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Pocket Knife

String of knife attacks on New York City subways are part of a disturbing new trend

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© Darren Ornitz / ReutersA disturbing rise in knife attacks on NYC subways has taken place in recent weeks
A man was slashed on the subway Friday morning in Midtown — in an incident that's part of a disturbing trend across the city, both above and underground.

A 60-year-old man from Mahwah was making his way onto a crowded train around 8:15 a.m. when he got into an altercation with another man, 1010 WINS' Al Jones reported. Police said the suspect started cursing, sparking the quarrel between the men, CBS2's Tracee Carrasco reported.

At the 57th Street and Seventh Avenue station, serving the N, Q and R lines, the suspect slashed the 60-year-old victim with a small knife in the chin and face before taking off, police said.

The victim continued on his way to work and then called 911 when he arrived at his job at Chopard Watches and Jewelry at Madison Avenue and 63rd Street.

Comment: One thing is clear, the public is demanding an increase is police presence. Given how the police, especially the NYPD treat minorities and the public in general, that may make the problem worse.


Bad Guys

The girls, the paedophile and Cardinal Pell

Australia's worst paedophile priest, Father Gerald Ridsdale, once lived with a young clergyman who is now Cardinal George Pell. As the Cardinal prepares to give evidence to the child abuse royal commission, two women break decades of silence to tell Debi Marshall about their ordeal in Ridsdale's care - and their disappointment with Pell.

 Gabbi Short
© Paul Harris and Thom Rigney Gabbi Short
In 1973, a young Father George Pell, flushed with success from his recent studies in Rome and Oxford, returned to his home town of Ballarat and took up residence in the St Alipius presbytery; a place, it would be publicly revealed more than 20 years later, that was a paedophile's paradise and a child's nightmare.

His housemate that year was the tall, rowdy and popular parish priest, Father Gerald Ridsdale. What the parents and parishioners who worshipped God and obeyed the sanctity of the church and its messengers did not know was that from early in his priesthood, Ridsdale was subject to a psychiatric report. He was already a serial child abuser who sodomised children at will, picking them off when and where his desires dictated: in front of a church altar, at the presbytery, or on camping or fishing trips.

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Light Sabers

KKK rally in Anaheim, CA erupts in stabbings, 13 arrests

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© Luis Sinco / Los Angeles TimesDemonstrating the collapse of the US in slow-motion, 3 people were stabbed at a KKK rally in California
Three people were stabbed and 13 others were arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said. A small group of people representing the Klan had announced that it would hold a rally at Pearson Park at 1:30 p.m., police said. By 11 a.m., several dozen protesters had shown up to confront the Klan. About an hour later, several men in black garb with Confederate flag patches arrived in an SUV near the edge of the park.

Fighting broke out moments after Klan members exited the vehicle. Some of the protesters could be seen kicking a man whose shirt read "Grand Dragon." At some point, a protester collapsed on the ground bleeding, crying that he had been stabbed.

A Klansman in handcuffs could be heard telling a police officer that he "stabbed him in self-defense." Several other people were also handcuffed. Witnesses said the Klansmen used the point of a flagpole as a weapon while fighting with protesters. Two other protesters were stabbed during the melee — one with a knife and the other with an unidentified weapon, said Sgt. Daron Wyatt of the Anaheim Police Department.

Brian Levin, director of Cal State San Bernardino's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said he was standing near the KKK members when several protesters attacked them with two-by-fours and other weapons. Several of the Klan members jumped in the SUV and sped off, leaving three others to "fend for themselves," Levin said.

Levin had been trying to interview the KKK ringleader, whom he identified as William Quigg, an Anaheim resident. Quigg is the leader of the Loyal White Knights in California and other Western states, a sect of the hate group that aims to raise awareness about illegal immigration, terrorism and street crime, Levin said. They see themselves as a "Klan without robes" and model themselves after David Duke, the Louisiana-based former grand wizard of the Klan, Levin said.

Map

What the Kurds want in Syria after the war

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© AFP 2016/ Delil SouleimanSyrian YPG fighters
Last week, a day after the Russia and US-brokered agreement on a ceasefire in Syria was announced, the Syrian Kurds' main media outlet published an interview with an official from the Kurdish coalition governing northern Syria. The Kurds, the official said, see federalization as the key to ensuring lasting peace and stability to the country.

