye to besieged cities as Syrians die of hunger 'while everyone is worried about Aleppo'

Vienna swimming pool asks women wearing burkinis to leave, citing "hygiene and safety reasons"

Protesters rally behind Rousseff in 40 cities, demand resignation of the usurper Temer

'Allah Akbar'-shouting, machete-wielding man goes on rampage in Sydney suburb; one man injured

Prolonging the misery they created: UK government 'making it impossible' for Syrian refugees to reunite with families

Human Rights Watch report: Filthy and degrading conditions in child refugee centers in Greece

Terror on easyJet flight as migrant being deported to Venice screams in two-hour frenzy

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