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Dutch duo expose prejudices by reading 'Koran verses' from Bible

RT
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:48 UTC

A Dutch duo came up with an interesting way to judge people's prejudices in the Netherlands. They read passages from the Holy Bible which had been disguised as the Holy Koran to gauge people's reactions, and found some interesting conclusions.

Call them pranksters, call them sociologists, but Alexander Spoor and Sacha Harland certainly knew how to provoke discussion by conducting what they called "The Holy Koran Experiment" on their YouTube channel Dit is Normaal (This is Normal).

"If two men sleep with each other they will both have to be killed," from Leviticus 20:13 was read aloud to some startled passers-by who thought they were hearing verses from the Holy Koran, while in fact it was actually from the Holy Bible.

Officer shot at Capital Visitor Center; White House briefly put on lockdown

Erica Werner
Associated Press
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:30 UTC

© AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File
In this Oct. 7, 2013 file photo, the strairs leading to the Capitol Visitors Center on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. Capitol Police are telling staff in the Capitol complex to shelter in place after a report of gunshots being fired in the Capitol Visitors Center.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer was shot Monday at the Capitol Visitor Center complex, and the shooter was taken into custody, Capitol officials and police said.

The event unfolded with Congress on recess and lawmakers back in their districts. The White House was briefly put on lockdown, but that was soon lifted.

The shooting occurred in the Visitors Center of the sprawling Capitol Complex. Staffers, reporters and others were told to "shelter in place" and not allowed to leave their offices. The police officer who was shot was not believed to be seriously injured.

Terrorism fear-mongering insures military spending dwarfs that spent on the things more likely to kill you

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC

The 2016 presidential election, in keeping with the American tradition of a two-party dictatorship, is looking to be a choice between a modern-day fascist and a thoroughly corrupt, lying war monger. As mainstream media cheers on the failure of democracy, the candidates go on telling us how they will spend the money that is taken from us through a convoluted system of taxation rigged to benefit the corporatocracy.

This warped system of revenue collection is complemented by an equally warped system of spending. The practice of lawmakers bringing home pork was highlighted by the infamous "bridge to nowhere," but in terms of how government spends money on saving lives, we find its priorities in a truly backward state.

A statistical analysis found that more than $500 million spent per victim on anti-terrorism efforts, while about $10,000 is spent per victim on cancer research. Indeed, there is a long list of things that kill people at a rate far higher than terrorism—and could benefit from more resources for study and prevention—but get far less funding from lawmakers.

Heart disease, cancer and stroke top the list of killers, taking about 1,356,000 lives every year. In the 21^st century, about 3,000 Americans lost their lives to terrorism, averaging out to 200 fatalities per year.

Police mentor sentenced to 9 years for raping his high school intern

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:13 UTC

In 2011, Diana Guerrero, 17 at the time, was an aspiring young woman with hopes of becoming a police officer. Guerrero became a member of the Las Cruces police department's high school intern program to pursue her dreams of law enforcement — when that dream turned into a nightmare.

Guerrero, who bravely came public after the incident, just settled a federal lawsuit for $3 million this week after her mentor officer in the high school intern program raped her.

"It had never occurred to me that a person who had earned a badge would do this," she said.

During a ride along with Las Cruces police detective Michael Garcia, who was ironically "assigned to a unit that focused on child abuse and sex crimes investigations" at the time, the pair headed out to a crime scene. However, instead of going to the crime scene, Garcia took the young girl to a secluded location and forced himself on her.

Comment: One can only hope that karma is real.

Karma? Cop who filmed himself raping women and children found dead in his cell

Danger to humanity and pigs: Petition to ban Cameron from re-entering UK receives over 23k signatures

RT
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:39 UTC

More than 23,000 people have signed a petition to stop British Prime Minister David Cameron from re-entering the UK after his Easter holiday in Lanzarote, claiming he presents a "clear and present danger" to the country.

"David Cameron presents a clear and present danger to the short, medium and long term interests of the country. As such, the UK should institute a temporary ban on his return to Britain at the conclusion of his holiday in Lanzarote," says the petition, which is addressed to Home Secretary Theresa May.

At the time of publishing, the petition had received 23,067 signatures.

Many of the petition's signatories commented beneath the document, with supporter Michael Thorpe writing that "David Cameron is a bigger threat to the people of the United Kingdom than any terrorist organisation."

Another supporter, Lydia Paris, wrote that Cameron is a "danger to humanity, and pigs," referring to #PigGate allegations that Cameron stuck his private parts in a dead pig's mouth when he was a student at Oxford University.

Flydubai recorder data: Argument and panic in the cockpit prior to fatal nosedive

RT
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:33 UTC

The Flydubai FZ981 crash in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, could have followed the pilots' failure to manage the landing after taking control of the system, media reveal citing flight data. The final minutes are said to have been full of arguments and screams of terror.

Now that decoding of the flight data recorders of the crashed Boeing is complete, an unnamed source told Russian daily Kommersant that pilot error is now dominating the investigation as the probable cause. It appears that while trying to gain altitude after an unsuccessful landing attempt in bad weather, one of the pilots pulled the control stick up too much, causing a stall break and an uncontrollable nosedive.

The Interstate Aviation Committee believes that the official results of the decoding will be made public within a week or two. Meanwhile, according to Kommersant's sources, the recorder revealed that flight FZ981 had made two attempts to land in automatic mode, and since a veering squall wind hampered the second attempt, the pilot decided to make a third approach for landing in manual mode. One of the pilots pressed the TOGA (Take off. Go around) button and turned off the autopilot, writes the daily.

