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Taxi driver who drove Bakraouis to airport now fears for his life - more details

Camilla Turner
Telegraph, UK
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 22:31 UTC
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Mostafa Beggar (left), the manager at Transports Figorifiques, with Marco, a taxi driver who helped victims at the scene of terror attacks
The taxi driver who drove the Brussels suicide bombers to the airport is now in hiding and fears for his life, friends say.

Brahim El Bakraoui and two other men ordered a taxi to take them from their hide out in the Schaerbeek district to Zaventem airport on Tuesday morning, before they committed one of the worst terrorist atrocities in Belgium's history.


Comment: The taxi driver, Kim Sengupta (of Moroccan descent), has apparently identified the other two men as Brahim's brother Khalid and Faycal Cheffou (the hatted man in the CCTV footage), who has been arrested and charged with "terrorist murders".


As soon as the driver heard about the attacks, he drove straight to a police station in central Brussels to tell the authorities every detail he could remember about the three men, including their hideout, a 5th floor apartment in Rue Max Roos.


Comment: After receiving the tip from Sengupta, police reportedly raided the apartment (No 4), where they found "an Isis flag, a bomb packed with nails and screws, detonators and enough chemicals to make 15kg of Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP), the explosive used in last November's Paris attacks."


But now the driver fears reprisals from Isis and their sympathisers for handing over such crucial information to the police.

Comment: Latest news: 5 new arrests in Brussels. Further reading: Miraculous passports and trashed laptops: What do 9/11 and the Belgian bombings have in common?

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Paranoid Banks: US man's payment denied because of his dog's 'terrorist' name


RT
Sat, 26 Mar 2016 15:20 UTC
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© Robert Galbraith / Reuters
Sometimes terrorists move on all fours. That's what Chase Bank apparently decided when it wouldn't clear a payment for a disabled man's dog walker. It was the dog's name that led to the payment being bounced and the Treasury Department being involved.

The nine-year-old service pitbull mongrel acts as a companion and friend to Bruce Francis of San Francisco, who has a rare form of MS and gets around by wheelchair.

According to Fox, Francis was doing his routine payment to his dog walker earlier in March, by using his online account with Chase Bank. He had filled in his dog's name into the memo line of the form. But the dog walker told Francis he hadn't got the check.
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1 in 3 U.K. kids spend less time outside than prison inmates

Briana Altergott
Newsy
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 17:14 UTC
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We all know kids have been spending less and less time outdoors. But children's outdoor time has become so limited these days, even prisoners are shocked.

A new survey funded by laundry detergent brand Persil found 1 in 3 children in the U.K. spend less time outside than inmates in maximum security prisons.

The poll questioned more than 12,000 parents of children between the ages of 5 and 12 years old in 10 different countries. And in the U.K., researchers found almost a third of children play outside for 30 minutes or less on an average day, and 1 in 5 don't venture outdoors at all.

Now, the United Nations' standard minimum guidelines for prisoners require "at least one hour of suitable exercise in open air daily."

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Texas: U.S. Coast Guard attempts to intercept mini-submarine carrying $200 million in cocaine

Valerie Edwards
Daily Mail
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:56 UTC
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A mini-submarine carrying more than $200 million worth of cocaine was intercepted by authorities in Texas
A mini-submarine carrying $200 million worth of cocaine was intercepted by authorities in the 'Eastern Pacific Ocean'.

Officials said they intercepted the semi-submersible vessel attempting to bring 12,800 pounds or 5.5 tons of cocaine into the US.

The cocaine was on a mini-sub called a narco-submarine, vessels made of fiberglass that are extremely hard to detect using radar and are commonly used by drug traffickers.

Because much of its structure is made of fiberglass and it travels mainly below the water surface, it is virtually impossible to detect via sonar or radar.
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Suicide bomber attack kills 26 at soccer match in Iraq


Huffington Post
Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:27 UTC
Iraqi mourners
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A suicide attacker detonated an explosive belt in a park outside Baghdad on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 71, said the security head in Babel province where the bomb - claimed by Islamic State - went off.

The blast in Iskandariya, a mixed Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim town 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the capital, happened around 7:15 p.m. (1615 GMT) at the end of an amateur soccer game, said Falah al-Khafaji.

Islamic State militants, who control swathes of territory in Iraq's north and west, were behind the attack, according to Amaq news agency, which is affiliated with the group

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Walmart plans own dairy processing plant to supply 600 stores

Owen Weldon
Digital Journal
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 01:54 UTC
Wal-Mart Supercenter
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Walmart announced plans to build and operate its own dairy processing plant. The goal is to supply its own line of milk to hundreds of stores in 2017.

Walmart's dairy processing plant will be built in Indiana. The company plans on supplying around 600 Walmart and Sam's Club stores in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Northern Kentucky with Walmart-brand milk.

Tony Airoso, senior vice president of sourcing strategy for Walmart U.S., issued a statement saying the company will be able to reduce operating costs and pass the savings onto customers. This is because the store will be operating its own plan and will work directly with the dairy supply chain in the Midwest.

The move is going to take about a year to complete, and other milk producers may be impacted by it. However, one of the country's largest milk producers, Dean Foods, said Walmart's move won't hurt its sales.