On Tuesday, the Hawar News Agency published an interview with Ilham Ahmed, a member of the Executive Council of the Movement for a Democratic Society, the political coalition which governs the de facto autonomous areas of northern Syria collectively referred to as the Rojava.

According to Ahmed, Syria's decentralization is a necessary condition for ending the war, or more specifically, the Syrian government's war with the so-called 'moderate opposition' groups that remain unaffiliated with the Islamist terrorists.

"The comments made in the course of discussions [on Syria's future], including those of foreign representatives, imply the creation of three federal regions in Syria," Ahmed said, according to Russia's Gazeta.ru.

Comment: Federalization seems like the best option. The Americans and Israelis would like to totally balkanize Syria. It looks like perhaps Syria and Russia are using the Anglo-Zionists' own plans against them. If something like this were to go forward, Syria would retain its strength and unity: the very thing Syria's enemies wish to take from it by splitting up the country.


Heart - Black

35-year-old Indian man kills 14 members of his family with Butcher's knife

Indian Police
© AFP Photo/Punit ParanjpeA 35-year-old man allegedly murdered 14 members of his family including seven children with a butcher's knife before committing suicide near Mumbai
A 35-year-old man killed 14 members of his family including six children with a butcher's knife before committing suicide in India, with police baffled Sunday about a motive for the attack.

The grisly murders occurred after Hasnin Anwar Warekar and his extended family gathered late on Saturday at a home north of India's financial capital of Mumbai for a family function, police officers said.

"The attacker, Hasnin Anwar Warekar, hung himself after slitting the throats of all other family members including his parents," Gajanan Laxman Kabdule, a police spokesman in Thane, some 32 kilometres (20 miles) from Mumbai, said.

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Mumbai: Before murders, an unusual dinner invitation

PRELIMINARY investigations into the killing of 14 members of the Warekar family by Hasnain Warekar in the early hours of Sunday indicate that the 35-year-old had planned the killings in detail, said investigators.
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Thane police officers investigating the crime said Hasnain had invited his three married sisters and their children for a family dinner he was hosting on Saturday night, but had specifically requested that their husbands not accompany them.

"This was highly unusual. Hasnain has hosted several daawats before, but this time he clearly separated the men from their wives," said Ayaz Warekar (38), Hasnain's maternal uncle, who incidentally had been invited to join the celebrations on Sunday following the afternoon namaaz. The occasion was to celebrate the his elder daughter's birthday, who had turned five on Friday.
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During the course of the investigation, officers were also told that Hasnain had "sedated" his family in the past. "A few years ago, Hasnain gave his sister, his daughter and his parents a solution given to him by a baba. They consumed the drink after dinner and woke up the following afternoon. We panicked when they missed the morning prayers," said Anis Baharanal, a relative who lives in the vicinity. The family was hospitalised upon being woken up.
Hasnain had a golden heart, say neighbours about Thane man who killed 14 family members
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The neighbours of the family, Mohammad Zain Mohammad Islam said, "The entire family was very decent and a happy go lucky family. Hasnain along with his sisters came to see us last night as he had invited the entire family for a get together, after he returned from the office."
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Rizwan added, "Such things were never expected from Hasnain as from his childhood, he was very simple and a good person with a closed knit of friends. He used to go office, and offer namaz five times a day. A person who used to feel scared while seeing blood can never make such mistakes."

"Hasnain's father Anwar Warekar (65) was a hard working man who worked earlier with the Vera chemical company in Thane and now was the chief trustee of the Anant Nagar Dargah. He was also an estate agent. Anwar and I were close friends from childhood and he was very proud of his son Hasnain for his innocence and dedication towards his job and family. Hasnain as a child used to come to my place to play and we have seen him growing over all these years. His daughter was his life. It is very hard to believe that he has done this," expressed Rizwan Patel (56), friend of Hasnain's father.

However, the police have not ruled out the angle of property dispute which might have provoked Hasnain commit such a crime, but the relatives of the family said, "It cannot be because of the property dispute. The family was very wealthy and Hasnain's love for his sisters was never ending," added Rizwan Warekar (uncle).



Nuke

Illegal dumping of nuclear waste in Kentucky landfill

West Lake Landfill
© WikipediaThe West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri, pictured in July 2014.
Radioactive drilling waste was illegally dumped at a landfill in Kentucky, according to state officials. Now, they're issuing warnings and investigating how the nuclear waste ended up at the dump site.

State officials confirmed this week that low-level nuclear waste was illegally dumped at the Blue Ridge Landfill in Irvine, Ky., last year.