Anonymous experts Kommersant talked to believe the pilot did not manage the diving rudder and horizontal stabilizer, which steer the plane in opposite directions - down and up, respectively. When the pilot pulled up, he put both the rudder and stabilizer in a sharp climb mode, somewhat fighter-jet style, plus enacted the TOGA regime's retracted flaps, decreasing ascending force. As a result, the aircraft lost speed and got into the beyond-stall angle of approach. All this led to an uncontrollable dive, the experts believe.

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'Like Locusts' - Connecticut parents trample children, Black Friday-style, for Easter eggs

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 02:00 UTC

Agoraphobia in modern day America could be considered more of a natural reaction than it is a disorder as a recent egg hunt in Connecticut illustrates.

For the third year in a row, the Pez candy visitor's center in Orange hosted its Easter Egg Hunt. The event was structured in a way to allow children, grouped into three different age groups, to pick up 9,000 eggs scattered about the area. There were more than enough eggs for everyone.

Instead of allowing the 4-year-olds to go first, however, parents, apparently so infatuated with the idea of crappy free candy, bum-rushed the fields, greedily taking the eggs for themselves — children and Easter be damned.

"Unfortunately, people chose to enter the first field prior to anyone from Pez staff starting the activity. The crowd moved to the second field, waited for only a couple of minutes and proceeded to rush the field without being directed to do so and before the posted start time," Pez officials said in a statement on Saturday.

Pez officials described the chaos, saying, parents "immediately moved to the third field, took over and removed everything well before the activity was to even start."

"So we started talking to people and say 'hey this is supposed to start at certain time'," Pez General Manager Shawn Peterson said. "Well that lasted about a minute, and everyone just rushed the field and took everything."

West Haven resident Nicole Welch told Eyewitness News that children were trampled, parents knocked over children and eggs were stolen out of peoples' baskets. Peterson said the crowd was "kind of like locusts."

Parisian protests over labour reforms turn violent in response to police brutality

The Local
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:46 UTC

School pupils, angered by an officer's beating of a fellow student, on Friday staged violent protests in Paris, pelting at least two police stations with rocks and setting off tear gas canisters.

The outrage stems from a day earlier when a policeman was caught on video punching a 15-year-old boy on the sidelines of a student demonstration against the government's proposed labour reforms.

In the video, the boy is seen lying on the ground when an officer shouts at him to get up. Two policemen then hold him up, while a third suddenly punches him in the stomach.

"We were protesting, throwing eggs. A policeman ... charged at me, hit me to the ground then he told me 'get up, get up' and he punched me ... my head was spinning," the shocked boy told local media afterward.

Karma? Cop who filmed himself raping women and children found dead in his cell

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:00 UTC

Former Gasconade County sheriff's deputy Marty Rainey

On Saturday morning, Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff's Major Jason Schott announced Marty L. Rainey, a former Gasconade County law enforcement officer facing state and federal charges involving a series of assaults on women and children, was found dead in his cell.

The sheriff's office is remaining tight-lipped on the details for now, only saying that "At this point, it appears to be a suicide, but the investigation is ongoing."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports:

Asked if Rainey had been on suicide watch, Schott declined to answer, citing the ongoing investigation and saying he would not answer any specific questions. He said that video from jail cameras was being downloaded and staff was being interviewed.

For years, this predator used his badge and gun to inflict his sick desires on countless victims.

At least 50 dead after bomb attack in Lahore park, Taliban claimed responsibility

Dawn
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 16:02 UTC

At least 50 people have been killed in a suicide attack in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park of Iqbal Town on Sunday evening. Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Salman Rafique confirmed the death toll. Edhi sources add that over 200 are injured.

Iqbal Town Superintendent Police Dr Muhammad Iqbal confirmed this was a suicide attack and took place at a children's park, where a large number of families, especially women and children, were present.

DIG Operations Captain (Retd) Muhammad Usman said the head of the suicide bomber has been recovered. Ball bearings have also been found at the site.

Comment:

Taliban has claimed responsibility

A Pakistan Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack.

"We claim responsibility for the attack on Christians as they were celebrating Easter," spokesperson for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jamaat ul Ahrar, Ehansullah Ehsan told The Express Tribune over telephone.

"It was part of the annual martyrdom attacks we have started this year," Ehsan said, adding the operation codenamed "Saut-ul-Raad" will continue this year.

"We had been waiting for this occasion," the TTP JA spokesperson said. "We want to convey to the ruling PML-N and the prime minister that we we have arrived in Punjab and we will reach you".

At least 69 people were killed and over 300 others injured in a deadly suicide explosion near the city's Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park on Sunday, rescue and security officials said.

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

it's all a lie ! :O

cracker

Society's Child

Dutch duo expose prejudices by reading 'Koran verses' from Bible

Officer shot at Capital Visitor Center; White House briefly put on lockdown

Terrorism fear-mongering insures military spending dwarfs that spent on the things more likely to kill you

Police mentor sentenced to 9 years for raping his high school intern

Danger to humanity and pigs: Petition to ban Cameron from re-entering UK receives over 23k signatures

Flydubai recorder data: Argument and panic in the cockpit prior to fatal nosedive

'Like Locusts' - Connecticut parents trample children, Black Friday-style, for Easter eggs

Parisian protests over labour reforms turn violent in response to police brutality

Karma? Cop who filmed himself raping women and children found dead in his cell

At least 50 dead after bomb attack in Lahore park, Taliban claimed responsibility

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