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Couch potatoes rise up! Pope Francis tells youth get rid of gadgets and sofa-happiness


RT
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 13:19 UTC
Pope Francis
© Stefano Rellandini / ReutersPope Francis walks through Holy Door with youth at the Campus Misericordiae during World Youth Day in Brzegi near Krakow, Poland July 30, 2016.
Stop being couch potatoes; throw away your gadgets, which make you drowsy and dull and go out to explore the world, Pope Francis told crowds of young people in Krakow. The pontiff certainly knows about living an active life as pictures on social media show.

"...In life there is another, even more dangerous, kind of paralysis...[It] comes from confusing happiness with a sofa. 'Sofa-happiness!' A sofa that promises us hours of comfort so we can escape to the world of videogames and spend all kinds of time in front of a computer screen," Pope Francis told the crowds on Saturday.

"And little by little" computers and other gadgets only help children to "grow drowsy and dull," said the 79-year-old head of the Catholic Church.

"Dear young people, we didn't come into this work to 'vegetate,' to take it easy, to make our lives a comfortable sofa to fall asleep on. No, we came for another reason: to leave a mark."
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People

Germany divided: One rally in Berlin slams open-door refugee policy while another embraces it


RT
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 13:06 UTC
Berlin protests
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A large demonstration against German Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policies has been held in the German capital of Berlin, with protesters shouting "Merkel must go!" A counter-rally has also been staged in the city.

Hundreds of people gathered for a right-wing rally at Berlin's central railway station demanding that Angela Merkel step down. The crowd was waving German national flags, as well as the flags of the German empire and those of the German anti-Nazi resistance movement from World War II.

The protesters were shouting "We are the people!" and "Merkel must go!" Some were also holding up placards and banners reading "Merkel must go" and "The queen of smugglers. Merkel must leave."
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Pistol

Indianapolis police officer shot by fellow 'hero' cop

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 12:53 UTC
Adrian Scott Aurs
An 18-year veteran of the Indianapolis police department, with a less than stellar past, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder for shooting a fellow cop.

IMPD officer Adrian Aurs shot a fellow cop on Friday and then fled to Cincinnati, where he was arrested after a standoff with SWAT.

The incident began around 8 p.m. Friday when officers responded to a call from Aurs' estranged wife about domestic violence, according to Sgt. Kendale Admas of the IMPD.

After the initial visit from officers, a special investigations unit detective was sent to do follow-up work at the scene because it involved the wife of a police officer, according to the report.

The SIU is tasked with investigating criminal complaints or allegations involved police officers.
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Pistol

Germany sees record permit requests for self-defense weapons amid fears of lone-wolf attacks


RT
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 12:17 UTC
Glock handgun
© Tami Chappell / Reuters
Requests in Germany for self-defense weapons permits are hitting record highs in 2016, police data reveals. Firearms ownership experts say people wanting to purchase non-lethal weapons come from all sections of society, "be it workers or professors."

The new police data shows that Germans are feeling increasingly unsafe in the wake of recent lone-wolf attacks and shootings, which has sparked a demand for non-lethal self-defense weapons.

"As of June 2016, there were 402,301 small arms carry permits in the National Weapons Register," the Interior Ministry said, as cited by Die Welt.

This figure is almost 50 percent higher than last year when there were just fewer than 270,000 requests for permits in the first half of 2015.
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House

Goodbye middle class: Rate of home ownership in U.S. is the lowest ever

Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse Blog
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 03:12 UTC
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The percentage of Americans that own a home has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded. During the second quarter of 2016, the non-seasonally adjusted homeownership rate fell to just 62.9 percent, which was exactly where it was at when the U.S. Census began publishing this measurement back in 1965. This is not what a "recovery" looks like. All throughout the Obama years, the percentage of Americans that own a home has gotten smaller and smaller and smaller. The reason for this, of course, is that the middle class in America is dying. Last year, we learned that middle class Americans now make up a minority of the population for the first time ever. In order to have a high rate of homeownership, you need a thriving middle class, and you can't have a thriving middle class without good paying middle class jobs. This is why I write about the evisceration of the middle class so extensively, because the U.S. economy is systematically being hollowed out and most Americans don't understand what is happening.

Traditionally, owning a home has been a sign that you have arrived as a member of the middle class, but under Barack Obama the percentage of Americans that own a home has fallen every single year. In the past, we have talked about how it had fallen to the lowest level in decades, but now it has officially fallen to the lowest level ever. The following comes from CNBC...
After rising just over a decade ago to its highest level ever, the nation's homeownership rate fell to match its all-time low and could drop even further in the months to come.

In the second quarter of this year, the rate fell to 62.9 percent, not seasonally adjusted, which is the same as it was in 1965, when the U.S. Census started tracking the metric. During the epic housing boom in the mid-2000s, the rate soared as high as 69.2 percent. That was when politicians touted the so-called "ownership society."
So why is this happening?

Comment: With a little bit of sacrifice each day, it is possible to create a supply pantry to carry one through leaner times.