The material came from rock and brine extracted in oil and gas drilling operations in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The process concentrated naturally-occurring radionuclicides.

The material was further concentrated after being recycled by Fairmont Brine Processing of West Virginia.

Kentucky Division of Waste Management Director Tony Hatton says this is the material that made its way to Irvine between July and November 2015.

State officials say the material came in 47 sealed boxes each with 25 cubic feet of material.

The Blue Ridge Landfill is not equipped to legally handle even this low-level radioactive material. State officials say they are working with landfill managers to see how the material was handled, and whether any workers or others were affected. A middle school and high school are located across Highway 89 from the landfill.

Hatton doubts there is any ongoing exposure at the dumpsite.

"The best we know, the material has been buried since November," Hatton said.

Bullseye

Polish news site: Scaremongering and scapegoating of Putin is really sign of respect and jealousy

Putin
© Dmitry Astakhov / ITAR TASS
The Western media love to paint the Russian president in a negative light, but any reasonable thinking person understands that this is merely a sign of jealousy, and an attempt to mobilize society by inventing an enemy, Polish news website Obserwator Polityczny suggests.

"Scaremongering [the public] using Putin, whose image is constantly spat upon and served up by the propaganda of some Western countries in the worst possible connotation, actually serves to garner respect for the Russian president in the long term" a recent article in the Polish political news and analysis website Obserwator Polityczny suggests.

"The real cause behind this harassment," the paper playfully argues, "is envy and admiration. Many Western politicians would like to be able to govern in the same way that the Russian president does, and many countries would like to be governed in this way, at least in part."

"Therefore, Vladimir Putin is not really an object of hatred, but of envy, admiration and desire," the publication boldly contends.

Comment: What do you think - do folks like Zbigniew Brzezinski and the cuckoo's nest of Washington neocons secretly admire Putin? Or is it just out-and-out hate with no other dimension to it?


Dollars

Congressman proposes legislation to end bail payments that target the poor

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© AP Photo/Mel EvansA sign is seen outside a bail bondsman across the street from Mercer County criminal courthouse Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, in Trenton, N.J.
Congressman Ted Lieu introduced the No Money Bail Act of 2016, which prohibits the payment of money as a condition of pretrial release in federal criminal cases, and bars vital federal funding from going to states that impose money bail. If enacted, the legislation could potentially abolish money bail in the United States.

Co-sponsored by Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Brenda Lawrence and Ruben Gallego, the bill is most notable for its efforts to curb the use of money bail in the states, whose jurisdictions oversee the vast majority of inmates in America. Nearly 500,000 of the 2.2 million incarcerated people in America are in local jails and have not been convicted, and many of them are still in jail simply because they can't afford bail.

Books

Scandals surrounding the for-profit college industry: Who's regulating for-profit schools?

Albert C. Grey
Albert C. Grey president of Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, during a Senate hearing in June.
College accreditors have come under scrutiny recently for allowing for-profit schools to collect billions in federal aid despite low graduation and high default rates.

Accreditors are supposed to be watchdogs for college quality. They are not government agencies but colleges need an accreditor's seal of approval so students can qualify for federal loans.

The agency that has received the most heat is the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. ACICS allowed Corinthian Colleges Inc. to keep on operating right up until the for-profit college chain collapsed after evidence emerged that the schools had lured thousands of poor students into predatory loans. The accreditor placed a Corinthian campus on its "honor roll" just months before the Education Department forced the school to shut down.

ACICS, which oversees hundreds of for-profit colleges, is now the target of two government investigations. A ProPublica analysis also found that schools overseen by ACICS had the lowest graduation rates compared with other accreditors.

Comment: It's like leaving the fox in charge of the hen house.


Fire

Explosion during rescue effort brings Russian mine disaster death toll to 36

Severnaya coal mine
A train drives through a tunnel at the Severnaya coal mine in Russia's icy north.
Russian authorities say the death toll from a mine disaster has risen to 36 after an explosion during an attempt to rescue trapped miners Sunday, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti.

Sunday's blast killed six people, including five rescue personnel.

In its wake, Russia's Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov told reporters that there was virtually no chance of survival for any of the 26 miners who had been trapped since Thursday in the Severnaya coal mine in the city of Vorkuta.

Three days of mourning have been declared in Komi Republic, the icy region of Russia's polar north where the mine is located, Russia state media reported.