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Blaming the victim: School joins in bullying 9-year old over "My Little Pony" lunch bag

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© WLOS-TVNoreen Bruce sits next to her son Grayson.
Grayson Bruce, 9, needed a new lunch box.

So he picked a sack with a "My Little Pony" theme - Rainbow Dash.

"I had no idea the fire storm it would start," Grayson's mother Noreen Bruce wrote on Facebook.

Turns out that Grayson's a fan of the cartoon and its characters - and for that he's been bullied at at his North Carolina school where his classmates say "My Little Pony" is for girls.

"They're taking it a little too far...punching me, pushing me down, calling me horrible names, stuff that really shouldn't happen," Grayson told WLOS-TV in Asheville, acknowledging that "most of the characters in the show are girls, and most of the people put it toward girls, most of the toys are girlie."

When the bullying came to a head and Noreen Bruce got involved, she said school officials blamed Grayson's open appreciation for "My Little Pony" rather than punishing the bullies.

Colosseum

Referendum may see Venice elect to secede from Italy

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Voting began Sunday on a referendum on whether Venice and its surrounding region should secede from the rest of Italy, in an attempt to restore its 1,000-year history as a sovereign republic.

La Serenissima - or the Most Serene Republic of Venice - was an independent trading power for a millennium before its last leader was deposed by Napoleon in 1797. The republic encompassed not just Venice but what is now the surrounding region of Veneto and it is there that the vote will take place from Sunday until Friday.

Campaigners have been inspired by the example of Scotland, which will hold its referendum on independence in September, and Catalonia, where around half the population say they want to break away from Spain.

Activists say that the latest polling shows that 65% of voters in the Veneto region, which includes historic cities such as Treviso, Vicenza and Verona, are in favour of cutting ties with Rome.

Cupcake Pink

Happy Mondays' Bez to stand for UK parliament on anti-NWO ticket

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Happy Mondays star Bez has reportedly announced plans to stand for parliament at next year's general election.

The wacky dancer said he hopes to become MP in his home town of Salford, and plans to run on a platform of redistributing wealth, tackling cancer and dementia, and an end to all war.

The 49 year-old, best known for shaking the maracas with the 1980s band, told the Manchester Evening News he plans to "stir things up" in his bid to succeed former Labour cabinet minister Hazel Blears.

He told the paper: "I've been saying we need a revolution, and there's no good shouting about it when you're not actually doing anything.

"If you want to do something about things you've got to get into the corridors of power and take them on."

The 2005 Celebrity Big Brother winner accused the political establishment of operating a policy of "divide and rule" and vowed to create a "new world order".

Vader

And so it begins: Psycho Ukrainian MP beats media chief, forces him to resign


The Violence starts around 4:40

Rights and media professionals groups condemned an attack by Ukrainian MPs on the acting head of national TV. The attackers leader justified the action by "circumstances of war" while the General Prosecutor's office pledged to conduct an impartial probe.

On Tuesday, several members of the Ukrainian parliament from the nationalist Svoboda party, headed by MP Igor Miroshnichenko, came with a group of supporters to the office of acting head of Ukrainian national television, Aleksandr Panteleymonov. The assailants insulted and bullied the journalist, eventually forcing him to sign his resignation.

The nationalist lawmakers' ire was caused by the TV station reporting on a ceremony in Moscow, where the leadership of Russia and Crimea signed a treaty on the former Ukrainian region's joining the Russian Federation. Miroshnichenko cited his membership in the parliamentary Committee on freedom of speech as justification for the attack.

Comment: What else would you expect from a psychopath? Some people are saying: "Why did they film it? It must be fake." But you need to remember how the psychopathic mind works, and how propaganda works. Like a serial killer collecting trophies of his victims, the psychopath likes to have proof of his tortures, his murders, his scams. Ultimately he wants people to know how clever, strong, brutal he or she is. It's like Nazi Concentration camp guards, taking pictures of and with their victims. As difficult as it is for most normal people to believe, they are as proud of their violence and abuse as you are of your child's finger painting.

Remember Svoboda Party in the Ukraine are Nationalist Socialist, they are essentially Nazis. There are a plethora of images showing them doing the Nazi Salute, a plethora of anti-Semitic writings. These guys are truly malevolent.


Chart Pie

From terrorism to sex attacks to shoplifting, Twitter crimes soar by 390 percent

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Crimes linked to Twitter have soared fourfold in the past three years, new figures reveal.

Offences ranging from terrorism to sex attacks to shoplifting, and with some connection to social media, have been investigated by police.

Cases where Twitter has played a part have surged by 390 per cent from 174 in 2011 to 852 in 2013.

Reports of crimes involving Facebook increased by a quarter in the same period to 12,803 last year.

Some experts think more should be done to tackle the growing issue of crime online but privacy campaigners fear police are spending too much time snooping.