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Handcuffs

Best of the Web: BC Supreme Court Justice slams RCMP: "The world has enough terrorists, we do not need the police to create more" - Entrapped couple's terrorism conviction overturned

Ian Mulgrew
Vancouver Sun
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:49 UTC
Couple reunited
© Darryl Dyck/The Canadian PressJohn Nuttall, back, and Amanda Korody embrace each other at B.C. Supreme Court after a judge ruled the couple were entrapped by the RCMP in a police-manufactured crime, in Vancouver on Friday, July 29, 2016.
Former Surrey residents John Nuttall and Amanda Korody embraced in the lobby of B.C. Supreme Court on Friday, passionately kissing, free after 37 months imprisonment, their terrorism convictions overturned.

"We're just happy," Nuttall said to reporters before leaving in a cab.

But within hours, after "a nice lunch on The Drive," four Vancouver police cruisers screeched to a halt and the couple was taken away in handcuffs.

Late in the afternoon, they went before B.C. provincial court Judge Reg Harris and agreed to peace bond terms that included geographic restrictions banning them from the legislature grounds, Canadian Forces Bases, synagogues and Jewish schools.

They were then released again.

Comment: This is huge news. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce is saying the same thing we at SOTT have been saying for years. How many of these stories have we been seeing in the U.S. since the bogus 'war on terror' began!? Too many to count! Canada's "CIA" - CSIS - got in on the act of entrapping gullible and mentally challenged individuals - thanks to the instruction manuals and direction of their psychopathic buddies to the south, no doubt. But this case sets a precedent that will hopefully make them think twice about doing it again (it's a long shot, but it's more than the U.S. has).

Like the CIA, NATO and many other "security" agencies that exist, CSIS needs to manufacture acts of terror in order to justify its existence and payroll. These are the real terrorist nut jobs; demanding a salary for being able to act out their U.S. and Israeli-inspired pathological tendencies. Now if only something similar were to happen in the States.

Just a sampling of the hundreds of stories we have covered here highlighting the problem:

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Handcuffs

Man arrested for child abuse said God told him to throw boy into pool and repeatedly dunk him

Jennifer Ortega
clickfororlando.com
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 01:41 UTC
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Henry Love
Police said Henry Love woke up an 11-year-old boy at his home and took him over to a neighbor's house, where he dropped him in a pool and dunked him over and over.

"I don't know why he would have done that," neighbor Patty Tutoni said. "Baptism is in the church; it's not in your pool. I don't have any answer for him to do that."

Tutoni said she's been living next to Love for six years and that he's a quiet, decent man. "Any time I see him, he's always waving hello," Totoni said. "(He's a) very conservative neighbor. I love him as my neighbor, to be honest with you."
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Eye 2

Psychopaths: Witnesses say that after slitting priest's throat, Normandy church attackers smiled & talked peace and God


RT
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 13:41 UTC
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© Pascal Rossignol / ReutersFrench CRS police secure a street near the church after a hostage-taking in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy, France, July 26, 2016
Two nuns, who were taken hostage by two jihadists in a Normandy church on Tuesday, gave accounts of their ordeals. They said one of the attackers smiled happily after slitting Father Jacques Hamel's throat and a bizarre theological dispute followed the crime.

Abdel Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, both 19, were killed by French police as they tried to flee the 17th century Catholic church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in the north of France just after killing its priest and seriously injuring an elderly parishioner.

Sister Huguette Peron and Sister Helene Decaux, both in their early 80s, were among the people taken hostage by the attackers, who pledged allegiance to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Two days after the attack the still shocked women talked to the Catholic newspaper La Vie, which published their interview on Friday.
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Russian military announces four more humanitarian corridors to be opened in Aleppo


RT
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:32 UTC
Syrian girls carry bags with bread in the northern city of Aleppo.
Syrian girls carry bags with bread as people queue up outisde a bakery in the northern city of Aleppo.
Dozens of civilians and surrendering militants have used humanitarian corridors set up by Russian and Syrian military in the besieged city of Aleppo, Russia's Defense ministry said on Saturday, adding that four more corridors are to open soon.

Russian-Syrian humanitarian operation in Aleppo began on Thursday when three humanitarian corridors were opened in the city.

Since then, 169 civilians have used the corridors, as well as 69 militants, who chose to lay down arms, Lieutenant-General Sergey Chvarkov, the head Russian reconciliation center in Syria, said.
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Father who kept British daughter 'in cage because she kissed a guy' in Saudi loses legal bid to restrict media


RT
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:28 UTC
21-year-old daughter in Saudi Arabia
© Dawson Cornwell / Facebook
An academic accused of imprisoning his 21-year-old daughter in Saudi Arabia, has failed to limit reporting of the case following a UK High Court ruling.

Amina Al-Jeffery was taken from her home in Wales four years ago and kept in a "cage" at her father's dwelling in Jeddah, according to the Independent.

Mohammed Al-Jeffery is believed to have locked his daughter up because she "kissed a guy."
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