According to Wane, one farmer said the only problem he'd have with Walmart's processing plant is if it receives tax breaks that smaller dairy farmers don't receive. Mark Grieshop, who owns Pasture's Delight, said he has no issue with the plant being built, as long as it's a level playing field.

Indiana is rank 14 in the nation in the production of milk, as well as ranked 2 in ice cream production. The state is also home to 21 dairy processing plants and more than 10 farmstead operations.
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Black Magic

USDA bows to Monsanto: GMO corn now deregulated allowing farmers to plant without permits


RT
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:32 UTC
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© Antara Foto / Reuters
The US Department of Agriculture will end regulation of Monsanto's genetically-modified corn that is engineered to resist the company's herbicide, the federal regulator said. Farmers will now be able to plant the corn strains without permits.

The action, announced by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Wednesday, applies to Monsanto's MON87419 corn strain, which resists dicamba- and glufosinate-based herbicides.

These resistances allow farmers to grow plants that aren't destroyed by herbicides produced by the same companies that designed the genetically-modified crops themselves.

Monsanto's August 2015 petition for nonregulated status was granted by regulators despite two dozen unfavorable statements during the USDA's public comment period. One such concern was from the consumer rights nonprofit Food & Water Watch, which said that allowing such herbicide-resistant crops to proliferate could "lead to an increase in dicamba use, which will spur the evolution of dicamba‐resistant weeds and the abandonment of conservation tillage practices."

Comment: Once again, the USDA proves it is merely a corporate puppet; willfully ignoring the toxicity of GMO corn and pesticides.

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Black Cat

Georgia teacher knocks down special needs student, resigns

Tom Boggioni
Raw Story
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 23:04 UTC
Amelia Stripling knees special needs student in the back
© WALB screenshotAmelia Stripling knees special needs student in the back
Surveillance footage appears to show a teacher knocking down a student in the hallway at school. The special education teacher, identified as Amelia Stripling, has since resigned.
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Growing up in pornland: Young women struggling to deal with men who have been conditioned by pornography

Melinda Tankard Reist
ABC
Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:28 UTC
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© NICHOLAS MCCOMBER / GETTY IMAGESPornography is moulding and conditioning the sexual behaviours and attitudes of boys, and girls are being left without the resources to deal with these porn-saturated boys.
"[I want] better education regarding sex for both boys and girls [and] information about pornography, and the way it influences harmful sexual practices."

These are the words of Lucy, aged 15, one of 600 young Australian women and girls who took part in a just-released survey commissioned by Plan Australia and Our Watch. The survey, conducted by Ipsos, gathered responses from the girls and young women aged 15-19 in all states and territories.

In the survey report, entitled Don't send me that pic, participants reported that online sexual abuse and harassment were endemic. More than 80% said it was unacceptable for boyfriends to request naked images.

Sexual bullying and harassment are part of daily life for many girls. Young people are speaking out more and more about how these practices have links with pornography - and so they should, because they have most to lose.

Pornography is moulding and conditioning the sexual behaviours and attitudes of boys, and girls are being left without the resources to deal with these porn-saturated boys.

Comment: It's hard not to think that the widespread availability of porn is intentional. Western society is ruled by misogynistic psychopaths who have no trouble treating women as objects and second-class citizens. That behavior has trickled to the average men and even worse, to teens and boys. The way women are treated in porn is just a microcosm of how our hyper-sexualized society looks at women.

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Indian priest 'kidnapped by IS,' fears bode a Good Friday crucifixion

Kayleigh Lewis
The Independent
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
Father Tom
© www.catholicweekly.com.auFather Tom Uzhannalil kidnapped and location unknown.
Fears are growing for an Indian priest believed to have been kidnapped by Isis after rumours circulated online suggesting he may be crucified on Good Friday.

Tom Uzhunnalil is believed to have been taken from a retirement home in Yemen during an attack by Islamic extremists on 4 March.The group shot 16 people - including four nuns - during the incident at the home in Aden, which is run by missionaries, the International Business Times India said.

Father Uzhannalil has not been heard from since, but the Franciscan Sisters of Siessen posted a message on their Facebook page on Sunday claiming they had been informed of his torture, and said they believed he will be crucified on Good Friday. "This calls for serious concerted prayers from all of us," the Sisters said.

However, a member of Bangalore's Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, Bangalore, of which Father Uzhunnalil was previously a part, told the International Business Times India: "There is no information about the whereabouts of Father Tom. We are only praying for him." No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, and officials in Yemen are said to have blamed Isis, although al-Qaeda are also present in the area.

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© voiceofthepersecuted.wordpress.comMoter Teresa Sisters killed in Yemen.
A handwritten account of the incident from a nun who was at the home at the time, published on Christian website Aleteian, claims five young Ethiopian Christian men ran to the sisters to tell them Isis were coming to kill them. It describes the brutal killing of many people at the home, and also appears to confirm Father Uzhannalil's kidnap.

"A neighbour saw them put Father Tom in their car. They did not find a trace of Father anywhere," it said.

Comment: Aleteian, is the download PDF link to the hand-written description of the encounter with ISIS. It is both fascinating and heartbreaking to read this accounting.

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