Nick Pickles, from Big Brother Watch, said: 'Police forces have been prone to heavy-handed reactions simply because something has been posted on Twitter or Facebook when, if it happened in the street, it would be ignored. This risks seriously chilling freedom of speech.'

Arrow Up

Soaring cigarette taxes have led to boom in illegal smuggling

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More than half of the cigarettes sold in New York State are smuggled in from other places to avoid the Empire State's taxes on smokes, which have soared nearly 200 percent since 2006, according to a report issued by the conservative Tax Foundation.

New York is the highest net importer of smuggled cigarettes -- illegal smokes account for 56.9 percent of the state's total market. New York's cigarettes tax is $4.35 per pack, the country's highest. The situation there isn't unique. The Tax Foundation also cites a study that found that 58.7 percent of discarded cigarettes found in five Northeastern cities lacked proper tax stamps.

Taxes on cigarettes, which are designed to discourage smoking, vary widely. States such as Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia have levies of less than a $1 per pack. These wide differences make smuggling "both a national problem and a lucrative criminal enterprise," according to the Tax Foundation.

Antismoking activists have long argued that fewer people will buy cigarettes if they're expensive. Chicago recently raised its cigarette taxes for that reason. Combined with state and local levies, the total is now $7.17 a pack.

Radar

Australia says suspected plane debris may have sunk

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© REUTERS/AUSTRALIAN MARITIME SAFETY AUTHORITYSatellite imagery provided to Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) of objects that may be possible debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in a revised area 185 km (115 miles) to the south east of the original search area in this picture released by AMSA March 20, 2014
Two weeks after a Malaysia Airlines airliner went missing with 239 people on board, officials are bracing for the "long haul" as searches by more than two dozen countries turn up little but frustration and fresh questions.

The international team hunting Flight MH370 in the remote southern Indian Ocean yielded no results on Friday, and Australia's deputy prime minister said suspected debris there may have sunk.

Aircraft and ships have renewed the search in the Andaman Sea between India and Thailand, going over areas that have already been exhaustively swept to find some clue to unlock one of the biggest mysteries in modern aviation.

Malaysian officials have been realistic about their ability to lead the operation with a global dynamic that some have said is beyond the country's technical capabilities and expertise.

Health

Top ten actual medical conspiracies

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By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
The mainstream media is focused this week on trying to convince you that "medical conspiracy theories" are whacky and untrue. Published by Reuters, USA Today and other mainstream media outlets, a false story based on distorted research is now trying to convince you that there is no such thing as a "medical conspiracy." No, drug companies never conducted experiments on children, killing many in the process. No, the NIH never took part in criminal medical experiments on prisoners. No, the U.S. government never lied to you, or covered up natural cures, or conspired with Big Pharma. GMOs were created by people who LOVE the ecosystem, too!

That's the nonsense we're all supposed to believe, according to the mainstream media.

By invoking the phrase "conspiracy theories," junk science authors and corporate-sellout journalists try to marginalize the true history of Big Pharma felony crimes, medical experiments on children, factual government collusion with industry and the incredible harm which has been perpetrated on the American people by the medical industrial complex.

In fact, the mainstream media's coverage of all this is truly Orwellian, as if the Ministry of Truth is trying to rewrite U.S. history to eliminate all the parts where drug companies, the NIH and the U.S. government quite literally murdered prisoners, blacks, babies and soldiers in the name of "scientific medicine."

Bad Guys

Married Georgia teacher charged with sexual assault after having sex with students on school grounds

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A married Georgia high school teacher had a threesome with two students in a classroom, then met up with one of the students at a Waffle House for another sexual tryst, prosecutors say.

Lori Quigley, 41, faces several sexual assault charges in the case - and authorities fear there may be other victims.

"We think there's more out there," Major Danny Lowe of the McIntosh County Sheriff's Office told WAWS-TV. "The charges are serious, all three felonies."

Quigley resigned from her position as math teacher at McIntosh County Academy earlier this month and was then arrested at her Brunswick home last week.

Quigley first seduced her students during sex sessions in a classroom in September and October 2012, according to the news station.

Ambulance

Teen hospitalized with kidney failure after 16-hour caffeine, video game binge

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14-year-old Henrik Eide Dahl consumed 8 liters - about 270 ounces - of an energy drink so he could stay awake playing Call of Duty. Expected to make a full recovery, the teen says he now knows 'it is not good to drink that much energy drink.'

A Norwegian teen was hospitalized with severe kidney failure after a 16-hour, caffeine-fueled Call of Duty video game binge.

Henrik Eide Dahl, 14, reportedly collapsed in his high school's cafeteria last month at the end of the marathon session.

He'd consumed an astonishing 8 liters of powerful energy drinks to keep himself going.