Thousands of Palestinians furious over the killing of a local teenager swarmed the streets of East Jerusalem on Friday to demand a new intifada. The fierce clashes with police that followed the teen's funeral stirred fears that a mass uprising could already be underway.
The protesters waved Palestinian flags and chanted, "Enough of the suffering, enough of the pain," capping a week that has overflowed with both for Israelis as well as Palestinians.
On Monday, soldiers discovered the bodies of three Israeli teens who had been missing for more than two weeks. Then, on Wednesday, the badly burned remains of 16-year-old Mohammad Abu Khieder were found in a forest. Although no definitive link has been established between the cases, there was no doubt in the Palestinian neighborhood of Shuafat on Friday that Khieder's killing was carried out by Jewish extremists and that it was intended as revenge.
Society's Child
© Issam Rimawi/Flash90
Soldiers have been preventing Palestinian access to the archaelogical site
Soldiers have been preventing Palestinian access to the archaelogical site
Famous for its historic sites, production of dates and its modern city structures surrounded by ancient ruins, it has long been the favorite destination of Palestinians.
Jericho lies adjacent to the Dead Sea; however, the Israelis have imposed heavy restrictions on the area and allow very few Palestinians to visit.
The tiny part of the Dead Sea, which is allowed for Palestinians, is not suitable to walk along or swim inside the sea; it is a waste land of the lowest sea on earth.
Part 1
Maybe we've been conned. There's a growing recognition that Barack Obama is an incompetent poser, working out of his depth, and his administration is the gang that can't shoot straight. There's a lot of evidence to support that belief.
Everything he touches becomes a bloody mess, like crushed bones and bits of flesh caught in the tracks of a tank slicing through a rank of soldiers (or civilians). Iraq, Syria, Egypt - all gone, as prospects for countries with a prosperous and democratic future. The "reset" with Russia, meant to ensure that America and the replacement republic of the old Soviet Union can be friends, is a reset, sure enough. The new Russia looks more like a reset to the Cold War, more adversary than friend, transformed by a feckless American president and an ambitious Russian leader eager to take advantage of weak and incompetent American leadership.
© Unknown
The Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project (SWPA-EHP) has been conducting a "pretty aggressive" indoor air monitoring project since 2011 in the midst of Pennsylvania's gas drilling boom, particularly near unconventional wells that employed hydraulic fracturing, project director Reina Ripple said in a webinar hosted by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The project has documented sudden increases in particulate matter within homes, she said.
"These are really significant spikes in particulate matter, and a lot of the time they do happen at night," Ripple said.
The spikes may last three to four hours, and they cannot be explained by typical household activities like cooking, Ripple said.
The spikes occur at night, she believes, because of stable atmospheric conditions that hold particulate matter low to the ground instead of dispersing it.
"The air masses at night tend to be pretty stable, so you've got a lot of people who are living not even downwind from these sites necessarily, but downslope."
Jeremy Scott "Silo" Walters was charged with computer trespass and cyberstalking for harassing the woman, who paid him $60 in June 2011 to transfer files from an old computer - including several nude photographs - to a new one.
Authorities said in a court document that the suspect "advertises himself on the Internet as a web designer, photographer, graphic designer, podcaster, artist and an 'a*shole.'"
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that the 10-minute procedure was the last interaction between the two until December 2013, when she received a phone call from a blocked number threatening to publish the photos online if she did not "play along."
The lead detective in the case against Justin Ross Harris, 33, of Marietta said Harris had exchanged sexually explicit text messages with women other than his wife in the weeks before the child's death.
He also had done Internet research on living child-free, how to survive in prison and child deaths in hot cars because he feared it could happen, Cobb County Detective Phil Stoddard testified at Harris' probable cause hearing.
A judge will decide if there is sufficient evidence against Harris on charges of felony murder and child cruelty stemming from his son's June 18 death and whether he should be released on bail pending a trial.
© AFP Photo / Kirill Kudryavtsev
Algeria's national team
Algeria's national team
"They need it more than us," 26-year old Islam Slimani, whose club is Sporting Lisbon.
© stevengoddard.wordpress.com
Wednesday, July 2, 2014California grants wind industry permit to kill eagles, ruffling more than feathers - Washington Times
By sacrificing a few bald eagles, the Obama administration may have opened a can of worms.
In a bid to give alternative energy sources a boost, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has quietly granted a California wind energy farm a permit to kill a limited number of endangered bald and golden eagles that get sliced up in its giant turbines. But last week's free pass is sparking anger from wildlife advocates and from free market advocates who ask why they don't qualify for the same dispensation.
Kumamoto, Japan, where a woman died during an exorcism.
Reports said Rie Fukuda, aged 51, was pinned down and made to swallow a large volume of water in what detectives said was an "exorcism" carried out by her husband and two elderly women.
Kosai Fukuda, 52, an associate professor at a university in the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto, was arrested alongside Eiko Noda, 81, and Keiko Kitayama, 77, police told AFP Friday.
Noda has been performing exorcisms for money for about three decades, Nippon Television reported, citing unnamed sources in the local police.
Noda and Fukuda told police that the dead woman "had been receiving exorcism for several years".
No details were given on the religion of those allegedly involved.
Comment: It's gotta be said: If your exorcist has been working on you for three years, it's time to find a better 'exorcist'!
"This way please ma'am"... Jane Palmer of Monkton, Vermont, was arrested for knitting at the Vermont Gas Systems headquarters in South Burlington on Wednesday. She and four other women were knitting in protest of a planned pipeline to continue fracking the life out of Vermont.
One woman was bound off by police, taken away in what Vermont Public Radio says were five squad cars that responded to perhaps the most civil of all disobediences.
The knitters insisted on speaking to Vermont Gas officials about their complaints over a pipeline expansion. They were told they needed an appointment; after the utility's headquarters closed, they were warned that they were trespassing.
Jane Palmer, a diminutive woman in a floral-print dress and a straw hat, was arrested about 30 minutes after the offices closed.
"Palmer was knitting what appeared to be a turquoise scarf, and had knitted about 8 inches of it before Vermont Gas closed at 5 p.m.," VPR's Taylor Dobbs reports.
Comment: To believe NATO's chief, these women are Kremlin agents:
Paranoid androids: NATO chief Rasmussen sez 'Russians secretly working with environmentalists to make fracking seem bad'
Comment: This current immigrant surge will not be the cause of America's decline into Third World status. Wherever psychopaths rule there will eventually be ponerization, degradation and finally collapse. This is just another event in the circus that is America's ongoing destruction.